Re: Do you remember when...
That will be the one in Kelvedon Hatch.
It has an interesting, if slightly odd, collection of old IT kit in it with shop dummies sat at most of the desks.
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London’s BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool
Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client
Friday 8th May 2026 10:30 GMT 
Re: "and a ping to home worked... but nothing outside the box itself was reachable."
Not to mention that if "Gerald" has built and configured it he should know if it using a static IP or DHCP.
If DHCP a quick check should tell him if it is getting an IP address and try pinging the gateway/router or even the DHCP server.
If static, he should now at least one IP address he can try pinging over the network.
I'm not sure how pinging localhost (if that is indeed what was meant by "home") is going to do anything useful.
Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
Friday 8th May 2026 09:32 GMT
Re: Memo to Glorious Leaders: Censorship makes you unpopular.
"Teaching people to step around inconvenient laws is a really stupid thing to do."
That is what lawyers and accountants are for.... They certainly seem to make a lot of money, especially for corporate clients, doing exactly that - stepping around "inconvenient" laws (especially tax laws).
We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to
Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans'
Survey says no, American workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI
Future holiday horror: ‘A robot lost my luggage in Tokyo’
BOFH: Arrr, I smell piracy ... and it's comin' from a machine with executive privileges
If malware via monitor cables is a matter of national security, this might be the gadget for you
Met police trials snoop tech platform in push to cuff more London shoplifters
Wednesday 22nd April 2026 08:40 GMT
Re: More high tech is not what is needed
And how does that count as "consequences"?
They are, by definition as "shoplifters", not going in to "shop" but to commit theft.
And who exactly is going to "toss them out"?
The police? On what grounds as until they've stolen something no crime has technically been committed. So on what grounds will the police even turn up?
The shop staff? Who are often told not to try and stop the miscreants, and if they do risk being fired:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy41k2m3k22o
Would you like fries with that terminal?
Capita won disastrous UK pensions gig after acing performance checks
Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching
Ancient Excel bug comes out of retirement for active attacks
Wednesday 15th April 2026 12:18 GMT
Re: How is this Working these Days?
Sadly these days it is not a choice between "patch and be secure, don't patch and don't be secure".
It is a choice between, "which is going to fuck our systems up the most - not patching and be vulnerable, or patch and have systems crippled by Microsoft's utterly shite code?"
Microsoft's Copilot strategy is just more user abuse from Redmond, says Mozilla
Britain seeks views before it drops the hammer on signal jammers
Sunday 12th April 2026 07:53 GMT
Re: I want one
Here's the quandry.
There are situations where there are arguments for legitimate LEGAL use of signal jammers. For example:
- Critical areas of hospitals where they could affect medical equipment.
- Prisons where inmates should not have mobile phones, yet they appear to be awash with them. Jamming them throughout prisons would kill that immediately.
Fewer than 3 in 10 register for HMRC's Making Tax Digital shake-up
Showing the Windows 10 desktop was the yeast they could do
The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom
Gmail celebrates 22 years by finally letting users change their addresses
Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work
Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right
Enterprise PCs are unreliable, unpatched, and unloved compared to Macs
Wednesday 25th March 2026 15:56 GMT
Re: Stating the bleeding obvious.
Not to mention software which hasn't been updated for ages so isn't fully compatible with the latest Microshite Windows junk.
The problem not so much being the old software as the £3/4M diagnostic equipment which it controls and which can only be driven by that software.
Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who coined the term ‘metaverse’
Tuesday 24th March 2026 16:46 GMT
Re: "staring at little rectangles in their hands"
"I quite strongly believe (hope?) that the main characteristic needed to run a nuclear power station isn't computing power, but reliability. And determinism, of course."
I have just the book for you:
https://shop.nuclearinst.com/products/how-to-drive-a-nuclear-reactor
One man and a dog could run a modern PWR (pressurised water reactor) nuclear reactor - the man is there to feed the dog and the dog is there to bite the man if he touches any of the controls.
:)
Your next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots
Friday 20th March 2026 09:05 GMT
Re: My next car, should I need one
When I was a Scout, way back in the erm, erm late Cambrian Period, I knew a Scout leader who swore by Land Rovers.
The old Series 1, 2 and occasioanlly 3.
He said he didn't trust a car he couldn't fix with some spanners, a blow torch and a lump hammer.
Very modern cars you can't even fix a failed light without a rack of diagnostic equipment (and lots of £££££).
Time to end the 'uncontrolled experiment' of social media on kids, scientists say
Microsoft 365 pauses Copilot creep after admins cry foul
Wednesday 18th March 2026 18:01 GMT
It is like so many other "features" which have been forced out onto users enabled....
Such as "Focussed Inbox" (effing hate that shite).
And why, oh why, do Microsoft keep turning back on all the bloody shite on the lock screen????
If don't give a flying fuck about any of that shit and do NOT want it on my lock screen. STOP TURNING IT BACK YOU MORONS!