Posts by HKmk23

CrowdStrike shares sink as global IT outage savages systems worldwide

Re: things that are running

What about my Vitesse and my Spitfire.....

BOFH: The greatest victory is that which requires no battle

Re: Who knows a future AI Boss could be in play?

Me too, my mobile phone is on charge (when the ignition is on) in the glovebox of my car but switched off, its only practical value as far as I am concerend is if I break down to call for assistance. Other wise it is a toy full of junk.

Bank's struggle to replace Atos threw system back to dark ages

Ther trouble with government employees

Is simply that they have never had to earn a living, they have not idea of the true value of anything let alone money!

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be coders, Jensen Huang warns

Ha ha ha

One word............Skynet

Google sends Gemini AI back to engineering to adjust its White balance

All I can say is:

God help us if any green people land here in a flying saucer....

Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair' – lawsuit

Personally I think both Prime tv and Netflix are rubbish

Unless you are a teenage American girl there is nothing on either Prime or Netflix that appeals to anyone with an IQ over 90.

We have both streams but will be cancelled as soon as the end of the month comes.

Fujitsu will not bid for UK.gov business until Post Office inquiry closes

Will not?

Fujitsu should never be allowed to bid for a UK contract again!

Why do IT projects like the UK's scandal-hit Post Office Horizon end in disaster?

Very simple

Government departments promote staff for time served....not merit.....so the lunatics end up running the asylum!

How governments become addicted to suppliers like Fujitsu

Ban Fujitsu from UK completely for ever

Why are Fuji allowed to continue in the UK at all....madness!

What if Microsoft had given us Windows XP 2024?

Said many times

Windows 7 was the last windows that made any sense whatsoever, since then it has just deteriorated into bloatware that thinks every user is mentally retarded.

Windows 12: Savior of PC makers, or just an apology for Windows 11?

End of support for Windows 10...Yippee!!

At long last we will not have updates we do not want or need......

Doom is 30, and so is Windows NT. How far we haven't come

Re: "Yes, I could buy an ad-free version, but why should I?" and windows is going to be cloud only..

Great news, then people will be encouraged/forced to develop a true windows replacement.

Trademark fight: Brit biz Threads has a teeny tiny problem with Meta's Threads

What else do you expect

He stole Facebook from Harvard University effectively.

Cloud is here to stay, but customers are starting to question the cost

Yeah, lets put all our hopes and jewels into someone elses pocket and hope they are honest!

Cloud is a good name....its just fresh air.....they will never learn and probably go bankrupt suddenly.

BMW deems drivers worthy of warmth, ends heated car seat subscription

What do you expect

from blasted monkey wagons?

Intel seems to think Wi-Fi 7 is too cool for old-school Windows 10

My Windows 7

Still runs air gapped and permanently offline works wonderfully well for my accounts. Just use a cheap crap pc online stuff.

Middleweight champ MX Linux 23 delivers knockout punch

Re: Gobbledegook

Hear Hear,

every six months or so I download and install some variation of Linux, each time I sadly rebuild back to windows. My favourite programs will not run on Linux and once I get away from the linux GUI opening screen it is gobbledegook....

Yes, I am using Office 2010, Jiosoft Money Manager, Excel 2010, Brave Browser, Visio 2007, Dymo label V.8, Picasa, and...they all work! I am using a homebuilt i9 with 64gb of ram and 18tb of hd storage over five drives.

I design things and monitor the finance market so I do not want outsiders to see my work. My email machine is air gapped to my other networks which are air gapped to my storage. So "cloud" computing will never be of any interest to me.

I dare microsoft to let windows 7 to be open source.....bye bye windows, Mac and linux if that ever happens.......

Google toys with internet air-gap for some staff PCs

My important stuff

has been air gapped for the last ten years

Neuralink says US OKs human experiments with Elon's brain chips

Will it work the other way?

How far away are we from downloading ourselves in a computer/storage device and later uploading ourselves into.....?

£2B in UK taxpayer cash later, and still no Emergency Services Network

Another Brexit rant?

Brexit would have been great if.......

Great (UK) had followed on with tax haven status, free ports, incentives for start ups etc, but until the house of lords is abolished and the house of commons is filled with people selected the same way as jury selection...

You serve because you have not been found guilty of a crime and you have to serve for 4 years and you will be paid £100,000-0 per year) and not the elected scrotums that currently occupy or are trying to occupy parliament.

We will not succeed in being the power in the world we once were (note I said power in the world NOT world power...there is a big difference).

Cop warrant orders Ring to cough up footage from inside this guy's home

Ha ha ha ha

Bugs himself then complains............

California toys with digital vehicle titles on private DMV blockchain

Ha ha ha ha ha ha

Local government will never learn no matter if it is the USA or the UK, its all "Wow, that is a good idea and it will make people think we are clever"........ as mentioned by others its not their money... it's ours unfortunately!

Microsoft axes 10,000, already breaking bad news to staff

Starting to look as though the "cloud" does not have a silver lining after all.........

Laugh all you want. There will be a year of the Linux desktop

Windowns or Crapple?

I am still happily using Office 2010 (offline of course) and posting anything from my standalone internet machine. My networks are all air gapped. All I am waiting for is a Linux edition of my favourite programs: Visio, Jiosoft Money Manager, Myinfo database. I have tried Cinnamon and Mint both Ok, but limited software.

Demand for software experts pushes tech salaries higher in UK

Re: Diversity should be a consequence, not a goal.

Is it simply that females do not have/get Testosterone.....?

Facebook settles Cambridge Analytica class action for undisclosed amount

Facebook and Meta should be closed down worldwide. They have enabled the spread of lies and dissention everywhere. Face book started with a fraud on Harvard University and has continued the same way.

$50m+ contract for crime-fighting IT system won by Fujitsu after no one else bid

You could not make it up.....

So Fujitsu have been awarded £48 million for a four year contract to supply an new Police National Computer system over the next four years and Fujitsu have at the same time announced that they are pulling out of mainframe computers in four years time......so no backup, no service, no spares......

I supposed they are supplying all the left over surplus remaining clear out stock to the PNC and once its all been dumped on the UK, that's is they are out of it......

That is what you get I suppose when people who have never had to earn any money (or been in business) are spending money they do not know what the value of....

No JavaScript, no trackers, no SSL security: Retro computing boffin gives Google News a Netscape 1.1 makeover

Wonderful....no rubbish...no crap.....

All we need now is F#ckbook andTw@tter to copy this example and the internet will regain sanity perhaps.

BOFH: Gosh, IPv5? Why didn't I think of that? Say, how do you like the new windows in here? Take a look. Closer...

The new layout designer should be the target

I hate the new layout, perhaps this episode will give someone at the Reg an idea of how to deal with him/her?

Bad apples: US customs seize OnePlus earbuds thinking they're knock-off AirPods

I always said

Apple lovers wear one leg of their trousers inside out......

Don't pay the ransom, mate. Don't even fix a price, say Australia's cyber security bods

Re: Security Practices

Install a standalone pc (no network) transfer incoming attached emailed files via usb stick,and open them, print the files, scan the printouts back onto an internal networked pc.

Format the usb's after each and every use.

Each night rebuild the standalone from a previously vetted image.

and....of course backup your data......and backup your backups OFFSITE.

My mottto..... " I know I am paranoid....but am I paranoid enough?"

50%+ of our office seats are going remote, say majority of surveyed Register readers. Hi security, bye on-prem

Evolution

Many years ago I read that eventually those who are unemployed will be the new normal and we needed to be re-educated to look down on the few employed.

AI and our current pandemic has accelerated this.

Those who are productive and inventive and cannot stay idle,will happily work remotely or in fact anywhere, those who need to work in herd environments will need to be re-educated to believe that counting the growth speed of daisies is a valuable contribution to society.

How do you feel about single-use plastics? OK, interesting. Now tell us your views on surprise Windows updates

It is so easy

Go to my pc/manage/services

disable windows updates.

done no more microshite

I was screwed over by Cisco managers who enforced India's caste hierarchy on me in US HQ, claims engineer

Only one comment

When in Rome..... and those Shitco employees ain't in Rome now!

Meet the dog that's all byte and no bark: Boston Dynamics touts robo-pooch Spot with $75k-a-pop price tag

So.....

Mounting an automatic infra red targeting machine gun to its back and sending it on perimeter patrol would not be an acceptable use?

There's no accounting for TITSUP*: Beancounters bemoan Sage cloudy sync software outage

Cloud...

Head in the clouds has been a statement for woolly thinking for ever...... as far as I am concerned "In the cloud" has just been the excuse used by ex (failed?) double glazing salesmen (salespeople?) who do do know have a clue about IT systems to explain what they nor the customer understands.

Wailing Wednesday follows Patch Tuesday as versions of Windows 10 stop playing nicely with plugged-in printers

Re: no updates for me

absolutley same here, more likely that someone will write a win 7 or 10 look alike that will run windows software. I hope......

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

Thank you El Reg

Phew....just looked I had bought nine 4TB WD Red in 2018 but they are all 64 mb......( two 16TB NAS and a spare)!

Microsoft throws extended support lifeline for folk stuck on car-crash Windows 10 1809

I have said it before

If Windows 10 is the best Microsoft can do they are finished......an unfinished not fit for purpose operating system that seems to hope that the customers will sort out all the problems....if Windows 10 was a car would you buy one? Not a chance, you have all been hoodwinked by the "free" upgrades.....I have stuck with Windows 7 pro and do not regret it one tiny bit. I dare Microsoft to make Windows 7 open source and then they would find out what an operating system should be.

UK judge gives Google a choice: Either let SEO expert read your ranking algos or withdraw High Court evidence

I think this is the wording

Power corrupts....absolute power corrupts absolutley.........that is wht I stopped using Google 10 years ago!

Bloke forks out £12m, hands over keys to tropical island to shoo away claims that his web marketing biz was a scam

Re: On the wall of my office

I know I am paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

Good news: Neural network says 11 asteroids thought to be harmless may hit Earth. Bad news: They are not due to arrive for hundreds of years

Either Fake News of spent too much time in Hollands Cannabis bars

Good news they ARE going to hit earth?

Bad news NOT for hundreds of years?

So he/she (probably does not know) wants a disaster NOW not in hundreds of years....................!

Windows 7 back in black as holdouts report wallpaper-stripping shenanigans

What did you expect from microsh#te?

Happily running windows 7 pro offline and off grid....no problems.....

just keep this one expendable laptop connected to the web with no data or programs on it of any import.....and standalone with its own printer scanner.

I just wish Huawei or even Google would bring out an opsys that would run the half dozen windows programs I love to use. Tried Linux and it does not play nice and Crapple are even worse.....there is an absolute fortune waiting out there for the writer/vendor of a working alternative.

ICANN finally reveals who’s behind purchase of .org: It’s ███████ and ██████ – you don't need to know any more

I have an idea

Everyone has been looking for a good reason to have AI....here it is, hand the internet over to a really big AI system.....we could even call it Skynet.....

One man's mistake, missing backups and complete reboot: The tale of Europe's Galileo satellites going dark

I know which one I choose...

Would you trust getting to your destination to the makers of Renaults and Citroens or Jeeps and Hummers?

Microsoft has made a Surface slab that mere mortals can dismantle

8GB ram????

Is this just an Outlook machine? For Windows 10 16GB is a minimum.

Help! I bought a domain and ended up with a stranger's PayPal! And I can't give it back

Paypal

Ain't anybody's pal anymore.............

Devs getting stuck into Windows 10X on Surface Neo will have to tussle with UWP

All I want to know is

Will it run:

Visio 2010

Excel 2010

Outlook 2010

Apart from those I have no use or time for Microsoft products anymore.

Neuroscientist used brainhack. It's super effective! Oh, and disturbingly easy

Its all fake news

Even now I cannot buy a pocket device that will take a spoken memo or letter and ACCURATELY transcribe it WITHOUT being connected to the web, so it can subsequently be emailed/printed .

So reading pin numbers or passwords at 200 metres or whatever is puff, when they cannot even transcribe my shopping list!

Jocasta? Jocasta! Don't ram that trolley into the man: New tech promises an end to this scenario

Re: Mattress Land Grab

Buy a dog, cat will probably emigrate.