Posts by gv

Regulator says stranger entered hospital, treated a patient, took a document ... then vanished

Was this person heard muttering: "Dialysis? ... What is this, the Dark Ages?"

Vote now on who should take the lead in Musk: The Movie

London's finest thespian

There's only one man for the job: Steven Toast, last seen in Tinseltown.

Window Maker Live: When less is more, but more is also ... more?

Choices, choices, choices

"paradoxically both lightweight and cluttered with multiple redundant choices"

That's exactly why I use Linux as my daily driver: sometimes it's useful to have gVim, Kate and Gedit open with different files...

The same with window managers/desktop environments: I like being able to run IceWM one day, i3 the following day, GNOME the next day.

Cisco to sell enterprise version of $400 Bang & Olufsen earbuds

Webex is still a thing?

See title.

Sorry kids, Infosys and Wipro have cancelled graduate recruitment

Re: 81%? 84%?!

Learning on the job whilst delivering to tight deadlines is always good for your stress levels, especially if the product doesn't work in the same way as described in the documentation ...

X Corp is now suing a sublessee for unpaid rent

Re: This is what happens

"Let that sink in."

GNOME 45 formalizes extensions module system

'Enterprise' Distros

An advantage of using an enterprise distro is that it will be quite a while before you're affected by these things.

Zoom's new London hub – where 'remote work' meets 'we need you back in the office'

Re: I think it is the perfect time to start a new company : Gloom

"I didn't get where I am today without registering the appropriate domain names, Reggie."

ChatGPT study suggests its LLMs are getting dumber at some tasks

Like a new employees once the probation period has ended...

Two new Linux desktops – one with deep roots – come to Debian

Scrollbar on the left

I have this for konsole, xterm and rxvt.

One year after Roe v Wade overturned and 'uterus surveillance' looks grim

"The Land of the Free"

See title.

Google HR hounds threaten 'next steps' for slackers not coming in 3 days a week

Re: if it ain't broke, don't "fix" it

Exactly: two-hour daily commute into some air-conditioned nightmare to spend the day on Zoom calls with people in Europe, the US and India.

File Explorer gets facelift in latest Windows 11 build

Re: Maybe get the current one working first ?

Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

Henry Spencer, in Introducing Regular Expressions (2012) by Michael Fitzgerald

Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess

Re: With two-faced "friends" like Dyson, Britain doesn't need enemies

But Brexit took away our freedom of movement?

Meta virtual reality interrupted by financial reality as thousands lose their jobs

Re: Sorry to see jobs go..

"I only look at porn in order to formulate a strategy for future technology adoption..."

Microsoft promises it's made Teams less confusing and resource hungry

Firefox

Does it work properly on Firefox yet?

Requiem for Google Reader, dead for a decade but not forgotten

RSS

I came to this article via an RSS feed in Akregator.

No more free API access, says Twitter: You pay for that data

Re: They just did this in the wrong order

And to think, it's only taken $44 billion...

Salesforce refreshes board as activist investors circle

Re: When to get really worried

Or Stephen Elop or Léo Apotheker

Elon Musk starts poll with one question: Should I step down as head of Twitter?

A colleague once floated the notion that he should advertise himself as available to take on these high-paying CEO jobs at failing companies on the understanding that he would take all the blame for the failing and be duly sacked when necessary,

Version 252 of systemd, as expected, locks down the Linux boot process

Re: Dual-boot, anybody?

Why dual boot when you can use one or more VMs?

IBM Consulting orders staff back to the office for at least three days a week

Consulting

In this global world (see what I did there?), consulting delivery projects are staffed with teams from various locations. Usually this is also the case for the customer's team, so to go into the office to sit on Zoom or Teams meetings all day seems somewhat pointless.

The crime against humanity that is the modern OS desktop, and how to kill it

Re: Not the only game in town

Now and again, I run IceWM on my Linux machine for that Win95 hit.

How to get Linux onto a non-approved laptop

Re: Old linux person here....do not understand......

Better to wipe Window, install Linux and then, if you do need it, install Windows in a VM.

How did you mourn Internet Explorer's passing?

"Engineers forced to work around the browser's many, many foibles"

As one of these people, I'm grateful that it paid off a large chunk of my mortgage.

The sad state of Linux desktop diversity: 21 environments, just 2 designs

Still occasionally use Openbox and Fluxbox as well.

Did you know Twitter has an open-source arm? This is what it's been up to

Re: email address as ID

There's also the interesting issue of disparate accounts using the same email address and it not necessarily being the same person.

Microsoft makes account switching easier in its web and desktop apps

Re: But what about the apps?

Forced to use the browser for my current project as the customer has restricted my account but insists on using the MS O365 ecosystem.

Hello Slackware, our old friend: Veteran Linux distribution releases version 15.0 at last

Re: no systemd?

Good job Slackware isn't clunky, unpredictable or a bodge.

Hive View security camera customers left in the dark as some gear gives up the ghost

Re: Hive

Very waspish comment.

Shocking: UK electricity tariffs are among world's most expensive

Re: Electric should be cheaper, gas more expensive

"you can at least light a gas hob to make hot drinks"

I'm guessing you don't have a modern gas hob: as a safety feature, it cuts off the gas supply if there's no electricity.

Ubuntu 21.10: Plan to do yourself an Indri? Here's what's inside... including a bit of GNOME schooling

Workspaces

I like my workspaces in a 2x2 grid.

UK chancellor: Getting back to the altar of corporate dreams (the office) will boost young folks' careers

Re: Er ...

I believe the correct terms are "agile" and "scrum".

ZTE Axon 30 Ultra: Strong effort from an entity-lister, but your tiny child hands may struggle

Re: Chinese Boogyman

The CCP will find it invaluable to know that you are sitting at home reading The Register.

Windows 11 still doesn't understand our complex lives – and it hurts

Note that Firefox is not a supported browser for Teams.

Gov.UK vows to chop red tape in the digital sector. What could possibly go wrong?

Re: The elephant in the room

Given the big players are deeply embedded as consultants into the machinery of Government, the short answer is 'no'.

IBM email fiasco complicates sales deals, is worse than biz is letting on – sources

Re: Unbelievable

Big tech titan screwing up a big tech migration is not a good look.

Lenovo refreshes workstation ThinkPads with 11th-gen Intel CPUs, RTX graphics, 5G

This is me in my home office.

There's no place like GNOME: System 76 introduces COSMIC desktop GUI for its Pop!_OS Linux

Re: Why the fuck

What are the "maintenance headaches of Linux"?

I get a notification icon saying there are updates available. I install the updates. Occasionally, I have to reboot, but usually not.

A Microsoft bork at the heart of The Oracle? Whatever next?

Re: 3 minutes before a meeting

With the current lockdown, it feels like I've been at home for nearly 20 years.

Google, Microsoft pitch in some spare change to keep Mozilla's Web Docs online bible alive

Re: Surprised.

They have to know about the standards so they can work out the most effective way to subvert them.

Has Apple abandoned CUPS, the Linux's world's widely used open-source printing system? Seems so

Re: So...

Whatever your problem, the answer is never Windows...

Android 11 lands with plenty more privacy preferences for Pixels and special Google friends first

Old Phones

I annoys me that I do not have the option of upgrading my OnePlus 3T to this even though it has 6GB of RAM.

Twitter says hack of key staff led to celebrity, politician, biz account hijack mega-spree

Re: Working from Home

Surely they'd have a VPN with 2FA before letting anybody near a vital internal system?

Germany is helping the UK develop its COVID-19 contact-tracing app, says ambassador

Re: £11.8M

Nice "work" (nothing tangible produced) if you can get it.

Sony reveals PlayStation 5 will offer heretical no-optical-disk option. And yes, it has an AMD CPU-GPU combo

Can I play nethack on it?

See title.

Web pages a little too style over substance? Behold the Windows 98 CSS file

The parking brake on my car is a switch.

Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52,000-person Reply-All email storm

"Which begs the quetion how much iron is created through sending ironic emails?"

Whatever the amount, it's a steel.

HMD Global pokes head out of quarantine to show off 3 new Nokia mobiles

Re: SD Card & Headphone Jack?

Absolutely this. Bought Nokias for the kids (one to the utter disdain of the Carphone Warehouse guy who had to fetch it from the stock room): solid, cruft-free phones with regular updates.