Posts by neilg

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

Trump derails Chinese H20 GPU sales, forcing Nvidia to eat $5.5B this quarter

Re: Ouch

Please don't ever forget Trump is a crook & a convicted fraudster.

Oh, and a liar.

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.

As Amazon takes over the Bond franchise, we submit our scripts for the next flick

Re: Another franchise to be milked to death

Withone minute of unskippable adverts per 5 minutes of content.

Even though you've subscribed to Prime specifically to remove adverts.

Trump teases 25% semiconductor tariffs that will go ‘substantially higher’

Question:

Is it spray tan.

Or gravy browning?

Lawyers face judge's wrath after AI cites made-up cases in fiery hoverboard lawsuit

Re: what are you paying for

I think all Commentards should search for "expletive grammar mug" & buy one. Worth every penny :-)

US lawmakers press Trump admin to oppose UK's order for Apple iCloud backdoor

Re: The UK doesn't have a

"Gubbermint" FFS

They're restricted to states that border the Gulf of Mexico...

The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway

Re: A fair analogy, but...

Fair point, however Ducks don't "swim".

UK government using AI tools to check up on roadworthy testing centers

Fingernails down the blackboard.

Cheque's in the post :-)

Creators demand tech giants fess up and pay for all that AI training data

I think Disney should compensate the entire creative world..

For its complete and utter corruption of "Copyright"

For e.g. Why should the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of an author make a living vicariously?

Microsoft vet laments a world where even toothbrushes need reboots

I seem to recall

it comes from picking oneself up by ones own bootstraps

BT fiber rollout passes 17 million homes, altnet challenge grows

Re: Ah, yes, those altnets

Slight nitpick.

Croyden &Preston.

Trump admin's purge of US cyber advisory boards was 'foolish,' says ex-Navy admiral

Re: Is 'learnings' a word?

"It's a perfectly cromulent word."

Using a children's cartoon as a form of verification? Are you Dubya in disguise?