Posts by aqk

Have three WINEs this weekend, because WINE 3.0 has landed

Re: Will it run Wordperfect 8?

Tried the old WP-linux links as mentioned a coupla yeras ago.

Perhaps, due to your encouragement, I'll try them again - this time on Ubuntu 1710..

Thanx.

Re: Windows wne on Windows.

Just don't spill it on your laptop, as I did once (or twice) to an old Toshiba. Cost me $400 to have it repaired- I should just have bought a new laptop!

It was red (the wine, not the laptop) but thankfully a rather cheap plonk.

Will it run Wordperfect 8?

Wordperfect is all that remains to convince a friend to convert his old Vista system into a modern up-to-date Ubuntu system.

If I can get WP-8 to run under Ubuntu 1710, then it's a go!

'WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?' Linus Torvalds explodes at Intel spinning Spectre fix as a security feature

Very strange....

What is with these asterisks?

Doesn't Torvalds even know how to spell "fsck"?

Acronis: Ransomware protection! Get yer free ransomware protection!

Re: Epic fail? on Win 8.1?

You still use old Windows 8.1??

How long have you been bitten by the hand that feeds IT?

Time to upgrade, young man!

You should (re-)nstall Win-XP - TheRegister's users' OS of choice! (after Linux and MacWidcat, of course!)

But, but.. What about us poor Win-XP users?

As registered reggie users, we SWORE that M$ would only pry XP from our cold dead hard disk!

Now- must we downgrade to that disgusting Windows-10 and its Lucky Charms?

BAH! I for one will Nevah surrendah!

Nervy nuke-armed nation fires missile with 5,000km range

Re: Same goes for Trident and used subs

Meh- Need more money?

Just sell more of your rusty old diesel subs to Canada. They're suckers for that.

Re: As long as Canada, you say?

As well, Canada's Minister of Defense is a Sikh, and a Sikh is now the leader of Canad'a New Democratic Party.

But sadly also, Sikhs were responsible for the worst piece of Aircraft terrorism in history. No one ever seems to remember that, as unlike the Lockerbie "incident", most of the passengers were Canadian and somewhat darker-skinned.

New battery boffinry could 'triple range' of electric vehicles

Re: Still haven't graduated from lithium? Try Plutonium.

That little Voyager, now well on its way to Alpha Centauri, (past the Oort belt yet?) is still chugging merrily along with its small supply of Plutonium keeping its engines warm.

It's much more dangerous when the tank is HALF full. Luckily it's in a sealed tank away from sparks hopefully.

Re: How many battery "explosions" is that this year?

I guarantee you that a gasoline/petrol tank ONE THIRD full of gasoline is indeed extremely dangerous.

If you do not believe me, try splashing some on your lit BBQ.

Whatever happened to Hydrogen?

Never mind my Tesla 3, I'm still waiting for my 2008 Hydrogen-powered BMW. They (and Toyota) promised me!

Have they stopped drilling wells, looking for hydrogen?

Voyager 1 fires thrusters last used in 1980 – and they worked!

Re: how is assembler outdated and by what?

What! ?? Don't go! Wait! Wait! I was going to make Espresso!

I mean I was going to program it in Fortran. Or at least Basic!

Voyageur is starting to shorten its length!

BTW, It is not well known that the "golden disk" aboard Voyager actually started out in 1980 as a cylinder! (as did most record disks in the early 1900s)

But the Fitzgerald Contraction is now starting to have its way. -

There once was a fencer named Fisk,

Whose speed was incredibly brisk.

So fast was his action,

The Fitzgerald contraction,

Foreshortended his foil to a disk.

Re: it's already doing nnn,nnn KM/sec !

Well perhaps back in 1980 it was a cylinder and not a golden disk originally.

As Voyager approaches the speed of light, something called the Fitzgerald contraction becomes effective.

There once was a fencer named Fisk,

Whose speed was incredibly brisk.

So fast was his action,

The Fitzgerald contraction,

Foreshortended his foil to a disk.

Microsoft emergency update: Malware Engine needs, erm, malware protection

Re: Wider M$ issue

M$ ?? Wow I haven't seen this witty abbreviation since the days of those weenie Apple Fanbois, who were always muttering, nay, crowing about how "Bill Gates is the ANTICHRIST!"

How's your Apple Macintosh these days? It must be middle aged by now. Just like you...

Interstellar space rock screams through Solar System

Another galaxy? Another star system?

Sorry- it's probably just some rock that finally fell out of the Oort cloud, due to garvitational perturbations fro other objects out there.

So now it's whipped around the sun, gained speed, and is now headed back out there, and further.

WhatsApp? You still don't get EU privacy laws, that's WhatsApp

Re: Interesting how about Telegram?

I've been attempting to use Telegram.

Unfortunately, most people I know have been brainwashed by the Facebook/Whatsapp Borg, and refuse to use Telegram.

Any opinions here about Telegram and their claimed "no slurping from us!" policy?

Twitter: Why we silenced Rose McGowan after she slammed alleged sex pest Harvey Weinstein

Re: I dont care if you do or ...is it your horse?

Why yes. It is! But who is on it? I cannot quite see...

Is there any particular reason for your incredulity?

yes.

OnePlus privacy shock: So, the cool Chinese smartphones slurp an alarming amount of data

ODM? Not a domain?

You are mistaken, sir.

The TLD "odm" refers to the Overseas Department of Mediocrity. They actually host many of my websites.

I'm not worried! I live in CANADA!

And I have a trustworthy Huawei phone! They would never do this!

Why, just read the following reassuring article from a few years ago!

CBC now alerts you to the following GRAVE CANADIAN CONCERNS!

But I AM wondering where I can quickly sell my small supply of Plutonium and my bump-stocked AK-47...

It's Patch Blues-day: Bad October Windows updates trigger BSODs

Poor ol' Bill?

(Sorry, I suppose this reply shd have pointed to the OP)

I have to inform you that Ol' Bill has been out of Microsoft for several years, and (probably) only shows up for board meetings. He and Warren Buffett are too busy trying to eradicate Malaria than to be much concerned with MS.

Good news! Even Steve Ballmer is not around much any more. And the office furniture is now in much better shape.

Your news of the world seems dated. I bet you're even using XP, right? Or did you finally upgrade to Windows-7?

I would say that Bill, and Warren are well on their way to a Nobel Prize. Heck, if Bobby (only women bleed) Dylin' can win one, almost anyone can.

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EasyJet: We'll have electric airliners within the next decade

Stop being pedantic!

And stop being so defeatist!

If the windmills are inefficient, well, just turn them around - facing backward! (or is it forward?)

Periodically, the plane could do a steep dive, and thus use air-breaking to recharge its batteries. The same way electric cars do going down hills.

Sooner or later we'll solve this perpetual energy problem! Only a matter of time.

Use a shitload of AA or possibly C batteries

I say power these things with simple AA batteries- thousands of them.

As each set of batteries go dead, you jettison (no pun intended) them, and the plane thus becomes lighter and more efficient!

Insecure passengers could bring thir own pile of batteries in their carry-on and receive a badly needed discount on this ripoff-charge.

If you wanna use rechargeable ones, pay people on the ground- kids or homeless people - a nickel for each AA turned in. They can combine it with their empty beer-can pickup.

And it will get these unhealthy city people out in the countryside! It's WIN-WIN!

Blame Canada? $5.7m IBM IT deal balloons to $185m thanks to 'an open bag of money'

Re: Could have been worse. $B?

If this silly overpayment had happened to me, I would have put the excess in my bitcoin wallet for safekeeping.

Then when they asked for it back, I would have sent them the same $ amount out of my $B wallet.

Microsoft and Facebook's transatlantic cable completed

Re: Great News twitter also?

Sorry, but twitter can't transmit packets more than 140 bytes.

Forgotten Kilo? Perfectly understandable.

Well, it only takes 640 of them. That's ALL you'll ever really need.

Ah the good ol' days before wiring closets!

And all those mainframe 3270 and peripheral cables under raised floors.

Just grab yours, and pull as hard as you can. Sooner or later it will be freed up.

Re: A towed Plough. A dragged anchor.

Pretty much the same thing, if you're one of those little coral creatures.

Unloved Microsoft Edge is much improved – but will anyone use it?

Goodness! So many Win-10 users here!

Or are you all using Edge on your trusty Win-7 system? Or perhaps XP?

I know! You've ported Edge to Linux, right?

Just 2 or 3 years ago, I remarked in various threads here that Win-10 was a great OS, and would only get better, WOW! I got a whole shitload (Hundreds?) of down-votes from all the users that said they would ABSOLUTELY NEVER use it!

"You'll have to PRY XP out of my cold dead hands!"

"Win-10 SUX! In two years time, we will have all upgraded to LINUX!"

Am I in some sort of alternate universe here?

- OK, before you leave this message, don't forget to click the Downvote button at the bottom.

Re: Accessible? Viable? No.

Have you told your boss yet about your "go-it alone" decision?

Oh wait! I forgot- you're self-employed.

But have you told the wife yet?

Goodness! You still use Google?

"Every time you visit Google with Edge, you see an ad for Chrome."..

One of the reasons I no longer google.

I usually search with Duckduckgo, and yes, sometimes even Bing! I hear it's a favourite of TheReg users! ;-)

New York Police scrap 36,000 Windows smartphones

Re: Nobody gets fired for buying IBM..

You're right on that one.

So many times I would recommend a non-IBM piece of software or hardware, whereupon IBM-blue suits would walk in, not even look at me, and take the head of a dept or a VP out to lunch, or (better) on a junket to Las Vegas.

And strangely a few days/weeks later, we went with the inferior IBM product.

SanDisk's little microSD card sucks up 400GB

Will it work on a Raspberry?

I'm too lazy to look up the specs, but will my Raspberry Pi and its Rasbian support one of these drives?

It's time I upgraded the 32 GB file & web server on it. And needless to say, it also contains my bitcoin and ether wallets!

Re: 400 Gb on 4000 Winchesters.

If you were thinking of the IBM 3330, they held about 100 MB each and weighed about 10 lb .

As I recall, unlike those fancy new SUVs where one kicks under the tailgate to open it, you had to actually MANUALLY open the disk drive cover when replacing the diskdrive.

So about 4000 of these big cakeboxes could probably replace one of these micro-SD.

Understandably, direct-access would be somewhat slow, depending on how motivated the computer operator was. From my experience, the female access mechanism was generally faster, unless her nail polish was drying.

On the other hand, the older 2311 and 2314 held 7MB and ~30 MB respectively, Sadly, they were permanently nailed into their ersatz washing machine. So unlike the 3330, there was no "low-speed" direct addressing, except on the same drive.

Google bins white supremacist site after it tries to host-hop away from GoDaddy

Re: Youre right of free speach

Certainly Trumps my right of free peach. Or is it spinach?

Poor Bob Parsons!

Do ya think cancelling the daily stormper contract will cut into Bob's love of shooting elephants and big boob websites promoting them 427" American macho circular car racing?

Gee.. probably not.

Well.. even if so, fellow billionaire Robert Mugabe will pick up the slack. Hey- what's another $45 / year?

Canadian sniper makes kill shot at distance of 3.5 KILOMETRES

Remember-your weapon was made by the lowest bidder

Unless it's an AK47....

Re: It does .. not sexist but pre-COBOL..

You are possibly thinking of Adm. Grace Hopper, who with her staff of calculating ladies, programmed the ENIAC back in the '40s..

Pleased with this, she then went on to develop COBOL, and thus lost all credibility, the poor thing. So all they could do was make her an admiral. But sadly COBOL was out of the bag and managed to survive.

Lordy! Trump admits there are no tapes of his chats with Comey

Re: It only gets worse. Travis?

What you need is Travis Bickle! He would clean things up! And free that poor abused Melonomia!

In comprehension, simplicity is not just the only thing, it's EVERYTHING!

After all, the world is oh so much simpler to comprehend when there's a scary bogeyman on which to rally against and apportion blame.

Thank goodness we KNOW that this isn't the case with Hillary! She is indeed a servant of the anti-christ, and, with her husband, is amassing a great fortune through the the crooked Clinton Foundation that soon will be turned over to Satan; perhaps with a goodly portion going to Vladimir Putin.

Why is she still running free? LOCK HER UP, Donald! Before it's too late!

Whoops! Microsoft accidentally lets out a mobile-'bricking' OS update

Re: "We knew the STFU risks"

Hey, my phone IS a brick! That Bakelite is as sturdy as hell! And the rotary dial works flawlessly.

But after some deliberation, MS told me that unfortunately I cannot run Win-10 on it.

Yet.

OMG! Thank goodness I have a Grandpa Box!

Yes, I have one of those old big beige boxes that has seen a multitude of mainboards, processors (usually AMD) and more than one PS that has burned out.

No one would ever steal it- they'd sniff "Ha! This old geezer is still running Win 3.1!" as they went for my 48"TV set. Mind you, the big LED screens might be a giveaway...

But hey! I'm still current! Running Ubuntu 17.04 and Win-10 (fast) Build 16199, which both work great!

So... what's all this nonsense about telephones turning to jelly and frying?

You mean I can run Windows-10 on my rotary-dial phone now? Wow! This IoT thing has really got outa hand!

UK hospital meltdown after ransomware worm uses NSA vuln to raid IT

Re: $300 in Bitcoin is a NOT $300 US$

Sorry, but 300 dollars is 300 dollars. Australian, Canadian or USA.

I have currently half a bitcoin. I think it's now worth about $400. I haven't checked lately

You probably mean 300 BITCOINS, = Ƀ300, not $300. There is no ASCII character for the bitcoin symbol yet. Nor likely will be!

Ƀ is a proposed symbol (see http://www.bitcoinsymbol.org/ )

But that's OK.. you're an amateur, right?

Re: Time to move off Windows

Move off of Windows onto what? A typewriter? Or perhaps a quill pen?

He sees it all the time....

Following is from a disgruntled friend about to retire: And thenhe's gonna provide Bitcoin services/knowledge to people who have never heard of bitcoin, but suddenly need it for some strange reason.. ;-)

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Executives, and in this case Doctors (remember XXXXXs), are the reason IT backs down and drops their pants and leaves the door ajar for hackers. I see it all the time here at work. Screaming executives demand their f’n new toy or phone gets 100% access on our network NOW before their big meeting (or just before you get fired), or even board members cry to IT directors, who then order guys like me to “open er up”. We have no real power in IT.

The Russians KGB types now type all documents on typewriters, and lock them up in real vaults. In security circles in the USSR, nothing is on a computer.

So when Putin screams in your face, you open the vault, not the network firewall or switch ACLs. Then you’re poisoned or shot.

What it's only $300?

PAY IT!

Hell, that's only one hospital flunky administrator's supper money!

A few years ago, The U. of Alberta (I think) got hit for $Thousands in ransomware.

If you're gonna be foolish, you better learn how to manage Bitcoins! You're gonna need to!

Fortran greybeards: Get your walking frames and shuffle over to NASA

"MODERN" Fortran?

I'm retired. And have a lot of spare time.

Where can I find this "Modern" Fortran compiler and DL for free?

Heck, in the old days I used to translate Fortran's object code (IBM 360) into BAL to make it go faster.

Ahhh... the good ol' disassembly days! Apparently you go to jail for than now.

Mud sticks: Microsoft, Windows 10 and reputational damage

Re: Don't blame bearded young hipsters for the UI

Well, I'm neither bearded, young or a hipster (though I did play bongos briefly about 55 years ago, whilst smoking strange tobaccos)

And I run Win-10 In.Preview 16170 (the Redstone-3) on this desktop as well as the "standard" Win-10 on a laptop.

As well as Android x86-64 on this machine - but only to run a couple of apps that are sadly available only on Android and iCrap.

However, posting this from Ubuntu Mate 16.10 just to kick its tyres. Ugh.

Think I'll switch this partition back to Gnome! Mate is for old ladies. Indeed I WOULD recommend it to some "older" person who was wondering what to replace their XP with. Highly recommended to you folks here!

But- I spend most of my time on this machine in Win-10. I DO NOT see what all the fuss is about with all you old fuddy-duddies. OK, The Win-10 UI is SLIGHTLY different from XP or Win-7. So? Learn to navigate.

You geezers obviously have difficulties with anything "new". Still running Netscape 4.7?

Confession: As an elderly (semi-indigent) retiree, I have lots of time to fool around with OSs.

Wake me up when Linux replaces Windows on everyones' desktops/laptops. But be advised -I may not wake up- I don't have many years left.

And let me know when the dislike on this post hits 100. It's been so long!