Posts by ICL1900-G3

Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar

Re: Given the current American Zeitgeist

Lucy van Pelt is way better than Pam Bondi!

Let them eat Pi: RAM shortage bumps Raspberry prices as much as $60

Weird?

Possibly a shortening of 'mathematics'?

Crossrail? More like Borkrail...

Re: What's wrong with 'The Circle Line'?

The line may be circular, the routes taken certainly aren't any more..if that was a genuine question.

Tech support detective solved PC crime by looking in the carpark

-Parkah!

-Uh, yus m'lady?

Trump promises nuclear datacenter permits in 3 weeks, calls Greenland 'big beautiful ice'

Re: Pity the poor journalists who have to listen to this demented ranting

Think of the poor delusional creatures that downvoted your post: presumably, they believe him.

ATM takes a kicking yet keeps on ticking

It's my age

Whenever I see ATM, I still think Asynchronous Transfer Mode. Tragic, really.

Rackspace tests customer loyalty with brutal email price hike

Re: Proton ?

I've recently moved to Proton. Perfectly happy so far.

Royal Navy's helicopter drone makes its first autonomous flight

Blimey!

As anyone who has flown, ir more likely, tried to fly a helicopter, will tell you, that is quite some achievement.

Coming soon: We interrupt this ChatGPT session with a very special message from our sponsors

Re: Preserve trust?

Sounds like Mrs ICL and the blood pressure monitor...that can't be right, let's try it again.

Fujitsu scores place on £984M UK government framework despite bid boycott

Re: UK government dodgy contracts

Indeed, draining the swamp would be nice, preferably not following Trump's example.

Court tosses appeal by hacker who opened port to coke smugglers with malware

Stylish

Ace chutzpah.

Linus Torvalds tries vibe coding, world still intact somehow

Re: AI (Claude) Works for Me...

Double plus up-tick re gagging over vibe coding.

Re: Icons - enjoy the choice

My pa was in India with the RAF in the interwar years. He swore the only genuine way to make chai was to simmer it with condensed milk. Bit sweet for my taste.

I'll teach you how to spell if you teach me how to program! My coding days ended with IBM bal!

Affordable housing site goes live with meme-laden test data

Re: Most accurate picture of Boris so far

Don't forget... there is no duch thing as society.

Ding dong, the witch is dead.. sadly, not much seems to have improved.

The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age

Re: Why would China upset the apple cart?

Quiite so. The US has made it patently clear since Trump II that it is NOT our ally - nor indeed anyone else's.

Microsoft teases targeted Copilot removal for admins

Who the fuck...

....do these guys think they are? They might not like to hear it, but they work for us, not the other way around.

Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine

Re: Please allow me...

Don't be frightened. This is El Reg. Cunt is the word!

Google pushing Gemini into Gmail, but you can turn it off

Re: It really is time to move to some place like Proton

At the risk of being 'me too', me too.

Users prompt Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot to remove clothes in photos then 'apologize' for it

Re: Consequences ... apparently ONLY happen to OTHER people !!!

As Fats Domino once opined:

Ain't that a shame...

Finally - a terminal solution to the browser wars

Entwickler/Entwicklerin...

Trump admin sends heart emoji to commercial spyware makers with lifted Predator sanctions

Jeez!

That guy's a cunt.

Your smart TV is watching you and nobody's stopping it

Re: No, no, no!

Amen! There is always something better to do than watch tv.

Former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner passes, aged 83

Re: Do typographical 'letters' have carbon footprints?

Engage with...reach out... restroom... anything but meaningful English

You don't need Linux to run free and open source software

RawTherapee is also worth a look.

Garmin autopilot lands small aircraft without human assistance

Super King Air

Not that small. A C42, now that IS small.

Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau

Proper Job!

Apple blocks dev from all accounts after he tries to redeem bad gift card

Re: Backup, back up, back up

It's just possible others see things differently.

As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs

Re: Mental Illness

Only down my left side.

Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work

Speciality

Upvote for not writing 'specialty'.

Pension portal launch fail sends Capita running to Microsoft for help

Pre IT

With so many 'ftes' employed to make this work... hopefully... one cannot help but wonder how many clerks it took to perform a similar pre-IT role.

Newly launched civil service pension portal from Capita is crapita, users report

Good grief!

Who would have thought it?

Why do people continue to give our money to these charlatans?

Windows 11 needs an XP SP2 moment, says ex-Microsoft engineer

Re: Wait

Sadly true. MS target market is not people like us.

A comment that will get this geriatric happily through this cold, wet day. Thank you, Myffy.

Dorset Council ditching customized SAP for £14M Oracle overhaul

Who the fuck do they think they are?

."The council has kept the full business case and the discussion of its decision to adopt Oracle from the public domain."

As ever, they forget they work for us. There is no local government money, it's our money they so freely spend.

Tuxedo Computers slams lid on Arm Linux laptop after 18 months of pain

Well... I never knew that. Thanks Liam. Interesting.

Crocs get the Xbox treatment with sole-crushing price of $80

A fool ...

...and his/her/their money...

Airbus: We were hours from pausing production in Spain

Stsrlink...

'cos Musk us totally stable and reliable. Always.

Meta knows how bad its sites are for kids, say lawyers

Re: Jonathan Haidt on the Anxious Generation

One million upvotes.

Apple reportedly peels away some sales staff in small round of layoffs

Connect with customers?

Why do people avoid speaking meaningful English?

Lawsuit seeks to probe Uncle Sam's role in ICE-tracking app takedowns

Re: Obama biting his nails

Last para = 'I'm right and you're wrong, so there!'

Re: hmmm...

Er...twat

UK Covid-19 Inquiry finds early pandemic surveillance was weeks out of date

Re: The perils of efficiency

But... shareholder value...

Vibe coding: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (Sorry, Linus)

Re: You weren't there, man

Modern cars are the landfill of tomorrow.

AI slop hits new high as fake country artist goes to #1 on Billboard digital songs chart

Unbeatable country music

Hank Wangford... Joggin' with Jesus.

Ironclad OS project popping out Unix-like kernel in a unique mix of languages

Re: PERQ / Accent / Mach

I lusted after a Perq when they came out. For its time, hugely capable.

Re: 'A new language AIDA'

Brilliant. Have a beer on me!

Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks

@kurgan

I'm sorry but, compared to a lot of stuff one reads online, you most certainly seem to be an expert. Thanks for the interesting post.

Senate bill would require companies to report AI layoffs as job cuts reach 20-year high in October

Re: Trump's easily disproven claims

No... American cheese is an insult to humanity.