Posts by Baggypants

Wanted. Top infosec pros willing to defend Britain on shabby salaries

Re: Not tell friends and family what you do for a living...

If you want to wind them up then say "Oh, that's code for MI6 isn't it"

Getting mistaken for a different branch of national secrecy is even more annoying than people saying the thing they're not supposed to say.

Busybox 1.37 is tiny but capable, the way we like Linux tools to be

Busybox gets a free pass because the screeching unix zelots are just hypocrites deep down.

Microsoft on a roll for terrible rebranding with Windows App

Re: Remote Desktop

If remote copy and paste are disabled there is an autohotkey script for typing your copybuffer.

Oracle releases experimental next-gen kernel build

Re: Btrfs

You're assuming one filesystem is a good fit for every use-case in the enterprise. Different filesystems have their own pros and cons depending on what you need it to do. ext4 is best if you need high legacy compatibility, xfs is great if you need to wrangle huge files or filesystems, btrfs is great if you need advanced storage capabilities at the filesystem level, like copy-on-write or shanpshots. Very useful in vm or container environments. There are others with their strengths and weaknesses.

Pine64 takes another shot at an open tablet after chip shortages killed first PineTab

RK3399

It doesn't use the same SoC as the Pinebook Pro, but it seems some good work has been put in mainlining the RK3566

The Audacity: Audio tool finds new and exciting ways to annoy contributors with a Contributor License Agreement

Like those other devious thieves that use CLAs such as Apache Foundation, python, Canonical, Fedora, Openstack and the Free Software Foundation?

The state of OpenPGP key servers: Kristian, can you renew my certificate? A month later: Kristian? Ten days later: Too late, it’s expired

Lance Davis

You'd think that Lance Davis nearly killing CentOS would have made more of an impression really.

A fine host for a Raspberry Pi: The Register rakes a talon over the NexDock 2

At $200 the new Pinebook Pro seems like it would be more useful if you just wanted an ARM based laptop.

Unlocked: The hidden love note on the grave of America's first crypto power-couple

What's the message in the title?

Why Firefox? Because not everybody is a web designer, silly

Re: I recently ditched Firefox.

I don't know what you've been doing but ALSA is still there and drives the hardware, pulseaudio mixes multiple applications sound sources together, has done for years reliably on my Fedora laptop. When I run JACK2 pulse suspends itself and gets out of the way of the hardware until I terminate JACK and then it takes over again. Never had an issue with it. Whatever you're doing, you're doing it wrong. Firefox can be compiled to use JACK too if you like.

Here's a great idea: Let's make a gun that looks like a mobile phone

Re: "Absolutely no one can make sense of the United States' infatuation with firearms."

It will surprise absolutely no-one that farmers have guns on this side of the pond too. However that doesn't answer the infatuation and how you ended up with a 9 year old having an automatic weapon and being filmed shooting her instructor with it.

GitHub to devs: 'We ignored you but we never stopped caring'

Re: "back in the day there were many interesting websites written by authors"

Whats needed is a federated thread-able searchable categorisation based messaging protocol. You know, like NNTP

Caption this: WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

"Jim, you ok in there? the next revision will be lighter I promise, and I'm calling it the Oculous Rift."

Facebook casts a hex with self-referential IPv6

Re: Lucky

you forgot :fa:cade

Open-source Linux doesn't pay, said no one ever at Red Hat

Re: Even if it doesn't pay.

You're suggesting the company that bought a .NET virtualisation management application and rewrote the whole thing in Java and then open sourced it doesn't have some sort of commitment to the GPL?

The oracle knows all. Not THAT Oracle, of course

Curse you Dabs. I'm lucky if I train 4 women over the period of a year containing 450 IT professionals.

Wi-Fi hotspots can put iPhones into ETERNAL super slow-mo

Maybe it's an unreleased prototype derivative of the Sony Ericsson K850i which had soft keys along the bottom of the screen?

Cops think Mt Gox meltdown was an 'INSIDE JOB' – report

Mt.?

Mt Gox? Silly people, it's not a mountain. it's Magic the Gathering Online Exchange (MtGOX). Which I think reveals the problem. ADnDOX would have been much more secure.

Why Comrade Cameron went all Russell Brand on the UK’s mobile networks

You can get UK roaming sims RIGHT NOW

VultureNet is already here

http://www.aa.net.uk/telecoms-sip2sim.html

Huawei Ascend P7: We review the PANORAMIC SELFIE smartphone

First 4G phone?

What about the P2

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/01/huawei_china_here_come_the_grownups/

Huawei exec: 'Word of mouth' will beat Apple and Samsung in Europe

Posh Landfill

Huawei need to buck their ideas up regarding OS updates if they really want to make an impact. the current Flagship P6 is still on 4.2. Although Chinese users have had an upgrade to 4.4 recently. the previous top line phone the P2 hasn't seen any updates and is still on 4.1. It's just another Landfill handset maker with pretentions.

Ofcom maps state of UK broadband

Speed Bands

Interesting that scores of 2 to 4 are for an average sync speed of 6 to 16Mb/s. A bandwidth of 10Mb/s over 3 points. Providers advertise up to 24Mb/s which is a bandwidth of 8Mb/s in which they can attain a score of 1. Now, note the number of authorities with an average sync speed score of 1.

O2 tries to explain its new prudish nature

Obvous Option

@ Fluffer Toddle to the shop and tell them you need access to Google Translate then.

A young and pretty Linux server OS that takes a bit of work

right click

view image

OOo's put the willies up Microsoft

Whats that Oracle?

Your suddenly backing OpenOffice? I wondered why you suddenly woke up.

Oracle re-commits to ODF after OpenOffice divorce

Go-oo

Am I the only person who is viewing Libre Office as a cynical opportunistic rebranding of Novells Go-oo.org project which Red Hat, Canonical et al are already part of? Go on Reg, your supposed to be journalists. Journal this.

OpenOffice files Oracle divorce papers

For Forks Sake?

So why did they feel the need to set up a whole new fork and not join go-oo which is what ubuntu and the like have been using for years because Sun were too closed source?

2012 Olympic mascots cop a shoeing

I Like 'em. My boy will like 'em

Even though Bolton is cotton town not a steel town and that Olympic girder is obviously a pipe.

Facebook founder called trusting users dumb f*cks

Spam

Fork's "I trust the almighty G (to chuck it in the spam bin)" makes me want to laugh for some reason

Blokes spend 11 months in shed

Alone in the Shed

Adam Buxton Documented this

http://adam-buxton.co.uk/ad/2010/01/08/alone-in-the-shed-part-1-2-news/

Boffins build Flash-like chip from graphite

A new, more mechanical, approch

to erasing?