Which doesn't make sense until you realise this operation must have taken place on another computer or in another browser. It wouldn't take much effort for the phraseology to be less terse and more user friendly, frankly.
Saturday 21 November 2015
Wednesday 11 November 2015
Tim Cook talks Apple cult BS
Sorry, a non proprietary computer platform that we can run anything on (except Apple's cult OS) and that we can fix and repair ourselves isn't disappearing anytime soon. I guess these guys are so wrapped up in their cult that they believe anything.
There are still plenty of people out there who have not sold their souls to the cult of Apple and have got a clue that they do not need to spend their days playing with hand held devices that are chained to Apple's servers on the far side of the world. Devices that are essentially throwaway if they break out of warranty. Too difficult and expensive to repair.
Sunday 8 November 2015
New Uploadr sucks
Well Flickr have released a new Uploadr tool. They had one some years back that was discontinued and now they have brought out this one that, to be frank, does look a lot like the Google Photos uploader tool.
However anyone who is expecting it to be like the previous Uploadr (which was a third party tool) will be very disappointed. While it can store photos automatically into albums, they are all set to private by default and there is no way to change this behaviour as there are very limited configuration options. The software is really set up as a backup tool, not an upload tool for publishing photos.
The biggest problems I am seeing with this software is that it is very slow and often stalls during the process (I would guess it is unable to deal with upload timeouts, which seem to be a common feature of the Yahoo platform). This means you are bound to have to close and restart the software if you are uploading a lot of photos at a time. The initialisation phase of the software seems to involve a lot of disk churning and take a very long time to complete.
The only really useful feature on it is the built in deduplicator. This is the one thing that makes it almost worthwhile to have. But it could be so much better and have the ability to publish albums as well, considering that they appear like normal albums in my photo collection; they just aren't public.
Changing Windows 10 update settings
If you have Windows 10 Pro, Education or Enterprise, you may yearn for the original (since Windows XP) granularity of Windows Update settings. The GUI offered in 10's regular Settings screen only gives a limited range of options, and unlike many of the areas of the settings screen, the Control Panel version of the Updates app has been removed.
On these editions of Windows, the Local Group Policy editor provides access to group policy settings for the local computer that are essentially unchanged from XP days. Domain administrators can use the group policy tools to push these settings out to all the computers in their site, but the local policy can be used on any computer, not just one that is joined in a domain.
Open the Local Group Policy editor by running gpedit.msc and then find the updates settings in the following location:
- Expand Computer Configuration
- Expand Administrative Templates
- Expand Windows Components
- Select Windows Update
What you can see in there is a mixture of settings that apply to different editions of Windows. The ones I can see go back as far as Windows XP Service Pack 1, but there are also ones that go to Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. Also, some of the settings are only applicable when you have your own Windows Server Update Services installation inside a site. The server that is running WSUS can manage all of the updates across a site and make sure bandwidth is being used efficiently. WSUS is a great tool if your internet bandwidth is slow or expensive but it doesn't justify itself at sites with a flat rate connection or where a small number of computers don't really need the management overhead.
So to the settings that are useful:
- Enabling Windows Update Power Management to automatically wake up the system to install scheduled updates - appears only to apply to 7/Vista/2008. Apparently being in hibernation is not a guarantee the system is not going to update itself without you knowing. I always turn my PCs off at the wall as soon as they have gone into hibernation so they will never wake themselves up which makes this setting irrelevant.
- Configure automatic updates - is the main configuration option we are all familiar with from earlier editions of Windows. Enable this policy then choose whether you want the system to automatically install the updates, download and notify you, or let you decide when to download and when to install.
- Defer Upgrade - this Windows 10 setting is one of the few available in the settings GUI. I advise enabling it.
- No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automaric updates installations - this makes sure the system will not force an automatic restart if you have the Configure Automatic Updates setting set to auto-install updates. Enabling this is recommended.
- There are some other similar settings which I have not covered as I have set my "Configure Automatic Updates" policy to ask me before it installs anything, and if you choose this one at least you are spared the default behaviour where you just get kicked off your own computer and everything is force closed whether you had unsaved work or not.
Sunday 1 November 2015
$1 Iphone scam
I always thought this was going to be a scam, well it has been shown up to be one as expected because of the false claim that Apple would sell their phones for $1.
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