Posts by milliemoo83

Behold! Humanity has captured our first look at the Sun's South Pole

Re: solar wind

The spice must flow!

Microsoft cuts the Windows 11 bloat for Xbox handhelds

Re: Just goes to show that they always could remove this crap...

<clippy>"Hey! It looks like you're trying to cheat. Would you like some help with that?" </clippy>

OpenAI model modifies shutdown script in apparent sabotage effort

Crapola Incorporated

How about a muffin?

The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet

Re: TODO

"Can you make it go?"

CERN boffins turn lead into gold for about a microsecond at unimaginable cost

"What you have created Percy, is some green."

Back online after 'catastrophic' attack, 4chan says it's too broke for good IT

Re: Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

"Oh dear. How sad. Never mind."

Said in the intonations of Windsor Davies.

Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances

Re: Damage done

"ketchup stained"

I thought it was Tango?

Boffins turn Moon dirt into glass for solar panels, eye future lunar base power

Re: Little lugging required

Lunar Rover Discovery.

Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSoD to get you back to work ‘as fast as possible’

Re: Never mind...

"DON'T PANIC"

And a QR code to direct you to a towel reseller.

It was in SYSTEM.INI.

http://toastytech.com/files/bsod.html

Go into instructions and it's all there. Registry didn't have much to do win 3.x - it wasn't until 95 it became more prominent in the non-NT line.

Alan Turing Institute: UK can't handle a fight against AI-enabled crims

Re: AI and crime

"Hamlet. Act II, Scene 2."

You cannot appreciate Shakespeare until you've read it in the original Klingon.

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

Re: Backdooring encryption

"the modern version of the Medieval attempt to transmute base metals into gold."

Instead, they end up with a nugget of purest green.

RISC OS Open plots great escape from 32-bit purgatory

"Otherwise, though, this is more or less that Apple and MS have done..."

And Apple went a step further and dropped support for 32bit applications completely starting at Catalina (10.15).

The who?

The passive aggression of connecting USB to PS/2

"Just show some of the kids the 3 different connectors on 1980's hard drives: MFM, RLL and SCSI..."

Just for giggles, I'd have added ESDI into the mix.

iRobot may be iDead in iYear

Re: Question

"Classic "Carry On" movie: "Carry On up the Khyber". Tiffin is used as a synonym for naughty sexy time throughout the movie... having a break in the day for some participation in Tiffin."

The Khasi of Khalibar. And Bunged-it-in. Not forgetting the Devils in Skirts.

Top rank British diplomacy... I'm as two-faced as he is.

User complained his mouse wasn’t working. But he wasn’t using a mouse

Re: they were "hovering" it a few mm above the surface.

"They've been around for donkey's years and they're awesome. Plus you can do some serious damage with the ball if you pick it out and use it as a magic missile."

So a Model M keyboard would make a pretty good bat.

Microsoft adds another Copilot hotkey – this time for AI voice chat

See also: Badgy

Re: We are back to morse code?

"dit-dit-dit dah-dah-dah dit-dit-dit"

Sideways a bit Mr Phillips! NO SIDEWAYS THE OTHER WAY!

Crypto takes a dip as Trump signs Bitcoin Reserve order

Covfefe1

Neural interface lets paralyzed person steer virtual quadcopter, opening new doors for gaming

Re: Mind-Quad!

American Dad

UK aims to fix government IT with help from AI Humphrey

Dictionaries

"as I believe is phrasmotic contrafibularities ..."

Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.

Christmas 1984: The last hurrah for 8-bit home computers

Re: The Box Of Delights

Frell. That is all.

"Ditto Zool on the Amiga"

You may be interested in Zool: Redimensioned.

Parker Solar Probe sends a "Still Alive" tone back to Earth

Re: Probe Weather Report

"What's the weather like out there? "It's hot. Damn hot! Real hot! Hottest things is my shorts. I could cook things in it. A little crotch pot cooking." Well, can you tell me what it feels like. "Fool, it's hot! I told you again! Were you born on the sun? It's damn hot! I saw - It's so damn hot, I saw little guys, their orange robes burst into flames. It's that hot! Do you know what I'm talking about." What do you think it's going to be like tonight? "It's gonna be hot and wet! That's nice if you're with a lady, but it ain't no good if you're in the jungle."

Re: Having seen Star Trek IV…

Also bear in mind the original Enterprise crew pulled the same trick long before The Voyage Home. A manoeuvre replicated by a more recent crew also. :)

Re: First Response from Parker

I agree. The 'still alive tone' should have either been an excerpt of the Thunderbirds March, or for something slightly more recent - Still Alive, from Portal.

One third of adults can't delete device data

Re: Define "wipe"....

The BOFH and PFY's portable 'pinch' would do a good job too.

Re: Working Out their Frustrations

(and good luck if that is not user-removable).

Is it with a big enough hammer.

Parker Solar Probe set for blisteringly hot date with the Sun on Christmas Eve

Re: Temps

KFC gravy would like a word...

Re: Sun Probe Named Parker

Totally agree. That particular episode (for those that haven't seen it), involved a rocket called Sun Probe, whose mission was to take a sample from the sun itself and return it to Earth (with crew).

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

Re: 2GB

"FAT16 did 2G volumes, but the block size was huge (64k, iirc)."

32KB clusters. :)

BOFH: Printer's festive bips herald a merry mystery for the Boss's budget

It's time...

"Our offer to improve morale with the annual game of "Murder in the dark" has been rejected – even when I said the PFY would be on lights this year."

It's time for another round of BLACKOUT BEANCOUNTER FIRE ALARM PINBALL!

Guide for the perplexed – Google is no longer the best search engine

Re: You can even sign in...

"Servalan"

Mine's the one with the Liberator and a pocket Orac.

AI poetry 'out-humans' humans as readers prefer bots to bards

Re: So how does Vogon poetry rate in this contest?

Ask a bot and find out...

O2's AI granny knits tall tales to waste scam callers' time

Didn't....

Didn't BOFH and PFY pull off a similar trick on the Helldesk?

The horror that is VHS revived for horror movie release

Re: Don't forget Vinyl

Needs to be on 8-track.

They need to release it on Betamax as well.

Woman stuck upside down under rock for hours after trying to retrieve dropped phone

Stuck...

...between a rock and a hard place.

Missing Thunderbirds footage found in British garden shed

Re: Pedant Alert

Captain Scarlett and Thunderbirds are connected. I believe the original Thunderbirds movie was meant to serve as a bridge (both it and the CS pilot featuring a Zero-X mission to Mars). And it was of course made after Thunderbirds ended. There's a connection to Stingray as well - Gordon Tracy trained at WASP (the same group in Stingray).

Rival browsers cry foul after Microsoft Edge slips through EU gatekeeper cracks

Re: Clippy

It looks like you're trying to write some regulations.

Would you like help with that?

It looks like you're trying to dodge some regulations.

Would you like help with that?

Windows 11 continues slog up the Windows 10 mountain

Re: It does...

"(and it seems as if the setting is per mouse, per USB port)."

This is because when you plug an existing device into a different port, Windows decides it's never seen it before and treats it as such - as it's a new device to that port.

Deadbeat dad faked his own death by hacking government databases

Re: Now ....

"Arthurian legend"

NI!

It's all drying up: Microsoft to erase 3D Paint from digital store

Re: We're going to need a Microsoft (Windows) graveyard, too

"Don't forget Bob, Clippy and of course Zune."

Comic Sans...

Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots

Re: Buy Shares In Hoodies.....ASAP......

"could possibly go wrong......"

Insert Jeremy Clarkson icon.

Re: Buy Shares In Hoodies.....ASAP......

"Let's stop trying to apply the label d'jour and just keep it simple: scum."

How about 'fetid crotch spawn'?

Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' still the Bedrock choice for moving off Windows

Re: Oh, the stereotypes of yesteryear

I think that warrants two hours... of WOO.

Flintstones

So can we expect the next B release to be Betty (Rubble)? The debate must go on.

Apple Intelligence beta lands in iOS 18.1, macOS 15.1 previews

To quote Dr Johnson:

"Sausage??? SAUSAGE!!????!???!?!"

BOFH: Why's the network so slow?

It's back

""Like route path issues because of spanning tree, bayesian binary caching, flapping vlans, combination crypto signing errors - you name it.""

DUMMY MODE ON!