Posts by Ol'Peculier

Musk and Trump take slap fight public as bromance ends

Re: No room for two

"Why not elect the 'best person'...

"Because you don't know how good or bad they'll be until they gain power.

Yet they went and voted him back in again...

European Commission: Make Europe Great Again... for startups

Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose Europe

Somebody's never watched Trainspotting...

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

Re: No Comment!

Oh fuck it, the fucking fuckers fucked.

Procter & Gamble study finds AI could help make Pringles tastier, spice up Old Spice, sharpen Gillette

Re: It could...

I have a small crocheted Babel Fish on top of my PC that I use for the same thing.

Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition

I'll raise you Windows 2000, especially W2K server.

GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison

Re: Disquieting features

When I had friends that worked at GCHQ the only access to the internet was via a sandboxed PC in a room all by itself.

They certainly had to leave their phone in the car as well.

Either things have changed a lot in the last few years, or somebody had their eyes off the ball.

Photoshop FOSS alternative GIMP wakes up from 7-year coma with version 3.0

Just rename the shortcuts. No big deal.

And anyway, GIMP won't mean anything to a lot of people.

Brit supermarket finds breaking up is hard to do as Walmart-Asda divorce stretches into fourth year

Re: Misnomer

They bought out our local family run bakery a couple of years ago, although it's a big operation with about 150 stores.

Quality gone down, prices gone up. Staff retention not so good. I've stopped going in their shops now.

Microsoft tells abandoned Publisher fans to just use Word and hope for the best

I still miss Pagemaker...

Murena kicks Google out of the Pixel Tablet

Re: This...

I travel quite a bit and a tablet is my perfect companion. Preload with content and don't have to rely on what's available on the screen in front of you. (I find it almost impossible to sleep whilst flying unless it's ultra longhaul)

Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US

As somebody living on the more normal side of the pond, I can't get my head around the fact that one manchild can change the name of a body of water, and a mountain without anybody saying "why?".

AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads

Re: Or...

Has it got GPP?

Re: AI?

That's a stonking idea, pretty much guarantees all roads checked twice a month. There were a few on a rat-run road near me until last month that the bin men will go down, but I doubt anybody else from the council would.

They were reported on FixMyStreet and were, um, fixed though.

'Savvy' shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages

Mostly Harmless?

"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation"

What with that and Trumpton, interesting times ahead...?

25 years on from Y2K, let's all be glad it happened way back then

Re: And for other reasons

Absolutely. I had a HTC San Francisco that could play Doom when I went to the US circa 2003 and people were gobsmacked by the power that thing had.

Think I got my first mobile in about 1992, was self employed so pretty much a necessity, Remember putting it in my girlfriends bag when it went off on the tube once and got some really weird looks. How things change...

British Army zaps drones out of the sky with laser trucks

We don't have armored vehicles in the British Army, they'll be using armoured vehicles.

BOFH: Don't threaten us with a good time – ensure it

Re: Lock it up in a box...

It's like locking internal doors. If they are already in, all that's going to happen is you have more doors to replace.

Wanted. Top infosec pros willing to defend Britain on shabby salaries

Re: meanwhile over the pond...

They have other bases, Bude and Scarborough come to mind, and I think Manchester too.

Re: Not tell friends and family what you do for a living...

I know dozens of people that work/worked at GCHQ. No secret about where they got their income from! Had to do a integrety check with them for a friend who still is there.

Post Office CTO had 'nagging doubts' about Horizon system despite reliability assurances

Re: I could empathise....

Fully agree.

Incidentally, the Royal Mail is believed to be the first organisation to carry out investigations and prosecutors in the world.

Not that been first is best...

'Newport would look like Dubai' if guy could dumpster dive for lost Bitcoin drive

excavate a garbage dump

Better known as a landfill site, or even better the tip. If a story is about something that's happening in the UK, at least use English terminology, please?

Post Office seeks more Horizon support as it continues hunt for replacement

Sightly off-topic, but I hope El'Reg will cover what Mike Young has been saying in the inquiry today, because the guy is talking out of his arse...

BBS legend Ward Christensen logs off for last time at 78

When you find yourself where you don't expect it...

To my suprise, I found myself on here:

https://nodehist.fidonet.org.ua/

Happy memorys. So long and thanks for all the packets...

NASA's Europa Clipper leaves for Jupiter's moon atop Falcon Heavy

Re: Gravity assist

It's just coming back to check it's not left the oven on...

OS/2 expert channeled a higher power to dispel digital doom vortex

I can remember my grandmothers landline number from childhood, the landline number I used for a BBS, my wife's mobile, all the landline numbers my mother ever had and the landlines I've ever had but that's about it. Oh, and my sisters mobile number before she emigrated.

Funnily enough met up with some old school friends last weekend and we could all remember each others phone numbers from 40 odd years ago. Haven't a clue what my Dad's mobile is now, although the landland hasn't changed for about 50 years, apart from an extra digit or two added to the start.

Starlink-branded hardware reportedly found amid wreckage of downed Russian drone

Re: What usage ?

As it's been installed on more and more passenger aircraft to provide on-board Wi-Fi, definately.

Telcos scolded for unwanted erection of utility poles in race to wire up Britain

1. Click on the link to the Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society

2. Scroll down to the Norwich and Norfolk newsletter image

3. Read and... well, in case go "whaaaat?"

Getting up close and personal with Concorde, Concordski, and Buran

Re: Wonderful!

Fully agree. Although only spent about 2/3rds of a day there it is huge.

Bit ashamed I've been there and not to Elvington which is literally down the road to me.

UK Royal Mint mining PCBs for precious metals in e-waste recovery effort

"aluminum" used in an article about a British institution,

Ugh.

Facebook prank sent techie straight to Excel hell

Re: In our office it was Quake

Where I worked at the time it was the done thing to hit the page button on the phone, shouting "got you!" and hearing "you bastard!" from teh floor above.

Happy days...

Asda kisses Walmart goodbye with half a billion dollar tech breakup bill

Re: Surprising...

ASDA was formed before Walmart, so not sure where you are going with that one?

BOFH: Why's the network so slow?

Re: Mornington Crescent?

And at this point... we've lost the Yanks!

BOFH: An 'AI PC' for an Acutely Ignorant user

New Zealand changing words?

And the Boss loves it because (as we explained) purple is the color of AI working.

Grrrr...

---> Driving me to one

UK may not hit goal of 95% mobile coverage, commons committee warns

On the Extended Area Service element of the program, the costs are said to have risen by an estimated £44 million (about $56 million) due to VAT and inflation alone

VAT hasn't changed since about 2011, so that's rubbish .

Bing and Copilot fall from the clouds around the world

It was working for me first thing this morning, but isn't now (Reason unknown).

Strange...

So you've built the best tablet, Apple. Show us why it matters

Oh thanks a bunch. I've now got the Shake'n'Vac jingle as an earworm...

https://youtu.be/4q8inM0gKVo?si=xA72xwNCJruo3G38&t=9

Council claims database pain forced it to drop apostrophes from street names

There are several streets in Scarborough, Queen Margaret's Road and around Lady Edith's estate where signs at each end of the street contradict each other...

Bill advances to exonerate hundreds in Post Office Horizon scandal

As an aside to the headline, I wish El Reg was devoting more time to reporting on this Fushitshow.

The level of amnesia being displayed this week at the inquiry is staggering.

Fushitshow should be made to pay back every penny they made with the Horizon project, and be banned from government contracts for a minimum of at least 10 years - preferably for ever.

Fancy building a replacement for Post Office's disastrous Horizon system?

As the final phase of the inquiry is to provide recommendations for the future, isn't it best to wait until September?

Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

Re: Options are good.

I've still got a few t-shirts from there. In fact, one might have even been my first online purchase...

Out with the old, in with the new as 100 Starlink satellites take atmospheric exit

Re: Disposible like BIC or Gillette razors

There are some places on earth that will never get a fibre link - such as the Galapagos Islands where the only way of getting decent internet access is via Starlink.

Which is why on Isabella Island, in a small bar in the middle of nowhere, I got 169 Mbps down and 9 up)

I'm no fan of Musk, but colour me impressed.

Because the bar also had it's own brewery, and it's Friday... --->

Zen Internet warns customers of an impending IP address change

We've been with Zen for 15 years or so, but not had anything from them about this change.. Probably had the same IP address all this time too.

Be nice to at least have an idea of the time and date they are planning on doing this, if nothing else.

Post Office boss unable to say when biz knew Horizon could be remotely altered

Tell me if I'm wrong but...

So the daily balance would double when the screen froze.

The subpostmaster would find money from their own pockets to send to the PO.

The post office now has money from transactions that didn't occur. These may be the same transactions twice but...

Say out of those transactions was £x of stamps x 2. Take that over a week and say x number of stamps have been sold. Reconcilliation would surely show that the number of stamps supplied to the PO was less than that?

Same as car tax, you don't pay your tax twice when renewing it at the PO. The same number plate appearing twice in the same days audit trail?

I'm just glad they are getting hauled over the coals, at last. There was a big article on the BBC site about it and it didn't mention the F word once.

BOFH: The Christmas party was so good, an independent inquiry is required

Re: Plagiarism?

Oook!

Hershey phishes! Crooks snarf chocolate lovers' creds

Remember when the comedian Dave Gorman did the thing where he did Google searches that returned zero results? Here's another one: "Hershey" "chocolate lovers".

Ukraine cyber spies claim Putin's planes are in peril as sanctions bite

A380?

This is puzzling me. AFAIK no Russian airline has flown a A380, so where have they come from?

(I suspect a typo or the original article got confused with Airbus' naming system.)

Your ex isn't the only one stalking your social media posts. The Feds are, too

Isn't this just the latest version of ECHELON?

NASA celebrates 40 years of Discovery, the longest-serving Space Shuttle

It's very grubby when you see it close up, but I guess I would be too if I'd been round the world that many times...

Wordpress sells 100-year domain, hosting plan for $38K

Re: Remember That "Lifetime" Airline Pass

Here you go:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/jun/25/new-jersey-man-lifetime-united-airlines-pass