Posts by Anomalous Cowturd

The iPhone 15 has a Goldilocks issue: Too big or too small. Maybe a case will make it just right

Re: Recovering fanboy here.

I was an early non-adopter.

I didn't get an original iPhone, and I've been one of the first to not buy a new iPhone every year since. ;o)

30 years on, Debian is at the heart of the world's most successful Linux distros

Re: We should distinguish between server and desktop

You and your "new" cars. My Volvo is a couple of months shy of 25 years old, and still runs like a dream.

My same age IBM Thinkpad 600, not so much, although it does still work.

The number’s up for 999. And 911. And 000. And 111

Re: Aviation does not use satellites for emergencies

243 MHz is VHF. UHF starts at 300MHz.

GPS Status for me too.

I actually paid for the upgrade to the ad-free version, not because the ads were a major annoyance, but because it's such a useful program.

The fact that it "Works anywhere" without a need for a mobile or data signal, is a major factor, and it doesn't try to rape your privacy with unnecessary permissions.

Can noise-cancelling buds beat headphones? We spent 20 hours flying to find out

Re: Cheap, comfortable and secure

Cheers for that link. Through it, I found a slightly different, but also slightly cheaper (£18) version.

They arrived yesterday, and I'm very impressed. Four hours of use, no earache, 60% battery left.

US, Europe formally blame Russia for data wiper attacks against Ukraine, Viasat

Re: shock eh

I don't think people get banned here very often, and certainly not for posting facts.

We might point and laugh if you do, or say, something silly.

That's not a TP-Link access point, it's a… vacuum?

Re: Meow!

You train the cat's replacement not to shit on the floor.

Icon says it all.

Hubble spots stellar midwife unit pumping out baby planets

Re: Planet formation, or

That ain't no dust ring, that's Type 1 sub-base.

Microsoft can't stop injecting Copilot AI into every corner of its app empire

Re: Essentially

Your surprise is important to us, and has been added to the queue. Thank you for choosing Microsoft.

India calls for all mobile phones to include FM radios

Re: Xiaomi will be happy ...

Yep, and very handy they are, too.

The update from Android 10 to 11 took away the IR remote feature, but it returned with Android 12.

Redmi note 9 pro. Still getting regular updates after nearly four years.

Red Hat layoffs spark calls to unionize, CEO wades in

Re: Union = Legalized extortion ring

You do realise that it is the white that nourishes the growing yolk, don't you?

If unions were of no benefit to their members, people wouldn't join them. Yet they do join, so there must be some perceived benefit.

Maybe it's the guaranteed work breaks, the paid holidays, the pension contributions, the sick pay, redundancy pay, the lack of a "fire-at-will" option for employers?

Maybe it's all of the above?

Thanks for fixing the computer lab. Now tell us why we shouldn’t expel you?

Re: Remember

"How on Earth does one prepare for a visit from the Onion Fairy?"

Tissues.

Techie called out to customer ASAP, then: Do nothing

Re: SLAs make work for idle hands...

Adastra?

Ex-Tweep mocked by Musk for asking if he'd actually been fired

I nominate the Conservative front bench.

EU lawmakers argue against signing US data-transfer pact

Re: Ridiculous statistics

There is no gas pipeline between the UK and France. There is one between the UK and Belgium.

Microsoft pushed 'inaccurate' Windows 11 upgrade to unsupported devices

Re: Windows 10 the last Windows you will ever need

Windows 2000 was the last Windows I needed. When my new laptop arrived, with XP, I switched to Linux. That was in 2006, so...

Warning: Microsoft Teams Free (classic) will be gone in 2 months

Re: With apologies to the late Douglas Adams

Many, many times.

With apologies to "Round the Horne." Dame Celia Molestrangler, IIRC.

Native Americans urge Apache Software Foundation to ditch name

Re: Bit ridiculous

Re: "ete unt domus?"

Domum! Um.

Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move

And a saucer of milk for the ship's cat. ;o)

New measurement alert: Liz Truss inspires new Register standard

Re: Incorrect measurement

I watched the video of it yesterday. It very nearly caused a keyboard related incident.

I believe the quote was: "Dear, oh dear. Back again."

It appears that King Chuck has his father's sense of humour. Fair play his maj.

Ethereum Merge signals end of GPU shortage, but not necessarily high prices

Re: Gah

Not if you're stuck in the UK, it isn't.

No, Apple, you may not sell iPhones without chargers

Keep tons of electronics out of landfill?

Here's a better idea: Give us back user removable / replaceable batteries.

CERN draws up shutdown plans to save energy

Do let us know when you have finished the revision of everything. I'll look out for the article in Nature.

Scientists pull hydrogen from thin air in promising clean energy move

Title not included...

Pipes?

Microsoft warns of bugs after nation pushes back DST switchover

Hmmm...

My Linux installs updated tzdata a couple of days ago, this was probably why. I didn't bother checking the changelog.

Why does Microsoft make such a big deal about updating a data file?

UK's largest water company investigates datacenters' use as drought hits

Re: Never been to the UK

> Have you worked in Slough?

I have.

Both my colleague and I had our cars broken into overnight, while parked in a "CCTV protected" car park.

It's a dump.

In a time before calculators, going the extra mile at work sometimes didn't add up

Re: Of course, Britain went decimal shortly afterwards!

And cigarette machines. I think we emptied every fag machine in Bielefeld when I visited as an army cadet, back in the 70s.

Microsoft Azure cloud region settles over desert in Doha, Qatar

Re: and what happens when the sand gets into the works?

Good for putting out fires, too.

Connected car data handover headache: There's no quick fix... and it's NOT just Land Rovers

Re: Why?

@MJB7

My 1998 Volvo does precisely that, with no need for a connection to either the ECU or the internet.

The only digital device in the car is an LCD thermometer / clock.

K.I.S.S.

Tavis Ormandy ports WordPerfect for UNIX to Linux

Re: WP5.1

Word didn't so much "reach" version 6 as leap there, straight from version 2, IIRC.

Something to do with having a higher version number than WP 5.1, which was kicking its arse, sales wise.

FYI: BMW puts heated seats, other features behind paywall

Re: hot botty

I drove around in my shiny new Pug 406 Estate for three months before I discovered it had a CD changer in the boot...

Google calculates Pi to 100 trillion digits

Re: Google can't count

And I've told you a billion times to stop exaggerating!

Engineer sues Amazon for not covering work-from-home internet, electricity bills

Re: Can of worms

A company I used to work for once questioned a receipt for condoms, when I was working away from home.

P.P.E. was my answer. They paid it.

It wasn't her...

We can bend the laws of physics for your super-yacht, but we can't break them

Re: Overinflated sense of self importance

Company I worked for once spent £400 to motorcycle courier a "vital" laptop halfway across England, only for it to sit in a manager's cupboard for a month.

She was a miserable bitch, but a large customer, so...

Thinnet cables are no match for director's morning workout

Re: College Tales...

This was the problem at my school. We were the also the first year to take O level Computer Science, and our CS teacher was primarily a Religious Education bod.

Needless to say, the results were appalling. I got an "E" grade, and only two boys scraped a "C" grade pass out of 12 entrants. It was one of my favourite subjects, too.

However, I was bitten by the bug, and am still suffering the effects of long Computing...

Kaspersky cracks Yanluowang ransomware, offers free decryptor

Ukraine?

See title.

Can you get excited about the iPhone 13? We've tried

Re: Apple and Bluetooth?

I have yet to find an Apple device that will accept a file sent over Bluetooth from an Android device. Is there such a beast?

Honor 50 Lite: Google Play Services are back on Huawei's former stablemate but that's nothing to get excited about

Re: finger problems

Exact same here, plus my daughter's right index finger for if I kark it.

Icon used to be a headstone...

Big Blue scoffs a Happy Meal: McDonald's sells automated order-taking tech to IBM

Re: the irony, the irony

Once you had trained it to your particular voice, and learned to speak with clear...gaps...between...the...words, Via Voice was perfectly usable on a 486 under OS/2.

The way similar sounding words changed as the context became clear was impressive.

How many times more powerful is a modern smartphone over a 486/100? This never needed to be remotely "processed," it's just a way to better target advertising, or general spying on their users.

US nuclear submarine bumps into unidentified underwater object in South China Sea

Re: Just asking...

> What OS was running the subs' systems?

Windows Bob Bob Bob.

Got enterprise workstations and hope to run Windows 11? Survey says: You lose. Over half the gear's not fit for it

Re: If Microsoft keeps this up,

Lots of Ptouch printers are listed in the Ubuntu 20.04 driver list...

RAF chief: Our Reaper drones (sorry, SkyGuardians) stand ready to help British councils

Re: Sill they be armed with…

"Of course, once the National Speed Limit is reduced to 50 "to save the planet" it will cease to be a problem."

They did it in the 70s, for the oil crisis, so there's nothing to stop them doing it again.

Re: Er ...

Well played, Sir.

This one's on me.

SSD belonging to Euro-cloud Scaleway was stolen from back of a truck, then turned up on YouTube

Re: Carrier Pidegon

RFC1149 meets the 21st century.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1149

Windows 11 comes bearing THAAS, Trojan Horse as a service

Cough OPERA cough.

See title.

Hole blasted in Guntrader: UK firearms sales website's CRM database breached, 111,000 users' info spilled online

No great shakes.

Not much call for shotguns and bolt action rifles in the criminal world.

Handguns have been banned in the UK for many years. The only people who have them are already criminals.

Impromptu game of Robot Wars sparks fire in warehouse at UK e-tailer Ocado

Bumper cars?

I had imagined them taking power from an overhead grid system, like a fairground bumper car.

Seems like unnecessary complication, having to carry the weight of batteries around, and having to stop to recharge, with the risks associated with LiPo cells.

Easier to kill the power to the entire grid, too. No uncontrollable fires.

Am I under-thinking this?

ZTE Axon 30 Ultra: Strong effort from an entity-lister, but your tiny child hands may struggle

64 MegaPixel lens?

Really?

Didn't this used to be a technical web site? At least Orlowski knew the difference between a lens and a sensor...

While I'm having a moan, in my book, a mid-range phone is priced at £200 - 400. More than that, and it's a premium priced item.

Boffins find an 'actionable clock' hiding in your blood, ticking away to your death

Re: Naive? Or something else?

Land of the free?

That was a typo. It's actually "The land of the fee."

Anyone still using cash? British £50 banknote honouring Alan Turing arrives

Drug dealers.

My man only accepts cash.

Everything else gets paid by beep.

I really dislike these plastic notes. Too slippery when they're all flat, and hard to stack neatly when a previous owner has folded them in half.