Posts by X5-332960073452

Apple defies memory shortage with new Mac minis

Re: $4,000 USD for 256GB RAM?

Appreciate the icon, but it's $/£ 4000 for the upgrade from 96 to 256 GB, so really $/£ 4000 for 196GB = $/£ 25 per GB

Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia

Re: The problem with password managers is

Bio-metrics - Do not use for security, something you cannot change! Identification, fine, security NO.

And, while I'm at it, PassKeys, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO

Microsoft lets you swap New Outlook's looks with the face of Outlook Classic

Re: .pst files

Also, most of those injected ad's are scams, mainly about expired anti-virus subscriptions.

Microsoft gives Task Manager another task: Watching AI workloads

Re: A more useful tweak

Task Manager, Performance, CPU - right click 'overall usage', change graph to Logical Processors

Microsoft finally fixing File Explorer and the Context Menu

Re: New Folder?

or use ctrl + shift + n

Windows 11 movable taskbar edges closer to general release

Here's the .reg file I use

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot]

"TurnOffWindowsCopilot"=dword:00000001

Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees

Re: And the river floweth onward

Shirley, that should be an African or European soap bubble!

Microsoft excludes Domain Exclusion from MS 365 Copilot – days after rolling it out

Re: Definitely need Micro$lop Copilot on the "block" list

And inserting scam ads at the top of an Outlook (New) inbox.

Had a customer getting scam notification from Edge, re McAfee needed to be installed and they had a Virus Infection

Seems the share browsing data with other Windows features was linking the two

Any advert should make the company (e.g. Microsoft / Facebook / Etc.) as liable as the scammers placing the ad

Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister

Re: Who would ever consider anything at Meta ...

But the 'yoof' of today don't have a clue about www, it's all Instagram / Facebook / TikTok, etc apps to them!

Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder

Talking of Peace, and reference to failed Super Heroes,

Peacemaker (John Cena) - "I cherish peace with all my heart. I don't care how many men, women, and children I need to kill to get it."

Google breaks Alibaba’s record for Europe’s largest DMA fine

I just want the ability to NOT have any bleeping YouTube results

Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents

And those API keys will NEVER be compromised.

Microsoft emails Windows 10 holdouts: Fine, keep your old PC another year

Re: Family IT support...

And have a look at - https://massgrave.dev/tsforge - for the ESU 3 year (no payment required! - monetary or privacy)

Microsoft intros tech that rebuilds dead PCs without requiring local copies of Windows

Re: Mac FTW?

https://mrmacintosh.com/ - cloud help

MFA-optional banks leave safe doors (and accounts) wide open for thieves to pillage

Re: EU's PSD2 regulation solved that ages ago

SCA - strong customer authentication.

Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme

Bruce AI, Shirley!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ09fxI6VJQ

Windows 11 turns five, leaving some important lessons for Microsoft

Re: Explorer context menu

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32]

@=""

Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'

Bacchanalian - How many humps does that have, one or two?

Every employee’s password was stored in a single Excel file

Re: Insta-Logins

"Window of opportunity"

Google'll grab your gigs if you don’t cough up your number

Re: Could be worse I guess

Always look for the 'marketing' choices when ordering from a new company, if they don't have any, don't buy.

The other option is to unsubscribe from 'legitimate' companies emails.

NASA's Psyche mission set for a brief encounter with Mars

Is that similar to a tail end Charlie?

Microsoft makes Copilot easier to summon, harder to ignore in Office

Re: To summon copilot ...

Online activation works fine as long as you have office 2010 service pack 2 installed.

If not -

From an elevated command prompt

CD C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14

cscript ospp.vbs /act

Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy

Re: The hilarious thing is

Is that room temperature, Celsius or Fahrenheit, makes a difference! (I'm assuming C)

UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs

Re: Crapita

Extra thumb up for VED - vehicle excise duty - not car tax

Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects

Re: Trump was bribed to do this

$6 per US gallon = £1.16 per litre (currently £1.56 per litre near here)

Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned

Re: "Smart"

Pretty much what you've said. But, the one thing voice control is good for is launching 'apps' on Sky Q - HBO, Amazon, Netflix, etc.

Microsoft: Removing some Copilots will improve Windows 11

Re: No mention of forced cloud logins

I've made a complaint to the CMA (competition and markets authority) in the UK about this.

Weirdly, they won't let you know if they progress a complaint!

Starmer's digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair-era ancestor

Re: "and possibly vehicle tax"

Wrong, it expires on my 70th birthday - check DVLA site for details - see https://www.gov.uk/exchange-paper-driving-licence, you don't REQUIRE a photo licence

Re: "and possibly vehicle tax"

Mine does not have a picture, still got the old paper one, resisting a 'driving tax' being imposed.

Competition watchdog cracks knuckles, probes legality of Adobe cancellation fee

Consequential Loss

See Title - in the UK, two words to use when (for example an Internet Provider), tries to over-charge for leaving early.

Skyrora circles Orbex wreckage as UK rocket rival heads for administration

"focused on ensuring maximum impact for taxpayers’ money"

Poor choice of words when it comes to rocketry!

UK unveils telecoms charter to curb mid-contract bill shocks

I think it should be - No price increase during a contract term, unless you can leave without penalty !!!!

Microsoft dials up the nagging in Windows, calls it security

Re: App signing

Remember Windows "S" Mode?

Feeling taxed by layoffs, IRS turns to AI helpers

Re: Glad I’m retired

If you are UK resident, all of your 'no more' are still payable / need action.

Surrender as a service: Microsoft unlocks BitLocker for feds

Re: How can you not use an MS account in Windows these days?

These may help turn off Micro-slurp, I use a .bat file to set them,

echo "" > C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Diagnosis\ETLLogs\AutoLogger\AutoLogger-Diagtrack-Listener.etl

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection\ /v AllowTelemetry /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\DataCollection\ /v AllowTelemetry /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

sc config DiagTrack start=disabled

sc config dmwappushservice start=disabled

sc stop DiagTrack

sc stop dmwappushservice

Rackspace tests customer loyalty with brutal email price hike

Re: Plusnet is dropping their ISP email service

"IMAP does work offline for everything that works offline" - don't understand that, maybe one should have been online

And what happens if your IMAP sever thinks it has the latest version of your mailbox, and wipes your client version?

Have see it happen, better to keep a local mail store (and back it up!).

Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control

Re: Outlook is still borked for POP users

Which Outlook?

Mine, Outlook Classic as part of the Office 2024 Pro Plus suite works fine for POP

Edit - checked, seems to only effect Outlook Classic if you have the PST stored in OneDrive.

Mall display crashes the vibe with Windows activation nag

From the article - Microsoft has retired the telephone procedure

From the link to Product Activation Portal - under the Windows 11 section, to activate Windows 11 by phone: Select Start > Settings > System > Activation. Under Activate Windows Now section, select activate by Phone.

Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause

Re: Post Tenebras Lux

Romani ite domum

Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info

Same here.

Moved to new laptop about three months ago. Just fired up Windows Media Player legacy for the first time, it populated all the tracks and artwork.

The Microsoft 365 Copilot app rebrand was bad, but there are far worse offenders

Three Words

Rearranging the deckchairs

Users prompt Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot to remove clothes in photos then 'apologize' for it

Re: Morals

I need some REALLY strong mind bleach now!

Cybersecurity pros admit to moonlighting as ransomware scum

Re: "conspiracy to obstruct, delay, or affect commerce or the movement… etc

Just asking (spill chucker?) - periodontal, relating to or affecting the structures surrounding and supporting the teeth.

Starlink satellite fails, polluting orbit with debris and falling toward Earth

Re: Prison?

I hope so !

Windows is testing a new, wider Run dialog box. Here’s how to try it

Click accidentally, with the -t 00 option, instant shutdown / restart with no option to cancel (or is a UAC (user account control)) dialogue invoked?

EDIT - just tried, no UAC and no option to cancel ----------> doubly

Microsoft 365 business customers are running out of places to hide from Copilot

Re: Cyber essentials

ESU

Windows 11 update knocks out USB mice, keyboards in recovery mode

Re: KB5070773 emergency replacement for this update is still failing to install.

And if it succeeds, guess what, default browser set to Edge (again)

Lloyds Banking Group claims Microsoft Copilot saves staff 46 minutes a day

Re: Black Horse redesign

The 'horse' on the home page is different to the login page - brilliant!

UK slaps 'strategic market status' on Google, unlocking power to pry open search

Well, they could stop Google promoting YouTube as the first 10 results for ANY search

No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut

NoYB

About time NOYB did something (yes, so could I) - not GDPR (or UK) compliant - data minimisation ?

You can avoid a this scenario in both Android and iOS