* Posts by chivo243

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Beijing grants permit to 'flying car' that can handle 'roads and low altitude'

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Thanks, but I'll pass on this one

Those blades look to be at a precarious level, too close to todgerville for me!

My kevlar chainsaw pants must be in here somewhere...

Experts warn of steep increase in Java costs under changes to Oracle license regime

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Re: Right, but do all those businesses...

Do you sign this contract down at the Crossroads??

Home Depot sent my email, details of stuff I bought to Meta, customer complains

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Re: "consent fatigue"

Until recently you are correct. But I just saw this on the Pi-Hole website yesterday...

4. Block ads everywhere, even on the go

By pairing your Pi-hole with a VPN, you can have ad blocking on your cellular devices, helping with limited bandwidth data plans.

PI-HOLE + VPN

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I stopped going down the rabbit hole trying to find what is actually being shared. Block the slurp! Set up a Pi-Hole https://pi-hole.net/ , use something besides MS Edge or Chrome, use browser extensions, Ghostery, NoScript, uBlock Origin to name a few. This data slurp is on par with a war... it won't stop because you say chill. It's like telling a charging, angry dog to sit...

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Re: Annnnnnnd...

Selective hearing is the best. Getting lots of milage out of it!

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Re: "consent fatigue"

Oh: El Reg - you have googletagmanager

Perhaps, the parent Company is to blame? https://situationpublishing.com/ If I go there with my extensions enabled and the Pi-Hole removing garbage, this site doesn't load?!! I get the green circle chasing it's ass... Thanks NoScript!!

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Re: Annnnnnnd...

Well said... I'm not a Troglodyte and a Luddite, but I play both in public when I'm asked these questions... I'm grey enough to pull it off!

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Re: Makes one want to emigrate

I will be emigrating back to the US after nearly 25 years, I'm currently in a country where you can refuse all cookies on cookie consent popups. Not sure how effective that is... but it's a step in the right direction.

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Really?

"We have no intention of reintroducing the tool at this time... We have a much better tool in the pipe!

Shag pile PC earned techies a carpeting from HR

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Ah, yes, the double crossover cross!

You have to admire someone who will play both ends against the middle, hoping to come out unscathed! I prefer to be the instigator, drop the seed, and let others do the dirty work!

BOFH and the case of the Zoom call that never was

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Re: Far too close to home

It's a trial by fire for all IT peeps... On a weekly basis!!

right behind you!

User was told three times 'Do Not Reboot This PC' – then unplugged it anyway

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Have users ignored your instructions?

Let's ask the inverse... have users ever followed your instructions??

Bloke allegedly stole, sold private info belonging to 'tens of millions' globally

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WTF - WFH

Surely, using one's home connection to do this kind of "fact finding" is breaking Hackers Rule #1?

Pedant as he is the most surprised icon!

Global network outage hits Microsoft: Azure, Teams, Outlook all down

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The first domino?

I'm wondering if this will be indicative of other tech companies showing lots of employees the door. Timber!

British monarchy goes after Twitter, alleges rent not paid for UK base

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Elon crosses another bridge

and promptly torches it! Brilliant!

Live Nation CFO on Taylor Swift ticket chaos: Don't blame me, bots made me crazy

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been going on for decades

In one form or another. My friend and I stood in line starting at 4am for concert tickets that went on sale at 10am on a Sunday morning after a Bowie concert on Saturday! 10 ticket limit per person. We bought our limit. When word got out that we had tickets, and what we went through to get them, we were bombarded with offers much higher than face value. We didn't have to pay for out tickets in the end!

Twitter stiffed us on $2m bill, claim consultants in lawsuit

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Exit Plan!

Petrol - Check

Matches - Check

Visit Bridges - Check

It's Obvious - Checkmate!

Dear Stupid, I write with news I did not check the content of the [Name] field before sending this letter

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Re: 'Stan didn't design this dastardly DB.'

Correct you are!

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Re: 'Stan didn't design this dastardly DB.'

Designed by Muttley? You did say Dastardly...

There's a dvd of "The Wacky Races" in one of these pockets

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How about

We give all C and D levels Root Access to Everything! Let's try it for a while! Then we can make boat loads of quatloos when they call us to fix their problems! Win-Win!

Tone deaf? Microsoft must have booked Sting for Davos because he's a good singer

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Set list?

I wonder if he played "Message in a Bottle" The message is "you're redundant!"

Grabbing my coat to beat the rush...

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Re: Jeez, this is just cringeworthy!

YUP! The world has gone off the rails sideways. I thought Sting had more class? Would he have done this in his younger days? I mean, I saw them at an Amnesty International gig back in '86. Oh, what a world... indeed.

It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

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Re: Learn both?

according to a road sign on an interstate highway, Chicago was 100km or 62 miles away. Not sure of the precise accuracy of the sign, but it put it in perspective.

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Learn both?

Surely, as learned scholars reading Reg.com, we have the capacity to learn two standards? It's easy, I learned the metric system when I was in 12 going to school in the US! Yes, there was a big push to go metric! I still have the binder we made in school in 1976! The contents are long gone. In the end, all that became metric was soft drinks in large quantities. 3 liters of Pepsi anyone??

As someone who lived in Western Europe for nearly 25 years, knowing both has been a life saver. I worked for an American flavored company with many local hires. As we often received some products and equipment from the US, my knowledge of both standards was extremely useful, and saved the day a couple of times.

Now let's go watch the Maltese Falcon, and the comedy remake The Black Bird....

Twitter tweaks third-party app rules to ban third-party apps

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Klaxons blaring!

Elon fiddles, and Twitter is going down like the Hindenburg. And what will happen to twitter's weakened infrastructure should someone start tweeting again, now that their ban is lifted?

Google dumps 12,000 employees after project probe

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For the remaining plebs

Work harder! We have standards to break...

Punch-drunk Apple Watch called 15 cops to a boxing workout when it heard 'shots'

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Re: Hey, Siri

I regret that I only have one upvote to give!

I could not have said it better! I do exactly the same things!

I have a friend who is constantly asking* Siri this and that... not for me brother!

Too lazy to type!

Oh dear, AWS. Cloud growth slowing as customers get a dose of cost reality

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Re: Maturing Market?

^^^. I thought the same thing, market saturation... There are enough cloud providers, and those customers who wanted it, have it already. I wouldn't be surprised to see these 30+% growth figures dip significantly in the coming years.

Will it be the mongrels fighting for the scraps?

Time to buy a phone as shops use discounts to clear out inventories

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Re: Never bought a new phone

Halfmad is all right! Give that commentard a beer!

I've never bought a 'new' smartphone* for me. I did buy a new iPhone SE for the missus as it was a special deal from a Telco, I think I shelled out 250 quatloos, and she's still using it 4 years later.

*I did purchase a Nokia(e something?) 11 years ago. Right now it's being used for a backup number for us.

Microsoft axes 10,000, already breaking bad news to staff

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Re: Probably

SatNad must have a lot of relatives back home that need jobs (sic) at 1/4 the cost of US workers. And damn happy to have the work too! If you could ever be happy working for M$...

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must be aligned to the world's success.

So, suck it up, and be prepared to work as hard as employees of Twitter, if not harder! Longer! AND FASTER! Sounds like somebody's getting screwed!

Coats anybody?

Microsoft and community release scripts to help mitigate Defender mess

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checking!

The missus powered up the Winbox for some gaming yesterday... Icons: check, shortcuts: check.

Twitter starts auction to flip the bird, furniture, pizza ovens, gadgets galore

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All hands!

We're taking on water! WE gotta lighten the load! Throw everything overboard! We're going down! gurgle...

Basecamp details 'obscene' $3.2 million bill that caused it to quit the cloud

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managed hosting? Kicking the can to the other side of the road?

Sysadmin infected bank with 'alien virus' that sucked CPUs dry

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NIce one!

Alf looking for aliens! If this hadn't been set in a bank, and a previous colleague was still alive, this could have been a network I worked on... Whaddya mean there was work done over the weekend?

Apple just cut Tim Cook's pay by 40%. How ever will he get by on that $50m?

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But, but, I can be a megalomaniac, I can crush people's souls, I can make unreasonable and irrational demands, I can have a vision! I could make that vision happen, but I won't, it gives me an upset stomach, and keeps me up at night.

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Re: $49 million

That's only his salary... what about options, benefits (health, dental and others), retirement. Chuck in all the free stuff like transportation, I doubt Tim's picking up the limo fare, or the plane tix, private or not... I'm sure that on the iphone cost to consumer pie chart graph, there's a slice that covers stuff like transportation and such.

Canadian owes bosses for 'time theft' after work-tracking app sinks tribunal bid

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Nice software for niche workers?

This time tracking your work nonsense was proposed at a place I worked at by my newly hired boss at the time. After implementation, productivity took a nose dive. When staff evaluations came around, this was a talking point on everyone's evaluation. Once it was all pieced together, it turned out that the lost productivity on our jobs was put into entering in what we did, instead of moving on the next fire...

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Re: Thinking Time

20 years ago, my boss of the time would go have a cig break, which meant leaving the building. He would come back with a theory, and damned if they didn't usually work. I don't know if it was the fresh air, or change of scenery, but it seemed to work!

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Re: Such monitoring does not account for efficiency

They only notice your efficiency once you are gone.

One can hope that's what they notice!

Version 5 of the Endless OS enters testing

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Scrape off the Win11 UI, and you'll find all the familiar control panels buried underneath. I was astonished that after three clicks in different "new" settings and control panels to find the old friendly stuff we remember, like advanced settings to change your page file, and tell Windows to adjust for best performance etc. If I had to use Win11 as a daily driver, my productivity would be horrible.

What's next? Changing the order of the alphabet? And calling it progress?

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Re: Another interesting project!

Let's eat Grandpa, and let's eat, Grandpa?

Third-party Twitter apps stopped dead with no explanation from El Musko

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Re: When you’re in a hole

dig faster? Dig deeper?

BOFH: It's 4ft tall, heavyset, has optional fax. No they didn't take the toner!

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An old joke?

I saw the same joke, counting the same item twice joke on MASH, food trays I believe.

But where is the missing malfunctioning half-ton printer? What nefarious task is at hand for it? A tie clip for a new boss perhaps?

Native Americans urge Apache Software Foundation to ditch name

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Re: after seeing a documentary about Geronimo

Always gotta chase the boogey man!

Haiku beta 4: BeOS rebuild / almost ready for release / A thing of beauty

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Just trying it now

I installed it in a VM, it runs nicely. I'm picking an old lappy to try it on, looks good so far!

First Patch Tuesday of the year explodes with in-the-wild exploit fix

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One more cuppa?

When I read this part, I thought to myself, MS has patches for Windows 98?

"Microsoft fixed 98 security flaws in its first Patch Tuesday of 2023."

Make that two cups please!

Sherlock, he looks as pensive as I was...

Larry Ellison mea culpa as traffic cop stops Big Red boss on own island

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Re: Orange Corvette

while wearing a raspberry beret...?

Second-hand and refurbished phone market takes flight amid inflation hike

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Re: Back Market

Yes, just used Back Market for a couple of Christmas purchases, 30±% of the original cost if I'm not mistaken. Still have a few weeks to return the items too!

Mixing an invisible laser and a fire alarm made for a disastrous demo

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Or when the wrong serial cable for the UPS is used. I never knew how quiet that old server room could be until...