* Posts by edjimf

22 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jun 2013

Panic at the Cisco tech, thanks to ancient IOS syntax helper that outsmarted itself

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Re: I guess it had to be Sherlock...

Well that's my submission into "Who, me?" scuppered!

First Ariane 6 rocket ready to assemble as Europe begins final countdown

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Got that song going round and round in my head now, thanks...

Australian techie jailed for accessing museum's accounting system and buying himself stuff

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Re: Why anonymous?

Must be an Australian thing, if you look at the AFP website, all of the press releases are "[location] man, [age] convicted of [crime]" with no mention of their name at all, regardless of the offence.

Capita says 2023 cyberattack costs a factor as it reports staggering £100M+ loss

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Re: Take your pick

I've read this as the Password Keeper is used to store the actual passwords for apps, websites etc which can be as long and complicated as you like because you don't have to remember them, you just copy & paste from the Keeper.

Robocar tech biz sues Nvidia, claims stolen code shared in Teams meeting blunder

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Not the brightest of sparks

Why would you:

a - have a window open with code you knew you had nicked while you were on a Teams call with the people you nicked it from, and

b - share your whole desktop and not just the PowerPoint window with the slide deck?

Arrogance or stupidity? Either way he's not the sharpest of tools...

Unity CEO 'retires' in the wake of fee fiasco

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Re: Promise

Any product that needs to include "Quality" on its packaging will be shoddy/revolting or both.

Lithium goldrush hits sleepy Oregon-Nevada border

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Re: Everyone knew

Except:

"Indigenous American groups including the People of Red Mountain oppose lithium exploration in the Mcdermitt Caldera, and have filed several requests for injunctions with the Bureau of Land Management."

Sounds quite NIMBY to me.

Boffins claim discovery of the first piezoelectric liquid

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T-1000 incoming

A liquid that changes shape when electricity is applied to it?

Sounds like the basis for a shape-shifting robot assassin from the future...!

Techie fired for inventing an acronym – and accidentally applying it to the boss

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User based problems are referred to here as "Layer 8 problems"

Google's Alphabet to review every project after $6bn decline in profits

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Re: Google Maps has dropped the compass/rotation feature

Hadn't noticed it vanish, must be recent.

It is still there in Satellite view, just not in default Map view

Rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth II – Britain's first high-tech monarch

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Re: She was a good one

There's a simple counter argument to the "tourism" case for keeping the monarchy: France.

The most visited country on the planet, who famously cut the heads off their monarchy >200 years ago.

As for the "President Boris/Blair etc" problem, easy fix: when the Republic's constitution is written, just make anyone who has been an MP ineligible to be President

Micron aims 1.5TB microSD card at video surveillance market

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Re: What does that do to bandwidth?

2 million of these would comfortably fit in 1 cubic metre, allowing 0.5 cm3 each, which is probably far more than they need.

Weight limitations aside, filling a 747-8F's capacity of 692 m3 at a density of 2,000,000/m3 gives 1.933 ZB (~2 billion TB)

I have a vision of a 747 filled with 692 builder's bulk bags each brimming with 2 million SD cards!

The logistics of reading nearly 1.4 billion cards at the end of the "data transfer" journey are another problem.

Shazam! Two world-record lightning events recognised

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Lightning from the air is amazing

Flying back from Crete once, we were at 40,000ft over Croatia and had a grandstand view of an electrical storm.

The Captain announced it over the PA system, telling those of us on the right hand side of the plane that we could see "Mother Nature in all her glory" and not to worry as the storm was about 100 miles away.

Mesmerising to watch from afar, wouldn't have fancied being underneath it!.

Throw away your Ethernet cables* because MediaTek says Wi-Fi 7 will replace them

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Re: I'll Believe It When I See It

My phone Wi-Fi was rubbish when the microwave was in use.

The microwave door had a small crack in the corner, so thinking of leaky waves being the problem, we bought a brand new microwave

Phone Wi-Fi is still rubbish when the microwave is on.

Probably a combination of acceptable micro transmission and Wi-Fi AP being upstairs and on the other side of at least 2 brick walls (108 yr old house)

In the '80s, spaceflight sim Elite was nothing short of magic. The annotated source code shows how it was done

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Re: Backroom Boys

Further endorsement here, the Wellcome Genome project chapter is a lovely reminder that we can (sometimes) have nice things.

'Extraordinary' pigs step in to protect Schiphol airport from marauding geese

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Immortalised by Pterry.

I can think of no higher honour.

In the '80s, satellite comms showed promise – soon it'll be a viable means to punt internet services at anyone anywhere

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Re: Can't wait...

A colleague has recently had the BT residential fibre service installed (genuine FTTP, not FTTC), and he has no landline at all.

While the service does come with a BT Wi-Fi "router", you are free to not use that and just connect to the RJ45 port on the internal box with your own firewall etc, which is exactly what he has done.

The lights go off, broadband drops out, the TV freezes … and nobody knows why (spooky music)

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Open Access street cabinets

Since getting a dog last year, I've taken to tweeting Virgin or BTOR with photos of their street cabinets that me and the mutt walk past that are missing doors or otherwise not in the best shape.

The eastern side of Nottingham does seem to have a ready supply of oiks who gain some sort of enjoyment from damaging telecoms equipment, so it's a regular thing at the moment. It might slow down when winter comes and they're holed up in the warm.

To be fair, Virgin/BT come back with a "thanks" quite quickly and the cabinet is fixed within a few days at most.

Lenovo says it’s crammed a workstation into a litre of space – less than three cans of beer

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Re: The most important question

Craft IPA and the like, think Brewdog, Tiny Rebel etc

330ml cans, 3 of them = 990ml ~ 1l

Japan to start stamping out rubber stamps and tearing up faxes as new digital agency given Sept. 1 start date

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Hopefully a problem covered by your bank's FAQ page?

After years of dragging its feet, FCC finally starts tackling America's robocall scourge

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Any calls I get on my landline that are from a number I don't know - pick it up and say nothing.

Genuine callers will say "hello?" into the silence, robocallers will wait about 10 secs for a response and then hang up, and as I understand it will mark my number as non-responsive and not try it again.

El Reg rocket squad poised to select Ultimate Cuppa teabag

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There's only one Own Brand worth having...

...Sainsbury's Red Label: proper tea, with a proper tea taste (and the discerning expat's tea of choice, according to the Independent)

They've been selling the stuff for over 100 years, so something must be right about it!