Posts by redpawn

We seem to have materialized in a universe in which Barney the Purple Dinosaur is designing iPhones for Apple

I'd get one but...

I'd have to repaint my office first. It's painted beige to match the Mac Plus.

Linus Torvalds reluctantly issues one more release candidate for Linux kernel 5.12

Re: I take this as evidence ...

But stability is so boring. How about naming the releases after failed dictators?

To have one floppy failure is unlucky. To have 20 implies evil magic or a very silly user

Re: Seriously way off topic, but...

Prison, where you will find experts in cell service.

Guilty: Sister and brother who over-ordered hundreds of MacBooks for university and sold the kit for millions

Why is the second part of:

Take the money and run so difficult for these people?

Watch it go: World's smallest self-folding origami bird that reminds us we were promised nanobots at some point

.

That is one thousand origami cranes for good luck. They are flapping their wings just for you.

Partial beer print horror as Microsoft's printer bug fix, er, doesn't

Move Fast and Break Things,

other people's things that is. It seems that MS does not have any printers to test code on. Drop yours off at the Redmond HQ so they can test future patches on an actual rather than a simulated printer.

Someone defeated the anti-crypto-coin-mining protection for Nvidia's 'gamers only' RTX 3060 ... It was Nvidia

Mining works best

on other people's hardware. So don't attempt to use unauthorized drivers on your own.

OVH founder says UPS fixed up day before blaze is early suspect as source of data centre destruction

300 Cameras

The probability of any one of them starting a fire is quite small...

We can't avoid it any longer. Here's a story about the NFT mania... aka someone bought a JPEG for $69m in Ether

It makes

the buyers of Pet Rocks look like geniuses

Another Windows 10 patch that breaks printers ups ante to full-on Blue Screen of Death

Re: This is rather roundabout

My old brother laser printer is no longer supported by Apple since they killed CUPS.

Re: "in some apps"?

"Program" has been canceled. It has negative connotations and implies a lack of freedom.

Next year "app" gets canceled in favor of "Willing, Caring, Helper".

Customer comment and contributions no more as Microsoft pulls the plug on Office 365 UserVoice forum

You still have a voice

Yell at the damned thing til you calm down. There, that fixes it.

Redditor thinks they have a solution to Surface Laptop 3's overheating issues: Elastic bands and USB fans

Just mount the guts

in a laptop case and be done with it!

Intel CPU interconnects can be exploited by malware to leak encryption keys and other info, academic study finds

"Intel classified our attack as a 'traditional side channel'

So don't worry. Tradition is so last week.

What happens when cancel culture meets Adolf Hitler pareidolia? Amazon decides it needs a new app icon

That's not Hitler

It's Walter Cronkite, as long as you substitute white for blue and use wider tape, though I don't remember Hitler having a blue mustache. It could be all those B&W photographs had me fooled.

Japanese billionaire invites y'all to apply for an all-expenses-paid Moon trip in a SpaceX Starship – like the one that blew up today

Tempting

but "pushing the envelope" while in a space ship does not sound like a good idea. I'd want fellow passengers who did not. They could even be half man, half bear & half pig as long as they had better than common sense.

Homo sapiens: Hey you, Neanderthals! Neanderthals: We heard that

Re: POTS

The rat in our ceiling space and our dog who would love to get it both have better hearing than I ever did. They both chose when to understand me and thank god neither of them can speak English yet.

New Jersey blames Microsoft for weeks of outages, glitches plaguing coronavirus vaccine sign-up website

You go to Vacinate with the Microsoft you Have

not the Microsoft you wish you had. But to be frank, I blame the users until the Vista version comes out.

Nearly 70 years after America made einsteinium in its first full-scale thermo-nuke experiment, mystery element yields secrets of its chemistry

Re: I'm struggling with the El Reg SI unit conversion tables this morning...

It's 238 picometers. When you look at them, they look back, but only for a moment.

Chromium cleans up its act – and daily DNS root server queries drop by 60 billion

Let's just use lots of public resources

to make shiny. The commons belong to us!

More patches for SolarWinds Orion after researchers find flaw allowing low-priv users to execute code, among others

Don't go around the fence!

Don't go through the hole in the fence! You are entering a secure area.

Your conscience will bother you. You have been warned!

If you really must have Edge on your Apple M1 silicon, there's a compatible stable build for Microsoft's browser

For the Angry

recipient of a Mac, whether spouse, parent or child who was wishing for a PC for Christmas (probably to play games).

Synology to enforce use of validated disks in enterprise NAS boxes. And guess what? Only its own disks exceed 4TB

Your new Remington Portable Typewriter

works best with Remington branded paper 1920s. However it did not outright reject the paper nor the ribbon produced by other companies. Mine still stores information on paper all these years later thanks to that engineering oversight.

Accused of underpaying or snubbing women and Asian techies, Google spends pocket change to make it all go away

A parking ticket

can put a serious dent in many families food budget these days. Lack of proportionality in punishment hurts us all. All that is except the big players that is.

In the old days, coups started by seizing TV and radio stations. Now they crimp the internet at 3am

Sad

and I bet the politically active there don't waste their time with Q-uidiacy. I'm afraid a dent in internet throughput here in the USA would have people in the streets screaming about how they can't watch cat videos and fight pedophile satanists.

The CIA's 'entire' collection of UFO records has been made available for you to sigh at

Modern Fakes

Sharpies that good for blacking things out weren't invented til 1984. Unless they are blacked out using alien technology that is... Further proof!

Loser Trump is no longer useful to Twitter, entire account deleted over fears he'll whip up more mayhem

Lying Sack of Trump

It's just Trump being Trump. Give him another chance! You know you want to....

Where are you Bombastic Bob?

Buggy chkdsk in Windows update that caused boot failures and damaged file systems has been fixed

Re: Yes the wonders of continual updates......

Thank you for being a valued Beta Tester!

Dell Wyse Thin Client scores two perfect 10 security flaws

The Fools Mate of ...

Security!

Microsoft is designing its own Arm-based data-center server, PC chips – report

You go to Serve

With the Microsoft you have, not the Microsoft you wish you had.

Master boot vinyl record: It just gives DOS on my IBM PC a warmer, more authentic tone

Reminds me of modem days

I had a friend who would sometimes leave the computer to answer the phone. It would make a tone for a few seconds before hanging up. I found that if I whistled different tones it would try to sink up with me for some time before rejecting me in disgust.

Boeing 737 Max will return to flight after software updates, says EU's aviation regulator

Re: Average crew

Keep out of the median. You will be run over.

Mysterious metal monolith found in 'very remote' part of Utah

The Sheep

put it there. They use it to communicate with God. Now they will have to move it to a better hidden site on a secondary Lay Line.

NEC to sell the accelerator cards it puts into supercomputers – for about $11,000 a pop

It's not a video card,

but how many frames per second playing Doom?

Solving a big, yellow IT problem: If it's not wearing hi-vis, I don't trust it

Re: Data Entry

You also get best results with a manual typewriter if you type with a metronome like cadence. When I use my 1928 Remington portable, I can't type "the" as I do with a computer. It is very easy to strike the t and the h so quickly that the type hammers don't clear each other. In fact when I learned to type in in school it was at times accompanied by music with metronome like clicks. The IBM Selectrics for my second year did not require nice cadence and could go much faster than my fingers.

Shock news: NASA lunar ambitions might be a bit too... ambitious

There is no point in doing something that has been done before, take sex for instance.

UK-led telescope to gaze at exoplanets, plus Jupiter 's 'glow-in-the-dark' moon

Years ago...

I made prints from NASA negatives of the moon borrowed from the University of Hawaii NASA library. They might still exist in my mothers house. Needless to say, having a NASA library at my university and an L5 club there was great.

Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence

if you roll a large coin

around the dish, how long would it take to drop into the hole in the center? Is there an Olympic swimming pool / Astronomical Unit / Signal Strength unit?

Thanks for the upgrade!

Days before the US election, phishers net $2.3m from Wisconsin Republicans

When your workers work for free,

You get what you pay for, like Paul Manafort for instance.

Trump administration proposes H-1B visas go to highest-paid workers first

Low Paid Workers

are less good at kickbacks. With this administration personal connection$ are King and by King I mean President.

Flash haters, rejoice! Microsoft releases tool to let you nuke Adobe's security horror before support ends

Re: Really?

Large really?

Flash, You'll be Missed

NOT!!! Nice of Adobe to blame standards compliant software for the failure of code so bad only outlaws and malware riddled porn sites could love.

Trump's official campaign website vandalized by hackers who 'had enough of the President's fake news'

Fake News!

Trump security is far too good for this to have happened. Trump only hires the very best to work for his administration.

Seeing as real 5G isn't even here yet, you could just get a OnePlus instead of an iPhone 12 and save loadsamoney

If you have to ask the price,

you shouldn't be getting an iPhone.

Did Arthur C. Clarke call it right? Water spotted in Moon's sunlit Clavius crater by NASA telescope

The poles should be better

Wouldn't you want to be next to a dark crater near the pole, where you have access to both cold shade and the blazing sun most of the time? The water concentration should be higher there too and there is not much rotational velocity near the equator in any case.

After Dutch bloke claims he hacked Trump's Twitter by guessing password, web biz says there's 'no evidence'

Nothing to see here

Your President, Donald J. Trump is NOT an IDIOT or a narcissist. It is impossible to guess the password of a VERY STABLE GENIUS!

Slow and steady progress in Microsoft's latest diversity report, though most execs still pale and male

Like their software

slow and buggy is about all you could hope for.

Is Google fudging search rankings to benefit pages that embed YouTube vids? Or is this just another ‘bug’?

G's revised motto

See no Evil, Speak no Evil, be a Weevil.

If you can see this headline, you're certainly not reading it on Twitter: All tweets, notifications vanish

Got my hopes up

Checked for Trump tweets and they were there.

China watches 170,000 years’ worth of short videos every day

Death by video

I only watch 1000 years of video per day.