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Techie solved supposed software problem by waving his arms in the air

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Were there any currents in the pastries?

Thunderbird joins Firefox on the monthly treadmill

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What we all want to know is: When will Paris be replaced at Vulture Central?

Elon Musk's X revenues in the UK crashed in 2023, down 66%

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Re: Still, there IS a chill8ing effect,,,

Now, there's no Kneecap for that...

Artist formerly known as Indian Business Machines pledges $150B for US ops, R&D

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> Anything more recent than that?

Ask Watson?

Ex-Disney employee gets 3 years in the clink for goofy attacks on mousey menus

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Re: And yet Disney kill someone...

Don't take the Mick!

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Yeah, it makes Disney look like some Micky Mouse outfit

Need a Linux admin? Ask a hair stylist to introduce you to a worried mother

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Re: Cos Open Source

By the early 2000s I could hire sysadmins that left school at 16 but had half-a-dozen years of experience of building Linux system and would configure sendmail (it was a different time, we didn't consider it child abuse back then)

That's the kind of thing that could get you Exim trouble these days...

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Re: A Worried Mother?

Excuse me?

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Just wondering, was Finn from Helsinki?

Bank of England flirts with offline digital dosh

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And quite hard to steal, unless someone threatens you with a pounding...

Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies

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Re: Marketing

> gently deactivating multiple drones from diverse origins simultaneously.

It's time for the drone to DEI...

Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again

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Re: Legitimate interest

If you're on a computer, the Consent-O-Matic gets rid of many of these.

Someone on here recommended it once and I owe them one of these

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Re: Does anyone know...

It's very easy to install Signal, Threema etc, but you can't compel others to do it. I have those apps, but until my family move off WhatsApp, I have to keep it.

TalkTalk Business pulls disappearing act on customer emails

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Re: pay peanuts, get talk talk monkeys

It's not that Harding to find staff...

Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months

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Re: Dear Microsoft:

Or maybe adding more than OneDrive to their server, it might run a bit faster

Don't delete that mystery empty folder. Windows put it there as a security fix

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Re: But

That one's hard to spot....

Static electricity can be shockingly funny, but the joke's over when a rack goes dark

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> Yeah wrong wording... handymen were at the door to discuss planning. More important than TheRegister :D.

Downvoted on behalf of the Moderatrix...

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Re: Shocking experience

Or some of those nice pastries with currents?

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Re: Shocking experience

Did you find the chocolate hard to resist?

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If he learnt his lesson, was it a static class?

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Some of the other couriers might be more reliable though

Mapping legend Ordnance Survey releases blocky Britain in Minecraft – again

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Re: They've made a Minecraft Birmingham?

And enjoying their Oracle implementation (see icon)

BOFH: There's a fatal error in the blinkenlights

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Re: "English language keyboard license"

Korev is Cornish for beer, I'm much more of a real ale rather than lager fan though

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Re: "English language keyboard license"

Well, it's clearly expired or else it'd have been a keyboard licence

Users hated a new app – maybe so much they filed a fake support call

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That kind of thing drives you around the Ben-d

Meta's AI, built on ill-gotten content, can probably build a digital you

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Re: Meta's AI can probably build a digital you

> No it can't. It won't stand a chance making anything from my lifetime total of ZERO posts on Facebook, Insta, Whatsapp or anything else owned by Zuck.

Don't be so sure!

OK great, UK is building loads of AI datacenters. How are we going to power that?

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Re: Other needs for electricity

The heat generated by all those GPUs could very easily heat homes and businesses. This would be an improvement over the ChatGPT action figures that seem to have taken over the Internet in the last couple of days.

UK's answer to DARPA sprouts new ideas, like programmable plants

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Re: Programmable plants and bio-security

Do their networks use Spanning Tree?

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Re: ARIA

> Well, he didn't see a problem with that...

You mean Short Cummings?

Please sir, may we have some Moore? Doesn't look that way

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Re: The Register's fully sentient bio-brains

Why not give them a Turing and ask?

Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud

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Re: The vax is down, cloud edition

> one of the big cloud providers is going to have an "everything's gone and we can't get it back" incident for all of their customer data

Yes, imagine the damage to the world if Putin / Qiang decide to take out us-east-1, I think the overall damage to humanity would be greater than a few of these -->

Introducing Windows on arm. And by arm, we mean wrist

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> Monce is a PhD student in Bordeaux

So did he use WINE?

Home Office haunted by 25-year-old asylum system

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They got their just desserts...

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Re: We need an enquiry

> So that lessons can be ignored.

FTFY

How do you explain what magnetic fields do to monitors to people wearing bowling shoes?

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Simon?

Was anyone else expecting something BOFH-like with that name?

Customer info allegedly stolen from compromised supplier of Royal Mail, Samsung

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Did they hack a Postgres database?

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So did the hackers use Postbox for their requests?

RISC OS Open plots great escape from 32-bit purgatory

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I felt a bit sorry for you as you'd only got upvotes, so have a downvote and a pint!

Nvidia GPU roadmap confirms it: Moore’s Law is dead and buried

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Re: Cloud Cuckoo Land

I had to look up what ouroboros meant and have subsequently upvoted

Tech trainer taught a course on software he'd never used and didn't own

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So Netware was completely Novell to him...

From MP3 to Web3 to now 3D, Napster gets a new owner

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Re: $200 million for a name

You should see what Winamp is doing to flog a dead horse whip the Llama's ass

Grey beard icon -->

The passive aggression of connecting USB to PS/2

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Either way you're terminated...

God didn't have a plan for Gelsinger at Intel. Maybe there is one for his new gig, Gloo

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Given its stance on no sex before marriage, one wonders where the university stands on chief executives being screwed by boards of directors, so to speak.

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US Army’s laser obsession continues with yet another drone-zapper deal

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Find a use for Blockchain whilst you're there please!

After three weeks of night shifts, very tired techie broke the UK’s phone network

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Re: Communication is important

> Until the mains power-transformer failed

You don't work at Heathrow do you?

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I'm pleased his Boss wasn't a Wayne Kerr about it

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That story will be hard to BT

SAP legacy ERP customers still in no rush to adopt latest platform

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Re: "You have to have AI"

> Business has been functioning just fine up to now without any hallucinating pseudo-AI.

You could say the same thing about computers - do you have a typing pool?

Weeks with a BBC Micro? Good enough to fix a mainframe, apparently

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Re: Interested in the type of 'mainframe'

Sounds like you have an AIX to grind...

SystemRescue 12 lands with added bcachefs support

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I've chosen to only have a 10Gb connection, rather than paying the same amount for 25Gb[0].

I think that's not inflammatory...

[0] Gear capable of shifting 25Gb is noisy