Posts by Charles Calthrop

So you really didn't touch the settings at all, huh? Well, this print-out from my secret backup says otherwise

'to fill x London Buses'

'Windows Vista' spotted doing a whoopsie over EE's signage

Re: Why use Windows?

um is it?

For small shops, yeah. But do high street stores with 10k employees really depend on the PI at a large scale?

The Curse of macOS Catalina strikes again as AccountEdge stays 32-bit

hate it. use it

got to love the register commentators

'eh never mind this news lets all reminisce about something which happened over 20 years ago'

personally i love it

Stand back, we're going in: The Register rips a 7th-gen ThinkPad X1 Carbon apart. Literally

the tippety-top of the line handed out to workers who almost, but don't quite, merit a MacBook Pro.

They won't like that!

RuneScape bloke was wrongly sacked after reading veep's salary details on office printer

I once printed my novel off and forgot about it.

Still burn bright with shame every time I recall it.

Londoner accused of accessing National Lottery users' accounts

Just googled lancaster road

Nice place.

Come on, you can't be serious: Now Australia mulls face-recog tech for p0rno site age checks

headline

Should be 'come off it' rather than 'come on'

Former BAE Systems contractor charged with 'damaging disclosure' of UK defence secrets

hate it. use it

it _is_ a fascinating satorial description, though. A yellow shirt. Yuck. With sartorial elegance like that, the -1 in theregister's page views is explained.

Astronaut Tim Peake reminds everyone about the time Excel mangled his contact list on stage at Microsoft AI event

Re: How about suing AI to improve traffic flow?

So AI works except when humans are unpredictable/selfish/break the rules....in other words, AI doesn't work

It's an odd statement without more context. A bit like saying "companies that give employees free biscuits are outperforming those that don't."

I bet companies which give free biscuits DO outperform

-care about their staff more which is probably reciprocated

-care about small details

-willing to spend money on things beancounters may say are unnecessary

'Six' in the city: Kiwi sportswear shop telly beamed X-rated flicks for hours over weekend

"had to have a second look"

yeah right

The mod firing squad: Stack Exchange embroiled in 'he said, she said, they said' row

bellends

Remember that security probe that ended with a sheriff cuffing the pen testers? The contract is now public so you can decide who screwed up

Re: Pentesting

they didn't do their job too well, though. They got caught.

Stallman's final interview as FSF president: Last week we quizzed him over Microsoft visit. Now he quits top roles amid rape remarks outcry

always thought he was a bellend

and just had a huge chuckle at his rider.

But I hate the hysteria of the modern world sometimes.

Today in tortured tech analogies: Mozilla lets Firefox loose in the hen house, and by hen house, we mean the tracking cookie jar, er...

hate it. use it

>In the beginning was the Word, and the word was "Google".

Nope, it was "untitled"

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/Ws7_xp.PNG

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean Google isn't listening to everything you say

why someone would let these huge tech companies into their homes is totally beyond me.

sadly my teenage children see absolutely no issue with this or have any care about privacy

will we just accept privacy died on, say, Feb 4 2004? My fear is the generations younger than me are lost to the rights so hard won, but my hope is their children will try to regain the rights we once took for granted

I don't have to save my work, it's in The Cloud. But Microsoft really must fix this files issue

The user "then questioned how Microsoft could release something that 'blatantly doesn't work'."

aka every reg commentator ever except that Rooster bloke* from a while back

*apologies for assuming gender

That this AI can simulate universes in 30ms is not the scary part. It's that its creators don't know why it works so well

they should empoly me

I don't know why my code works so badly. Together we'd be a like a fortune teller who finds a tenner. A happy medium

How much open source is too much when it's in Microsoft's clutches? Eclipse Foundation boss sounds note of alarm

in before a load of old men sneering at visual studio code

Ozzy app maker cancels hump day: We've tripled profits! scream slackers

will post a brilliant reply tomorrow

Scare-bnb: Family finds creeper cams hidden in their weekend rental by scanning Wi-Fi

Re: How

thanks

Not my area of expertise, as you can tell from the noob question, but what software do you use to do this?

Click here to see the New Zealand livestream mass-murder vid! This is the internet Facebook, YouTube, Twitter built!

beautiful article

thank you. Articulated what I was thinking much better than I could.

Ironically would share were I still on facebook.

We have to hope we can fix this

Fan boy 3: Huawei overhauls Air-a-like MateBooks

Re: What is the point ?!?

I have bought macs to only run windows on, because the build quality and trackpad was fantastically better than anything else

Crowdfunded lawyer suing Uber told he can't swerve taxi app giant's £1m legal bill

a lawyer vs uber.

can they somehow both lose please?

Nokia 9: HMD Global hauls PureView™ out of brand limbo

https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036

OK, team, we've got the big demo tomorrow and we're feeling confident. Let's reboot the servers

Re: Another Robin in the 'Hood

In the distant past circa 2000

Cheers for that mate

Crash, bang, wallop: What a power-down. But what hit the kill switch?

i heard an awesome story about a guy in the dell factory at limerick. He was working on the production line when he pressed the emergency stop button by accident, and caused the entire line to shut down. It caused a huge rumpus as it cost $$$, so much so that someone from Dell HQ flew over to see what had happened, to try to see if there were workarounds they could implement. So this big shot was talking to the operative

'Walk me through exactly what you did' the big shot guy said

'I accidentally pressed the emergency stop button, like this', the guy said. Pressing it again to show him

RIP Dr Peuto, Zilog and Sun's bright SPARC

Halt and Catch Fire

I love reading these stories of early computing (waits for a grumpy old sod to complain it's not THAT old). Sad it is normally in obits, though. Sounds like the guy made a huge contribution to computing. Cheers.

Accused hacker Lauri Love tries to retrieve Fujitsu lappie and other gear from Britain's FBI in court

hate it. use it

it says “Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Log on”

DXC Technology utters words 'hiring' and 'digital' 105 times in Q3 earnings car-crash

Re: Que?

Lucky you. In my field they're like japanese knotweed, they're bloody everywhere

great news

everytime I am brought into a project and they're involved my heart drops.

For every good person they have they have 3 utter usless ones,

Techie finds himself telling caller there is no safe depth of water for operating computers

Hamilton's water breaks

Water-way to have a good time

I helped catch Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht: Undercover agent tells all

Re: Ulbricht was also linked to six drug overdose deaths

Hope you boycott Big Pharma

Are you sure your disc drive has stopped rotating, or are you just ignoring the messages?

These stories always remind me of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfK5EqemeZ0

bad language tbh

IBM to kill off Watson... Workspace from end of February

Re: AI, AI, Oh.

you're saying it's elementary

if only it were expensive then it would elementary, dear watson

Who cracked El Chapo's encrypted chats and brought down the Mexican drug kingpin? Er, his IT manager

"The long one, that password that you place…is this the password? "

"Yes, sir."

"What a drag! It has symbols and things."

We've all been there, every one of us.

Peak Apple: This time it's SERIOUS, Tim

Re: Too late

I'm not doing the work for you. if you want to discover, go read it yourself. It's all in there, but not overly easy to find, but it's all in there.

AKA I did a quick cmd f, couldn't find anything, but I still know I am correct

Re: Too late

There were maybe 20 words in my post and you still missed the point of them

Re: Too late

Their privacy policy page is maby 3k words

https://www.apple.com/uk/legal/privacy/en-ww/

that's without following all the links which have more detail.

Have you really read it all?

easiest thing to do is probably turn on obsolecence again

Aside from lengthening the product cycle, I can see two engineering fixes:

1) Make phones exciting again. Make week long battery. Make as huge gains as (say) between the 3 and 4 and make world class industrial design.

however, that sounds quite hard so:

2) Make obsolecence great again!

If my 3 year phone works so well I can't see the point of an upgrade, well, they can change that quite easily.

Hope they don't go for step 2. would be a lot easier though, no?

Wanted – have you seen this MAC address: f8:e0:79:af:57:eb? German cops appeal for logs in bomb probe

Re: Amateurs!!

exactly.

Get the young woman to open google earth then get the grizzled 'cuts-corners-but-gets-results-why-are-city-hall-busting-my-balls' man to tell her to enhance. Should zoom in to just above the perp's flat.

You were told to clean up our systems, not delete 8,000 crucial files

Re: xfer

why delete it?

I'd have created a new HDD with your 'best ofs' but left the rest. Spending ages removing things, just so you can throw out a hdd is not something I would do

My 2019 resolution? Not to buy any of THIS rubbish

mmmmbop

you should be ugly like me, then you'd be safe

Re: Hospitality sector had it coming

Big difference between mortgage brokers and travel agents, though.

People often book flghts / hotels now, so are confident in doing so. Plus, if you screw up, you've screwed up 2 weeks maximum.

When it comes to things with huge financial risk, and which are not done frequently, like mortgages, people are happy to pay 200 quid for peace of mind. Same as why I think estate agents still exist. What do they do? Take worse photos than you or i, with their iphone, apply no artistc thought to them, stick a listing on rightmove and get someone else to show you around? Yet I will probably use them if I ever move again, because, wankers that they are, I would rather use their expertise than mine

It's a lot of work, being popular: Apple, Tim Cook and the gilets jaunes

I am an ex fanboy

I used to love Apple, Macs, specifically. Having to work with terrible Dells, with tiny trackpads, crummy software loaded on XP, cheap build quality and just an overall air of 'eh, this will do', it was a pleasure using a Mac instead. The ascthetic of the mac pleased me every time I noticed it.

Not so much nowadays. I am totally indifferent to them. I am typing this on a MacBook pro, but only because it is closer to hand than my thinkpad. The build quality is excellent, and I don't care about the price anyway, as work pays for them, but my thinkpad is also excellent, and while the touchpad isn't as good, the keyboard is better

I keep watching youtube videos about how you can use the iPad pro as your main daily driver. But they all focus on editing video. What about software development? I would love to run Apache / Sublime etc on an iPad. I can't see what Apple is doing which will impress developers. Maybe we don't matter anymore?

Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is: 1. More ad revenue, and 2. Good PR. Lots of love – Mark, aged 34½

I disagree.

My wife uses Internet explorer. If that wasn't bad enough, to open gmail, she types in google.com, then searches for 'gmail'. Just typing that out infurirates me, but what can you do? Anyway, the point is she is most definitely not an IT user, does not care about tech news etc. But she doesn't use FB anymore because of 'this privacy stuff c4 news keep going on aboout'

I know, of course, this is anecdotal evidence. But nonetheless I do think it is having a huge effect. A final straw when you think it's full of ads and sponsored content anyway.

I think the bigger problem is neither of my teenage kids have any intention whatsoever of using it; it's for old people.

the sooner fb dies, the better. An absolute stain on humanity. Happy Christmas Mark.

Pork pulled: Plug jerked out of beacon of bacon delight

pulled it very quickly. very rasher

Careful with this latest Microsoft release – tug too hard on the threads and it tends to unravel

why do i like xmas jumpers so much?

why do i want that jumper in particcular?

I'd love to be all hip and cool and sneer at it but I think it is great.

what is wrong with me?

last year we had our xmas meall in a really facy restaurant and I rocked up in this bad boy

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71vZ0HO9iLL._UX679_.jpg

was a bit awkward.

It's December of 2018 and, to hell with it, just patch your stuff

87 seems rather a lot. do they have 00s, have they a keen new testing team, or have they not patched for ages?