* Posts by Colonel Mad

173 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Aug 2009

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Dilettante dev wrote rubbish, left no logs, and had no idea why his app wasn't working

Colonel Mad

We had a Pick OS greybeard in out branch in the 2000's, apparently it requires a great deal of silent contemplation and a near horizontal seating position.

Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you

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You Tube

Are there ads on You tube? Never seen any!

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Re: RPi 1 B is fine for v5

Upgrade to latest, issue now sorted for me

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Re: Lazy slacker...

Yes

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Zero

I run a wifi Zero, and have done for a few years, its up to 6.0.6. I run a standard filter list, amended to add X.com among others, and allow a couple of comment managers eg. spot.im and the like.

Your computer's not working? Sure, I can fix that problem – which I caused

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Re: I'm confused...

Fancy that!

Want to feel old? Excel just entered its 40th year

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Re: What, no love for Multiplan?

SuperCalc for me, still miss it.

UK ponders USB-C as common charging standard

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Why have they selected the worst option?

USB C is the most flaky and unreliable connector yet, throw in a braided cable as well, why don't you!

Techie saved the day and was then criticized for the fix

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Re: Sounds About Right

only once - lucky you!

Apple sets new 16,000-foot iPhone drop test after 737 fuselage fail

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Sturdy, unless it was in learning mode!

Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off

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Re: No corruption here.

Ours still comes round about every 6 months

CES Worst in Show slams gummi gouging, money-wasting mugs, and other dubious kit

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Nothing from Dyson?

BOFH: It's Friday, it's time to RTFM

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I use one of those to spark a fag.

Convicted felon busted for 3D printing gun parts

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Gobber is due some porridge.

BOFH and the case of the disappearing teaspoons

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So you have read Dabbsy's piece today!

The next time your program is 'not responding,' (do not) try these steps

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Joke

The hot air balloon one is shorter.

Your software doesn't work when my PC is in 'O' mode

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Why did I not see that coming?

Microsoft plans to drop SMB1 binaries from Windows 11

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SMB

Server Message Block

In the graveyard of good ideas, how does yours measure up to these?

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But....

Why does it have traces of Spider in it?

IT blamed after HR forgets to install sockets in new office

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Names

Sometimes, these companies should be named.

Fibre broadband uptake in UK lags behind OECD countries

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I live in an ordinary house in Milton Keynes, and City Fibre put the network in about 18 months ago, I have a large range of providers to choose from, but on 2 can be a***d, to send me junk mail. The box is 5 metres from the house, and I have no idea what happens if I order, will my front driveway be dug up, can they access the BT duct or the MKTV duct? So until one of them explains this on their website, I shall stay with FTTC.

Suspected Chinese spies break into cloud accounts of News Corp journalists

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Defence

Reason 3,995 to hold off on that Windows 11 upgrade: Iffy performance on AMD silicon

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Re: Good to see

Of which, the majority are from AMD...........

BOFH: You'll find there's a company asset tag right here, underneath the monstrously heavy arcade machine

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PAT

If it has a PAT sticker, then its official.

Navigating without GPS is one thing – so let's jam it and see what happens to our warship

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Cocked up

There is an Open University programme about the error of assuming your position is within the cocked hat, one of the people involved went on to lecture at BRNC

Start or Please Stop? Power users mourn features lost in Windows 11 'simplification'

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Time

And no seconds display in the task bar.

When everyone else is on vacation, it's time to whip out the tiny screwdrivers

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Re: Two observations:

The lid of your box of iFixit tools has moulded compartments, what the cheapo version doesn't have is a T3 bit, so you can't really do anything with it, and they got really shirty when I pointed out this oversight to them.

Blackbaud – firm that paid off crooks after 2020 ransomware attack – fails to get California privacy law claim dropped

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Blackbaud

Blackbaud, (the under a) "cloud software provider that sells CRM systems for fundraising and communications to charities and educational institutions,".

Western Approaches Museum: WRENs, wargames, and victory in the Atlantic

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Geeks Guides

I really love these, another place I had never heard of. Many thanks to Richard Currie.

Microsoft patches PrintNightmare – even on Windows 7 – but the terror isn't over

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KB50004945

This patch has just turned up:

Um vor der Sicherheitslücke Print Nightmare zu schützen, hat Microsoft nun den Patch KB50004945 veröffentlicht. Es gibt die Aktualisierung nicht nur für Windows 10, sondern auch für Windows 8 und 7.

Enjoy

Microsoft releases Windows 11 Insider Preview, attempts to defend labyrinth of hardware requirements

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Motherboards may have a TPM header, but most modern CPU's have a baked in TMP that just needs enabling in the BIOS.

A hotline to His Billness? Or a guard having a bit of a giggle?

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Re: Hunt Groups

Whenever I've been in a Builders Merchant, the phone, the coffee, the cat, anything, takes priority over the poor sap standing at the counter.

Of all the analytics firms in the world, why is Palantir getting its claws into UK health data?

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The final paragraph! Masterful.

Fastly 'fesses up to breaking the internet with an 'an undiscovered software bug' triggered by a customer

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Re: And the bug was?

I do not think that any one country is better than another, openess depends on the organisations culture, and it's "definitely" BTW.

Oops, says Manchester City Council after thousands of number plates exposed in parking ticket spreadsheet

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The Bus lane contraventions are via CCTV. So no superwarden - sorry.

If you can't log into Azure, Teams or Xbox Live right now: Microsoft cloud services in worldwide outage

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Logged in to Xbox Live OK just now

You want me to do WHAT in that prepaid envelope?

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Re: Club 50+

You will often find then in Doctors Surgeries here as well.

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Re: Club 50+

It's a mere cost cutting measure.

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Club 50+

Welcome & enjoy.

A word to the Wyse: Smoking cigars in the office is very bad for you... and your monitor

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Ah, the Senior Service problem.

Reminds of when my Mum called the TV engineer out............

Healthy 32-year-old offered COVID-19 vaccine because doctors had him down as 6.2cm tall with BMI of 28,000

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Re: consequences of mistakes in medical records

That's what phone cameras are for.

What's that you got there, AMD? More Ryzen chips? Yeah, OK, we could do with some of those

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Got one (5600X)

Picked it up from Currys the other day

The myth of fingerprints: The Xiaomi 10T Pro is well-rounded, but it's definitively a sub-flagship handset

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Re: Picture #2

Yes then, Army of God!

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Re: Picture #2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auO9FBkR9_s

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Picture #2

Was that an old army post?

Currys PC World website crumples into unscheduled maintenance as shoppers chase latest gaming machines

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Re: Maintenance! Calling it maintenance makes them look inept.

too

Amazon's ad-hoc Ring, Echo mesh network can mooch off your neighbors' Wi-Fi if needed – and it's opt-out

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Illegal

Stealing bandwith is a capital offence.

Apple's global security boss accused of bribing cops with 200 free iPads in exchange for concealed gun permits

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Familiar!

Seems like a "Devs" character?

Police warn of bad Apples that fell off the back of a truck after highway robbery

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48 Pallets on a single truck, more Apple exageration!

Dell online store charges 16 million dollars for new laptop with paint job

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Soft Mint Wednesday

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