Posts by Oh Matron!

Cassette simulator rewinds digital audio to a more analog time in hiss-tory

or plugging in the power adapter to your casette recorder with the wrong polarity...

My copy of Chequered Flag for the Speccy never loaded after that one mistake :-(

UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch digital ID scheme

Because not all govt projects are funded from the public purse. Money is borrowed

Microsoft intros tech that rebuilds dead PCs without requiring local copies of Windows

Re: Mac FTW?

Had to restore a 2012 Macbook Pro Retina last year. Couldn't find an install anywhere, but net restore worked fine

Seriously, MS... This is embarrassing....

User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC

Re: Linux problem?

I had a Colon Panic once after a dodgy Kebab in Manchester Piccadilly!

Oh, Colonel! I stand corrected

HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track

Re: HS 2 late

It's not even going to Manchester, thanks to the Tories. Or did you forget that?

BT and Verizon spin off international networking arms into $4B joint venture

Some of us are old enough to remember the fiasco of the MCI / BT joint venture!

Duo who sold car crash victims' data must repay £118k

Re: Did they make a profit?

£89K is going to net you around £260 a month in interest right now :-)

Intuit axes 3,000 – without blaming AI

directors also mandated the company lean in to share buybacks

Lean in? When did the writing of the reg get so bad?

"lean in" is completely superfluous

Indra rides off with £1.96B Transport for London ticketing deal as Oyster heads for back-office overhaul

Have just moved from Redhill.

There's a weirdly large number of finance firms in the area: esure, santander, some german bank, and even tesco finance

There's also an excellent Kebab shop, which I already miss.

Re: Labour

Would you rather it went to C(r)apita?

That bias of yours is awfully strong.

Google launches line of Android laptops festooned with Gemini AI

I've gotta feelin,

Google is watching me, and I got no privacy....

Britain says Skyhammer drone interceptor passed Jordan tests with flying colors

Re: What the hell has happened to El. Reg?

Someone has been vibe coding, methinks

Had to have a coffee before I found the comments button

Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans'

Re: Hate it

evolve != change.

What you've seen is Windows change. Not evolve. Give me NT4 any time of the day!

Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts

Dunning Kruger, anyone?

That is all.

Microsoft Outlook for iOS still down and out for many after 'service change'

Re: Another day and outlook borked again

The Capita of SAAS.

To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane

Drivers be damned

I was once at a telecoms standards meeting. Possibly Osaka, but, back then, it was all a blur, in to 2000's.

Was chatting with a colleague when, all of a sudden, the air was filled with the most abusive of language

A single event on the access points had caused a particular, but default, wifi chipset driver to **** the bed.

At least 30 laptops bluescreened simultaneously!

Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever

That it all.

Deere oh Deere: Tractor repair row heads for $99M settlement

Re: This Settlement is **NOT** an excellent result for the Class

"glue, tiny screws, and multiple fragile ribbon cables"

Things that make your phone:

1. small

2. waterproof

I've a motorola flip 2 to sell you if you don't want both of those.

RAF eyes cheap drone-killer as Typhoon jet tests laser-guided rockets

Tenuous connection....

Flew a Venture T2 Glider at Salmesbury one VERY cold morning back in the 80s :-)

EU broadcasters say smart TVs and voice assistants are the next gatekeepers

For the love of $DEITY

Just don't plug it into the internet! It can monitor all you want, but it won't be able to talk to anyone

Or PiHole for the win!

Lock down Microsoft Intune, feds warn after Stryker attack

Can't believe I'm saying this....

This has got nothing to do with Microsoft.

Pish identity. Lack of MFA. Lack of RBAC. Lack of alerting into a SIEM. Take your pick

Unless, of course, that Intune has poor RBAC.... Which it doesn't: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/intune-service/fundamentals/create-custom-role

So, back to Stryker and it's poor Security. CISO needs to be fired: https://www.stryker.com/us/en/about/our-management/leaders/1200.html

UK still doodling digital pound while Brussels frets over payment sovereignty

Re: Digital currency

Less or more secure than leaving your wallet in the pub?

Dev stunned by $82K Gemini bill after unknown API key thief goes to town

Re: It's a public key

That's not how the key works. There's half decent RBAC for keys on Google, so the key would be bound to an application

However, what isn't understood is why the dev didn't limit the key to his domain only.

West Midlands Police earn red card over Copilot's imaginary football match

Speaking of legal hallucinations:

https://www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinations/

This is terrifying....

Break free of Ring's servers, earn a five-figure bounty

Re: Fairly Easy-ish Shurely?

Root cert is likely to be a lengthy one, baked into the hardware itself, or on storage incredibly well protected

If, and it's a big IF, the root cert can be replaced, then the walls will come tumbling own. But, until then...

Altman: You think AI is wasted energy? Try raising 100 billion humans

I thought it was more David Icke

Ofcom's grumble-o-meter lights up for EE, TalkTalk, Vodafone

Re: Openreach

DNS, it's always DNS!

That is until a squirrel chewed through my Community Fibre Fibre

Infosys chair says AI will clean up legacy systems – then make more of them

Speed, quality, cost....

"very quickly and in a much more economic way."

So, no quality then?

Cisco looses Splunk to probe and tame its growing agentic menagerie

Re: Terrible headline

It's really not. I discarded the headline almost instantly, and only with the comment above was I able to understand the headline.

Amazon's European datacenter buildout blows a breaker as grid connection wait list hits 7 years

But fusion......

(ducks for cover!)

Patch Tuesday meets Groundhog Day as Windows hibernation bug returns

Most secure OS ever!

If it won't wake up, it can't be hacked, right?

Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server

BOBSMEDS

Ex Apple Geniuses will recite with glee BOBSMEDS. The second B is "Bling"

Challenger at 40: The disaster that changed NASA

Re: Engineers Tried to Stop The Launch

This article cited is much better than the "appears to have been written with AI" Register article....

Concorde at 50: Twice the speed of sound, twice the economic trouble

I went a few years with the parents, and the level of access and detail was incredible. Was taken through how it achieved supersonic flight without afterburners at a level of detail I just about managed to grasp

Still the only aircraft to cross the atlantic supersonic without afterburners. And still beautiful. And still a wonder that the Vulcan used the same engines (almost) :-)

Capita tells civil servants to wait for chatbots to fix pension portal woes

Not sure if this is due to....

Capita's Modus Operandi, or AISlop

Answers on self addressed envelope to...

UK plans right for flat owners to demand gigabit broadband

True, although, having fallen tired of London (Yes, I hear Samuel Johnson's quote in my head), I've been looking in the Yorkshire dales for properties, and there is the very excellent https://b4rn.org.uk/ that provides rural broadband through access to farmer's fields, etc. Easy to dig up one of those than a road. So, almost every property I've seen has had 1Gbps fibre broadband, even some 500m from the nearest road :-)

Microsoft's fix for slow File Explorer: load it before you need it

Jeff Greeling....

Did a video this week comparing a Pi with some Generic Windows box.

Wasn't the balanced piece I was expecting, given that your Pi will consume less power that a Gnat's Fart, stay powered on literally for months on end, and comes with no bloatware installed.

He seemed to forget that the windows box will sh1t the bed literally within weeks

Why do we continue to tolerate such crap?

Windows boss defends 'agentic OS' push as users plead for reliability

Re: The Masses Will Get An Agentic OS And Will Not Complain

"And Will Not Complain...."

They won't be able to complain because their OS isn't working.

UK tribunal says reselling Microsoft licenses is A-OK

"UsedSoft judgment at the ECJ"

Of which the UK is still a member

Russia’s first autonomous humanoid robot staggers and falls on debut

Laughing aside....

I'm actually impressed by this.

That it's not China or the US makes is VERY impressive.

I, for one, welcome our drunken autonomous overlords....

Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver

Re: Regomiser

Bill Posters was framed.

Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control

Yet another Windows vs macos comparison....

Sorry, apologies, but why such a frequent cadence?

macOS has a much more sedate release program, where both enterprise and public testing is encouraged. macOS isn't without it's faults, but, my God, from an Enterprise IT perspective, it's much more manageable (and better quality)

Help desk boss fell for ‘Internet Cleaning Day’ prank - then swore he got the joke

On a lighter note....

"gopher" was a blast from the past. Learnt about Archie, Gopher, Finger(oo-er) and the rest whilst at uni, which happened to coincide with the advent of Netscape. Great timing.

Tesla board wants to grant Musk $1T in stock, Norway wealth fund says nope

If you're the owner of the fund in Norway, 4% is a loss of $680,000,000. I'd be a little upset if I lost this

Footnote:

The fund is Tesla's seventh-biggest owner with a 1.12 per cent stake worth $17 billion

Flight simulator fans revive a classic Boeing 747 cockpit

Re: You know you would...

If, by "kid" you mean "adult" then count me in :-)

Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe

an inadvertent tenant configuration change within Azure Front Door (AFD)

Change Management not a thing at MS, then...

AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay

Hey kids....

when you get a job and half your compensation is shares, that vest in a couple of years, just remember that you'll get didly squatt if you're terminated before that

Work for a company that pays you cold hard cash.

How do you solve a problem like Discovery?

Would it not be cheaper....

To build a life size one out of lego

People in Texas aren't particularly bright, so probably wouldn't notice

Chamber of Commerce sues over Trump's $100K H-1B paywall

Re: Trump supporters find...

youi'd be closer with coprolite

Microsoft veteran explains Windows quirk that made videos play in Paint

Re: Fun!

This is the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUnxzVOs3rk

Combo of screens and unreal engine. Absolutely brilliant