Posts by cheb

UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving for good

Re: Seems a bit specious

...are dismal. The advantage of the long nights is that you can't see the terrible weather.

I'm not as far north as Orkney but I'm a lot further west, just about half a time zone west on London.

Starliner's not-so-grand finale is a thump in the desert next week

Thanks for a answers, it makes more sense now.

Re: Pneumatic connectors

That's what prompted my pondering. There's similar used on submarines in their emergency breathing systems, made of brass or bronze so they don't corrode. I've got some that won't disconnect if they are pressurised, it stops accidental disconnection and the possibility of a flailing hose.

There's also those used on SCUBA and other diving systems, and the military and aerospace will have some too.

I'm trying not to sound like an armchair expert here, just trying to end my puzzlement.

One thing slightly puzzles me, why aren't the spacesuit connectors cross compatible? It seems an obvious oversight for redundancy in the system. What reasons might there be for this?

Deadbeat dad faked his own death by hacking government databases

Re: faking his own death by hacking government systems

Recruit him as a manager for a Grot shop.

Re: faking his own death by hacking government systems

Great!

Developer tried to dress for success, but ended up attired for an expensive outage

They spotted Bob because he wasn't wearing hi-viz*, the other person was rendered invisible by theirs.

*Or it might have been the torque wrench he was carrying.

Life, interrupted: How CrowdStrike's patch failure is messing up the world

Re: WTF?

This makes me think of the waiting spaceship on Frogstar World B.

X marks the bot: Musk thinks spammers won't pay $1 a year

Re: Thanks for the belly laugh, I needed that

The world equivalent of the bit of wallpaper behind the radiator?

cf: Scotland and the UK.

How is this problem mine, techie asked, while cleaning underground computer

Re: Nasty IT places

I used to be a chimney sweep and there were a few houses I did where I wiped my feet on the way out.

Data breach reveals distressing info: People who order pineapple on pizza

Spurred on by curiosity I put a smear of Marmite on a pineapple chunk and ate it. Marmite and cheese? Works. Cheese and pineapple? Works. Marmite and pineapple? I can't remember eating anything that was so disgusting and had such a lingering aftertaste. Truly revolting.

Chap blew up critical equipment on his first day – but it wasn't his volt

I suppose we should be grateful that the Americans use volts rather than an archaic system of measurement.

Actually, are there any other units for potential difference? Should there be a Reg Standard?

Why these cloud-connected 3D printers started making junk all by themselves

That's always been my assumption, and I own a Bambu printer. It's usually switched off and only on when I want to print something. I'm not printing anything special, usually just small boxen, so no with intellectual property to fret about.

Zoom's new London hub – where 'remote work' meets 'we need you back in the office'

Re: I think it is the perfect time to start a new company : Gloom

Great!

Brit newspaper giant fills space with AI-assisted articles

Re: Spelling Mistakes

https://londonist.com/2015/11/london-trap-streets

[I] I'm not from London[/I]

IBM says it's been running 'AI supercomputer' since May but chose now to tell the world

Re: *hears some shouting in the distance*

That brings to mind Donkey in Shrek shouting 'Pick me, pick me'.

It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

Re: plumbing

It's my understanding that imperial measurements refer to the bore of the pipe and metric to the outside diameter.

Elon Musk's cost-cutting campaign at Twitter extended to not paying rent, claims landlord

Isn't this 'Who me?' column a day late?

Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech's billion dollar curse of the free

Re: Serves Google right

I'm not, because I use one for my flickr account.

Weep for the cybercriminals who fell for online scams and lost $2.5m last year

Re: My heart does not bleed for them

https://www.cifas.org.uk "The UK's largest cross-sector fraud sharing organisation

I read that and wondered who they are sharing the fraud with.

US Air Force reveals B-21 Raider stealth bomber that'll fly the unfriendly skies

Re: There's something wrong with it.

Time to update the reCAPTCHA picture selection?

Too soon? Amazon commissions FTX mini-series

I have, or had, a book about financial crashes since the South Sea bubble. The basic plot is: This time it's different - Crash. I'd give you the tile of the book but I can't find it.

Tesla recalls 40k cars over patch that broke power steering

Re: Power steering

I've a memory of being told that hydraulic steering is limited to plant running at slow speeds and within a short range of where it's being used because of the lack of a mechanical linkage. Vehicles like dumper trucks and specialised rough terrain tipper trucks.

It was a long time ago, I might have been ill informed and the regs may have changed.

Google's Alphabet to review every project after $6bn decline in profits

I knew my using an alternative search engine would hurt them eventually.

Salesperson's tech dream delivered by ill-equipped consultant who charged for the inevitable fix

Will next week's Who, Me? be about a journo who forgot to add a couple of important words at the start of the article?

Google, YouTube ban election trolls ahead of US midterms

Re: Try a little critical thinking

Acted like a censer? What swung around and spread a pervasive stink everywhere?

I love the Linux desktop, but that doesn't mean I don't see its problems all too well

I'm another long term user, openSUSE and now Mint, that doesn't want MS crushed, it smacks of thoughtless tribalism. I won't say I not bothered if others use Linux or not as I need technical help occasionally so other users are useful.

IBM AI boat to commemorate historic US Mayflower voyage finally lands… in Canada

Re: I think it said that it was build to avoid obstacles.

A mechanical Turk perhaps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk

Not to be confused with Amazon's offering

Murena and /e/ Foundation launch privacy-centric smartphones

Is there any information as to how repairable this phone will be? I'm half needing a new(er) phone and it might be a toss up between this and the Fairphone. A choice between very repairable or no bloatware.

SerenityOS: Remarkable project with its own JS-capable web browser

How soon will Serenity's year of the desktop be, 2025 maybe?

Joking aside, as one who struggles to get linux code to do what I want even when cut and pasted from a known working solution I'm hugely impressed by people like this

The world is chaos but my Zoom background is control-freak perfection

Re: "Set-dressing" has been going on for ages.

Victorian? It's been done since at least Henry VIIIth time. Holbein's 'The Ambassadors' has it all, scientific instruments, musical instruments, open tomes, and more. Granted it's only a still image, quick drying paint been hadn't invented.

There's also the weird anamorphic skull, which gets you strange looks as you peer sideways and down at from the edge of the painting. I'm not sure where that fits it, it's unlikely to be a dodgy graphics card in the cheap web cam.

Yahoo! and! AOL! sold! for! $5bn! as! Verizon! abandons! media! empire! dreams!

It's going to end with a whimper, not a bang.

Another Windows 10 patch that breaks printers ups ante to full-on Blue Screen of Death

I for one applaud MS for doing something positive to promote the much predicted paperless office.

There are two sides to every story, two ends to every cable

And under the desk no-one can see you unplug if necessary.

For every disastrous rebrand, there is an IT person trying to steer away from the precipice

I selected my current van as the last three registration plate letters are GTF.

Salon told to change ad looking for 'happy' stylist because it 'discriminated against unhappy people'

'Tis nothing new:

The 10th oldest joke was found in the world's oldest "joke book," called "Philogelos" (or "Laughter-Lover"), written by Greeks Hierocles and Philagrius in the 4th century.

"Asked by the court barber how he wanted his hair cut, the king replied: "In silence"."

Zuck says Facebook made an 'operational mistake' in not taking down US militia page mid-protests. TBH the whole social network is a mistake

Re: Endless Cycle

I agree, but I think most people behave like this, not just those in the categories listed.

Anyone else have multiple speeding convictions and parking tickets?

Trucking hell: Kid leaves dad in monster debt after buying oversized vehicle on eBay

Re: Yeah, sure.

Are you wearing shades?

You *bang* will never *smash* humiliate me *whack* in front of *clang* the teen computer whizz *crunch* EVER AGAIN

Re: With great power comes great incompatibility

Thanks. I searched for Walsall plugs and ended up here: https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/Overview.html

It's not like I've more important things to do.

Airbus and Rolls-Royce hit eject on hybrid-electric airliner testbed after E-Fan X project fails to get off the ground

There was also LMS Turbomotive built in 1935.. From what I've read it was successful, but uneconomic to rebuild when it failed in 1949.

Already in final beta? That's Madagascar: Ubuntu 20.04 'Focal Fossa' gets updated desktop, ZFS support

It's pronounced foosa BTW. I was fortunate to be involved with tracking them for a research project a few years back.

Built to last: Time to dispose of the disposable, unrepairable brick

Re: Tlmlng Belt

Or do away with as many moving parts as you can, 2T for the win. All those big ship diesels can't be wrong.

You'll never select all and mark as read again after this tale of peril... Oh, who are we kidding? Of course you will

But did he find a 'Beware of the Leopard' sign?

Beware, Tesla might take away your car's autopilot if you buy its vehicles from third party dealerships – plus more news

Tesla removing Autopilot? It's good to see a company being proactive in improving road safety.

Tea tipplers are more likely to live longer, healthier lives than you triple venti pumpkin-syrup soy-milk latte-swilling fiends

I drink mate, to match my desktop.

Hate speech row: Fine or jail anyone who calls people boffins, geeks or eggheads, psychology nerd demands

Some of my best friends are boffins, one really is a rocket scientist. He takes great pleasure using the phrase 'It isn't rocket science, and I should know.'

Welcome to the World Of Tomorrow, where fridges suffer certificate errors. Just like everything else

The only thing that surprises me is that the cooling function of the fridge still works when the computing side doesn't.

UK.gov whacks export ban on 'grotesque' crab made by famous Brit potter bros

NTNON:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4mPkhohDds

Vengeful sacked IT bod destroyed ex-employer's AWS cloud accounts. Now he'll spent rest of 2019 in the clink

Re: Voova should take some heat here...

My take on this, as a non IT type*, is that the cloud provider will have backed it up, but only for sorting out their own mess. If you want a back up for sorting out your mess then you'll have to pay for it.

*But I know enough from reading on places like this to have at least three back up copies on different media and at least one off site. Vague general thanks to all.

Quit that job and earn $185k... cleaning up San Francisco's notoriously crappy sidewalks

The French got there first with the tech:

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