Posts by SuperGeek

'Tis the season to be wobbly: HSBC online and mobile banking services suffer not one but two major outages in 12 hours

99.999% SLA

Why can't everyday users get it in their heads there's no such thing as 100% uptime? As soon as it goes down for 10 seconds there's mass whingeing on Twatter.

Brother, can you spare a dime: Flickr owner sends mass-email begging for subscriptions

Photos, Safe? Really?

Really? Is this when you click an image, it shows you the sizes, along with "The owner of this photo has restricted downloading".

Haha. It doesn't work. All you have to do is go to Tools, Page Info, then Media, in Firefox, the image is there for you to save. It's well known on the web, I was one of the ones who called them out on it. Flickr don't keep ANYTHING safe. I deleted most of my content after I found it elsewhere.

Got to be linked to the Free account fiasco recently...

Does this have anything to do with the recent free account mass deletion? Serves you right, Fuckr. People, including me have left in droves. Thousands haven't gone Pro, that's a load of crap. I run my own servers, there's no way I'm paying a third party for overpriced subscriptions when I can run scripts myself. I don't trust other companies with my data. I have my own Spotify, YouTube, and Flickr clone sites, the script costs paid for themselves, and I control the data.

Five years in the clink for super-crook who scammed Google, Facebook out of $120m with fake tech invoices

Re: Just by coincidence ...

"Goooooddd evening sir, this is George Agdgdgwngo, I'm calling from your baahhnnkk! There's been a slight erroohh, and your monies is not safe. Therefahh, I need your bank account numbah, and your sort coode, so I can transfer the monies to a safe account!"

Kudos to anyone who remembers who George Agdgwngo is and gets the reference! Does Internet Service Providings ring a bell? Those in the UK will get it :)

It's not just the US where people use bad speech. Would Of, Could Of is common everywhere. It's kids typing how they speak. Like when they say, "I done it".

Annoying, but leopards don't change spots. I blame the parents.

Attention! Very important science: Tapping a can of fizzy beer does... absolutely nothing

"Researchers"?

Some people have too much spare time.....

Xbox Series X: Gee thanks, Microsoft! Just what we wanted for Xmas 2020 – a Gateway tower PC

Start a MOO-vement and develop cow skins for it just in time for release, it'd be bovine intervention :)

Microsoft enables phone calls from your Windows PC (as long as it's paired with an Android)

Brings new meaning to "talking out of your arse", and being the "butt" of "phoney" jokes. OK, I'll stop now :)

High-resolution display output or Wi-Fi: It seems you can only choose one on Raspberry Pi 4

Not just the Pi 4

My original Surface Pro will not let me have WiFi and Bluetooth on at the same time, WiFi goes unusable and drops.

They are both controlled by the same chip...

US and UK Amazon workers get a wage hike – maybe they'll go to the movies, by themselves

Re: How to pay for $15/hour?

I can confirm the RSU's are being replaced in favour of pay rise. I work at the new robotic MAN3 site in Bolton :)

Fixing a printer ended with a dozen fire engines in the car park

Re: Had the fire brigade called to a five star hotel, in Malta....

"These things were catering grade microwaves, somewhere in the region of 3000W or so."

Most domestic microwaves are up to 4kW anyway on full power, even the cheapo £30 ones from ASDA. I know, I repair them! They have been for years.