So they're allowing refreshments in IT zones now?
Posts by Arty Effem
95 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jan 2009
Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself after update labeling error
That position you just applied for might be a 'ghost job' that'll never be filled
Glastonbury to turn festivalgoer pee into eco-friendly fertilizer
Capita says 2023 cyberattack costs a factor as it reports staggering £100M+ loss
'Influencer' gets 7 months in prison for plot to interfere with 2016 US election
New information physics theory is evidence 'we're living in a simulation,' says author
Amazon's latest directive: Report to the office 'cos we're watching you
We will find you and we will sue you, Twitter tells 4 mystery alleged data-scrapers
Absolute mad lad renders Doom in teletext
Here's a fun idea: Try to unlock and drive away in someone else's Tesla
China makes it even harder for data to leave its shores
How I made a Chrome extension for converting Reg articles to UK spelling
Scottish space upstart's rocket crashes into the drink
Infosys must face claims it told recruiter not to hire women with kids 'at home'
Fixing an upside-down USB plug: A case of supporting the insupportable
Prior to the ATX standard, many will recall that AT motherboards received power from two separate connectors, fitting adjacent to each other onto a single row of pins on the board. Unfortunately, it was possible (and common) to connect these incorrectly, thereby trashing the MB along with the components connected to it.
Someone who had done just this, asked me if I knew of any place that had a 'motherboard repair service'. In these situations one endeavours to keep a straight face, so I thought for a moment then replied: 'Actually all computer dealers provide this service; you just give them the spec of the equipment you've destroyed, and they'll cheerfully sell you replacements.'
There are some looks one never forgets.
FCC floats 'five-year rule' for hoovering up space junk
California to phase out internal combustion vehicles by 2035
NASA selects 'full force' for probe into UFOs
Russian cosmonauts abort ISS spacewalk after suit power fluctuates
Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes
'Wayne Kerr?': School board falls for 'Bart Simpson' prank names.
Mozilla browser Firefox hits the big 100
Putin reaches for nuclear option: Zuckerberg banned
Man arrested, accused of trying to track woman using Apple Watch attached to car
UK science stuck in 'holding pattern' on EU funding by Brexit, says minister
Crack team of boffins hash out how e-scooters should sound – but they need your help*
Tesla Full Self-Driving videos prompt California's DMV to rethink policy on accidents
Re: Clippy
"I still cannot get used to Xcode's habit of automatically inserting a closing '}' when I start a clause in 'C',"
Sounds like a good idea, providing the opening brace is:
a) Always vertically aligned with matching closing brace.
b) Never allowed to reside at the end of a line.
( Sound of hatch being screwed shut )
Linux Mint 20.3 appears – now with more Mozilla flavor: Why this distro switched Firefox defaults back to Google
Estimating Popularity
"It's very hard to estimate the relative popularity of Linux distributions. Aside from a couple of paid enterprise distros, they're all free downloads without serial numbers, activation nor any other tracking mechanisms"
I'm sure I remember reading on this site that each copy of Firefox has it's own unique serial number. Given the relationship with Mozilla, that could be a tracking mechanism.
Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike resigns, leaves WhatsApp co-founder to run things until a successor is named
Low on passengers, low on memory: A bad day on the London Underground
Astroboffins reckon they've detected four hidden exoplanets by probing distant radio waves
Australia rules Facebook page operators are legally liable for user comments under posts
We're going deeper underground: New digital project to map UK's sub-surface 'assets'
The common factor in all your failed job applications: Your CV
Re: Different types don't match well
"Only to receive a phone call a few weeks later; it turned out that the person they'd hired actually had zero programming skills, but had somehow managed to blag their way through the interview."
If you're smart, that's the first thing that should concern you; if you're really smart it'll also be the last.
Re: The gap year
" I have interviewed plenty of people and found that interviews are much more about finding out who the person is, than anything else. "
So you're not too worried about incidental factors, like for instance whether they're actually capable of fulfilling the advertised role? Sounds about right for a typical employer.
UK Special Forces soldiers' personal data was floating around WhatsApp in a leaked Army spreadsheet
Holy margins, Batman: Pandemic tech prices balloon as demand outweighs stocks and suppliers get greedy
Facebook: Nice iOS app of ours you have there, would be a shame if you had to pay for it
This developer created the fake programming language MOVA to catch out naughty recruiters, résumé padders
Vetting Mechanisms?
""The information age has matured to the point where it's very difficult for people to represent themselves as something they're not," he said, pointing to sites like LinkedIn and GitHub as vetting mechanisms."
So they're vetting people via LinkedIn; a site that could have been designed for the purpose of fooling recruiters.
We need a 20MW 20,000-GPU-strong machine-learning supercomputer to build EU's planned digital twin of Earth
The wastepaper basket is on the other side of the office – that must be why they put all these slots in the computer
Re: Whoops mind your head if there is a fire, and dont trip
"The local builders were very helpful and provided a fireman's pole - unfortunately that only helps you get quickly to a lower floor, not a higher floor "
They'd probably seen the film Fahrenheit 451 and thought that's how they actually worked.