Posts by Captain Scarlet

BOFH: Got that syncing feeling, hm? I've looked at your computer and the Outlook isn't great

Re: Human deviousness

I forgot to mention the baseball bat is foam and the hammer is an inflatable one (I'm not actually going to destroy anything those who downvoted me)

Re: Human deviousness

Yes but its kind of fun to hit equipment with hammers and claim you are diagnosing an issue (The baseball bat Margret got confiscated so I now have to use a hammer)

ICANN pays to push Whois case to European Court of Justice

Re: Time for a song

I tend to find Beer and Popcorn don't mix well

*Urp*

User spent 20 minutes trying to move mouse cursor, without success

Re: Trackball can be worse....

Oh dear lord my work mouse is discusting.

Why did this have to make me look at the damn thing, have the clean the damn thing now.

Japanese fashion puts the oo-er into trousers

Re: Browsing Reddit I see

Ahead how, everythings bleeding reposted several times by the times it gets to Reddit

Browsing Reddit I see

We were making fun of these several days ago when a Redditor spotted it.

Comcast's mega-outage 'solution'... Have you tried turning your router off and on again?

could cost lives

"A meal service for the elderly even suggested its inability to communicate in the event of an emergency could cost lives"

Seriously, any such issue I would go to the nearest eletrical store and demand they sell me all their Mobile phones with PAYG sims. Have a backup plan in place when critical infrastructure goes down.

BlackBerry Key²: Clickier, nippier, but how many people still want a QWERTY?

Re: I'm glad they changed the pricing

Nah, company phones that price will be an iPhones

Microsoft sinks another data centre with Natick 2

20 years??

I don't think a Pentium 2 would have the grunt for the majority of bloatware out there these days.

Edit: I am making the assumption they would like to try and leave it there for 20 years with zero maintenance. If its for reusing the container then erm maybe thats ok (Not sure how long it would last in salt water without rusting)

Ex-CEO on TalkTalk mega breach: It woz 'old shed' legacy tech wot done it

Let me correct that for you

"TalkTalk's problem was not legacy tech it was down purely to incompetent management who were clueless to what their systems are"

HostingUK drops offline after losing Farmer vs Fibre competition

Re: DR

Anyone from advertising would probably sell a one drived desktop computer as a cloud computing service, to me its just marketing and I take no notice until actually seeing what it behind the marketing rubbish.

Re: DR

I thought iomart had several data centres?

Surely it would knock off everything hosted in just the one DC (I am assuming things like connections to ISP's, DNS servers are spread across their DC's)

Whois? Whowas. So what's next for ICANN and its vast database of domain-name owners?

Re: Death Knell?

Probably just because of the possible huge fine associated with it (Its the only reason where I work everyone was in panic mode for the last 6 months).

Re: Rejected one year moratorium oddly similar to 12 months they say they need to devise a new model

Direct with Nominet you should have the ability to specify the type of owner you are, several types of companies including sole trader as well as the personal individual.

Enom can set this (Although tbh I havent checked personal domains for years, it may have changed)

Re: Rejected one year moratorium oddly similar to 12 months they say they need to devise a new model

hmm ok I had expected our company whois information to still be there, should mean less your domain needs to be renewed now letters from the internet registry company or whatever those arseholes rename themselves to trick unwhitting users to hand over cash.

'Autopilot' Tesla crashed into our parked patrol car, say SoCal cops

Re: Hmm - Autopilot

"WW2 autopilots"

Yes but the pilot is likely to still keep awareness of what is going on around them. I can't see why they don't call it a driving assistant, its there to assist driving and does what its designed to do very well from what I can tell. I think Tesla would be get less flack if it wasn't named AutoPilot, I assume the name AutoPilot would be able to do nearly everything (As Autopilot can in most airline aeroplanes manufactured in the past few years).

Re: Hmm

Rename the feature, the name of this feature is the issue

OnePlus 6: Perfect porridge? One has to make a smartphone that's juuuust right

Moto G3

Actually thats one of the reasons I went for the Motorola G3, I could get an official case which replace the back cover and it has a flap on front.

Yes it won't protect from drops but I would much prefer this style case.

Bargain-happy Brits snub big four mobile network operators

Re: Hardly a surprise

I would also say if you want a phone with the contract, make sure its seperate so when the phone is paid off thats it (Its amazing the amount of people who havent wanted to change phones but are still paying their original contract as they assumed the phone was free, its an absolute piss take that those people then have to phone to downgrade to a sim only plan).

ID theft in UK hits record high as crooks shift to more vulnerable targets

Re: What makes a good security question?

A reminder of what my password if required by a website is normally "LOL its my password dummy"

The law of run Nintendo consequences: Sega brings out mini Mega Drive / Genesis

Re: So exactly what they've been letting AtGames sell for years?

Its probably what AtGames has sold for years and years just rebranded, no idea why AtGames can't get the sound right (Although might be down to having to emulate two seperate sound chips) but if its just as bad there is no point.

Nintendo small consoles have been way better in emulation which as a Sega fan hacks me off (Especially when emaulators as old as the dos based Gens managed to get it spot on)

Exposed: Lazy Android mobe makers couldn't care less about security

Re: Not just Google

Moto G3 user here, Motorola stated it would stop providing updates for the G3 (Damn I can't find the bleeding link but I havent had any updates since last year). My phone well over 2 years old and I got it on the cheap just before it stopped being sold (Also not locked to any provider as meh to that).

Boring as she goes at Sage? Oh no, no, no! Shares slide as sales slip below forecasts

Hmm no mention of Line 1000

So its the Line 1000 ("Replaced" Line 500) product line's fault.

I assume that'll be yet another audit request with accusations of mis-use.

They forked this one up: Microsoft modifies open-source code, blows hole in Windows Defender

Correct me if I am wrong but didn't MS buy an AV company many many years ago, to me it looks like to much copy and pasting going on.

Which? leads decrepit email service behind barn, single shot rings out over valley

Re: What other Which

"I have heard of plenty of cases of unscrupulous / uncaring utilities companies continuing to bill ex-customers"

For me it was NPower who told me leave the DD so we can refund you, gits charged me at the same time as refunding. Much flaming at the droid on helldesk (Because I no longer lived at the address they billed me for) and realising the person on the end of the phone didn't give a shit, I cancelled the DD forcing them to send me a cheque.

So anyone leaving such a leech, cancel the DD and get them to send you a cheque.

BT to slash landline rentals by 37%... for the broadbandless

Re: Mmmmmm, thanks, BT.

Oi, stop nicking your neighbours wifi!

Vodafone is UK's mobile ping king

Ah yes last place I lived at we had to put up with 3mb, yet a street away every street was FTTC and Virgin. Some neighbours didn't want ugly boxs on the street.

I am surprised such a small device would handle that many devices, so probably does warrant another look.

I have always wanted to experiement with it but I simply can't get a decent 3G or 4G connection to try it. They are ok for voice calls and simple browsing but found useless when moving when using a simple vpn (For fareness this was a usb dongle and inside).

Do you have to place your router in a specific place (I.e place on a window sill)?

How much do you pay compared to a bog standard "fibre" to the cabinet package (As this is one thing that put me off as I freeview is fine for me)?

Go park yourself: Brit firm flashes self-parking car tech

or park out-of-town

hmm I imagine people who drive such cars would go in to town for lunch and become instantly outraged to find the car is stuck in traffic (Because I can't imagine it would ease traffic at all).

Sysadmin held a rack of servers off the ground for 15 mins, crashed ISP when he put them down

Re: Three finger salute

To be fair early ADSL routers often required a reboot, they would not bother to try and login again unless instructed and it was easier to reboot said devices.

I would be honest and say if I knew what the fault was (As many people who called knew more than I did in my early days on an ISP support desk) and state it should be back. It was better than 56k where the users would then have to put the phone down as I could then get them to check the lights and if they had the knowledge login and check their logs.

Office junior had one job: Tearing perforated bits off tractor-feed dot matrix printer paper

Re: out of paper!

"So it turns out, you can have too much paper capacity."

Not sure why this was downvoted as it does happen if for instants like our office the heating and air con aren't on over the weekend. For us tends to be A3 paper as majority of prints are on A4, if the rollers are smoothing out as they wear, just slip and won't pickup paper.

Re: out of paper!

"I went through 3 reams of paper before it settled down because everyone's solution to the problem was to hit <print> <print> <print> <print> <print> and see if the printer fairies would sort it..."

Probably like most companies the copier company which supports our copiers loves when that happens (I've given up with going back to my desk, emptying the queue and sending a strongly worded email after one of my strongly worded emails was almost a career limiting manoeuvre)

Cyborg fined for riding train without valid ticket

Ah so thats why people jump up and photocopy their arse, they are actually trying to swipe their access card which obviously worked as it copied what was placed on the glass!

One in three Android Wear owners also uses ... an iPhone

Re: "...users aren’t buying into the whole Android ecosystem"

Apple is losing out in other areas as well, when the Amazon Alexa was out an avid Apple fan basically gave me two fingers when I said why not wait for the Apple Pod thingie as it can then use your iTunes library. I was ignored and said person now pays for Prime (Which I thought would have made it in the long run way more expensive, especially as I thought the thing is never turned on anyway).

Patch LOSE-day: Microsoft secures servers of the world. By disconnecting them

For me I am lazy, I find it quicker to use the ip address on the right hand of the keyboard and because I don't like uPNP I used to map my open ports manually (Which now I think of it is less lazy and more hassle).

A smartphone recession is coming and animated poo emojis can't stop it

agreed

The Q10 was the last time mobile tech grabbed my attention, my current phone cost 1/4 of the Q10 and tbh it does everything I want and has only just gone out of support.

None of the features have wowed me, I just want something which is reliable and not overpriced.

A bit of intel on AMD's embedded Epyc and Ryzen processors

Ssh, lets recommend them getting a Pentium MMX

BOFH: Turn your server rack hotspot to a server rack notspot

Re: Stair Oil

From experience just use a carpet cleaner will make carpets wet for about a day (Absolute Chaos at this office when the carpets were cleaned Monday morning), so its not that.

Mars is red, Earth is blue. Here's a space laser story for you

Of course, puppets are better than CGI and don't shoot lasers at things at Mysteron homes.

Roses are red, Windows error screens are blue. It's 2018, and an email can still pwn you

Re: Preview pane?

I am lazy, anything obviously spam is deleted (StrongBadEmail style, except without the Lappie 486), anything with something work related look in the preview, hit the archive button to make it disappear into a random folder.

From tomorrow, Google Chrome will block crud ads. Here's how it'll work

Re: Well behaved ads on the Reg

To many times I have opened all the storeis I want for Firefox or IE (Corporate machine I have no say in web browser preference before you whine use Chrome or Edge) to go into meltdown using up all the CPU. Hasn't been a while but Reg I hate your fill all whitespace adverts which don't work well when I open 20 tabs

Edit: Time to dig out the 15 inch 4:3 TFT

NASA's zombie IMAGE satellite is powered up and working quite nicely

Re: Ooooops, sorry!

Its a Mysteron Satelitte, they like to blow things up and recreate them.

You're the IT worker in charge of securing the cloud for your company. Welcome to Hell

Re: ..Osborne, you were spoilt!

Primitive as they were you could focus on one thing and do it well.

Green Screen operators could touch type with 99% accuracy, the amount of error checking for data input that is now required is just insane.

While we like to think it natural for people to take care of a mobile phone

I expect users to spill tea, get gravy on the screen and run over the company supplied mobile phone before they take the plastic off the front of the screen

A tiny Ohio village turned itself into a $3m speed-cam trap. Now it has to pay back the fines

Murder She Wrote

This to me sounds like it could be made into an episode of Murder She Wrote

UK data watchdog whacks £300k fine on biz that made 9 million nuisance calls

Re: Public Records

I stand corrected, I do believe the Unix command pre-dates any EULA by ICANN.

Re: Public Records

Its a shame you had to breach whois EULA for that though, although I admit I am now very tempted to do the same.

Shopper f-bombed PC shop staff, so they mocked her with too-polite tech tutorial

Re: PC world

@Antron Argaiv

Yeah there was, was used on our school's RM computers for Encarta 95 and other such software.

When you play this song backwards, you can hear Satan. Play it forwards, and it hijacks Siri, Alexa

Echo, open the front door.

What people install "smart" locks now as well, I assume all you need to do is yell loud enough so said device can hear?

You had one job, Outlook! Security bug fix stops mail app from forwarding attachments

Re: "file attachments were getting cut out of messages when forwarded to others"

Not sure where list came from in my response (I meant send to contacts as a blind carbon copy), but as far as I am aware Bcc is an acronym in Lotus Notes and Outlook for blind carbon copy (MS Help certainly states this for Outlook).