Posts by The Oncoming Scorn

Bootleg Windows, Office scheme crashes, triggers 22-month lockup for Florida woman

"What I Wrote"

Good Morning Campers.

Heidi Hi, Heidi Gaol.

Why cant it do both?

Re: Providence? That’s in Rhode Island.

Little Red Autocorrect

Log the receipt of the COA's & authorise the issue of the credit (by Microsoft) I would think.

Re: People will buy Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity stickers?

Research Machines - Temp Agency Assemblers would plaster their toolboxes with damaged COA labels as decoration, until someone in manglement caught one of them doing this, an order went out unpeel all labels & transfer to a sheet of A4 paper, so they could be returned for credit to the tune of about £3K.

Then there was the TAA, that conspired to get a replacement HDD (Still wrapped in a sealed anti static bag) off the shop floor & dropped into a lavatory cistern for later retrieval. Unfortunately he wedged the cistern float & the cistern overflowed. The HDD was discovered, traced to who had booked it out & confirmed he had headed straight for the Gents after taking it, when the CCTV footage examined. He rapidly became a ex-TAA as he was fired, left without transport back to Scotland where he had been brought in from & his B&B accommodation no longer paid for.

Lenovo shows off snap-together laptop with removable keyboard, screen, and ports

Re: Sort of impressed

Icon - Thank you I was thinking it reminded me of something, but couldn't place it.

Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction

Re: Was hoping the server ran solaris.

Well if comes to taking out a Solaris system, then the regonimiser should by default be Rodney (McKay) as he blew up 5/6ths of a star system.

Icon - Pet peeve I do so hate labelling any other planetary system as a solar system, our planetary system is the only one officially called “solar system".

Big power supply with lots of Caps to store a charge for a echo sounding boom being towed by a trawler up & down Gare Loch performing a survey for Faslane who wanted to put degaussing coils into the Loch for subs to travel through.

Survey over one of the team goes to hit the main shutoff\isolator for the power supply with a wooden boat hook, the boats owner commented.

"Och aye, Wassa matter wi' him, is the fella scared to turn it off by himself!"

"Damn right he is, there's enough stored charge in that thing to kill him, if it arcs over!"

"Ohhhh!"

Icon - Details may be a bit vague as it was 37 years ago, I was watching the boat go up n down the Loch from a hotel bar at Gareloch head most of that week.

One of my first IT jobs as a contractor was at Norwich Union, primarily there to sort surplus IT equipment out & backfill.

First day on the job, twice within 30 minutes a whole line of PC's (They may have been dumb terminals) went down.

The root cause was daisy chained power bars & one ladies foot that liked to tangle up the power cable & pull it from the wall, how she managed this twice on that day of all days, but never before remains a mystery to me.

Repositioning the power strips resolved the issue.

Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough

Re: Hi There!!!

Least that would be something resembling meat.

Icon: Getting my coat before the vegetarians\vegans complain.

Re: Hi There This Is Eddie Your Shipboard Computer!!!

Patty: If you have enjoyed the experience of this meal, why not share it with your friends?

Me: Because I want to keep them!

Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'

Re: It has to live with Kent

I lived (Commuted to) in Kent.

I don't half miss The Lads Of The Village pub.

We now return you back to the main thread...

Jason Ironheart "I look at you, Commander, and I see not a man, but a galaxy of subatomic particles, which I can pull apart, and rearrange with a casual thought".

At The Bottom Of A Very Deep Dark Hole

I ache therefore I am, or in my case, I am therefore I ache.

Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell

Re: Old Nokia phones

"the Welsh was simple and uncluttered. Not so much these days."

Given the Welsh Language, the developers probably gave up or ran out of available memory.

Icon - In memory of North Wales pubs that would go silent when you walked in & started talking in Welsh (Also Fred's Bar Toronto, for having the worst bar staff outside of North Wales) .

NASA points fingers at Boeing and chaotic culture for Starliner debacle

Re: Never Never

"he knows more about aerodynamics and space travel than any President ever, more than Lincoln, more than Washington"

That's a low bar as to be fair it is actually true.

Icon - I need one or several of these to get over "endorsing" the Primate Of The United States.

Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos

Re: Basic Rule.

Being escorted:

A school for the uneducationable kids in Taunton & being locked in a class for my own safety, while I worked.

A girls secure unit outside Taunton, as myself & a colleague arrived & just getting out, a jam sandwich screamed to a halt inches behind us & plod rushed in to the building like they were hunting donuts as two of the inmates were apparently intent on killing each other.

Police custody areas & watching a scene on CCTV where a killer refused to come out of his cell, after being arrested for a road rage incident Saturday night (Plymouth) & expecting things to "kick off" in getting him out of his cell.

The local prison in Southern Alberta:

Escorted by a female civilian worker, doing one deployment a couple of the female prisoners stuck their heads into the "hobby room" I was working in & promptly told to go on your way, I asked if they were "sniffing" around me as a new face (& English accent, which does open some things other than doors).

"Don't flatter yourself" she said, "they were more likely interested in me, they go like that in here after a while".

Same day as that, deploying in the main office, where a couple of female trustee's were emptying bins, the fabric covered office cubicles had exceptionally high walls about 10', the trustee's obviously talking "for my benefit" on the other side of them, along the lines of "caged heat" & that they had a friend on the outside able to enjoy that sort of male attention, only for the other to add that one is waiting for a wedding ring before she enjoys any of those attentions.

Deploying in the greenhouse central control room, a prisoner was being given "weekend leave" that meant he had to return on Christmas Day, while he "discussed" the options\repercussions of if he didn't return on that day & how much of a "blind eye" would be applied. After he left, they started discussing the likely hood of him not reporting back on the 25th.

Icon - Rather appropriate given the last paragraph.

I had a few nights in Cardiff last year (Gary Numan & Christmas Carol goes wrong) without seeing anything like that.

Icon - Bonnie Rogues is a great pub though.

Re: Hazing = abuse

I'd heard while at Swindon College of a 16 year old held down for the ritual black balling (Which nearly happened to me once) & some moron decided to take it further by inserting a airline into his anus & shredding his bowels.

OpenClaw is the most fun I've had with a computer in 50 years

Re: Such excitement, so much fun, unlimited potential...

including running her own backups into the cloud

Scientists show it's possible to solve problems in your dreams by playing the right sounds

Earn Big Money While You Sleep

Bottom of page - https://greatnewsforallreaders.substack.com/p/starlord-cover-date-26-august-1978

$8K laundry bot knows when to hold ’em, knows when to fold ’em, and knows it has help standing by

Re: Prior art - not that any robotics/AI vendor will acknowledge it..

You neglected the scrubbing of Listers Gussets...

Re: "I for one find it a quite relaxing way to spend the final minutes of a long day…"

Only ever buy socks identical to those you have so I am never down more than one matched pair - Can confirm that's also my MO.

Those mismatched pairs & worn socks (Along with underwear)..... I wear\pack those on trips & dispose of in the hotel bin after use.

Creates a little space for bringing different things back in Carry On.

Re: Fitted bedsheets

Fitted sheets & quilt covers etc I do one wash* for those & refit the same day.

*Several times per year at least, I don't keep track.

Re: What is ‘folding laundry?’

Ironing - I use a travel steamer at home or on trips (For North America....well Canada, it also doubles up as a handy kettle) when I need\want to iron a shirt, its just so much easier & I get better results.

"But worst of all, the most bitter pill to swallow, for four long years, I had to hand-scrub the gussets of your longjohns."

ʎɹǝʌoɔǝᴚ sʍopuᴉM ʇɐ sǝʇɐuᴉɯɹǝʇ snq sᴉɥ┴

Was that the tragic school bus?

How Microsoft's legal eagles wrangled Happy Days for Windows 95

Re: Those were the days

I liked that song so much I bought all her albums - Which explains why you can't find them in record stores.

How much do you pay for warehousing?

Reviving a CIDCO MailStation – the last Z80 computer

I had a pretty Palm IIIxe, pushed aside when I found a IIIc in a Staples in Cornwall six months later at a stupid clearance price, moved onto a Tungsten T, then dove into Tapwave Zodiacs when their units were being cleared out cheap after Tapwave went bust.

Microsoft dials up the nagging in Windows, calls it security

Re: intended to deal with suspect behavior behind the scenes...

This must be a patch Tuesday... I never could get the hang of patch Tuesdays.

Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files

Re: Windows' Search

Somebody borked Search sometime after XP.

Icon - Win 8 I'm looking at you.

Microsoft engineer speedruns Raspberry Pi magic smoke in five minutes

Re: Keying...

So you're a waffle man.....

SpaceX halts Falcon 9 flights after second stage anomaly

The chances of anything coming from Mars, are a million to one.

Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server

Re: Lucky to still have his finger

Not just firemen, evacuation drills on oil rigs where there's no light.

Icon - My simulation was wearing full BA & a dark smoke filled room, smoke was so dense you could barely see the fire.

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

Re: Makes you wonder ...

Look out!! CLIFF!!!

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. Whew! That was close!

Re: Teenage boys will be salivating...

It wasn't Vauxhall Alberta was it?

Musk distracts from struggling car biz with fantastical promise to make 1 million humanoid robots a year

Re: Optimus, as described by Tesla...

Or for watching Melania.

Re: Haven't there been a load of movies...where this doesn't end well?

& songs

On the eighth day, machine just got upset

A problem Elon had never seen as yet

Re: Elon's got no clothes on...

You'd think the Disencharment would have kicked in fairly quickly after that sight.

Re: When is Elmo going to start selling his sperm

Does that make them Tesla's girls?

Re: Cool

Is that the friend you left in the hallway?

Icon - Getting my long coat, grey hat etc......

In-house techies fixed faults before outsourced help even noticed they'd happened

Re: Give me an engineer every time.

This is why I prefer "Independents".

Gutted the local engineer who loved Chevy Avalanches & knew them inside out decided to retire.

My local replacement repair shop is actually called "Tom & Gerrys" & despite the name are not a Mickey Mouse ouffit.

Renaults!

Have you met Boring Barry the Renault service tech at the local main dealer?

Every Sunday lunchtime, smashed out of his skull down in the pub (Where else), telling us again his two or three stories, invariably before he lost bladder control:

Triggering the airbag with a bulb & two test leads (ONCE), instead of using the correct (Non available) tool.

Training course, querying the placement of the oil filler cap & being told "You* are the last person we think of".

Erased from memory.

*The service tech.

Icon - He wore really thick lensed glasses.

BOFH: Eight pints of a lager and a management breakthrough

Apparently I'm Cheap.....

"And the latest price check on staff loyalty is a meat lovers pizza...:

Re: Verschlimmbessern

We quietly don't invite them along with cats.

JOZXYQK: "It's the sound you make when you get your sexual organs trapped in something."Cat ("Bodyswap")

Re: I assumed…

It's already been done in The Caves of Androzani, art imitates life.

Icon - When stepping into a lift when the doors open, its a good idea to check the lift is actually....Ohh this is a BOFH thread.

Re: Ah yes, 6-Sigma.

I game to try one., it can't be worse than the strawberry mini-donut that Flair airline offered up yesterday.

Re: Ah yes, 6-Sigma.

Topic...?

Do they still make those?

Icon - Old

Challenger at 40: The disaster that changed NASA

Re: It's All Down To The Romans or What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us?

Where do you think I got it from?

Also Snopes rating indicates that the claim has significant elements of both truth and falsity to it such that it could not fairly be described by any other rating.

Yes, you can build an AI agent – here's how, using LangFlow

We Are Clean

Don't ask, I'm a AI Agent!

Apologies to Gary Numan.

Icon - Getting my long coat, grey hat, but I'm not smoking a cigarette.