Posts by wolfetone

Hungryhouse resets thousands of customers' passwords

Re: Not surprising

Why would you think someone who actually has a proper IT skill or knowledge would work for a struggling online takeaway firm for minimum wage?

Peanuts + Monkeys = Exactly what you'd get.

What the world needs now is Pi, sweet $5 Raspberry Pi Zero

Re: When I were a lad

What I wouldn't give for ta chisel and t'stone tablets when I were a lad. In my day we 'ad to make do with cave paintings. And dont even think we could read t'english, we only knew stickmen!

@Salts That does make sense actually, I didn't think they'd have used the older RPi chip in the Zero so I thought they just skimped on the RAM because of cost. I don't know why I thought that.

The one good thing though when looking for an application for this is the electricity cost of running a Pi. On a worst case scenario where it draws 5W of power and you pay £0.20 per hour, it'll cost about £9 per year to run. Although it will probably only ever draw 3.5W of power, so the price would still be cheaper. So this to me means I can set on up as a development server and a media server (obviously using two Pi's) and have it on all the time.

Also, I got a MagPi magazine from my local big Tesco. They had at least 10 copies in there, I think the best bet is to head to the big superstores outside of the city

Yeah it does, which makes this even more of an incredible feat really! However, if they stuck a 1GB RAM chip on there how much would it have put on the cost of the device? I feel it wouldn't have been that much of a significance.

I'm hopefully going to track down one of these magazines on lunch and play with it. When you say struggles, how so? Just slow to load the relevant window?

Would have liked 1GB RAM, but for £4 who the hell cares!

Want this. Badly!!!!!

Mozilla annual report shows risky Google dependency now risky Yahoo! dependency

Problem with Mozilla is that they have diversified away from concentrating on the browser, which is just an idiotic decision. The problem isn't down to the developers, it's down to the management - or the distinct lack of management. They need management will balls big enough to shift the focus of the company away from the Firefox OS crap and on to a nimble version of Firefox. Basically do what Microsoft did with WinMin.

Strip it all back to the basics, improve it's speed and how much power it uses. It absolutely drains the battery on a laptop. It doesn't matter what developer gets upset. Firefox is for the community, it isn't a vanity project for the developer.

Make it happen.

Fifth arrest in TalkTalk hacking probe: Now Plod cuff chap in Wales

Re: Government links ....

"Both investigated, but if the perpetrators arn't in the UK and can't be traced what do you expect them to do about it? Seems to me the talktalk hackers were a bunch of braindead script kiddies who were traced pretty easily.

But hey, lets go with the conspiracy theory that the Met police are sucking up to the Tory government. This is btw, the same Met Police that screwed over Tory minister Andrew Mitchell with officers commiting perjury and trashed former tory minister leon brittans reputation only 9 months back and didn't bother telling him he was in the clear before he died. I suppose that was all just a misdirection pantomime though, right?

Idiot."

Haven't you got a budget statement to be fawning over Tory boy?

And, for the record, Leon Brittan wasn't cleared of the accusations. There was a lack of evidence to prosecute. Two very different things buddy.

Re: Government links ....

Where were they for the Sony PlayStation hack then?

Where were they for the Carphone Warehouse hack?

Where were they for the Moonpig hack?

I think you've left your brain in Primark.

Re: Government links ....

I don't know who I feel sorry for more. Her having married a Tory toss pot, or the Tory toss pot marrying Tim Nice But Dim.

Irish electricity company threatens to cut off graveyard

We buried my Dad in County Mayo two years ago, and we've had no such problems. That's just down to him digging for coal to keep himself warm.

Remember Windows 1.0? It's been 30 years (and you're officially old)

Windows ME wasn't all THAT bad, personally I found it a better OS especially compared with the shite they called Windows 98. The one funny thing that would happen you'd unplug a USB device and BANG.... BSOD. I did have an eMachines back then so that might have also had something to do with it.

First PC I had on my 10th birthday was an old IBM PS/2 Model 50 with Windows 3.11 installed. I thought it was amazing, especially as the school PC's only had crappy old Windows 3.1. I now know the difference, but when you're at school and your peers parents can afford to buy the latest Time PC with Windows 98 and a CD-ROM drive you have to take little victories where you can.

Cat discovers GNOME desktop bug

Re: More proof

Not to get all "Science vs Religion" on this statement, but I would urge you to watch

the film Cats & Dogs. On the face of it, it is just a film. But it's so much more, it's proof if ever were needed that Cats are evil and hell bent on propaganda to turn people like you into gibbering wrecks that mindlessly bow down to the feline fascists.

We have been warned.

P.S: Dear Reg, please supply a tin foil hat icon. Thanks.

Brit cops accused of abusing anti-terror laws to hunt colleague

Liberty

"We've heard of it, but we don't particularly like it." Cleveland Police & UK Justice System in a joint statement

Coffee fixes the damage booze did to your liver, study finds

Irish Coffee

The gift that keeps on giving.

Terrorists seek to commit deadly 'cyber attacks' in UK, says Chancellor Osborne

Well if the country is stupid enough to connect nuclear reactors to the internet so the operators can watch cat videos on YouTube, then everyone is going to have a bad time aren't they.

TalkTalk boss: 'Customers think we're doing right thing after attack'

Well I just found the contact details to a TalkTalk customer, rang them up and asked them the same question.

He didn't think TalkTalk were doing the right thing after the attack.

Music lovers move to block Phil Collins' rebirth

Re: Saxophone Solos

It does help that I said the 1980's, and not the 1970's....

The only bad thing about the 1980's was the use of bad saxophone solo's. That's all thats wrong with the music.

Ohhh you can always find me in the kitchen at parties.... You'll always find me in the kitchen at PARRRRRTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIES

Opera Jon's sparkling Vivaldi proves the browser isn't dead

Re: Linux didn't take over the desktop, it took over the browser

"This is not an exhaustive list. I left out a bunch of really obscure browsers."

Like Microsoft's Internet Explorer?

Re: Is this why my Opera 12 is bombarding me with 'update to latest version' popups?

Vivaldi has nothing to do with Opera 12 or Opera the company.

Is the world ready for a bare-metal OS/2 rebirth?

"Why ?? FFS, why ? Why on earth would anyone want this ? OS/2 or Amiga OS is totally OK in a VM, or emulation, but why on bare metal ?

Are people not aware world has moved from the 80s and OS/2 on bare metal is not a thing ?

Can't get this ..."

I can't work out if you're Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer (probably the later), but take your negativity and shove it up the tailpipe of Windows 10.

Viva La Big Blue!!!!

Sennheiser announces €50,000 headphones (we checked, no typos)

Re: OK... tube amplifiers

"No, what will actually debunk the whole thing, is that some fucking pillock will use a tatty MP3 player as a source."

I remember the days when MP3 players were 32MB and you had to compress the shit out of the music files in order to get maybe two albums on one device.

However, most of the chavs on the bus in my yoof decided to take things a step further and play really REALLY badly compressed music out loud on their mobile phones on the bus. In since transpires that the music they played was actually crap to begin with, so the reduction in quality didn't affect the music too much.

HMRC 'reluctant' to crack down on VAT fraudsters – tax ace

Re: Corporate tax, or VAT?

"There are fewer companies than people...

I don't think I need to explain that further."

That's true, but the tax affairs of companies tend to be far more complex than those of the ordinary self employed person. I may have one accountant do my tax return, I certainly don't need 5 of them to do it. But a charity I used to work for would be audited and there would be 6 of them doing the job.

So yes, there are more people than companies, but you need far more people to check up on a company than you do an individual.

Re: Corporate tax, or VAT?

HMRC have around 3,000 agents assigned to finding out the members of Joe Public who don't pay their taxes properly (or at all).

HMRC have around 300 agents assigned to finding out the companies to avoid/evade paying corporation tax.

I think it's more down to who HMRC's/George Osbornes' friends are, not who has the most money unfortunately.

Channel Islands firm touts all-in-one secure comms app

Everything's secure

Until someone finds out how to break in to it.

'Govt will not pass laws to ban encryption' – Baroness Shields

That's the longest way of saying "password01" i've ever seen.

ICO 'making enquiries' into bizarre shopper data spill at M&S

Re: This is not just a data breach

Anonymous Coward because it's actually Dervla Kirwan

Europe fails to ban web 'fast lanes' – what now for Euro net neutrality?

Re: Paid fast lane: I fear this scenario

"there wont be any Paid fast lane this is not the US"

Not yet it isn't.

TalkTalk attack: UK digi minister recommends security badges for websites

At least he's right about the terms and conditions not being easy to understand for most consumers, and his only problem with what he said is that he didn't stop after saying the above. No, he kept going, and removed all doubt that the man is in fact an idiot.

Lawyers harrumph at TalkTalk's 'no obligation to encrypt' blurt

Re: Am I the only person who thinks...

You mean Tim Nice But Dim surely?

Bacon can kill: Official

You Don't Win Friends With Salad

See above.

RBS promises 'safe, secure, confidential' info-sharing on Facebook at Work

Re: What could possibly go wrong?

I wonder what's stopping employees copy and pasting my details from their systems on to their Facebook?

Mystery object re-entering atmosphere may be Apollo booster

Are you sure?

It could just be a smegging garbage pod...

Hackers hit NATO, White House – then aimed at MH17 air disaster probe

Re: That's not nice, but...

Surprised no one has realised that from below Malaysian Airlines planes look at lot like the Russian Jet Putin uses to travel on. It's known Putin was travelling around the place at the time, a Ukrainian could have easily thought "Shit me, it's Putin's jet. Let's blow it up". They're not exactly going to wait around to find out if it's his Jet or not. If it looks like it, and why would there be any other plane in the area, blow it up while you have the chance.

But obviously NATO wouldn't dare suggest that, would they?

TalkTalk website hit by outage, broadband customers also KO'd

Nope it's another case, The Reg (Finally) reported it.

Just come up on the BBC that the site was hacked and 4 million records are affected.

Amazing how companies can have public facing websites that can easily access personal information that, really, shouldn't be accessed.

But it's OK, the ICO will come in and give them a slap on the wrist.

Laid-off IT workers: You want free on-demand service for what now?

Dell shafted the Irish like this, got them to train up the Polish and then sacked the Irish lot.

If you put your faith in these big companies then you're going to have a bad time. There will always be someone who will do your job for less. Might not do it better than you, or as good, but when you're making more money then who the hell cares?

Windows 10 out, users happy, PCs upgraded, my work here is done – says Microsoft OS chief

I feel sorry for his kids, they're stuck with him now.

Experts ponder improbable size of Cleopatra's asp

You know, I can live my life without the burden of not knowing how Cleopatra died.

Thanks guys!

openSUSE Leap: Middle ground between cutting edge and conservative

Leap 42?

Why not Level 42?

WordPress blogger patch foot-drag nag: You're tempting hackers

WordPress is to the internet what Asbestos is to the General Public. A wonderful thing to begin with, then just turns out to be horrific and shouldn't even be touched by people with death wishes.*

*speaking as a developer of 10 years

Lotus F1: 38°C? Sand in your Vblocks? Must be building a data center in Bahrain again

Agreed, and God knows Lotus needs to keep running the way their finances are...

BBC shuts off iPlayer to UK VPNs, cutting access to overseas fans

The BBC can hardly take the moral high ground with anything after Stuart Hall and Jimmy Saville.

GCHQ to pore over blueprints of Chinese built Brit nuke plants

Re: "selling property overseas to invest in its own future."

"Who cares if they make housing unaffordable anywhere in London?"

Bollocks to London.

Virgin Media filters are still eating our email – Ntlworlders

Re: ISP email?

Have you ever watched Frozen? Because there's a song in it called "Let It Go" which you'd probably find useful around about now...

Nippy, palaver and cockwomble: Greatest words in English?

I think a phrase exists for the Eurozone

"From bean to cup, you fuck up"

I know it's not a word, more of a phrase, but "fuckity bye" is probably my favourite at the moment.

God bless you Malcolm Tucker.

Shocker: Net anarchist builds sneaky 220v USB stick that fries laptops

Why didn't I have this in my old job, I could have given it to my CEO as a leaving present.

FAA issues lithium battery warning

Re: Dreamliner + Lithium batteries?

No, the batteries will have to be part of the pilots' hand luggage.

Dow Jones the latest big-name breach

For once, I don't feel at all sorry for the people affected.