That would be at least Rip Van Winkle naps...
...or a couple of generational turnovers
Posts by FBee
115 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jun 2014
White House activates Yu-Gi-Oh's trap card by using anime clip for war comms
Denizens of DEF CON are 'fed up with government'
Viking 1 at 50: NASA's first raid on the red planet
Three US agencies get failing grades for not following IT best practices
Hegseth signs flying memo to expand military use of cheap drones in oddball video
Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules
NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts
Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition
Wednesday 15th January 2025 19:42 GMT
Re: Prog Rockers
DOES BRITANNIA RULE? PROG is from the ANZAC countries. FUSION is American.
CAPE STATUS If you’re in a FUSION band and you show up for the gig wearing a cape, you get fired.
Let’s just make this simple: If you are allowed to get away with any Rick Wakeman-style bullshit, then you are in a PROG band.
(DID THE KEYBOARDIST QUIT THE GROUP SO HE COULD SOLO OVER AN ICE CAPADE? That’s PROG, man.
That’s some of the PROGGIEST shit I’ve ever heard of.)
BLACK GUY? If there’s a black guy in the band, then it’s FUSION. (That probably had more to do with the UK/US split than anything.)
SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH? Ha-HA! Trick question! If the band speaks German, then clearly it’s KRAUTROCK. Fooled you, fucker!
Courtesy of - Fusion Or Prog? Thoughts On The Dead
Testing spacecraft material the Sandia way: Setting it on fire with mirrors
Microsoft on a roll for terrible rebranding with Windows App
Feds urge 3D printing industry to end DIY machine guns
Switzerland to end 2024 with an analog FM broadcast-killing bang
'Little weirdo' shoulder surfer teaches UK cabinet minister a lesson in cybersecurity
Lawsuit claims Google Maps led dad of two over collapsed bridge to his death
Hacking a Foosball table scored an own goal for naughty engineers
Monday 3rd July 2023 16:20 GMT
Pinball Wizard Master fell asleep
Pinball arcade overseen by a sleepy (liquor-induced) manager who snoozed in a little cubby in the corner. We would gently relieve him of the keys to the coinboxes and, rather than steal any quarters, simply tap the interior "free game" button a time or ten, just as gently returning keys to their owner. He never woke up or found out...place was called House of Gomes!
It's time to mark six decades of computer networking
California man jailed after manure-to-methane scheme revealed as bull
Thursday 29th June 2023 22:57 GMT
Mooved to Montana? Shoulda stuck to dental floss, not investor floss...
I might be moovin' to Montana soon
Just to raise me up a crop of dental floss
Raisin' it up
Waxin' it down
In a little white box
That I can sell uptown
By myself I wouldn't have no boss
But I'd be raisin' my lonely dental floss
Owner of 'magic spreadsheet' tried to stay in the Lotus position until forced to Excel
Monday 8th May 2023 10:48 GMT 
DOS Box didn't help
Older Doctor used a DOS program for preparing patients' bills "written by his colleague in 1989" that ran on an old Windows Millenium machine hooked up to an old B&W laser printer that I finally convinced him was unsafe to use circa 2019. He promptly went out and bought a "refurb" box with Windows 7 installed but only because another old friend suggested he use DosBox on his "new" computer to run the old billing proggie but for some arcane reason it would not compute.
In order to keep the WinME box as far away from the internet as possible, I set up a 2-port KVM switch with the web-facing Win7 (he did use email and an online calendar!) on one side and the old WinME box on the other with the old printer attached directly to via crossover cable - the newer computer had its own combo printer/scanner/fax inkjet (he still used faxes as indeed, many pharmacies still do at least here in the USA).
This all despite the fact he was supposed to be completely online so that clients could access their billing etc. While he was dragging his feet in this regard, he managed to dodge professional censure, at least until the WinME computer finally booted its last. After two months of basically working for free as he could not charge anymore, he finally retired!
Boffins claim to create the world's first wooden transistor
Astronomers clock runaway black hole leaving trail of fresh stars
Bringing the IBM Thinkpad 'Butterfly' back to life
What's up with IT, Doc? Rabbit hole reveals cause of outage
Shag pile PC earned techies a carpeting from HR
New IT boss decided to 'audit everything you guys are doing wrong'. Which went wrong
Friday 20th January 2023 13:15 GMT
Paid for 8 and went home after 6?
I once had the fortune to work under a supervisor that would let us leave whenever we finished the day's work. He had the misfortune of getting fired after it was discovered (by upper management) he was clocking us for a full 8-hour shift. 'Course WE were fully aware of this lapse of accountability...
No, working in IT does not mean you can fix anything with a soldering iron
Datacenter migration plan missed one vital detail: The leaky roof
BOFH: It's Friday, it's time to RTFM
How Arm popped CHERI architecture into Morello Program hardware
Microsoft's Secure Boot fix sends some PCs into BitLocker Recovery
Scientists find gasses from Earth in rocks from early Moon
BOFH: Who us? Sysadmins? Spend time with other departments?
Microwaved fish could help scientists create sustainable LEDs
Pentester says he broke into datacenter via hidden route running behind toilets
Ransomware encrypts files, demands three good deeds to restore data
You can keep your old ERP system, but you'll still need ServiceNow, CEO tells The Reg
Monday 16th May 2022 15:31 GMT
Re: SNOW Sucks
SNow takes a breezy shoulder-tap request - from a customer to a tech - and turns it into an immense hurricane of emails/forwardings/incidences/work orders/work order tasks and dog knows what else involving a dozen or more individuals throughout multiple continents and time zones. Back in the Goodle Days, there would have been a single filled-out ticket sheet which was then stabbed onto a check spindle, fini!
Thinnet cables are no match for director's morning workout
IT blamed after HR forgets to install sockets in new office
Amazon Alexa can be hijacked via commands from own speaker
Friday 4th March 2022 14:54 GMT
Trevor, play fookin' Oasis!!
Software guy smashes through the Somebody Else's Problem field to save the day
OK, boomer? Gen-X-ers, elder millennials most likely to name their cars, says DVLA
Thursday 9th December 2021 19:44 GMT
My Yugo was named Slavia
...with a state-issued vanity plate to match. Speaking of match, I met my wife (at the time also a Yugo owner) via ol' Slavia as she thought that was the cleverest vanity plate ever.
While her car was soon traded in for a VW Golf, Slavia was eventually driven into the ground years later with the only major repair being a carburetor replacement while still under warranty, although he did suffer a major incident when a neighborhood thug ripped out the duct tape-attached cassette deck taking the entire heating system box with it.
Luckily the adjustment cables remained so I could still regulate heat/defrost although there was a learning curve to understand which cable did what...
When civilisation ends, a Xenix box will be running a long-forgotten job somewhere
Monday 29th November 2021 16:26 GMT
Re: .MRE Lifespan
I just finished off the last carton of Nestle's Double Chocolate Quik Powder (Best if used by 10/2008 presumably manufactured circa 2006) which I've been rationing for almost 15 years.
While here in USA the similarly-named 14-ounce ready-to-drink Nestle's Quik Double Chocolate Lowfat Milk is still available, the powder version has not been around since 2007.
I much preferred the stir-in powder form as, even upon vigorous mixing, there remained tiny crunchy "nuggets" of the mix creating a delicious (to me) bonus in every glassful. This phenomenon occurred even whilst fresh back in the Early Aughts and remained so right up to my final quaff.
While speculating this very effect might have led to its demise/end of manufacture, I have so far resisted searching for vintage containers on Fleabay etc. as MY stash was always stored in a cool dark location buried deep in the closet...