Posts by cosymart

I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA

Re: RTFM. Has failing to do so led you into trouble?

Haynes manuals are well known for their glib "remove the 4 screws" omitting to mention that one of the crews is hidden behind something that also requires removing of which there is no mention!

Techie traveled 4 hours to fix software that worked perfectly until a new hire used it

Re: I touch it and it breaks!

We were reveiwing a new 4 story building and I was tasked with assessing the emergency processes. 1) The only way you could fit a stretcher in a lift was at an angle of 45deg from top left to bottom right. (try it in your own lifts!) 2. The stairs were also very narrow with small platforms adjacent to each floor, you could lower a stretcher vertical down the center of the stairwell!

We had to provide wheeled carry-chairs on each of the upper floors as that was the only way of getting an ill person down to the ground floor.

Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu

Ain't Broken

If Microsoft followed the mantra of "If it ain't broke don't fix it" we would all still be happily sat using Windows 7 :-(

Please sir, may we have some Moore? Doesn't look that way

Coders have to code

There is a dire need for efficient coding. Less copy and paste and more use of that stuff between the ears or this whole area is ripe for AI.

Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list

Where does this leave AMD?

Oxford researchers pull off quantum first with distributed gate teleportation

Re: across two meters of optical fiber

That might be because nobody could find them. Why do you think everyone is walking about very quickly?

BOFH: How to innosplain your way through an audit

Re: I'm confused!

Wait for episode 3....

New Outlook marches onto Windows 10 for what little time it has left

Re badged

It's Windows Mail that's been re-badged as New-Outlook. No folders etc. Crap!

Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'

Re: Whatever happened

"But, apparently, we "need" these annual "improvements", almost as much as Microsoft's bottom line does." If I automatically do the free upgrade? From windows 10 to 11 how does this improve the Microsoft bottom line??

Naïve Reg hack thinks he can beat Christmas food comas once and for all

Geocaching

Google (sorry) geocaching and go get them! it's walking with a purpose. SWMBO hates walking up hills but will happily walk over 10km over all terrains in pursuit of geocaches.

Windows 11 24H2 rolls out to more devices – with a growing list of known issues

Why?

Why if I uninstall something does the next update sneakily install it again. I'm looking at you co-pilot :-(

Outlook is poor for those still on Windows Mail, Calendar, People apps by end of year

Installing some new PCs. Number one job uninstal newOutlook and install Classic Outlook. There is even a Microsoft provided setup ex file available. Google is your friend in this case.

Moscow-adjacent GoldenJackal gang strikes air-gapped systems with custom malware

Re: “an unknown worm component”

"We happened to have an airgapped anti-malware laptop set up" One would hope that this was set up by your IT dept for that very purpose, such things don't just magically appear. All organisations should have at least one such machine readily available that is regularity purged of accumulated crud.

CrowdStrike hopes legal threats will fade as time passes since it broke the world

Cancelling Contracts....

I'm no lawyer, but if sending out an update that borks my entire fleet/hardware/compay isn't justification to tear up the contract I don't know what is?

NASA pushes decision on bringing crew back in Starliner to the end of August

Get Suited

One would assume that a NASA space suit is a NASA space suit and therefore would be a mandatory requirement to be able to be used in all forms of NASA transportation. FFS this stuff is as basic as using metric or imperial measurements... Ah NASA has form here I remember :-(

School gets an F for using facial recognition on kids in canteen

Re: What's the problem?

Lord of the Flies - I gather you have issues with facts vs fiction :-)

Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience

Pot and Kettle

Quote from Microsoft "says the incident highlights how important it is for companies such as CrowdStrike to use quality control checks on updates before sending them out.It’s also a reminder of how important it is for all of us across the tech ecosystem to prioritize operating with safe deployment and disaster recovery using the mechanisms that exist,” I needed a new keyboard after reading this.

Outback shocker left Aussie techie with a secret not worth sharing

As a retired electrical technician I never wore rings or any kind of metal jewellery and my watch strap was nylon. Saw what happened early in my career when someone dropped a spanner on a car battery!

Japan's digital minister declares victory against floppy disks

Icon

We now need, have needed for some time, a new icon for save. Now that the floppy has gone the way of reel to reel and cassette tapes.

British Airways blames T5 luggage chaos on fault 'outside of our control'

It would be nice if airlines and airports treated passengers as paying customers and not as items of meat to shuttle from one queue to the next. We have given up traveling if it involves an aeroplane or airports of any description :-(

There is a special place in hell for the designers of CDG in Paris!

IT infrastructure scared away potential buyers of struggling e-commerce site

I always understood that Trainline used Oracle as I knew an Oracle developer who worked with Trainline...

Research finds electric cars are silent but violent for pedestrians

Why not go the whole hog and return to the man with the red flag. Good for unemployment and slows down the traffic, not too sure about their life expectancy (-:

Spam crusade lands charity in hot water with data watchdog

Re: "As part of this journey"

Because it's a long way "to reach out".

'I’m sorry for everything...' Facebook's Zuck apologizes to families at Senate hearing

Your product is killing people

Are we going to see the gun suppliers here at the next hearing?

David Mills, the internet's Father Time, dies at 85

Re: Hmm!

I suspect most art teachers would automatically be selected for dishonourable discharge. Normal comment on my work "Hmm that's not how you draw/paint/sketch that" but zero attempt to help me improve :-(

Travel app Kayak offers Boeing 737 Max 9 filter after that door plug drama

Quailty Is Not ISO9000

ISO9000 is about consistency, doing it the same way every time so if you don't get the process and quality right and document that then you make the same shit product every time :-(

New year, new updates for security holes in Windows, Adobe, Android and more

Re: Windows update Situation Normal

The world waits for a patch to fix the patch, this is a new low even by M$ standards or is that an oxymoron?

Here's a list of thousands of artists Midjourney's AI is ripping off, creatives claim

Don't put it on the Internet

If you don't want your work copied then don't post it on the internet or allow anyone else to do so. Simple :-(

Polish train maker denies claims its software bricked rolling stock maintained by competitor

Re: If you expect products to last, then products should come with warranties that you can use.

Google "Triggers Broom" :-)

Bank boss hated IT, loved the beach, was clueless about ports and politeness

There are two reasons why you never give someone a public roasting. First, it's just bad management. (It's a sign you're a bully). Two, you just look like an idiot. Fixed it for you :-)

Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater

It Works

Microsoft decides that Windows 11 is perfect as it is and stops releasing updates.

Nobody notices but the internet runs faster on tuesdays.

Telco CEO quits after admitting she needs to carry rivals' SIM cards to stay in touch

Re: DR Strategy

One of the very reasons why duel sim phones exist - Doh!

Tool bag lost in space now tracked by garbage watchers

Spanners

Not just 10mm sockets, people "borrow" my 10mm spanners. But only 10mm, what is it about this size? (For west pondians spanner = wrench)

It is 2023 and Excel's reign of date terror might finally be at an end

Optional

Wow! You mean we might get some software that treats users as intelligent beings? We don't, really we don't want software that makes assumptions We want options - please.

Scandium-based nuclear clocks promise punctuality for next 300 billion years

Re: Clock speed variations

Balls - The Greenwich Time Ball is good enough for me :-)

Threads versus Twitter: Shouldn't we be happy the wheels are falling off antisocial social media?

Stitch

If a message on Twitter is a Tweet is a message on Threads a Stitch? :-)

Virgin Media email customers enter third day of inbox infuriation

Re: "small proportion of accounts"

In this household it was 50% as mine was up and running fairly quickly but for SWMBO it took two days.

Parts of UK booted offline as Virgin Media suffers massive broadband outage

It's Orf

Only half down at the moment, emails are borked as is the website but internet access seems to be OK.

Lenovo Thinkpad X13s: The stealth Arm-powered laptop

Requires Office

"The thing is, though, that to get the best out of this, you will need to observe an almost monastic asceticism: pay the extra to unlock Office" Why not do what most sensible people do who want Office but don't want the abomination that is the 365 version. Just buy a stand alone pro version of Office 2021 for under £20? One big advantage is that you don't need to be connected to the mothership to do your work.

Hold off on that 2046 Valentine's date, asteroid might hit Earth

23 Years

Only 23 years to find a replacement for Bruce Willis.

Most Londoners would quit before they give up working from home

Management

The real issue is managers who don't know how to manage other than the head round the cubicle with a "hello". A tad difficult with unoccupied cubicles :-(

Thunderbird email client is Go for new plumage in July

I Like Outlook

Let me clarify not the 365 version but the standalone version that you can have multiple non-microsoft accounts with. Accompanied with lots of folders and rules that posts the incoming emails to. It works and works very well!

Re: See me after class

So those with the !Yahoo addresses didn't make the cut :-)

BOFH: Generating a report the Director can show the Board – THIS is what AI was made for

One line.

"We wait a few seconds for the Director's 2-bit processor to catch up." Love it :-)

Forget the climate: Steep prices the biggest reason EV sales aren't higher

Sensible EV

I'm interested in an EV as our next car but I don't want one based on the heaviest top of the range SUV with the fuel tank switched for a battery.

Windows 10 – a 7-year-old OS – is still having problems with the desktop and taskbar

Try this :-)

"If the resolution doesn't work, users can try restarting the Windows device, according to Microsoft." Nothing beats the old tried and tested switch it off and on again :-(

Royal Mail customer data leak shutters online Click and Drop

Facts?

" The service, which allows customers to print labels...." Followed by the comment "Who even owns a printer these days?" I think if you read your own article you have to own a printer to use the service.

Allowing interns to copy and paste again El Reg?

Microsoft fixes printing gremlin, ends that block on Windows 11 upgrades

Bet ya can't wait to slap that Windows 11 on your machine

Bet ya can't wait to slap that Windows 11 on your machine. I'm sticking with Windows 10 thank you if only to stop the One Drive bloody takeover!

Firefox points the way to eradicating one of the rudest words online: PDF

Hate Columns - Agghhh!

I hate, hate, hate anyone who produces content for reading on a screen who puts it in columns especially if they use PDF format.

Don't, just don't - sob.