Posts by Colonel Mad

Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers

I thought the only smart glasses 'Spoons cared about were the ones delivering short measures

Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees

Re: Stupidity plus arrogance

And Idleness is not finding out.

Surface tension rises as Microsoft's latest kit starts at a pricey $1,499

Great headline.

Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships

Ideal for the Straight of Hormuz.

Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker

Much the same info is on Marine Traffic

Raspberry Pi OS ends open-door policy for sudo

Superuser do

Gmail celebrates 22 years by finally letting users change their addresses

Thanks for that, able to change to English (United Kingdom) after all these years!

North Korea's 100,000-strong fake IT worker army rake in $500M a year for Kim Jong Un

Norks has a different meaning to me!

In the name of science: Boffins build fart-tracking undies

Only 32?

Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble

I would have deleted the new site.

Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter

Great article, and with lots of useful links, especially the FT one, many thanks.

Iran’s internet goes dark amid mass protests, reports of violent government response

Bots & Spam

https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/stop-bots-save-democracy-zt87x6h3m

Let them eat Pi: RAM shortage bumps Raspberry prices as much as $60

Ram Prices

I notice that Curry's/PC World have 64GB sticks of DDR5 at less that half the price of a pair of 32GB sticks.

Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control

Stop using out of date software!

User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't

Re: When they (think they) know enough to be helpful

Or they were heavy smokers!

Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe

Thanks

That explains the anomaly over my Asda payment on Tuesday/Wednesday.

Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK

Given the grief being levelled at the US Tech Industry by Donny Tango, we should invite then to relocate here.

UK's smaller broadband operators face tough road ahead, consolidation possible

Fibrehop

Just been informed I am moving to Zen with my City Fibre service.

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

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

You Tube

Are there ads on You tube? Never seen any!

Re: RPi 1 B is fine for v5

Upgrade to latest, issue now sorted for me

Re: Lazy slacker...

Yes

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

Re: I'm confused...

Fancy that!

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

Re: What, no love for Multiplan?

SuperCalc for me, still miss it.

UK ponders USB-C as common charging standard

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

Re: Sounds About Right

only once - lucky you!

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

Sturdy, unless it was in learning mode!

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

Nothing from Dyson?

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

I use one of those to spark a fag.

Convicted felon busted for 3D printing gun parts

Gobber is due some porridge.

BOFH and the case of the disappearing teaspoons

So you have read Dabbsy's piece today!

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

Joke

The hot air balloon one is shorter.

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

Why did I not see that coming?

Microsoft plans to drop SMB1 binaries from Windows 11

SMB

Server Message Block

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

But....

Why does it have traces of Spider in it?

IT blamed after HR forgets to install sockets in new office

Names

Sometimes, these companies should be named.

Fibre broadband uptake in UK lags behind OECD countries

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

Defence

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

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

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

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'

Time

And no seconds display in the task bar.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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?

The final paragraph! Masterful.