Posts by jake

Google asks Unicode to look over 13 new emoji showing professional women

Who invented the term "emoji", and why?

Shirly the bloody useless things already had had a perfectly good name, that being "emoticons"?

French duck-crushing device sells for €40k

Re: price and value

"I'd love to try Ortolan, but that's outlawed now."

Not all it's cut out to be. You would be better served with partridge or quail.

JMHO, of course.

I bought mine used ...

... at Myers Restaurant Supply in Santa Rosa, California. It's bronze, about 150 years old, and well-worn. Cost USD250. Looks pretty much the same as the one in the article. Maybe I should get it silver-plated & sell it to an idiot ... I've only used it several dozen times in the 30 years I've owned it.

I, personally, like the end product. Once in a while. Easy to make at home, and relatively inexpensive when you have a nearly inexhaustible supply of duck ;-)

Advice please. https 192.168.0.10 shows IT support website?

Re: Advice please. https 192.168.0.10 shows IT support website?

"But would a large ISP be stupid enough to leave it open"

Of course. "Large ISPs" hire LCD staff at minimum wage.

THAT said, it's most likely a local configuration issue on your side of the network. Look for a typo(e) in the config files. Might be a pain in the arse to find. I recommend a beer (or three) at your elbow as you search, if allowed ;-).

Re: Advice please. https 192.168.0.10 shows IT support website?

Something is misconfigured on your end ... 192.168.0.10 is a non-routable IP address. It shouldn't redirect to anything outside your local network. See RFC-1918 ...

Out of curiosity, why are you "not surprised" that it redirects to 198.168.0.10 (which indeed is owned by Gwynedd Mercy College)?

All hail Ikabai-Sital! Destroyer of worlds and mender of toilets

Hinges & locks here ...

... are lubed with graphite.

Sticky liquid lube stuff is contra-indicated in any environment that might be dusty. (That's pretty much any environment exposed to the air ... ).

Linux Mint to go DIY for multimedia

@keithpeter (was:Re: ::shrugs::)

"@jake's downvoters"

Please avoid mentioning the concept. Don't give 'em any press. That's all they are looking for. Kids these days ...

(Side-note: "thumbs" here on AOL ElReg are completely meaningless.)

::shrugs::

Sticking with Slackware on the desktop in these here parts.

You can always rely on the Ancient Ones to cock things up

@swampdog (was:Re: Apostrophes....)

Nice riff on a Vivian Stanshall quote ... I heartily approve! :-)

Re: Apostrophes....

Remember, the crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe ...

RIP Frank ... you done good, my friend.

Re: So-called security.

I still have a Quantum Link username & password that works (on AOL). I also still have an AOL username and password that works[0]. I don't use the Qlink account for anything ... but I do use the AOL account as my contact info here on ElReg, just to irritate people.

[0] I tried to nuke that entire chapter of my life for a couple decades, but the brain-trust at AOL refused to delete the accounts. Thankfully, they haven't tried to access my credit card for over 25 years ;-)

Re: Music

What is this thing you call TV?

If even you can't remember it, is it really worth you watching it?

Just asking ...

Re: Ah yes....

"fell over ... physically."

I was not on that trip ... but I heard that her bottom wasn't really worth looking at ;-)

"likes to accumulate fat" (was: Re: Simples.)

Don't put fat down the drain.

Simples.

Re: Ah yes....

Do I know you, Andrew?

I was one of Ken Olsen's "black sheep", and some-time member of DEC's flying squad ...

Simples.

The roots were already there. However, the new evacuation pump was more powerful than the old evacuation pump.

Suggestion: Ask Half-Life to turn off and/or unplug appliances that are misbehaving.

The machines are not actually doing it on purpose ... they don't have anything resembling cognitive processes. Rather, the human(s) at the controls haven't thought the scenario through.

Learn a scripting language and play nicely: How to get a DevOps job

@AC ... That word you used, "lateral" ...

... I think you actually meant "orthogonal".

@ Dadmin (was: Re: A nonsense)

WOW! Nice screed!

Looks like "DevOps" fanbois are noticing that they are getting laughed at by computer/networking professionals.

DevOps

Daft evolutionary variant of persistent scholars.

The world will move on, leaving the concept behind.

Beer. Just because.

Brit polar vessel christened RRS Sir David Attenborough

Re: but..

Indeed. Here in the SF Bay Area, various advertising attempts have been made to re-name sports venues. They are still called "Candlestick (RIP)", "The Yard", "Sears Point", Laguna Seca", "The Colosseum", "The Arena", "The Shark Tank", etc.

Boaty will be Boaty until long after retirement, .gov opinion not withstanding.

The 'new' Microsoft? I still wouldn't touch them with a barge pole

I stopped using Redmond products in the year 2000.

So far, no problems.

When careers don't last much longer than primary school, play is the new training

"Where once we tried to cram kids heads full of facts, these days we tend to favor the capacity to find an answer."

"an answer". And there is your problem. Teachers aren't teaching "the answer", and how to get to it anymore. Nor are they teaching kids how to figure it out for themselves. We're not teaching kids the three Rs anymore ... we're teaching them how to fondle a so-called "smart" phone.

Humans have stopped evolving. We might be doomed as a race.

29 years of data shows no mobile phone brain cancer link

Re: next up

"Then how about a study showing lowered intelligence in those who suffer from the effects of radio wave paranoia?"

I think you have that bassakwards ... try instead "suffering from the effects of lower intelligence, leading to radio wave paranoia".

Re: Then again...

Simple answer, Cap'n ... 90%+ of the general public are brain-dead (or close enough as makes no never-mind), and will believe anything that marketing tells them.

Duh.

Cell phone technology doesn't use ionizing radiation.

The thing the paranoid should be worried about is sunlight.

ZX Printer's American cousin still in use, 34 years after purchase

Old kit.

I still have a Panasonic Senior Partner luggable ... all 33 pounds of it. Why I still have the silly thing is beyond me. After over a quarter million miles of air travel together, you tend to get attached to the daftest things :-)

Microsoft wants devs to take notes on their families

Re: Ewww

"AC because I'm an old wrinkly lady typing this in the altogether from my bedroom. If you need brain bleach after that, well, Microsoft, stop peeping."

Ain't any of us getting any younger. Love the skin you're in. It's the only one you've got. (I wonder how many teenagers will downvote this post ...)

In my circle ...

... We've been using "Post-Its"[tm] since about 1980. Place one on a door (cupboard, closet, oven, fridge, garage, front, back, barn, whathaveyou), and all HumansWithAClue know what we need in that venue. Seems to work quite nicely. No computers required. Or wanted, for this particular non-problem.

F-35s failed 'scramble test' because of buggy software

Re: @asdf (was: Dumbasses.)

I'm not against you, asdf, just wondering where you are coming from.

Beer?

@asdf (was: Re: Dumbasses.)

"The key question is get what done which is also the answer in this case."

Is English your second language asdf? Please find a translator, I'm intrigued, you might actually have a serious point there!

Dumbasses.

Manglement can't write code. This is a fact.

They should get out of the way, and allow folks with clues about writing code to actually get it done.

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Mass Mailing Software - Recommendations?

Re: Mass Mailing Software - Recommendations?

I've been using Sendmail for this kind of thing for roughly a third of a century.

It just plain works. See sendmail.org for more.

There is, however, a ::coff::bit::coff:: of a learning curve ... but once you've learned it, you'll never look back.

Yes, it runs on *nix, but it plays nicely with Redmond & Cupertino networks.

Old, complex code could cause another UK banking TITSUP – study

"Lev Lesokhin, CAST's senior vice president of strategy and analytics, said: "In consumer banks, there are core components been there for a long time. Even if something has been written in Java in 90s that is still 20 years ago."

Earth to Lev Lesokhin, Java was never secure. Ever. Really. And never used in truly secure systems.

Thankfully, the core systems in the world's banking systems are Fortran & COBOL, neither of which the skiddies are capable of breaking into.

Well, to be truthful, COBOL & Fortran aren't exactly secure as a stand-alone product, but the skiddies have absolutely zero clue as to how they work ...

What's Zuck planning with his Facebook bots? Maximum $ilo revenue

Whatever.

I aggressively block the zuck-Dork just as I do the goo-tards. Neither of them are a positive return on investment ... unless you like noise and minutia.

I am Craig Wright, inventor of Craig Wright

Bloody hell ...

Someone's on something I can't afford. Nor would I use it if I could.

Hopefully the inmates aren't in charge of the encryption asylum ... although, seeking reality, it would seem that they are. And manglement are allowing it through sheer incompetence.

WAKE UP, candy ass

If I wanted a cartoon to wake me up ...

... I'd pick "Clo", the long-term cowvertisement from Clover Milk.

Trust me ... That advertising company is outstanding in it's field ;-)

Auto erotic: Self-driving cars will let occupants bonk on the go

That's nothing ...

... I've personally seen several couples (m/f, m/m and f/f (not certain about trans, for obvious reasons)) doing the "serious sexual stimulation" thing on motorcycles. As long as they don't hurt/kill anybody else, more power to them ;-)

"In a bygone era, Australian auto-makers marketed a curiously parochial configuration called the “panel van”, colloquially the “shaggin' wagon”, as the ideal of transport and bed."

That's the Ford Econoline/Transit (depending on jurisdiction). AKA "the fuck van". Mostly bought in a minimal configuration, then fitted with floor to ceiling shag[0] carpet & futon by the purchaser.

[0] Note: The term "shag", when it comes to carpet, has nothing to do with sex.[1]

[1]Thankfully. Ever shake out a shag carpet? Them crumbs are a hazard to private parts!

Linux greybeards release beta of systemd-free Debian fork

@Sloppy Crapmonster

"Of the 90 Debian servers I'm responsible for, I've replaced systemd on zero of them. It's just not an issue. I'm not saying it's not an issue for *anyone*, but I personally have no problem with it. And it makes my laptop start up and shut down *really fucking fast*."

Uh ... your 90 Debian servers need to be restarted regularly, so you need "really fucking fast" restart times? Methinks you need to actually understand the underlying system ...

As a long-term (just under 23 years) Slackware user ...

... I am evaluating Devuan out of curiosity. So far, it looks like a good option :-)

If you work on Seagate's performance drives, time to find another job

@Steven Jones (was:Re: A death and decline so easily forseen...)

"HDDs were simply never going to get remotely near SSD latency figures, and reduced latency is possibly the key performance issue in virtually every area of IT, whether it's processors, memory, storage or communications."

When I was at Stanford, early one Saturday morning a Grad student drove to Berkeley on his motorcycle & came back with tapes of the over-night build of 3BSD. Our Professor, visiting from DARPA for a couple weeks/months (a dude by the name of Cerf, you may have heard of him), wondered how the hell our VAX had the latest version of BSD already running (10AM-ish), when the Switched56 connected source code system hadn't completed the download of the source, much less started to compile it.

Biker's answer: "My motorcycle's latency might be sub-par, but it still has a much higher bandwidth capability than your network!". Cerf's reply? "Nice hack!" (Note that a variation of this quote is often attributed to Tanenbaum in 1996, but it was a fairly common meme around 1980.)

Just something to think about ;-)

Score one for the patent trolls: US appeals court says it's OK to shop for patent-friendly judges

So much for the concept of "Blind Justice".

Somewhere, Justitia and Prudentia are spinning ...

Daft draft anti-car-hack law could put innocent drivers away for life

I've been re-programing my vehicles for decades ...

I've been hacking car and motorcycle systems (analog and digital) for over 40 years, from cam timing, lift & duration to carb jetting and exhaust tuning to reprogramming EEPROMs for better performance (the sports cars) or economy (the tow rigs).

All are street legal, passed applicable smog rules, and properly insured.

Mike Kowall (R-White Lake) and Ken Horn (R-Frankenmuth) can kiss my pasty white butt.

Japan's Hitomi space 'scope bricked, declared lost after software bug

I am not a superstitious man ...

... however, I've noticed that renaming any boat/ship always leads to disaster. Probably because the renaming leads to a mission profile that is contrary to the build/launch profile.

Pro-ISIS hacking groups are still hooking up

Whatever.

I'm quivering in my boots.

Not.

Zuck's $16m security bill

So basically, the dork ...

... is more paranoid than I thought he was?

Maybe, just maybe, being the boss of a massive, multibillion dollar, international, individually targeted, advertizing company kinda makes you look over your shoulder on a fairly regular basis.

You reap what you sow. Enjoy your legacy, Dork.

Slack login leak shame

The sad thing is ...

... those of us who have been using Slack for about 23 years are just shaking our heads at the the silliness of this fly-by-night product.

Kids these days.

There's more to life than Windows

Re: "Post proof, or retract."

"It's jake. He doesn't do retractions."

Yes, actually, I do.

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/search/?q=jake+%2B%22mea+culpa%22

Re: "Post proof, or retract."

"What is your proof it isn't secure?"

Constantly B0rken Redmond based systems? Don't you read the news?

"And with what more secure technology would you replace it?"

DYOFDW.

Re: It's late. I'm up with a whelping Greyhound. I shouldn't post ... but ...

"If you took that bet, you'd probably lose as all he says is the "chances are" - not that you "are." This means your experience of a different environment isnt enough to falsify his statement."

I took the bet. He was wrong. Ergo ...

::fades to black::

Neo4j CEO: We're at 'a huge inflection point for graph databases'

Re: "Inflection"?

My point is that "inflection" can go in either direction ... or orthogonally.