Posts by myhandler

Reskilling to become a devops dude could net you $105k+

Eh what? - no idea what it is but from above comments I can file under gibberish

And what's Docker, Jenkins and Puppet ?

New names for the UK political parties or kinky sex moves?

Microsoft's Windows 10 nagware storms live TV weather forecast

That Steve Gibson "Never 10" works a treat.. showed my Win64Pro system was 'enabled' - not any more it ain't.

Thunderbird is GO: Mozilla prepares to jettison mail client

I use Thunderbird but come on, Search is abysmal appalling and awful.

It forces word expansions and guesses search terms that are not what you want.

Last time I complained on a Thunderbird forum I got told "It's free, how can you complain about something you don't pay for"

Kelway's American owners to import CDW International brand to UK

Nope Bloakey - I don't LL IDGAF , I DGAFFF, FFS

Who? DIGAF?

Reposting 8-second sports clips infringes copyright

Eh.. plenty of streaming sites around to get cricket - quality is not great but you need something to stop you watching too many hours.

Cricket board should FO and sell to terrestrial broadcasters .. ah wait.. there's too little demand now. You need Sky to see it and as a direct result fewer youngsters are interested.

A Logic Named Joe: The 1946 sci-fi short that nailed modern tech

Heinlein may have been right wing but Stranger in a strange land stands out. Mean to read that again along with Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar and The Sheep look up.

('Afrims' was Brunner's term for the refugees.. fascinate).

But really it's PKD who saw the hold advertising would get on us - it's Runciter in Ubik isn't it who swats the (conscious) advertising fly that won't stop trying to sell him crap.

Web ads are reading my keystrokes and I can’t even spel propperlie

This is old news though.. years ago, long before ad blockers arrived, I was on some coding forum or other and "international talk like a pirate day" happened ..and all the side bar ads turned to ads for Parrot food.

Microsoft's done a terrible job with its Windows 10 nagware

Thunderbird not so bad but its search stinks to hell

I use Thunderbird at work and Windows Mail on Vista at home so neither is full Outlook.

Thunderbird is quite good apart from its utter pile of shite search facilities which are upside down, dumb crap with extra "we know better than you" tools that cannot be tailored. But TB is free on W7.

North Dorset Council hit by ransomware, flips the bird at miscreants

Flips the bird???

This is Dorset, England - not the US

Brit uni rattles tin for ultra-low latency audio board

soz.. can someone explain what it actually does?

I dabble extensively in music and got no clue on this one..

Mathletics promises security upgrades after parents' security gripes

Anyone else find the name Mathletics hideous ?

Indonesian comms ministry orders 'gay emoji' block

Ironic.. Indonesia was a place you could see teenagers of the same sex holding hands just because they were friends.. nothing more. That would be before Western culture shamed them into thinking it was wrong.

Techie the most recession-proof job

Re: Yeah... not "tech" so much..

Engineering? I'm led to believe that's as recession proof as a chemist or miner..

Plumber or central heating engineer.. now you're talking

When customers try to be programmers: 'I want this CHANGED TO A ZERO ASAP'

Surely that first item is nonsense.. what company would happily change a specific item of code at a customer's request?

They might change what a piece of code *does*, but changing a 1 to a 0 is non compliant, certainly not ISO whatever that number is, and the manager who said "yeah ok " would get fired straightaway.

How many Surface power cords are a fire risk? 2.25 million in the US alone

"wound too tightly, twisted or pinched over an extended period”.

eh... I'm no MSoft fan but any cable will degrade when twisted tightly etc..

I'm forever telling my kids to stop wrapping their earbud wires round their fingers.

Dumb consumers methinks.

If you're one of millions using Magento – stop whatever you're doing and patch now

Re: Magento does not properly validate this email

>The validation happens clientside in Javascript.

> You can't get the exploit samples to pass unless you shut it off.

If you think that's ok Gollux, then you you clearly have a lot to learn

Cunning Greek lizards seek skin-matching rocks

The lizards have the habit of going to the same rocks when out for a stroll - maybe they scent mark where they've been.

Red lizards on blue rocks get eaten quicker so don't survive to stroll the next day.

Pink lizards on pink rocks well you know

Darwin :one - Intelligence : zero

Eh, Kate?

BT dismisses MPs' calls to snap off Openreach as 'wrong-headed'

Anything with the name "Grant Shapps" on is dodgy

Microsoft’s Get Windows 10 nagware shows signs of sentience

No nags here either - that's on my work W7 pro machine and the wife's W7 Vaio laptop.

Had to get a PC for my student son and cruelly inflicted W10 on him. That might explain his shouting at the screen, then again that could be disputes with competing gamers..

Hapless Virgin Media customers face ongoing email block woes

Hmm , I have an old Blueyonder a/c for my home mail - I've had it forever.

Just looked at the spam folder in their yucky webmail system but nothing.

Their webmail has always been a bit crap - I use POP, set to delete from server, so you'd assume email was deleted, but no, the webmail page always show hundreds of old emails that I've already read.

I host work email elsewhere but Virgin provide email so they should provide a decent service.

Lettuce-nibbling veggies menace Mother Earth

Re: Strawy man, strawy man, does whatever a straw, er, can...

RE:"In all seriousness, I'm actually curious if you could get enough energy to survive on solely by eating an unlimited supply of lettuce"

Some lettuce species contain a soporific, so everyone would be dozing off with no need for energy : perfect solution.

A font farewell to Fontdeck as website service closes

Re: I've noticed this stupidity

Google insist there is no specific tracking on fonts and they also say it's safe to use them on the admin section of a CMS - though silly to use them there imo.

Dum dum dum - another cloud bites the dust (Adobe's photo cloud)

What gets me is that the public think 'cloud' is something special - something cool and modern. Nope, it's just a boring bunch of servers.

Brit filmmaker plans 10hr+ Paint Drying epic

Um. so classification also helps parents decide what is suitable for their kids to see.

£100 per movie plus a few quid per minute is bugger all.

Also I knew a guy who worked at the BBFC - pay was crap and it quickly got very boring

Apple's design 'drives up support costs, makes gadgets harder to use'

Re: @ El Reg

I'm such an old fart it was system 6 for me - fitted on two floppy disks didn't it..

I hated OSX so much I went to Windows - been there ever since battling with it but at least I can make it look as I want .. but now dreading the next PC and W10.

Nothing that wrong with skeuomorphic - they just become symbols you recognise, providing they aren't reinvented all the time. It's design snobbery to sneer at it. (disclaimer: I have a BA in Graphic Design)

But why the hell does everyone copy iOS style? Every website apes it now.

Anyone notice how logo animation on tv adverts now copies the motion that Javascript routines do?

This is all just fashion.. one distant day extravagant rococo decoration might come back in.

How Microsoft will cram Windows 10 even harder down your PC's throat early next year

...and in more news why Microsoft are fuckwits :

They emailed to say I need to update my credit card on my son's Xbox account.

Simple?

No, the form keeps switching to a US entry form - even though it states UK at the top - and it then continually rejects my postcode as invalid. I tried Firefox and then IE - same problem. I left it a few weeks and tried again - same problem.

I even phoned support (it's impossible to get human help any other way) and the guy in Ireland said " oh yes, that happens sometimes". Could he help or take my details over the phone?

No, I needed another set of passwords for that and have to log in from the Xbox to verify.

Windows10 can go to hell.

Top VW exec blames car pollution cheatware scandal on 'a couple of software engineers'

You don't sound like a dumb septic, you are a dumb septic. Chip on shoulder much?

Singapore Post tests drone delivery services

Half of the population of Singapore are drones as it is.

Google and pals launch Accelerated Mobile Pages project

Re: Ironic then

Live in the past if you want, but Javascripted solutions can provide big benefits to functionallity.

I don't have any crap on the sites I build but they do gain from JS when it's used appropriately

Jquery is a very useful tool.

It's the dozens of plugins and scripts and things like sodding bootstrap that kill it all.

You can't get rid of CSS - it works well (even if it's a bodge) - it needs updating but that will take the committees years.

Just not lets end up in a "multiple standards" situation again

11 MILLION VW cars used Dieselgate cheatware – what the clutch, Volkswagen?

What I don't understand is how they imagined they could get away with it indefinitely.

People leave companies and go to competitiors, people chat to friends.

Was it just a slow incremental thing, where to begin with it just fell out of optimising for 30 mph figures .. and then they kept tweaking it and tweaking it. ?

Won't every manufacturer be doing this, on all fuels?

CHEAT! Volkswagen chief 'deeply sorry' over diesel emission test dodge

Clearly it means all testing must be done by independent bodies.

The issue is can the consumer ever trust anything they are told about how a product performs.

I hope the fines are massive.

WARM, WOBBLING MOON believed to hide MOIST CRADLE of life

Erm .. what's the gravity on that ? - you could go into orbit from a good surf take off

Google robo-car suffers brain freeze after seeing hipster cyclist

Why does the cycling subject bring out so many trolls?

Anyone would think the user's in their metal boxes stand to get physically injured, but no, it's the soft objects around them that petrify ther sense of ownership and importance.

On yer bike: Hammerhead satnav for cyclists – just don't look down

why don't they just add some bleeps ..one for turn right, a double beep for turn left ..

and a ***##@@** beep for cars that get too close

(seems to have too many leds - half that number would do the job)

BUZZKILL. Honeybees are dying in DROVES - and here's a reason why

Is this linked to usage of GM crops ?.. to be specific the fact that GM crops are more pesticide tolerant thus allowing farmers to spray more.

I don't know - is there any evidence for this?

Go, daddy, go: GoDaddy shares rocket 30% in value at IPO

Unbloody believable.. why would anyone buy these shares?

El Reg Redesign - leave your comment here.

Yes - the damn BBC in on the act.. and as you say 'kinL worse than the Reg - get my news off the Grauniad now.

What beats me is why they can't do a desktop size design - oh yes that's it, they can.. they just think it's not cool.

No, it hasn't got less hideous over the last two days- it still sucks big time.

Get some grown up graphic designers.

Telly behemoths: Does size matter?

Being proper well posh I still get a twinge of guilt when I watch ITV - especially the News.

We got colour quite early - maybe 1970 - my Dad was in the electrical business but I still went to the loft to watch Monty Python on the vintage Bush black and white 405 line - big thing with doors down to the ground and maybe an 18" tube. Took forever to warm up and I can still smell that lovely aroma of valves heating up.

[oh weird -- so I then did a web search for the Bush tv and find a Daily Mail article on how some guy has converted the very same model (from 1957) to run on digital... ]

BBC: SOD the scientific consensus! Look OUT! MEGA TSUNAMI is coming

Don't knock our BBC - it might get privatised, then what?

Compare it to ANY other broadcaster ...

I saw this doucumentary and thought it was quite fun - not saying the guy shouldn't complain though - Beeb needs to be kept on it's toes while it's still a public body.

So who just bought the rights to .blog for $20m? A chap living in Panama

@KenHagan: man you're rude ... so, you cretinous fuckwit:

A key reason to validate email is reduce spam merchants and fake registrations

I expect you only see it from a customer viewpoint

Validation has its place

Rule-breakers thrive in strait-laced Singapore

Worked there for a few years some time ago - thinking outside the box is not a country wide trait.

The majority prefer to copy rather than innovate.

But look at the place - it's Basingstoke in the tropics - no space to swing a cat and a patrician government that does what it wants and disregards anything other than growth.

Is Windows RT not invited to the Windows 10 upgrade party?

Re: RT seems pointless now

Ossi - please tell me what's good about it?

My wife bought me a Surface2 for Christmas and got shirty when I wanted to swap it.

Sure the construction is good but getting it up and running was a nightmare cos of a million upgrades and a messed up charging system that refused to function.

The browser has no history in touch mode - you have to switch to desktop mode to get history - joined up thinking? I use history all the time, it's essential.

Apps ?

£100 keyboard?

Horizontal scrolling as the way to scroll general pages ? that's dumb and counter intuitive

It's a very nice kitchen tablet . The end.

Microsoft will give away Windows 10 FREE - for ONE year

What out poor old Vista? I've got a Vista PC that could easily run Win10.

But I'm quite happy with my Win7 PCs, so why would I bother to mess with them?

Spotify flips bird at Taylor Swift, adds MILLIONS more users

1) can someone please explain exactly what flipping the bird is?

2) whatever it is, it's a nasty Americanism

My best bud is a billionaire: Peter Thiel jumps into bed with dope upstarts

So good investment till the lung cancer and schizophrenic behaviours kick in?

I used to smoke a lot - sure it's fun for a while, but it's not some holy soma.

I'm sooooo green: The Beginner's Guide to Krautrock

Daddy take a banana, tomorrow is Sunday

I often listen to aumgn and peking O all the way through sober

Note: It is forbidden to even mention emesis shite and vomit in a Krautrock thread