Posts by Trollslayer

Microsoft adds features to Windows 11 monthly – managing it is your problem

eBay - the source of valids Window!

BT keeps the faith in 'like fury' fiber broadband buildout as revenues dip

Re: Moving to FTTH

I can get planned fibre where I live out but not the where I previous.

Sysadmin infected bank with 'alien virus' that sucked CPUs dry

Fried?

IBM staff grumble redeployment orders are stealth layoffs

This isn't new

Reduce salary, get moved to a somewhere another etc..

Remember, this isn't done by the old days IBM but not the snake.

Cops chase Tesla driver 'dozing' with Autopilot on

At least the car

Is thinking about it.

Meet the merry pranksters who keep the workplace interesting, if not productive

Re: Mouse Balls! prank or hyjinx?

Ask the mouse.

TSMC confirms 3nm fab in Arizona to make neighbor Intel sweat a little more

Re: Memo to Taipei.

Once all the tech has been removed.

Awww

Is Intel nervous then?

Apple sued for collecting user data despite opt-outs

Re: it is rather simple according to iOS documentation...

Didi it work?

Google agrees to $400m settlement in privacy lawsuit

I have just had a dream...

Google and Amazon merge!

Microsoft tests 'upsells' of its products in Windows 11 sign-out menu

Re: Perhaps Next Year

Mine is named Eric.

China's first domestic single-aisle jet, the C919, scores 300 orders

Re: Historically

Wasn't it Russia that bought C919s?

UK government set to extract hospital data to Palantir system without patient consent

Re: Who do I need to contact

Your MP?

RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language

Re: Good long life and a lasting legacy

Just like Rear Admiral Grace Hopper.

Why I love my Chromebook: Reason 1, it's a Linux desktop

Re: Windows machines lifespan

The lifespan depends on hardware, power cycling etc.

No, I will not pay the bill. Why? Because we pay you to fix things, not break them

BTW, I have a biography of Grace Hopper, amazing person!

IBM India tells employees they can moonlight – but only for good causes, with permission

IBM have changed over the decades.

Logitech, that canary in PC coal mine, just fell off its perch

Re: Bring back the Harmony remotes and Squeezebox

I have a Logitech Harmony One and to me nothing can beat it.

Re: Quick Win

The preference of the keyboard/mouse.is down to the user.

New measurement alert: Liz Truss inspires new Register standard

Re: Prime Minister

Agreed.

No, working in IT does not mean you can fix anything with a soldering iron

Step one

Tell them to go out and buy a new cable.

Fake vibrating teeth could make great hearing aids

Re: Perfect for cheating at chess

Is that the sound of experience?

Sage denies misleading customers over perpetual licensing, users not happy

Solid as

Something, I just don't which something.

Girls Who Code books 'banned' in some US classrooms

Re: God botherers strike again!

Because both are ways to control others.

Re: The last sentence of the article has it.

I like the votes to that post, two each way.

Re: The last sentence of the article has it.

Including you?

Re: The last sentence of the article has it.

"Moms' for Liberty" is fine for those are telling other Moms what it is.

Microsoft debuts Windows 11 2022 Update – now with features added monthly

The best update?

Downgrade the OS version by 1.

Document Foundation starts charging €8.99 for 'free' LibreOffice

Re: Windows S store has been charging for some time

Could provide a link to how you did it?

Thanks.

White House puts $50m into floating wind turbine projects

Re: Quite literally a drop in the Ocean

Precisely!

Keeping printers quiet broke disk drives, thanks to very fuzzy logic

Re: Other things can get clogged too

The PC I am using now had the same problem.

Japan to change laws that require use of floppy disks

Re: Faxing Floppies

Pah!

I have used a hard disc twelve inches!

California to try tackling drought with canal-top solar panels

Re: Saving water for more abuse?

And how do the trees get light on the leaves?

Re: Costs and Corrosion

I am - it was a great aircraft!

Re: 372 miles

As long as you allow for the waves.

Euro watchdogs 'abandon $1b fine' against Qualcomm

It is time Qualcomm feels the bite of a massive fine.

Remember, Qualcomm put smaller phone chip companies collapse because they can't afford the royalties on Qualcomm's patents.

Source: IBM disguised Watson Health layoffs as a 'redeployment initiative'

IBM have a mix of sharks, piranhas and

whatever that the icon is.

Emergency services call-handling provider: Ransomware forced it to pull servers offline

Re: Impatient

Ever heard of evolution?

'I wonder what this cable does': How to tell thicknet from a thickhead

Re: colour me sceptical

Even the plug is RJ45 and the socket is BNC.

Microsoft: Outlook desktop app crashing due to missing identity setting

Re: I have no Outlook problems at all

I was going to post that precise post to the same version!

Lapping the computer room in record time until the inevitable happens

Re: Green energy

Have you tried it for real then?

Scientists use dead spider as gripper for robot arm, label it a 'Necrobot'

Re: require all sorts of tedious fabrication and design efforts

With a spider?

BT accused of 'misinformation' campaign ahead of strikes

Re: Not so much an independent business then.

As soon as I get a fibre internet connection dial up goes to the old router home.

Mobile is much better than a land line.

The icon is burning of the land line.

Cheap cellular data list is out: And US doesn't make top 200

Re: The irony...

Maybe because the people there don't as much money?

Just because you failed doesn't mean you weren't right

Re: A miss is pretty obvious, no matter the apparatus

You can have pass/fail OR how close the bomb was because the shock wave could do quite a bit of damage.

Why $52b chip subsidies are being held up – and what the White House is doing about it

Re: "These are the subsidies Intel and others have been clamoring for"

But that would be state companies.

FYI: BMW puts heated seats, other features behind paywall

Re: Support nightmare?

You realise BMW are making notes on all this.

Re: Raise the Jolly Roger!

Don't suggest it to them!

Indian tax authorities raid offices of Chinese smartphone maker Vivo

If places were turned the result would be the same.

Watch a RAID rebuild or go to a Christmas party? Tough choice

Re: RAID is not backup.

And if it is the PSU goes...