Posts by milliemoo83

Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

Youtube also doesn't like people making use of youtube.lua and VLC Player to stream vids. 99% of the time the connection is throttled down to 60KB/s. That's something that happened in the last few months.

Will anybody save Linux on Itanium? Absolutely not

Off to watch some Willow.... and I don't mean the film. Also, Alyson Hannigan is a fantastic dancer... currently doing Dancing With the Stars.

"merd."?

"It's not a dead man walking at all. It's a sort of coffin-shaped tub full of decaying giblets immersed in formaldehyde, but with a lot of life-support tubing going in and out of a small number of cadavers, keeping a few bits of them inflating and deflating in some horrible parody of metabolism."

Akin to a dodgy kebab shop store room?

US Air Force wants to see some atomic motors for future spacecraft

Re: Atomic Motors?

Let's hope they ion out all the kinks.

Re: 1st law of thermodynamics

... and incidentally, no one can hear you scream

Nor can they hear you 'cha cha cha'.

Re: Quantum slipstream

Or anyone from Andromeda's canon.

Elephants.

Take Windows 11... please. Leaks confirm low numbers for Microsoft's latest OS

Re: W12 will be arriving soon.

Win2K wasn't a consumer edition.

UTM: An Apple hypervisor with some unique extra abilities

Turtles

Just take pizza with you. It'll be fine.

GNU turns 40: Stallman's baby still not ready for prime time, but hey, there's cake

Cake

The cake is a lie!

'Small monthly payment' only thing that stands between X and bot chaos, says Musk

Sergeant Major

As often said by Windsor Davies. I read your comment in his voice.

Twitter says it may harvest biometric, employment data from its addicts

"Who would trust a petulant boy-child with such control over their life?"

Those who voted in Bojo?

Re: Good riddance to "block"

He's taking a page out of Google's book.. their 'block email' option just dumps it in the spam folder. Does absoultely nothing to prevent it reaching the account in the first place.

FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds

Re: 25ms?

And still crashes less than Starbug.

Last rites for the UK's Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead

Re: Computer MOT

Bob...

With all the stupidity and hand-holding forced on users in Windows 11, it may as well be Bob 2.0.

Re: Computer MOT

"Have you tried turning it off and on again ?"

The car or the green box....?

Criminals go full Viking on CloudNordic, wipe all servers and customer data

Re: Where are the backups?

"I am guessing there were before the migration there were carefully separated backup and/or archive systems but unfortunately the front door was left open to Mr Cock-Up..."

"Baldrick, you had better make the explaination you are about to give... phenominally good."

OpenZFS 2.2 is nearly here, and ZFSBootMenu 2.2 already is

Liberator

So, would the 7th iteration of BLAKE3 be BLAKE7?

BOFH: WELCOME TO COLOSSAL SERVER ROOM ADVENTURE!!

Now I have a cattle prod. Ho ho ho....

AI on AI action: Googler uses GPT-4 chatbot to defeat image classifier's guardian

Re: Lie mode...

Literally the first thing that came to mind when I read the sub-headline.

Re: Lie mode...

Your kipper is smoking as we speak.

Lie mode...

Lister: *holds up an orange*

Kryten: "It's a banana"

NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2

Re: Off topic

9600 baud is also fast enough for a bit of DOOM deathmatch over serial cable.

Florida man accused of hoarding America's secrets faces fresh charges

Re: You sure are preoccupied by Trump and Musk!

It's an X <sic> budgie!

A room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor? Take a closer look

Well we have enough Anonymous Cowards here for bicycle powered hairdryers. Maybe with enough we can fry an egg better than Lister.

Two new Linux desktops – one with deep roots – come to Debian

Shrubberies...

Does it have the "NI" sound from NeXTSTEP?

Free Wednesday gift for you lucky lot: Extra mouse button!

Re: RISC OS always used three buttons

You could also use the third button to drag windows around but without bringing them to the front.

The number’s up for 999. And 911. And 000. And 111

I was just about to post this.

Fire icon, for obvious reasons.

Dialup-era developer writes ChatGPT client for Windows 3.1

Office 97

Well... Office 97 runs quite happily on NT 3.51 SP5.

Healthcare org with over 100 clinics uses OpenAI's GPT-4 to write medical records

Please state...

...the nature of the medical emergency.

Scientists think they may have cracked life support for Martian occupation

No wedding...

Perhaps they should speak to the local GELF tribe for an OG unit? Just watch out for half domesticated Polymorphs...

Pint because irskib.

Users accuse Intuit of 'heavy-handed' support changes on QuickBooks for Desktop

You need more upvotes for "Dogbert service model." Also more pints. -->

Pixies keep switching off my morning alarm, says Google Pixel owner

What about...

Waking to the dulcet tones of Robin Williams, Good Morning Vietnam style?

Could RISC-V become a force in high performance computing?

Re: A mixed blessing?

"If the moon is in the seventh house "

And you don't accidentally use tomato ketchup as part of the recipe.

Dridex malware pops back up and turns its attention to macOS

Re: LibreOffice to the rescue

"That said, Keynote is fantastic compared to Powerpoint whereas LibreOffice's Impress doesn't quite cut it for me."

It doesn't impress you much?

Microsoft reports macOS Gatekeeper has an 'Achilles' heel

Re: Insert your Trojan joke here

Just shut up and go and change your armour!

Insert your Trojan joke here

Well if we built this giant wooden badger....

Longstanding bug in Linux kernel floppy handling fixed

Re: 1.9MB floppies

"OS/2 used a weird format for its boot disks that stored more than 1.44Mb on a floppy. Not sure what they did to achieve this but it did mean less disks to insert when installing the thing. After installation though, it was just a regular floppy disk drive with FAT formatted disks. Can't remember if OS/2 supported FAT32 info or not."

1.8MB XDF. Along the lines of M$'s 1.7MB DMF.

US Supreme Court asked if cops can plant spy cams around homes

Re: Solution....

Dark Helmet might.

Re: Still 5,280

"laden or unladen?"

African or European?

Sizewell C nuclear plant up for review as UK faces financial black hole

Re: thanks for

Mine... PEDAL!

Wake me in 8 hours...

Re: thanks for

Erskib!

Re: thanks for

"Look face it man, it's just not possible to fry an egg using a bicycle powered hair dryer!"

--Dave Lister

Microsoft's Lennart Poettering proposes tightening up Linux boot process

Re: Is it just me?

"The question is, does Poettering's suggestion suck or blow?"

First one, then the other.

Firefox points the way to eradicating one of the rudest words online: PDF

Re: I don't mind PDFs

"PDF cvs: the same"

The only problem with CVs in PDF format is you can almost guarantee the HR droid at the other end will decide to open it in Word, and then bin it because it contained, in their eyes, garbage.

Re: I don't mind PDFs

"And lets not forget the Letter versus A4 wars that battle themselves wherever a "PC Load Letter" sign is blinking,"

For giggles, you can tweak the firmware so it says "Load Coffee"

Loathsome eighties ladder-climber levelled by a custom DOS prompt

Re: Like so: C:\>.

prompt [$p] if you prefer the OS/2 style.

Acornsoft's Aviator - in 32K. Or Elite, if you wanted to go into space.

Microsoft leaves the Office, rebrands everything as 365

And on Friday nights they were allowed Escorts