* Posts by Mr_Pitiful

236 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Nov 2009

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'Bogus IT guys' slurp £1.3m from Barclays: Cybercops cuff 8 blokes

Mr_Pitiful

Re: This is supposed to be a tech site

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-396632-001-IP-KVM-CAT5-PS-2-Interface-Adaptor-/200710430091?pt=UK_Computing_KVM_Switches_KVM_Cables&hash=item2ebb461d8b

El Reg seeks new mobile, wireless tech writer - could it be YOU?

Mr_Pitiful

Re: Working out of London Office?

I work 99% from home, I own a mobile, but only use it for making phone calls. (Apparently my phone can do millions of things, I just don't need them)

Our second attempt to give LOHAN a good banging: Live tomorrow

Mr_Pitiful

Why so late in the day?

Wouldn't it be better to launch between 9 or 10 am?

Then you'd have a chance to track and recover in daylight!

BRUCE WILLIS (ad) DIES HARD (in Sky broadband telly fib ban)

Mr_Pitiful
Happy

Re: I haven't seen the ad

I don't have TV here!!

Mr_Pitiful

I haven't seen the ad

Can someone post a link please?

Transdimensional rift appears above Australian bolt supplier

Mr_Pitiful
Happy

I think.....

My wife has one of those!

For pity's sake: DON'T MOVE to the COUNTRY if you want to live

Mr_Pitiful
Stop

Re: How to survive in the countryside

I have a friend who lives in rural South Carolina

When she drives she always has a booze drink in her cup holder

Usually a pint & a half off White Russian, with hardly any milk in it!

Scary

Snowden: 'Hey, Assange, any more room on Ecuador's sofa?'

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Go

Are there any IT jobs in Ecuador?

I'm currently looking!

If they want to build infrastructure, security etc then I'm your guy

Please look me up

Paul

Phones for the elderly: Testers wanted for senior service

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I think this is a great idea

My mother recently had a fall and broke her hip. She wasn't close to her landline and it took her 3 hours to crawl to the phone to call for help!

A Mobile may have helped in this case and I'm all for it.

If you've bought DRM'd film files from Acetrax, here's the bad news

Mr_Pitiful
Facepalm

I kind off disagree

I pretty much purchase every DVD I've every downloaded or streamed

But I do so at a local car boot sale for £1.00 each and they are not copies (I check)

There is much to be gained from a wonder round at 7am on a Sunday morning!

Living in the middle of a big city? Your broadband may still be crap

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Happy

30 Meters from Exchange.....

Super fast broadband over copper

never less than 60MBits

Only had 12 - 20 hours outage in 8 years!

Review: Renault Zoe electric car

Mr_Pitiful
WTF?

Re: completely useless beyond a few niche users

Bus and train services in Cornwall are available but less than practical...

To get to Truro from where I live on a bus will take over 2 hours and require 2 changes

And there is only one bus service that can get me there for 9am (start of work)

To take a train takes 30 mins minimum, and I still have to get to a station - 20 mins average

The cost is also so high, that driving makes it cheeper and I can choose when I leave home or work

I tested an Electric Car a while back, for a week, it costed a lot to recharge at home - approx £3.80 per night

And to recharge at work approx £5.60 (Tarriff thing I guess)

So altogether approx £9.40 a day total and the round trip was 48 miles

My petrol car does 40mpg approx, so a tank (£60) will last all week, with shopping trips etc

An EV would cost me £47 just to get to work, never mind anything else.

If I had to go to a site visit, it just wouldn't be practical. 150 mile range is rubbish

South Korean TV and banks paralysed in disk-wipe cyber-blitz

Mr_Pitiful
Mushroom

It's amazing......

What can be achieved with a few spectrums and C64s

Yahoo! webmail! hijacks! are! back!...

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Coat

Oh....

Dear!

Mr_Pitiful
Mushroom

I've been seeing the spam all week

All coming from compromised accounts overseas

I've even advised some off them by phone to change their passwords

Well at least we never click on stupid links!

Icon - Yahoo!

HYPERSONIC METEOR smashes into Russia, injuring hundreds

Mr_Pitiful
Unhappy

Re: AAAHH MOTHERLAND!

Do you realise how much that costs?

Register reader Ray revs radio-controlled Raspberry Pi race rover

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Unhappy

URL?

Where is the cars URL?

NASA melts mysterious 'metal Martian flower' myth

Mr_Pitiful
Happy

The chances of anything coming from mars.....

Are a million to one he said!

El Reg contemplates the ultimate cuppa

Mr_Pitiful
Coffee/keyboard

I had the misfortune

To visit a tea plantation in Sri Lanka

I nearly prchased a kilo of the stuff to bring home

Luckily, I tried a cup before purchasing, and it was terrible

Even the processing plant stank, but I thought, well that must be the process!

How wrong can one be!

Astronomers unravel solar system's strange energy 'ribbon'

Mr_Pitiful
Pint

Typical

There is no menu on it!

Where do you click for File & Save As?

Pub o' clock comes early for C&W biz customers silenced by titsup phones

Mr_Pitiful
Happy

Why can't C&W customers...

Simply re-route their outgoing call to BT

All they need to do is dial 1280 before the number...

Problem solved

Patrick Moore: Lived with cats, accompanied Einstein on the piano

Mr_Pitiful
Pint

RIP

I had a letter from him when I was 10, Inviting me to join his news letter

Which I did, and received until recently

He was such an inspiration to me over the years, as was Carl Sagan

A toast to you my friend, I hope you're up there enjoying the 'SPACE'

Who's using 'password' as a password? TOO MANY OF YOU

Mr_Pitiful
Facepalm

Re: Double Fail

/me quickly takes down postit notes from my wall and writes the passwords in our little black book!!!!

The shame I will now suffer

Mr_Pitiful
Pint

dev passwords

Those are dev passwords i.e. Zaq12wsx or Xsw23edc

easy as pie if you use one starting with the website first letter theregister.co.uk could be Tgbnhy65

up or down and around, meets the usual 8 letter/numeric restrictions

Beer, as it's a good way to forget the passwords you've used

BTW my former IT manager locked the whole company to use Password10 with no option to change ever! WTF

Warming up the thruster that will ram LOHAN to glorious heights

Mr_Pitiful
Pint

I've got a spare -80 freezer....

If you need to test it at low temps like the upper atmosphere

Beer because, well done so far guys

Licensing snafu leaves Windows 8 open to PIRATES

Mr_Pitiful
Stop

Re: At first I was excited by this news...

Ditto & I got a bloody key that I don't need or want!

World's LEGGIEST BLONDE is super-rare millipede living in SF

Mr_Pitiful

Re: I think we have a millipede living in our house!

Naaaa, can buy anything I want!

Mr_Pitiful
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Quick ring a scientist

You have a centipede that can count out loud!

Mr_Pitiful
WTF?

I think we have a millipede living in our house!

There must be, I can see at least 200 pairs off shoes by the front door

Only 4 off them belong to me

That leaves 196 pairs belonging to 1 other adult and 2 children

Someone in our house has an obsession with shoes?

SUN to GO OUT COMPLETELY: Here's how to watch online

Mr_Pitiful
Happy

but it not on the 13th

international dateline anyone?

looks like the 14th @ 18.45

humph

Metro's mother to replace defenestrated Windows boss Sinofsky

Mr_Pitiful
Happy

Re: I predict anguish

Why would there be any anguish

Office 2003 is fantastic and can read DOCX documents perfectly with the addon

The hoarder's dilemma, or 'Why can't I throw anything away?'

Mr_Pitiful
Mushroom

I've just decided I've got too much junk

Oh my, what have I got?

We are lucky that the place we live in has a few dry out buildings, one of which has a walk in freezer - unused.

All the buildings are full floor to ceiling with boxes of old IT kit, towers, routers, drives of all sorts.

Loads of old CRT monitors and working LCD screens.

About 20 plastic boxes of cable, no idea whats in them.

My office is pretty clear, though, on 25 assorted hard drives and a few DVD drives.

All needs to be got rid off, but I will shed a tear, if I have to dump it!

Nuke, in case it all ens up landfill!

Hackers leak 120,000 student records in raid on world's top unis

Mr_Pitiful
Happy

Re: Dinosaurs?

Nice schema!

Haynes Build Your Own Computer book review

Mr_Pitiful
Happy

Re: IT departments

I would worry if they did

Can you imagine the damage it could cause!

Neil Armstrong dies aged 82

Mr_Pitiful

RIP

If he did go to the moon then wow what a achievement!

If he didn't go then wow what a photo shoot

Two weeks 'til the internet disappears, for 58 Fortune 500 companies

Mr_Pitiful
WTF?

Infected Routers!

I rather doubt that there are any infected routers

or am I missing something?

If there were routers affected, then wouldn't there be other isseus?

Google blocks MP3 rippers from YouTube

Mr_Pitiful
Pirate

Hmmm

What about all the other youtube - mp3/mp4 sites, what did they all do right then. The one I use is still working... well it was 10 minutes ago!

Stanley Black & Decker picks up Wi-Fi tracking tools

Mr_Pitiful
Pint

Re: What will this be sued for?

I really hope that was a typo!

it does look good as a medical application

At last! The Wi-Fi chip that'll beam video from mobe to telly

Mr_Pitiful
Coffee/keyboard

Re: DLNA - Doesn't Like Nearly Anything

"and I am convinced the user's dress and choice of deodorant."

You own me half a beer, the half I just coughed over my monitor!

Microsoft forbids class actions in new Windows licence

Mr_Pitiful
Happy

Re: If the first thing they do

I owe you a beer, for that comment

Nice one

Dole office to roll out digital benefits to north-west – 6 months early

Mr_Pitiful
FAIL

Re: ...

Is there an oyster card I can get in Cornwall?

Thought not!

Some of us have to pay over £250 on fuel a month just to get to work!

I consider my salary good for this area, but rent increases & general bills have gone up big time

When I ask my wife what is the point, she generally doesn't give a reason not to go on benefits, apart from I love my job and I'm not likely to get anything better.

You are a total IDIOT

Microsoft invades Iraq, installs first distributor

Mr_Pitiful
WTF?

Hmmm

Windows for Oil!

Perhaps there is a market out there after all.

Now if only they could afford the hardware to run it on!

Crooks sell skint fanbois potatoes instead of iPhones

Mr_Pitiful
Pint

Re: Sorry, zero sympathy for the marks.

I wondered about getting the cash also, then I remembered something...

HSBC do have a platnium account 'withdraw upto £1000 a day from cash machines'

If you also had a credit card linked to it the £2k in maybe 3 mins

Pure pushes flash stash, mocks spinning disk with YouTube gag

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Re: Great video

Doh, and I even bothered to subscribe!

Must I stick with the spinning things forever then?

Mr_Pitiful
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Great video

I want some!!

Metallic Glass iPhone 5 to battle pottery Samsung Galaxy S3

Mr_Pitiful
Pint

But... can you drop it from 3 feet an the screen stays intact?

RIM retracts denial on consumer devices: Pulls out, spins in circle

Mr_Pitiful
Happy

Ok nearly got me

check the date

Apple land-grabs fuel cells for mobiles

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Stop

Can I Patent

A range of temperatures

36.5c to 37.5c should surfice, but just in case

97.5f to 99.6f & 309.15k to 311.5k

anyone using these temperatures must pay me 1p for every 24 hour period

Can I also patent body warming & cooling devices, that reduce MY income

Doctor Who girl Amy Pond axed in 'heartbreaking' exit

Mr_Pitiful

?What & what

As Ultravox said "This means nothing to me"

BUSTED! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps

Mr_Pitiful
Stop

I doubt this effects....

my nokia 3110. so I won't worry about it

Is it time to dust off my 486dx2-66 running windows 3.11 & nuke the site from orbit?

It's the only way to be sure!

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