Posts by ifm

Microsoft: After we said we'll try to promote more Black people, the US govt accused us of discrimination

Hang on, el Reg is capitalizing the word White now? I thought only Black was supposed to be capitalised in 2020.

Another anti-immigrant rant goes viral in America – and this time it's by a British, er, immigrant tech CEO

Is el Reg really capitalizing White and Black now?

Why can't passport biometrics see through my cunning disguise?

I regularly see women passport control officers when flying to central and eastern europe.

Last time I flew there was a passenger in a chicken costume. It was impressive to see the woman in passport control keep the same stony expression on her face while inspecting the travel documents for chicken man.

Campus Party: Did it start Silicon Britain or let 5,000 geeks sleep together?

Bah, humbug!

Big Beardie is watching you: Lord Sugar gets into facial recognition

How is it that 'brands' have a right to know anything about me when I'm making use of the public highway? This is appalling.

Fedora's Schrödinger's Cat Linux gives coders claws for thought

Don't mean to nitpick, but...

> it is written systemd, not system D or System D, or even SystemD. And it isn't system d either. Why? Because it's a system daemon, and under Unix/Linux those are in lower case, and get suffixed with a lower case d

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/

I've enjoyed using Fedora a lot more since replacing Gnome with Awesome. Having your window manager do backflips in front of you when trying to get something done is very distracting.