Neil44

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by Neil44 7y ago
Cheesy preinstalled apps is the main reason I go iOS not Android.
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by Neil44 7y ago
The problem with cheap hosting is they want to use backups as an upsell, but you should still have backups to cover the companies ass even if the customer doesn’t get to use them. 123 Reg lost a load of customers VPS’s a year or two ago als
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by Neil44 7y ago
This is a common story with breaches, you often don’t find out about it till they’ve finished with you. It’s pretty scary. If you don’t have someone good who’s attention is on this then you’re open to being blindsided.
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by Neil44 7y ago
I got excited when I saw the 'f' and 'count' commands, but they're just scripts he has on his system. Like doing grep 'plover' blah.log | cut -d ' ' -f 11 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n. Personally I
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by Neil44 7y ago
Windows 10 is a service, i.e. where will Microsoft get its recurring income from. a) Marketing data, b) start charging monthly fees for OS features.
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by Neil44 7y ago
I read some similar comments recently and tried switching to Chrome, but did not find it any faster, even on YouTube and gmail. Maybe it’s machine and webpage specific.
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by Neil44 7y ago
Steer and brake by wire is a safety thing, all manufacturers so far have kept a mechanical link in place despite electric assistance because of the potential for lawsuits. Infinity has gone the closest to full steer by wire so far that I’m
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by Neil44 7y ago
Why does John Deere not simply offer the best service and repair facility in an open market in order to win the revenue stream? This was always a land grab for easy profits.
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by Neil44 7y ago
Notifications should be renamed to Interruptions IMO
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by Neil44 7y ago
Depends on the type of tea, for example Roibos tea, ginger, camomile don’t contain caffeine
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by Neil44 7y ago
One of my favourite Clive James things was the translation of Dante’s Inferno he did. Instead of the usual ‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter here’ he came up with ‘Abandon your hopes, they are what got you here’. Subtle genius.
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by Neil44 7y ago
Plenty of people work like slaves their whole lives and don’t do all that well.
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by Neil44 7y ago
I’m thinking you would see it coming a mile away, but could you pump water quickly enough to stop it once the centre of gravity got away from you?
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by Neil44 7y ago
I found your choice of words quite amusing because the dock really could simply flip upside down!
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by Neil44 7y ago
If you’re ever in Stuttgart the Porsche factory tour is well worth it. Even just seeing the just in time supply chain in action is mind blowing.
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by Neil44 7y ago
It's not just the engine and trans that can have problems though, there's a whole car full of electromechanical gadgets and weather seals and sensors and nice finishes to worry about. That all still has to be got right too.
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by Neil44 7y ago
The TeamViewer thing will be deliberate, because they’ve sold a load of perpetual licenses for older versions so incompatibility is how they get more money out of you.
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by Neil44 7y ago
Obvs. The authors server isn’t seeing longer TTL’s because there’s no need for clients to keep querying his server for them?
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by Neil44 7y ago
Not to mention all the times when the index has borked its self and search just returns results from Bing instead.
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by Neil44 7y ago
Gibson Research’s InSpectre utility will allow you to do the same thing on Windows. https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm
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by Neil44 7y ago
People are not born perfect. People do stupid stuff and post it on instagram when they're young, but people continue to grow and learn throughout their lives. What I'm saying is that I don't see any benefit to dragging up som
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by Neil44 7y ago
People are allowed to have a past, I don't see that it's that relevant to IKEA today.
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by Neil44 7y ago
Didn’t someone call for the patent office to be closed in the 1800’s because everything had already been invented?
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by Neil44 7y ago
You can imprison people when you make it against the law.
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by Neil44 7y ago
I looked at jobs in Poland after a visit there. Everything was super cheap and it's a beautiful place. However, once you were on Polish wages, things were not super cheap any more.
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by Neil44 7y ago
Ransoming of IT MSP's is 100% a thing now. They know that if they can compromise an account that has access to the companies RMM then they can hit hundreds of businesses with a few clicks. As an IT provider who uses these tools it cert
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by Neil44 7y ago
Check in on the app first?
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by Neil44 7y ago
Same here (UK), YT Kids is massively popular, although my daughter does like a lot of the BBC and Netflix shows too.
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by Neil44 7y ago
My friend manages the online presence of a dentists, and nearly all negative reviews turn out to actually be about another dentist with a similar name about 60 miles away. So this does happen all the time on TripAdvisor, and they aren'
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by Neil44 7y ago
Even if they're not on auto-renew they will start sending you scary emails 90 days before expiry, warning about loss of service etc. Unless you're really sure what you're doing you're not going to ignore those.

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