Posts by FirstTangoInParis

Re: I don't think so

So when you’re out of wireless signal is the car going to say to the driver “your problem now”?

Re: Required to use AI at work? AI can fix that!

Or pointlessly typing on keyboards, as the Police don’t say.

Re: Is the UK involved at all with SCION?

Probably no need to imagine. There will almost certainly be some ancient ICL mainframes still around talking ISO protocols like it’s a festival for Middle English speakers.

Re: ERP is UFP?

For a very short time I was entrusted with authorising purchase orders on our SAP system. The slide deck (!) I got to guide me bore no relation to what a modern UI user would expect, eg pick My POs, select one for $project, review and click confirm. Just like Amazon does with business payments authorisation. No wonder the replacement ERP needs customisation!

I’m guessing this company tendered for residence confirmation (nothing wrong with that) and then said oh we can throw in this license plate tracker thing. Never mind the car has a right to be anywhere, especially if a parent travels for work. The parent concerned should challenge that assertion based on lack of consent to be tracked like that. But likely it was in the teeny tiny print of the form they signed. Sigh.

Re: Plus VAT??

Surprise, yes it does. There was a case a few years back where one gov department didn’t include VAT in the contract value and then had to scrap a smaller contract to pay the VAT.

It wouldn’t matter if Toyota were offering minus 10%APR on Rav 4s, I still wouldn’t buy another one. The ones in the late noughties drank oil, ate tyres and needed servicing every 10k miles. Compare with similar Volvos now that will go 25k miles on a set of front tyres.

IT don’t have to be overzealous, this is default situation if you add a policy to engage what would have been a screensaver for staff who like walking away from their PC without Windows-L.

I’m getting complaints from users about this. Fixing this to a longer timeout requires an enormous amount of hoopla in GPO settings, or you let users set their own but you have to threaten them with unspeakable happenings if they don’t Win-L.

Re: Recycle / re-use?

Idly wondering if MS will suddenly realise W11 WILL run on those ‘legacy’ PCs after all. And won’t need AI silicon, and they will remove Copilot from those builds.

Stranger things have happened….

Re: The big issue here is the word "upgrade"

Well tbh I’m not really sure the difference between one release and the next is really significant. Sure there’s a new desktop to love/hate, but under that tge Oas is pretty much the same. There are still hangovers from XP buried in control panel, so you’re surely not telling me that MS have done a serious haircut on old stuff that either needed removing or refactoring between Windows N and N+1.

So did we all have to shack out a bunch of money because MS fancied some dosh by giving us a different desktop and removing a bunch of silicon from support?

They need someone to harmonise their synergies. Or something like that.

I’ve seen thin clients at nurses stations where eah nurse appears to have their on smart card. But about a year ago there was some migration program going on for usernames which didn’t seem to be going well.

Re: If Microsoft made cars (you serious)

You jest, but my keyless ignition car needs me to press the Start button to turn the engine off.

Meanwhile the in car entertainment crashes now and then needing me to long press the screen heater button to reboot it. While this is going on you realise the indicator sound is electronically generated as it’s awful quiet during the reboot.

And an OTA software update requires I lock the car and hope I can unlock it afterwards.

Re: And another thing-

Shall we play a game?

Give it ten years and Windows 14 will suddenly require 128 GB HBM memory ……. Got to shift that stock somehow.

A 365 Shared mailbox cannot be logged into directly at all. It can only be accessed through Oulook (and no other mail clients) by someone who has delegated access or (from the attacker’s perspective) preferably full access.

> I wonder if W11 26H1 has removed many of these legacy features.

If that happens, management would not have been told, otherwise they would still be there but with AI shoehorned in somewhere.

Re: This should be entertaining

Except when apps start asking to track your activity across other apps. Looking at you, Adobe Acrobat.

I’ve been seriously considering moving my elderly dad of Windows 11. I’m pretty sure I have to set the same settings every time he asks me to take a look. He doesn’t change them. Windows Update are you looking guilty? I’ve actually thought about joining him to my 365 domain so I can GPO his machine, but I’d need a W11 Pro license.

On TV this morning some c suite nob from Starbucks was talking about adding AI to their coffee. It was a proper buzzword bingo interview where he riffed on leveraging headwinds to up the customer experience on tariff-free green coffee or some such bollards. I’d just like some coffee, thanks. I don’t want to pay for their massive splurge on AI that nobody wants and will have no measurable positive impact on their profits.

Re: #Where's me Jumper?#

There’s rather a lot of electrical stuff under the average drivers car seat these days. Very good for capturing and retaining loose stuff you stow in the footwell behind. I’ve no idea if there’s any airbag stuff under there but I didn’t want to find out.

Re: The only banking app that didn't accept payments

The proliferation of apps is a pain since smartphone users need ever increasing amounts of memory to install them all. However for quick action you can’t beat an app especially with the biometric authentication. Trying to log in to some bank websites requires card readers and backflips, and sometimes selected characters from the required very long passwords.

Ah yes. I worked with a company where one of the suits who looked as if he never left his office spouted about how they did 6 sigma. Cover was blown when I realised staff could not even be bothered to turn up to meetings on time. Or at all.

If they were required to literally fall on their sword after apologising, it might cause a little more attention to success rather than oh dear never mind we’ll get some more money.

Re: There’s that one part of Microsoft Office nobody ever uses…

> the correct Microsoft app for a small database is Excel!

And even a big one! Covid spreadsheets between gov departments come to mind ….

Re: Intune

TBH it's down to the amount of IT you want to be lugging about. If you have a company mobile then that likely means you travel a fair bit so you have to carry the extra phone. Plus if it's the other sort from what you're used to (own Android, company iPhone or vice versa) the UI differences can drive you mad (less of a problem now, they seem to have agreed on UI interaction). The rules corp would apply are what you would expect to use anyway, and corp can only see select apps and nothing else if it's been set up properly. The advantages being you get to manage your calendars all on one device and it only takes up one pocket.

Re: Performative hyperscaling

Much as I’d love to encrypt data in the cloud, Client Side Encryption is only available on very expensive tiers for Google et al. Yes of course you can encrypt with third party tools but how do you manage encryption keys and passwords?

Re: Real Savings?

I wonder if the word “transformative” is over egging these Emperor’s New Clothes. It would be transformative if it brought a whole new way to evaluate all the little different pros and cons of all the different offers and policies. But no, it appears to be a slightly different hamster wheel that yields untrusted results that still need checking by the broker and evaluation by the prospective customer.

The paper is shoving AI down the reader’s throat and attempting to justify it with highly suspect presentation of marginal gains at best.

Re: Windows 11 23h2 IHome/Pro) went EOL November 2025…

I think users with 23H2 will be looking forward to not getting any more faulty patches after November 2026 …..

Re: Underwater

Many years back I accidentally poured coffee into the keyboard of a very expensive Cadnetix workstation. Fortunately my wife knew a lot about materials including substances that dissolved other substances. Just take it apart, wash it under a warm tap and then leave it to dry over the weekend, she said. Worked a treat.

Every car park I visit for the first time seems to need a different parking app. Some as good, some (looking at you, APCOA) are frankly awful and require real credit cards to register. What’s wrong with Apple/Android Pay?