Posts by James Stewart

I need a password to BRAKE? What? No! STOP! Aaaargh!

I've only come to comment...

...that this article was the best laugh I've had in a long time. Just about sums up my opinion of the self-driving car craze, and had me dying laughing at the end.

Fukushima one week on: Situation 'stable', says IAEA

Thanks.

I am so very grateful for the Register's real, down to earth, facts-driven, and extremely well researched reporting on this event. I knew I could turn here for technology news, but this most recent coverage has truly shown your journalistic integrity and dedication. I'm proud to be a reader of The Register, especially at a time when every single one of my domestic news outlets (United States) is spewing stories to cultivate fear.

Google shuts down GOOG-411 voice data honeypot

Well, bummer.

I actually used this service on a regular basis. I'm a little bit miffed that it's going away.

BOFH: Lies and the lying liars who lie about them

Best Birthday Present Ever

This made my morning.

Seagate customers swamped by Barracuda drive failures

AAAAUGH

Just had one of these drives fail in an array on our main backup server. We figured that the server might be a bit unreliable, so we bought 4 more of these drives to configure in another fail over backup server. I just gave my boss a heads up about the 8 ticking time bombs now residing in our backup array.

If only I had seen this article a week ago.