Posts by Dave Walker 1

So your [expletive] test failed. So [obscene participle] what?

I wonder where that could have been

Still, no arm done I guess…

Cisco warns of premature DIMM failures

Re: DIMMs specially made for Cisco

looking at the link, they all seem to be server parts from UCS systems - affected part numbers listed below:

CNBR-MR-X32G2RT-H

UCS-ML-X64G4RS-H

CSP-MR-X32G2RS-H

CIT3-MR-X16G1RS-H

ULTM-MR-X32G2RS-H

UCS-MR-X32G2RT-H=

BE7K-RAM

CSP-MR-X16G1RS-H

UCS-MR-X32G2RS-H=

BE6K-RAM-M5-NEW

CSP-MR-X16G1RT-H

CSP-MR-X32G2RT-H

BE7K-RAM-M5-NEW

UCS-ML-X64G4RT-H=

BE6K-RAM

UCS-MR-X16G1RS-H=

UCS-MR-X16G1RT-H=

HX-ML-X64G4RS-H

HX-MR-X32G2RS-H=

HX-MR-X32G2RT-H=

HX-MR-X16G1RT-H=

HX-ML-X64G4RT-H=

HX-MR-X16G1RS-H=

HX-MR-X16G1RT-H=

Enjoy the search...

BOFH: The vengeance bus is coming, and everybody's jumping. An Xmas bonus hits me…

Merry Christmas BOFH

All valuable lessons to learn here

Nice to see the BOFH and PFY ending the year in fine style

El Reg needs you – to help build an automated beer-transporting robot

I think we're solving the wrong problem here...

I looked at this problem and found another solution - if Mohammed won't come to the mountain, the mountain must come to Mohammed...

https://powellbrewing.co.uk/product-category/micro-breweries/

Apple's top-secret iBoot firmware source code spills onto GitHub for some insane reason

just waiting to be rickrolled...

(and I hadn't read the rest of the comments...)

Beyond code PEBCAK lies KMACYOYO, PENCIL and PAFO

Or Bodgit & Scarper - my wife's favourite handymen

BOFH: Halon is not a rad new vape flavour

Re: TWA?

and there was me thinking it was a TWA T reference...

Re: Halon?

Last place I worked at that had something similar was Nitrogen based - on the principle that fire isn't self-sustaining at less than 14% O2 partial pressure.

Still made a bloody big bang when it went off though...

User needed 40-minute lesson in turning it off and turning it on again

because 'Off' is so terribly stone-aged...

OneLogin breached, hacker finds cleartext credential notepads

A friend of mine suggested this to scare me:

https://haveibeenpwned.com

Wonder if this one will appear there too...

Bill Hicks: 25 years on from the cult comedian's big break

Re: I've heard of him

That's exactly the same place that I first saw him

(I didn't go with Daniel B Myers though - I convinced my then girlfriend, now wife to come with me)

Laughed my ass off, then promptly found everything I could of his

RIP Sir Terry Pratchett: Discworld author finally gets to meet DEATH

A most terminal embuggerance

RIP Sir Terry. He was a thoroughly splendid chap the time I met him - happy to spend time with the avid readers of an enchanting universe. I'll be raising one to him and his skeletal chaperone tonight

Is it humanly possible to watch Gigli and Battlefield Earth back-to-back?

Re: "So bad it's good"

I agree - it's bad enough that i still resent the 2 hours wasted from my life, even though someone else paid (sister-in-law decided to 'treat' my wife and I )

How many apps does it take to back up your data?

Product placement much...

Trevor - how much did Asigra pay for the skyscraper ads on this page?

Modern-day Frankenstein invents CURE for BEHEADING

Prescient much?

Who's read 'I Will Fear No Evil'...

Antarctic discovery: ALIEN LIFE may be FOUND ON MOON of Jupiter

Re: I'm wondering ...

<pedant mode on>

sub-arean I think you mean :)

</pedant mode>

RIP Harry Harrison: Stainless Steel Rat scurries no more

Long liv the Stainless Steel Rat

He was, as the blurb on the back of the paperbacks said, 'The Monty Python of the spaceways' - his writing always had humour , dark though it may have been, and his prose was some of the most absorbing I have ever had the pleasure to read.

I hope someone options a few more of his works - Slippery Jim, Jason dinAlt and Bill (with two Ls) deserve some screen time...

Rest in peace, Harry - if I could write it in Esperanto, I would

Jupiter and Venus get cozy in revealing late-night display

Re: SLR?

in the words of Harry Hill:

FIGHT!!!

Drew's Cookie Jar - psst. want a forum upgrade

yes please :)

O2 3G stops giving punters' mobile numbers to websites

strange emails from O2

I wonder if the strange email from [e-mail] is related to this change?

Anyone else get an email containing '6565' at around 1pm?

Rainbow Islands

Bubble Bobble FTW

It nearly cost me my saturday job when I was younger...

I ended up with a verbal warning for being caught in the staff canteen playing 30 minutes after I was due to start

Harry Potter director takes on Doctor Who movie

TOM BAKER FTW

World's only twin jet-engine bike drives onto eBay

EPIC FAIL

In so many ways

What part of jet powered are you missing :)

BOFH: We don't need no stinkin' upgrade

Sounds like a mish-mash of everyone's upgrade strategy. The only bit I didn't see was the 18month subscription upgrade with version 3, 3S, 4, 4S where it all looks the same on the outside, but some whizzy bits on the inside get changed, and you may notice a difference

Disclaimer - happy owner of iPhone 3, 3GS and 4S

Mine's the one with a 4S in the pocket

iOS update woes prompt gnashing of teeth for Apple fans

Fairly uneventful

No real problems here. Started downloading at 7:30 pm or so, 668Mb in 50 minutes.

The only problem was with iTunes backing up my 3GS - kept on getting an error. I had to create a new account and use that to back and restore. Finished by 11pm

Apple cofounder Steve Jobs is dead at 56

It's been said before, but a good thing is worth saying twice

One more thing...

Rest in peace, Steve

Condolences to family and friends. We lost a visionary.

(P.S. El Reg - can we have the St. Jobs icon back in memoriam?)

Acid3 browser test drops DOM tripper-upper

Best software name ever

I have encouraged use of the name 'Internet Exploder' since v6 on windows...

It just seems to perfectly encapsulate the entire ethos of the package

AMD spills secret to World Record clock speed

@stu 4 re: Helium weirdness

Stu

It has to be cooled to below just liquid, and there are specific requirements for it to work.

Google says below 2.17kelvin for He4 and 0.002491 K for He3 - so the chances of finding it in an open container are quite slim...

British warming to NUKES after Fukushima meltdown

+1 for the Nigel Molesworth quote

hurrah for st. custards

How Apple's Lion won't let you trash documents

Why?

you don't even know what I asked yet

RAM prices set to 'free fall'

it's a far cry from penny chews...

I remember 1Mb 30 pin SIMMS for £25

I feel old :-(

BOFH: Beer, shinies, death by fire, rats IN THAT ORDER

Love it

Always beer first...

Icon for obvious reasons

Sky wins TV riot battle

@Robert Carnegie

Thats Imodium, the anti-diarrhea drug...

You have to wonder what on earth they were thinking...

So, what's the best sci-fi film never made?

Definitely need more of Slippery Jim DiGriz

I am surprised that no-one has tried to do a Stainless Steel Rat film yet - it's not like there weren't enough stories to choose from

Or if you want to go even sillier, Bill, The Galactic Hero....

Fire-quenching electric forcefield backpack invented

Reminds me of school

I remember a physics experiment at school where you had to map the electric field around a sphere by measuring the deflection of a small flame. The reason that it stick in my memory is that the sphere used was a plastic ball covered in a metallic paint, and despite the strong exhortations to not measure too closely, at least one person would destroy the ball each time the experiment was run...

That's got to be a few years ago now, though

BOFH: Pain fear games

Love the paintball

It was inevitable once the Boss starting revealing the cost-cutting for next year, but welcome nonetheless

Simon owes me a new keyboard and Magic Mouse...