Posts by CustomCruiser

Ubuntu turns 20: 'Oracular Oriole' shows this old bird's still got plenty of flight

Re: "the formidably hard-to-install Debian"

"At the time, it was both clever and funny, at least to the folks who had already been running Linux for a decade or so."

Was it clever and funny, or was it elitist sneering? It's occasionally been difficult to tell with the hardcore Linux community ;-)

NASA, Boeing opt to fly leaky thruster as-is for first crewed Starliner CST-100 mission

Hopefully the astronauts can get this crate up and down without providing Ron Howard material for a new film...

Boeing abandons plans for crewed Starliner flight in 2023

It's a lemon

Won't take many more issues before it starts making Block 1 Apollo look good...and that killed three astronauts.

Removing an obsolete AMD fix makes Linux kernel 6 quicker

Welp

Better late than never, I guess.

Protip: If Joe Public reports that your kit is broken, maybe check that it is actually broken

"Either that, or they fib and say "of course I have, I'm not stupid"."

Been there too many times to count...and yet if I was to plant an axe in their gormless faces after rocking up and power-cycling the kit in question I'd go to jail. How is that justice?

Want your broadband fixed? Best write to your MP, UK's Zen Internet tells customer

Re: We may never know

Had similar happen the other month at my parents' house - their line was aged and mostly knackered, Openreach wombles were clambering up the telegraph pole to fix someone else's line, broke theirs when the pole swayed a bit. To their credit, they did at least re-string a line there and then rather than wait for one of us to go through the pain of ringing TT to get Openreach back out (been there before*), and the physical connection at the house is much tidier now.

* - best one was years ago. Openreach needed to work on base of telegraph pole. Gets crew to come dig the pavement up. Digging crew cuts through cable at base of pole taking out everyone's phone and broadband. They phone Openreach who postpone job a day to change scope. Digging crew then fills the hole in (!). Openreach eventually come out - the hole is filled in, can't do anything. Have to wait several days for new digging crew to come out, dig up filled in pavement. These days it would have been no problem, just use mobile data on phones. Back then it was a complete PITA.

TalkTalk starts offering punters choice to shift-shift to O2

Re: The question is ...

TalkTalk did supply phones on contract, they weren't locked to any network. So no issues moving to a different SIM.