Posts by harpingon

Plusnet outage leaves customers unable to stream Netflix. Horrors!

I'm with PN from when they were good (or at least, acceptable), if I move, I'll be going to A&A or Zen

You know how that data breach happened? Three words: eBay, hard drives

I use a bench vice and a drill.

I figure that a magnetic HDD with its PCB destroyed containing all the adaptives, and the platters with several 10mm holes in them and all the swarf inside is probably good enough.

If not, good luck to them.

I'd never sell an old hard drive.

Mind you, I've had to /buy/ old hard drives with SCA SCSI ports or old SE SCSI disks to get some life into an old Unix server or two before deciding that the personal power station I need to run these ridiculously power inefficient servers was too much, then they get drilled and recyled into the metals recovery.

You say I mustn’t write down my password? Let me make a note of that

Re: XKCD

My son, who's 8, now has five different logons with passwords to remember for disparate systems at his primary school. No SSO there. It's ridiculous. I have them stored in my password vault, but they go stale really quickly for reasons which must be obvious.

Samsung sued over 'lackadaisical' Android security updates

Re: About time

I was going to mention Sony. I had a Z1 for two years and it got plenty of updates in that time, minor and major versions. If I was staying with Android, I'd buy another Sony after that, they're pretty good. Pretty good with their open source contributions too.

I have Windows Phone 10 now, in the shape of Lumia 950 XL, and loving it. Should get updates with that for a long time also.

Oracle tosses its Linux into Docker's repository

Peggy Babcock

That hasn't been true for ages and ages. Can get updates from the free repositories for OEL just fine.

Doctor Who becomes an illogical, unscientific, silly soap opera in Kill The Moon

I had to watch the first few episodes with the subtitles on, because I couldn't get the dialogue. It's not accents, it's just too indistinct. That and the terrible stories means I've not continued with this season. First time ever, and I came in watching Tom Baker in 1978. Not missed much since. I even got to like Matt Smith. Quite a bit actually, but this has lost me.

Chromebook Pixel owners' promised free data plans being prematurely axed

Re: Oh no - I'm not getting my free 100mb of data per month

"Remember, without an Internet connection a chromebook is dead weight"

No it isn't.

Boffins devise world's HARDEST tongue-twister

Peggy Babcock

Try saying

Peggy Babcock , Babcock Peggy

More than a couple of times quickly is impossible for me.

This was part of an ITV regional game show 'Razmatazz' in the North East in the 80s.