Posts by mirachu

Tiny11 shrinks Windows 11 23H2 down to pocket size

Re: Opportunity to downsize

I remember a fresh install of W95 taking something like 55MB.

IT sent the intern to sort out the nasty VP who was too important to bother with backups

Re: Can't stand IT

"We took both pills."

Re: Can't stand IT

Private money is supposed to be efficient at bringing more money and nothing else.

Eager young tearaway almost ruined Christmas with printer paper

"Pic cell". Say it out loud.

US nuke reactor lab hit by 'gay furry hackers' demanding cat-human mutants

Re: Beware the law of unintended consequences

How about a cat-brained tank, like in Those Who Hunt Elves?

Dear Stupid, I write with news I did not check the content of the [Name] field before sending this letter

Re: This would be the flip side...

Kid Looked Funny? KLF? Guess my current earworm.

Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11

Re: Advert

Wrong smiley if you wanted to imply sarcasm.

Chap blew up critical equipment on his first day – but it wasn't his volt

AFAIK 30mA is generally considered the "this can kill you" limit.

Toyota servers ran out of storage, crashed production at 14 plants in Japan

Workers being able to make processes more resilient isn't a feature of JIT. It's another system Toyota uses.

Most distant observed star is blue – and it isn't alone

Re: a massive distortion in space-time

The computer of Heart of Gold. Duh.

Nobody would ever work on the live server, right? Not intentionally, anyway

What senses can differentiate in general is different from a specific case, and when you mix psychology all bets are off.

Also, you're almost certainly wrong about the difference between bits of hardware.

Re: Budget HiFi

Wharfedale, Shirley?

I don't bother with vinyl, it takes up space, has an *archaic* UI, wears and so on, so I mostly deal in slightly smushed bits. Yes, I know vinyl can sound good. It's just a hassle and my crappy ears (I'm 50, have tinnitus *and* 30 dB drop in treble in my right ear) can't hear the difference between the original and a version with strategically lost bits.

Re: Don't let that guy work without supervision

Of the Solo cup fame.

Official science: People do less, make more mistakes on Friday afternoons

Re: dies poetae

2970s? Not that I doubt you.

Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop

Re: @StrangerHereMyself - They'll try

TBF, Eeepc wasn't exactly fast. It had a first gen Atom and drivers weren't exactly mature.

Re: @StrangerHereMyself - They'll try

Moving to Linux is nothing like quitting smoking. Quitting smoking has roughly one value proposition. Moving to Linux is any number of things.

Re: functionality

Microsoft keeps breaking that "familiarity". Linux desktop environments are more likely to stay stable.

Millions of people's data stolen because web devs forget to check access perms

Re: Funny that........

The Sun? Are you joking? No ody would take it seriously.

Techie wasn't being paid, until he taught HR a lesson

Re: Unique keys

Your bureaucrats are (more) incompetent (than usual) then.

Quirky QWERTY killed a password in Paris

Re: Keyboards...

"Lolcalised"? I like that. Yoink, as they say.

That old box of tech junk you should probably throw out saves a warehouse

Re: Older PSUs

I have a few 9V AC warts. They're getting yeeted because 1) transformers are heavy, and 2) everything I have that uses 9V AC has a rectumfryer inside anyway, so.

Re: Hmmm

Yeah, 5V@2A sounds like a USB hub wallwart.

Google Cloud upgrades with next-gen accelerator that embiggens its VMs

"Embiggen" is a horrid and unnecessary word.

Shocks from a hairy jumper crashed a PC, but the boss wouldn't believe it

Re: Van De Graaff Computers filed for bankruptcy

Forcefully.

Huge lithium discovery could end world shortages ... Oh, wait, it's in Iran

Re: don't fret!

I bet there's huge deposits of the stuff in the part of Russia that's largely unexplored (which is most of the country). :P

To explore caves on Mars and the Moon, take a hint from Hansel & Gretel, say boffins

Hansel and Gretel? Ariadne has prior art.

Smart ovens do really dumb stuff to check for Wi-Fi

Re: midrowave ding

Transients are easier to spot, and microwave noise does get lost in the general din if you're washing dishes at the same time. You also might not actually be anywhere close for that 3 minutes, and architecture has an effect too.

Cleaner ignored 'do not use tap' sign, destroyed phone systems ... and the entire building

Re: Concrete dust = Kryptonite

Helium containing drives are sealed. Anything older has a breather hole as far as I know.

When we asked how you crashed the system we wanted an explanation not a demonstration

Re: A simple solution

Hoblack Desiato would approve.

Two signs in the comms cabinet said 'Do not unplug'. Guess what happened

Re: Physical Methods Trump Signs in Any Language

USB-A fits trivially into an Ethernet socket, no force needed.

Boss installed software from behind the Iron Curtain, techies ended up Putin things back together

Small, medium and large fragments, like Goldilocks?

Killing trees with lasers isn’t cool, says Epson. So why are inkjets any better?

Re: Windows & USB killed printers

My "local printer" is a Laserjet 1100 attached to a JetDirect box I got for free. Sure I had to solder a new power plug to the JetDirect box because it had a weird one (thanks HP!) and I needed to install a timer to cycle power once a day because the printer's power save is *too* good and it won't wake up if it's idle too long but hey, total cost of 60€ plus consumables in 15+ years, not complaining.

Re: Microsoft beat them to it

I dunno but I'm running a printer from 2001 with a driver that hasn't been updated at least since Vista on Windows 10. It's a Laserjet and I'm using it until it dies.