Posts by Albert Coates

To avoid disaster-recovery disasters, learn from Reg readers' experiences

Re: 'reviewed ... by hand'?

Brizzle to Shit City in 2 hours? Just about doable, it's only 120 miles. It's relatively unlikely that many people have driven down the M4 at around 145 mph in a well-sorted Renault 16-valve Chamade at 3 am, but I did once. It was fairly scary, the front end was feeling pretty light, like threatening to do a Donald Campbell in Bluebird. Just saying.

The Doom-in-a-PDF dev is back – this time with Linux

Re: Coolness aside

Depends if it's Netware 3.12 running on a Compaq SystemPro XL - blimey, used to get paid to do that...

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

OhForF' said:

"Even with your improved UI design it should not move at all..."

Eppur, si muove (@Galileo)

Relocation is a complete success – right up until the last minute

Re: Crt

Huh, bunch of Radio Rentals fanboys - I distinctly remember John Logie Baird's 30 lines as a nipper in 1931.

https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/who-invented-television

Just how private is Apple's Private Cloud Compute? You can test it to find out

Re: Thank you Apple for being 'So brave' ... !!!

That would be 'barbarian hordes', then. If you hadn't put it quotes I wouldn't have bothered.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51294/waiting-for-the-barbarians

OS/2 expert channeled a higher power to dispel digital doom vortex

Re: In the days before t’interweb…

Did you count using septante, octante, nonante, cent? That often does the trick.