Posts by J. R. Hartley

VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor in an utterly obscure way

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Rarely have I seen such consensus amongst the commentards. Broadcom should be worried.

The passive aggression of connecting USB to PS/2

Re: *!$#&@ Bluetooth

Garlic bread.

They've only gone and made Doom run in a PDF file

Re: How much ink?

A spokesman said, "This is the one thing we didn't want to happen".

Christmas 1984: The last hurrah for 8-bit home computers

Re: Well......

"We had to make our own log tables, from trees with square roots."

Luxury.

Huawei Cloud built a network monitor so sensitive it spotted the impact of a single faulty chip

Excellent work

How are those sanctions working out for ya?

Americaaaahhhhh FUCK YEAH!

Iran's MuddyWater phishes Israeli orgs with custom BugSleep backdoor

"Your Jew-hatred is showing.

How exactly would such an arrest warrant be implemented? How exactly would one event attribute the attack to a particular individual in order to get them named in the warrant?

Iran declared war on the US & Israel in 1979. While neither has seen fit to treat the situation seriously, law enforcement has not historically been part of how one prosecutes a war."

A perfect example of how Vulture Central has gone down the pan since it went all yeehaww yankee doodle in the head.

Re: Badges

I had a post removed, and my silver badge removed at the exact same time. Never ever criticise apartheid israel, fellow commentards.

Bravo

Excellent work. Anyone that helps stop the genocide being committed by apartheid israel should be commended.

I lost my silver badge for criticising apartheid israel many years ago, so will be interesting to see if this post gets deleted.

Huawei lays final bricks of billion-dollar Shanghai R&D complex

How are those sanctions working out?

Americaaaahh, FUCK YEAH!!! /s

Stop installing that software – you may have just died

Move zig

Google cuts ties with Entrust in Chrome over trust issues

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Imagine using Chrome. Lol.

Nokia to sell submarine network business to France in $375M deal

Re: Glub glub glub

Making fun of the Oceangate billionaires.

How can anyone sink so low.

Well

Whatever happened to BT Marine or whatever it was called? The one with all the ships and shit.

Yahoo! Japan to waive $189 million ad revenue after detecting fraudulent clicks

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No! It's! Just! That! The! Yanks! Don't! Get! It! So! They! Stopped!

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I! Miss! The! Old! Reg!

UK and US cops band together to tackle Qilin's ransomware shakedowns

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"The lack of financial education of the younger generations is a disgrace."

Silence, boomer.

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"So you don't mind if some of your pension funds investments get siphoned off by scum? Or the savings of people trying to put together a deposit on a house or for their families?"

You delicate summer flower.

$megacorp will milk us for every penny then can, with or without being hacked.

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"...you don't hand them another bottle of gin and praise their extrajudicial actions."

Who doesn't?

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Pure scum. I don't mind when big corporations get shafted, in fact I quite like it tbh.

But the NHS is off limits.

Britain's Ministry of Defence accused of wasting £174M on 'external advice'

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General Dynamics?!

We can just get GEC / Marconi to develop one.

Oh, wait...

What's up with Mozilla buying ad firm Anonym? It's all about 'privacy-centric advertising'

Re: If it looks like bullshit and smells like bullshit

Cheers for the heads up. How does it cut the sponsor sections though? Does it detect someone shilling a VPN and skip?

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"a spokesperson for the Firefox house told The Register advertising as a business model is what allows the internet to be free and open to everyone"

Bollocks.

Facebook != The Internet

Tesla shareholders agree to pay Musk staggering sum of $48B

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Stupid, stupid bastards.

Windows Insiders to fly solo while Copilot rollout frozen

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Has it gone racist yet?

Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme

Yeah, I assumed that was a typo. Far too cheap, more likely a billion knowing how incompetent the UK is.

Windows 11 24H2 is coming so we can all shut up about Windows 12 for another year

Re: Lifetime

First rule of downvotes...

The real significance of Apple's Macintosh

Re: Apple reality distortion field...Amiga Alert..Amiga Alert

There's this thing called 'inflation'. You might want to Google it and get back to me.

Apple reality distortion field

Good to see the ARDF is stronger than ever. The Mac, and Apple in general, were a bit of a joke. £8k for a computer that could only do black & white. Lol.

If only Commodore didn't fuck themselves up...

ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain to do the same job as 192.168.x.x

Re: .local

YOU WONT CATCH ME WITH MY TROUSERS DOWN

UK telcos didn't collude to put Phones 4u out of business – judge

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Yeah. But they did though.

In quest to defeat Euro red-tape, Apple said it had three Safari browsers – not one

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The utter disdain that the fruity foxconn rebrander has for the general public is unbelievable.

Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure

Re: if you tolerate this then your chilled air will be next.

I!Miss!The!Old!Yahoo!Headlines!

Apple, Samsung, and Intel to invest in Arm IPO, and emerge with some control: report

Tory Britain

Still can't believe the government let ARM get sold off.

Oh, that's right, the tories have been in charge for 13 miserable years. Fucking scumbags.

Apple owes Brit iOS app devs millions from excessively high commission, lawsuit claims

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The day the fruity foxconn-rebrander replies to a request from Vulture Central will be the day this site dies on its arse. Or ass, since it's gone all yank of late.

Twitter name and blue bird logo to be 'blowtorched' off company branding

Re: Y oh Y

It's an X parrot.

Free Wednesday gift for you lucky lot: Extra mouse button!

Re: RISC OS always used three buttons

Actually the Amiga supported 3 buttons from day one. There weren't many about though. I had one.

No open door for India's tech workers in any UK trade deal

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

Don't be silly. The great British unwashed are far, far too racist and servile for that type of thing.

The number’s up for 999. And 911. And 000. And 111

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The first rule of downvotes.

Europe's largest city council runs parallel systems to cover Oracle rollout mess

Hopefully Larry Ellison will be the next billionaire to snuff it.

Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office

"Found the useless middle-manager."

When an HR department reaches critical mass, it becomes self sufficient in terms of work generation.

Oh, wow. OK. Apple really is making a $3.5K VR ski-mask. Dev tools are now out for it

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What a load of bollocks.

Boss put project on progress bar timeline: three months … four … actually NOW!

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"BT who managed to get one of my customers signed up to separate multi year ISDN line and call bundle packages with different expiry dates. Cancelling one could only be done by taking a hit on the early cancellation fee of the other."

Come on. That is genuinely impressive.

That old box of tech junk you should probably throw out saves a warehouse

Perchance

Alien versus Predator? No, this Android spyware works together

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Lovely stuff.

Billionaire BT stalker Patrick Drahi increases stake to 24.5%

Uh-oh

We're in trouble.

Microsoft to let Internet Explorer 11 haunt Windows some more

Re: Still a lot of ancient industrial hardware that needs it

"And since MS doesn't update Win7 any more, it won't break randomly."

Shirley you don't let it ever see the internet?!

Telco giant Vodafone to cut 11,000 staff as part of its turnaround plan

Good.

Glad to see Vodafone suffering. This is what happens when your customer service is so poor. Well deserved and good riddance.

National newspaper duped into running GPT-4-written rage-click opinion piece

Re: For Worlds Leading Greater IntelAIgent Games Players ‽

You're old news.

Samsung's Galaxy S23 Ultra is a worthy heir to the Note

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It has no iris scanner, and face unlock is terrible. A month in, and it seems like a step back from my Note 9 so far.

AmigaOS 3.2.2 released for those feeling nostalgic

A4000

I still regret selling my A4000 about 5 years ago, but I needed to buy a house, and the A4k got me a few grand. Miss it so much.