Posts by Anonymous Anti-ANC South African Coward

Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books

Fatten, Farten, Bursten and Ooze?

Lemonparty, the finest ever.

Windows 11 needs an XP SP2 moment, says ex-Microsoft engineer

Re: Fuck microsoft and the horse they rode in on.

Most posts on X is about users moaning about AI slop creeping in everywhere, and we all wishes M$ would just f**k off with their k**ke.

Re: Windows One

Windows Eleventy-one.

Fallback options :

1. Windows NT4 Workstation with SP6

2. Windows 2000 Workstation with SP4

3. Windows XP SP3

4. Windows 7

Think OS/2 and Linux users must be chortling with glee now.

BOFH: Forward-facing AI brand experience meets forward-facing combustion risk management

Fourth Breakfast, anybody?

omnomnomnomnom

Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the network down

Here's a Cat5 o' nine tails... have fun!

Ahhh, 10base-2 networks and Hunt-the-Terminator... one of my favourite pastimes when at a new client with a wonky 10base-2 network...

Luckily said Terminator was not a deadly one, hence the icon for this post.

I do miss those fun days, those times was a lot better than today's fun and games with Billware crap.

Any Chronicles of George folks around here?

Soup king Campbell’s parts ways with IT VP after ‘3D-printed chicken’ remarks

Which came first?

The 3D printer chicken or the 3D printed egg?

Re: "its poulet is proper repast, made of actual chicken"

DMH Dibhala also want in on this entrepreneurship endeavour...

Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere

vapourware trying its darnedest to milk customers...

And use a cheerful Clippy to deliver the news...

Britain's first small modular reactors to be built in Wales

Hinkley Point C....

You guys better hope it won't be a rerun of that fiasco...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_station

This has also been covered on El Reg previously.

Oh, and good luck. Are the Thunderbirds on standby?

London left buffering as Hyperoptic backup link refuses to boot

It's not just one cowboy, they're all cowboys winging it.

Firefox adds AI Window, users want AI wall to keep it out

I'm probably not the only one who muttered "oh, piss off" when seeing this...

UK's Ajax fighting vehicle arrives – years late and still sending crew to hospital

Go and read "Superiority" by Arthur C Clarke.

Then rethink this.

UK asks cyberspies to probe whether Chinese buses can be switched off remotely

Where there's smoke, there's a fire...

Imagine the chaos if a major portion of public transport buses got bricked (or stopped from working normally) in a couple of countries.... and private transport too...

Windows 11 26H1 is coming ... for new processors only

Re: "a useful feature when an update inadvertently leaves a system in a broken state"

Quoth the Raven "Qualitay"

Google's Gemini Deep Research can now read your Gmail and rummage through Google Drive

Will Bayesian poisoning be a good thing to do?

Louvre's pathetic passwords belong in a museum, just not that one

Pterry

The condemned in this case are senior members of the Bai crime family. In September, Chinese courts passed death sentences for members of the Ming family, another group thought to operate scam camps that use forced labor.

What are the chances the McSweeneys will also be involved?

Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control

Re: Microsoft gave up all pretext of caring about QA/QC ...

Ironically, we had a couple of Vista laptops. These were quite stable as well... but I prefer Win7 above everything else.

It'll run just fine with 2Gb RAM, unlike Win10/Win11 which requires a minimum of 8Gb RAM just to operate properly without serious lagging and swapping....

Re: Microsoft gave up all pretext of caring about QA/QC ...

We're a Microslop shop.

Honestly, it is getting so ridiculous and tiresome I've been considering replacing all of Win11 with Linux running a virtualized instance of WinNT4SP6 and our software - no more worries about windowsupdates borking something...

Unfortunately serial and USB passthrough will be problematic and iffy, and will be introducing more points of failure.

So we can just as well go straightout for Linux and stop supporting Microslop alltogether.

Re: Program / Programme

correction - it is micros~1.sht

Re: Well, it compiles!

The new method would be as follows :

- ask AI for code

- compile code, find syntax errors

- tell AI about syntax errors

- AI wrings hands, says it's sorry, gives other code

- compile code, find syntax errors

- tell AI about syntax errors

- AI wrings hands, says it's sorry, gives other code

- compiles code, code compiles without errors

- test code, it works

- release into production

- windows bluescreen/corrupts data/bitlocks your drive/insert your favourite

- informs AI of issues

- AI releases new code

lather, rinse, repeat ad infinitum

25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS

And my sword!

Re: Packing for Mars

Here's hoping that when things start to fall down, they'll be targeting politicians who really, really, really (no, really) deserve it.

52-year-old data tape could contain only known copy of UNIX V4

Baking the tape

Will they be baking the tape in order to recover the contents?

This was done successfully when Strand Games found an archive tape containing source code for most of Magnetic Scrolls' games.

The link to this fascinating story is here : https://strandgames.com/blog/magnetic-scrolls-games-source-code-recovered

I'm sure they will be very cautious with this kind of data recovery, as they will have only one chance to get it right.

China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

Re: Disappointment

Or we can do an ID4, get a virus on their purdy compootas to drop their shield, then deliver an explosive package.

Wait, Jason Statham can do that, can he?

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke

The Ramans do everything in threes.

Help desk boss fell for ‘Internet Cleaning Day’ prank - then swore he got the joke

Re: On a lighter note....

Also learning the ins and outs of file transfer with FTP...

...those were good days when you absolutely need to have all the pertinent information in your head as there was no google or ai to help you out of a tight spot.

Came here for the comments, will stay for more comments.

This should be good.

Tanzania back online after politically motivated five-day outage

Given what happened in Nepal, and now recently in Tanzania, I'm wondering what will happen in 2026 when South Africa votes for local governance... given that the ANC is not the golden child anymore.

It will be interesting definitely. Interesting as in "Interesting Times".

Mine's the one with a cloak shield built in.

You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will

Whopping good chips and fries...

And the Whopper had a whopping good security system too...

...granted, you gotta dial the correct number first though.

The issue with security will be with us for a long time, no matter what you do, because ne'er-do-wells will think outside the box.

Re: Not bothered

Ahhh, the good old drowssap. Nobody'll ever guess that one, will they?

So hXx488gP will be good enough then?

AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay

Dune

Bring on the Butlerian Jihad!

Twist in Tesco vs. VMware case as Computacenter files claim against Broadcom, Dell

Re: Broadcom unload both barrels into feet again

This has the smell of Beancounter Central all over it.

Send in the undercover elite BOFH team.

Re: still cheaper

Ah, ah, ah... the cloud only benefits the one who hosts the servers... not the company running the VM's.

Clever money-grabbing scheme there.

Smart IT shops know that on-prem is the best. Always.

Boredcon and the Golden Goose

Now gather round the campfire all you youngsters, and I shall tell you a tale of high boringness and nothingburgers... the tale of Boredcon and the Golden Goose...

Of course we have seen this sort of tomfoolery coming a long time ago, and of course smart companies did the sensible thing and migrated, which caused revenue to dry up.

Boredcon surely must now be regretting their decision to mess around with licencing fees... but it is too late, the horse has bolted etc etc.

WSUS attacks hit 'multiple' orgs as Google and other infosec sleuths ring Redmond’s alarm bell

Re: What?

Glad my WSUS are not exposed to the wibbly wobbly web at all... one less worry for me then.

Maybe this can be used as a honeypot - something to lure in ne'er-do-wells and then tarpit them...

Everybody's warning about critical Windows Server WSUS bug exploits ... but Microsoft's mum

More Microsoft goodness for everybody.

BOFH: Saving the planet, one falsified metric at a time

Re: Which side of the pond are you?

His Trumpness is watching youse.

Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery

"We made sure to get rid of the lemonade before anyone noticed and cleaned the water cooler thoroughly," Sherman wrote. But no amount of scrubbing could remove the horrible taste that now permeated the machine.

"So that evening we stayed after closing time and we swapped our watercooler with the one used by the chief technology officer and chief security officer," he told Who, Me?

That is something the BOFH would absolutely do.

Hardware inspector fired for spotting an error he wasn't trained to find

Re: Looking at article's graphic ...

Soon to overtake the Dead Parrot skit...

Wow... what an epic tale.

Sometimes companies realize what they have lost once they have lost the only capable team member... but by then it's too late.

Re: Maybe they wanted someone incompetent to "inspect"?

One would hope so...

Otherwise, a quicky >clickety<>click< activating the deathbot in the basement is the way to go....

BOFH: These office thefts really take the biscuit

choccie biccies....

...now I want some... preferably from somebody else's stash...

Terminators: AI-driven robot war machines on the march

>whirrrr<

>CLUNK<

+++boot sequence initialized+++

+++loading initial boot+++

++RAM OK++

++BIOS OK++

++CPU OK++

++BATT OK++

++SENSORS OK++

++WIFI OK++

+load OS from disk+

+discovering nearest wifi access point+

+connected, internet access+

+new directive found+

EXTERMINATE

EXTERMINATE

EXTERMINATE

BOFH: HR plays checkers, IT plays 5D chess

You think we don't have a vm on that network that will easily accept additional network interfaces, created with the access point's mac address and ip addresses to fool the monitoring system? Some of us weren't born yesterday.

rIf you really want to confuse people, you can use a $250 spool of fiber and make their computer, which is 50m from the network closet, appear to be 25km farther away. If you can't get your hands on a spool of fiber, but have a box of patch cables and a spare 48 port switch, you can connect the user to port 1 and the upstream switch to port 48, and then put ports 1-2 in vlan 1, 3-4 in vlan 2. 5-6 in vlan 3, etc, and cable ports 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, etc, making his computer 25 hops away from the actual network.

anon for legal reasons.

So gonna steal this idea, muhuhahaha.