Posts by derrr

Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Re: I have

In no time it will cost an entire deciduous forest for a cup of coffee.

Db2 is a story worth telling, even if IBM won't

Did you include the OS/2 version of DB2??

Microsoft drags Windows Subsystem for Android into the trash

Looked at it and thought, shame it isn't googles play store.

Why have just one firewall when you can fire all the walls?

Start with nothing, and add bits...

Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11

Could it be the ridiculous minimum spec requirements??

He said, posting from his Win11 i5-2500K PC which is working just fine.....

Fed up with slammed servers, IT replaced iTunes backups with a cow of a file

Well it was Moosic.

Apple perfects vendor lock-in with home security kit

Lock Picking Lawyer had this open in seconds. He was also concerned with the security of the deadlock as it contains the battery, and the cost is massive compared to the unbranded version.

NOBODY PRINT! Selfless hero saves typing pool from carbon catastrophe

Re: Uniplex "my God, it chills me just mention the dark lord's name,"

I started work in 1988, and we very much needed dates prior to 1900.

The in house date system started at 1.1.1850 as the customers with life insurance could well be over 100.

When the IT was set up in the late '60's/early '70's very few people were 110+

Beware the big bang in the network room

Re: "Lessons learned after event tend to be the toughest ones"

Aye.

Mars helicopter mission (which Apache says is powered byLog4j) overcomes separate network glitch to confirm new flight record

Re: IoT always the weakest link in the network....

Airless gap :-)

Canon makes 'all-in-one' printers that refuse to scan when out of ink, lawsuit claims

Re: Don't by canon ink

Same here, I've a Oki C531DN (single pass colour), been consuming refilled toners for 4 years now. Have done 1 transfer belt 'reset' and done the 'wire thing' on the fuser once to reset that.

Cheap printing at about £100 per year for a set of toners that last about 10 reams (5000 sheets) of paper.

Also the quality is reliable, crisp and somewhat waterproof.

I'd never go back to inkjet (or 4 pass colour like my old Epson C900)

Netflix sued by South Korean ISP after Squid Game fans swell traffic to '1.2Tbps'

So are you saying the open buffet providers should not provide content/food people wish to consume to prevent popularity??

Maker of ATM bombing tutorials blew himself up – Euro cops

Was his name Cillit :-)

Bang and the stain is gone.

RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81

Sitting here with my old Sinclair / Cambridge Z88 under the desk.

After quietly switching to slower NAND in an NVMe SSD, Western Digital promises to be a bit louder next time

They did the same on some HDD's switching them to shingled with fewer platters...

Hubble Space Telescope to switch to backup memory module after instrument computer halts

Re: Why has this not happened already?

No terminate and redeploy in space...

Facebook bans sharing of news in Australia – starting now – rather than submit to pay-for-news-plan

Seems fair enough to block it

Company ABC writes some news

Company ABC decides to pubish a link to it on their free Facebook account.

Company ABC then wants money from Facebook for the published content. and lobby's the Gov't for action.

Easy answer. Stop then posting the links/content on FB.