Posts by DJV

WannaCrypt: Pwnage is a fact of life but cleanup could and should be way easier

Apparently, "Seeral" is not an operating system - it's a typo...

Health data 'vault' app floats into UK.gov's G-Cloud. *cough* GDPR *cough*

Hmmm

Sounds like Flying Binary want to be the Microsoft of the medical world.

I get a nagging "Too many eggs, only one basket" type of feeling about this.

Bye bye MP3: You sucked the life out of music. But vinyl is just as warped

Re: "You can even physically see how the music is happening."

Back in the 1970s, I almost convinced a work colleague that, if you looked very closely into a vinyl's grooves, you could see the lyrics that were being sung.

Google's PHP API client has XSS vulnerability

Beta?

Google's software knows of no other state!

Avast blocks the entire internet – again

Yeah, me too

Its payload was a message saying "Something wonderful has happened Your AMIGA is alive!!!"

It's paydaygeddon! NatWest account transfers 'disappearing' (not really)

Nothing new there, then!

Don't install our buggy Windows 10 Creators Update, begs Microsoft

Bloody thing failed to install on my Vic-20 - came up with an out-of-cheese error.

RIP Bob Taylor: Internet, desktop PC pioneer powers down at 85

RIP a great Wizard

Ah, will have to go and read Where Wizards Stay Up Late again...

Big Internet warns FCC's Pai: We will fight you all the way on net neutrality

?

"net neutrality rules are extremely popular with internet users (ie, Americans)"

Then what the hell have the rest of us non-Americans been using for years if it wasn't the internet?

Finally a reason not to bother with IPv6: Uh, security concerns...?

Given the speed...

Given the speed at which Virgin Media are rolling out IPv6 (i.e. currently not at all) I probably haven't got to worry about this for several years yet... sigh...

Microsoft wants screaming Windows fans, not just users

@LeeE

Agree, but you spelt his name wrong - it should be "Denial" ;)

People may have been wrongly sent back to prison over faulty tags

Can you recharge an Apple watch without taking it off?

Dunno. Maybe one electrode in the mouth and another where the sun don't shine might do the trick...

Firefox Quantum: BIG browser project, huh? I share your concern

Re: Keep shuffling those deckchairs...

Totally agree.

At the moment I use both Firefox and Pale Moon but, as Mozilla have deprecated XUL, this means that essential (for me) add-ons such as Classic Theme Restorer, which restore a bit of sanity to the total abortion that is the Australis theme, will no longer work. At that point XUL dies, Pale Moon is likely to become my main browser and Firefox will be relegated to "IE" status - i.e. installed but used only when something doesn't work in Pale Moon.

Unfortunately, Mozilla have become every bit as "good" at listening to their users as Microsoft. Sigh...

Boffins crowdsource hunt for 'Planet 9'

“There are so many possible ways this object could be moving”

Are the macarena, the twist and dad dancing possible options?

Microsoft loves Linux so much, its OneDrive web app runs like a dog on Windows OS rivals

"It's called prejudice."

Nah, it's called experience...

Barrister fined after idiot husband slings unencrypted client data onto the internet

Re: £1,000 fine

"senior barristers can struggle to push through £100k a year"

My heart bleeds...

Microsoft nicks one more Apple idea: An ad-supported OS

OneDrive

I tried it for a short while. It failed several times so now the only thing I do with OneDrive on any machine, is to remove or disable it.

This easy one cloud trick is in DANGER. Why?

"attempt at humor"

Which part of the "Joke Alert" icon next to my post did you fail to see?

Sigh...

Maybe...

Maybe a quicker alternative would be to turn off the system you want to move to the cloud and see who (or what) complains!

The Psion returns! Meet Gemini, the 21st century pocket computer

Magic words!

I see the spec includes the magic words: REMOVABLE BATTERY

Excellent!

Just got my 5MX out to compare the keyboards - they look almost identical.

WANT!

Roses are red, violets are blue, fake-news-detecting AI is fake news, too

"Disagrees: The body text disagrees with the headline."

Muchof El Reg's news content for February 14th 2017 declared fake as the body text didn't mention roses or violets.

Cattle that fail, not pets that purr – the future of servers

Planets

"In the 1990s, it was commonplace for the single IT guy to name their servers after planets"

Damn, found out at last!

Well, almost - my WiFi is called Saturn, and many of my servers and computers have named after moons such as Ganymede, Europa, Callisto, Titan (a very big box!) Mimas, Dione, Hyperion, Prometheus, Daphnis, Kari, Pandora, Pallene, Tethys and Enceladus!

Before that some early ones were called Ermintrude (it was a Gateway!) and Zebedee.

Eee by gum! Aye up, Microsoft, what's tha y' got? Cloud for accents?

Excellent!

Mash up of the week!

Super-cool sysadmin fixes PCs with gravity, or his fists

Re: Early hard drives oftn had this kinfd of fault

Yep, I used to have to do that with my first ever HDD in my Amiga 2000 - the 80MB slab that had originally far too much out of a grand!

Time Warner Cable, you've 'earned your miserable reputation' – NY Attorney General

@ecofeco

Maybe the cotton strung between the baked bean cans is in dire need of upgrading to string.

Terry Pratchett's self-written documentary to be broadcast in 2017

Re: Clacks

Several of mine as well.

Black horse blacks out: Lloyds Bank website goes down

I didn't have a problem with Lloyds...

...but that was mainly because my ISP, Virgin Media, had completely fucked up internet access in my local area for several hours and I could get access to anything!

It's round and wobbles, but madam, it's a mouse pad, not a floppy disk

Re: It disappeared...

That reminds me of a story I heard when working with Burroughs/Unisys equipment back in the late 1980s. A customer who had bought a second-hand Burroughs/Unisys B28 system. These came as modular pieces of kit that were clipped together - common modules were CPU, hard disk only and combined hard/floppy. Customer had phoned support because she couldn't get the 5.25" floppy to read after inserting it. Apparently, it was only when the support person asked about whether she'd flipped the floppy drive door shut that it turned out that she couldn't find anything resembling the door catch. It finally dawned on support that she'd been sold a CPU module plus a hard drive only module (no floppy module at all) and had just been slipping the floppy disk in between the CPU and hard drive modules.

There's a pic here of a B28 system (this one DOES include a combined hard/floppy module): https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/4wmksf/my_burroughs_b28_aka_convergent_technologies_ngen/

London's Winter Wonderland URGENTLY seeks Windows 10 desk support

But...

...each time a new Windows version comes out, Microsoft tell us how much better it is compared to the old version. So, shirley by now, it must be absolutely perfect and not need any support as there can't be any downtime or problems of any sort!

Mirai variant turns TalkTalk routers into zombie botnet agents

Re: Talk talk said ...

Mainly because they aren't working hard and definitely won't learn any lessons!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38223805

Re: Burn the witch.

She turned me into a newt!

Half-ton handbuilt CPU heads to Centre for Computing History

Re: Nice ...

Did a DLX simulator for my 3rd year degree course back in the 90s at UEA - had the works including a pipelined version and a working microcode table. Great fun! They wanted to use it as a tool in part of their teaching - don't think they ever did though...

Re: if all the LEDs came on at once

The nearest fuse box would probably do a Galaxy Note 7...

No spin zone: Samsung recalls 3M EXPLODING washing machines

Re: Worried Samsung owner.

I have a Samsung fridge-freezer - I'm now worried about putting any curry ready meals in there in case they are too hot for it to handle safely!

Any questions? No, not you again at the back, please God no

although I imagine Ryanair might yet put this idea under consideration

You mean they don't do this already?

Want to spy on the boss? Try this phone-mast-in-an-HP printer

Yep

They're telling you it's time to install something like Adblock!

Aussie trams equivalent to 30 skateboarding rhinos

"120 cycling Boris Johnsons"

Shudder - one's more than enough!

Newly discovered cave-dwelling creepy-crawly is four times the man* you are

Re: 4 times the pleasure

Well, fuck me (cubed)!

"That really caught my eye"

Dangerous! Those four penises will have your eye out if you don't "watch" it!

Meet the slimeballs who are openly sabotaging Virgin Media

"Unless the snails are migrating using Virgin cabling?"

Probably, as they usually go by train.

Wow, everyone loves our drives, says Seagate sitting on a pile o' cash

Likewise

Having been burnt once, and seen too many others being burnt, I have avoided Seagate drives for years.

Windows 10 market share fell in September

Yep, mine say I'm running Lynx on a Commodore Vic-20.

Sudden explosion in reports of exploding phones

Re: Okay... let me be the first to ask...

As it was in the back pocket he might have been "clenching it wrong" instead!

Brit ISP TalkTalk scraps line rental charges

Re: Bullshitting "customer" manager

"Nothing matters more to us than our customers and doing right by them"

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Best joke I've heard in a long while!

Sage advice: Avoid the Windows 10 Anniversary Update – it knackers our accounting app

Re: Windows 10 Anniversary Edition

I hope that was sarcasm!

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/how-downgrade-windows-10-anniversary-update-before-its-too-late-1574488

How much does your kid hate exams? This lad hacked his government to skip them

Re: "I asked for a car...

And both are prone to crashing!

Blink and you missed it: Asteroid came within 90,000 km, only one sky-watcher saw it

...the strings of your heart?

'Second Earth' exoplanet found right under our noses – just four light years away

Re: We already know what's out there...

Yes, but beware of the leopard.

Re: Stephen Baxter

Funnily enough, I'm reading Proxima right now!

Microsoft’s stealth scripting engine arrives on Android

Sod that

The last think I want on my Android phone is more MS crap. It's bad enough that there isn't an option to delete the MS bloatware that came pre-installed on it without rooting it.