Posts by Natalie Gritpants Jr

If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free

Re: VHDL's still a verbose horror, then.

Ever tried to diff two versions of a schematic so you can review a bug fix by someone?

Ever tried to figure out why a schematic design has a bug by looking at a waveform diagram of a simulation where every net is called net000123?

Ever tried to do a state machine in a schematic?

UK government shakes magic money tree, finds $500m to buy a stake in struggling satellite firm OneWeb

Re: Just what we need

I have a Leyland Roadrunner horsebox for sale on eBay and Facebook if you're interested. 1990 model and it still starts first time. Cabs a bit rusty though.

Re: Hmm.

Too late for that now that so many people are using company VPNs to work from home. They could ban them and then pay for the resulting unemployment but I doubt that will happen.

Re: Hmm.

No reason why you shouldn't run a VPN over the link. I assume you already do that over your phone line broadband if you're concerned that GCHQ is listening.

The internet becomes trademarkable, sort of, with near-unanimous Supreme Court ruling on Booking.com

My decision to trademark furniture.boring was right all along. In your face Ikea!

It's National Cream Tea Day and this time we end the age-old debate once and for all: How do you eat yours?

Re: It doesn't matter..

I don't understand. "shone" rhymes with "stone" doesn't it?

Splunk to junk masters and slaves once a committee figures out replacements

Let's keep crazy and mad and bonkers and looney etc

and stop using them to describe people with mental health issues

Someone got so fed up with GE fridge DRM – yes, fridge DRM – they made a whole website on how to bypass it

Re: Next great idea

Yes, don't use an inkjet, get a laser printer. Been very happy with my Samsung printer/scanner/copier, but they've sold the business to HP so can't recommend either of them.

In Hancock's half-hour, Dido Harding offers hollow laughs: Cake distracts test-and-trace boss at UK COVID-19 briefing

Re: "......worst death toll in Europe"

Interesting to see how NZ balances the need to keep the virus out against the value of tourism to the economy. I don't mean to come over snarky, I genuinely am interested in what tactic they will take.

Frenchman scores €50k compensation for suffering 'bore-out' at work after bosses gave him 'menial' tasks

Re: Horrible flashbacks

I once wrote a sudoku solver in VHDL while waiting for a contract to end. Would be suitable for FPGA implementation and I was planning on putting it in a FPGA dev system with DVI in and out so it could solve any sudoku on the input and substitute the solution on the output in real time. Sadly, have been too busy for the last fifteen years to complete it.

Re: Sympathies to the employee but

I did say "my" laptop. And would have been using "my" mobile data dongle. Wouldn't trust a work network not to intercept my personal stuff.

Sympathies to the employee but

I would have been doing something profitable from my laptop if it had been me.

Sweet TCAS! We can make airliners go up-diddly-up whenever we want, say infosec researchers

Company sponsored blow-job after every casualty-free landing.

Lords: New IR35 off-payroll tax rules 'riddled with problems, unfairnesses, unintended consequences'

Re: unintended consequences

Actually the lead on a rope was dropped to the floor and then the sailor holding it would hold it vertically and walk along the ship. The time was taken at two points and so the speed of the ship calculated. Swinging the lead was a shortcut so the sailor didn't have to walk to the start point. This was bad as it is less accurate leading to navigation errors (potentially fatal if it means arriving at the end of the sea too soon)

House of Commons agrees to allow Zoom app in Parliament, British MPs will still have to dress smartly

Re: No opportunity for grabbing the Mace

Two swords? Surely you only need one sword length for safety between the two sides.

Hello, sub £-100 Moto: Lenovo punts 6.1-inch display e6S at low-cost crowd

Re: Yeah the Nokia 2.3 is better

India has a huge population, many are not poor.

Amazon launches itself into retail IT with 'all the necessary technologies'. Not saying which, but you know...

Pickpockets paradise

Seems like the cameras are monitoring the shelves to see who picks up and puts back what and then assumes they walk out and are happy to pay for it. All very well till some ne're-do-wells realize the cameras are not monitoring them pinching stuff from other peoples trolleys.

Almost as hopeless as letting you buy watermelons at the self-checkout and not figuring out that it's a case of vodka and not a watermelon you've just put on the scales.

Scottish biz raided, fined £500k for making 193 million automated calls

Re: The probe found the company made 1.6 million calls a day ...

Of course the telco knows, they also know they are getting paid for every call answered and are not held responsible.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now: Brexit tea towel says it'll just be the gigabit broadband

Re: Drying

Press the button with your elbow.

Talk about making a rod for your own back: Pot dealer's seized €54m Bitcoins up in smoke after keys thrown out with fishing gear

Small time criminal?

Add to that award winning bee keeper and bitcoin entrepreneur.

Going Dutch: The Bakker Elkhuizen UltraBoard 950 Wireless... because looks aren't everything

Re: "as your mum once told me"

Move the mouse to the left hand side. Take a bit of getting used to but it's much cheaper than a physio.

Instagram influencer fools followers into thinking Ikea photoshoot was Bali holiday

Re: Clearly a cover up

Doesn't really matter what the ASCII values are as long as they are in alphabetical order because he is subtracting one set from another. I'm assuming the illuminati were familiar with the english alphabet - oh wait..

Raw sunlight is going to cause our asteroid belt to spin itself to death by YORPing – but not for another six billion years

Re: Snowballs

So we don't need Bruce Willis?

Built to last: Time to dispose of the disposable, unrepairable brick

One reason to replace and old desktop is power consumption

A laptop can often be just as powerful, is portable if you need it to be and has a built in UPS. Unless you want terabytes of disk.

Contractors welcome Lords inquiry into IR35 before tax reforms hit private sector but fear it's 'too little, too late'

Not really (unless you are HMRC). My employer treats me really well - unlimited holidays etc. The company that contracts my employer treats my employer like shit though.

Re: Too little, too late

<me_too> I've been told I'm inside so I'm looking for a new contract ASAP. It will either cost me income if I don't find one or it will cost my client time to market as we're at a critical point in the run up to tape out.

Cache flow problems continue for Intel: Yet more data-leaking processor design blunders discovered, patches due soon

And how are they going to put more recent instructions in the older CPUs? Magic?

Good folk of Forfar: Alan Hattel would like you all to know he's not dead despite what it says on his tombstone

He need some new friends

if they get their social life updates by patrolling the graveyard.

Co-Op Insurance and IBM play blame game over collapse of £175m megaproject

Re: Good news for...

Indeed, trebles all round for those whose bonuses depended on the signing of contracts and not the delivery.

APEX predator? Chinese phone-flinger Vivo teases upcoming concept phone

Might be cheaper to have just one really good camera on the back together with a small low res screen on the back for selfies/facetime.

Hold my Bose, we can do premium: Sennheiser chucks pricey wireless cans at travellers

Re: Does the noise-cancelling work without a source?

Maybe play some music and turn the volume down to zero.

Re: oh no!

I have a LG-G5 phone with USB-C and it is bollocks, it is now so loose it falls out when it's on the car dashboard. It is very fiddly to get it in properly. Never had those problems with Micro-USB. Stick your finger on the cable end and you can feel which way round it is, then pop it in and it locks.

Email blackmail brouhaha tears UKIP apart as High Court refuses computer seizure attempt

The conclusion I draw is that this is where the Brexit party will be very soon, followed by Labour unless by some miracle they elect a moderate leader.

The IoT wars are over, maybe? Amazon, Apple, Google give up on smart-home domination dreams, agree to develop common standards

Hey geeks

Does anyone know of a good IoT over mains wiring system? I used to use X10 but they are difficult to source now and the most recent ones I bought are crap. They also don't control lights of less than 60W so no LEDs!

I have mains around the garden but as I'm in Somerset WiFi doesn't go more than three feet in normal weather and some of the buildings are stone.

Oi, Queenslander who downloaded 26.8TB in June alone – we see you

Re: Consumer hardware

I thought I was the bees knees when I had the biggest AIM65 in the lab. A whole 4kBytes of RAM! No floppy or tape, just type your program in every time. I suppose the 40 char thermal printer could count as storage.

Elon Musk gets thumbs up from jury for use of 'pedo guy' in cave diver defamation lawsuit

Can I now refer to his muskiness as a p***-guy because I find him creepy?

You looking for an AI project? You love Lego? Look no further than this Reg reader's machine-learning Lego sorter

They're sorted by purchase date silly.

Now let's see it bibbing itself.

Register Lecture: Can portable atomic clocks end UK dependence on GNSS?

Re: end UK dependance on GPS?

I'm guessing you stick one on each mobile phone mast and then you can get position anywhere that you can get a mobile signal from three masts - oh,wait...

Christmas in tatters for Nottinghamshire tots after mayor tells them Santa's too busy

Re: So much for commentard being enlightened here...

More likely they assumed a crusher of young dreams wouldn't be female.

Talking a Blue Streak: The ambitious, quiet waste of the Spadeadam Rocket Establishment

How do you pronounce spadeadm?

is it spaddy adam, spade adam or spad eya dam?

Bose customers beg for firmware ceasefire after headphones fall victim to another crap update

Re: Noise cancelling

I use my Sennheisers while using power tools. They don't block out everything but good for reducing the noise of a chainsaw.

Why would you update the firmware on headphone?

If they work when you buy them keep them. It's not like they have a webserver in them that needs security fixes. Or is it???

I'm still not that Gary, says US email mixup bloke who hasn't even seen Dartford Crossing

Re: Can I get you to do Morrisons as well?

Download the Morrisons app, log in and order 100 pairs of pants.

Boffins hand in their homework on Voyager 2's first readings from beyond Solar System

Re: Obligatory PTerry reference

I'm thinking of a bear with floppy ears and a waggy tail.

A stranger's TV went on spending spree with my Amazon account – and web giant did nothing about it for months

Re: All those precautions and 'they' left out the most obvious one

Surely that's not an extreme measure?

Running on Intel? If you want security, disable hyper-threading, says Linux kernel maintainer

How many organisations that run data centres just take the distro defaults?

What simultaneously sucks and doesn't? This new robot vacuum cleaner

How many of these is it?

Linky revisited: How the evil French smart meter escaped Hell to taunt me

Potentially they could turn your electricity off. That could take out your alarm and will almost certainly disable your fancy remote front door camera.