Posts by packetguy

Microsoft partners beware: Action Pack to be retired in 2025

“Time has moved on in the years since.” LOL! A tautology if there ever was one! Other authorial gems: “writing is on the wall”, “out with the old, in with the new.” Better give this author “the old heave-ho”. Because “you cant teach an old dog new tricks”. Apparently. Eh, what?

Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion

Referring to the Linux Kernel…

DON’T TOUCH HER! DON’T TOUCH HER!

YOU ARE NOT THE SAME AGE!

(Authoritarianism is bred into some cultures)

Never grep a yacc by the inode.

Never.

Microsoft gives unexpected tutorial on how to install Linux

El Fantasy

Ah, still pushing the fantasy of One OS Must Do Everything? Unlike Limey Redcoats dressed in identical totalitarian colors, we rebel Yanks know how to choose the best tool for the job. LOL!

Zoom CEO reportedly tells staff: Workers can't build trust or collaborate... on Zoom

The fakest of fake news

I see the illumilefti are still pushing the telecommuting myth. Just because Zoom’s CEO wants certain employees to come in from the demonstrably inefficient home work environs doesn’t mean that he’s French horning the Zoom product line. There are loads of useful uses for Zoom that aren’t telecombricking: webinars, demonstrations, inter-office meetings, customer confabs, help desk helping, just to namify a few. El Reg needs to get out of its gutter news mode and talk about real issues, or it’s going to be El Sludge.,

Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out of his Echo gear over false claim

Re: What, no backup strategy?

An identity thief drains your biggest bank account. What, no backup strategy? A carjacker jacks your work vehicle. What, no backup strategy? A rapist rapes you. What, no backup strategy? Eliminating all single points of failure depends on how big the point is.

Jeff Bezos is a communist, woke tyrant

Depravity such as this comes from the top. Fix it Mr. Bezos. Or become the next Target.

Yep, the 'Who owns Linux?' case is back from the dead

Free Software billyclub

This time we should just BASH these Xinuso copyright trolls into dust.

Apple hardware priced so high that no one wants to buy it? It's 1983 all over again

Re: As a dev system?

No, you only had to read ONE manual: a three ring binder containing about 500 pages impeccably organized and clearly written, among the best computer documentation of the day.

I was one of the earliest developers, and attended the Mac programming boot camp in San Jose (I lived in Minnesota at the time), taught by Guy Kawasaki. This was an entirely new computing paradigm, coming as it did into a green-screen, character-based world. There was understandably a lot to learn.

I wonder what this article’s author would say about the first TV developed? It was, after all, just a radio with a graphical interface. Would he retain his haughty tone and snide vocabulary? He’s a know-nothing who was in gradeschool when the Mac came out.

Chinese Super Micro 'spy chip' story gets even more strange as everyone doubles down

Re: How can I put this?

Stargatesg7, What you posit is silly beyond belief. Any chip fab engineer would immediately detect extra litho layers in a device long before final production, and such a contaminated chip would have thermal and electrical characteristics immediately calling attention to the subterfuge. No shaving required. Only someone with no micro semi knowledge would say this.

Redmond's on fire, your 365 is terrified: Microsoft email outage en masse

Fake News. Move along. Nothing to see here.

This is Fake News. There is no outage, and there are no aliens. No red heat maps burning the UK. It's all in El Reg's imagination. Go back to sleep. And anyway, even if there were an outage, it woldn't be aliens. We don't work that way.

Russian hackers got Trump elected? Yeah, let's take a close look at that, says Obama

21 Days is not enough time for a real report

Which means Obama aims to produce a bogus one. And with the veil of CIA secrecy to hide from accountability, nobody will be able to challenge it before its goal -- scaring the willies out of Liberals -- is achieved.

Diabolical, I call it.

Steve Jobs, MS Office, Israel, and a basic feature Microsoft took 13 years to install

A wonderful story...

...perfectly told. Thank you!

Yelp minimum wage row shines spotlight on … broke, fired employee

Re: Trump?

This is not a new problem. People for hundreds of years before Ms. Whiney have tried to live in the most desirable locales whilst being insufficiently valuable to pull down the required bucks. I want to live in NY Trump Towers. It's my right! Instead I'm stuck in hot, unglamorous Southern California. Woe is me.

Never mind that most of America lives in the meat of the bi-coastal sandwich.

Kindle Fire: An open letter to Jeff Bezos

An Open Letter to The Register

Dear The Register.

Please do not let Greg Knieriemen write anymore. He is a whiner. He doesn't make sense. And he does The Register no favors by writing a rambling obsequious "open letter" to a person of intelligence and substance.

According to your "Get more from this author", this is the only thing Mr. Kneiriemen has written for "all The Register sites." Keep it that way while you still can.