Posts by NJS

Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032

Ah man, it's been a long week

... and I needed the laugh. Beer on me with thanks.

SuperHTML is here to rescue you from syntax errors, and it's FOSS

Re: Nikola

Been using mkdocs in Python myself - write the pages in markdown and then let the tooling do the rest.

Bit of a faff as a one off exercise to get the content across from the old static pages into md but once it was presentable enough for the code to chew on it actually looks pretty decent and from here on refreshes of the site should (fingers crossed) be updating content and updating the template.

I stuck with a static HTML site for (does a name lookup... oooh nearly 20 years!) but I just don't have the time to keep fiddling with it and keep the HTML current - hopefully this way the maintenance burden drops off.

Cloud vendor lock-in is shocking, but there's a get out of jail card

Re: Why not have cloud.gov.uk ?

LMAO ... yes we could do that.

What would realistically happen is the gov would run a procurement exercise and Microsoft or AWS would get the job.

Ohhhh, you meant build a cloud...

Rancher faces prison for trying to breed absolute unit of a sheep

Re: there were the foxes, and horses, and camels, and...

Giant hogweed is a plague along many riverbanks - nasty stuff that burns the skin if touched and leaves it sensitive for a long time afterwards (lot longer than the burns take to heal).

Doom turns 30, so its creators celebrate seminal first-person shooter’s contribution to IT careers

Ah Doom

..and the null modem cable. Wander into computing lab (or engineering lab, we were equal opportunities), disconnect a couple of machines from the network (preferably facing the door so you could keep an eye out for staff), unzip Doom from a stack of floppies, frag away.

Very happy memories :)

Signal says it'll shut down in UK if Online Safety Bill approved

Re: Post Office

I was going to say something similar - given some of the letters I see from relatives if the spooks could provide a transcript after they've finished with the OCR'ing I'd be grateful because then we might both know what's being communicated.

Keeping your head as an entire database goes pear-shaped

I'm not a DBA...

but even I got to the line that started DROP and I was squirming.

We regret to inform you there are severe delays on the token ring due to IT nerds blasting each other to bloody chunks

Re: We were doing that at the lab at uni

So were we but with a null modem cable - enter lab, find quiet corner right up the back, disconnect two PCs from network, gibb away. Good times (slightly misty eyed for some reason) ;)

Scotland to get National ID system 'by the backdoor', campaigners mull challenge

...already an NHS unique number

Em, yes and no - what you may find is you (depending on where you've lived in the UK during your lifetime) have many unique NHS Numbers, all of which are hopefully/loosely tied together with whatever one is supposedly current.

NHS Number as primary key, you're having a laugh.

Doctor Who to hit small screen on 1 September

Western episode

Out of curiosity - anybody else think the cyborg thing in the western episode looks a bit like Kryten? Now there's a crossover episode.

I'll get me own coat.

'Angry Bird in the Sky' spotted by astronomers

Okay...

...who put Terry Pratchett in charge of naming celestial bodies

Flaw could expose 'millions' of home routers

Full list is available here

http://blogs.forbes.com/firewall/2010/07/13/millions-of-home-routers-vulnerable-to-web-hack/