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Comment Re:Cars need to be made out sterner stuff. (Score 1) 151

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315978/Las-Vegas-hotel-death-ray-leaves-guests-severe-burns.html No, building engineers need to be VERY CAREFUL about how concave-shaped buildings are oriented, relative to the sun. They still haven't learned, see link above.

They???

No... One guy, both cases!

That being said... what was the council's planning department doing the day those plans turned up? Oh yeah... Planning departments are all pencil-pushers, not engineers, so they'll rubber stamp anything without giving it any serious consideration! Didn't even check the architect's track record and query if he'd made sure he didn't repeat the same mistake! And they wonder why many of us in the UK do not see our Council Tax as value for money?!?

Comment Re: Too little too late (Score 1) 496

Removal of recent documents, you say? I run Win 7 pro x64 and have a recent documents menu under start. Did you try turning it back on under properties -> customise? It was an option for me, so I used it. Did you not look, or did you see it and decide that if it's not turned on by default, that you have a free pass to rag on Microsoft about it?

Comment Re:3-4 year old systems can run windows as well (Score 1) 283

anything younger than 2007 will probably have a core 2 duel core Intel chip ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_2) or one of the equivalent AMD duel core chips, and that is not so far of 7 years old now .....

Emphasis mine

Last time I checked... if the various cores in your rig are fighting for supremacy, you've got a seriously suspect OS

Comment Re:Windows is cheaper than Linux (Score 1) 283

Yes, but then you have to pay retail for the license, rather than OEM with the box (ignoring volume licensing agreements, etc), so you're no better off financially with this approach. If anything, it's an argument in favour of virtualising linux on top of the Windows OS that came pre-installed if both OSs are required.

Comment Re:People hate change (Score 1) 283

If you can't figure out LIbre Office you shouldn't have your job. Hating any change is just being an evolutionary inferior waste on society.

I'm no power user, but I can figure out LibreOffice just fine, thank you...

HOWEVER

Can you point out to me how exactly I am supposed to get it to integrate seamlessly with SharePoint etc. in an enterprise environment?

For better or for worse, the bulk of businesses out there are using products from the MS stack for collaborative working. To such businesses, if a F/OSS alternative to MS Office doesn't integrate seamlessly without major hackery then it isn't just a non-preferred alternative, it is a waste of everybody's time to suggest even putting it forward.

To be fair, it could be argued that, given their market penetration, Microsoft should be forced to license the SharePoint integration APIs on a FRAND basis, such that the F/OSS alternatives can join in the party and stand more of a chance in the corporate arena, but how likely is that to happen before MS's apparent goal of getting everyone (particularly in corporate environments) onto subscription-based productivity tools is realised? On the same note, how likely is it that MS would even comply?

To be honest, I prefer both OO and LO over MS Office, primarily on the grounds of MSs UI changes (yes, I am as unimpressed as a lot of people are with the ribbon. Don't get me wrong, I can find my way around it fine, and, up to a point, understand why MS felt that forcing it down our throats was necessary. I just prefer the "classic" interfaces of older versions and their alternatives), but I am a realist at heart and as such I don't foresee the death of MS Office (other than by migration to its "big brother" in the cloud) any time soon...

Comment Re:large system compiles (Score 1) 526

At the previous company I worked for, a nightly software build ran for 15 hours on a couple of quad-core machines with 16GB of RAM. Building for a single target could easily take 6 hrs. I'd love to have a 32-core build machine with 128GB RAM and a terabyte of SSD.

Yes, but....

Run it off a battery and (try to... with current tech, this thing would be kinda chunky!) stick it in your pocket. You'll have a very short race between two end results, your trousers igniting from the heat or the battery dying.

Call me eccentric, but I think I'd be interested to watch such a test just to see which end result wins out!

Comment Re:cut the rug (Score 1) 526

Overhead? One of these techniques requires one person, one mower, and one transport vehicle. The other requires twenty-four people, twenty-four mowers, and twenty-four transport vehicles.

Oh, it comes along with twenty-four people to insure, twenty-four people to calculate taxes on, twenty-four people to provide parking for, twenty-four people to feed at the Christmas party, twenty-four people [...].

Eight people, actually... The 24 was a pass-count where an 8-wide mower would require three passes per lawn (8x3=24).

I guess you're the type of person who doesn't test well? Been there myself, but I've found that it helps to read the d*#n question properly before answering!?!

Comment Re:PS/2 still FTW (Score 1) 177

Generally, I'd be inclined to agree with you, but for the fact that my Windows 7 PC wakes from hibernation on keyboard events (USB).

What I found curious was that it doesn't wake from mouse events (also USB), but I am assuming that this may be down to the mouse being wireless. If it being wireless is the issue, however, then why does it wake from sleep on mouse events?!?

Comment Re:PS/2 still FTW (Score 1) 177

I still keep at least one PS/2 device, either keyboard or mouse, on every computer. Why? Because no BIOS I have ever seen has the capability to wake up a PC from USB events. Presumably this is due to USB controllers not using hardware interrupts (IRQs), instead relying on polling to give some software-emulated interrupts.

It's so much more convenient to be able to hit the space bar or jiggle the mouse to switch the computer on rather than fumbling beneath the desk for a flimsy power button.

I guess that partly depends on what state you are looking to wake from. My desktop will wake from sleep on either keyboard or mouse inputs. From hibernation it will wake via keyboard, but not mouse. Might be due to the mouse being wireless whilst the keyboard is corded, but if that were true, why does it wake from sleep?

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