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Posts by PNGuinn
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Adobe scrambles to untangle itself from QuickTime after Apple throws it over a cliff
Dell looking at higher debt mountain to buy EMC
Guess what's 'easily hacked'? Yes, that's right: Smart city transport infrastructure
Clinton's $1m troll fight
FBI's Tor pedo torpedoes torpedoed by United States judge
Sunday 24th April 2016 17:23 GMT
"Would you want Brussels to be able to tell Wales to do something because France wants it?"
Which is just the sort of thing that is going on at the moment.
We joined a small trading union. Very few ordinary people realised at the time what the *published* aims of the "4th Reich" were. And are.
O'Bambi - When you're a guest over here you're a guest of Her Majesty and ALL her people - - not shiny Dave's latest pathetic mouthpiece.
So keep your grubby mouth out of British Constitutional Politics. Your own miserable legacy should be enough for your over inflated ego.
Put it another way if you still don't understand yet: How would YOU feel if you were running for a second term right now and Shiny Dave sent his sidekick Osbo over to the US to support D. Trump Esq and diss you something rotten??
BOFH: Thermo-electric funeral
Friday 22nd April 2016 12:25 GMT
Re: as if owning IT antiquity was one of those positive character traits
Somewhere I've still got ... not sure what to call 'em ... magnetic "cards" the size of the old computer punch cards but plastic with a mag coating on. There were fed into a slot which swallowed them. made graunching noises as it read them and if you were lucky spat 'em out again. Part of an ancient word processor built into a large desk I acquired in my youth. Probably lots of someone's ancient data on 'em, but no way to read 'em now ....
'Impossible' EmDrive flying saucer thruster may herald new theory of inertia
Thursday 21st April 2016 20:58 GMT
Re: I think _I_ can explain it (and it's not that hard)
Mmm ... A microwave oven in spaaace......
So - is it cooked tomayto or tomahto?
Enquiring minds etc...
El reg - we need a tomayto/tomahto in a vacuum icon. Cooked, of course.
Thanks - it's the one drifting slowly round the lab with the slightly fluffy toasted sandwich in the pocket
Kent Police handed domestic abuse victim's data to alleged abuser – a Kent cop
Microsoft headhunters seek Linux folk for secret open source unit
Lock-hackers crack restricted keys used to secure data centres
Thursday 21st April 2016 10:41 GMT
Locksmithing in Colditz
All this is very clever, using the latest technology and all that. And I'm not knocking it.
However, accurately dimensioned drawings publicly available?? SHIRLEY whoever filed those should have been instructed to alter / redact them sufficiently to JUST include the information required for the patent??
Does this mean that if I copy the lock and simply make minor dimensional changes I'm outside the patent??
But for real kudos, read up on what POWs managed to do in prison camps during the last war, under close guard and with prison made and designed tools.
If you can get a copy of it Major PR Reid's "Colditz The Full Story" is well worth a read. (Pan ISBN 978-0-330-50999-2. First published by Macmillan.)
In the end there is no such thing as security. Get used to it.
Chinese crypto techie sentenced to death for leaking state secrets
So you’d sod off to China to escape the EU, Google? Really?
What's wrong with the Daily Mail Group buying Yahoo?
UK web host 123-Reg goes TITSUP, customer servers evaporate
Apple pulled 2,204lbs of gold out of old tech gear
Sunday 17th April 2016 20:33 GMT
Re: Recycling: My big fat hairy arse.
Beware of recycled steel too.
Most scrap steel contains a significant amount of other muck - eg paint and plastic.
The resulting "recycled" steel is likely to contain "inclusions" and voids which both reduce its strength and increase the risk of corrosion.
Quite a few manufacturers have come unstuck in the past using it inappropriately.
Sunday 17th April 2016 20:12 GMT
"For a site that attracts devs ..."
It USED to be the case that engineer's spelling left something to be desired, and that their grammar was somewhat stilted, largely because they knew what they wanted to say and wanted to make sure that no one misunderstood.
I had a departmental typist who used to "correct" my grammar. She used to get most upset when I tried to explain politely that her "correction" had changed the meaning in a subtle (sometimes not so subtle) way and that I was insisting that she better change it back and retype it.
Now we have technical "writers" who can't spell, can't write and would not know grammar if they fell over it.
But they're cheap. Probably outsourced. May never have seen the product, let alone used it.
Until the carp they produce comes back to bite us.
A dev's spelling and grammar may not be perfect, and the documentation may not be in his native language, but at least he's near the coalface.
Czech Republic to rebrand
Friday 15th April 2016 15:54 GMT
Re: Will the Czechs change their name to Czechians?
"The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - erm... Englishman?"
Brit?
Canadian - Canuk
Australia - Aussie
England - Barmy Army
Scotland - Northern Savage, Glaswegian ...
Irish - Paddy
Welsh - Taffy
USofAAA - Septic
Mexico - Ask D Trump Esq
....
DISCLAIMER -- Any offence caused by this post is deliberate and justified on the grounds of satire - or something.
Linux command line mistake 'nukes web boss'S biz'
Chilling evidence emerges of Kilocat weapon
Microsoft licensing giant yanked off market after sales bid fails
ExoMars works! 2 Mbit/s link established and camera snapping
South Korea to upgrade national stereo defence system for US$16m
BT hauled into Old Bailey after engineer's 7-metre fall broke both his ankles
Thursday 14th April 2016 20:51 GMT
Re: More than reported here? @ Nigel
"Now it's "follow the rules" and "you aren't paid to think about anything except what we pay you to think about""
Which is the flip side of Health and Safety. We're all getting so specialised in our qualifications and legal limitations that we increasingly have no idea how the other fellow's job should be done, and unwittingly create hazards that our forebears would have seen as obvious.
"Someone Else's Problem" is no good for safety, productivity or job satisfaction.
The HSE is generally pretty on the ball with the idea of workplace safety and regulation.
Ignorant H & S dweebs who have no idea of life at the coalface trying to work up their egos / promotions applying their own pet rules regardless ...
My favourite was the building site worker disciplined for removing his goggles at top of some scaffolding to wipe them 'cause they had misted up and he was effectively blind. Was hold he should have made his way along the scaffold boards and down the ladders (blind) and wiped 'em at ground level. Personally I'd have wanted to drag the idiot dweeb up to the top by his bloody tie, blindfolded him with it and watched him make his way down. (Of course I'd have given him a hard hat - I'm not mean like the BOFH.)
Thursday 14th April 2016 20:28 GMT
Re: More than reported here?
"I miss the good old days when personal culpability was the rage"
That's all fine and dandy if it's only your neck that is at stake, and it's truly YOUR choice to do something daft.
The problem is that: (a) Other people around get hurt. (b) Employer wants it done NOW and bugger safety. (c) Employer won't / "can't afford" safety equipment. (d) Ditto proper training.
The real world is nasty. And full of idiots and beancounters.
Thursday 14th April 2016 19:48 GMT
Re: The three-week trial @ Jason 24
First of all, everyone on here needs to be a lot more careful what they say UNTIL THIS COURT HEARING IS CONCLUDED.
It's only too easy, especially sitting at a desk away from the court in blissful ignorance of any of the pertinent details, to unwittingly fall foul of contempt of court.
Pissing off the judge is not clever, impeding justice even less so. Too easy to do without knowing all the facts.
To your point - Health and safety is often largely based on experience and engineering judgement. In fact it always should be. Regardless of the regulations - which should be complied with - they can't cover every eventuality. They're often a bit pedantic and proscriptive - largely because they have to try to protect idiots and idiot managers, as well as those around them.
In the end safety is in the hands of the operator - An engineer with 20 years experience has just that - a kid out of school does not.
Several things could apply:
The older man is used to laxer times and ways and has learned how far work safely with a little greater risk.
The kid out of school (or uni) is still a bit green, doesn't have such a good head for heights and is feeling his way.
He's just been on a H & S course and had s***t scared out of him.
He's under a greater workload / lazy.
The older guy knows / doesn't care all about suitability of cables in voids. the younger??
Altitude on the day might be a giveaway.
Aluminum-wrapped robbers fail to foil bank
Tuesday 12th April 2016 02:19 GMT
In the old days...
It was so much easier.
You just walked into the bank wearing a large test card.
The CCTV operator thought the system was down for maintenance again ...
Nowadays you'd have to wear some high definition pr0n keep the security droid occupied.
No need for all this hi tech malarky.
Thanks - mine's the one in the plain brown carrier bag.
You keep using that word – NVMe. Does it mean what I think it means?
Websites take control of USB devices: Googlers propose WebUSB API
Popular cable modem vulnerable to remote reboot/reset flaw
London to Dover 'smart' road could help make driverless cars mainstream – expert
Dropping 1,000 cats from 32km: How practical is that?
Friday 8th April 2016 15:55 GMT
Re: not a cat fan @ ac
"And because the adrenaline produced tenderizes the meat, which is probably very important when attempting to eat a scrawny mouse."
So you're suggesting that it's a good idea to torture the moggie first to make it more tender.
Thanks. That's the kind of really useful information that needs to be more widely known.
Friday 8th April 2016 15:41 GMT
Frozen cats
This raises another important safety issue.
What happens if one of these over chilled moggies is ingested by a hungry jet engine?
Would it purr, burp or fart?
Would it be able to sick up the hairball?
Would the average feline fit in the standard chicken hurler?
What is the speed of a cat in a vacuum?
So many imponderables ....
Enquiring minds need to know.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
