Posts by Martin-73

Microsoft adds another problem to the Windows 11 24H2 naughty list

Re: Almost the same here

these were 3 small panels off one main switch but you're right, i was complacent and didn't prove the NEUTRAL dead to earth

Re: Smug

oddly i get on well with win 11 on my laptop.... but that's because as soon as i got it i neutered almost everything except security updates. My desktop is staying win 10

Re: Reminds me of the defective Server 2022 ISO

I think steve would throw a chair... at least him and mr gates were behind TRYING to be better, just weren't that good at it on occasion. Now it's a race to the bottom, same with google.

Re: Almost the same here

As an example, i got zapped by a neutral on one distribution panel, because someone had it connected to a circuit from A COMPLETELY SEPARATE PANEL IN A DIFFERENT PART OF THE BUILDING. Me opening the main disconnect isolated half the building, but the backfeed from that made the entire neutral bar live.. People will do shit that should NEVER happen, you can't protect against that. Have a third beer

Re: Almost the same here

No downvote, even people with immense technical acumen can be caught out by stupid shite that should never happen and nobody would reasonably expect... have another beer, you may need it

Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work

I was hoping this resulted in early Christmas for users

You're so bad at recycling, this biz built an AI to handle it for you

Re: Hmmm

Obviously not lived in Southampton then... our council is SHITE re: recycling. Can ONLY recycle bottles. No yoghurt pots, food trays, etc... :( Due to a 'third party contractor not having facilities'. Down the road, Gosport can recycle almost everything. ridiculous situation

Relocation is a complete success – right up until the last minute

Bit of stripped 2.5mm in a white wylex rewireable carrier doing an entire rack of chiller cabinets in a corner shop... they were surprised they failed the condition report

Andrew Tate's site ransacked, subscriber data stolen

Re: Hurrah

Indeed it requires a badge, can't remember if it's bronze or silver but i think it's to prevent spam and suchlike

America's drinking water systems have a hard-to-swallow cybersecurity problem

Re: Easy Fix Incoming

probably should've done the troll face or coat icon, but upvote to cancel the downvote

I on the other hand am not, people will be people, aka stupid. This makes it easier, why have 2 PCs when i can have one, mentality

Don't open that 'copyright infringement' email attachment – it's an infostealer

Re: FFS

make it THEIR job to fix the mess, they'll stop

FFS

Don't open random attachments, this has been the rule since giants roamed the earth. and also email is plain text, html is for www

even if i... could form a sentence for how mind numbingly shit this is. DO NOT EVER USE AN EMAIL CLIENT THAT ALLOWS THIS SHIT

Tower PC case allegedly used as 'creative cavity' by drug importer

Re: _Importing_ meth? Why?

Traveling in a fried-out Kombi

On a hippie trail, head full of zombie

I met a strange lady, she made me nervous

She took me in and gave me breakfast

Yet another UK government seeks to reform GDPR

Re: BS.

Indeed, add to that a following popup offering a signup to a newsletter, then yet a third which suggests you follow them on faecalbook, which when you click the X re-directs you to the initial cookie popup but this time with the 'yes i'll take all the bloody cookies just show me what i was looking for' button offscreen, stage left.....

Icon: blood pressure

Want to feel old? Excel just entered its 40th year

Re: Want to feel old?

You're only as old as the person you're feeling

icon: excuse for the comment

Tesla Cybertruck recalled again. This time, a software fix for backup camera glitch

Re: Robo Cyber Trucks

Breyten Breytenbach... but he's emigrated to Paris

Re: Robo Cyber Trucks

Paint your left knee green, then extract your wisdom teeth, form a string quartet and pretend your name is Keith

A working Turing Machine hits Lego Ideas

Re: Cosmological model

I highly recommend clickspring's series on youtube recreating it using period accurate tools....

Office 2024 unveiled for Microsoft 365 refuseniks

Yeah, no thanks

Office 97 still works on windows 11, (you may require a USB cd drive lol) and the .docx incompatibility isn't really a problem. All modern versions of turd..sorry word, can read .doc, and if someone sends me a .docx, not hard to read it with freeware.

Edit... it would become a chore if i used and edited dozens of .docx files a day, but that is not my use case, YMMV

Amazon, Tesla, Meta considered harmful to democracy

You're unique, just like everyone else ;-)

Microsoft cash to help reignite Three Mile Island atomic plant

Re: Not the only plant in consideration

I guess so, although it's not very dangerous. The 'safe limits' are hilariously low. Coal power station fly ash is way more radioactive than anything nuke stations are allowed to release. Nuclear power, done PROPERLY is one of the greenest forms of energy. And commercial pilots aren't overly bothered by radiation :)

The mystery of the rogue HP calculator: 12C or not 12C? That is the question

Why didn't you take the direct route

The ground

NIST: New smoke alarms are better at detecting fires, but still go off for bacon

Re: Venting the kitchen?

Indeed got one in the kitchen drawer, if only mum's carers would use the bloody thing

Re: Venting the kitchen?

I believe while not needed per BUILDING regs, the gas safety regs require them. Every heating engineer we have dealt with has either provided a battery one or requested a heat and co alarm in the room or cupboard the boiler is in, hard wired into the building's smoke alarms. Aico ones (the only brand we fit) have a different tone for fire or carbon monoxide

Re: This is a specific US-Centric problem.

Ionization detectors I don't believe are even MADE anymore

Crack coder wasn't allowed to meet clients due to his other talent: Blisteringly inappropriate insults

Re: Inappropriate insults

maybe the person was just stating a fact

Re: Never for rudeness, but..

totally different industries but yes, same experience, people can be so stupid. "I am scared of electricity" says the woman with 5 daisy chained power strips, and ' i don't understand computers'

Re: Never for rudeness, but..

I believe i'm slightly autistic, apparently my tone of voice varies from 'lecturing' to 'talking to the person like they're a fucking moron'.... In truth they often are

Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before, drowning cosmic signals

Re: I've got an idea!

equip them with weapons to take out musk's ego

Re: Don't the chinese have a nice device to shoot down rogue satellites?

to the downvoters. what has musk contributed to society, and space does not count. NASA had that nailed. sans funding

Don't the chinese have a nice device to shoot down rogue satellites?

I wonder if it's powerful enough to cook my popcorn.

Musk needs to GO

SpaceX faces $663K FAA fine for Musk's alleged launch impatience

Should be prison time for musk

that'd teach the arrogant little f*cker to obey the law

China claims Starlink signals can reveal stealth aircraft – and what that really means

Re: I'm skeptical

Moo

Cyber crooks shut down UK, US schools, thousands of kids affected

Re: Prevent kindergarteners

Yeah I'm not sure why it would prevent it, unless the cctv went down and modern laws and stuff require it for pupil student safety

Competition watchdog accuses Google of abusing ad dominance

Re: News just in: The Pope accuses Satan of being 'Evil'

Nah he just dropped the 'don't'

Spamouflage trolls pretend to be American patriots on X, TikTok ahead of US presidential election

Beijing trolls?

or trump supporters, hard to tell the difference to be honest

Microsoft decides it's a good time for bad UI to die

Didn't I see this drivel last week

And then it disappeared?

A nice cup of tea rewired the datacenter and got things working again

Re: When everything has gone to the hot place in a handcart...

Every sparky has off days, for some unfortunates, it's the last day

At least once a day, on site...

I exclaim 'i ain't avin it, where's my 'ammer'

Re: Didn't we have a tea party up in Boston?

Agreed, I like the Lipton peach iced tea

Under pressure from Europe, Apple makes iOS browser options bit more reasonable

Re: Groan

While I am no apple fanboi (indeed as an android user i find apple's devices impossible to use, due to things not working the same way), your comment was well written and accurate, have an update and a beer

Ex-Microsoft engineer resurrects PDP-11 from junkyard parts

Re: Funny...

I worry about Usagi Electric, one day he's gonna get so excited he's gonna step on a bunny!

Tech support chap solved knotty disk failure problem by staring at the floor

Re: We used to blow VAX 11/780 cards regularly

Older CRT tvs were like this, had a bridge rectifier directly on the mains with the negative connected to chassis 'ground' so it was always live with half mains voltage. The aerial sockets were isolated with 2 capacitors. I found this out after replacing a damaged aerial socket with a non isolated variant. I found out when 20 feet up a ladder, was aligning the aerial, and got a hefty whack from it when i touched the dipole element, was damn lucky to not leap off the ladder

Missing scissors cause 36 flight cancellations in Japan

Re: Meanwhile in Zürich...

Can i buy your boot to the head service on behalf of someone else? I have ideas....

Re: Meanwhile in Zürich...

It would depend on the officer but you could argue that woodcarving is a valid excuse to carry. I know if you're foraging (which is legal) you can carry a knife that would otherwise be illegal, got that in writing from Hampshire Police

Re: Meanwhile in Zürich...

My mini legal length in UK victorinox non locking keychain knife is my EDC, at work i usually carry a knipex VDE 1000v rated cable demolition knife, tiny 3/4 inch blade but lethally sharp, capable of filleting a finger as I found out last tuesday, still wearing a micropore bandage (not the same one) LOL

Microsoft sends Windows Control Panel to tech graveyard

undeniably less attractive than the modern Settings app

This, i take issue with. The settings app is a pile of shite compared to control panel tbh

This uni thought it would be a good idea to do a phishing test with a fake Ebola scare

Re: "Correct Horse Battery Staple"

Yes A&A do that, very easy to remember passwords (you can of course also set your own)