Posts by IGotOut

Hong Kong swells tech-buying subsidies for local businesses that buy from local businesses

Well, if he is worried about mingle with others....

..stop using US resources, build up your own infrastructure.

SAP's locked-down offshore project managers develop remote work plans for clients

So let me get this right...

Most of your support in India is non existent and no one's really noticed a decline in service?

Watch your MANRS: Akamai, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, Google, and pals join internet routing security effort

Re: "...web browsing and other online activities can be snooped on..."

You misunderstood. The WRONG people are snooping, you know governments. So long as it's private enterprise making money from it, there is no problem.

Don't like it? Then clearly you are a left wig, socialist loving , red commie traitor!

Huawei rotating Chairman: Chinese government will not 'just stand by and watch Huawei be slaughtered'

Re: Well I used to be fact driven...

In that case let's boycot the US for causing the biggest massacre of all time then blaming it on the Spanish.

Adobe PhoneGap falls between the cracks thanks to new Apple requirements, developers fume

Re: Migrate?

That's why he posted as AC. I guess adolescent without real world business experience. Must be hard for him to type with that foam pouring from his mouth (and yes I presume it's a HE).

What's the difference between Windows 7 and a bin lorry? One is full of garbage, and the other… oh dear

More to the point.

Why do you need a bloody great digital signage on the side of a bin lorry?

Still nice to see someone else's council tax being wasted for a change.

BT providing free meals to coax its healthy customer support staff back into office as calls rocket amid pandemic

So BT....

...leading by example once again.

The call centre staff (1000+) I designed the phone system for were able to work from home in a DR over a 15 years ago, thats even before decent VoIP came along.

Microsoft qualifications will pad the CV for another year, Teams for ventilator boffins, and Windows 10 threatened with very retro news app

Shudder...... browser toolbars. Installed because a website says you NEED IT. Come to think of it, bit Google Chrome.

Delivery drones: Where are they when we really need them?

We don't need drones!

We now have Bitcoin...oops sorry AI.

Fixes everything.

Re: Drones with wheels are a thing...

Plus they save on Taxi / Uber costs.

Microsoft cops to 775% Azure surge, quotas on resources and 'significant new capacity' coming ASAP

Last time I looked, Amazon shopping doesn't run live video, whiteboaringd, conferencing and a host of other thingsAnd I have noticed a slow down on Amazon.

Add to that the use of CDN's which serve cached content (steaming video, images and text), then non-realtime content produces much less of a load on the core systems.

Re: “We are expediting the addition of significant new capacity"

I've mounted plenty of servers in racks on my own, in huge empty data centres.

But being a keyboard warrior, I doubt you have even seen the inside of a proper DC.

Remember that clinical trial, promoted by President Trump, of a possible COVID-19 cure? So, so, so many questions...

Re: The most important statement in the whole article.

Well when the arsehole himself calls it fake news when someone points out a recording of something he said, what do you expect.

There was the other bit in the statement....

"The FDA has moved mountains - Thank You!"

The FDA response?

WTF? We haven't approved the drugs for use against Covid19

Infosys fires employee who Facebooked 'let's hold hands and share coronavirus'

Re: Background

Surely this is exactly what the Bible bashers have been waiting for.

Fires and floods, pestilence (plagues of locusts currently swarming across Africa), War, Famine and now "plague".

This is happy times for those nutjobs.

AMD dials 911, emits DMCA takedowns after miscreant steals a load of GPU hardware blueprints, leaks on GitHub

So let me get this right...

Some moron hacks into a computer and doesn't tell AMD because they won't admit their mistake and may sue him.

Then he published them.

So said Muppet has now made it sure they definitely will sure him as well as adding to their list of criminal offences.

Not to bright this kid

Could WFH web traffic topple a Brit telco? Pfff, scoff operators. This has nothing on Liverpool v Everton streaming

Virgin are quite notorious for offering a gazillionbit download and not having the backbone to cope.

Add to that the complete and utter piece of shit they call a wireless router, it's no surprise you are having issues.

Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52,000-person Reply-All email storm

Re: 2020 and still no automatic filter for 'reply all'?

It's 2020 and people still can't get to the bottom of the article.

Re: Did Microsoft outsource its email to Gmail?

What?

What's a Google Play? Huawei talks up fledgling AppGallery store, shows off another voice assistant with a female name

I'm guessing MS are being clever and using something like MS Europe, a separate company.

Who knows.

Internet samurai says he'll sell 14,700,000 IPv4 addresses worth $300m-plus, plow it all into Asia-Pacific connectivity

Re: Civilian note

It has no value, if you ignore the millions of dollars it will raise.

Still guess you know better, that's why people come to you for advice on running multi billion dollar internet companies.

Borky shark: A deserted airport and a Raspberry Pi feeling poorly at baggage claim. Welcome to 2020

But...but...but...Linux!

It NEVER fails!

/sacrasmoff

On a serious note, this is an ideal use for a PI.

What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorbike? Core-js just found out

Re: Zloirock

but you're happy to have a GIMP fiddle with your artwork?

IT services sector faces armageddon as COVID-19 lockdown forces project cancellations – analysts

Never read such self centered bullshit in my life.

I'd say IT is going to one of the LEAST hit. I'm not seeing Oracle, Google, MS and Amazon crying they have no work.

Can't see the clients? If you don't know how to use video conferencing, file shares or even a phone then I wouldn't trust you to run my fucking IT.

Let's see who are a teeny bit more affected.

Shops

Pubs

Restaurant

Engineering

Sports and leisure facilities

Gyms

Construction and maintenance (and related services)

Tourism

Charities

Estate agents (no cheering please)

Car dealers

Cafes

Then there are all those that feed into those. Random businesses you don't even think about. Box makers, window cleaners, vending machine stockists, beer mat makers, printers, repair personell.

So quit the bleeding heart. IT is going to be one of the least hit.

London court tells Julian Assange: No, coronavirus is not a good reason for you to be let out of prison

Well, if he is worried about mingle with others....

...he can always go into solitary confinement.

Brit housing association blabs 3,500 folks' sexual orientation, ethnicity in email blunder

Re: You have to wonder...

That's easy. Get the homophobic racist evicted. Problem solved.

Re: re: why

Usual for gender, sexuality and race there is a "prefer not to say" answer.

Got your number? Maybe. 118 118 Money shutters website after spotting an intruder

Look on the bright side.

Any money the thieves steal from your bank account is going to be way less than these loan sharks take.

Capita CEO and CFO take 'voluntary' pay cut of 25% amid coronavirus outbreak

Hey guys...

Hey, I know you feel sad because we're going to offshore your jobs to a cheaper location, but we're all in it together. I mean, look at us, we only have a few hundred thousand a year to live on how after this paycut.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Black hole quasar tsunamis moving at 46 million miles per hour

Re: It pains me to be a pedant, but

"It pains me to be a pedant, but"

Does it?

If it causes you pain, maybe you should consider giving it up.

Or should it read "it gives me joy to be a pedant , so I shall continue"?

Re: Uh-oh.

It's radiation, so stop worrying.

Paint yourself white and hide under the table...

Re: "They reckon it’ll only get faster over time"

I agree, can we have a Red Dwarf "There's a swirly thing " type explanation?

Re: Has anyone told GoSafe?

I also forgot to add

If you were booked at 35mph, your speedo would be reading around the 40mph mark. So you can't even say I was only a little bit over.

Re: Has anyone told GoSafe?

Did you have Blue lights on?

No, then the law applies to EVERYONE.

Btw people that moan, do the maths on how much time you save doing 35 in a 30, then allow for normal start stop and slowing traffic, and you'll save ooooo couple of seconds?

And yes I have been done for speeding, but I'm grown up enough to admit I was at fault.

Oh ask the A&E department if they are happy about receiving a car accident victim because you "needed" to get somewhere 30 seconds earlier.

OH and BTW, as far as I'm aware, all speeding tickets are retrospective. Luckily AI hasn't started fining people who may speed....yet.

Surge in home working highlights Microsoft licensing issue: If you are not on subscription, working remotely is a premium feature

Re: The most simple way is not mentioned here?

Am I missing some in your argument?

If you have a corporate laptop, why bother with RDP to the desktop?

Surely you have everything you need on the file servers?

Look ma, no Intel Management Engine, ish: Purism lifts lid on the Librem Mini, a privacy-focused micro PC

Re: Lead lined?

It's the Atari ST syndrome.

People thought it can't possibly have that much power in such a small package. So they made it feel like it had a lot of "stuff" in there. And slapped a load of unnecessary metal work in there. On the upside it did mean you could drop from a great height and still work.

This may not actually be true of course.

Apple updates iPad Pro with a trackpad, faster processor. Is it a real computer now?

Re: Still not a real computer.

"I remember just how reliable and trouble free my old 486 was /s"

Yup just like how great your first car was.

Hint: Most old cars were utter shit.

Re: "you get 128GB of storage"

Actually if you look at some of those vloggers, they do have some pretty stonking kit.

'My tractor only runs John Deere software. Does that make it a toy?"

Nope it makes it a perfect case for the right to repair legislation currently being looked at.

Re: "you get 128GB of storage"

"That's like Renault selling you a Twingo named Ferrari. It's cheating, pure and simple."

You mean my Aston Martin Cygnet is little more than a reskined Toyota IQ? Lies!

Tencent is now bigger than Cisco and Lenovo – and predicts this virus thingy will help it get bigger still

Re: Tencent QQ

So it's the new Yahoo! Toolbar then?

Re: "Such tools, execs said, should find wider markets in the future"

Nope we use Chicken soup, but I guess yours is more potent, what with the extra chlorine content.

IBM puts 1,248 frontline techies at risk of redundo, warns of data centre closures

Well at least....

...they can claim it was the coronavirus rather than Brexit wat dun it.

Yes, Laura Ashley have shamelessly done that very thing

NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS – but forgot about eye-watering cloudy egress costs before lift-off

Re: What if the Cloud also catches Corona?

Ah, the joys of using a static dead language to define "new" discoveries.

Reach for the sky: Pixar founders win Turing Award for pioneering 3D animation – and getting rid of jagged edges

Re: So good I bought the company

Just post it on Facebook, then it will be true.

Pervasive digital surveillance of citizens deployed in COVID-19 fight, with rules that send genie back to bottle

Re: Inflated expectations

You mean..

https://faceidmasks.com/

Re: Covid-29

Nope he's using AI to predict the next big pandemic. 2029.

What you didn't know that's why called covid-"19"?

Small business loans app blamed as 500,000 financial records leak out of ... you guessed it, an open S3 bucket

Re: Ok, the lesson to learn here . .

Is Equifax a start up?

Hello, sub £-100 Moto: Lenovo punts 6.1-inch display e6S at low-cost crowd

Re: A burner phone fail

So you can have that gormless panicky look on your face when you realise the car park / shop / pub doesn't accept contactless.

Yes I've seen all three in the last month and yes, all three were under 25.

Re: Aged?

To be fair, swapping a MicroUSB cable for a USB-C cable isn't going to break the bank and more and more devices are moving to it.