* Posts by Huw L-D

65 publicly visible posts • joined 10 May 2021

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

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Re: They fucked up the web browser?

Nope, not at all.

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

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

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

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

Are you suggesting that your backups are a Rush job?

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Re: Colour Me Shocked...

Laughs in ZX80...

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

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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

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Never create your ransom when you're baked?

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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by Davros, surely?

Canada goosed as attackers shutter hospitals and China deepfakes its politicians

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Oh! CANADA!!!!

See title :D

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

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

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My tabbies say they're the best.

Teardown reveals iPhone 15 to be series of questionable design decisions

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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

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Re: scary devil monastery

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

Plus, TINC.

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Loved scary devil monastery (alt.sysadmin.recovery)

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

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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

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"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

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

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

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Re: Wireless World

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

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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

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Re: U

Boston, Lincs may disagree.

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

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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

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

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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

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The Grauniad ramsonwear attack, surely?

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

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Re: Jacob Reese Mogg

Pre-Dickensian, surely?

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

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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

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"I gotcher taskbar centered 'ere!"

FTFY.

Meta sued for 'aiding and abetting' crypto scammers

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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

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Re: Hacking

Canadian?

Ukraine hit by DDoS attacks, Russia deploys malware

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GRU, you say?

Please tell me that the GRU agency employs yellow minions...

BOFH: The Geek's Countergambit – outwitted at an electronics store

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Re: Dibert has the answer

I thought "bug in the billing software" was a parallel for the Horizon scandal.

Update 'designed to improve user experience' takes down the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal

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Yup. Saved a project.

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Of all the days, today was the wrong day to cut down on the smokes

Hive View security camera customers left in the dark as some gear gives up the ghost

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Re: Hive

Bee-have.

What begins with a 'B' and is having problems at tsoHost? Hopefully not your website

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Maye it's a load alancing prolem.

Ceefax replica goes TITSUP* as folk pine for simpler times

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Re: I miss the jokes

Or "The Void"

Microsoft patches Y2K-like bug that borked on-prem Exchange Server

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Re: There's still time...

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20211231

You forced me to use this fancypants app and now you're asking for a printout?

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Re: Mostly It Works

I've also experienced an additional issue with it.

Tablet x - pack of 58. Take 2 per day. Last issued 17 Oct. Next reorder 6 Dec (or words to that effect).

The check box is greyed out and I then have to phone the doctor to get them to reorder, just because the computer a) can't count, and b) says no.

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