Posts by Fred Mbogo

SimonT needs to...

Do an episode about this.

The number of stick-in-the-muds is astounding. Windows 7 has support for SSDs, better multi-threading support, acceptable "we have to save the users from themselves" security and a more responsive UI.

XP was nice for its time but its starting to show its age. I worked client phone support and I remember the "privilege" of Vundo, Virtumonde, Blaster and Conficker support calls.

This is the same whining that I heard when XP was released in relation to Windows 2000. I'm still hearing the same whining about the new Servers I support now not supporting Windows 2003 Server.

Face it, if you want a prepackaged solution that is not the best, is not the fastest or slimmest or the most secure but the one that almost any idiot can use, you go with Windows and this includes migrating to the version du jour when they tell you to. If you work with an advanced user base, you can use Linux or Unix or whatever you want.

We still have XP where I work and use about 3 different Java versions that hate each other. Why would someone do that, you ask? Because the ancient database that does all of our processing runs on a TANDEM server.

Mines the one with the vomit stains.

b...b...but...

I'm never getting that seeing to with the steel ruler!

That farewell pic reminds me of Jennicam somehow.

Mine's the one with Korean marital aids catalog in the pocket.

As long as it kills the patent trolls...

If this reform kills RAMBUS, SCO and their ilk, I'll be a happy man.

You cannot do away with patents entirely. You need a legal mechanism to protect your idea while you raise the capital to produce a product that incorporates it. Suppose I came up with a revolutionary processor design. As I haven't the money to set up the foundries, R&D facilities, etc., whats to stop Intel, AMD and IBM from stealing the idea and producing their own products after I pitch them the idea and they refuse to buy?

I wonder

If she knows how to do that trick with her thighs, I don't think Daniel could withstand it as well.

I'm also curious if she's been attending that other Russian lady's urogenital strengthening school.

Mine's the one with the account at Anastasia International, Spasiba.

Permanent El Niño?!

F*ck no!

Merciless rainfall from Oct. to Jan. caused a month-wide water outage (the lake from which we draw our water to purify is WAY too muddy) in my country.

Sure, part of the blame lays with us meatbags for allowing people to settle and defoliate within 1 Km of our local waterways which caused intense erosion which led to large amounts of sediments to be deposited on the lake courtesy of madame rain.

Water should be a national security issue together with the water basin flora that supports it.

I had a point somewhere, I just need to remember what it was.

Because Skynet would give us the easiest answer to this conundrum.

@Brian Miller

I agree. While ineptitude is the norm amongst large organizations one would ask him/herself why would you connect mission critical equipment to the internetz.

Me thinks the Israelis probably raided the facility and wrecked the centrifuges and are to save face by blaming cyber attackers.

This list fails

Because it didn't include Fallout 1 or 2.

@Mycho

I really hope they get working on my wired reflexes now. Bitte Schon herr boffins?

Wasn't Ms. Titmuss available?

See, I've even found a job that they could do!

Paris, because she would certainly not mind obtaining my sample.

I hate this study and the scientists that wrote it

As it reminds how I'm earning less after 7 years in a company than some jerk that just started. Stupid midpoints.

Black Holes?

Micro Black Holes that will dissipate via Hawking radiation in nanoseconds. Micro Black Holes with the gravitic pull of less than an electron.

Did anybody take seriously that bovine byproduct?

If anyone believes that black holes keep getting bigger and bigger through accretion of nearby matter, they clearly have not read the mechanism that makes them work.

Accreting matter actually shrinks black holes.

Project Orion

Perhaps they could withdraw from that silly no nukes in space treaty and restart project Orion. Use the excess nukes scheduled for decommissioning to send a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri.

No weapons and nukes in space? Pfeh, as if a treaty will stop a superpower from doing what they want. At least with Project Orion, you have legit reason to use nukes in space.

Brits should be particularly proud as your good boffin Freeman Dyson participated in it which is badass.

@Yorkshirepudding

Skate or Die, DIEDIEDIE DIEEEE!

So you wanna get serious now? -Lester

@maclauk

I would guess that they chose hydrogen because of the takeoff weight requirements.

They could have made it into a nasty incendiary weapon if they filled it with di-oxygen di-flouride, affectionately called FOOF or Satan's Kimchi.

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride.php

Tee hee...its a bit of a good read.

@AC 12:00

Most likely savaging the intern that they assigned to write further BOFH episodes...while she whacks him in the head with her steely ruler. We really need a Moderatrix icon :D

F*** THEM!

I really hope Jobs manages to sink the fecal scraping that is Adobe. Thanks to those arse bandoleers I have to use 32bit software whenever I head for youtube. We hate them, we hate them forever, preciousssss!

PS: I hate Apple.

What's wrong with marrying a MooCow?

The lad achieved recursivity by having a steak within a steak.

Maybe he was trying to resurrect his family? Ask him if he saw any naiads or mermaids.

How do I know that it won't kill you like it did the cow?

I love this place.

NT

Looks like a Fusor to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor

Too bad it doesn't generate any net energy. Most aneutronic fusion processes don't.

Utterly Pointless

Unless Flash is released for it. Sick and tired here of running IE for Flash Apps and Minefield/Firefox 64 for the rest.

@Steve

I've heard that this only happens on consumer flash disks. On Enterprise solutions, they are supposed to schedule the TRIM commands during levels of low activity.

Wiki...I know but it's well written, I think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

Quality and performance

Good idea.

And if I were them, I would ask assurances that their operatives will not go after British citizens. After all, they did assassinate Lord Moyne.

Not anti-semitic or anti-israel here but the double standard applied to Israel in general is not a healthy attitude.

Food processor?

Can we start a charity hear to donate gear for the demanding dame? We need one of each: food processor, washing machine, dremel, hammer drill, PS 2 controller, 12v battery with alligator clips, ultrasonic cleaner, paint shaker, 12 speed blender, fish tank pump, krytron switches, rubirosa, a dead parrot, SPAM, a vial with Chilean soil, a peeled mango, a cattleprod and the Claude Villee Biology Primer for Highschool students.

Mine's not the one with a 1 TB volume innocently labeled System 64.

Really?

Flash the future?

If Adobe got on with the program, they would have released a bloody 64bit version of Flash, for Minefield.

Steve and Eric's wives?

Why did I read that with the West Side Story soundtrack playing in my head?

That was adorable

Those dogs meant no harm to the police officer. They probably thought they were playing. Their behavior did not indicate an intent to harm. Just playing, that's all.

I got a solution

Not to sound like a maniac but I have a solution to the nuclear disarmament problem AND the 419 scams problems.

Can you guess what it is?

Crisis!

Am I a bad person because I consider a thermonuclear war a desirable option? We could do with a half of the population really.

Doo, do, doo, do, doooo

It is not accurate to assume that everybody can find dates in the same places. I have used online dating but live in a country so small that the girls that do online dating either: post cartoon/anime pictures as their profile picture (sigh), post pictures that have their kids with them (these are actually your best shot, they are honest), or are fake profiles. The alternative is taking the clubbing scene however I don't dance or smoke so that would be kind of hard for me. Meeting people while doing hobbies? I'm an inline skater and power bocker and no girls were looking for dates. Smaller countries are very skewed.

Those railing against online dating would not need online dating but don't discount it for the guys and gals that find a use for it, be it that you are too frakking busy to take up clubbing, don't like clubbing, are introverted and those that just want to increase their chance.

Be honest, people will appreciate that.

@Donn

I understand your point about OEMs streamlining the OS install process to move a greater volume but have you thought who purchases the greatest majority of Windows licenses? That's right, OEMs.

I worked desktop support for a major OEM. There were thousands of systems that were deactivated and productivity lost because of Microsoft's boneheaded WGA. Do you think Microsoft would tell their customer support reps to expect volume and to try to assist? Nein, their idiotic script jockeys told them to call Dell/HP/Acer/Gateway...they'll issue you a new product keys...AS IF.

1) OEMs DO NOT PRINT OR CREATE product keys. We buy them from Microsoft, stick them on the side of the machine and thats about it. To issue a new key, we would have to use one from an unsold system, which means one less machine sold.

2) We can't bypass WGA. Those calls went like this: Cust: WGA crap says I have illegit software. Me: call MS. Cust: they told me to call you, you sold the OS. Me: we don't create product keys, we don't control the WGA servers, we can't do shit except a nuke and pave, want me to do that? Cust: screw you and your company!

To make matters worse, they kept releasing updates which kept breaking peoples computers. I ended up telling people, don't download Windows Updates. Also every tech down here, laid the blame entirely on MS feet. Partner? Nah, MS doesn't have partners, they have cash cows.

Improved

What would have aced this article would have been: the cops seize the driftwood and then threw it into the river, tied on the couple's necks.

Godsend

Specially for blokes like me who are highly resistant to local anesthetics. I still fear dentists. The last time I had to get a filling repaired (stupid granola caused my filling to break). [s]The vietcong interrogator[/s]Dentist gave me several doses of local anesthesia and was scared when I told her that I felt the drill. After 5 or 6 doses, I just told her to do it. I think my finger sized dents are still on that seat.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

God damn it all to fragging hell! When are these guys going to die off?! I absolutely hate patent trolls and the only thing I hate more, is sleazy patent trolls.

This cash will ensure that these crusted cloacae will be in operation for quite some time to come.

I don't see what their contribution is. Every single one of their products has been a failure and are designed with vendor lock in mind.

At least they weren't bought by Hershey's

I distinguish peasants from people with the basics of palate discipline based on this. If they like Hershey's they know #$%@#$%@# about good taste. I would describe the taste of that confection as petroleum jelly covered in molten plastic.

Adding my voice to the chorus of "Don't mess with the f*cking recipe!". I used to like Nestle's Crunch chocolate. It used to be creamier with a milder sweetness. After Nestle started messing around with the recipe, you now get a grayish abomination that tastes like a frozen bar of water sweetened with saccharine.

I'm personally partial to Benn's Gold Bar and Truffettes de France.

Recipipi

Jamon serrano and iberico are the best. I used to be a prosciutto fan but once I started buying the expensive brands of jamon, I switched.

Here's a recipe for a decent sandwich: use panini bread, or any bread with a decent crust, add eggplant preserves (non-tomatoed), a little mayo, two sliver of jamon, a few pieces of brie cheese, some olive oil and a pinch of salt and pepper. Serve Hot.

AMD failed to capitalize?

When major OEMs refuse to carry your product because a competitor has given them money to do so, how can you compete?

You can compete even at a disadvantage if the playing field is level. Yet this is not the case in the CPU market.

AMDs possible major earner, Opterons were not carried by one of the major OEMs (Dell, yes look it up in Wiki and corroborate with product launch dates) and you'll see how AMD couldn't capitalize on the server market properly when Intel, with their crappy Xeons managed to hold most of the server market.

Despite having a cheaper, more efficient product, AMD couldn't move enough product to earn enough money to invest into R&D.

Now, if AMD wanted to hit Intel right where it hurts, they should develop a very tight integrated platform and sell it cheaper than Intel. You see, Intel earns so much because they have food on several plates. NICs, IGP, Chipsets, CPUs, WLAN controllers and whatnot. If AMD had a platform that could do all that, they could offer a very attractive offering to OEMs.

Damn It! Almost got them!

How many whacks of the killstick will take to keep to put these sleaze buckets into bankruptcy?