Posts by herman

The D in Systemd is for Directories: Poettering says his creation will phone /home in future

Re: I must be an edge case

Poetering is like the US patent office. He only knows about things he did.

Re: Devuan?

PCLinuxOS, Gentoo, Devuan, Slackware, OpenBSD, MacOS - there are lots of perfectly fine distros that are not infected by Poetering disease.

In my humble experience, I haven't found a laptop that OpenBSD doesn't run on. I find OpenBSD and Slackware to be very similar: simple, secure and very fast.

UK Supreme Court unprorogues Parliament

There is no need for a new election. Parliament must just do what the people ordered them to do - multiple times: Leave the bladdy EU.

However, the peers absolutely hate being told by the plebs what they should do, which is why they are throwing all these childish tantrums.

was - sez the grammar nazi.

Chef melts under heat, will 86 future deals with family-separating US immigration agencies

Re: "don't enter the country illegally"

The law also says that a refugee has to request asylum in the first safe country to reach. These people travel through 5 countries before getting to the US. Since both Canada and Mexico are safe countries, a refugee has to come to the US by boat or aircraft if they want to claim asylum.

You've got (Ginni's) mail! Judge orders IBM to cough up CEO, execs' internal memos in age-discrim legal battle

Hmm, she needs to be youngsized/millenniallized. An ordinary facelift ain't gonna do it.

Call-center scammer loses $9m appeal in stunning moment of poetic justice

Hmm, to me, these scammers sound no different than thousands of perfectly legal churches all over America, which preach a lie and collect money for nothing.

If Syria pioneered grain processing by watermill in 350BC, the UK in 2019 can do better... right?

Wild Ass Guesses

Have they ever figured how many slaves were put out of work by donkeys?

These committee officials can't even find their own asses (donkeys that is), never mind robots.

World's oldest human was a 122-year-old French smoker after all

Older than god

A woman is as old as she feels.

Judging by her photos, she must have felt older than god.

However, a man is as old as the woman he feels.

Which also explains all the godly trysts with young virgins on earth, resulting in various "son's of god" through the ages, as duly documented in the Iliad and other more recent holy books.

Au my bog: Bloke, 66, on bail after 'solid-gold' crapper called 'America' stolen from stately home

They stole it just for shits and giggles?

Right-click opens up terrifying vistas of reality and Windows 95 user's frightful position therein

Re: Taking the Trash

The best defense against pushbikes on pavements, is a deft jab with a walking cane/cross country ski stick, at the front wheel.

Just what we all needed, lactose-free 'beer' from northern hipsters – it's the Vegan Sorbet Sour

Re: I'm off

Ye gods, non-vegan beer? - that infamous Yellowknife sour toe cocktail would be non-vegan, but you are not supposed to EAT the bloody toe...

Eco-activists arrested by Brit cops after threatening to close Heathrow with drones

Re: Good work MET Police

Hmm, they should also be banned from using any form of public transport and their driver's licenses should be suspended, so they have to walk or use pushbikes everywhere - to protect the environment - and reduce their carbon consumption.

Are you who you say you are, sir? You are? That's all fine then

Really?

Aha, it is the word 'fucked' that did it. If you swear at a Hell Desker, you get bumped up to a supervisor and this the ONLY way to get service from any Hell Desk phone system in Canada.

So whenever I had to call Telus or Shaw support, and got a sweet Chinese lady saying: "Hello, this is Tilly, how can I help you?", I simply responded with "Your fucking internet DHCP server doesn't fucking want to give my fucking server a fucking IP address." or some such, which then results in a - CLICK - "Hello, this is Winston, how can I help you?". To him I then respond with "Your internet DHCP server doesn't want to give my server an IP address."...

This is why I like the Slovak language: 'Fucked' means 'really' in Slovak, so one can use it with wild abandon in Bratislava.

Correction: Last month, we called Zuckerberg a moron. We apologize. In fact, he and Facebook are a fscking disgrace

No worries, eventually, Facebook will be replaced by something worse.

E.g. Compuserve, AOL, Geocities, Myspace, Hangouts...

I think I still have an Aye Oh Hell floppy disk somewhere.

All three of the Insiders on Arm64 can now muck about with Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

Re: Cortana

Murrican is an English Creole.

Business PC sales up as suits flee looming end of support for Windows 7

Re: Keeping Win7, can pry it out of my cold dead hands...

"a stable, non-invasive, non-data-slurping, offline only version of Windows"

That is easy, make a virtual machine with Win7 on your Mac and use Host Only networking.

How do you do, fellow kids? Facebook now Boomerbook as British oldies outnumber teens

What is this facebook thing some old geezers at the pub are talking about?

Capital One 'hacker' hit with fresh charges: She burgled 30 other AWS-hosted orgs, Feds claim

Hmm, not the sharpest tool in the madhouse.

Buying a Chromebook? Don't forget to check that best-before date

Re: Buy carefully

Hmm, you can install OpenBSD on your Mac Mini. Apple MacOS is mostly BSD anyway.

My Macbook Pro 2012 is still going just as well/better than the day I bought it and if support runs out before the machine fails, I'll switch it to OpenBSD.

Brit rocketeer Skyrora reckons it'll be orbital in 3 years – that is, if UK government plays ball

Hmm, in a few years, launching satellites by rocket will likely be obsolete, as High Altitude Long Endurance planes continue to improve. So this crowd will be just in time to participate in the death of small rocketry.

My MacBook Woe: I got up close and personal with city's snatch'n'dash crooks (aka some bastard stole my laptop)

Lots of weapons in a coffee shop

Nobody tossed their hot coffee at the perp?

Squabbles over NASA's lunar lander, Astrobotics takes a punt on ULA and India arrives at the Moon

Nuke the polls

Wow, I gathered that the US Dems are desperate, but nuking the polls is a bit extreme innit?

Smackdown?

Err... 114 km is about 1600 km BELOW the surface of the moon.

Canadian ISP Telus launches novel solution to deal with excess email: Crash your servers and wipe it all

Re: "rich history"

Hrrmfff... The only way to get tech support with Telus is to phone them and hold for the next 45 minutes until some poor sod answers - immediately swear heavily at this bloke/blokess - which will then get you bumped up to a supervisor, who is usually quite knowledgeable.

It will never be safe to turn off your computer: Prankster harnesses the power of Windows 95 to torment fellow students

Re: Half an hour wav file as startup sound.

Better than a tone shifted slooow staartuup soouund?

Criminal mastermind signed name as 'Thief' on receipts after buying stuff with stolen card

It appears that El Reg is now into Monty Python and writes stories omitting the punch line, leaving it as an exercise to the reader.

Astroboffins have spied the largest star that has gone supernova and it's breaking all the rules

Re: Soup

WARNING - Speling Nazi’s on the prowl...

Thunderbolts and lightning very, very frightening as loo shatters, embedding porcelain shards in wall

I never thought that aiming Alice at the chalice, or pointing Percy at the porcelain, could be this dangerous!

Neuroscientist used brainhack. It's super effective! Oh, and disturbingly easy

The rise of the thought police...

Omni(box)shambles? Google takes aim at worldwide web yet again

Ayup - this is just as brilliant as MS hiding the full file names in Windows.

Another rewrite for 737 Max software as cosmic bit-flipping tests glitch out systems – report

It will never fly again. The inspectors will keep finding new flaws. Who is going to sign off on it and risk having it crash for a 3rd time? Not to mention who in his right mind will ever want to fly in it?

They should give up and convert the planes into freighters, as was done with the Super Connie and DC10.

Re: Without googling (of course) Hands up who knows about "Hamming distance" ?

Hmm, real engineers also learn polynomial algebra.

BOFH: Oh, go on, let's flush all that legacy tech down the toilet

Err... Don't cross the streams, they may back up.

Our hero returns home £500 richer thanks to senior dev's appalling security hygiene

Re: Ahhh passwords...

'receivership' - Obviously it was all your fault, since people could not get their work done.

Watch as 10 cops with guns and military camo storm suspected Capital One hacker's house…

Re: A little sensationalism?

Oh man, plastic drinking straws in Seattle? The poor bugger. He'll be doing time till he is 2000 years old.

Dear hackers: If you try to pwn a website for phishing, make sure it's not the personal domain of a senior Akamai security researcher

Hmm, maybe SlashDollar would have been a better name.

Stones, meet glass house: Mind behind Windows 8 GUI disses Windows 10 over leak

It is actually good when MS plays with the start menu, since that prevents them from breaking more important things.

Boeing's 737 Max woes trigger BEEELLIONS in losses – and that's just for the latest quarter

They won't fly again

The Max will not fly again. The cert authorities will keep finding new flaws every few months. Would you want to be the agent who signs off on the plane only to have it crash again?

Too hot to handle? Raspberry Pi 4 fans left wondering if kit should come with a heatsink

Shhhh...

Mouser has some very quiet Sunon fans such as this: 369-MF25150V31000U99 and MF25101V31000UA99

When Harry met celly: NSA hoarder thrown in the clink for 9 years – after taking classified work home for decades

Re: Why?

"Yeah, but....50TB????" These are paper documents and government scanners are extremely inefficient. So it could possibly have been only 5 sheets with "SECRET" at the top and bottom and "THIS PAGE WAS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK" printed in the middle, which he reused to scribble a shopping list on the back: "milk, bread, eggs". We'll never know the truth.

Big fat doubt hovers over UK.gov's Making Tax Digital, customs declaration IT projects

Re: What's the reason for all these failures?

Err... I would like to refer you to the Berlin Airport project, for the height of German project management...

Estate agent dodges GDPR-sized bullet after exposing 18,610 folks' data for two years

With a passport copy, crooks even have your signature. This is why I use different signatures for my passport and for my banks.

I also use an ID card at a hotel, not a passport and then I use a credit card from another country, so that nobody ever get two types of ID from the same place. However, this kind of mixup is only doable by someone like me who live and work internationally.

Apollo 11 @ 50: The long shadow of the flag

Re: The most expensive dick swinging contest in history

It is tiny, since it isn't going to the moon. The space station is in LEO and only about 400 km up. The moon is every so slightly further and harder to catch up with.

Re: The most expensive dick swinging contest in history

"America couldn't bare" - Prudishness is one of the problems I have with America. The Croatian beaches are so much nicer thanks to all the bare boobies.

Re: The most expensive dick swinging contest in history

"Imagine going through life this stupid" - It makes life very exciting when you are stupid. Everything is a miracle, by some or other benevolent fairy.

Think how stupid the average American is. Now consider that half of them are stupider than that. This simple fact explains all the conspiracies.

For pity's sake, groans Mimecast, teach your workforce not to open obviously dodgy emails

Blaming the User

The age old IT defence is to blame the user.

Links are to be clicked. Attachments are to be opened. Dissemination of information is the whole purpose of the email system.

The computers should not be affected by messages and their content. A proper implementation of MAC, as on UNIX/Linux/Mac will assure this.

Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, where to go? Navigation satellite signals flip from degraded to full TITSUP* over span of four days

Freddy Mercury really should have added a few more Galileos.

Scots NHS symptom checker pings Facebook, Google and other ad peddlers

Re: NHS 24 said that “all data is anonymised”

Morse? Smoke Signals?

Dialup is quite fast actually.