1) A fortified wine from Portugal.
2) "Manuel" or "Jeeves".
3) The full location, including street number and postcode, of a public urinal.
HTH.
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Apple's latest macOS Catalina update mysteriously borks SSH for some unlucky fans. What could be the cause?
How many days of carefree wiping do you have left before life starts to look genuinely apocalyptic? Let's find out
Microsoft tries getting touchy-feely once again with its Windows Insiders
2020 MacBook Air teardown shows in graphic detail how butterfly keyboards were snipped for scissor switch
India tech firms warned not to abuse their exceptions to national coronavirus lockdown
Captain Caveman rides to the rescue, solves a prickly PowerPoint problem with a magical solution
NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS – but forgot about eye-watering cloudy egress costs before lift-off
Who needs an iPad Pro? Look everyone, Windows Terminal has mouse input
Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, surely has no frozen water, right? Guess again: Solar winds form ice
Zoom goes boom, Teams tears at seams: Technology stumbles at the first hurdle for this homeworking malarkey
Not exactly the kind of housekeeping you want when it means the hotel's server uptime is scrubbed clean
Microsoft throws a bone to those unable to leave the past behind: .NET 5 support on the way for Visual Basic
Schermata blu di errore: Italy might be in lockdown, but the sh!tshow must go on
Hello, support? What do I click if I want some cash?
Morrisons puts non-essential tech changes on ice as panic-stricken shoppers strip stores
Friday 6th March 2020 18:04 GMT 
Re: "throughput of goods is in excess of the usual Christmas peak"
TheProf Well it did, I panicked and bought £15 worth of coffee.
I panicked, and bought a loofah, a copy of the Chelmsford-area phone book for 1992, 3 satsumas and half-a-hundredweight of jellied eels.
I don't do well under pressure.
Disk stuck in the drive? Don't dilly-Dali – get IT on the case!
'Optional' is the new 'Full' in Windows 10: Microsoft mucks about with diagnostic slurpage levels for Fast Ring Insiders
Friday 6th March 2020 17:36 GMT
Re: So MS wants full telemetry to be an 'Insider', eh?
Last I checked - and I freely admit, this was a while ago, so I could be utterly out of date, y'all feel free to correct me with the tact and gentle diplomacy that is a byword on these forums - you also needed to be signed in with a Microsoft account to use the feedback app.
Several times I've been infuriated by some Windows 10 behavior, or found a silly cosmetic bug, and wanted to report it to be helpful - but there's no way I'm signing up for their cloud all-your-data-are-belong-to-us tentacles, so my urge to help quickly subsides.
Which does suggest to me that maybe the "insiders" are all OK with Microsoft's direction of travel in that regard, and perhaps that homogeneity of mindset explains a lot about the way Windows is going? Perhaps Microsoft need to go out of their way to solicit (or at least lower the barriers to -) feedback from those users who are forced to use Windows, not by choice, and are daily gritting their teeth and cussing under their breath about it?
Friday 6th March 2020 17:28 GMT
FWIW (and I don't want to be "that guy" harping on about Linux in a Windows-related thread... oops, I guess I am, sorry) I've been installing Mint on an increasing number of systems for myself & friends lately. I'm really impressed with it; pretty much 100% of the time, it "just works" out of the box, with all hardware detected. It's theme-able, if you'd rather have it resemble Windows-whatever-version, Mac OS, or some teenager's circa 2003-era DeviantArt page (admittedly, most of the online themes fall into that last category).
For media, productivity and web, I can't fault it. For example, my NAS is running Mint + Plex Media Server and has been a real set-it-and-forget-it box.
On the downside, poor games support compared to Windows (yeah yeah, Steam, Wine, etc, but it's not the same) and as many here have pointed out, for enterprise use it's a non-starter - things like domain join, policies, MSFT Exchange support are shonky-through-non-existent. I'm pragmatic, not a zealot; on some of my machines I keep Windows 7/10 running in a VirtualBox container for the occasional awkward app.
I have a HiDPI monitor now, and support for that is very limited too - double-scaling or not are the only options. IMHO Windows and MacOS are way better on that front.
Overall I'd encourage you to download Mint, stick it on a USB stick to live-boot and have a play around.
Anyway, back to talking about Windows 10 Fast Ring builds?
Facebook, distributor of deceptive political ads, sues registrar Namecheap over deceptive domain names
Let's Encrypt: OK, maybe nuking three million HTTPS certs at once was a tad ambitious. Let's take time out
Fella accused of ripping off Cisco, Amazon, iRobot, others to the tune of $2m by fraudulently demanding replacements for tech gear
Wednesday 4th March 2020 22:59 GMT 
What a bunch of leeches.
This is why we can't have nice things. A company does customer service that even vaguely trusts the customer and tries to do the "right thing"... and parasites like this guy take advantage of it.
And no, I'm aware that Amazon isn't exactly a philanthropic institution, but still - stuff like this will give them one more reason to revert to the more usual "sucks to be you!" level customer support that so many other companies have, and we'll all be the poorer for it.
New Jersey beats New York – and then the rest of America – on broadband access. How does your state fare?
Tuesday 3rd March 2020 22:03 GMT
Re: /* FIXME: the cat is new york and the rat is new jersey? */
Beat me to it.
Which is not surprising as I'm posting from Oregon, where my "broadband" connection involves a microwave relay, a long piece of wet string, two tin cans, 5 pigeons, and specially-trained homing messenger snails.
Nothing like a surreal lead image to tax the captioning little grey cells...
'Developers have lost hope Microsoft will do the right thing'... Redmond urged to make WinUI cross-platform
Saturday 29th February 2020 03:25 GMT
Re: "The Register" needs more Microsoft stories / snoozers.
You know, my grandma used to tell me a story. Apparently there were 100 soldiers marching on a parade ground, and one of them said to the officer "Sir, the other 99 are marching out of step!".
Perhaps it's not The Register that needs to change its approach to humour?
Death and taxis: Windows has had enough of clinging to a cab rooftop in the London rain
How many times do we have to tell you? A Tesla isn't a self-driving car, say investigators after Apple man's fatal crash
Wednesday 26th February 2020 03:59 GMT
Company Policy: "Don't Do Illegal Stuff"
What's this blame-diverting BS? “We have one recommendation to Apple Inc which reads: develop a company policy that bans the non-emergency use of portable devices while driving by all employees and contractors driving company vehicles and operating portable electronic devices or using a portable electronic device to engage in work related communications.”
Yeah. I can only pray that my employer hurries up and creates a "don't do murder or animal buggery or stick crayons up your nose while on company time, m'kay" policy, because frankly, it's an epidemic in some departments, and we need HR to keep us on the straight and narrow. *rolls eyes*
Far be it from me to second-guess the NTSB or speak ill of the dead, but I think the blame here lies squarely with the person who had noticed his Tesla's AutoPilot functionality behave erratically on that section of road on multiple occasions in the past (source: other news coverage of the same incident), and yet still decided that getting a high-score in Tetris was more important than concentrating on safely controlling his two-tonne metal juggernaut.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
