Norphy

Chiwetel Ejiofor would be a good choice I think - he has the "dashing" part down quite well I think and he could certainly do the physical bits when he played the Operative in Serenity. /edit Good God, Serenity was 17 years ago! How has that happened?

An entire Exchange server, just to be an SMTP relay? Isn’t that just a mite, well, excessive?

There are group policy templates for Edge, very similar to the Chrome ones as that's what Edge is based on: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/configure-microsoft-edge Can you set what you need to set in there?

Live with COVID while 150,000 die from a horrible disease but it’s ok because people can go to nightclubs again

You could just use a bluetooth earpiece? https://www.argos.co.uk/browse/technology/mobile-phones-and-accessories/bluetooth-headsets/c:30148/ £20 for a basic Jabra one?

It was an overclocked Gamecube, surely?

Pfft. You know nothing

And again! It’s late! This was supposed to happen last night!

Incorporated

Are you talking about the monthly cumulative updates, or are you talking about feature updates? The monthly updates are usually in the region of 500-700MB. They're generally either bug fixes, security updates, updates to the servicing stack or a combination of both. They fix (and sometimes introduce!) problems that your users may be having. See the recent Print Nightmare issues for a recent high profile example. There's also one other possibility, which I'll cover in the next paragraph. A Feature Update is where Windows updated to a new build, e.g. going from 1909 to 21H1. With these, you get new features or the existing features get updated, fixed or removed. The size of these is entirely dependant on which version you're upgrading from to the version that you're upgrading to. With recent versions of Windows, the extra code that's required to go from one build of Windows is actually included in a monthly cumulative update but it lays dormant. You can then use what Microsoft call an Enablement Update to activate this dormant code; these Enablement Updates are usually only a few hundred KB. Going from build 1903 to 1909 could be done with an enablement update as long as you have the cumulative update which includes the new version installed, as can going from 2004 to 20H2, 21H1 and 21H2. However, if you're going from (say) 1709 to 21H2 you need a full feature update, which is essentially a Windows ISO wrapped in a WIM file, which will be around 4GB.

No. To use Update Compliance, you need an Azure account and you'll need an Azure subscription to set up a log analytics workspace. That workspace doesn't cost anything once it's in place. However, WUfB and Update Compliance can both be configured with a normal group policy if desired, you don't need Intune for that.

Goggles

Is that a commentary on the individuals or what they left on the draining board? Or both?

https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ipod People have a habit of missing the point. What Apple have historically done well is not bring something new to the market, but refine what's already there to the point that the average idiot in the street wants it and can use it. There's a lot of marketing behind this, admittedly, but it's hard to deny that while the iPod and iPhone were far from the first hard drive based digital music player and smartphone on the market, they were the first that were both targeted hard at the mainstream market and were done well.

Ignition

Dyson .

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc-m9dumEaw

Snow in Dumfriesshire here today

Maybe it’s not ‘Men’s Wear’, maybe it’s ‘Men Swear’? I’ll see myself out

Just found in a Christmas cracker Why don’t bikes stand up? Because there two tyred.

Reading the last Expanse novel at the moment. So far, so good!

So what rendering engine would be used on Windows then? Trident? Chromium? Slightly odd way of going about it really

For me: Sunrise: 8:38, sunset 15:47, 7 hours 9 minutes daylight! [Dumfries]

It'd be easier if it wasn't an animated gif, because like that it just goes around in the same sequence each time. Watch it for a few cycles, learn the sequence and press the button at the right time. Next time OU, do it properly with a bit of javascript.

I watched the Polar Express with my son yesterday. Just..... Aside from the incredibly creepy uncanny valley animation, the majority of the voices were irritating (Those elves. Ugh. And the know it all kid. Argh), the songs put me in a diabetic coma and while I realise that the source doesn't have anywhere near enough material to fill a film that's an hour and half long, there was enough padding in there to supply the Wonderbra factory for an entire year. Bad, bad, bad.