Re: Active Nonsense
With your two cans and string, I guess the active part was making said string wet?
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USB-C to hit 80Gbps under updated USB4 v. 2.0 spec
Braking news: Cops slammed for spamming Waze to slow drivers down
Thursday 1st September 2022 09:16 GMT 
"Traffic cops in Surrey, England,"
Can we stop this AMERICANISATION of El Reg?
This used to be a quirky UK centric tech site. No longer.
WE... As in the readership know where Surrey is.
Soon we'll be seeing "London, England' everywhere. Same on you editors, shame on you. Go and sit on the naughty step.
I wonder how your readership profile had changed since you moved to being US Centric? Care to share?
Tesla faces Autopilot lawsuit alleging phantom braking
Wednesday 31st August 2022 10:55 GMT
Just you wait
Tesla reportedly wants to remove other controls just to save money.
First to go will be the stalk that controls the direction, forward, reverse or park. This will all be done via the main screen
Then the stalk that controls the indicators. Again this will be moved to the screen.
Just to save a few quid in build costs... sic.
I'd avoid a Tesla at all costs. I'll stick with my Kia Niro EV thank you.
The internet's edge routers are all so different. What if we unified them with software?
Google Maps, search results to point women to actual abortion providers
California to phase out internal combustion vehicles by 2035
UK's largest water company investigates datacenters' use as drought hits
Interconnect innovation key to satiating soaring demand for fiber capacity
Tuesday 23rd August 2022 17:18 GMT
Re: Fibre vs Fiber
I guess the new owners have demanded that spell checkers are set to US language rather than British English. IMHO, Americanese has devolved into a different language and should not be called English.
When MTG becomes speaker of the house in January, they will make sure that everyone starts speaking Georgian (the state not the country).
What I want to know is then will BT commission the Fibre that was laid in our area almost two years ago. The boxes are up the poles but so far they are not offering a service. The Vermin network is groaning due to the load.
Microsoft finds critical hole in operating system that for once isn't Windows
Tuesday 23rd August 2022 09:37 GMT
Re: From 'The 10 Commandments for C Programmers'
The "10 Commandments" relies on developers actually RTFM.
Come on now people, how many of you actually do read the frigging manual to anything these days?
The last one that I tried was painful. The 5pt type was agony on my eyes and I had to resort to the old magnifying glass. Even then...
As for using strcpy in 2022? Google, you are shite. Go and sit on the naughty step until 2023.
How important are tech and other contractors to UK? PM candidate promises tax review if elected
Big Tech is building the metaverse of its own dreams. You don't want to go there
LibreOffice improves Microsoft compatibility with version 7.4
Friday 19th August 2022 18:59 GMT
I went cold-turkey on MS Office in 2016
and don't regret it. In 2015, I decided that I would not pay any MS tithe once I retired.
Now it is Linux all the way.
I use a 2015 vintage 15in MacBook pro (bought secondhand). It used to run CentOS but now run Alma Linux.
Libre Office does everything I need.
Since 2016, I've written well over 1.5 Million words in Writer and submitted over 100 stories to Amazon Kindle with no issues.
I accept that for some (as in very few) power users LO is not up to the job but for 99% of the rest of us it is fine.
YMMV naturally.
Microsoft brings more Arm64 support and an updated expiry date to Dev Channel Windows
Thursday 18th August 2022 17:56 GMT 
MS does not care about Windows on ARM
YET
They have clearly seen what Apple has done with the M1/M2 series and will IMHO, hold back as long as possible from supporting Windows on any ARM based system until they or the likes of Dell/HP/ASIS etc has hardware with at least an equivalent performance as an M1 based Mac. Even then, I would not put it past MS to put something in their full W11 for Arm, that stops it from running on an M1/M2 based Mac but that would probably lead to an almighty antitrust lawsuit.
They will catch up eventually.
UK launches 'consultation' with EU over exclusion from science programs
Warning: Apple 'could very easily' cripple Jamf
Elon Musk wrote article for China's internet regulator, hinted at aged care robots
Monday 15th August 2022 15:23 GMT
Re: Musk has a certifiable need to be continually in the spotlight.
only matched by Donal J Trump himself.
Robots? Ok, I see what is next for the Shanghai Gigafactory... Replace all the resident workers with robots that don't need room and board.
Instant extra profit for Mucky Musk.
Once he's done Shanghai, he'll replace all his workers even at the service centres.
This will fall perfectly into his plan to stop selling cars and only rent them out... as sort of super Uber although with less people working especially in the USA, I don't know how people will afford anything but shoe leather.
General Motors charges mandatory $1,500 fee for three years of optional car features
Microsoft: Outlook desktop app crashing due to missing identity setting
Want the very latest Windows Insider Dev Channel build? Check your disk space
US car industry leads the world in production cuts over chip shortages
Google hit with lawsuit for dropping free Workspace apps
Monday 8th August 2022 19:11 GMT
Re: Isn't perjury in court still illegal?
I think that question should be asked of Steve Bannon who will probably be indicted for perjury following his recent trial and that is after the judge warned him to tell the truth.
His lies have cost him almost $150M so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTKE_VvNZg
Google's ChromeOS Flex turned my old MacBook into new frustrations
Fancy a freshened up SLAX or ChromeOS replacement Peppermint OS?
Microsoft's Teams goes native on Apple, retains a human touch
Friday 5th August 2022 08:59 GMT
Re: Nice for all the fruity guys, but what about Linux?
'Microsoft and Linux' is all about playing lip service to... well, you fill in the blanks.
The word 'lip' reminds me that anything that MS does is just adding another coat of lipstick on their pet pig.
I would hold out much hope for Teams to improve that mugh. They have the market share and hence, the captive users.
What is the alternative? not a lot.
Slack has its fans but still sucks unless you are a geek IMHO.
We'll get you that Wi-Fi 7 laptop by 2024, Intel says
Oracle staff share news of sizable layoffs
Apple's secret car team tosses keys to Lamborghini lead
Microsoft warns Windows 10 patch broke printing for some
Windows Start Menu not starting? You're not alone
Tuesday 26th July 2022 05:37 GMT
Re: Of course Linux was there first
I beg to differ.
I seem to recall 'find' was a UNIX command well before Linus was out of short trousers (if that is a thing in Finland)
And it still works fine on Linux and even MacOS. At least it does not go trolling through the whole frigging internet as MS would like us to do for everything.
Amazon buys US healthcare chain One Medical for $3.9bn
UK chemicals multinational to build hydrogen 'gigafactory'
Wednesday 20th July 2022 14:08 GMT
Re: AFAIK, ONLY Tesla drivers can use those charge points.
Not true.
One a recent trip to Norway where EV's are everywhere I saw many non Tesla cars charging at Tesla Superchargers. Tesla is opening up their network to all EV's apart from those who use CHAdeMO connectors.
Then you have companies like Gridserve who are putting in EV Charging hubs with many 350kW chargers.
Then there is the new site that opened last week in Oxford. Much the same idea.
Then... the most recent EV's can charge from 10-80% in under 30 minutes. Just enough time for a comfort break and to queue up at a coffee shop.
The situation at Motorway Services is improving but TBH, I only use the one at JCN 1 on the M6 where there are 24 350kW chargers or the Instavolt side just off the M40 at Banbury.
Things are improving all the time. I've seen a huge change in Rapid Charger availability since I got an EV in 2019.
Norway should be used as a great example of how to do this stuff. Almost every village that has a supermarket and a filling station also have at least 2 DC chargers.
I travelled from Stavanger to Narvik and never saw queues of people waiting to charge on the main roads.
Yes, we have a lot to do but things are changing. Besides, my new EV can easily go from SW of London to north of Leeds on one charge. 30mins charge and I can get to Perth. I did that very thing in late May.
BT strike action is coming: Comms union to serve notice to company
Get over it: Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days
Wednesday 13th July 2022 15:06 GMT
Re: 'The Evil Empire' hasn't been evil for about eight years now
Microsoft will always be evil. The 'lipstick on a pig' has never ever been truer.
It won't be long before they come out with Microsoft Linux Mk 2 and tell the world that this is the ONLY TRUE Linux OS and that all the rest are impostors and should be deleted forthwith.
I'm sure that their version will contain huge amounts of telemetry and other nasties just to keep track of us plebs
At least RedHat didn't fall into the hands of MS. They'll be out there making sure that their software only runs properly on MS Linux. Nothing like a bit of vendor locking to keep the money coming in.
I will never ever use any MS branded or owned product again.
MS can go suck on this [see icon]. I hope they get a real bloody nose.
Intel is running rings around AMD and Arm at the edge
Monday 27th June 2022 18:30 GMT
Re: As is doing telemetry
AND monetizing that data stream is the next big growth area.
CEO to CIO:
Why did we spend all that money on telemetry? What is in it for my paycheck?
CIO:
Don't worry boss, we are about to sign a deal with Google to sell all that lovely customer data. That deal will bring in ten times what it cost us to put it in the first place.
CEO: Great. Carry on.
CEO to wife later that day,
Darling... you can close the deal on the new villa in Aruba...
Microsoft issues fix for Windows 11 Wi-Fi hotspots
Friday 24th June 2022 17:26 GMT 
Windows Serarch?
In all my years of using Windows, I can safely say that I only used their search feature ONCE. When I found that it was searching the internet for something that was on my HDD I scratched my head and vowed never to use it again. From then on, I used the command line.
Naturally, MS goes out of the way to make finding your own data even harder by defaulting to hidden directories. There must be countless millions of HDD's (inc SSD etc) that a full to bursting with all the crap that MS hides away from the user. Whenever I got access to a new Windows box, almost the first thing that I would do was to unhide those directories.
MS is evil... pure and simple.
Totaled Tesla goes up in flames three weeks after crash
Friday 24th June 2022 10:55 GMT
Re: Am I the only one
I charge my EV from renewable sources. At the moment, it is charging using the output of my Solar Panels. This month, I have driven over 800 miles and used exactly 0.0000kWh of grid electricity. In winter, I still charge my car from solar and I get around 45% of the energy needed by the car that way.
When it is time to scrap the car, the body will be recycled as it is made of Aluminium. The battery will be recycled as well. Either used for powering a home (I already use 48kWh of old EV batteries to power my home) or broken down into recoverable elements which are a lot cheaper that using those same elements fresh from the mines.
Amazon shows off robot warehouse workers that won't complain, quit, unionize...
Yodel becomes the latest victim of a cyber 'incident'
Wi-Fi hotspots and Windows on Arm broken by Microsoft's latest patches
Metaverse progress update: Some VR headset prototypes nowhere near shipping
Monday 20th June 2022 19:01 GMT 
re Bet that we'll fall over ourselves...?
Er no we won't.
Ok, some who are all in with FecalBook will but for the rest of us? Fat chance.
On the 'Snog, Marry, Avoid' scale, Facebook is for me in the 'Run like hell as fast as possible' category.
Once upon a time, FB was regarded as a cool place to hang out. That ship sailed years ago. now it is regarded as a place for oldies.
Perhaps that is why they target their communicator thing at....(drum roll)... old people.
Again, personally, the world will be a better place when FB closes down. The only people who won't like it will be the mental health professionals.
Will optics ever replace copper interconnects? We asked this silicon photonics startup
Saturday 18th June 2022 17:03 GMT
For domestic customers?
given the fact that BT (or their contractors) laid Fibre to the poles in my street over a year ago, they don't have any plans to switch it on this side of 2025 (or so on BT guy told me)
That all seems like a tick box job. Lay the fibre for FTTH and get paid by the Government. Nothing about making it work...
'The Epoch
So... the answer for us users at home is 'The Epoch' or Armageddon, whichever is sooner.
Microsoft readies Windows Autopatch to free admins from dealing with its fixes
Businesses brace for quantum computing disruption by end of decade
EV battery can reach full charge in 'less than 10 minutes'
Wednesday 15th June 2022 05:59 GMT
Re: 1000 Charges
That is 1000 charges from 0% to 100% which no one in their right mind does on a regular basis.
It is recommended that you charge from 10% to 80% when on long trips.
I never charge more than 60% when I'm doing local trips and 85% in preparation for a long journey.
My EV battery is almost 4 years old and has lost 5% of its usable capacity. Slow charging (like at home) can extend the life of the cells.
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