Posts by The man who sold the moon

Something 4,000 light years away emitted strange radio bursts. This is where we talk to scientists for actual info

Probably just the Vogons announcing the construction of an intergalactic highway for a hyperspace express route.

BOFH: Time to put the Pretty Dumb F in PDF reader

Re: Brilliant!

"As an admin who's not a Sharepoint guru, I'm not a huge fan of OneDrive."

I never met anyone who is.

What came first? The chicken, the egg, or the bodge to make everything work?

Re: Where are the instructions?

"the last thing you should be doing during such a restart is making a cup of coffee."

Nonononono, that should be the *first* thing.

When civilisation ends, a Xenix box will be running a long-forgotten job somewhere

Re: .MRE Lifespan

When I was in the army in 93/94, we had a basement full of tinned meals from the 60s.

The army was at the time switching to US-style MREs, so they were obsolete.

They made an acceptable (and free!) late-night bar meal, when ketchup and spices were added.

Re: .MRE Lifespan

Ow, that reminds me.

I still have one (called "Nesquick" over here), with expiration date 06/2009. It's still almost full.

How to keep your enterprise up to date by deploying the very latest malware

Re: Been there - on a Nuclear Power Plant

In 1991 maybe BOOTP, but DHCP didn't exist until late 1993.

BTW the 386 is from 1985, the 486 from 1989. So 1991 was not exactly pre-286 days.