Posts by CJ

BOFH: Aspie no questions

Well....

That was hardly worth a 4week wait. If it is going to be once a month it would be nice if they were a higher standard.

Tron sequel already in production

TR2N????

That makes no sence, why not T2ON? the 2 can be made to look like an R then.

also www.tr2n.com is already taken.

New address spoofing flaw smudges Google's Chrome

Opera

Just tried this in Opera and it's the same.

Geeks and Nerds caught on film lacking geeky nerdiness

uhhh...

"Here's the film in all its baffling glory:"

am I the only one not seeing anything?

and where's the Paris Hilton angle ;)

Great British fry-up under threat

I blame

... paris hilton for the lack of IT angle in this story.

As someone who partakes in a morning sausage and bacon roll for £2.20 and a full fryup on a hangover morning, I read this story with great sorrow. So long cheap breakfasts, we loved you well.

Colombian armed robber targets karate school

@Kane

Wavelength Five!

right .....

but what's the Paris Hilton angle?

Apple lobs $100 credit at iPhone buyers

Oh FFS

PLEASE SHUT UP ABOUT THE iPHONE!

The constant blithering about it makes me long for Paris Hilton news.

And another thing, it's gone 4pm and you haven't put up the BOFH. Hurry up lads, talk about declining standards

Council worker develops PC energy-saving program

FFS!

This isn't new. I've been doing this for years on the networks I have run. Installed as a scheduled task to run at 6pm, the PC will announce it is shutting down in 30minutes and if there is a user sitting there using the computer they can stop it from shutting down. How is this NEWs?

Sysadmin Day 2007: still time to get the beers in

I agree

...with Xander, complete lack of planning. I demand a free El Reg paper hat

Becta gives schools biometric data guidance

Reality

If you want to see what the technology that the schools are using is like, buy a £10 finger print recognition usb device. The information is 1 way and it doesnt store pictures of the fingerprints.

CJ (ex-school Network Manager)

Microsoft, Feds, and Chinese authorities seize $2bn in pirated software

Yank or Real?

Which billion is this? The yank billion which is a thousand million, or a proper full fat UK billion (or trillion as the americans call it) of 1,000,000,000,000 ?

US presidential hopefuls face the YouTubers

Ey?

I don't quite understand. Why did they use youtube when the people making the videos could have just emailed them to CNN or transmitted by standard means? Google (yt's owners) must have donated alot of money to someone for the name dropping

Crazed NZ fanboy mows down churchgoer

Carmageddon on his laptop

JP: "They haven't found a copy of Carmageddon on his laptop and blamed this all on computer games yet..."

Don't be silly, you can't play games on Macs ;)