Re: Did you get to use the ShockyStick(TM)?
I’ve always preferred “The Clue-by-Four” aka The ClueBat.
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Your app deleted all my files. And my wallpaper too!
China makes using cryptocurrency a crime – again
Lightweight Linux distribution Slax rides again with v11.2
Yes, Mark Zuckerberg is still pushing metaverse. Next step, language translation
Intel energizes decades-old real-time Linux kernel project
Airtag clones can sidestep Apple anti-stalker tech
Chromium-adjacent Otter browser targets OS/2
Internet connection now required for Windows 11 Pro Insider setup
Saturday 19th February 2022 00:40 GMT 
>my issue was Windows 10 and the insistence on a Microsoft account to install Firefox and Thunderbird.
Wait, what? Can you explain further?
I am running Windows 10 here, typing this in Firefox with Thunderbird installed, and I haven't had to create a Microsoft account. Local login, with Firefox set as the default browser and Thunderbird tied to my Gmail inbox via POP3.
Not disbelieving you or anything, but I am puzzled!
Microsoft offers defense against 'ice phishing' crypto scammers
Friday 18th February 2022 23:07 GMT
Re: I have a sure fire way to avoid these Web3 Scammers...
The joy of working from home is that I am my own pub. Just got a 12-pack of Irish beers from Costco (Harp, Guinness, Smithwicks) and am starting on one. Hey, the sun is technically over the yardarm, so it doesn't count as daytime drinking...
Friday 18th February 2022 22:07 GMT
Re: I have a sure fire way to avoid these Web3 Scammers...
Actually, it's funny that you say that. Until now, the only time I had encountered someone saying "walla" as an exclamation was in The Lost Continent, which of course is Pratchett's Discworld novel set in a land that is possibly based on Australia. So that reinforces your "we use it spelled that way" explanation - guess Sir Terry knew that, and chucked it in for added verisimilitude.
Anyway. Have a cold one. Tinny, stubby, or whatever they're called down there :)
Friday 18th February 2022 18:05 GMT
Re: I have a sure fire way to avoid these Web3 Scammers...
A couple dozen pints? You lightweight!
May I point out to OP (lglethal) though, that the word in question is "Voila"? I believe "Walla" (or technically, Walla Walla) is a type of sweet onion from Washington state. And they're tasty, especially on burgers.
Out of beta and ready for data: 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS is here
Three major browsers are about to hit version 100. Will websites cope?
Thursday 17th February 2022 19:11 GMT
Re: Ubuntu was right... sort of.
This. I fully expect Chrome to switch any day now to incrementing its version number 10 or 100 at a time, because "we've updated Chrome from version 98 to version 198" sounds so much more impressive, doesn't it, than "we've updated Chrome from version 98 to version 98.0.1".
Shortly followed by Firefox, because Mozilla seem determined to cater to those people who don't want Chrome, by making Firefox as Chrome-like as possible.
Expect sales reps' calls if IT wants to ditch Oracle
Users report trouble with Azure DevOps services
Wednesday 16th February 2022 19:32 GMT
Re: It's just making sure it's all compatible.
Yeah, yeah, I know, but I couldn't really work Windows ME - the poster child for "as stable as an upturned pyramid" OSes - into the pun. So 95 it was. If it makes you feel any better, pretend I was referring to the first release, not the later, and better, OSR2 ones.
Notepad Dark Mode and Android apps arrive on Windows 11
20 years of .NET: Reflecting on Microsoft's not-Java
Microsoft veteran demystifies Abort, Retry, Fail? DOS error
UK regulator 'broke international law', says Facebook
RAID expansion comes to OpenZFS at last
Sunday 13th February 2022 19:06 GMT
But that was true. I have here a long, long list of the ways that the Linux cancer infringes on Microsoft's patents. I won't show you or anyone else the list, but trust me, it's long. And a list.
(What's that, Satya? mumblemumblewhisperwhisperwhisper
Oh, OK. Sure. New plan. Gotcha. I'll tell them that instead.)
As I just said, that was never true. Microsoft has always had the greatest respect for Linux, and loves it, and wants to embrace it completely. And extend it. And who knows what next. By the way, if you're using a non-Edge so-called "browser" you might see some corrupted text at the start of this comment. Ignore it.
Apple emits emergency fix for exploited-in-the-wild WebKit vulnerability
Saturday 12th February 2022 07:05 GMT
Re: Thomas!
Completely and utterly unrelated to the article, but your comment did remind me of something. In the obituaries of Barry Cryer last month, several newspapers quoted his last-ever joke:
A man and his wife are out walking one day when they spot a lone fellow on the other side of the road.
“That looks like the Archbishop of Canterbury over there,” says the woman. “Go and see if it is.”
The husband crosses the road and asks the man if he is indeed the Archbishop of Canterbury.
“F— off,” says the man.
The husband crosses back to his wife, who asks, “What did he say? Is he the Archbishop of Canterbury?”
“He told me to f— off,” says the husband.
“Oh no,” replies the wife, “Now we’ll never know.”
Saturday 12th February 2022 03:20 GMT
I love this quote from the Microsoft Edge rep...
Alex Russell, a program manager for Microsoft's Edge browser who formerly worked at Google and has long evangelized web technology, echoed past frustration with Apple's insistence that only WebKit is fit for iOS.
"Imagine, if you can, a world where installing an alternative browser as your default actually had a chance of protecting you from Apple's shocking underinvestment in security," he lamented via Twitter.
I almost spat out my drink at this point.
Yes, Apple has brought this on themselves and I'm not excusing them.
But imagine, if you can Alex Russell, a world where installing an alternative browser as your default didn't result in you getting bombarded with pleas/warnings to keep using the OS vendor's own browser. Cos apparently neither Google nor Microsoft want to.
Bah. A pox on all their houses.
'Boombox' function sparks Tesla recall
Car radios crashed by station broadcasting images with no file extension
Friday 11th February 2022 22:48 GMT
Re: HD radio
Let's be brutally frank here... if you were a child in the UK in the 70s, I think you could say that of just about any British or Italian car older than about 6 months. (I was originally going to type "that had been driven off the dealership forecourt" but realized that on balance I was probably being too harsh).
Regardless, 5 years was practically "Telegram from the Queen" territory for them.
Friday 11th February 2022 20:12 GMT
Re: GIGO for the goddesses sake!
The sad thing is that the young'uns on here probably don't have a clue who we're talking about.
If ever I'm feeling down, listening to the monologues of Joyce Grenfell or Bob Newhart (USS Codfish, The Driving Instructor, Tobacco, Bomb Disposal) will always make me laugh.
Friday 11th February 2022 19:58 GMT
Re: Car radio problems
>If I turned on Radio 2 before 9:30, I'd get Chris Evans!
*shudder* That has to be grounds for redress under any halfway reasonable consumer protection laws. And by "redress" I mean up to and including a War Crimes trial at the Hague. I miss some things about the UK since I left (steak and kidney pie, the Cotswolds, Snowdonia, etc etc) but I do not miss turning on the TV or radio and being confronted by The Ginger Tw@t. At times I felt I was the only person in the whole country who didn't think he was God's Gift To Broadcasting and worth millions in salary...
Thursday 10th February 2022 19:09 GMT
Re: Mazda's Infotainment is a pile of garbage
>which you might have wnated to proof read - and this comment now will contain several grammatical blunders, just due to Muphry's Law - that _is_ the correct spelling).
Not sure if deliberate, but oh, the ironing is delicious.
Thursday 10th February 2022 19:06 GMT
Re: HD radio
FWIW... HD radio, regardless of what the HD stands for, is also higher quality than a regular FM signal.
And the standard also allows for two or more separate stations to be muxed onto the same frequency; for example in my neck of the woods, 89.9 HD1 is a classical station, 89.9 HD2 is a children's classical/arts station, and 89.9 HD3... well, I'm not sure, never bothered to look. All are on the same frequency, but if the signal quality drops out my radios will fall back to basic FM and just the first of the three stations.
Thursday 10th February 2022 18:32 GMT
Re: GIGO for the goddesses sake!
I currently have an Evoque as a dealership loaner vehicle while my Disco is in for repairs (yeah, yeah, its natural habitat, etc etc).
Everything in the Evoque is shiny LCD touch screen. The first time I drove it, I managed to turn the radio on, but couldn't for the life of me - without either taking my eyes dangerously off the road, or stopping - figure out how to change the radio station. Being an LCD, there's no tactile reference points whatsoever, so after a few seconds of blindly and fruitlessly pawing at the screen, I had a brainwave.
Pressed the "voice command" button on the steering wheel and said, enunciating every syllable like Joyce Grenfell, "change the radio frequency to 89.9".
It worked.
Which left me:
1) impressed at the technology that could do voice recognition of an arbitrary phrase like that, and yet simultaneously
2) very, very depressed that the over-complication of technology has made that necessary.
I want my 5 pop-in preset selector buttons, godsdammit! I mean, they're even called "radio buttons" in GUI design terminology, for precisely that reason!
Grrr.
Thursday 10th February 2022 18:25 GMT
Re: GIGO for the goddesses sake!
>it's a treasure trove of logo-related nostalgia.
...as is looking on Youtube for the BBC Christmas idents over the years. Very nostalgic, with in my case an occasional moment of "f*ck me! That was 1992??? I could have sworn it was only 5 years ago, a decade at most..."
But then, similar experiences are pretty much a daily occurrence for me these days. Try to tell me that the 80s started over 40 years ago and I will laugh at you.
Raspberry Pis gain power to flash their own OSes with new network install function
Thursday 10th February 2022 04:18 GMT
Re: Only useful
For what it's worth, here in the leftpond part of the world, I ordered an RPi 400 off Amazon on Monday, and it was waiting for me when I got home this evening - two days faster than the shipping estimate, even. Typing this comment on it now. It came from our Canadian cousins at www.canakit.com, and I must say, I'm impressed. Not a bad little system for $99 all in.
Azure Site Recovery points now live for 15 days in case undetonated ransomware lurks
To err is human. To really tmux things up requires an engineer
Experiments and hidden features: Microsoft plans Windows Insiders shakeup
This is going well: Meta adds anti-grope buffer zone around metaverse VR avatars
Polly wants a snapper? Parrot swipes GoPro for sweet views of New Zealand's Fiordland
Update 'designed to improve user experience' takes down the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal
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