Posts by Terry Dooher

Brits unleash world's hottest chilli pepper

Good for them.

Surely if they kept diluting it down to 30C, then it would blow your head off?

Y'know, 'cause it has the, like, memory of chilli...

UK gov cuts ribbon on public datasets site

Seems to be working now.

Earlier today, tried the 'Browse all data' and received:

"Your search returned no results"

Tried the Blog to see if there was a fault noted and got:

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Error 503 Service Unavailable

Guru Meditation

XID: 1553401285

Varnish

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Not sure what the Varnish is about, but I haven't seen a Guru Mediation since I waved goodbye to my Amiga 500 at a car boot sale. Who's the hippy working on the server?

Knuckle rap for riot shield sledging coppers

Good for them.

It it just me or does that scene look like a live-action Banksy painting?

Ditto the sentiment above, too. That video is a better PR job for the police than anything I've seen in years.

CA auto-immune update trashes systems

Seems I got off lightly.

It only hit 7 PCs and 99% of the detections I saw were in Incredibuild's ModuleCache folder, an eminently deletable local cache of of DLLs and EXEs from other machines. (mostly related to Visual Studio). One machine only lost network and CDrom drive access after a few .sys files got renamed. Some of the others on that blog weren't so lucky.

Woman cleans keyboard... in dishwasher

Why bother taking the keys off?

I've done a few oldish MS keyboards like this. It cleans off the accumulated gunk and crumbs well enough, you just have to shake it out and allow it to dry naturally for a day or so before using it again.