Posts by PTW

The sweetest slice of Pi: Raspberry Pi 500+ sports mechanical keys, 16GB, and built-in SSD

Re: Keyboard Shenanigans

IBM Model M is 40 this year. Still available, and US made, at https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/NEW_M

Although it took until the M2 to receive the correct vertical Enter key, not available on the new ones

Zorin OS 18 beta makes Linux look like anything but Linux

And there you have it....

How do you tell if someone's vegetarian [or vegan]? Don't worry, they'll tell you!

Personally, if I'm not prepared to kill it, I won't eat it. However, road kill hare is OK.

OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance

"That man's a cab, that man's a cab, that man's a cab!"

Anyone remember the radio ad I'm paraphrasing?

CISA slammed for role in 'censorship industrial complex' as budget faces possible $500M cut

Re: El Reg has become a nightmare

A thousand times this! Supposedly intelligent people have lost all ability to critically think about anything.

Zealots screeching bile, and hate at anyone who dares cast an opposing view, whilst at the same time ignoring the actual data.

Scotland now home to Europe's biggest battery as windy storage site fires up

Worked out well in CA, and OZ

In 3...2...1...

Xi know what you did last summer: China was all up in Republicans' email, says book

Oh! The TDS cope

Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall

Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, CASH IS KING! Use it or lose it, great to see cash has grown for the third year in a row in the UK

Micropatchers share 1-instruction fix for NTLM hash leak flaw in Windows 7+

Re: ...tallying up the taxes due and paid.

You can bet there's more civil servants counting your $/£'s now, than there were before computerisation. Javier, we have a another job for you when you've 5 mins spare.

FTC urges smart device makers to disclose software update lifecycles

Re: Toothless

Bore off remtard

Musk and Trump to fall out in 2025, predicts analyst

Seems like 2/3 of the posters on here should step away from the kdb, and go back to watching the View, and clutching their pearls.

Also, back a horse/play the lottery/go to a casino, as they're so good at predicting the future, good luck.

It's POETiS day ---->

DoJ wants Google to sell off Chrome and ban it from paying to be search default

Re: break-down in truth, trust, and hence democracy. See also: Brexit.

Missing 20M votes probably, and give over with your Brexit nonsense.

Not anon, cos I don't give a flying about your down votes. You were wrong, you lost, I, nor anyone else has to agree with your point of view. But seriously, 8 years later and you're still whining?

Wail, "democracy is broken because people didn't vote the way I wanted them to!!!1" Take a deep breath, and listen to yourself, please.

Europe's largest local authority slammed for 'poorest' ERP rollout ever

Oracle, or BCC lurker?

There are some very specific single down votes on some of the above comments, just saying.

WordPress.org denies service to WP Engine, potentially putting sites at risk

Who read the article?

Not many it seems. No-one is stopping anyone using WordPress!

WordPress.org are no-longer providing free hosting of plugins for WPEngine

From the article ..."Preventing WP Engine users from accessing plugin updates..."

A look under the hood of the 3D-printed, Raspberry Pi powered 'suicide pod'

Re: Nitrous Oxide

No need, hypoxia via Nitrogen is akin to being drunk anyway, that's why they have the CO2 removal.

I'm pretty sure a standard medical O2 mask hooked up to a nitrogen bottle would do

Michael Portillo presented an awesome documentary "How to kill a Human Being" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228865/

Did you hear the one about the help desk chap who abused privileges to prank his mate?

Good grief...

There's some truly joyless bastards lurking here, I guess the 8 of you were the same in the office, so were the target of many a prank.

Down vote away, especially if it puts a little joy in your lives.

Unlocked workstations resulted in any of the following:

Inverted screens,

Desktop icons removed, and wallpaper replaced with previous desktop screenshot,

Very rude emails composed to the head of IT, not sent, just left full screen

System language changed to Russian, or Greek

Lebanon now hit with deadly walkie-talkie blasts as Israel declares ‘new phase’ of war

Re: Experts

ex, is a has-been, spert, is a drip under pressure, I'm here all week

The future of AI/ML depends on the reality of today – and it's not pretty

Re: Good for fun

IANA Coder, so I tried to get GPT to alphabetically sort two, two column files, and then merge them, and remove duplicates, using Python. IIRC Python has some built-in functions for such things.

GPT was wrong, over, and over, and over, again.

Supermicro delays 10-K filling due to accounting issues

PSB

https://hindenburgresearch.com/smci/

UK tech pioneer Mike Lynch dead at 59

To the two down voters, a POX on both your houses, you toads

This uni thought it would be a good idea to do a phishing test with a fake Ebola scare

Human remains, absolutely worthless, why do they even exist?

Here we go again. And again. Musk threatens to pull Twitter, SpaceX out of California

Re: This Isn't Typical El Reg Snark...

These days it's not "the woke mind virus", it's simply "dog whistle retardation" on the left, and the right, el Reg used to be so much better than this.

I used to love a healthy debate, these days it just descends to people threatening violence/spewing hate. Which to me, is a sure sign that your argument doesn't hold water.

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into, and by reason, I mean looked at the data, from numerous sources.

Beer, cos it's Friday, and I don't have to deal with CrowdStrike. Have a good weekend whatever your political persuasion

Guntrader breach perp: I don't think it's a crime to dump 111k people's details online in Google Earth format

What a cunt

Thankfully there was only my previous post code, old landline number, and gt specific email address on there.

South Korea to test grenade-launching drones

Re: Gunpowder filled?

Ken, I came here to say exactly that! Have a beer. Guess Gaz is too busy with crApple's super snooping

84-year-old fined €250,000 for keeping Nazi war machines – including tank – in basement

Re: Did I miss something?

Suspect it wasn't actually "tanks" rather Armoured Recovery Vehicles [ARVs] which are based on a tank chassis. [the German ones are] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armoured_recovery_vehicle

Shhh...

"Don't mention the war"

On a more serious note the judge does seem to have been a massive dick in this instance. The fine is well over the top, I'm with YAHAC above, on this, it smells bad.

AWS adds browser access to its cloudy WorkSpaces desktops – but not for Linux

From my understanding of the article, it's the hosted OS that needs to be Windows, not the client [browser] OS

Happy birthday, Sinclair Radionics: We'll remember you for your revolutionary calculators and crap watches

Re: A watch that doesn't display the time until you do something ?

Unless you have really short arms/long shirt sleeves, I find an action akin to shooting your cuffs enough to reveal my wrist watch, no need for my other hand.

Great reset? More like Fake Reset: Leaders need a reality check if they think their best staff will give up hybrid work

Have I landed on a different planet?

The Office for Budget Responsibility have forecast an increase in fuel duty receipts from 2019-2020, through to 2022-2023. Did any of them look out of the window during 2020 an see the empty roads?

https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/tax-by-tax-spend-by-spend/fuel-duties/# Check out the note at the top of the page!

You're not imagining it. Amazon and AWS want to hire all your friends, enemies, and everyone in between

If amazon.jobs is anything to go by I suggest they tighten up the recruitment process. Open the "by Location" filter, and the fixed list ordering is by "most open positions" FFS! Really!?

Engineers' Laurel and Hardy moment caused British Airways 787 to take an accidental knee

Sorry Jude, I was going to go back and search but I had the tap on the shoulder to actually go and do some work, pfft, the temerity of it!! And thanks @quxinot. Have a beer on me, both.

There's a post by an AC on another of today's stories that's missing the voting buttons completely. El Reg is going TITSUP

Our Friends Electric: A pair of alternative options for getting around town

Re: The door

Not an urban myth, there was some odd UK law at least up into the 60s, where a 16 year old could drive a 3 wheeler, but only if it didn't have reverse. Quite why anyone thought reverse was such a huge danger between the ages of 16 and 17 I have no idea!

I remember my farther telling me of one of his friends who re-enabled reverse but had a bolt he could drop through a hole and lock out reverse should he ever be stopped by the Police.

How to keep your enterprise up to date by deploying the very latest malware

Rookie mistake

Why did he not image it the moment it was complete? Even on PoETS day, this can wait for the image to complete

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@gandalfcn

From your incessant ravings about the poor woman it looks to me that you are the one with current mental health issues.

And on that note, would you consider it acceptable to replace "loony" with "paraplegic" in your rants?

LibreOffice 7.2 release candidate reveals effort to be Microsoft-compatible

One question

Have they moved "Contains header row" to the opening tab of data sort in Calc!?

NortonLifeLock sniffs around Avast, announces 'advanced discussions' for acquisition

Why would AVG do that because Norton buy Avast?

Sweat-sipping wearable aims to charge electronics without couch potatoes lifting a finger

Why the AC?

Things that get covered in sweat stink, no? But they say a fox never smells it's own den. AC do you notice people get up and move when you sit down on the bus/train/park bench?

The smell!?

HH aren't called Smelly Helies for no reason. Even a plaster on you finger in the summer smells like this guy after a day, or two ---->

Restoring your privacy costs money, which makes it a marker of class

When did you write this article?

Proton Calendar has been available for a while, and Proton Drive is in beta

India bans Mastercard from signing up new customers

Re: MasterCard babbling with response

Hubris! They thought they were so big that India would never dare do anything like they just have. Now I'm sure the Indian government are more likely doing it to spy on their citizens than for any idea of data protection.

But, I'm so glad it's happened.

Boffins find an 'actionable clock' hiding in your blood, ticking away to your death

Henry Allingham

WWI veteran, when asked to what he attributed his long life, he replied, "Cigarettes, whisky, and wild, wild women" 6 June 1896 - 18 July 2009 (113y 42d) R.I.P.

The general trouble with the medical profession, they think bodies should be perfect when they're lowered into the ground/burnt. I'm with Hunter S. Thompson: “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”

that's me, rather than Mr. Allingham BTW ------------->

YouTube's recommendation engine is pretty naff, Mozilla study finds

Sorry, that'll be me with the overlap!

NHS England staff voice concerns about access controls on US spy-tech firm Palantir's COVID-19 data store

Re: blah, blah, blah

Was it a 60% margin to join, you know when the British public were lied to and told it was only a trading block?

Edited to add: BTW 45RPM you do sound rather condescending in your last sentence old boy. Sort of the way labour treated their voters calling them thick racists if they voted for Brexit, that worked out well

Audacity is a poster child for what can be achieved with open-source software

Today's article...

Bought to you by the Muse Group.

* you missed the sponsored tag

Data collected to promote public health must never be surrendered to police

Re: Trust

I'm pretty sure there are examples out there where miscreants have placed their own QR code stickers over the ones originally on the advert

Hubble memory errors persist despite NASA booting long-idle backup payload computer

Re: Down voted...

'cos you're a miserable curmudgeon! You do realise that almost anyone that knew that command is an old fart like me, and it took them back to the early days of home computing. That's what got most of us here [both el reg, and in IT as a profession]. And it made me smile, and think of simpler, happier times.

Anonymous South African Coward have a beer on me, I went from a ZX81 to a C64, but plenty of friends had Speccies. There was also a weird POKE command on a 32k BBC B that would make it 16k and it'd persist across reboots. It needed another POKE to fix it, thankfully the Comp Sci Master saw the funny side in the end.

Gov.UK taskforce publishes post-Brexit wish-list: 'TIGRR' pounces on GDPR, metric measures

Re: engine blocks

Or an XUD

TITAN crypto-token does the opposite of zero to $60: Value plummets in hours

I for one commend IRON

There's no guaranteed 75 cents on the Dollar for your Wall Street investments. Beer for the TITAN investors, I think you probably need one