Posts by psychonaut

New Amiga to go on sale in late 2017

Re: Just remember...

oh my god. are we going to necropost about ST vs Amiga?? just for you kids...the whole fanboi thing is not new. Amiga vs ST arguments were loud and abusive all over the playground in 1985 onwards i think. the ST had better sound. but the Amiga was the better machine.

obviously i had an Amiga. if you had an ST, you were a slag. c'mon, i'll start it ...oi you, over here! come ON!! sllaaaaagggg with your ST...oooh, it does midi....NO ONE CARES! i want to be able to play stunt car racer networked (with a null modem cable i'll have you know)...CMON!!!

The Next Big Thing in Wi-Fi? Multiple access points in every home

Re: messing with meshes

repeaters are shit. agree.

i have started using and installing ubiquiti long range dual band with ethernet backbone, or in extreme cases, home plug backbone, just run the cable up the outside of the house if neccesary (mine go through my office ceiling but im not picky about looks )to the loft through the soffits. sit the ap's in the loft attached to the rafters. you dont even need to drill through the ceiling. i have a large sprawling house and i only need 2. i use an ethernet backbone and get 230mb/s (which is what i get at the router) pretty much everywhere. the AP's talk to each other and can steer your device to the correct AP - no more of this hanging on to a really out of range AP nonsense, or different network SSID's for different rooms. just one proper continuous network everywhere. it is amazing, and there is no substitute (for £cheap it costs. ap's are about £120 each. no doubt you can do better with £k's worth of kit, but for the price they are fab)

OnePlus cash equals 5: Rebel flagship joins upmarket Android crew

Re: meh

yup, still got my note 4. theres nothing else that ticks the boxes for me. will need something to replace it with at some stage soon, mine is getting a bit knackered now. but the only option at the moment is another note 4

Re: meh

by the way tiggity, which phone do you have?

Re: meh

get the cos physics argument, agreed, but the note 4 camera is fine for everything for me apart from night shots where it is abysmal. it takes ages to focus. i am not a photographer obviously, and i dont own a camera. and dont particulalry want to own one, i just use he note for taking about a million pictures of my kids, which i very rarely look at. but have to back up.

"Which phone still has them though?"

my note 4. i cant find anything to replace it with. so i guess thats a good thing for my wallet.

i just dont get why the below are so hard to find / difficult to do.

want:

1)waterproof

2) big removable (or at least easily replaceable) battery and no i dont want to have to lug a power pack - my note is on its 3rd battery - still lasts all day from a single charge with everything on and constant phone calls

3) fast charge

4) decent camera with decent night shooting (which is where the note 4 falls down)

5) headphone socket

6) big screen

7) sd slot (my music collection is large).

open to suggestions if anyone has an opinion

no removable battery, no sd slot. next!

Hacked Chrome web dev plugin maker: How those phishers tricked me

"You can fool some of the people some of the time. And you can jerk the rest off!"

wow, what sort of work did he do? transvestite rent boy? ;)

Don't make Aug 21 a blind date: Beware crap solar eclipse specs

Re: The perfect solution

Which fuckwit downvoted douglas Adams?

Microsoft: Get in, IT nerds, you're now using Insider builds and twice-annual Windows rollouts

Re: a simple solution?

stephanh - this is gold dust mate, that is a seriously useful piece of info, thankyou.

Re: Did anyone else read that line as:

yeah that and the shite user account page that does different things depending on what day it is. add password to account. sometimes its there, sometimes it isnt, thats just in the old style one.

i use net user now cos its so much fucking quicker

cant send shortcuts to the desktop from the programs list....aargh ffs!!

Re: Did we mention...

yup. its killing the machine before it even finishes downloading it. win 10 upgrade assistant and windows update consuming entire machines resources on several i have here in the lab. crazy shit man....

Re: Acme of Perfection

"Right this minute the Update system is hung trying to download a "Feature update to Windows 10, version 1703","

yup, im seeing this on many customer machines...(the ones who didnt listen to me about staying on 7 and dont go anywhere near win 10 or new customers who have win 10) you are not alone. got 2 here right now.

had to rebuild one of them as it completely fucks the machine when it is just tryiong to download it. 100% disk usage, 100% cpu usage..cant do anything on the machine unless you want to wait for 20 minutes while it thinks about it. this isnt even installing it, its just trying to assess the machine to download it.

crazy shit man...

Clear August 21 in your diary: It's a total solar eclipse for the smart

Re: Eclipses confuse me

cheese of course

Sysadmin Day 2017: Still time to get the beers in

crying into my lunch

just cooked myself pig 3 ways with beans, eggs, and fried bread.

sat there on my own, with the grease mingling with tears flowing from my sobbing face.

Kid found a way to travel for free in Budapest. He filed a bug report. And was promptly arrested

mattje..

"I am offended by that, Dad.

If you had raised me better, then things would be different

You were oh so wise and mature as soon as you turned 18?"

no, i'm still a fucking idiot! cant see that changing any time soon.

they havent had time to grow up - they are too busy being offended...

Microsoft hits new low: Threatens to axe classic Paint from Windows 10

Re: What are they thinking?

although i might have a look at greenshot. looks good

Re: What are they thinking?

my comment was supposed to say "why ARENT you using the snipping tool...."

sorry..!

you can do blocks of colour and lines etc straight in the snipping tool.

Re: At Paul, re: Paint for screen dumps.

Why are you using the snipping tool for screenshots?

I've got a verbal govt contract for Hyperloop, claims His Muskiness

Re: rapid repressurisation

points - you run overland from the main terminus. or a road. or a bus

Ten new tech terms I learnt this summer: Do you know them all?

Re: Novemruary

"When FTTP gets widely deployed (currently scheduled for the 57th of Novemruary"

fucking genius mate,.

this is the exact date that is listed for FTTC for Sunningdale on the BT website

Re: DabbSmithing

dibdabbing? although i think that already has an urban dictionary entry which isnt pleasant

User filed fake trouble tickets to take helpful sysadmin to lunches

Re: gives said bored housewife the bill.

the old bill???

Re: I've seen this plot before.

ahh i see that your pipe has been blocked for some time, i'll get my massive tool to unblock it....ooos ioos oss ...ohh, zere go de trousers!

Microsoft officially hangs up on old Skype phones, users fuming

dave barnett from Tring!

Poor Dave Barnett who hails from Tring,

Has a phone that no longer rings

Microsoft fucked him

now his voip needs adjustin'

and his browser's now searching with Bing

with apolgies to Dave Barnet and anyone else affected. its a shit thing to happen.

UK regulator set to ban ads depicting bumbling manchildren

Re: @vetia This is a bad thing

if you are worried about your kids, make sure that you, not the TV , are their main source of information regarding what they can do with their life. make sure you tell them every day if necessary, that they can be whatever they want to be. encourage and educate them.

in the meantime, leave the incompetent blundering dads in adverts for fucks sake. theres more important stuff to worry about.

on another note on product names, theres a product called "start ya bastard" in Australia to spray into your air intake when your engine doesn't cooperate....thats the best one i ever found...

Re: This is a bad thing

you make valid points, and society has moved on, which is great.

but do you really think that the examples you raise are anywhere near in severity to what was in the article?

how is it possible to objectively legislate for this? i would say its impossible. all we will end up with is a bunch of nonsense, as per making sure that men arent seen to be useless at household chores in adverts. its a massive waste of time, and, to me , its offensive.....but its ok, i'll get over it ;)

Re: This is a bad thing

"It's not about who is or isn't offended. It's about how much harm is done to society by the reinforcement of negative or unrealistic stereotypes."

so how much harm is done then? do you know anyone who has been directly effected by being shown a negative sterotype?

how can we tell, objectively, what is or is not a stereotype?

how can we legislate as to what constitutes a valid stereotype, and an invalid one?

Re: This is a bad thing

what he said above

fucking whingeing idiots with too much time on their hands. ooh, i was offended as i felt stereotyped by a fucking advert.

go ahead, be offended. nothing happens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHMoDt3nSHs

go out and do something less boring instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FQktsKvXcg

What can you do with adult VR, some bronze gears and a robotic thumb? On a Friday?

Re: What have the Romans ever done for us?

"If only they had access to oil, they could have had an industrial revolution by the 1st century."

probably a good job that they didnt otherwise we'd all be computing on waterproof submersible tablets by now

Re: "Let me introduce the Sex Gauge"

im sure british rail would be happy to adopt it.

sex gauge, bit more interesting than standard or narrow i would think

User left unable to type passwords after 'tropical island stress therapy'

Re: One week at Bigger Blue.

crazy. just be civil, and just tell him...go home and change otherwise you will ruin your suit. all this BS about getting moved on etc. all you need to do is tell him. I'm so glad i work for myself, i couldn't put up with that crap.

Re: At Wolfetone, your MILTB...

" who not only doesn't know something, but is also knows that they don't know it and is willing to admit the fact. "

a rare find indeed. these are my favourite customers. makes a nice change from most of them

Re: Government staff: need I say more?

"Been a while, but when I was working at the Uni, one of the lecturers (might have been a grad student, can't remember) emailed the support staff asking "Is email working?" I replied with something like "seem to be.."

Never heard anything back from him."

maybe he didn't get your email...

His Muskiness wheels out the Tesla Model 3

could be free

i was looking at electric cars last year - there was a govt (or maybe council actually) incentive that meant you could get a charging station for free. this wasnt for a tesla though...maybe its different

'OK, everyone. Stop typing, this software is DONE,' said no one ever

Re: If you're into tool porn...

festool....buy one. no wait, dont buy one. you will end up replacing all of your tools and have no money.

they are the doggies bollox. the festool tracksaw i bought is fecking unbelievable.

i almost bougth 400 quid router (yes thats router not router) that i didnt need. i have used my existing router twice in 10 years. but i needed a new router according to my festool infected brain. i only just managed to resist

Microsoft hits Alt-F4 on 3,000 global sales staff

the picture

looks like the second guy has a penishand sticking through the box. its probably full of popcorn to scare the girls

Brit prosecutors ask IT suppliers to fight over £3 USB cable tender

I've shifted to buy everything off amazon now. The usual suspects and their shit rma terms / handling can get stuffed ( ebuyer for instance). If anything goes wrong with anything from amazon within a year it's a straight refund no questions, no bullshit, just sorted. The only issue is non vat registered sellers. As I'm vat registered I have to check every item I buy before I buy it as some sellers , even though they sell boat loads of things for hundreds of pounds, aren't vat registered, which makes them 20% more expensive for me. I wish amazon would sort that out. By the way has anyone upgraded to amazon business account? If so what happens with rma's and next day prime delivery? Would be interested to hear.

Re: Not just restricted to governments

Marbles credit card still owe me 5p. From 20 years ago. They (actually mbna now I think) send a letter every month to my mums house. I cannot get them to cancel it or for them to stop sending letters. I tried about 10 years ago spent maybe an hour on the phone and the guy ended up saying that it's buried in the system somewhere and that they can't stop it. Ive not bothered to try again.

Britain's warhead-watcher to simulate Trident nukes with Atos supercomputer

do we really need to simulate this?

if it goes off, then it will be bad. why do we really need to know how bad? their answer is just going to be somewhere between "really bad for humans and unbelievably bad for humans " somewhere near the explosion.

if one of those things goes off, there are going to be a lot more of them flying around shortly after. is it going to model that as well?

Male escort says he gave up IT to do something more meaningful

or rich fat munters.

Re: John... Oh!

what with him being an aussie, he is undoubtedly already called john-oh simply as a result of his first name.

so he's actually john-oh oh

which is probably why he was destined for this job all along.

Re: Object Orientated Programming is like making love to a beautiful woman...

scrum??

Gamers red hot with fury over Intel Core i7-7700 temperature spikes

no, he's right - amd drivers are fucking terrible. particulalry their chipset / sata drivers. terrible performance with ssd

FYI: You can blow Intel-powered broadband modems off the 'net with a 'trivial' packet stream

you are if you dont have a sh3.

im on the 200 / 10 and its just fine thanks. could do with a bit more upload but its ok.

there is unfortunately noone anywhere near price wise to touch virgins fibre if it has a sh2 in modem mode

then add a pair of Ubiquiti long range ac access points and i have 200mb everywhere wirelesly for my ac wireless clients. bloody lovely.

i cant tell you how good the ubiquiti gear is, and ive tried quite a few different access points in many different properties .at home i have them it in the loft, not even drilled through the upper most ceiling, just hanging from the roof in the loft. penetration to ground floor is amazing, speed is awesome. buy some

iPhone lawyers literally compare Apples with Pears in trademark war

Re: everything is similar to something else...

and the university of scouseland

"dey do doh dont deh do"

Re: There's enough Apple Corp "fans"

"Apple Computer dropped the word computer from their name. They are Apple Inc."

ive only just noticed this....

Apple Inc ......Appauling

sounds about right

That apple.com link you clicked on? Yeah, it's actually Russian

Re: Simple solution?

yeah, but most users wont care. click....click...give me it now!

"this file will probably fuck your computer and possibly your wife" click proceed to proceed, click back to cancel.

give me it now! click click....

they dont read or pay attention to such things

Chap 'fixes' Microsoft's Windows 7 and 8 update block on new CPUs

Re: Works for stalled as well as new

or use wsus offline. miles quicker than win update

http://download.wsusoffline.net/

i also wonder if that would work as a work around for the 7 and 8 update block from ms?