That's the same as the password on my luggage!
Posts by John 110
658 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Aug 2009
I just love your accent – please, have a new password
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moves to shut Parliament
Wednesday 28th August 2019 13:47 GMT
Re: About Time
You might believe it the will of YOUR people, but it's certainly not the will of mine...
PS: Calling Mr Johnson "Boris" like he's a mate just shows how brainwashed you actually are. He doesn't care about you, all he cares about (like his mate, Jacob) is that he stands to make a personal profit out of whatever chaos the country drops into post-Brexit.
Fed-up graphic design outfit dangles cash to anyone who can free infosec of hoodie pics
NASA trumpets Orion completion as India heads to the Moon
Microsoft adds Internet Explorer mode to Chromium Edge, announces roadmap
I don't know but it's been said, Amphenol plugs are made with lead
Will that old Vulcan's engines run? Bluebird jet boat team turn to Cold War bomber
UK's North Midlands hospitals IT outage, day 2: All surgery and appointments cancelled
DeepNude's makers tried to deep-six their pervy AI app. Web creeps have other ideas: Cracked copies shared online as code decompiled
When customers see red, sometimes the obvious solution will only fan the flames
Friday 14th June 2019 09:21 GMT
Good old days
Waaayy back when Excite was the homepage of choice (and 286s ruled the Earth), we had one user who was typing intranet addresses into the Excite search box and getting really shirty when they couldn't be found. She also got really irate (turned red and everything) when I suggested that perhaps she would like a little bit of training on how to use a browser...
I did try to explain the difference between the Intranet and the Internet, but...
Idle Computer Science skills are the Devil's playthings
Praise the lard! Police hook up with Microsoft to school us on National Phish and Chip Day
LibreOffice 6.3 hits beta, with built-in redaction tool for sharing those █████ documents
Register Lecture: The Death of the Gods – through a tweet darkly
Planes, fails and automobiles: Overseas callout saved by gentle thrust of server CD tray
Buy, buy this American PCIe, drove my PC on the Wi-Fi so the Wi-Fi would fly
Personality quiz for all you IT bods: Are you a chameleon or an outlaw? A diplomat or a high flier? Vote right here
Daddy, are we there yet? How Mrs Gates got Bill to drive the kids to school
Idiot admits destroying scores of college PCs using USB Killer gizmo, filming himself doing it
The HeirPod? Samsung Galaxy Buds teardown finds tiny wireless cans 'surprisingly repairable'
Thursday 14th March 2019 10:25 GMT
Re: Wireless?
I'm with you. I keep going back to my Sony ones that I got with something years ago. The cable is still intact (usually the first point of failure) and the sound is better (for my old ears) than anything I've tried to replace them with. (I would tell you the model, but all that info has long since worn off. If it wasn't for a little blip on the left bud, I wouldn't know which was which)
I do keep getting them tangled in my scarf though...
Amazon may finally get its hands on .amazon after world's DNS overseer loses patience
'It's like painting with atoms'... Watch how boffins form armies of simple micron-sized bots from a silicon wafer
Dear Britain's mast-fearing Nimbys: Do you want your phone to work or not?
What happens when security devices are insecure? Choose the nuclear option
Official science: Massive asteroids are so difficult to destroy, Bruce Willis wouldn't stand a chance
OK, team, we've got the big demo tomorrow and we're feeling confident. Let's reboot the servers
'Occult' text from Buffy The Vampire Slayer ep actually just story about new bus lane in Dublin
LibreOffice 6.2 is here: Running up a Tab at the NotebookBar? You can turn it all off if you want
Hey, UK.gov: If you truly spunked £45k on 1,300 Brexit deal print-outs, you're absolute mugs
Irish data watchdog to Facebook: Hang about, what's all this about a WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger merger now?
Tuesday 29th January 2019 14:52 GMT
Re: thanks to my family I can't
The main problem is that the majority of folk aren't the sort of paranoid savvy individuals that you find here at the Reg. I've tried to get the other half to switch from Chrome to something that doesn't collect her data, but "Chrome already works" and the effort to switch is too energy intensive for her (she is ill after all)
But even those people that do have the capability to take more care of their personal data just can't be arsed if it means trying to learn something different.
Florida man stumbles on biggest prime number after working plucky i5 CPU for 12 days straight
Heard the one where the boss calls in an Oracle consultant who couldn't fix the database?
Microsoft: Come and play in our Windows SandBox
Tech support discovers users who buy the 'sh*ttest PCs known to Man' struggle with basics
Friday 7th December 2018 10:42 GMT
25 years of IT support...
...in a laboratory where Louis Pasteur would recognise the techniques we use.
* One poor soul couldn't understand why that big silver DELL button didn't turn the computer on.
* Our office manager (who could lay out documents on a typewriter that you would swear had been professionally typeset) kept all her correspondence in a single Word file (5 for DOS, then kept the practice up when we transitioned to 2.0 on Win 3.11).
* A friend who took early retirement rather than have to face using a PC every day.
It's easy to mock these people, especially when we work in a high-tech environment, but like I say, I've worked 45 years in a microbiology lab (25 of those in IT support) and the technological changes we've seen in that time have been unbelievable (look up MALDI-TOF). The pc revolution just seemed like one more thing to cope with for some people.
These days of course, we're sitting people down in front of desktop PCs using keyboard oriented software, when their computing experience is mainly stabbing their finger at a phone or iPad. Still, keeps me in a job (until next year)
Huawei MateBook Pro X: PC makers look out, the phone guys are here
Oh, I wish it could be Black Friday every day-aayyy, when the wallets start jingling but it's still a week till we're paiii-iid
Wombats literally sh!t bricks – and now boffins reckon they know how
Brexit: UK will be disconnected from EU databases after 2020
Watchdog sceptical UK.gov's Universal Credit can handle 8.5m benefits claimants
With sorry Soyuz stuffed, who's going to run NASA's space station taxi service now?
Friday 12th October 2018 14:28 GMT
Re: No worries
""I'm surprised we haven't already done the 'space force' thing, actually."
You have. It's called USAF Space Command."
Yeah, but they run the Stargate program and you can't use that to get to Earth orbit unless you gate to a planet with a goa'uld mothership (and that would be bad)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
