Definitely. I wrote a mental note that that when I have to start thinking in this manor and tread carefully in a minefield then the technology does not serve me any more and I don't want it. Time up.
This immediately came to mind when I read this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGi6j2VrL0o
Most stuff is like this. If you pick up an HP, Casio or TI calculator these days you'll find they are all Kinpo calculators with slightly different firmware.
Yep. I paid $170 (in UK money) for a 2.4GHz i5 520M X201 with 4Gb of RAM...
You forgot the ridiculous price tag for a refurb X200. My stacked X201 8Gb of RAM, 256Gb Samsung 840 pro, new 9-cell, ultrabase with DVDRW, keyboard, mouse, 22" TFT cost about the price of their bottom end model in…
They need a London nutcase detector for the UK. That's a whole different case. I was on a bus a couple of weeks ago and a completely naked man proceeded to walk in front of it and take a selfie of the bus and himself…
4) have three kids, work on crappy enterprise crud apps, live in a house in a nice area near good schools. It's fine. Seriously.
Just a warning with the yubikeys. I had to use a solution that had these for a few months. The USB port of my laptop (2011 MBP) was pretty much worn out due the physical insertion and removal - other stuff would just…
Financial wit is a killer definitely. A lot of people spend a lot of money on things that they don't need then complain about their life collapsing around them. I've done this before and spent 5 years digging myself out…
I was brought up on a very rough London housing association estate in the 1970s and 1980s. Most of the people complaining do not know poverty or have anything to compare it to. Poverty for me was being sent out at the…
She has a mortgage that the benefits are paying interest only on and disability benefit as well for her children. She bought the house in 2002 so the mortgage isn't terrible. I think she breaks even every month on a…
I'm not super-rich and I'm doing fine in London. So is everyone I know and that includes nurses, programmers, artists and carers perhaps ironically. None of them are moving away. What is a big problem is hyperbole,…
No we go "hmm that might fuck something up; let's try it on a test VM" or at the very least google and see if anyone else has any problems.
This was Oct 2014. KB2949927.
No no no no no. I've watched entire networks of machines downed with auto-updates. Always read, always test.
That might have been the only text that allowed the updated to be signed.
Appeared on WSUS as well... NEVER turn on auto updates on windows. Read all the KBs, then choose to install, ALWAYS. If you have a corp network, use WSUS and stop all updates and check them. If the KB is content-free…
You're right but if I'm honest, for me it was because I pissed all my cash on a powerbook instantly and forgot to budget for stuff like food ;-) I still own that powerbook and it still works and thanks to it I learned…
I really didn't like my old Mac trackpad (2011 MBP). It made my fingers very sore.
I'm not sure I speak for the masses here but I really want a new high end ThinkPad that doesn't have a touchpad at all like my X201: http://i.imgur.com/oOiyl32.jpg I only ever use the trackpoint when I'm out with it and…
“That first cup of coffee in the morning is happiness.” Chopra said. “It’s a real joy.” That's what I thought. The I went through a rough patch with no money as a student and couldn't afford it. The first two weeks…
This. My Bravia no longer works with iPlayer. That was the first and last time I got burned by that.
I was paying for prime but dumped it. Turns out if you pick the free option and the stuff is dispatched by amazon it tends to turn up within 48 hours anyway so fuck it. Also, I live 100 yards from Currys/PC World and…
Same here. They throw the shit on my doorstep on the street in London, ring the doorbell and walk off. One day I lost a 512 gig Samsung 840 Pro to this as someone walked off with the package as I was out. Amazon sorted…
£160 gets you a nice handset these days in the UK sim free. I couldn't put down £500; too painful.
Definitely. I wrote a mental note that that when I have to start thinking in this manor and tread carefully in a minefield then the technology does not serve me any more and I don't want it. Time up.
This immediately came to mind when I read this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGi6j2VrL0o
Most stuff is like this. If you pick up an HP, Casio or TI calculator these days you'll find they are all Kinpo calculators with slightly different firmware.
Yep. I paid $170 (in UK money) for a 2.4GHz i5 520M X201 with 4Gb of RAM...
You forgot the ridiculous price tag for a refurb X200. My stacked X201 8Gb of RAM, 256Gb Samsung 840 pro, new 9-cell, ultrabase with DVDRW, keyboard, mouse, 22" TFT cost about the price of their bottom end model in…
They need a London nutcase detector for the UK. That's a whole different case. I was on a bus a couple of weeks ago and a completely naked man proceeded to walk in front of it and take a selfie of the bus and himself…
4) have three kids, work on crappy enterprise crud apps, live in a house in a nice area near good schools. It's fine. Seriously.
Just a warning with the yubikeys. I had to use a solution that had these for a few months. The USB port of my laptop (2011 MBP) was pretty much worn out due the physical insertion and removal - other stuff would just…
Financial wit is a killer definitely. A lot of people spend a lot of money on things that they don't need then complain about their life collapsing around them. I've done this before and spent 5 years digging myself out…
I was brought up on a very rough London housing association estate in the 1970s and 1980s. Most of the people complaining do not know poverty or have anything to compare it to. Poverty for me was being sent out at the…
She has a mortgage that the benefits are paying interest only on and disability benefit as well for her children. She bought the house in 2002 so the mortgage isn't terrible. I think she breaks even every month on a…
I'm not super-rich and I'm doing fine in London. So is everyone I know and that includes nurses, programmers, artists and carers perhaps ironically. None of them are moving away. What is a big problem is hyperbole,…
No we go "hmm that might fuck something up; let's try it on a test VM" or at the very least google and see if anyone else has any problems.
This was Oct 2014. KB2949927.
No no no no no. I've watched entire networks of machines downed with auto-updates. Always read, always test.
That might have been the only text that allowed the updated to be signed.
Appeared on WSUS as well... NEVER turn on auto updates on windows. Read all the KBs, then choose to install, ALWAYS. If you have a corp network, use WSUS and stop all updates and check them. If the KB is content-free…
You're right but if I'm honest, for me it was because I pissed all my cash on a powerbook instantly and forgot to budget for stuff like food ;-) I still own that powerbook and it still works and thanks to it I learned…
I really didn't like my old Mac trackpad (2011 MBP). It made my fingers very sore.
I'm not sure I speak for the masses here but I really want a new high end ThinkPad that doesn't have a touchpad at all like my X201: http://i.imgur.com/oOiyl32.jpg I only ever use the trackpoint when I'm out with it and…
“That first cup of coffee in the morning is happiness.” Chopra said. “It’s a real joy.” That's what I thought. The I went through a rough patch with no money as a student and couldn't afford it. The first two weeks…
This. My Bravia no longer works with iPlayer. That was the first and last time I got burned by that.
I was paying for prime but dumped it. Turns out if you pick the free option and the stuff is dispatched by amazon it tends to turn up within 48 hours anyway so fuck it. Also, I live 100 yards from Currys/PC World and…
Same here. They throw the shit on my doorstep on the street in London, ring the doorbell and walk off. One day I lost a 512 gig Samsung 840 Pro to this as someone walked off with the package as I was out. Amazon sorted…
£160 gets you a nice handset these days in the UK sim free. I couldn't put down £500; too painful.