TITSUPp
(Total Inability To Supply Usual Potato products)
… sorry… mine’s the one with the cheese and onion-smelling grease stains around the pockets…
Posts by AlexGreyhead
36 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2017
Hey, Walkers. What's the difference between crisps and chips? Answer: You can't get either of them
University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it absolutely backfired
From Maidenhead to Morocco: In a change to the scheduled programming, we bring you The On Call of Dreams
Partial beer print horror as Microsoft's printer bug fix, er, doesn't
Data centres are warm and designed to move air very efficiently. Are they safe to visit during the pandemic?
Phisher folk reel in Computacenter security vetting mailbox packed with sensitive staff data
BT Tower broadcasts error message to the nation as Windows displays admin's shame
Hands up who reuses the same password everywhere, even with your Nest. Keep your hand up if you like being spied on by hackers
Struggling with GDPR compliance? Don't waste money on legal advice: Buy a shredder
Lush scrubs its card-processing servers squeaky clean
Huawei Mate 20 series: China's best phone, but a pricey proposition
Tuesday 16th October 2018 21:57 GMT 
Oh go on, then...
Having switched from being a die-hard enjoyer of the fruity Jesusmobe since the 3GS, I've spent the last year variously loving and hating an S8, the primary pain point being the inconsistent abilities of the face scanner to work if the lighting conditions aren't "just so", so the improved face scanner and in-screen fingerprint reader of the Huawei have set my heart somewhat aflutter.
Mrs Greyhead's going to kill me when she sees how much damage the Pro is going to do to my credit card, though...
On the seventh anniversary of Steve Jobs' death, we give you 7 times he served humanity and acted as an example to others
Brit mobe operator O2 asks cut-off customers: Have you tried turning it on and off again?
Official: Google Chrome 69 kills off the World Wide Web (in URLs)
Brit teen pleads guilty to Minecraft-linked bomb and airline hoaxes
TSB goes TITSUP: Total Inability To Surprise Users, Probably
Roskosmos admits that Soyuz 'meteorite' hole had more earthly origins
No, eight characters, some capital letters and numbers is not a good password policy
Wipro hands $75m to National Grid US after botched SAP upgrade
Tuesday 7th August 2018 09:23 GMT
Something I'm hoping the more-experienced Reg commenters could explain; why, if the estimated cost to the National Grid was ~$1bn, and was confirmed to be at the very least ~$300m, did they accept a settlement of $75m?
(Genuinely interested as I don't understand why they would accept such a low amount).
'Can you just pop in to the office and hit the power button?' 'Not really... the G8 is on'
ZX Spectrum reboot latest: Some Vega+s arrive, Sky pulls plug, Clive drops ball
HTC U12+: You said we should wait and review the retail product. Hate to break it to you, but...
Patch Drupal now: Yet another critical website bug found – a sequel to 'Drupalgeddon2'
Thursday 26th April 2018 11:34 GMT
Re: Why I stopped supporting Drupal.
"Come for the software, stay for the ... people"?
But seriously, that argument's a bit on the silly side isn't it? That's like swearing-off Windoze because it powers the computer systems of Evil Corp.
(Full disclosure: I earn a crust as a Drupal developer and have seen some awful examples of sites built with it, but I've also seen awful Wordpress sites, awful Joomla sites, and awful home-grown sites).
/Al - beer, because Drupal has driven me to drink.
From tomorrow, Google Chrome will block crud ads. Here's how it'll work
Thursday 15th February 2018 13:34 GMT
Re: Not half-way good enough.
I've read El Reg since at least 2001.
I've probably learnt at least as much through El Reg's hacks as I did for my Computer Science BSc (Hons) - although that may equally be a sign of my lack of scholarly attention as it is the Reg hacks' knowledge and writing ability.
In any case, I would gladly pay a reasonable subscription to get access to The Register's content.
I suspect most long-term readers would, too - most of us are IT professionals in some guise or other and this site is a good source of relatively unbiased content.
Paris for no other reason than they managed to shoe-horn her into this week's episode of Grand Tour (yes, I hate myself for watching it, too, but it makes I laugh...).
/Al
Wait, what? The Linux Kernel Mailing List archives lived on ONE PC? One BROKEN PC?
Wondering why your internal .dev web app has stopped working?
Pokémon GO caused hundreds of deaths, increased crashes
The Reg parts ways with imagineer and thought pathfinder Steve Bong
Brace yourselves, fanboys. Winter is coming. And the iPhone X can't handle the cold
Saturday 11th November 2017 23:53 GMT
Pedantry...
"... as the autumn weather turns to winter for much of the world and temperatures drop."
<pedantry>Shurely that ought to be roughly 50% of the world, not taking into account equatorial regions and... Never mind, I'll get my coat...</pedantry>
Edit: Oh cock, I've just seen that this point has been raised much more-eloquently above by several people. Ignore this nonsense from me. Move along, etc. Sorry...
Samsung shows off Linux desktops on Galaxy smartmobes
UK.gov: Use police body cams to grill suspects at scene of crime
Apple's 'shoddy' Beats headphones get slammed in lawsuit
Is it possible to control Amazon Alexa, Google Now using inaudible commands? Absolutely
Profits plunge 40% as BT coughs up £225m to avoid court battle
The AA's copped to credit data blurt, but what about car-crash incident response?
Monday 10th July 2017 15:13 GMT
So does this mean I'll be needing to phone one of the first three emergency services to report that my credit card's being used courtesy of the fourth emergency service leaking my details?
Oh well, at least if evil scammers have stolen all the money off my credit card, Mrs Greyhead won't be able to spend it all...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
