Posts by juliansh

'What's the point of me being in my office, just because they want to see me in the office?'

Re: If everyone is back in the office..

your cats can use Zoom?

Cyberattack brings down InterContinental Hotels' booking systems

Re: Can't be bothered to spend money on IT

Maybe the local councils aren't reporting or haven't noticed yet...

I paid for it, that makes it mine. Doesn’t it? No – and it never did

Re: Before computers we used to make stuff that worked

"...regular visits from a man who used to have to do strange repairs to the telly with just a soldering iron (never with any new parts, or seemingly any solder, just applying the iron and making fizzing noises and making bits of smoke emerge from the circuitry)."

Yes indeed. The man from DER in the brown overalls and soldering iron!

Appian awarded over $2b after claiming Pegasystems stole its data

Re: This was about a culture of systematic misappropriation of fundamental architectural concepts

If we were told them then wouldn't be trade secrets anymore...

Shocking: UK electricity tariffs are among world's most expensive

Re: We still have candles in ...

or a torch?

Spar shops across northern England shut after cyber attack hits payment processing abilities

Re: Other victims?

Have you tried the Boots online store recently? Another shoddy WebSphere Commerce Server application that hasn't been updated in years

IBM Systems sales sag as revenue growth slows to a crawl – but at least tape did OK

A coming re-org will lump Cloud and Cognitive together

That's the idea, keep pretending to move broken bits around to obscure the reality of poor performance and make historical comparisons more challenging.

Piss poor management.

Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity amid opposition

Re: Would've been good to give the settings link

Even though I had to dig around to find this setting, I'm grateful to The Register folks for pointing this out!

Just when everyone thought things might be looking up, Dido Harding admits interest in top job at NHS England

Thank you The Register for providing the data opt out link in the article. It was a good reminder for me to do my duty (and opt out)

UK Test and Trace chief Dido Harding tries to convince MPs that £14m for canned mobile app was money well spent

Re: Catch 22

I also got a text with a suspicious-looking, clickable link. I chose not to click it but did a little digging to find it was a legitimate invitation from the GP collective to book for a jab. Booking process worked OK, but I'd have preferred a clearer SMS!

Offshoring is kind of over, says Wipro, as financials surge thanks to offshoring

Impressive performance

"Yet Wipro said five of its four sectors saw growth above four percent."

who said accounting was dead?

US aviation regulator issues safety bulletins over flaws in software updates for Boeing 747, 777, 787 airliners

Re: The largest FOD I've read about

They would've done but couldn't reach it

Sick of AI engines scraping your pics for facial recognition? Here's a way to Fawkes them right up

mandatory face mask?

NHS contact tracing app isn't really anonymous, is riddled with bugs, and is open to abuse. Good thing we're not in the middle of a pandemic, eh?

Re: One would have throught...

and, of course, even aggressive testing regimes can only give a point in time view, so my risk number today may not be the same tomorrow

Stockholders, assemble. HP's latest argument: Do you really trust Xerox to take us over during a pandemic recession?

Re: My crystal ball

Xerox management have already lost touch with their own business so seem to think it's a good idea to screw up another one. Albeit HP are doing a good job on that already.

Cops charge prankster who 'corona-coughed' on aged officer and had it filmed

Re: hait cut and social distancing

and if it's the latter they will still have long hair afterwards