Re: +++ REINSTALL UNIVERSE +++ REDO FROM START +++
...or at the other extreme,
"Everything's reet copacetic."
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Confirmation dialog Groundhog Day: I click OK and it keeps coming back
Friday 13th May 2022 15:19 GMT 
Re: Effect as a verb
You've reminded me of a story I heard years and years ago. My memory wants to say it was originally related by Alan Bennett, the playwright, but I could be mistaken.
Anyway, very young AB, or whoever, was due to perform in the school end-of-term play. His mother (working class) spoke to the teacher (posh) and got told in cut-glass tones what costume was needed for the child. Ma worked hard all week stitching and stuffing and sewing and cutting, and made the - unusual - costume for her son. It was a green Brassica sphere, with leaves and a stalk.
Gets to school on the day of the play, son waddling awkwardly, as wide as he is tall, and the teacher sees the costume.
"No, Mrs Bennett! I said a sprite!"
Friday 13th May 2022 15:13 GMT
Well yes, but that was a primitive text-only 1970s system.
These days you could have that error message sung to you in polyphonic choral 5.1 audio, with an accompanying Moment Of Divine Intervention rendered on the screen.
The error would be just as impenetrable but would look amazing.
Progress.
Microsoft tests ‘Suggested Actions’ in Windows 11. Insiders: Can we turn it off?
Friday 13th May 2022 01:04 GMT
I notice that whenever this subject comes up - and I can absolutely respect those who favour Win2K just as much as those in the Windows 7 camp - no-one ever says "actually, the best Windows version ever was Windows ME".
(Watch. Some smartarse will do that now, complete with coherent and compelling justifications, just to prove me wrong...)
IBM's autonomous Mayflower ship breaks down in second transatlantic attempt
Virginians sue to block rural Amazon datacenter
Asahi Linux project shows progress in graphics drivers on Apple's M1
Clustered Pi Picos made to run original Transputer code
FTC says Frontier lied about its internet speeds amid $8.5m settlement
Saturday 7th May 2022 05:10 GMT
I had Frontier service, and TBH was perfectly happy
At my last house, my only option was DSL service from Frontier. I have to be honest, I had no complaints about them at all. I was sold 25/2 service and that's pretty close to what I got, within the normal fudge factor of DSL. I used to get a pretty consistent 20-22Mbps down and maybe 1.5-1.8 upstream. On at least 3 occasions I lost service - DSL in rural Oregon being what it is - and their tech support was always knowledgeable, quick, friendly and efficient (none of that "have you tried rebooting?" reading-from-a-script BS). Way better than my experiences with BT OpenRetch when I was in the UK.
Compared to what I'm forced to use now - 20/4 service over a microwave relay link at $150/month - I would be delighted to go back to Frontier.
Now, I'm not denying or excusing what they've been accused of here. But purely on the basis of my personal anecdata™, I'd hesitate to put them in the same League Of Utter Evil Bastardry as, say, Comcast or AT&T, both of which have proudly been voted "Satan's Favorite Communications Company" for pretty much the last fifteen+ years in a row.
RAD Basic – the Visual Basic 7 that never was – releases third alpha
Fedora backs down on removing BIOS support… for now
BT signs deal with AWS with aim of speeding up digital transformation
Beijing-backed gang looted IP around the world for years, claims Cybereason
Engineer gets Windows 11 working on a Surface Duo
Don't hate on cryptomining, hate the power stations, say Bitcoin super-fans
Wednesday 4th May 2022 03:41 GMT
Reminds me of the old joke about the two farmers, one of whom is going through a rough patch in his marriage so goes to see a counsellor.
His neighbour pops over the next evening to see him, and seeing a light in the barn, looks in and is shocked to see the first farmer there, in a thong and Chippendales costume, cavorting in front of his Massey Ferguson.
"What the hell are you doing???" he asks.
"Well," comes the reply, "the counsellor said that if I want to win my wife's affections back, I should act sexy to attract her..."
(Yes, that's my coat there. I think I'll take it and go now, that would be best for all concerned.)
Wednesday 4th May 2022 03:35 GMT
Re: Bitcoin miners have no emissions whatsoever
> Citation needed.
Well, then, how about this e-commerce site?
PS: Despite usernames, we are not related. As far as I know.
Not till you take back what you said about our Doreen at Cousin Neville's wedding, anyway.
Mozilla browser Firefox hits the big 100
Tuesday 3rd May 2022 20:55 GMT
Re: Firefox 100 also detects if your OS is set to a different language
Yes, my apologies if my lowest-form-of-wit post went over the heads of some - that's my fault.
I'm a little distracted at the moment. My wife went out to the garden center yesterday to buy a rake and a hoe, and came back with - as one does, easy mistake to make, do it myself all the time, don't we all - half a dozen 4-day-old Indian runner ducks. Which are now cheeping and drinking and eating non-stop under a heatlamp in an improvised incubator in an unused bedroom.
Still need to ask my wife if she'll bring me a hoe. That'll be an interesting conversation. And no word on the rake's progress either...
Tuesday 3rd May 2022 17:45 GMT
Re: Firefox 100 also detects if your OS is set to a different language
> When it's hard to find a display that isn't at least a couple of thousand pixels wide, what genius came up with the idea of hiding the damn scroll bars into a game of hide the pixel?
Well, with 99% of monitors on the market these days being Portrait orientation, it's only logical and sensible that software authors do what they can to make use of the vast amounts of vertical space (Office ribbon, Windows 11 taskbar fixed at the bottom of the screen, etc) and eke every last pixel out of the restricted horizontal space (auto-hiding scrollbars, horizontal not vertical tabs by default). Really, I don't see what your problem is.
(Oh, and sorry if the "extreme bitter sarcasm" tag I used above isn't supported on your browser. It's 24 hours after this story was posted, so I'm already on the latest Firefox version 104... hang on I just got an update notification to v107...)
John Deere tractors 'bricked' after Russia steals machinery from Ukraine
Your software doesn't work when my PC is in 'O' mode
Monday 2nd May 2022 01:57 GMT
Re: Academics can be stupid too
> I used to visit a university near Poppleton, let's call it the University of Bork.
If we're talking about the name-redacted-for-legal-purposes University I think we are, then honestly I'm surprised you were able to get to the computer facilities, given the prodigious amounts of canada goose sh!t that covered every outside walkway when I was there. I hear that the JB Morrell library got closed down and relocated before it could slide down the hill onto the road and crush the CompSci dept building, so there's that I suppose...
I remember watching A Very Peculiar Practice when I was there and thinking gosh, that campus isn't this one, but could pass for it any day....
ZX Spectrum: Q&A with some of the folks who worked on legendary PC
Monday 2nd May 2022 01:07 GMT
Re: Thanks!
Oh, thanks for reminding me of that. A friend of mine just a few houses up the road from me had the Currah. I was amazed at how clever it seemed.
Another friend mid-way between us had a BBC B, the rich git. His parents were well overpaid (ISTR Daddy was a veterinarian).
Suburban Chester in the 1980s was a fun place for a kid!
Microsoft points at Linux and shouts: Look, look! Privilege-escalation flaws here, too!
Arm wrests back control of its rogue China limb
Saturday 30th April 2022 00:45 GMT
"chop"
> The "company chop" referred to above is akin to a seal as it allows the holder to sign official company documents.
I'm still a little puzzled as to why possession of a bone-in cut of lamb confers legal authority, but When In China, I suppose.
Does it make the company officers steakholders?
Microsoft Edge's 'Secure Network' sounds a lot like a built-in VPN
Saturday 30th April 2022 00:37 GMT
Re: Neutron privacy bomb
>Care to bet it's mined and sold to the highest bidder?
Well, Microsoft's shown recently that they don't see one-off revenue from software sales as their main income stream any more. These days it's all about recurring subscriptions and data-mining; witness their unseemly push to get customers onto SaaS and their stuffing of adverts and telemetry into consumer Windows. Oh, and the fact that you can now pretty much run Windows forever without activation - with minimal restrictions - could also show that the real value of the OS for Microsoft now lies in what they can mine from ongoing users.
So I personally would approach this new VPN in the same way I'd view an offer of a "free" seminar from a time-share or MLM company. Run away if you have any sense. That old saying about "if you're not paying for something, then YOU are the product"...
Cloudflare stomps huge DDoS attack on crypto platform
Accenture announces 'Accenture Song' – not a tune, but a rebrand
Thursday 28th April 2022 04:25 GMT
I am disappointed.
The Reg of days passim would have gleefully larded an article such as this with sarcastic references to joss-sticks and whalesong. Instead, not so much as a mention. Don't tell me your new image - no longer "Biting the Hand that Feeds IT", I notice - is too straight-laced for such mockery?
Cancelling my subscription in disgust, etc etc.
Crooks steal NFTs worth '$3m' in Bored Ape Yacht Club heist
Intuit sued over alleged cryptocurrency thefts via Mailchimp intrusion
ZX Spectrum, the 8-bit home computer that turned Europe on to PCs, is 40
Sunday 24th April 2022 03:18 GMT
Re: Yeah
Absolutely. I adored my Amigas. Started with an A500 in around 89-90ish, upgraded it with extra RAM and later a set of 2.04 ROMs. Then went to A1200, briefly had a B2000 that I acquired in Switzerland of all places, then a 4000/030. I've still got most of them around somewhere, buried in a box in a garage. Absolutely brilliant machines.
Insteon's vanishing act explained: Smart home biz insolvent, sells off assets
Saturday 23rd April 2022 19:29 GMT
> Everyone who set web standards (google, and google, and , oh google) has/had a huge vested interest in driving the server only, cloudy model, and that's what they've made.
I have no particular liking for IPv6, but putting my tinfoil hat on for a moment, I wonder if this explains why there’s really been no push by the industry as a whole to get IPv6 into the hands of consumers. Because a world where NAT is a choice rather than a necessity, a world where every device (heck, every atom of every device) can be made directly-accessible if required… is a world that won’t need to pay for pointless cloud-based IoT infrastructure.
Perhaps I’m overthinking it?
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