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Posts by aregross
299 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Dec 2012
Microsoft PC accessories rise from the grave just in time for Christmas
Google finally addresses those bizarre AI search results
Microsoft builds $3.3B cloud campus on Foxconn's failed Wisconsin LCD plant plot
What's brown and sticky and broke this PC?
Americans wake to widespread AT&T cellular outages
IT sent the intern to sort out the nasty VP who was too important to bother with backups
Tuesday 28th November 2023 00:10 GMT
Easy-Peasy
I would've gone out of my to seek her out and just say "It's fixed now". Then when she asked what the issue was, if she even did ask, I would'a just said, "What does it matter, it's fixed" and walked away, leaving her to ever-so-slightly be concerned that it may have been something she herself had (or hadn't) done. She'd never ask you about it though, as she may then need to fess-up that she was actually responsible for the "Issue".... it'll still bug her though!
We're getting that fry-day feeling... US Army gets hold of drone-cooking microwave rig
Monday 6th November 2023 17:28 GMT
Re: Countdown ..
"Joking aside, given what these things do I give it at most a day before someone decides to "accidentally" aim it at human targets :(."
Exactly, to wit: "Leonidas is mounted on a 360-degree gimbal allowing it to rotate to ***face targets***, and..."
Hopefully not *my* face target.
If anyone finds an $80M F-35 stealth fighter, please call the Pentagon
Astronaut-menacing sunstorm spotted rippling across inner solar system
What does Twitter's new logo really represent?
Mark Zuckerberg would kick Elon Musk's ass, experts say
NASA experts looked through 800 UFO sightings and found essentially nothing
Thursday 1st June 2023 12:30 GMT
Bill Nye (The Science Guy) said something years ago that convinced me there are no ETs visiting us... He said that if they're really visitors from another planet/galaxie/et al they surely they would've come down and said "Hi! Take me to your Leader" by now.
I thought about this for a long time and came up with the only logical conclusion, "IF" there really are UFOs flying around. They are time travelers from our future, like a Disney E-Ticket ride to "Go back in Time and see your ancestors". The reason they can't 'land' and do a 'visit' is they would then alter the future, *their* present.
Here's a fun idea: Try to unlock and drive away in someone else's Tesla
Microsoft and GM deal means your next car might talk, lie, gaslight and manipulate you
Wednesday 15th March 2023 02:00 GMT
"I think that part of the reason why I hate the check engine light as a concept is that there is no nuance to the seriousness. It could mean "Stop now! The engine is about to fall out" or "There is a slight issue with one of the emission systems".
The car I have at the moment has a common EVAP code related to fuel tank vacuum testing. It's not that big a deal: it's not leaking fuel and it is likely a vacuum valve or the wiring for it. Or the fuel cap seal. The car is really old and would likely be far more expensive to fix than is worth it, so I tolerate the light. However, I have to check with my OBD meter every now and again because I want to know if anything more serious occurs.
It's a shame because having the light on bugs me so I will have to investigate it myself over the summer....."
Having been an auto mechanic for a good many years, I can say the easiest fix *I've* found for that particular issue is a piece of black electrical tape over the CEL!
Mozilla says 80 percent of Google Play's app safety labels are inaccurate
Clumsy ships, one Chinese, sever submarine cables that connect Taiwanese islands
Heads to roll at Lenovo amid 'severe downturn' in PC sales
Meanwhile, in Japan, pet fish run up credit card bill on Nintendo Switch
Lockheed Martin demos 50kW anti-aircraft frickin' laser beam
Rentokil uses AI rat recognition to plot extermination in real time
Bill shock? The red ink of web services doesn’t come out of the blue
Pro-Putin goons claim responsibility for blowing US airport websites offline
How do you protect your online systems? Cultivate an insider threat
Monday 10th October 2022 23:47 GMT
Re: I would want to see it 100% in writing
Oh it's much more than that... When I was the 'One Man Army' of IT at a past position, it's was interesting to hear other employees say things like 'Why are they (Admin) doing this? It would be much better to...' and rattle off their concerns and reasonings about how decisions were made at the Top and why they were wrong. This is an excellent article pointing out that the 'Little People' usually know much more about how a company is run, or run into the ground, than those at the top who are mainly results oriented.
Big Plus One to the author!
Juno what? Jovian moon Europa is looking rugged
Fake vibrating teeth could make great hearing aids
Bad UI killed the radio star
NASA scrubs Artemis mission yet again because SLS just can't handle the pressure
How Google uses mirrors to dynamically reconfigure its networks
After 40 years in tech, I see every innovation contains its dark opposite
Thursday 21st July 2022 02:55 GMT
I had to look up...
... FOMO. None here, nada. However, my daughter and her generation (she was born 1990) is always wondering that, sad. I go out and look for it... if I can't find it, it probably wasn't worth finding, it's not gonna change your life, move on.
I did try and instill the concept of Cause and Effect and as much Zen as she would take, that's all you can do!
Where's that light bulb icon!
EDIT: LOL I fergot what I posted for,... that was the most intelligent column I've read in like for-eva!
Apple's latest security feature could literally save lives
Getting that syncing feeling after an Exchange restore
Monday 4th July 2022 12:31 GMT 
Seems to me you needed to unmount the DB to get a proper backup. I think I remember doing that like once a month and yea, restoring .PST files. (Bless M$'s little heart)
...and the tapes were probably fine, I mean how could they *all* be corrupt! Prolly a switch missed in the backup or restore settings.
Totaled Tesla goes up in flames three weeks after crash
SpaceX staff condemn Musk's behavior in open letter
Original killer PC spreadsheet Lotus 1-2-3 now runs on Linux natively
Beware the fury of a database developer torn from tables and SQL
Monday 23rd May 2022 13:24 GMT
Back in the '80s...
...when the IBM AT was brand new, my first IT job was at a chain that sold IBM exclusively (what else was there!) and the push was on to sell as many units as possible. I was assigned the task of un-boxing and setting up new ATs for customers.
While formatting the hard drive you were asked to name the volume. Every machine as part of the boot process was to run chkdsk /f in the autoexec.bat which would display the volume name and then the hard drive stats. I decided to name them all "Buying Pays" so when chkdsk would run it would then display "Volume Buying Pays".
The store manager had a potential customer in to demonstrate the shiny new AT. Of course when it booted up the first line on the screen was "Volume Buying Pays". After the demo I was 'instructed' to never do that again. Don't know why, I thought it was Clever Marketing! He didn't agree....heh
Biting the hand that feeds IT
