Posts by ricardian1943

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

Re: Happened to me

Unless you're red/green colour blind

Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'

Re: hidden characters

Along with "Edlin for Windows"

Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project

Re: Chips

Vegans can eat beef-flavoured crisps but they cannot eat salt & vinegar crisps

Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access

At one government building the authorities would call an exercise "CHECKERS". This was a codeword broadcast on the internal Tannoy system and it meant that everybody including the (very) senior staff & any visiting Government ministers immediately had to challenge their neighbour(s) to show their official pass. Not infallible but it was better than nothing and meant the bosses were shown to be included

How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS

Ford Motor Company tried AI https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrkd41n2v9o

Users claimed they'd never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles

Re: The Kids Are Not Alright

I am 83 and for weight I'd write 22lb or 22oz or 22g or 22Kg. For cost/price I'd write £22 or 22p or £0.22 (or, in olden days, 22d)

It was only a few years ago that I found out that MS Word underlines spelling errors and grammatical errors using different colours - I am red/green colour blind

This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken

That would be interesting - I'm red/green colour blind

Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident

And the nearest British railway station was Thurso on the Scottish mainland.There are ferries from Aberdeen or Scrabster to Orkney or you can take out a second mortgage and fly Loganair between London and Kirkwall

On-call techie decided job was done and hit the bottle – just before his pager went off

Working for a large Government department in the 1980s I was an inexperienced programmer given the task of making two Commodore PETs talk to each other using IEEE488/GPIB. The resident "computer specialist", accustomed to IBM/Amdahl and the like, stated that this was impossible - there could be only one master on IEEE488/GPIB. I had recently read something in BYTE about tokens and the like so, helped by Raeto Wests invaluable handbook, I cobbled something together in 6502 assembler and demonstrated it to the hierarchy. The system was still running when I was promoted and moved a couple of years later.

NHS England confirms: Palantir staff can access patient data

Re: They're literally a spying company

The King's Speech will announce that NHS England will soon cease to exist

Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client

When I tried to log in just now (7:20pm Sun 10 May) after a routine purge of cookies, etc., the system told me that my email address did not exist. I've been a signed up member of TheRegister for several years.

To prove that the sytem was actually quite correct, I was able to create a new account using the same email address without receiving a "email already exists" error