* Posts by Julian Poyntz

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AI to power the corporate Windows 11 refresh? Nobody's buying that

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Or to stop some litigation spreading from America land. They won't sell or give to staff incase of litigation for "I dropped this laptop you sold me 2 years ago on my foot so will now sue you"

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Exactly, most old kit will just work and run. Its like the old days where progression from processor to processor made a noticable difference, or you could go from 2/4MB RAM upto 4/8MB

Most old kit I had recently, replace the spinner with an SSD and off it goes, a new lease of life.

And lets not forget the rebuild every so often to get rid of bloat.

An old company I worked for, as we pulled older servers out, if they were not reused they went into the "spares" pile for older servers that had no support for.

admittedly they were old days and less hacks and threats were around due to initially,none, then limited internet access

Concede in firewall and endpoints you want to keep in line for when the vendor stops maintaining it

UPS supplier's password policy flip-flops from unlimited, to 32, then 64 characters

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Virgin is 10

Our virgin is a 10 character password, which annoys the misses as the "standard" for things like this is 11. Try adding that 11th character when typing in the password and it it will no match. Not tried recently to see if their password reet can now take more than 10 characters or not

LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in

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Btdtgtts

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Isn't linkedin the new jobserve

A lot of learning from "position x is avaiable for my abc client"

IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source says

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Re: Attention IBM'ers

onedrive, hardly anyone stops that or you logging on with non your employer account

Europe's largest city council: Oracle ERP allocated £2B in transactions to wrong year

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ITIL + Shitshow

Makes me wonder, how the UK Gvt came up with ITIL and can then, on a regular basis come up with complete shitshow's like this

Thousands of orgs at risk of knowledge base data leaks via ServiceNow misconfigurations

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Re: Overlapping issues at play here

I'd say, If you were still writing articles and setting options from around a decade ago, it was probably fine under the old CMS style portal.

When they changed to the new style that uses widgets I suspect a few things were changed and people are/were unaware

Elon Musk's assassination 'joke' bombs, internet calls for his deportation

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Re: Enquiring minds need to know.

He's pretty good at getting made bankrupt

Muppet broke the datacenter every day, in its own weighty way

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Sorted

Gone bald, keep clean shaven - though there is now a decent quantity of grey in the stubble these days

Windows 11 users still living in the past face forced update, like it or not

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Re: Windows 11, version 23H2 keeps your device supported

Rufus for now has options to remove those requirements, not sure how much longer that will with though

Online media outstrips TV as source of news for the first time in the UK

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Social Media ?!

My misses seems to spend most of her phone time in Facebook, still.

Recently I woke up and she was already awake and on her phone. asked "anyhing happen overnight ?" to which I got "No, nothing". I rolled over, grabbed my phone and the main headline was "Trump assination attempt"

still, it seems the Beeb use X for most of their sources of news these days and there is naff all local in any of the new reports and a couple of sites that used to have "local" news have now stopped or just gone bust

Apple debuts iPhone 16, Watch Series 10, assorted AirPods

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Recharge ?

I thought most of these smart watches needed a recharge overnight - is that not do ?

(I own a kinetic watch - no recharging there, but have not really worn a watch since COVID even I never went out)

1.7M potentially pwned after payment services provider takes a year to notice break-in

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"Slim CD takes the confidentiality, privacy, and security of information in its possession very seriously,"

"Upon discovery of this incident,"

I suggest you review these 2 statements as something does not ring true. I suspect 2 is quite correct, but 1 is clearly wrong on so many levels if it has taken nearly a year to find out

Predator spyware updated with dangerous new features, also now harder to track

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How quick

X can take down those Trumpy posts, but others that are far more harmful are just left

FTC urged to stop tech makers downgrading devices after you've bought them

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Micro$oft

Does this apply to Microsoft too with their instistance of the w11 requirements stopping many devices from being used (there are lots of companies and even more home users who will not, cannot or are not even aware of *nix)and will have to replace perfectly good kit

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Squeezebox / sonos

The former sold themselves out to Logitech who killed the product, but the server is open source and still maintained.

I recall reading Sonos suddenly stopped supporting some of their speakers and bricking them

We now have just a few squeezeboxes, but more Alexa's. At the cost of the later I am not worried if they suddenly stop working.

Not so worried about the squeeze boxes now either as they have had a good run. But what happened to both does make me wary of the next quality sounds system I get

The fingerpointing starts as cyber incident at London transport body continues

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Re: I hope it's better than Scotrail... but I doubt it

At least you can't hack a "wee hub"

If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do

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Re: Pre-owned

Debating that. I like mint, I can get a couple of routines to give me OneDrive, but no sky sports.

ChomeOS (many videos on how to get ChromeOS and not FLEX installed so you get play), works and so does Sky. Then you get a limitation on Android OneDrive - again another app can resolve.

ChromeOS fle management is a bit naff.

I could do a mix. Mint on most with the basic apps, and ChromeOS where needed, but having a standard interface on all machines is appealing when SWMBO is using them.

I will test the water with a test laptop over the next little while and wait until W10 is dead.

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Now you will stuggle to buy a non "smart" TV. Alas, the 2 I have had in the past a no longer smart. One is so out of date that it would be a risk to use, the other, seems the manufacturer used such a shit processor that many of the app developers started to pull their apps from it.

Resolution = £30 4K roku stick - other brands are available

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Re: But what...

To me that just means Coffee.No AI needed there

Key aspects of Palantir's Federated Data Platform lack legal basis, lawyers tell NHS England

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Internal

While I find it bizarre that my medical record is not shared between relatively close NHS services, I want my information shared with all NHS services, but NOT, via a 3rd party and especially a spy tech company. Get yourself a decent internal team and build it yourselves

Copilot for Microsoft 365 might boost productivity if you survive the compliance minefield

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Re: All I know is...

Likewise,

Linux mint for most and the ones where I need to install sky sports will be ChromeOS

Onedrive, which we do use is the pain in either

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Costs or free

If copilot is $30 per month per user, why are they chucking on our home PCs for nothing ?

Id rather they see I am not going to give them a penny for copilot so they don't even install it

Transport for London confirms cyberattack, assures us all is well

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What for the Khanage disinformation

He's good at that.

At the end of his crap, we will be told there was nothing to worry about, nothing happened, and due to TFL and his hard work, hackers like this are now on the decline

Windows 11 continues slog up the Windows 10 mountain

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Re: How can I?

Just having created a W11 usb stick earlier, Rufus has options to disable most of the h/w requirements. Not sure how much longer that will work for, but it's there now

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Not worth it

All I get a taskbar that is now oddly worse than before. More telemetry, I can now long switch quickly between users as M$ have their latest marketing slogan there, trying to force you into using an M$ account and not local. Thats just what I see day to day.

Will move over to a for of Linux OS at some stage when W10 stops getting updates (I have now found and used a OneDrive tool and a separate GUI, but it works - and that is critical in this house)

I may need to get a chromebook to get Sky Sports running, but that is now the only bug bear (did not work on Waydroid, WINE - I may have another look at ChomeOS Flex and the "hack" to get Play Store installed - but boy, that is a faff)

Microsoft decides it's a good time for bad UI to die

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Lotus Improv

Shows that many people did not like change from their old speadsheets

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Re: MS has history of fixing what is not broke

Why make the scroll bar auto hide ? And even worse, shite like Teams cannot change the width as it has its own controls.

I also want the notification area on all screens and not just one - why, after all these years ? The taskbar is on all screens as is the clock.

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Re: Default User is Administrator

I used to have that, but setup al lthe machines I needed to with them as a user and an admin account I knew.

Problem now is that so many apps install into %appdata% that my main reason for making them all "Standard Users" has gone out of the window

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Re: Having a spanner with a Tesla

I have just got an alternative brand of BEV, but my toolkit from the old ICE is in and ready (few basic tools, drviers, spanners, sockets).

I have read about possible 12v battery issues in quite a few cars so wondering if to put my old portable jump starter in the car....

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Settings vs Contol Panel

What I hate about settings is that a lot of things that should be easy to see are not, often buried between many depths of sub pages before you hit a dead end and have to go back and try again.

I do like the search option as that works reasonably well.

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Tesla

Fromt what I read, having a spanner with a Tesla is potentially a good idea

EV sales hit speed bump as drivers unplug from the electric dream

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what brand

What brand was that?

I also had a similar issue with a Gilera scooter, took ages for the garage to get the part, which is essentially a Vespa component.

I just had a loan bike from the garage so I didn't really care too much

Elon Musk reins in Grok AI bot to stop election misinformation

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Re: What kind of numbnuts relies on AI, especially Musk AI, for election information?

Not just youngsters

Asked SWMBO if anything has happened overnight (she was on her phone in FB)

Nope, nothing was the response.

I look and the first thing I saw was the assignation attempt on Trump

Prior UK government planned £485M four-year budget for Palantir-based healthcare system

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That explains a lot.

Microsoft rolls out one Teams app to rule them all

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Why can't they fix

Bloat

The fucking silly replacement of words with emojis

The lack of ability to change the scroll bars

Limit of 15 to *pinned"

Constant screw up of audio/visual if you have a dock and then dock /unndock a few times

No control of enter (make it so it does. It send) as if you have been in a list and come out, it senda

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Re: Que?

Webclient for that

B2B ISP Fastnet staggers back to feet after VMware incident

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Re: DNS

less said about BT's DNS servers the better..... does anyone still use them ? All the people I know who had BT I moved their DNS to good/opendns years ago

Brit tech mogul Mike Lynch missing after yacht sinks off Sicily amid storms

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more like 11 billion

NASA pushes decision on bringing crew back in Starliner to the end of August

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Re: Suit SL != Capsule Dragon

Need to move to something like isofix

All child car seats / buggies / push chairs can be whatever they like, and look however they like, but isofix is a must and ensures they fit into a car and safely.

Surely a mic / oxygen feed / any other connection would use something standard

Microsoft pushing, pushing, pushing Edge in Defender slammed as a 'dark pattern'

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NextCloud

now looking at this, as quite frankly, OneDrive is the only thing keeping me on windoze due to its simplicity and it just "works" across all our devices.

Demand for AI servers causing a run on enterprise SSDs, hiking prices

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Re: That explains it.

havving got a couple of 4TB NVME at a good price last year, looked at an 8TB one to replace the last of my non RAID spinners. I guess that spinner is going to be going for a little while longer

Delta: CrowdStrike's offer to help in Falcon meltdown was too little, too late

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Re: Underdog?

Maybe they have a lot of tin that needs manual intervention to bring back up opposed to large cloud / vm configs where a revert to snapshot x and restart was a lot quicker

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Re: Delta are as much to blame as M$ and Crowdstrike

problem here is that it does not seem to matter what the customers have with regards to testing, Crowdstrike pushed itself and screwed things up

Report slams Boeing and NASA over shoddy quality that's delayed SLS blastoff

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Re: "The report comes at an unfortunate time for Boeing's new CEO"

carry on the with their current distasters, they won't have a share price, or even a company to worry about

Techie told 'Bill Gates' Excel is rubbish – and the Microsoft boss had it fixed in 48 hours

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Re: Excel is still rubbish

NHS ? Covid ?

Intel's legal troubles mount after plunging stock sparks yet another court battle

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Shares go up, shares go down

Invest only what you can lose.

Send some in the us have forgotten that

NASA mulls using SpaceX in 2025 to rescue Starliner pilots stuck on space station

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Re: The last time someone got stuck in orbit …

Setting the recent UK riots, the terrible in the middle east, and potential trumpiness in the us, i'd take my chances with the apes

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Re: Boeing should provide Test Pilots

Engineers probably did a good job, then the beancounters got involved.

Ohh too much

Can you replace this expensive part for this cheaper part

So we really need that there

That supplier costs too much, use this one (ignoring inferior quality)

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