Posts by ICL1900-G3

Tesla Cybertruck recall #8: Exterior trim peels itself off, again

Re: Tesla has issued its eighth Cybertruck recall

Er.. I live in Cornwall and drive a Mercedes and live down a narrow lane with Cornish hedges (not made of bushes, for the uninitiated)... seem to manage ok, but hey ho, YMMV.

Dell discloses monster 20-petaFLOPS desktop built on Nvidia's GB300 Superchip

Re: Desktop?

Cello tape... Stradivarius?

Pirate Bay financier and far-right activist Carl Lundström dies in plane crash

And fairly quick, too. I did my 'complex aircraft ' conversion in one

GNU Compiler Collection 15 ushers Xeon Phi and Solaris 11.3 to silicon heaven

Re: "Our apologies if we mangled it."

I didn't start until I was 11, no thrashing involved. Having a life-long interest in languages, I found Latin a wonderful introduction. I could never understand why Esperanto came about when Latin had fulfilled that role for nearly two thousand years. /Boring old fart mode off.

AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that

Eggheads

Using only El Reg approved units, describe the key differences between an egghead and a boffin.

Fresh Wine-flavored version of Mono released

Re: This is another WTF happened story ?

The Jimmy Page?

Junior techie rushed off for fun weekend after making a terminal mistake that crashed a client

Re: Kept his job?!

And no, things are not better now.

Microsoft Exchange Admin Center takes extended siesta in the EU

Why?

Why do people get themselves into these situations? Is it not obviously a bad idea?

Nope. You probably can't cash in by turning your office or farm into a datacenter

Saskatchewan

Gosh! Having grown up on 100 acres in the south of England, that makes it seem extremely insignificant. And, yes, we did have a 1950s Ferguson..a TE20. It would run all week on a very small tankful.

One stupid keystroke exposed sysadmin to inappropriate information he could not unsee

Re: Confidential.....

Upvoted for nostalgia.

Re: Fiver

Hear 'tree' quite frequently from air traffic control, from private pilots, not so much. I confess I hardly ever use it, but fife and niner, always.

30-year-old NHS supply chain system hit by 35 major alerts in 11 months

Re: What is Rhesus?

Don't knock the AS/400! It was pretty good in its day.

Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect

If you've got nothing...

...to hide, you've got nothing to fear...and blah, blah, blah.

IBM Consulting workers told management wants to 'more closely align pay, performance'

Re: Manager must Manage

And the reason, apart from a couple of periods of bleakness, why I chose to be an independent contractor.

Are you cooler than ex-Apple design guru Sir Jony Ive?

Jesus

My mum would have chosen a livelier bunch than that...and she's dead. Bananarama! Fuck me!

Ad-supported Microsoft Office bobs to the surface

If you need it at all

And I maintain, Libre Office is all most people need, but if you really need this crap, Pi Hole is your friend. I don't know if it would kill Microsoft ads out of the box, but certainly could be configured thus.

Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list

Re: Goodbye Windows 11

Or even Debian itself. Been using it for years, never fails.

Microsoft's Euro-mandated File Explorer surgery shows 'less is more' is still a thing

Fewer! Before someone else points it out.

Hey programmers – is AI making us dumber?

Re: Ia AI making us dumber?

Sadly not fabulous in the UK either. The curiosity no longer seems to be there.

Me too... and it was, for the most part, fun. Remember sticking chads back in to correct a mis-punched card? The original cut and paste, I guess.

HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls

Music scores

Upvoted because... that's just brilliant!

Backup

DIY backup without using the cloud is actually a possibility. Just saying.

Microsoft declutters Windows 11 File Explorer in the name of Euro privacy

Sunlit uplands

I see one downvoter who still believes in the sunlit uplands that were promised. Quite sweet, really.

There's a slight chance Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Moon in 2032

Re: Soup Dragons Beware

How weird, down voting the denigration of Betfred and it's ilk.

Time to make C the COBOL of this century

Good luck...

...as they say, with that.

Ignorance really is bliss when you’re drowning in information

Agreed. It's all too ghastly and I'm too old to do anything about it. Just cancelled my subscription to the Economist which I've had since 1965. I can live without knowing what the orange imbecile and his lickspittles are up to. Damn them all for ruining everything.

Avaya hangs up on users with fewer than 200 SaaSy contact center seats

Seamless customer journey?

Jesus wept!

Techie pointed out meetings are pointless, and was punished for it

Possibly unwise

was when I answered my boss honestly. He had asked me if I respected him. Oddly, I left not long after and I think we were both happier as a result.

UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order

Re: Human Right

I seem to remember they were pretty keen on this sort of thing last time they were in power.

Re: Human Right

Once a year? How did you know that? Who told you? Was it my wife?

Russia's Sandworm caught snarfing credentials, data from American and Brit orgs

Presumably, now that Trump and Putin are best mates, this will become just another business opportunity?

LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab

All you need

It really is all the office suite most people need, and it's free. It demonstrates the power of Microsoft's marketing machine coupled with fud and inertia.

AI summaries turn real news into nonsense, BBC finds

@ac

No.

I'm a security expert, and I almost fell for a North Korea-style deepfake job applicant …Twice

Re: I won't be able to decide if the person I'm talking with is a real person or not

As I approach my final taxi, I wonder more and more about whether I'm real or not. It helps adjusting to the next stage, I suppose.

Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US

It doesn't even qualify...

...to be childish, it's not good enough for that.

Amazon, Google asked to explain why they were serving ads on sites hosting CSAM

Within the law?

Once upon a time, maybe... now, well, it depends.

DOGE geek with Treasury payment system access now quits amid racist tweet claims

Wheezle

Love it!

I was told to make backups, not test them. Why does that make you look so worried?

Re: Here are the copies

Ditto.. I smell bullshit.

Re: a long time

"The backups were kept offside ” ... and that is how the offside rule came about.

Why users still couldn't care less about Windows 11

Re: overkill

Yep...my main desktop is around 14 now and does all I need to do. It seems slow next to my 5 year old laptop, but slow is relative. Certainly a lot faster than 'my' first computer, a 360/30.

As Trump slugs Canada, Mexico and China with tariffs, industry groups hope trade war weapon isn’t pointed at their feet

Re: It's all in how you look at it

Nope, none of the above. Deliberately.

Memories fade. Archives burn. All signal eventually becomes noise

Re: Make copies...

Having lived there myself for quite a while, I would be inclined to think that most things work better in NL, certainly better than in the UK. A most pragmatic country.

Apple Intelligence turned on by default in upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3

iPhone onboarding

Jesus Christ!

Meta, X sign up to Euro Commish code of conduct on hate speech

Re: I'd much prefer to notion

And they can spell better...

AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads

And what*really* pisses me off is that if I don't pay my council tax, I could go to jail..if they don't fulfill their obligations, they just shrug, and put the bill up as much as they can. End of rant!

How Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history

Re: Thanks Liam!

@Terry... My thoughts exactly!

Re: Thanks Liam!

I had full fat Gem on my Atari ST, but soon installed MINIX, much more fun ... and useful.

Microsoft tests 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific to see how much you enjoy AI

Re: Perpetual?

Affinity Photo is pretty much up to Photoshop standards, supports PS plugins and has good support, both official and unofficial. Oh, you can try it free for a month. Pay once, yours forever.

Short-lived bling, dumb smart things, and more: The worst in show from CES 2025

Re: A washing machine

Upvote for cow-orker... that's certainly how I always read it. Whatever happened to colleagues?

Los Angeles wildfires force tens of thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed

Re: Surely a benevolent god would have prevented the fire in the first place.

Because... what is the point of a god who does nothing?