Posts by Chris Hexter

'My PC needs to lose weight' says user with FAT filesystem

Compression

My first computer came with a doublespace-compressed drive (unknown to me as a naive 15yr old), complete with DOS 6.22 & WFW 3.11 + Office. One day after saving my pocket money, I returned home with a boxed copy of Ultimate Doom, and couldn't wait to play it. I think it needed 15mb or so disk space, and my machine proclaimed that I had 25mb free space on my 250mb drive.

Lo, Doom would not install, complaining about lack of disk space. I set about making a boot disk, and on firing the machine up with it, found a huge file called drvspace.bin or something similar, that was 115mb.

Feeling proud of myself, I deleted the file, installed Doom, and played away.

The next morning, switching on the machine to discover "Non-system disk or disk error" still haunts me to this day :-)

China launches aircraft carrier the length of 13.6 brontosauruses

Ukraine

It is just Ukraine, not The Ukraine :(

Time crystals really do exist, say physicists^*

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

My universal translator appears to be malfunctioning, I really haven't the slightest idea what all of that means :-(

Trump's cyber-guru Giuliani runs ancient 'easily hackable website'

Service Temporarily Unavailable

oops...

OK Google, Alexa, why can't I choose my own safe, er, wake word?

Until I can use the phrase "soylent green is people" to wake it, I'm simply not interested in this nonsense

Universe's shock rapidly expanding waistline may squash Einstein flat

Dark Energy

The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural...

'MySQL of object storage' Minio: Any user, any dev, any scale... really?

Anyone else reminded of the panasonic 3DO logo when seeing the article header image? :)

Another chance to win a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive

I 'ate you, Butler!

Toshiba NB200

Frustrated

Yet another new netbook that fails to provide a tv-out (S-video/Composite) slot! When will these companies realise how handy a slot like this is?

Microsoft unveils Windows 7 free upgrades and discounts

Price fail

When are they going to learn that $199 does NOT equate to €199 and certainly not to £199. Up your shaft, Microsoft, I'll stick with BSD.

Firefox 3 Download Day falls flat on face

make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

So... who couldn't see this coming? I bet El Reg had this story already typed up!