Posts by Onen hag Oll

Thinnet cables are no match for director's morning workout

Re: Full names please.......

There used to be an Estate Agent in Dartmouth called Letcher and Scorer...https://www.flickr.com/photos/november_song/24778098508

File suffixes: Who needs them? Well, this guy did

I've never tried it and don't know how portable it would be across systems. But...if I had a nasty executable called something-innocent.doc.exe and CHANGED its icon to use the Word one. Who'd know the difference?

A tiny typo in an automated email to thousands of customers turns out to be a big problem for legal

Re: What was I thinking?

I have two tripe-ing errors to admit. I did once send out an 'important massage' in the title of an e-mail to the whole organisation which led to a few warning words (but many laughs) - don't rub it in!

I also did intend to say in an e-mail to a woman colleague that 'I knew she must be busy' but managed to hit the 't' and the 'y' simultaneously (it didn't come out as 'busyt'). Fortunately, she had a good sense of humour and my hurried red-faced phoned apology was accepted with a chuckle.

Re: What was I thinking?

Upvoted as it reminds me of the Terry Pratchett Discworld book 'Lords and Ladies'. Although, in this case, it was a Marital Arts illustrated publication that that was required. What was delivered caused a lot of confusion if I remember correctly.

RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81

Re: Fraudulent too...

What do you think the BBC are doing with their licence in the UK? At the end of each licence term you've already 'put in an order' and paid for 6 months worth of products in advance. Not only are the products not available, you don't even know what products you're going to get. Some of them haven't even been created yet. It's also likely that some of that prepaid money is being used to develop those products. When the Beeb introduced Direct Debits instead of annual renewals they upped their licence revenue by 50% per licence. I certainly remember paying an inflated Direct Debit price for the first year to cover this.

Google staff who work from home might see pay cut under corporate policy – reports

Re: If anything

The slightly higher utility bill?

Admittedly there is no 'one size fits all' but utility bills could be significantly higher for someone working from home. During the winter, the house that MIGHT be empty otherwise has to be heated, in the summer (for those with climates that require it) it has to be cooled; personally, I'm lucky enough that just opening the windows satisfies that. Whilst these costs might be offset by commuting savings, such savings will vary. Heating / cooling a house for the additional time you're there isn't a slight increase (tea/coffee/meals aren't subsidised where I work but those are lesser).

It does also take a significant number of cars off the road for a single company alone, multiply that throughout the country/world the savings (wear and tear/energy/climate etc) have benefits beyond the company. In this respect, WFH should be encouraged and incentivised.

In addition, the fact that an office is half empty probably doesn't financially affect the company. It can consolidate the office space to accommodate the fewer employees without heating/cooling the empty part, it could let out the empty part and (I may be wrong here) its office is a fixed cost which would be classed as a tax overhead anyway and be included as a cost in tax calculations.

WFH does affect the local businesses that support the office workers; bus companies, local food vendors etc. These have suffered and will continue to suffer if this continues although food purchase will just shift geographically.

An anti-drone system that sneezes targets to death? Would that be a DARPA project? You betcha

Re: Loitering/multiple targets?

Bearing in mind that the drone will be targeting something irrespective of what's around it, collateral damage to the surrounding area is hardly foremost in the minds behind the drone. It could be argued that any collateral damage caused by the drone being brought down by itself would be far less than the drone plus the intended target.

Compsci boffin publishes proof-of-concept code for 54-year-old zero-day in Universal Turing Machine

Re: The illusion of absolute security

Even the remediation had a critical flaw. He omitted 'Lock the cupboard' and probably should have put 'Destroy the key'.

Sure, your app is crap, but Windows won't tell. Promise

Re: Bright ideas

With regard to the shocking waste of electricity. Just think of the alternative.

The ads are going to go out anyway.

So, the alternative would be to print the ad on vast amounts of paper using energy in paper and printing production, load it on a van / truck / lorry, waste vast amounts of fuel getting there and back to put it up; all to repeat this process multiple times once the ad runtime has run its course and is replaced by the next advertiser.

Whatever method; advertising is a polluter (and that's before you get to the content).

Partial beer print horror as Microsoft's printer bug fix, er, doesn't

Re: Tired of MS

Does anyone remember those halcyon days when MS issued several individual OS patches a month? If one broke things, you could just remove the offending one, keeping the rest that (miraculously) didn't contain 'unintended features', and, at least temporarily, have a more secure machine whilst the specific element was fixed. Now, you either remove all the critical fixes to be able to work or you remain secure but can't work. Ah well...there's progress.

The Honor MagicBook Pro looks nice, runs like a dream, and isn't too expensive either. What more could you want?

Re: New requirements / brandname

Meanwhile, people still have a need for a laptop which is portable and runs for long enough because there are times when we have to wait elsewhere. Parents, for example, may need to wait for their children and may wish to be productive while doing so

If it's anything like my children; no battery lasts that long

Is it Patch Blues-day for Outlook? Microsoft's email client breaks worldwide, leaves everyone stumped

Where was the testing?

I can understand if something obscure wasn't working; but to kill the application immediately on loading? That must have meant that testing must have been sadly lacking...or perhaps missing altogether?