* Posts by oldgreyguy

9 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2018

Moscow makes a mess on the Moon as Luna 25 probe misses orbit, lands with a thud

oldgreyguy

few minor parts, gasket, switch, modulator ?

flux capacitors were sold to an unknown movie supply house

As liquid cooling takes off in the datacenter, fortune favors the brave

oldgreyguy

It would be hard to keep the oil out of the floppy drive

Another Windows 10 patch that breaks printers ups ante to full-on Blue Screen of Death

oldgreyguy
FAIL

But, But, We don't understand

We don't make printers, how can it be our issue?

Having bank problems? I feel bad for you son: I've got 25 million problems, but a bulk upload ain't one

oldgreyguy

Re: 10 minutes, not a second more...

ahh yes, I have a huge screwdriver with a bit of foreign metal fused forever on its tip.

in the 60's, living in the south (north carolina), my wife and I scraped and saved up to buy a window air conditioning unit.

The day arrived... we went to Sears, laid down our hard earned cash, rushed back to the apartment. After getting the unit secured in the window frame, looked down and saw that the wall outlet was different. I went down to the basement, unscrewed the fuse for that circuit, went to the hardware store and returned with the proper outlet. down on my hands and knees, removed the cover plate, popped the first wire off, went for the second one... Blinding flash, very loud pop... I am now sitting on my ass two feet away, with my rather large screwdriver welded to the socket.

Wife comes in and asks "Did you turn the power off just now?"

Moral: take little round fuse with you, til you are ready.

yep, still use the screwdriver, could clean up the spot weld I suppose, but it is a reminder of "bad things happen"

Correction: Last month, we called Zuckerberg a moron. We apologize. In fact, he and Facebook are a fscking disgrace

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and yet, with all the bruhaha, strutting around, The Register still has links to four of the big slurppers........... click if you must, be a member, join in the community...aaaaaaaaaaaaargh

Oxford University reportedly turns off its Huawei money tap

oldgreyguy

You know.....

growing up in the mainly southern parts of the US... learning to never trust politicians, bible thumpers, so on and so on... Huawei must be the original pig with lipstick... I apologize if I offend any one... but for a company that big, in China, with all its goodness.... aw hell no matter what all the libs say... a pig is still a pig.... just like in my country... you don't get big by smooching, you gotta be sucking someones (in this case CHINA) tallywhacker. They are surely doing the devils work.. we should all beware

My hoard of obsolete hardware might be useful… one day

oldgreyguy

I will thow in:

Two Nakamichi SCSI 7 CD external drives

One Seagate full height SCSI external drive with cable and Adaptec 1540 adapter

and a Teac (i think) dual 3.5/5.25 floppy drive... with cables

Comcast's mega-outage 'solution'... Have you tried turning your router off and on again?

oldgreyguy

Duh!!!

"A number of complaints scold Comcast for lost revenue while others criticize the company for poor support."

I realize that quite a few customers did not choose Comcast because of buyouts, mergers, but the vast majority DID choose Comcast for their business communications needs...................... Comcast = Support... not in this lifetime

Was there no due diligence prior to the decision. Or was support not key to that decision making process? What a bunch of Maroons..... nyuck, nyuck

FBI to World+Dog: Please, try turning it off and turning it back on

oldgreyguy

why should I?

I am already secure... I have a Microsoft operating system, a Netgear modem, and Spectrum as my ISP

What me worry??