Posts by stevel

Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control

Hold my pint

Well, wife's pint really.

She has a fairly recent HP Envy laptop (yep, win11, but otherwise pretty high spec) that's *never* shutdown properly. Power off, leave for a few days, power on with ... you guessed it ... reduced or no battery. Even the commandline "fix" given here doesn't work.

"Have you tried the HP community boards?" you ask? Well, yes. Lots of responses along the lines of "find the windows menu, click the "power off icon" which looks like this blah blah blah. Ffs. HP's support the same.

Which all leads me to the inevitable conclusion that MS are merely trying to catch up with HP in enshittification.

Smart? Don't ThinQ so! Hacked robo-vacuum could spy on your home

Yars. Obligatory comic reference....and not even XKCD!

http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2017/06/19/security-too-expensive-try-a-hack/

Assange thanks USA for forcing him to invest in booming Bitcoin

Just saying...

That would be JP "no ulterior motive" Morgan (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10510933/JPMorgan-files-patent-for-bitcoin-killer-currency.html") and The Daily "totally unbiased" Telegraph (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/19/telegraph-250m-loan-hsbc-editorial-changes-yodel) would it?

Not that The Grauniad has better credentials, just the first link that came up.

Boffin wins (Ig) Nobel prize asking if cats can be liquid

Re: Miser

Yes. That.

And besides, "science isn't about why? It's about why not!"

...and biscuits, of course.

Women devs – want your pull requests accepted? Just don't tell anyone you're a girl

Not equal

Meritocratic <> meritorious.

Doesn't mean it's any truer, though.

Elderly Bletchley Park volunteer sacked for showing Colossus exhibit to visitors

Frankly shocking, but not really surprising I spose, given recent interest and money going there.

Bletchley certainly seems to get the lion's share of the media coverage, with TNMOC often portrayed as a bit of a sideshow.

I also went there a couple of years ago, and saw the *whole* thing with a fantastic guide who had lots of insights into both Bletchley's history *AND* the history of computing. For me, the two things are so closely related it's just sad to see this sort of division happening.

+1 for Michael H.F. Wilkinson's comment about banging heads together.

FAIL - the most incompetent IT pros

Re: Government. Giant Consulting Company. What could go wrong.

Honestly? In half a million lines of code, *that one line*?

;>

My personal favourite, in C++ written by someone who "preferred" Java, the last statement in a function that returned a reference:

return *new Thing(...);

Slideshow: A History of First-person Shooters in 20 Games

Re: Wot? No Deus-Ex?

That's a hard question...

RPG doesn't quite catch it for me. I really enjoyed Neverwinter Nights for that kind of thing.

I quite like the new (to me) term "sneak-em-up". Implies a few things about a game. I'm currently playing Dishonored (reviewed here: http://www.reghardware.com/2012/10/16/review_game_dishonored/), a great example of it.

Anyway, I accept your rationale for leaving DE out of this list! :-) Some wonderful nostalgia moments here.

Wot? No Deus-Ex?

Ok Ok, I spose it wasn't a "shooter" in the traditional sense. Still reckon it was a ground breaker in the genre though. Maybe it's a conspiracy.... :)