Posts by Huw L-D

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

Re: Time for a Coffee....

I've got 3 Architect clients. Effing nightmare.

Trump's gold-plated smartphone can't seem to decide which design to copy

Re: Surprised?

Hip hip hippo ray.

McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes nuggets of rotten security

Re: What a bunch of clowns

Lettuce have an end to this nonsense.

Long live the nub: ThinkPad designer David Hill spills secrets, designs that never made it

True story. I once persuaded the Marketing Manager of a very large law firm that the nub was called "The clit". It was when she made a support call during a very important meeting to tell IT she had a sticky clit that wasn't working properly that I got busted.

Meta joins Google in ragequitting EU political ads over onerous regulations

Every day, Idiocracy becomes more of a reality.

Problem PC had graybeards stumped until trainee rummaged through trash

Re: Pharmacists

"When one door closes, another one opens".

And that's why my grandfather was voted the UK's worst cabinet maker in 1907.

Outlook takes another sick day

Re: The Cloud

ITYM "gropies"

Re: Maybe,

My on-prem Exchange server had better uptime than 365. Then manglement said "move it to the cloud".

Cook'd: Judge says Apple lied to court in Epic case, asks Feds to mull criminal charges

Re: It would be nice

That's what lawyers are for. Same for corporate accountants.

SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system

Re: They fucked up the web browser?

Nope, not at all.

Abandoned US Army 'city under the ice' imaged in serendipitous NASA find

Is this where they dug Captain America out of the ice?

Undergrad thought he had mastered Unix in weeks. Then he discovered rm -rf

Re: Ah....backups....

Are you suggesting that your backups are a Rush job?

Re: Colour Me Shocked...

Laughs in ZX80...

Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself after update labeling error

Re: I don't see what all the fuss is about.

You have sarcasm in New York?

Schneider Electric ransomware crew demands $125k paid in baguettes

Never create your ransom when you're baked?

I made this network so resilient nothing could possibly go wro...

Clint (in all caps) can be used to get past basic word filters. Just sayin'

Yes, your network is down – you annoyed us so much we crashed it

Remember Jim Kubicek?

https://www.theregister.com/2017/02/17/it_contractors_billing_dispute_turns_into_felony_hacking/

Babbage boffin Ada Lovelace honored for computer science contributions

Re: Jacquard Loom

And if you venture to Nottingham, there is a tram named after her.

Yes, I am being intolerably smug – because I ignored you and saved the project

Mrs L-D also works in IT. We both complain at each other if there's an unidentified plug - who did it and why isn't it labeled?

There is no honor among RAM thieves – but sometimes there is karma

Re: CPU in wrong...he forced it in

Do you work for the Birmingham Screwdriver Company?

Kaspersky culls staff, closes doors in US amid Biden's ban

Same level of reasoning as the "it's the AV companies that write the viruses"

Bill advances to exonerate hundreds in Post Office Horizon scandal

Re: Bollocks

An old friend (sadly not of this earth any more) used to work for Customs and Excise and said Fujitsu was an acronym for "Fucking Useless Japanese Information Technology Support Unit"

World-plus-dog booted out of Facebook, Instagram, Threads

The number of tickets coming in from various marketing departments at clients is a bit of a PITA.

Dave's not here, man. But this mind-blowingly huge server just, like, arrived

Re: Jazz Cabbage

To us, coriander is the leaves. The seeds are (strangely enough) called coriander seeds. We still eat the stalks (because that's a lot of the flavour), but we don't give that a different name, because it's still the same bloody plant.

'I’m sorry for everything...' Facebook's Zuck apologizes to families at Senate hearing

Re: bizarre standards

Don't discuss Mr Brains products. Saying you hate them gets a 28 day ban.

PLACEHOLDER ONLY Someone please write witty headline here

The outside of my favourite bar is painted in what they lovingly refer to as "dog piss yellow".;

Your ex isn't the only one stalking your social media posts. The Feds are, too

by Davros, surely?

Canada goosed as attackers shutter hospitals and China deepfakes its politicians

Oh! CANADA!!!!

See title :D

Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard

"If not for sleeping, why is it made of warm, Dad?"

My tabbies say they're the best.

Teardown reveals iPhone 15 to be series of questionable design decisions

Re: They want how much for one?

I think it's a typo for moronity.

USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix

Re: scary devil monastery

Back in the day, that was where many friendships were spawned and people actually knew technical stuff.

Plus, TINC.

Loved scary devil monastery (alt.sysadmin.recovery)

Polishing off a printer with a flourish revealed not to be best practice

Re: Stories from Grandad

"I worked for several years with 9 odd women. And, BOY! Were they even!"

Seems more appropriate.

This legit Android app turned into mic-snooping malware – and Google missed it

"And we'll hope that the Corporate ears do not listen

Lest we find ourselves committing some kind of treason

And filed in the tapes without rhyme, without reason

While they tell us that it's all for our own protection,

I swear we never asked for any of this"

NMA, 225, 1988.

Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess

Jeezy Crisps. I've run out of popcorn...

National newspaper duped into running GPT-4-written rage-click opinion piece

Re: Wireless World

These are small, but those are fur away...

Re: AI isn't the issue, not even a little bit

One of those where "Local" news features an article from a "sister" paper on the other side of the UK?

Service desk tech saved consultancy Capita from VPN meltdown, got a smack for it

Re: U

Boston, Lincs may disagree.

No more rockstars, say Billy Idol, Joan Jett in Workday Super Bowl ad

Re: Rock star

"It's almost as if they have to compensate for their utter borishness by sprinkling glitter around."

Now there's a "rockstar" you don't want to be associated with your product....

AI-generated phishing emails just got much more convincing

Old Macdonald used ChatGPT. AI, AI, Hoe...

Re: And you shall rip what you sew

Yet more fabric-ation?

The Guardian ransomware attack hits week two as staff told to work from home

The Grauniad ramsonwear attack, surely?

Everyone back to the office! Why? Because the decision has been made

Re: Jacob Reese Mogg

Pre-Dickensian, surely?

The sad state of Linux desktop diversity: 21 environments, just 2 designs

Give me a Jurassic Park interface or an Iron Man interface... <j/k>

Windows 10 still growing, but Win 11 had another bad month, says AdDuplex

"I gotcher taskbar centered 'ere!"

FTFY.

Meta sued for 'aiding and abetting' crypto scammers

Re: They've never taken any down

Same here,

Ads claiming to be supported by various slebs (sic). Domain in the ad is hdfgbhvd.xyz...

Blatant nonsense, that FB don't appear to give a flying aardvark about.

Reg reader rages over Virgin Media's email password policy

Re: Hacking

Canadian?