Posts by Martin-73

Twitter preps poison pill to preclude Elon Musk's purchase plan

Re: 'I have much trouble agreeing with'

This boldly assumes that your correspondent has Sassed the US constitution (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with;)

Re: And again, no.

Musk is a disgusting human being, he promotes hate speech.

Cisco's Webex app phoned home audio telemetry even when muted

Re: FAILSAFE

Yes, a 'lamp test' VERY common on well designed alarm panels, test gear, etc.

Re: A possible compromise?

There is no possible use for this feature. Just show a big mute symbol in say, the system tray? sorry notification area, sorry flibberdrawer

You can buy a company. You can buy a product. Common sense? Trickier

Re: 'twas ever thus

With many PSUs a dead short on any output will stop the PSU even starting up (as the circuitry's driven from an auxiliary output winding) so a short will prevent it doing anything but periodically making a tic--squeal----tic---squeal

Star loses $500,000 NFT after crooks exploit Rarible market

Given they're just copies of data, he should've backed em up ;)

Elon Musk's latest launch: An unsolicited Twitter takeover

Re: Strewth !.... How much more evidence do you need fed to you?

Sir, who are you and what have you done with the original owner of this handle? .... your post made sense and I agree with it. Have a pint for your dedication!

Re: Money can't buy maturity

No, as stated upthread, he's pro-trump. Pro trump people believe the results of the election should be ignored and him given the presidency he LOST. So that's NOT rewarding for democracy to me

Re: Money can't buy maturity

He was warned plenty of times. And he wasn't the head of state, he was a manbaby

SpaceX's Starlink service suffers brief but global weekend outage

That and the fact Elon has VERY publicly given starlink terminals to .ua, and been thanked personally by Zelenskyy, makes that a possibility

Buying a USB adapter: Pennies. Knowing where to stick it: Priceless

Re: Television repair

Yep, our main living room tv is a kerbside rescued samsung. The fault was easy to diagnose, flashing power LED pulsing a code, main PSU was failing to start up from standby. Reason? A single SMD powersupply bootstrap resistor (charges the cap that runs the main SMPS from the HV rail, so the chip can startup and then the PSU powers itself)

Re: Cassette tapes

Ahhh and now you could make a fortune on ebay with them!

Re: Cassette tapes

Ah yes, Video heads. Cheap cleaning tapes (with loops of fibre sticking out) would often destroy them, the fibres would get caught in the head, which was a) tiny, and b) spinning at 3000 or 3600 RPM with a lot of inertia... More than one friend got the sad news that there was nothing I could do (I could do basic PSU diagnostics etc, plus cleaning and a little alignment if someone'd been fiddling, but a broken head was off to the repair shop with you)

Re: As an ex

Another fellow ex telecomms now electrician, 'all you did was'... and 'yes but i told you to do it on the phone' is so bloody familiar.

And if they balk at the price, tell em how much the MFT for the Zs/Continuity/IR testing cost...

Re: Working for free

YES, that right there is the difference. I agree with NightFox if it had been grandma's pics... but as you say, it wasn't

Happy birthday Windows 3.1, aka 'the one that Visual Basic kept crashing on'

Not worn this coat before

Re: Well, at least they disappeared in later versions!

Huge upvote for both the reference, the warning, and being aware of limitations. Have 1024beers

Underrated twee...oh. Wrong forum. LOL, but have an upvote anyway

South Yorkshire to test fiber broadband through water pipes

Re: @Captain Scarlet

I am now reminded of that short 'speechless' film from the 50s or 60s, ' A home of your own' (it starred ronnie barker and many other well known people) and the water guy wandering round the new greenfield housing development, looking for the water main, couldn't find it... then he eventually got out the dowsing rods, and found the guy with the bladder problem. Minutes later the electricity board guy (I think it was) found the water main with a pickaxe. Need to re-watch

The time you solved that months-long problem in 3 seconds

Re: I replaced a network cable.

I'm here for the argument (full half hour)

Re: Raging handover

Or another imminent handover :)

Re: Fuck that

Only ones full of eels

Re: Fuck that

Wait till they find out about the existence of Scunthorpe

Icon=their brains

Re: Fuck that

also provides worms for the fishing that comes later

Re: Fuck that

My arse is indeed kind of fat, but I am not a consultant. However, the entire F article revolves around diplomacy. Evidently you have never looked that up on dictionary.com. You would have made NO friends and likely been fired

Similar concept but utterly reversed. I was flying back from Canada to the UK in Dec 2004 (i found out about the tsunami on my arrival back in blighty) . I'd been resident in the US, legally, for 5 yrs and was returning home for personal reasons, and decided to visit friends in canada en route. Canadian immigration could have been rude about the kind of things i was bringing into the country for a 'visit', but they were...Canadian; and thus accepted me.

But given all this preamble, it's evident i have more with me than your average tourist. Lady at the Air Canada checkin desk at Toronto Pearson airport was insistant that my small toolbox was carryon size and thus would save me a LOT in excess baggage fees (which i'd already accounted for), as it was very heavy. So I opened it. the top tray on the box contained 3 different types of utility knife, and a 3/4 inch chisel. She grinned and said 'maybe not then sir'

One day, i need to return to Canada, wonderful place.

Related polite anecdote, I'd arrived 3h early for the flight and already checked in, and done the security thing but at the time i smoked, and Canada, being more progressive than most, had already banned all smoking inside the airport. So I left my carryon with the checkin desk, and went outside for a cigarette. Came back in, fully expecting to be scanned again. Nope, the security guard said 'I watched you thru the window, i'm pretty sure you've not picked anything up, will you be out for another? my shift changes in 1 hr'...

Web3 'contains the seeds of a dystopian nightmare' says analyst firm

Any prat who...

conflates 'web' and 'internet' needs to be ignored

Help, my IT team has no admin access to their own systems

Re: Miracle workers

Amazing for an IT site that 2 people downvoted you presumably because (1) they are unable to work out how to use a VPN (it's not obvious that the video won't be available in all countries if you're not in one of them) or (2) like apple devices (shudder) or (3) both.

Anyway re: icon, (4), have a 568ml or thereabouts of your tipple of choice (and an upvote) for bringing a smile to at least my face :)

Re: Miracle workers

Quite amusing, used a vpn to popup in germany, worth doing if you have access :)

Re: At Sequin, re: fire safe.

yes, see most recent video about fire safes from Lockpickinglawyer, very informative

Russian IT pros flee Putin, says tech lobby group

Re: Russxit

i ABSOLUTELY think you are correct. And that scares me

Re: Russxit

he's too much of a narcissist to take such reports seriously. It would literally all be a 'conspiracy against him, personally' even if such reports flooded in and were genuine

OVHcloud datacenter 'lacked' automatic fire extinguishers, electrical cutoff

Re: Who else wants popcorn?

I personally teach any new devices 'autocucumber'

How not to attract a WSL (or any) engineer

Re: high school

The point is, the term 'high school' is largely meaningless except in a couple of countries. It shows the recruiter is an idiot, to put it mildly

Satellite comms networks on alert after US govt warning

I'm surprised Steve Gibson hasn't sued the federal govt

Given that 'shields up' is HIS baby

Microsoft datacenter to heat homes in Finland

Re: Well, it's a first

Late 90s cyrix processors ;)

We have redundancy, we have batteries, what could possibly go wrong?

Upvote for the last sentence.... typical But at least it's up there for next time ;)

Icon coz i expect you needed a few

IT blamed after HR forgets to install sockets in new office

Not sure why the downvote.... this smacks of idiocy on 3 levels

Russia scrambles to bootstrap HPC clusters with native tech

Re: Its too late for Putin

yes, but speedy admittance into NATO could send a signal...

Re: Its too late for Putin

re: 2nd to last paragraph, Xi may have reason not to want nuclear war, but putin, is absolutely insane.

SAP continues to support Russian customers

Re: At the very least

Just make sure for anyone thinking of doing the AirBnB thing, make sure they're genuine, people are arseholes. check previous reviews etc... You just might make someone's day. Make sure it's the right person

Internet backbone Cogent cuts Russia connectivity

Re: Captcha

and only the third connects you.... I like your thinking there.

BBC points Russians to the Tor version of itself

Re: Choice

VOA was weird back in the 80s and 90s, glad to hear it's still sticking to its guns

Icon because that's how I feel realizing how LONG it's been

I was with him till the (totally not) canadian truckers thing.

EU cuts off key Russian banks from SWIFT system

Unrelated to the article content

"the EU's international partners including the UK..."

THAT made me almost as sad as the war itself .

Co-inventor of Ethernet David Boggs dies aged 71

Re: 50 ohm coax

This rabbit hole is deep, i remember installing a proper connection (cut the cable and install 2x N connectors) rather than a simple vampire tap, for the head of our dept (not IT back then, it was relegated to a division of the electrical estates crew, namely me and my mentor).... then putting a 'fanout unit' on the end of the AUI connector. And the boss arguing he wanted his OWN transceiver ... lol

Re: Ethernet turned out to become the network winner

Ah i recall 10base5 (aka etherhose) being coaxial, but HEINOUSLY thick.... I am pretty sure we used N connectors (think PL259 on steroids and with a constant 50 ohm impedance) ...was there an earlier variant?

IBM cannot kill this age-discrimination lawsuit linked to CEO

Re: Guilty until proven guilty

Indeed could be..... given global events, my 'nationalism' deserved the downvotes tho

Re: Guilty until proven guilty

downvotes? because a joke was against america? really? The register is a British publication, despite the inexplicable change of domain suffix

'Hundreds of computers' in Ukraine hit with wiper malware as conflict continues

Re: "Of course you realize, this means war"

Not sure why the 2 downvotes, maybe russians*? Or maybe people don't like the truth. You're absolutely, and depressingly correct.

For the time being, that word doesn't get capitalized