* Posts by Ochib

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BOFH: Engage Hollywood Protocol – because nonsense always looks legit

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Re: Superb plot twist

I'm going to wite a GUI interface using visual basic to track the hackers IP address to a geo-location

I was told to make backups, not test them. Why does that make you look so worried?

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The only verified backup is one that you have restored from

And now something fun for a change: Building blocks of life in Bennu asteroid samples

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Re: The samples also included ammonia and formaldehyde

The opposite of formaldehyde is casualdejekyll

Memories fade. Archives burn. All signal eventually becomes noise

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Can't stop the signal, Mal. Everything goes somewhere, and I go everywhere.

How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish

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Re: Practice what you preach?

The Swedish Navy confirmed that its ships had patrolled the area in the days before the explosions, but would not comment on why it had done so. An analysis of AIS-data from MarineTraffic by Swedish media Dagens Nyheter showed Swedish navy vessels in the areas on 21 and 22 September 2022, from five to four days before the sabotage.

LA deputies dogged by New Year date glitch in patrol car PCs

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Re: Stupid date order?

No love for ISO 8601

Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did

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Re: Should Not Have Happened But Did......

The Post Office tried to deliver compensation to the relevant people, but just left a "You were out card" instead

When old Microsoft codenames crop up in curious places

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It can't be 29 years since Windows 95 was first released. I'm not that old to remember installing that version for the first time

BOFH: Don't sell The Boss a firewall. Sell him The Dream

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Backup tapes, depend who you ask.

Finance dept, Yup the IT dept still use tapes. In fact, here is the last purchase order we issued

IT Dept, We don't use tape - but our slush fund is healthy

Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next

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Isn't that in En al Sams la Raisa in Klatch

Another 'major cyber incident' at a UK hospital, outpatients asked to stay away

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Re: Mouse take

Wife works at a care home and most of the Staff are not IT literate. For example

The cash system is an excel spreadsheet that they use a calculator to add up the rows and columns and have problems getting the figures to add up correctly. This document is then printed out and faxed to head office.

Musk agrees with fan that worries over orbital Starlink traffic a 'silly narrative'

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Re: Nobody?

And there are other places to launch LEO satellites and other countries who couldn't care less about US rules for satellites de-orbiting.

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Re: Elmo doesn't care...

It's not just SpaceX that we need to worry about

Eutelsat OneWeb have 600 + satellites in a higher obit than Starlink

Kuiper Systems want to have 3,236 satellites into low Earth orbit.

China national satellite internet project want to have a number of satellites

That hardware will be more reliable if you stop stabbing it all day

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Re: Fool-proof

A Marine is left alone in a locked room with only an anvil, a crowbar and a bowling ball. One gets broken, one gets lost and one gets eaten, and no one has any idea what happened

Apple drops soldered storage for 2024 Mac Mini

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Re: "The SSD card is currently a proprietary Apple format"

Yes to all the above knowing Apple

BOFH: Don't threaten us with a good time – ensure it

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Re: Brilliant

My password is "Incorrect" so when I type it in wrong, the system tells me that my password is incorrect

The Register takes AMD's Ryzen 9800X3D for a spin

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But ...

Will it run Crysis Remastered?

Schneider Electric ransomware crew demands $125k paid in baguettes

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Re: Why did the ransomware scum demand payment in French Bread?

Ahh… So you’re a waffle man!

Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

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How long before Google falls out of a window?

Or will it just move to a new tab

Lebanon: At least nine dead, thousands hurt after Hezbollah pagers explode

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Have you every tried to send an SMS/WhatsApp at New Year? How long did the message take to be received?

If there was a major incident, the load on the local towers will be the same. Plus the powers that be can turn off the mobile service as they did on 7/7

Of course the Internet Archive’s digital lending broke the law, appeals court says

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Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. ruled the other way

Musk's X, Media Matters headed to trial

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Re: Sidebar

The Judge requested seven twitter users to be blocked in Brazil. Musk refused and now 215.3m people have been blocked

Tenstorrent's Blackhole chips boast 768 RISC-V cores and almost as many FLOPS

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But the real question is

Can It Run Crysis?

Rocket Factory Augsburg engine test ends in explosion at SaxaVord spaceport

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No that was the hedgehog

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Saxa Vord distillery

The distillery buildings are adjacent to the SaxaVord Spaceport. Hope that it wasn't the cause of the explosion

Under-fire Elon Musk urged to get a grip on X and reality – or resign

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And he keeps digging a hole for himself

Elon Musk quote tweeting the co-leader of Britain First, who is sharing a fake Telegraph headline. Seen by almost 1 million people in 15 minutes.

https://www.politics.co.uk/news/2024/08/08/elon-musk-deletes-post-spreading-fake-news-about-uk-detainment-camps/

AI Catholic 'priest' defrocked after recommending Gatorade baptism

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The first Christians didn’t call themselves Christians. They called themselves “The Way” (referring to Isaiah 30:3), but they were called by other Jews “The Nazarenes”. Christians was actually a derogatory term used by non-believers to belittle the faith in Antioch, as it meant “Little Christs”. But the name caught on around 100 ce.

Bill advances to exonerate hundreds in Post Office Horizon scandal

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Re: Bollocks

There are a number of victims who were not convicted of a crime, but had to pay back large sums of money and lost their job and reputation. No clearing of their names

UK lays down fresh legislation banning crummy default device passwords

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Re: Actually, could do better

Nope, Virgin media use the default password of CHANGEME

Leicester streetlights take ransomware attack personally, shine on 24/7

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It has happened before and will happen again.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lights-massachusetts-school-year-no-one-can-turn-rcna65611

Mega city council's Oracle ERP system still not legally safe, compliant... 2 years after rollout

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The project was probably completed as per the original contract. but if BCC keep moving the goalposts then, that will increase the cost.

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Sunk Cost fallacy

There is a danger of the “sunk cost fallacy” being applied “Oh well, we’ve already spent £100 million so we had better go ahead and spend another £100 million…”

Husqvarna ports Doom to a robot lawnmower – not, thankfully, its chainsaws

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Well the BOFH had a run in (or two) with a motorised death machine a few years ago

City council megaproject to spend millions for manual work Oracle system was meant to do

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The Active Travel money is from Central Government. BCC bid for this over the last few years. If it isn't spent the money just back to Central Goverment

Out with the old, in with the new as 100 Starlink satellites take atmospheric exit

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Re: Disposible like BIC or Gillette razors

If you ever find yourself stranded on a desert island, make sure to have a segment of fibre in your pocket. Then, just bury the fibre and in no time someone will be by with a backhoe.

Whether to move off Oracle is the $100M+ question for Europe's largest public body

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Re: Errm.. how?

London 9.6m population 32 authorities

Manchester 2.7m population 10 authorities

Birmingham 2.6m population 1 authority

Perfect timing... US Navy throws Boeing $103M to update its sub recon jets

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Re: P-8 sub hunters

There are more planes in the sea than there are subs in the sky

Fujitsu will not bid for UK.gov business until Post Office inquiry closes

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Don't forget this is New Business, It says nothing about bidding for a renewal of contracts it already has

Data regulator fines HelloFresh £140K for sending 80M+ spams

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Re: £140,000?

Profit afer tax for 2021 was 256.30m euros.

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Should be at least £0.01 per spam

New cars bought in the UK must be zero emission by 2035 – it's the law

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Re: Screw the Hoi Polloi!

Just run the cable over the pavement, or, as some councils have done, install charge points in lampposts

Philips recalls 340 MRI machines because they may explode in an emergency

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Re: If you aren't full of shrapnel you will probably suffocate

Isn't Michael Jackson's favourite gas HE HE?

Musk floats idea of boat mod for Cybertruck

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Rule 32. Anything is amphibious if you can get it back out of the water.

PLACEHOLDER ONLY Someone please write witty headline here

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Had a script that created users and a randomised password that was a Name of a Fruit, a Colour and an Animal

All worked fine until we had a complaint from HR and had to remove the following from the look-up table. Banana, Black and Monkey.

BOFH: Monitor mount moans end in Beancounter beatdown

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Re: Sounds vaguely familiar...

Manybe the manufacture of that pannel had stop making them and if any were damaged the whole ceiling would need to be replaced

Wanted: Driver for rocket-powered Bloodhound Land Speed Record car

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Some may say that he is the fastest human on four wheels. All we know is he’s called the Stig.

Gas supplier blames 'rogue' code for Channel Island outage

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Anything that happens, happens.

Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.

Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.

It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.

Tweaked Space Shuttle Main Engine gets ready for final testing

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It's only a Recommended Standard.

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

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Cleaning Printers that are full of dust

Only to to told, that's not ordinary dust those printers have come from the local Crematoria and what I thought was dust was ash

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