* Posts by Pretty Ricky

7 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jul 2015

George Clooney of IT: Dribbling disaster and damp disk warnings scare the life out of innocent user

Pretty Ricky

Quite a few generations after the DRAIN.EXE shenanigans, we had an office analyst who insisted on using his iMac (Bondi Blue, of course) in the office instead of his company-issue pc. So naturally he had to be punished. I installed Uli's Moose on his Mac while he was on lunch break. At first he thought he was losing his mind and so did everyone he ran to, pointing at his iMac. By the time they ran over to see it the screen was back to normal. Poor old bastard was never the same after that. Zero computer skills (duh!) and all the personality of a wet noodle.

Mysterious Utah monolith mysteriously disappears without trace

Pretty Ricky

Was it ever really there?

America's largest radio telescope close to collapse as engineers race to fix fraying cables

Pretty Ricky

All this talk about what happened and not a word about... Hmmm... FIXING IT?

Apple: Relax, we're not totally screwing web apps. But yes, third-party cookies are toast

Pretty Ricky

Good riddance to third-party cookies.

Ding dong merrily on high. In Berkeley, the bots are singeing: Self-driving college cooler droid goes up in flames

Pretty Ricky

I for one am heartened by this latest turn of events. This should delay the Machine Uprising by several weeks at least.

The Dread Server BlackBerry Enterprise is no more

Pretty Ricky

Ah, BlackBerry BES. The memories... While it may seem unthinkable now, there was a time not that long ago when BlackBerrys were the bees' knees. Once you got your mind around the BlackBerry way of doing things it wasn't so complex. Lots of it even made sense, so long as you look at it in historical context. Heady days, when we BB admins ruled the world!

Windows 10: A sysadmin speaks his brains – and says MEH

Pretty Ricky

^^^ Wisdom. There is nothing earth-shattering in Windows 10, so what's the rush? I'll stick with Win7 for now and watch the hoopla over Win10 from the sidelines.

< typed on an iMac >