Posts by The Vociferous Time Waster

TFI

Ah yes, it's Friday. Splendid.

I'd rather have 1500 hours...

I'd rather have 1500 hours of any instance instead of 750 hours if Linux and 750 hours of Windows. Personally I am using Linux but whatever your OS religion most people are working with one and unlikely to want to trial one of each. Give me two instances of the same technology and I can start experimenting with load balancers and more complex architectures.

Hope taping is killing music

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

I had this problem

I boarded a BA flight from SFO to LHR and was faced with a row full of fried chicken eaters spilling into my seat. Cabin staff were very sympathetic and said they would move me to the jump seat once we'd taken off as the cabin was full. They they returned to say that they had been authorised to move me and led me to the cabin in front.

Ten hours next to some fatties would not have ended well for the fatties but a big well done to BA for taking decisive action to resolve the problem.

I do wonder...

I do wonder why so many people wanted to kill Ahmed Rushdie, he's such a 'people person'.

Twat.

UMA?

Have you forgotten UMA? Orange provide this for anyone with a supported handset and it works beautifully to supplement the signal up here in the frozen north and the dark recesses of our datacenter down south. When wifi is available the phone roams on to this and routes all voice/data/sms traffic over that. It even works abroad so when I am on the office wifi in the US it often switches to UMA at which point I am in the UK for billing purposes.

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How is this even slightly impressive? A bunch of middle class tools are running commercial products that were either donated or paid for by Daddy. Not a lot of ingenuity here, if there was they would have rigged up a series of battery powered wifi relays disguised as street furniture that route their traffic back to the free wifi at the local vegan lesbian bean bar.

lolz

Linux on a mobile phone will never take off.

Oh wait.

Social media and Wickedpedophile?

What a surprise, the cabal at Wickedpedophile don't want to share stuff with Facebook. Is this really news? The typical Wikifiddler looks a little like this: http://regmedia.co.uk/2009/12/23/david_gerard.jpg and wears a tin foil hat and pants to protect their privacy despite nobody really being in the least bit interested in their sad little lives. I suspect most of them aren't on Facebook anyway because they couldn't be early adopters (FB started in Universities) and they can't acquire super user admin powers by being pedantic little gobshites.

I really don't think Wickedpedophile's inner pentangle really has any idea of how the web works any more.

Lest we forget

The US Gov doesn't give a flying spaghetti monster what anyone in New Zealand thinks. Most of them probably think New Zealand is a place in the Caribbean anyway.

In fact, the US Gov doesn't really even care what Obama thinks.

LOHAN

Low Orbit Highly Autonomous Navigator

SBS

SBS LOLZ. It's like the free bag of pills the dealer gives you in the hope that you'll get hooked on harder stuff later on. I love how we have penguin heads talking about how they deal with big environments yet they also talk about USB hard drives for backups; that sounds like a kiddie solution to me but then I've got a little over 30TB to care for.

FFS

Let's not forget that there are more risks in a casual relationship than just the prospect of pregnancy. Wearing a condom is still the defacto best way to protect yourself and your partner and any girl who does not insist on this is as foolish as the man who chooses to ride bareback.

A pill for either a man or a woman should be reserved as a backup in case of failure (in which case trust is moot because it's a backup for both parties) or in the confines of a stable relationship where both parties choose to take responsibility for contraception.

No he won't

He's had jail time and his career is basically over because he's a dick, how is he supposed to come up with a million and a half dollars?

Oh hang on a minute

Outside of tech circles nobody cares. Some US grubbymint folks want to have a pop at Google because it's a bit too big and anti establishment for their liking, if they can't tame the horse they try to shoot it. Joe Sixpack on the streets of Buttsville, IL, will only care about it when some lamentable old crone on CNN tells him it's tantamount to terrorism.

Restitution

"Jewson appears to have admitted what he did and offered to pay restitution, but WeR1 says he can't pay what they will lose."

Surely standard US practice is to sue for billions more than the individual can ever hope to earn in their lifetime.

Simples

1) uk.gov sets up list of nasty sites

2) Gives away free software* that queries the list and blocks sites on list.

3) ISPs given an ISO standard or important looking logo to use if they sell packages that are child safe. Could probably come out of CEOP budget as they clearly have loads to spunk on useless panic buttons.

4) Grown ups who take personal responsibility continue to use the web as normal.

5) System rolled out to libraries, local grubbymint offices, schools etc - bound to be cheaper than all the individual commercial solutions.

*And I mean proper free. I'm sure there would be support for an OSS project if it provided safe browsing for kids without universal censorship.

douche

Nobody is coming out of this looking good. Julian is going down in flames and he wants it to be noisy.

Troll?

I know I shouldn't feed the trolls but surely Blitheringeejit can't be serious?

1) .com domains are easy for idiots, sorry voters, to remember. Nobody cares about the rules for domain registration and that's why tonga made a fortune selling off those .to domains because they were catchy. Also, is bit.ly based on Libya? I think not.

2) London is the capital of England and we own all the gash round the edges of the isle. Get over it.

Theatre

It's all bullshit anyway, the gubbermint are basically allowing the terrorists to keep the US in fear by playing up the threats. Terrorist atrocities happen, it sucks but it's true. You can't stop them at every vector so why not just minimise the impact by not scaring everyone with crap checks that serve no purpose.

Back when the US was busy funding terrorism against the UK we just got on with out lives and eventually we got them all round a table and told them to grow the fuck up, the reaction to bombings such as 7/7 in the UK compared to the many vaporous threats in the US shows just how different we are culturally. Can't the US just man the fuck up?

Oh and on a side note, if a big section of the world is filled with people who are so desperate to hurt you that they'll blow themselves up to make their point maybe, just maybe, you might want to reassess whatever it is that you're doing that's got them so riled. America is the Evil Empire and the 'terrorists' are the blokes in the xwings doing whatever they can to strike back at the bastards who pillaged their land, nicked their oil and left Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru smouldering outside their mud hut.

Bill doing a Steve?

Is Bill going to return to his ailing company and reinvigorate it the same way that Steve did with Apple? I'd like to see him sell up at the high point, watch others run it into the ground and then buy back in at the lows to make even more money for his charitable ventures.

Clearly a fraud

Clearly he's lying, it's absolutely inconceivable he could have gone to a lunch event before he started working at M$.

http://xkcd.com/195/

http://xkcd.com/195/

There you go, up in the top left corner. All those boys who grabbed a large address space need to have it wrestled back off them. GE for example use their public address space internally for desktops.

Guido

Can we not talk about Guido Fawkes in anything other than the contemptuous tones befitting a blogger who is about as anonymous as the Stig. The guy feeds out rumour as if it is fact and his readership are happy to accept it because they are the same sort of people, fascinated with the idea of power and celebrity, that read dross like OK magazine.

Unleash the "mom's basement" brigade...

Surely we don't want Linux to actually be used? Then the Linux admins won't be able to feel superior and might realise that their job is no different, they just opted for the less used OS.

Totally agree with you about webmin or such tools. MS did well to take the same GUI from their desktop product and apply it to the server OS, that way ensuring that newbie Windows folks aren't intimidated by a command line.

blah blah blah

Apple releases new stuff to feed the impotent lust of the wealthy thickies.

Nothing to get worked up about, let's just get back to doing something worthwhile while the 'coloured crayon brigade' oooh and ahhh about the jobsian packaged version of something we've been doing for ages.

A woman came in for a double entendre..

...so I gave her one.

Bold move

Nice one, Google! Take the desire to link together all those disparate accounts and all that anonymous data and then dress the whole thing up as a 'feature' so everyone is clamouring to give you more information about themselves. Oh look, that student bigballz91@gmail.com who no longer uses their account is now this unemployed person looking for work as john.smith34423421@gmail.com

let me be the first

to call for playmobile

That's absolutely one explanation

So they had a buggy device with problems.

MS then started cutting features to try to get something out the door.

The developers *then* started having long lunches and looking forward to their fat paycheque.

Or

They had a buggy device with problems

MS then started cutting features to try to get something out the door

The developers spent more time congratulating themselves on being bought by MS and didn't bother producing a good product because they knew that there was a fat paycheque coming, and besides everyone hates MS so they can always play the victim.

Secret stuff

Yeah, very secret.

Let the bragging begin

People who spell 'naughty' as 'nortie' are now going to spend a good long time bragging about how them and 'wifey' spend loads on all sorts of nobbly things to spice up their depressing suburban sex lives. These are likely to be the same people who think their 'alternative' lifestyle is a good substitute for an interesting one.

It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that I don't care. If your sex life is so fantastic then why do you feel the need to tell everyone about it? One feels you protest too much.

here we go again

A Greater Manchester mum is "angry, disgusted and upset"

That should read:

A Greater Manchester mum is "rubbing her hands with glee at the thought of £20,000 from the papers"

It's a toddlers arse, who cares? I doubt even the mythical paedosaurus will get it's rocks off on that. It's much more likely that an uncle of close friend of the family would be adding the mental image 'to the bank' after seeing it in real life - most abuse comes from family members and close friends after all.

OK, two points

1) Can that agent that is pictured please be my honeytrap?

2) This is a little more James Bond than the usual spy guff. Where do I sign up and see point 1.