Posts by neilg

Virgin Media offloads email services to third-party provider

Re: Another VM old-timer here

Me too, had Andover Town TV (Cablevision) in 89 or 90. Was a decent service, apart from Reg Presley droning on about crop circles). This was pre DOCSIS, so no email AFAIR)

LG accused of 'egregious invasion of privacy' over TV data collection

Re: "Allegations"

El Reg doesn't have "Asses" - Unless they're in a field behind the office. Methinks you mean "Arses".

Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet

Re: Too good to be true

Sounds very much like Amazon

UCLA seeks pre-litigation resolution with Oracle

Re: Think different.

But please when all is said and done, Think differently

"Think different" is such a twattish thing to say.

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

Didn't you try to use AI?

?

Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract

We used to call them Clueless & Witless..

Cisco warns of two more SD-WAN bugs under active attack

Look on he bright side, they could have bought Versa!

Don't think even Cisco would be that stupid.

Oracle Java licensing worries are percolating through the userbase

At least they didn't "Reach out to" - I hate that fucking phrase

Notepad will now tell you all the ways Microsoft has enshittified it

Re: Edit.com

I always found edlin overly complicated..

Copper supplies set to peak just as tech needs more

Re: Greenland

The UK probably has greater lithium deposits than Greenland, particularly in Cornwall.

British Palantir rival, whose founder touted UK tech sovereignty, sells to Accenture

Or Atos.

Sight of Clippy, Internet Explorer scares baby

Re: Gratz Wolfetone!

Seconded >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI

Re: Why a TV licence?

Don't know about anyone else but I don't "Consume" television or radio output. I simply watch TV or listen to the wireless.

US freezes $42B trade pact with UK over digital tax row

Re: He'll be well placed to deal with Nigel at number 10 by then...

Oh you bastard, I'm still chuckling at that.

New Jolla phone and Sailfish 5 offer a break from iOS-Android monotony

I had an NC100. Full sized keyboard that you could type on (Silently) & a full days use from a couple of AA batteries. Fantastic.

My Psion 5mx replaced it. Wish I'd kept both.

Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the network down

Two.

Memory boom-bust cycle booms again as Samsung reportedly jacks memory prices 60%

Feeling old

Can remember when RAM was £30/meg.

Adding a 4 Mb stick to an old Compaq cost £120, had to get director sign off..

London left buffering as Hyperoptic backup link refuses to boot

Re: Feeling smug...

Are you sure?

Maybe it's a G-PON. Shared with world+dog.

AI bubble inflates Microsoft CEO pay to $96.5M

They already have. I didn't notice, did you?

Jaguar Land Rover engines ready to roar again after weeks-long cyber stall

Re: What does JLR run on?

"Software defined"? = Wank.!

Zero-day deja vu as another Cisco IOS bug comes under attack

Re: Nobody learns without consequence

"C-suite." -Is that like a Kharzi?

Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector

Hmm

Income from your subscription fees probably won't cover option B..

Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline

coltscoltetc

When I first came upon them they were simply: COLT: AKA City Of London Telecom.

Then, later on, I was at at NTL (they were Colt TeleComm.

FFS.

Bonuses all round for marketing droids

Doh!

BT chief says AI could deliver more job cuts, hints at Openreach sell-off

Promoted beyond her abilities.

Interpreting output from the coloured pencils department is not "Manglement" experience.

Expect another Paula Vennels chapter..

Builder.ai coded itself into a corner – now it's bankrupt

More chance of pushing water uphill with a sharp stick!

Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation

Re: "Good luck"?

Not sure who I hate more. ATOS or Crapita.

Have had "telephone" DWP assessments from both.

Windows 11 24H2 now 'broadly available' ... complete with yet another 'known issue'

One small consolation

Neither the Tangerine Twat nor Pedo Guy had anything to do with it.

X marks the drop for European users

Re: Just wanted to delete my account

Same here.

Think I'll go and make models of matchsticks from bits of the Taj Mahal..

Thanks Python

AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed

1981 called.

Microsoft's licensing practices are harming competitors

Nothing to see here, move along please.

Southern Water uses Capita's AI tool to flush customer complaints

Re: Southern Water and Capita

Add Wipro as the infrastructure support partner for SCADA & the like. They're fucked!

Nvidia paid $1M for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown

Re: Updated Speech

Wasn't the orange one the only one of the "Top 100 "richest" business men in N America", when mailed a cheque in the 80's (check for our left pondians) for 50 cents to actually cash it? thereby costing him money?

Sure I saw/heard it on The Parkinson show many years ago. or could have been The Frost Report..

Can't be arsed to google it, as I have no wish to purchase anything related to the above.

Answers on a postcard to Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.

Trump thinks we can make iPhones in the US just like China. Yeah, right

Re: Skills

If they do have the skills they'll probably hold it wrong..

Re: Trump doesn't think

Correct. He's a Pillock!

Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs

My brain hurts

"Hence why" Make it stop

Need cash? Your IPv4 stash can now be collateral for $100M loans

Re: Default?

"Default on the loan". Said so glibly, Are you a cousin of the Orange one?

I think both Ford & Mercedes Benz also have one.

Bet you won't see many of those in the dumpster..

IBM boss Arvind Krishna pockets 23% pay rise to $25M

Re: Obscene!

I don't understand why you've been downvoted. It's a perfectly reasonable question.

DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs

Re: This just keeps getting worse

Simply: He's a twat of the first water!

Troubled French outsourcer Atos finds pot of gold at the end of UK state bank Rainbow

Re: Rainbow

But to those of us in both categories. Hats off Sir.

made I laugh.

Oh Brother. Printer giant denies dirty toner tricks as users cry foul

Re: Xerox seems to be OK..

I snagged a Xerox Phaser 6125N for a nicker, yes £1 ! on a no reserve ebay Auction. Had to drive 20 miles to collect & got a hernia loading it into the car.

Month later spotted someone selling a box of 45 assorted toners - OEM & 3rd party. (office clearance)

Won at £5. Non OEM just display "non Xerox toner" but otherwise work perfectly fine.

Printer Works wonderfully, OK it's old but in excellent condition. It's fast, quiet, sits on my LAN (no outside access) Does the job and everyone uses it.

So I've now got a cracking Colour laser printer (from when they were made properly) & enough supplies to see me out. Stuff HP, Canon & Brother.

'Cybertruck ownership comes with ... interesting fan mail'

Re: Cybertruck shape

WankPanzer perchance?

Raspberry Pi launches CM4 variant that laughs in the face of frostbite

Re: I wonder if...

Would epoxy resin itself survive a shaking at -40°C?

How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app

Google tracks.

Full stop.

No need to pussy-foot around.

Southern Water takes the fifth over alleged $750K Black Basta ransom offer

Re: Angry of Tunbridge Wells

Thought the original was:

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.

Re: Angry of Tunbridge Wells

Didn't Southern Water outsource all of their IT to Wipro.

Would explain quite a lot.

HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'

Re: Irate customers

"hence why".

Make it stop please.