Today?
So, you should have had 4 days instead of 2 to select something if only Sony had actually managed to get their arse into gear and send you your email on time. I wonder how many people won't get their emails until the 27th or later...
Posts by DJV
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Game over? Sony FINALLY offers compensation to MEELLIONS of PSN hack victims
Alan Turing's lost notebook goes under the hammer
MARS NEEDS BROADBAND, insists Elon Musk
Monday 19th January 2015 13:37 GMT 
Internet on Mars?
No problem with latency if they just send a copy of the whole thing - it's small enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg
‘Whatever happened to Vladimir Putin?’ and other crap New Year prophesies
Future imperfect: A UK broadband retrospective
Saturday 17th January 2015 11:34 GMT 
BT Preregistration
Oh hell, yes, I remember that - I think I'd signed up to mine for more than a year before they even thought about upgrading the local exchange. By the time they got around to announcing that they were finally going to upgrade it (at some point possibly 6 months in the future but, hey, we're BT so we will take as long as we want), NTL (as it was then) had got their cable broadband system up and running so I went for that instead.
Kim Jong-Un shoot-em-up Glorious Leader! yanked
Thursday 15th January 2015 13:52 GMT
Re: FTFY
Indeed, I'm just a one-man, self-employed, work from home, web developer but my backup solution verges on the paranoid as I've been bitten in the past:
1) I have 2 local web/data servers - they have 4 hard disks in each of them. The main OS is on the smallest drive so that, if I need to reinstall or update the OS (Ubuntu Linux Server) from scratch I can do that on a replacement drive so that the original drive can be put back in if problems arise. The other 3 disks hold data only. The backup server can be converted into a main server quite quickly.
2) A daily backup of the OS configuration files is made automatically via a CRON script (this helps if I need to swap which one is the main server).
3) The backup server constantly replicates the main one's files using CRON scripts which run at (half) hourly intervals - the more important ones get the more frequent backups.
4) The database does an almost instant update and the "home" page on all the web browsers I use (which displays links to all the sites on the servers and their live equivalents) displays a large red message if the two databases are not currently in sync.
5) Once a day the entire database is backed up. Four times a day the database tables that contain my rather more important time recording information are backed up.
6) Every hour a script runs which backs up anything changed on all the code in the past 48 hours and zips it up into a file on a different disk within the same server - this means that if I mess up something then versions that existed earlier in the day are still available. These files are also replicated to the backup server.
7) After finishing work each day I run manually scripts which copy any changed files from the "web" working disk to another disk on the main server. A dated full (once a month) or incremental (all other times) zip file is made of the code files for the site. Some of these go back 10 years. Again, these will get copied across to the backup server as soon as it runs the associated backup script.
8) Every 2 or 3 days I upload the latest versions of these files to an externally located server as offsite backup.
Paranoid or what?!
Professor's BEAGLE lost for 10 years FOUND ON MARS
2015 will be the Year of Linux on the, no wait, of the dot-word domain EXPLOSION
Broadband isn't broadband unless it's 25Mbps, mulls FCC boss
Boffins spy I in your little eye
Doctor Who's tangerine dream and Clara's death wish in Last Christmas
Ghosts of Christmas Past: The long-ago geek gifts that made us what we are
Apple scuttles NTP flaw in OS X – with 'first ever' silent auto update
Tragedy strikes Vulture News Central but details remain scrambled
El Reg Redesign - leave your comment here.
Thursday 11th December 2014 21:06 GMT 
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Boffins cure BONING PROBLEMS in 'virtual lab'
Put me through to Buffy's room, please. Sony hackers leak stars' numbers, travel aliases
How HAPPY am I on a scale of 1 to 10? Where do I click PISSED OFF?
Nexus 7 fandroids tell of salty taste after sucking on Google's Lollipop
Holy cow! Fasthosts outage blamed on DDoS hack attack AND Windows 2003 vuln
BOFH: An UNHOLY MATCH forged amid the sweet smell of bullsh*t
Microsoft snorefest: For crying out loud, Nadella – just channel Ballmer!
Virgin Media CUTS OFF weekend 'net surfers after embarrassing smut-filtering snafu
Got a STRAP-ON? Remember to TAKE IT OFF at WORK
Yes! It's DRONE PORN. And we don't mean shiny pics of UAVs
Sign off my IT project or I’ll PHONE your MUM
Ada Lovelace Day: Meet the 6 women who gave you the 'computer'
Web Devs: Learn to build high performance websites to banish autumn blues
'Utter killjoy Reg hacks have NEVER BEEN LAID', writes a fan
Saturday 11th October 2014 10:33 GMT 
Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells!
I am disgusted by your reviewer's review of Mummy on the Orient Express. Not only did your reviewer totally miss the point of the whole episode (whatever that was), he (or she or it) made inane and inaccurate comments about how a train cannot fly through space, why the first class carriage was going the wrong way and how his mummy never wore bandages like that! I find it utterly preposterous why the Reg even pays a reviewer to say such laughable and un-Dr-Whoey things!! It's almost like they haven't even watched the episode!
What do you mean you haven't even reviewed it yet?
Bah humbug!
Software gurus: Only developers can defeat mass surveillance
No 12-inch maxiPads for Christmas: Suppliers 'smothered by iPhone 6'
Will we ever can the spam monster?
Monday 6th October 2014 12:26 GMT 
I'm not worried about spam...
Billy boy said it will be history by 2006. Oh wait...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gates-spam-to-be-canned-by-2006/
Vanished blog posts? Enterprise gaps? Welcome to Windows 10
SHOW ME the MONEY: Payment code spied in Facebook Messenger
Monday 6th October 2014 12:17 GMT 
How to use the Facebook Messenger app
My experience on both iPad and Android:
1) Tried the separate messenger once they'd ripped the usable one out of the main app.
2) Looked at the excessive privacy access it wanted.
3) Raised my eyebrows in a correspondly excessive manner.
4) Deleted it.
5) Reverted to using web browser.
What’s the KEYBOARD SHORTCUT for Delete?! Look in a contextual menu, fool!
Saturday 4th October 2014 12:29 GMT
CTRL+C
CTRL+C will still break into a long directory listing - e.g. do dir /s from the root and hit CTRL+C before the listing finishes on its own - haven't tried a script yet but I suspect it stil works.
Looks like CTRL+C will only do the copy when something is highlighted. If you do dir /s and then click and drag it halts the directory listing. Doing CTRL+C will copy the stuff highlighted and then the listing will continue. Do CTRL+C again and you break into the listing and stop it dead in its tracks.
Sort of like "operator overload", methinks!
Spammer uses innocent hacked blogs to punt NAKED PICS of JLaw, McKayla Maroney
That glass of water you just drank? It was OLDER than the SUN
A Norsified Linux for Windows and OS X wobblers
Friday 26th September 2014 09:20 GMT 
Some direct links to it would have been nice!
http://elementaryos.org/journal/freya-beta-1-available-for-developers-testers
Biting the hand that feeds IT
