Posts by Youngone

Re: If everyone is back in the office..

...but is BORING being stuck on your own all day.

What's even worse is that the rest of my family might be working from home too. Don't make me talk to them.

I had a whole series of friend requests on Facebook, at one point, from attractive young ladies who seem to have forgotten to put a blouse on this morning.

Fortunately, even when I was young and smooth, attractive young ladies of that sort never showed any interest in me so I'm under no illusions now.

This is also almost identical to the ongoing incident at a large corporation I happen to work for, but in this case we turned off a working (sort of) Oracle system and turned on a shiny new SAP system.

I have just finished talking to an outside contractor who provides a very important service for us, and while he was apologetic he won't be working for us anymore because he no longer believes our finance people's assurances that he will be paid on time.

Fortunately for me, I can make this someone else's problem. I also have a job interview next week.

Re: You're not paid to think, shut up and do your job

Weirdly, there are people who still think communists were the bad guys, and our side are the good guys.

I know.

Re: I am surprised there's anyone left to lay off!

My son's company uses HP laptops and desktops and he is pretty happy with them, including after sales service, although that might change if half the techs get the bullet.

Re: TAI = UTC + 37 seconds, am I missing something?

...do some actual research...

On Facebook or Youtube?

The point the GAO is trying to make is a little bit lost in the details, but it amounts to the fact that the oil and gas industry is important to America, but is not very profitable to the companies that run it, so what they need is an injection of taxpayers money to help them solve their security problems.

Re: How long before she ...

Somebody has to pay for all the appeals.

I had a quick look at the Wikipedia entry for this Sam Bankman-Fried bloke who seems to have become the face of crypto-gambling lately, and as far as I can see his only qualification is that; "he is the son of Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman, both professors at Stanford Law School."

Re: Re FTX

"As crypto matures ..."

Crypto is mature. Scam artists have been using it quite successfully for several years now.

Re: this comment has no value

Ah yes, context. My thought when I saw the headline was "I will never pay Twitter eight bucks a month because price isn't the same as value" but everyone to their own I suppose.

The thing about Twitter, (and Facebook and all the rest) is that if Elon continues to destroy it and it goes away, it will make exactly zero difference to anyone not employed there, because something similar will spring up to take its place and people like the author of this piece can pay that website money if they choose.

Re: Zuck and metaverse

"Look upon my works ye mighty and despair" maybe?

Re: I don't see the problem...

The is no way he's using any of that money for a new venture.

Those Saudis are going to want to get their beaks wet at some point, and they'll be pretty insistent about it too.

Morgan Stanley are likewise not known for walking away from a debt.

Re: Snap is an infection

I installed Nextcloud on my Ubuntu server as a snap, and am now regretting that decision, although it does work, and has been very stable.

When the box it runs on gets replaced next year I'm going to have to do it properly.

Re: I've managed without Twitter this far

If you're an independent artist or musician and Twitter has your entire identity you've made a very poor business decision.

With Facebook and Snapchat and whatever else available I can't see it being too hard to transfer their entire identity to another voracious corporation.

should of?

Should of? It's bloody should have.

Re: been saying it for years

We're in the middle of a multi-year effort to send everything into the cloud. Everything.

I suspect that if I hang around long enough I'll be able to witness it all coming back, but I'm looking for a new gig so probably won't be.

About as well as can be expected, thanks for asking.

Re: You don't use removable media?

“Stop right there, I actually don’t give a sh!t, let’s just say it was magic - do you want another drink?”

I might be in love with your mate's girlfriend.

He deserves every penny, and more. There is literally no-one else in the world who can do the things he does.

He is also kind and handsome and if you ask nicely, he'll come 'round to your place on Saturday and wash your car.

Whatsisname is quite possibly the cleverest businessman in the history of business doing, and should be paid more.

Re: "using NFTs to enable access to exclusive customer experiences and perks"

My thought was that its still going to be Starbucks, so poor quality, expensive and served by someone who is clearly looking for a better job.

Re: relentless push

...gets fished into poverty

It is spelled "Phished" and if you send me $700 in used notes I'll explain why.

Signed,

Your Boss.

xxx

Re: The rig is on fire

Kanye has mental health problems and is being taken advantage of by unscrupulous scumbags.

They ought to be ashamed of themselves, but they won't be.

Re: Is nowhere safe?

You don't understand, it is resulting in two to six times the brand-performance lift compared to other benchmarks. Two to six times!

Just think of the synergies they'll create with that globalised mindshare baby!

Anyway, it's right-shoring a low-risk high-yeild game plan.

Re: Oooh, nice album cover!

Waddaya mean if you like prog? Doesn't everyone?

Thanks for the tip. I'll track that albumn down. Looks like it's right up my alley.

Re: I wonder...

I'm using Win 11 on my work laptop as part of our testing process and in my opinion its not worse than Windows 10 which about the highest praise I have had for a new Microsoft OS for as long as I can remember.

I have several Dell Latitude laptops that are EOL for the business, but still working fine so I have factory reset one back to the standard out-of-box experience.

After the various updates install, it offers to test if Win 11 is an option, but fails.

However, if I download a Win 11 .iso and install from that it works fine, so I am completely confused.

Can my laptop upgrade to Win 11? The answer seems to be No, maybe, yes.

Re: Pardon?

Are you telling me that we British English speakers use "Fall" instead of "Autumn"? Because I have some news for you if you are.

Re: Free Speech

Weirdly Truth social is only available in America.

At the moment, Truth Social is available for U.S. users only, but rest assured, we are working hard to make it available in your country.

Someone should phone them and tell them how the Internet works.

...will Linus need to look into getting extra digits surgically applied?

He will have an extra arm attached. This will also improve his ski-boxing.

Re: Wrong!!

"Quiet quitting" is absolutely "work to rule" and is a reaction to the unwillingness of employers to engage properly when it is time for pay negotiations.

The fact The Register is publishing nonsense phrases like "Employers will be unable to increase pay at the same rate of inflation – that's a fact, tells me that I might need to start looking for a new place for my daily dose of tech news.

The whole article is just an anti-worker rant really and not a very convincing one.

Re: Talk to them like they are idiots.

You have to drink the Kool Aid to work there.

It's not unique to Google. The vast American corporation I work for bombards me daily with propaganda.

I assume it's what working in the Soviet Union felt like.

Re: Crimes

Wow, 0.005 bitcoin?

That's worth $165,

$87,.

Never mind.

Re: AG Bonta: Full Steam Ahead!

Selling your stuff on Amazon makes you just like those poor sharecroppers who lived lives of such desperate poverty in the Southern states of America for so long.

Bezos may have read some history books at some point.

Re: "the feature will shut them down when it's safe to do so without losing data"

I had a complaint made about me one time when I told a user that I could not recover a document "from the mainframe" because she hadn't saved it at any point.

She had worked on it for 4 hours without saving even one time and claimed that that I told her that I wouldn't recover it for her.

Fortunately my manager explained to the HR lady how those things work and the complaint went no further.

Sometimes users won't be helped.

Re: I am looking forward to the crypto ice-age....

Every time I read about crypto-currencies I'm reminded that the US economy was crashed multiple times in the 19th and early 20th centuries by various unregulated or poorly-regulated financial opportunities.

Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it.

Re: ONLY IN MURICA... INTEL FOLLOW FOXCONN's EMPTY BUILDINGS Strategies

Good lord.

You may have some sort of point to make but it would very nice if you could do it without all the shouty capitalisations.

May I also suggest full sentences? Rows of full stops are a poor substitute.

Re: It is ironic

A good rule of thumb I live my life by is that if a libertarian says something is great, I know to avoid it.

There is a great book about how it all fails to work called "A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear". It is very funny.

Re: She was a good one

but on his track record he could want powers that Parliament will refuse.

No he won't.

Charles knows exactly what a monarch is for in 21st century Britain and won't be rocking the boat.

Despite my low opinion of almost all of the current members of the Royal Family I don't think Charles is actually stupid.

The chances are high that he will be the best of the Charles's so far although that is a very low bar.

Re: Just wanted to say great useful idea your incentivization scheme

I've refused to itemise my timesheet, as the vast corporation I work for doesn't pay me by the hour, they give me the same amount of money every month.

I told the last beancounter who tried to lecture me about it that she could feel free to charge my time wherever she saw fit.

I haven't heard back.

Re: which public sector ?

Which public sector ? is a fair question.

I work for a vast American corporation and recognise all of the same frustrations commentards are pointing out here, except no minister to take the blame.

22 months delay makes them amateurs in the delay game. I've been waiting 6 year for my replacement phone system.

The great thing about Liz is that she'll keep telling whoever is listening exactly what they want to hear.

The first thing she'll do is end that enquiry into whether Boris lied to Parliament, because Conservatives should never have to face any consequences for their actions.

Re: Obligatory Paris Comment

Well hang on now. I'm concerned that Ian is making claims about wearing a bikini but not supplying pictures as proof.

I think an investigation is in order.