"What sort of reckon b*stard idiot downvoted you?"
Amazon shareholders?
Posts by DJV
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'Ridiculous, rubbish, outrageous, complete bollocks': Just some reviews for Amazon's corporate contribution to Blighty's coffers
HP printer small print says kit phones home data on whatever you print – and then some
Wi-Fi woes and broken browser target both young and old in Microsoft patch land
Two years ago, 123-Reg and NamesCo decided to register millions of .uk domains for customers without asking them. They just got the renewal reminders...
Right-click opens up terrifying vistas of reality and Windows 95 user's frightful position therein
Lights, camera, camera, camera, action: iPhone, iPad, Watch, chip biz in new iPhone, iPad, Watch, chip shocker
Wednesday 11th September 2019 08:55 GMT 
I'm still amused by a BBC reporter who said, "My money is still on smart glasses but I think it could still be years before we SEE anything." (my emphasis).
Geo-boffins drill into dino-killing asteroid crater, discover extinction involves bad smells, chilly weather, no broadband internet...
Handcranked HTML and JPEG japes. What could possibly go wrong?
The time a Commodore CDTV disc proved its worth as something other than a coaster
AWS celebrates Labor Day weekend by roasting customer data in US-East-1 BBQ
Allowlist, not whitelist. Blocklist, not blacklist. Goodbye, wtf. Microsoft scans Chromium code, lops off offensive words
Apple cracks, straps on free repair service for defective Watches
Call Windows 10 anything you like – Microsoft seems to
Tuesday 3rd September 2019 13:41 GMT
WinSxS
Hmm, just checked mine - it had 9GB in it (W10 reinstalled in June). Used the Disk Clean-Up method shown here:
https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/clean-winsxs-folder-to-save-space
Result afterwards was 6.4GB - so it IS possible to reduce the size of that monster a little bit.
JACK OF ALL TIRADES: Twitter boss loses account to cunning foul-mouthed pranksters
No it's not Russell Brand's new cult, it's Microsoft's Office crew rolling out their Save Experience
GDPR...rrrse! Mass-mail fail as German biz asks UK resellers for consent to use their dealer data
Wednesday 28th August 2019 10:09 GMT
No, there are many genuine reasons why you need to use CC.
However, what might be a better idea is that the software is set to query when more than a set number of CCs are included in an email. Then, instead of the email being sent out immediately as is, it either requires a "higher authority" to give the go ahead or a large message asking "Did you really mean to do this?"
As browser rivals block third-party tracking, Google pitches 'Privacy Sandbox' peace plan
It will never be safe to turn off your computer: Prankster harnesses the power of Windows 95 to torment fellow students
Monday 19th August 2019 13:45 GMT
More chaos
My tricks went back several years further to the days when loads of stores had things like Spectrums and Commodores on display. A few seconds with each was enough to cause a bit minor havoc.
I had memorised a short program for the Spectrum that changed the screen colours to light/dark blue, cleared the screen, put "*** Commodore 64 Basic V2 ***", "64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BYTES FREE" followed by "READY." and a simulated flashing cursor beneath. Result = many confused people. I even managed to convince someone that a C64 ROM had been put in the Spectrum by mistake.
Another one was running a simple loop to copy the C64 ROM into the RAM and then POKEing a couple of locations to make everything run from RAM. Then I POKEd the locations that held the SYNTAX ERROR message to change it to something unpleasant. Walking away and waiting for unsuspecting people to then be insulted by the C64 was fun!
The VIC-20 was the simplest. A single POKE would change the screen character width from 22 to 21 or 23, which meant that any program listing started to drift sideways.
Dropbox would rather write code twice than try to make C++ work on both iOS and Android
HTTP/2, Brute! Then fall, server. Admin! Ops! The server is dead
What do Windows 10 and Uber or Lyft have in common? One bad driver can really ruin your day. And 40 can totally ruin your month
Ohm my God: If you let anyone other than Apple replace your recent iPhone's battery, expect to be nagged by iOS
BOFH: Oh, go on, let's flush all that legacy tech down the toilet
Meet ELIoT – the EU project that wants to commercialize Internet-over-lightbulb
City-obliterating asteroid screamed past Earth the other night – and boffins only clocked it just 26 hours beforehand
Don't press the red b-... Windows Insiders' rings hit by surprise Microsoft emission
Guess who reserved their seat on the first Moon flight? My mum, that's who
2025: HELLO? WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU, I'M ON THE TUBE. FULL 4G NOW. NAH, IT'S CRAP
Sunday 21st July 2019 11:49 GMT
Central line route
There's a financial reason the route the Central line tunnels take is completely mental. They were built below the streets in central London as, if they'd gone below owned property, they would have had to pay the property owners a "wayleave". The law got changed later on so that the payment was no longer necessary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_line_(London_Underground)#Central_London_Railway
Chrome on, baby, don't fear The Reaper: Plugin sends CPU-hogging browser processes to hell where they belong
I don't have to save my work, it's in The Cloud. But Microsoft really must fix this files issue
Microsoft middlemen rebel against removal of free software licences
King's College London breached GDPR by sharing list of activist students with cops
I got 502 problems, and Cloudflare sure is one: Outage interrupts your El Reg-reading pleasure for almost half an hour
Roll up, roll up, you want machine learning in a box? Google Cloud Platform's service enters beta
Having bank problems? I feel bad for you son: I've got 25 million problems, but a bulk upload ain't one
Monday 24th June 2019 14:13 GMT
@Arthur the cat
My second job was an apprentice TV engineer. When we were overworked they'd ask in a guy who'd retired several years earlier to come and help out. He had a habit of checking whether something was live or not by deliberately sticking his fingers on or in it (light bulb sockets were a common thing he'd test in that way). He seemed to be immune to electric shocks or maybe was so used to them that they no longer bothered him!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
