Posts by chivo243

Hasta la vista! Microsoft finally ends extended updates for ancient Windows version

10 years after

Still getting support! I decommed the last 2008 beast that I managed back in late 2016

Windows 2000 rusts in peace by the sea

I overwrote plan B with plan A... ME was crap, and preinstalled on the computer I purchased via the Dutch PC Prive program.

In installed Win2000 in a VM a few years ago for snicks and grins, it installed in about 20 seconds, took some time to get networking going. I gave up trying to find a browser, and shortly after my homelab was decommissioned, and it ended there.

Help desk read irrelevant script, so techies found and fixed their own problem

Re: Been There...

Dell exploding capacitors! I was there, I got the T-Shirt!

GX260's!! For the Win!! There were a few 270's and 280's in that mix.

I had dozens of these 'fatboys' to "report" for repairs. After about my 6th call, I got the same support tech guy, and they told me to send the remaining Service tag numbers in a spreadsheet, and a chap from Centronic showed up with all the spare mobos to repair all of them in one go! Ditch that hideous script!!

Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching

Re: IMAP4 Was Originally Published in Dec 1994.

Goodbye POP3, I won't miss idiots POPping their mail on one device,(and not having the box checked, leave copy on server) and never seeing it on another device. Then screaming to IT that something is broke. My heart aches for those who depend on google's free services for important processes /s. I use gmail, and some storage, but nothing would really be lost to me if they closed up shop tomorrow, sure i'd have to register a new address with all my contacts and services that use that address as a login(stupid idea), but that's the trade off against running(or ruining) my own mailserver.

ChatGPT is playing doctor for a lot of US residents, and OpenAI smells money

The US Healthcare System

The stress from using it has made me sick.

Where's the puking icon when we need it.

US Army seeks human AI officers to manage its battle bots

Re: Existing Officer Corp ?

I only knew a few people my age that joined the service, their goal was 20 years and out, draw the military pension and get another, better, cushier job.

Welcome to Wendy's! Before your order can be taken, you must first reset this kiosk

I was in one in the US back in 2015 or so, more than five guys working and eating, and some people were large enough to be five guys. The bill was crazy, must have been printed on onion paper, I started crying!

Never again. I can make sloppy burgers and limp fries with the best of them!

IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn’t taken over the world, but don't call it a failure

Best if used by date

I'm sure my date will expire before IPv4's does. I doubt I'll need full IPv6 before that date.

I'll be grabbing my coat long before IPv4.

Banksy's Limitless limited by Windows Activation

Never attribute to malice

In this case, activation being part of the exhibition, but to something as stupid as changing a component. As much as I would love see artists take some shots at big tech, I doubt it's in their sights, too low brow.

BOFH: The Christmas spirit has run dry – time to show some chiller instinct

Re: 44 gallon drums

† flavouring the liquor with the buildings accumulated dead rats. Like Chicago's claim to fame.

Malört, a bitter liqueur with deep roots in Chicago, is widely recognized as the city's iconic liquor shot.

Known for its extremely bitter taste, often described as "like swallowing a burnt condom filled with gasoline" or "like baby aspirin wrapped in grapefruit peel tied up with rubber bands," Malört has become a rite of passage for both residents and visitors

Keeping Windows and macOS alive past their sell-by date

Re: Don't Believe the Mac Bashing

My brother, for one. His iPhone automagically updated* and he's lost, so he is slamming on the brakes with 26.2. I'm in no hurry either, but, it's a mac, I'll find my way when I do upgrade.

I have automagic updates turned off! No reason to have them on IMHO, I like macs, but know better to wait for the releases to mature, let others cut themselves on the bleeding edge. I did AppleSeed testing15 years ago...

Pizza restaurant signage caught serving raw Windows

Re: Looks like Windows 8.

+1 even though I never ever touched Win8, nothing is worse than win11 yet.

New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good

Re: Not a prank, more of a PEBKAC pranking themselves, repeatedly

Pranking themselves... yes, I guess that would fit the situation. Long ago, one of my manager's bosses couldn't open his email with out some sort of emergency, usually sorting or a different view, and a lot of the time not connected to the Wifi. However, he could always find the photos of his restored cars. His calls for help always managed to find the end of my list of things to do. Yeah you're on the list, but I won't get to you for hours!

Re: Better prank

I worked in a school, and this was the prank of choice. That's when I started collecting mouse balls from dead mice, so I had spares when the pranksters struck.

Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau

Re: An excess of pasties ....

An excess of pasties means this old man has stumbled into the wrong kind of club...

User found two reasons – both of them wrong – to dispute tech support's diagnosis

At a previous gig, I was on a great team, we all had the "Take one for the Team Users". We all had one user that just made life difficult. We all knew who each other's pain user was, we would make sure that tickets for those pain users didn't land in the teammates lap. I also used to take most of the Minister of Finance's(aka Business Manager) tickets, I'll take one for the Team!!

Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming

Re: Sometimes it seemed that …

Back in the 90's when I was greener than the Grinch, it wasn't thin clients, but 30 or so PC's* in a lab setting needed to be checked and imaged if 'necessary' each week. I was given one floppy to kick off Ghost. The check consisted of logging in and checking disk space and checking for any extra programs that may have been installed. Then re-image them if needed. Depending on how busy I was this could take the better part of a day. After the third week of logging into each station, checking for and finding the same thing each week, I ditched the checks, made many copies of the Ghost disk, and kicked off the re-imaging in about 15 minutes. I too had to hit enter when finished. I cut the time spent imaging down to about 90 minutes in total. One of the sys admins saw what I had done, and I was given other more meaningful tasks. Not much time to watch paint dry...

*All the same brand, but different amounts of RAM, different brand and sizes of HDs some finished in 20-30 minutes, a few much longer.

Welcome to America - now show us your last five years of social media posts

Re: Football

passport holders with the 'wrong' stamp -

Yep, I met a guy while tramping through Europe, who had been to one in the middle east, and wanted to visit another and told me after this trip he was gonna 'lose' his passport, and get a new one so he could visit the other middle east country, this was 1990, I'm sure technology has caught up...

But, but, but... What do I tell them?

I don't have any of those accounts... No Gram, No Toc, No FaecesBook. I have logins The Register and one other tech site. Oh, I did have a Slashdot login at the turn of the century, and a login on a now defunct Dating website(not app!) from 16 or 17 years ago, and I certainly wasn't spouting any political gibberish.

What do I tell them?

Well, since I'm merkin I guess nothing, but IF I was French or Dutch, what then?

Microsoft appears to move on from its most loyal ‘customers’ – Contoso and Fabrikam

Re: Zara may want to have a word or two....

aaaannnnd, now you can't!

Farewel~

So long Contoso, I always laughed at your silly questions in the Fravo.com exam *prep*

Re: Zara may want to have a word or two....

If your name is Mike Rowe you can...

https://www.theregister.com/2004/01/19/microsoft_lawyers_threaten_mike_rowe/

Windows 11 needs an XP SP2 moment, says ex-Microsoft engineer

I get the feeling that Desktop Users are not high on the worry list at M$. I'm guessing the Cloud division generates much more revenue than the Desktop OS division, Shareholders and all that. PR spokes persons are cheaper than QA and QC...

Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the network down

Re: What is it with managers and training costs?

I turned down a contract with the payback all training costs should I leave the company, then some stupid non-compete clause.

Microsoft's fix for slow File Explorer: load it before you need it

Re: Bag of shite

It just fosters and furthers the argument that we need faster and faster computers, when in reality, the opposite should be the trend.

Trump wants to turn it on again with 'Genesis Mission' for AI in science

Second, maybe third rate

the idea and the song...

Microsoft wedges tables into Notepad for some reason

Soo...

I don't need a pirated copy of word? Asking for a friend.

Linux admin hated downtime so much he schlepped a live UPS during office move

Re: Those were the innocent days...

But it's offline, does that still count as uptime?

Peanut?

I knew a guy with that nickname, and he could also lift a small vehicle. I wouldn't trust him to sharpen a pencil...

Magician forgets password to his own hand after RFID chip implant

Re: "Not everything on the World Wide Web is forever"

I'm reminded of the analogy about something* going on the internet and then trying to remove it is akin to removing all the pee from a public swimming pool.

*Usually stupid or humiliating pictures/vids

Fired techie admits sabotaging ex-employer, causing $862K in damage

Yeah, uh, we're in waste management

No truer words have been said.

US pumps $1B into Three Mile Island nuclear plant reboot to keep AI datacenters fed

Another marketing win... use a site with a previously bad connotation, say it's great 10 times, and everybody is on board. I'm sure there are better facilities that have been decommissioned since TMI that would cost less to restart. There are some that were never finished due to TMI. https://abandonedonline.net/location/marble-hill-nuclear-power-plant/. I was working at Braidwood NPS during construction, when Chernobyl popped, that was the end of my short Sector 7 career, Braidwood was finished, and does quite well.

Oops. VMware admits it over-specced storage servers for years

And this is news?

sales over-speccing and overselling their product. I should have gone into sales, but I don't have the stomach for it.

Now you can share your AI delusions with Group ChatGPT

AI Group Chat - I've been there!

Long ago when I was young and in school, I remember after hours parties where Gibberish was the native language! Everybody knew everything, and told you about it! Fascinating!

Why Elon Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout

Good one

Under Musk's distracted leadership. I read as Musk's dictator leadership the first go! Nicely done!

VLC's keeper of the cone nets European free software gong

It's at the top of the list!

VLC is one of the first apps I install on a new OS, any OS pretty much. I can't remember when I didn't use VLC. Thanks for making this a pillar of my experience!

Windows 11 26H1 is coming ... for new processors only

Re: Smell the wind of obsolencence ?

I'm guessing it will run Doom?

'Windows sucks,' former Microsoft engineer says, explains how to fix it

Re: Thumbs up

Let's roll back to the amount of telemetry back say when XP was kicking about? Gigs of data being phoned home weekly isn't right*, maybe I need a refund from MS on my internet bill?

*That's on a family member's computer still on Win10!

Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control

Re: Microsoft gave up all pretext of caring about QA/QC ...

That's when we could smell the rot. I gleaned that from an article I read at them time! MS is now so large that the decisions made are impossible to execute at that scale. No Vision! They need a megalomaniac like Jobs to get the job done!

'What the hell, Microsoft?' Users hit with incorrect ESU and LTSC Win10 out-of-support messages

I'm on the lookout for a PatchTuesday without any patches! If it ever happens. then I'll check if monkeys are flying, check the temperature of hell, and then if there are flying monkeys into hell, I'll put my head between my knees and kiss my ass goodbye...

Too close to Seattle

too much Dank before work guys... geesh.

Green icon, close enough... works for M$

YouTube's AI moderator pulls Windows 11 workaround videos, calls them dangerous

Re: Another workaround

A similar idea, anything but Youtube, I have to believe there are other video hosting platforms for your vids if you can't manage your own site.

You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training

unfortunately, I'm there just about every day ;-{

Out of work tech worker in a small town. LI and it's ilk are the only places I can keep looking. I've not had an interview via LI in about 15 months.

My coat as I'm ready to ditch it...

High-stakes poker scam used rigged card shufflers, X-ray tables, and special glasses

I used to like a good poker game

This just turns me away, who knows what cheating mechanisms tech can bring...

New boss took charge of project code and sent two billion unwanted emails

Re: Email Swamping...

once had this too, out of office replies, people at the company belonging to the same list servs with out of office replies, I woke up to 30,000+ and counting that day. That messed up the journaling of the mail server some how, and that was never sorted before moving to another platform.

AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists

Re: Oh sh*t

Nothing to worry about as they assure purchasers ~ That's a good one! I see what you did.

Not in the Smart World™

Join me my friends, leave the smart world for the good old fashioned thinking world!

AWS outage exposes Achilles heel: central control plane

Re: Nice when you can directly blame.

Happily we can now just say "AWS was down" and everybody shrugs.

I used to say: Happily we can now just say "It's a MS product" and everybody shrugs.

Company that made power systems for servers didn’t know why its own machines ran out of juice

groups

We use them for everything, including electrical dodads! We howled when we found out one of our cabinets was on the same group as offices. I was lucky to work on a well balanced team, outages like this one would have been on one of the radars. Especially the hardware guys, right I was in that group!