Posts by Paul Herber

OK brainiacs, we've got an IT cold case for you: Fatal disk errors on an Amiga 4000 with 600MB external SCSI unless the clock app is... just so

Re: The real mystery is how Paula discovered the clock work around ...

Bah!

Huawei signs non-aggression patent pact with membership of Open Invention Network

Re: "What of the company's controversial status today?"

No, I'm Donald Trump.

Thought you'd go online to buy better laptop for home working? Too bad, UK. So did everyone. Laptops, monitors and WLANs fly off shelves

Re: For furniture...

I'm a trustee of a charity that runs two shops. Nobody is coming in, no volunteers to help run the shop, might be closing on Monday. Everyone is panic buying elsewhere!

Who the heck even owns this company? Where is it? Biz risk outfit uses graphDBs to build mammoth compliance network

Re: A city in flight!

If I were the type of person needing to do so I'd be thinking this is the perfect time to bury bad news.

A city in flight!

Has someone invented the spindizzy and not told us?

Disk stuck in the drive? Don't dilly-Dali – get IT on the case!

El Reg goes all foody

ice cream, cutting the mustard, taking the biscuit

Coffee time.

Take it Huawei, Pai: Senate passes bill to rip 'dodgy' kit from rural telcos

War

Cisco kid was a friend of mine ...

RIP Freeman Dyson: The super-boffin who applied his mathematical brain to nuclear magic, quantum physics, space travel, and more

Re: Nothing ignomious

would have been worse if he'd tripped over a vacuum cleaner!

OK, which Dombås stuffed Windows 10 to bursting at Swedish flatpack flinger?

xyzzy

Didn't work.

~You are in a maze of twisty passages all alike. There is a troll holding up a table lamp.

25 years of Delphi and no Oracle in sight: Not a Visual Basic killer but hard to kill

Turbo Pascal for Windows, then Delphi, great products to use. I've now moved on to Lazarus, superb for an open-source product.

School's out as ransomware attack downs IT systems at Scotland's Dundee and Angus College

Wasn't me!

AI 'more profound than fire', Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai tells rich folks' talking shop

I want nasally-ingested fire with my AI, and what about this wheel thingy, sounds very exciting. Can AI work out what colour it should be?

Stiff upper lip time, Brits: After bullying France to drop its digital tax on Silicon Valley, Trump's coming for you next

Re: He's threatening Italy as well

> school bully

Trumpkinson's Schooldays

Sometimes shining a light on a nuclear problem just makes things worse

so glad they did the test properly, shows they applied plenty of rigour ...

Oh this 2019 timeline. Finish this sentence: Austrian politico accused of spending €3,000 a month on ...

Splitters

Patch now: Published Citrix applications leave networks of 'potentially 80,000' firms at risk from attackers

Watch out for someone using a sleigh load-balancer over the next few days. Not a black-hat hacker, nor a white-hat hacker, red-hat maybe ...

Cheque out my mad metal frisbee skillz... oops. Lights out!

Someone from Bath, goes by the name Oliver ...

Somebody once moved my cheese ...

London's Westminster Council wins appeal against phonebooth-cum-massive-digital-advert

How about a Lovely Phonebooth competition?

Boffins find proof that yes, Carl Sagan and Joni Mitchell were right, we really are all made up of star stuff

Re: Not right about everything

Makes a change from the usual "Earth will be destroyed and we are stuffed" - Big Yellow Taxidermist.

And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy

Re: And All Who Sail In Her

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Nebraska_Sea

Tesla has a smashing weekend: Model 3 on Autopilot whacks cop cars, Elon's Cybertruck demolishes part of LA

Bollards to that!

David Phillips, godfather of UK tech distribution industry, dies aged 74

I bought a printer from Northamber many years ago (maybe 1980/81), went to a house in Esher to collect it! No, I don't have the invoice any more!

Two can play that game: China orders ban on US computers and software

BSD

Beijing Style Desktop

Europol wipes out 30,000+ piracy sites, three suspects cuffed to walk the legal plank

I've had a good number of fake websites stealing content (mainly images) from my website for a while now. Many of them seem to have disappeared! Woo.

BBC tells Conservative Party to remove edited Facebook ad featuring its reporters

localhost, that's for localpeople.

If tsoHost is lecturing us on sleep hygiene, Brit outfit really does have hosting back to front

Re: Too often for too long...

I've moved most of my domains away now, just one to go ...

Amazon straightens up its IoT house, complete with virtual Alexa, ahead of Las Vegas shindig

Smart toilet seats

Alexa and Google and Sira etc, bog off.

Yours, Captain U-bend.

That code that could never run? Well, guess what. Now Windows thinks it's Batman

Re: South Western Railway

What have I written that deserves 2 downvotes?

South Western Railway

Is this yet another strike over who operates the doors?

At least the trains have been upgraded from 8080s.

Class 286/386/486 locos look so dated now.

From July, you better be Putin these Kremlin-approved apps on gadgets sold in Russia

Fawlty

I know,

un, dos, tress ...

or was that "on those trays"?

Questions hang over Gatwick Airport after low level drone near-miss report

Need to use the FFF units, Furlongs, Ferkin, Fortnight.

Re: Drones

pointed remarks

Bloodhound gang hits 1,010kph, retreats to lab to work on smashing the land speed record

"The speed achieved would allow you to travel from London to Edinburgh in 39 minutes."

HS3 here we come.

'Sophisticated' cyber attack on UK Labour Party platforms was probably just a DDoS, says official

Re: Meanwhile, over at Guido's..

"majority (conservatively 70%+)"

Is that a prediction? Ok, I won't labour this point ...

Congress to FCC: Where’s the damn report on mobile companies selling location data?

Re: US Politics

Not so fast, sunshine. In this game there is an exit fee. Paiup.

Blood, snot and fear: Why the travelling lone tech reporter should always knock twice

Blood, Snot and Fears

What a good name for a band!

We're almost into the third decade of the 21st century and we're still grading security bugs out of 10 like kids. Why?

Re: We're almost into the third decade of the 21st century

In a hundred years time people will look back at our times in the same way we look back at 1919.

Revealed: The new icon you'll click to download an alternative browser, and more from Microsoft

FFS - it worked. I now have a functioning laptop again.

I'd like to try this on my laptop but after the last update that has been imposed on me it is still looking very brick-like.

Maybe I should play the Fairport Convention album - Unhalfbricking.

Boffins don bad 1980s fashion to avoid being detected by object-recognizing AI cameras

Re: Er ...

kipper tie?

Yes please, milk and two sugars.

Microsoft welcomes ancient Project app to the 365 family, meaning bleak future for on-prem

Re: Plan 9?

but the "up to 11" is a very important concept ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven

Re: Information density

If you need more than 10 tasks then you need to redesign your tasks to suit our software!

Are you as handy with privacy certs as you are with a screwdriver? Ikea has the perfect vacancy

CIPM

I've got CP/M 1.4 and 2.2 on my CV. Is that good enough?

The eagle has handed.... scientists a serious text message bill after flying through Iran, Pakistan

what a journey!

I know where they were going. Morrrrrdorrrrr!

How do we stop filling the oceans with Lego? By being a BaaS-tard, toy maker suggests

Girl bricks

Girls, drink, feck, I love my lego brick!

TalkTalk says WalkWalk if you've got a mouldy Tiscali email address, or pay £50 a year to keep it

TANSTAAFEA

Don't ask Why Not?

Watch out! Andromeda, the giant spiral galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way, has devoured several galaxies before

Re: Let me get this straight ....

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