* Posts by eionmac

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SAP hits brakes on Tesla company car deal

eionmac

Re: Legacy Automakers and EVs

Milk floats work well as Electric vehicles.

Limited range, overnight charging,centralised base depot, spare vehicles held on stock. In 1950s and 1960s these just worked.

IT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy security

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Re: Payroll PI

Assuming he had British war medals after the war, I assume he put both the German and British war medals on when he was on 'display parade' duty.

I once read an article about a Finn who has 'carried a rifle' for the Russian Czar, Finland and Germany which was possible because of the dates he served.

HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten

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Re: "If a printer is connected to the internet, the update downloads automatically"

Using OKI printer (8 years old) not connected to internet. Third OKI printer in about 18 years. One worn out. Another was physically damaged in a move.

Toner change about every 8000 sheets.

Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance

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Re: Proof Of Concept Business --- Audit

Passing the audit is much more important than actually knowing why!

Mistakes allowed as long as audit passed.

Self cancelling errors are never found usually , until one is removed for obscure reasons.

Techie wasn't being paid, until he taught HR a lesson

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Re: Fancy pants surname

I understand the pain. I have Mac Donald, but use all combinations to suit culture I am in . Thus M'D... in Africa , they are used to names like M'Bana.

In Germany it gets simple like von F so works as mac Donald. In UK I end up as Donald, Which reflects my school as about 90% of pupils began with Mac or Mc or M' or Mhic; so the school always indexed under second part of name. OK but explain how name is on certificates when needed in England is a pain.

BOFH: Cough up half a grand and we'll protect you from AI

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Re: Its a cunning wheeze

Or their 'billions'. Thus drug under dose or over dose by 1000 times.

Waymo robo-car slays dog in San Francisco

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Re: In the UK, this would be criminal

Thanks for that image. It crowds my mind.

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Pint

Re: In the UK, this would be criminal

A cat is your master, A dog is your servant. Law of Master and Man.

BOFH: Good news, everyone – we're in the sausage business

eionmac

Re: The _real_ AI

Having watched a few 'pig parades' at agricultural shows, I know who is boss. You do not argue with the leader pig. (Unless you have at least two men and each has a strong pig shield.

Windows XP's adventures in the afterlife shows copyright's copywrongs

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3.5" to tip (Dump).

Ah! How relevant, yesterday I took to the council tip (waste dump facility) about 350 number of 3.5 inch floppy discs. Spent a few hours removing the metal sliders for the metal only dump. I came across my MS Windows 3.1. memories.

Laid-off 60-year-old Kyndryl exec says he was told IT giant wanted 'new blood'

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Trollface

Age Paid Well

The company retired some folks. We left. Hired younger ones to do job. Big problems as no 'experience under fire'. One year later asked us to come back. Some charged about 3 times the previous salary. (No problem to pay that now!), we then stayed until we wanted to leave.

Ministry of Justice rapped by ICO for old fashioned data leak

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Sometimes rules go wrong with unintended consequences. The 'clear out old paperwork' that destroyed the landing cards of legal Caribbean immigrants and caused some 'deportations of supposedly illegal immigrants', was a notorious problem with great human consequences for some humans.

Rigorous dev courageously lied about exec's NSFW printouts – and survived long enough to quit with dignity

eionmac

Re: Never had good luck working for family owned businesses

"Clogs to Clogs in 3 generations", they say up north.

Cop warrant orders Ring to cough up footage from inside this guy's home

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Re: Meanwhile in London

The internet would have been the Stasi's biggest dream. The card index systems worked but slowly, with a most useful phrase 'a disorderly sex life' on some cards.

The crime against humanity that is the modern OS desktop, and how to kill it

eionmac

Re: It does suck

Some users in offices do not have laptops. Small factor desktops (under desk) with a single small say 22 inch monitor, keyboard and mouse on a very cramped desk space .

Cleaner ignored 'do not use tap' sign, destroyed phone systems ... and the entire building

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Re: Water and IT

Russia winter games? Power to site was commissioned only a few weeks (hours?) ahead of start.

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Re: Water and IT

I "discovered the hard way" that a plasticsink drain pipe made a vertical to horizontal right angle in our Kitchen ceiling space.". Elbow leaked. Plasterboard ceiling now has a 40cm by 30cm irregular artistic hole with vibrant coloured edges where water reacted with the paper glue of alongside paper dressing to roof.

When management went nuclear on an innocent software engineer

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Re: Next time

It is a long time since I read of folk eating folk a.k.a "long pig"

Hive to pull the plug on smart home gadgets by 2025

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Re: Thanks for the money but your stuffed.

As HIVE controls our gas boiler, its demise will put death from CO poisoning a nor-remote possibility.

Choosing a non-Windows OS on Lenovo Secured-core PCs is trickier than it should be

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while an organisation I work with has L______ computers, I only use De__ to ensure I can use Linux

distros. Maybe De__ market share will improve?

Rufus and ExplorerPatcher: Tools to remove Windows 11 TPM pain and more

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Re: Just goes to show..

What is twitter? I have never used it, but see it referred to in a number of BBC reports of loss of data or announcements by folk.

Pentester says he broke into datacenter via hidden route running behind toilets

eionmac

Re: False floors too

My mum's house and all houses in that street were on wooden suspended floors with a 2 ft 6 inch (say 75cm) 'crawl space' below the floors, in which the ancient lead water pipes were run from street water cock to under sink and water store (large diameter day tank holding at least two day's supply in case of water problems) built in mid 1850s.

Absolutely no problem in running modern electrics from room to room.

Firefox kills another tracking cookie workaround

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Re: Sounds great

I attended a factory with a quarter of a million GBP machine tool which only works to Windows XP. Life of machine tool is greater than 40 years. Windows XP (7 years?) . I got then to buy quite a few XP machines being sold for scrap as owners switched to next Windows series. Try, see working , get spare batteries, get spare RAM, keep in store, Arrange for Windows XP on virtual machines of better newer machines. OH! VM Windows XP does not work in control cycle. VM does not work!

Um. This persuaded owner only in future to buy machine tools controlled by FLOSS software.

It was a somewhat bad experience.

Password recovery from beyond the grave

eionmac

Re: Not happened to me, but

One reason I have kept to Royal mail postal account statement delivery.

The family will have account details.

Open source 'Office' options keep Microsoft running faster than ever

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Re: Options are always good

I always get folk borrowing my laptop (uses LibreOffice.com) to type ONLY in pure text with a paragraph spacer, or a line spacer between paragraphs (Bold, Italic, hyphen, underline) only.

Then they can email to office.

Then open in MS Word save as transmitted and also under a different name (remember different versions of MS.Word do not automatically give same MS Word format) then do finish formatting and re-save under a new name. Keeping pure text and new formatted versions.

This i show I did docs for a MS Only office from home using LO.o for many years

Teeth marks yield clue to widespread internet outage in Canada

eionmac

Re: Emergency credit?

Likewise my UK cards are fully embossed. Issued in 2021.

eionmac

Re: Emergency credit?

That was the cheque [USA = check] guarantee card system in UK, where bank guaranteed payment of a cheque when the recipient copied the bank guarantee number onto the back of the cheque.

That time a techie accidentally improved an airline's productivity

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A certain transport organisation can only now get spares from one third party manufacturer whose machine tools (cost say quarter of a million, ¼M£) have a 40 year life, but control software is 'fixed ' to Windows 98 time and inputs.

Manufacturer long since dead, so no one knows the software or code or how it works.

After his episode I always want printed copy of code, and if possible only free software in control systems of expensive machinery.

Only Microsoft can give open source the gift of NTFS. Only Microsoft needs to

eionmac

Re: It's the same old story with Linux - it's just one more thing

I would much appreciate a link to your 'printed handouts; (URL or PD or whatever); as find some folk here in UK have the same attitude as you impute to Chinese students

We can bend the laws of physics for your super-yacht, but we can't break them

eionmac

Re: I love demands to do the impossible

Ignorance here. What is meaning of "PBH"?

eionmac

Re: I love demands to do the impossible

I have a computer at home, I do not think after many decades of Linux and LS OSs I can even start to know what I do not know. But I do 'know a 'little', like how to press the on/off switch.

IBM's autonomous Mayflower ship breaks down in second transatlantic attempt

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Re: (sings)

Large Balls of Copper were hoisted as signals. Still used in 1970s at Leith. Dropping of ball indicated exactly (within a few seconds of 1pm at same time as one o'clock gun was fired from Edinburgh Castle to give a time signal to mariners in Leith Roads.

Refer

https://stories.miln.eu/graham/2014-01-09-one-oclock-gun-at-edinburgh-castle/2013-edinburgh-one-o-clock-gun.jpg

Europe proposes tackling child abuse by killing privacy, strong encryption

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physical closeness

Most child sexual abuse is done by persons with close proximity to child, (family or family members).

Remote sexual abuse, such as a UK person paying a family in some remote country to show sexual abuse of a child, is fairly common, streamed abuse, but unless recorded or intercepted in live time , this is difficult to prove.

Connection to Connection can be proved. Cash trail can be proved.

But actual incident is very difficult to prove. See various reports from Philippines on this.

They try to raid during actual streaming as that is how they get proof.

eionmac

Re: Slowly the EU slides into a CCP like dictatorship

I correspond with P R China.

Always encrypted.

Nvidia open-sources Linux kernel GPU modules. Repeat, open-source GPU modules

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Lost sales

I set up Linux OSs for folks who cannot afford to buy a new computer on reconditioned laptops or who want to use their old (Visa ) machines without buying new. I have automatically rejected all machines that had NVidia cards, as these did not play well with Linux OSs.

I will wait awhile until it becomes clear which NVidea cards have Linux support. I tended to buy reconditioned machines with AMD graphics or Intel graphics, as both of these work with Linux OSs.

An international incident or just some finger trouble at the console?

eionmac

Re: Typing is not a good idea. UNLESS

You do the correct thing, copy and paste into a Word processor document so you can read if "O" or "0" AND save it before action as a log record. PS make sure you word processor can accommodate Simplified Chinese Characters.

Mozilla browser Firefox hits the big 100

eionmac

Re: Mozilla and its stupid numbering scheme

Thunderbird is very useful to me and has been so for many years.

Why the Linux desktop is the best desktop

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Re: OS quirks. Unknown is always difficult

Each one of us is limited in our knowledge and ability. (What we have already learned)

That which we know we can use comfortably.

That which we do not know is always difficult.

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

eionmac

Re: "Just for fun"

Your novel. Publish to us readers of The Register via an e-book or PDF, some may read it, some may like it. Some may even thank you.

Client demo in 30 minutes. Just what could go wrong?

eionmac
Childcatcher

Re: What's in a name?

My rats loved the cable with plasticizer ingredients to allow bending, never touched copper large diameter in brown plastic.

The nibbled edges of cable are still visible in my office, but covered with blue electricians tape where bitten. Like the plasters used in food kitchens, visible and gives a warning.

RPI my rat. a 'man' Looks at cable icon

Half of bosses out of touch with reality, study shows

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Re: Bollocks statistics

Funny. Perhaps, when working in office - time spent with others was most useful, easy to review drawings with a draughts-lady at her desk, but then sorting out the papers to be disclosed to client or suppliers was always done from home after getting home. Japan and USA folk just assumed I could answer phone at 2am UK time or 11 pm UK time.

So what has changed since I left full time employment in 2004?

Working from home is I assume just the same for hours but without that 'personal comment' by lady in office, "the designer got it wrong but see he corrected badly the drawings", a remark never to be put in writing or overheard in a VoIP chat with many folk.

Yes there are pros and cons to working from home, it depends on what is needed for that particular skill set.

Wood carving , painting, metal bashing, shipbuilding needs a workshop of many folk 'on the ground' supported by the office folk. Music needs rehearsal studios or places, apart from the actual live performance.

To each set of objective products, there is a need for both on premises and off premises requirements, it just varies from product to product, but do not "demand attendance" if it adds little to the outcome, so allow and change habits.

eionmac

Re: Hybrid work ?

I am eagerly awaiting you published experience on setting up a Jitsi server. My problem, I work from home, do VoIP (Zoom, Jitsi , no MS Teams, as it does not play well with my set up).

So how cheap to host a Jitsi server / instance and install correct software and stuff for say 3 to 5 persons?

Are you doing a tutorial? Published - (You Tube or elsewhere)?

Meanwhile, also have to do Jitsi / email with actual folk who work hands on on machinery in many places.

eionmac

Re: Employees hold all the cards, it’s too late…

Convert plot to affordable houses.

Mixing as used to be done living and work premises next to each other.

Think: the lads (chopped? knapped?) flints beside the hut fire a short walk from the hellhole flint mines.

ReactOS shows off SMP support in open-source take on Windows

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IT OS need Versus Machine tool need

There are a number of machine tools in very advanced manufacturing (with a probable lifetime use of 40 plus years) which cost many thousands of time the cost of the Windows OS running the control systems. I have spent time buying up old but properly licenced Windows XO machines just to have spares to substitute when original XP machine dies.

React OS would solve this problem.

India takes Amazon’s biggest local e-tail alliance out of its shopping cart

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Re: Reindeer can’t eat carrots

Better to leave out a plate of magic mushrooms so they can fly!

(Origin of Flying Reindeer leaping about in the landscape)

How do you call support when the telephones go TITSUP*?

eionmac

Re: Beancounters not on the job

One paper filled locally, photocopy sent to HQ by post.To ensure records survive a local fire.

A tiny typo in an automated email to thousands of customers turns out to be a big problem for legal

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Re: Fix the problem - safely - then worry about legal / senior management

This is the mark of a GOOD leader!

A lightbulb moment comes too late to save a mainframe engineer's blushes

eionmac

Brilliant reply to comment. Brain freeze!

I'm diabetic. I'd rather risk my shared health data being stolen than a double amputation

eionmac

Re: We love it? A single list

Could you make a single list for benefit of others. State how to use it for those who do not know how to do it.

Teaching others is better than 'bragging rights'.

Updating in production, like a boss

eionmac

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We've all been there, I certainly have. The sense of trepidation as you're about to hit Execute is enough to want to be absolutely sure that you're happy with what you're about to inflict on the database.

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This is a gross understatement.

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