Posts by myootnt

IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day

Re: Amateur

The difference between men and boys is -s. Once and done, have some self-confidence, man.

User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC

Re: A New Reg File : Adventures with Miss Interpretation

Ann R. Key would like some words

PC LOAD LETTER

WTF DOES THAT MEAN??

Even the Secret Service won't use company-issued phones

Re: Work or off the shelf?

Some kind of fruit company seen giggling wildly in their garden.

Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching

Classic whinge, I know it well and is always the beginning of a diagnostic rabbit warren. Shouldn't but it does and what are you going to do about it?

Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work

Yeah, but did you install RH on it with floppies?

While you're here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job?

Congratulations, you have Finnished this thread.

Smart mirror shows dumb Windows in elevator

Thank you for your participation in training Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products.

I could take you up, but you won't like it.

Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation

Re: There is something deeply unsatisfying about reading words that nobody wrote

Far more than "editorial flair" is missing, many an important workplace conversation is a verbal game of bridge with auctions, bids, calls and and more. Exceptionally talented players can do this in written business communications and those tokens are lost to the wind. I'm starting to feel like I'm in a mashup of Idiocracy, WALL-E and Logan's Run and she stepped on the ball. It was simply ghastly.

BOFH: Loss adjuster discovers liability is a two-way street

Re: "the last full Moon on Feb. 29 was in 1972, and the next will be in 2048"

Going to assume you were born before man walked on the moon. If so, are you sure you want to?

AWS's inevitable destiny: becoming the next Lumen

Re: Cloud direction

In my organization, that has been a criterion all along. Personally, I believe geography does not matter; encrypt all always and worry about who controls your access to your data and services.

Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control

Vibrator coding

Coders sitting around with pleasure sticks up their bums rocking out to whatever tripe Amazon is repeating daily into their earbuds. This has been a deep-rooted problem in both hardware and software for a while now.

Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

Vibe coded, untested sh1te

The past month of suffering the insufferable Windows 11 on corporate workstations and laptops has told me all I need to know about M$ quality control in patches and updates. The quality and user experience harkens back to the '90s and even then the UI worked better and more consistently. I can't wait to be done with this shop and their full convergence on M$ including phones.

Trump spectrum sale leaves airlines with $4.5B bill for altimeter do-over

Re: Lazy Altimeter Design

You have a lot of problems with wifi, don't you?

Humongous 52-inch Dell monitor will make you feel like king of the internet with four screens in one

Above the paygrade of productivity

Trophy monitor for supervisors that lord their superiority over their minions that actually do the work. A monitor for people that don't know how to use alt/command tab and like paying chiropractors.

What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

You can pry the desktop from Microsoft's cold, dead hands.

Guess what? Consumers don't want to directly pay for things. Good luck on that footpath off the cliff with consumers. The desktop money is in corporate appliances that support the common document tools (this has been trying to go away for a while now), cloud storage and automated management systems via walled gardens for user app installation and ZTA endpoint control. Inconsistency and a plethora of tools that all do the same thing differently are the downfall, not the unifying force to bring Linux Desktop to mainstream.

Personally, I've abandoned RH because guess what? Consumer doesn't want to pay for a business product and the options such as Rocky are not doing so well for end users when support is needed which seems to be more often. So. I've migrated to Xubuntu. XFCE is a mostly usable consumer product, it needs some simple things fixed but is generally smooth sailing for a mostly static desktop. Sure, KDE is great, but it needs a KISS mode where the fancy stuff is hidden and the simple things that consumers do on desktops are the same level of ease as they are on MacOS or Windows. I will reserve my opinion on GNOME because name calling is the hallmark of small minded people, I'll keep my names for it tucked int the corner of my little mind.

Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches

Sad, but does it really matter that much now?

Sitting here in the age of onboard RAM and SSDs, not much is left except custom expansion on SBC devices like Pi. Sure, it means that you have to buy a pre-built workstation or server with the RAM you need. I have no interest in the whinges from gamers. The only thing I ever gained from gamers is consumer mobos with ceramic caps. The rest of the BS the showboat box crowd has brought is 5h1t3.

I've put hundreds of Crucial SSDs and thousands of sticks of RAM in place over the years and had few failures and they were covered by warranty. One of the failures was memorable because I worked with them to figure out what was going on, which was curious and corrected by a firmware update. The issue was a student laptop; we got up to the third SSD failure in the first semester with it. It turns he was taking it out in every class for just a few minutes. I forget the exact internal process, but it was failing to complete due to the short run time and eventually it decided it was a fault and the drive locked itself.

Microsoft 364 trips over its own network settings in North America

Re: It could be worse

You and your skills will be missed. I am a few years behind you, unfortunately. It amazes me how compartmentalized IT is these days and it's like network people don't even remember that their equipment has logging capabilities, never mind the ability to log to servers where even the most rudimentary tools are useful. Grep goes a long way.

No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms

Re: Quite possibly

Double plus good on your for not saying something alternately charged such as cognitively disadvantaged. I hope you get to read this before WS gets to it.

Panic at the Cisco tech, thanks to ancient IOS syntax helper that outsmarted itself

Execute the command

Fun fact: In exec mode, there is only "show." You have to be in command mode to do a shut and if you want to run exec commands in command mode, you use something like "do show"

Let me know when Elvis gets here

Then there are those of us that use the "reload in" command and are persistent enough with our pasting to get a "no debug all" registered in there as the debug loses its mind. I haven't lost a remote device since 2009 and that was a Linksys with an exceptionally crappy GUI and no fail safes.

Chrome dome

I haven't had hair for years. I started with Cisco gear in another millennium when you could call support even without a contract or a recently purchased device. There is worse out there, but Cisco is special sometimes.

Tech support chap showed boss how to use a browser for a year – he still didn't get it

What have you done with his body?

Mister Lowry, would you step in here please?

Health system network turned out to be a house of cards – Cisco cards, that is

A long time ago in a land far, far away...

I learned, much as Tim learned, that when you have a working system that isn't quite as it should be, it was probably brought to working order by someone that knew what they were doing and left it that way because the proper implementation caused a problem and nobody wanted to pay to bring it up to snuff. Although, there should have been a pair of 6500s at the core. Who the heck built a network that uses 6500s and doesn't deploy pairs them in a redundant fail-over configuration. They don't even mention carrier redundancy.

Junior techie had leverage, but didn’t appreciate the gravity of the situation

You can't train out stupid

The level of fundamental stupidity of an adult that cannot figure out not to put heavy things up high indicates an eternal intellectual challenge to work around. Keep it away from me and anything that could be made hazardous to others. This one sounds like the interviewer missed the bits of crayons in the applicant's teeth.

$10b National Security Agency contract re-awarded to AWS

Re: codenamed "Wild and Stormy"

Would you trust a male leader that does not have hookers?

Planning for power cuts? That's strictly for the birds

UUPS. Sh!t.

As a proud affiliate of a data closet that has a shiny new (utility-supplied gas fueled) generator about to be commissioned, a UPS with runtime on the order of hours and a mains-only chiller, I need some new acronyms for this kind of clusterfsck.

PODOGO Power Out Data On Generator Out ?

POGODO Power Out Gas Out Data Out?

POGOF Power Out Gas Out Fscked?

Taking suggestions.

Cheers.

AWS wobbles in US East region causing widespread outages

Re: A developer tweeted

Troubleshooting 101: Take the OSI model, add a layer 0 and a layer 8.

Layer 0: Is it plugged in to an active power source?

Layer 8: Does the user know what they are doing?

Work your way from either direction through the layers. Results guaranteed.

You, me and debris: NASA cans ISS spacewalk because it's getting too risky outside

Re: The antenna recently lost the ability to send signals to Earth

Spoiler: There's nothing wrong with the AE-35 unit, Da... uh, domj.

A lightbulb moment comes too late to save a mainframe engineer's blushes

Re: I had a somewhat similar problem

Don't forget about the part that it lets you pull the key out so you can walk away and come back to a dead battery. Oh, and alternator and fuel injection so no possibility of push start. Nothing but expletives for that feature.

Don't panic: An asteroid larger than the Empire State Building is flying past Earth this weekend but we're just fine

Saying it even though it goes without saying

We should lie down and/or put paper bags over our heads.

El Reg presents: Your one-step guide on where not to store electronic mail

Re: Deleted

Is this man in your family tree?

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

Handcranked HTML and JPEG japes. What could possibly go wrong?

Re: Hand cranked code?

Nope, sorry, your brain only removed the symlink to FP. It's still in there, taking up blocks of storage, burning pub fries to stay alive.

Big bang theory: Was mystery explosion over New York caused by a meteor? Dunno. By a military jet? Maybe...

You don't get it! I've won! It's over! You're milk-suckers!

Have you ever flashy-thinged me?

No.

I don't have to save my work, it's in The Cloud. But Microsoft really must fix this files issue

Re: Lets step back a bit

I'm about to be immersed in a Google->365 transition as adjunct support. Not looking forward to it. Luckily, we've only had Google for about eight years and most haven't embraced it because their early experiences were poor. I'm probably going to end up being the user ranting and raving about having to initiate document save. 21st century and the cloud, Micro$loth hasn't caught on. UI redesign is a wasted effort, fix the underlying functionality.

Motorola MotoRokr S9 Bluetooth headphones

Limping scrod

I picked up one of these units (thankfully not at the horrifying retail of $130, but a decent lunch cheaper than $100)

Battery life: good

Range: acceptable with line of sight (Bluetooth? Nah, maybe they're IR?)

Sound: Quality OK but you sure aren't going to damage your hearing with them. Phone portion works acceptably.

Comfort: None.

I do regret the purchase for the most part. See other reviews for detailed descriptions.