Posts by sokolnik

Is it decadent that I use four different computers each day, at different times?

Android

With Kindle and Google Play, my Android tablet succeeds.

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

Outstanding!

"We could be heroes!

But just for one day"

Somewhere, perhaps Ziggy Stardust is smiling.

OK, boomer? Gen-X-ers, elder millennials most likely to name their cars, says DVLA

Re: That old Bluebird...

and, perhaps, you were inspired by Electric Light Orchestra

In the stone age...

...before anyone heard of "Breaking Bad"...

...I named my '68 Plymouth Whatever model...

...because of the shade of its paint (and, yes, inspired by the late, great George Harrison, by way of his protégés, Badfinger)...

..."Baby Blue"...

...color me, Baby Boomer

(a real classic-- '55 model)

Tech Bro CEO lays off 900 people in Zoom call and makes himself the victim

Wow...

....and I thought *I* am a jerk...

How to destroy expensive test kit: What does that button do?

apologies to Steely Dan

"Rikki, don't touch

That button"

Joint venture: Uber Eats to offer weed orders in Ontario

Another gooooaaaalll for El Reg!

"Joint" venture!

Russia's orbital insanity is almost beyond redemption – but there's space for improvement

Re: Orbital stuff at different speeds?

Thank you both. And I thought the movie "Gravity" was kerfluffle. I'm old as dirt, a child of the "space-race", and should know better. Thanks again.

Orbital stuff at different speeds?

Pardon me, I slept through fifth-grade science. Can anyone give an explanation, suitable for a dull-witted lay-person, how stuff in orbit can travel at different speeds, without propulsion?

A lightbulb moment comes too late to save a mainframe engineer's blushes

"Is it plugged in?"

My first question when users called me, long ago when I was an I-T support tech.

Amazon tells folks it will stop accepting UK Visa credit cards via weird empty email

Love it, El Reg

"Buy things you don't need with money you don't have to impress people you don't like'

Boffins use nuclear radiation to send data wirelessly

Tesla?

Isn't this more or less an idea of Tesla?

Sorry, I'm too lazy to google it.

FYI: If the latest Windows 11 really wants to use Edge, it will use Edge no matter what

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Time for Linux-live usb stick!