Re: Sounds to me like ...
... and that's why they call them hacksaws
Posts by Stumpy
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Square peg of modem won't fit into round hole of PC? I saw to it, bloke tells horrified mate
Lars Ulrich threatens to make another Metallica album during web chat with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff
Friday 1st May 2020 06:45 GMT
Re: Harsh
Yes, Death Magnetic was a very welcome return to form for them. Still has a little cruft that could do with being trimmed.
Still prefer listening to the new up and coming bands these days though - they still have the ambition, hunger and drive to produce bloody good music.
(Currently listening to some Those Damn Crows and will follow up with some Blackballed)
Microsoft decrees that all high-school IT teachers were wrong: Double spaces now flagged as typos in Word
Star's rosette orbit around our supermassive black hole proves Einstein's Theory of General Relativity correct
Virtually – no – actually borked: We'd slap ailing ATM's 'OK' button but it's probably against government guidance
BOFH: Will the last one out switch off the printer?
It's time to track people's smartphones to ensure they self-isolate during this global pandemic, says WHO boffin
Monday 23rd March 2020 08:57 GMT
What we need, before we start tracking individuals by use of phones that they may, or may not, have with them is a consistent method of testing and reporting infection and mortality rates across the globe.
For example, Italy's mortality rate is so high because everyone who dies that is infected with CoV-19 is recorded as having died of the disease rather than the true cause of death.
As it stands at the moment, all this comparison of how well or how badly countries are doing in the fight against the virus is comparing apples with oranges.
Tinfoil hat brigade switches brand allegiance to bog paper
Sadly, the web has brought a whole new meaning to the phrase 'nothing is true; everything is permitted'
What's inside a tech freelancer's backpack? That's right, EVERYTHING
BOFH: Here he comes, all wide-eyed with the boundless optimism of youth. He is me, 30 years ago... what to do?
Aww, a cute mini-moon is orbiting Earth right now. But like all good things, it too will abandon us at some point
Thursday 27th February 2020 12:15 GMT
Re: Aliens!
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me, (with big yawning)
As plurdled gabbleblotchits, in midsummer morning
On a lurgid bee,
That mordiously hath blurted out,
Its earted jurtles, grumbling
Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer. [drowned out by moaning and screaming]
Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles,
Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts,
And living glupules frart and stipulate,
Like jowling meated liverslime,
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me,
With crinkly bindlewurdles,mashurbitries.
Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't!
... the one with the poetry book in the pocket please.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to save data from a computer that should have died aeons ago
Monday 24th February 2020 12:45 GMT
Re: Hybrid children watch the sea
In my first job working in Ops back in the dim mists of time (OK, OK, mid 90's) we had a naming convention that all the Servers would be named after male Star Trek characters, and all the Routers, Modems, Mulitplexers, etc. would be named after female Star Trek characters.
Except for the router we had up in the North East, which for reasons of linguistic piss taking was called WAYAYMAN . :)
Flat Earther and wannabe astronaut killed in homemade rocket
Monday 24th February 2020 12:26 GMT
Re: Seems a bit cheap
... or as folks have commented elsewhere, he didn't manage to prove whether the Earth was flat or not, but he did manage to prove that it is very, very hard.
RIP Mr Hughes. Whilst I might not agree with your Flat Earth exposition, the world needs more contrary nutjobs that are prepared to push the boundaries, if only to get the rest of us thinking.
I'm sorry, Elon. I'm afraid I can't do that... SpaceX touts robo-rides for orbital vacations, lift-off in 2021-ish
Wednesday 19th February 2020 12:43 GMT
Re: "The crew will spend up to five days in space without visiting the International Space Station"
Remember the Wollowitz zero gravity waste disposal system...
C'mon SPARCky, it's just an admin utility update. What could possibly go wrong?
MWC now means 'Mobiles? Whatever! Coronavirus!' as Ericsson becomes latest to pass on industry shindig
Friday 7th February 2020 15:24 GMT
Re: They needed an "extensive internal risk assessment" ?
The figures from the CDC still show the mortality rate at around 2.04%
http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/news/TrackingtheEpidemic.htm
This article gives a fairly good, measured analysis of the outbreak and what it might mean leading into the future...
https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/04/two-scenarios-if-new-coronavirus-isnt-contained/
BOFH: Darn Windows 7. It's totally why we need a £1k graphics card for a business computer
Friday 7th February 2020 09:33 GMT 
"Yes, but how would we know that you didn't pick up a couple of dusty old relics at a car boot sale?" the Boss asks."Just tell your wife and sister-in-law not to go car-boot-sale-ing that weekend," the PFY chips in.
Bollocks. New keyboard time.
Now, where did I put that requisition order for a nice shiny Steelseries Apex Pro?
So you locked your backups away for years, huh? Allow me to introduce my colleagues, Brute, Force and Ignorance
LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them
I caught Disco Elysium fever. No, not the Saturday Night kind. I was really quite poorly
Friday 27th December 2019 12:11 GMT
Couldn't agree more with the comments made in this review.
Whilst it's a beautifully realised world and concept, and something that [i]should[/i] have been right up my alley (being a full-on 100% RPG nerd) there's just [i]something[/i] about the whole thing that's put me off playing it after around a couple of hours through sheer boredom.
As a case in point, I'm now back to re-playing the venerable Baldur's Gate series as a precursor to BG3 being released next year (or year after, let's be honest) and thoroughly enjoying the experience (again).
IT consultant who deleted every account on UK company Jet2's domain cops 5 months in jail
Hate speech row: Fine or jail anyone who calls people boffins, geeks or eggheads, psychology nerd demands
Wednesday 18th December 2019 09:59 GMT
She then embarked on a “contextual analysis of literature” and decided that calling someone a boffin was equivalent to the worst racial slurs. "The N-word was common parlance in the UK until at least the 1960s,” she said during her book launch, before noting that "other insulting slurs about age, disability, religion and gender identity remained in widespread use until relatively recently.”
Personally, I find this statement from her highly insulting and disgusting. Comparing our treasured epithets to racial slurs simply devalues the negativity of racial slurs (and slurs in general).
Frankly, everything in this article shows that Dr Falck has many personal issues with dealing with those of (lesser, greater)? intelligence than herself, and should probably go see a shrink to work them out.
Remember the phrase from the original bible (sorely mistranslated over the years) "... and the geek shall inherit the earth!". And Lo! in the 21st Century we have done so, and continue to multiply. Long may it be so.
Geek and proud of it for nearly 50 years!
InLink Limited limited: Firm that puts up UK's ad-supported phone booths enters administration
Wednesday 18th December 2019 09:38 GMT
Many local authorities refused permission for the InLink booths due to their association with criminality — specifically the drug trade.
So, what's the difference between a traditional BT Phonebooth and the InLink booths that would merit this reason for rejecting planning permission? I mean, it's been many years since I last had call to use a public phone, but last I recall, a BT payphone didn't require any form of registration or proof of ID so would be just as susceptible to this form of use.
Genuinely curious...
[... and just pipped to the post by the previous poster :) ]
Register Lecture: Can portable atomic clocks end UK dependence on GNSS?
Tuesday 3rd December 2019 12:16 GMT
Re: end UK dependance on GPS?
I was just about to ask the same question.
I always thought that the whole purpose of having the signals beamed from satellites was that you could triangulate from the three known coordinates, and the only reason for the clock signals was to measure the tiny variances in the time taken for the signals to reach the receiver.
So how does having your own portable clock absolve the need for the satellite signals? How doe the unit triangulate?
Halfords invents radio signals that don't travel at the speed of light
'Literally a paperweight': Bose users fume at firmware update that 'doesn't fix issues'
Physicists are rather giddy after creating a rare type of laser using laughing gas
Labour: Free British broadband for country if we win general election
Delayed, over-budget smart meters will be helpful – when Blighty enters 'Star Trek phase'
Huygens if true: Dutch police break up bulletproof hosting outfit and kill Mirai botnet
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw: Well, lookie here! For once a space game that doesn't promise the universe
Transport for London Oyster system pulled offline after credential-stuffing crooks board customers' accounts
'I AM NOT PUTTING UP WITH THIS SH*T' Mike Lynch raged at salesmen
Humans may be able to live on Mars within halls of aerogel – a wonder material that can trap heat and block radiation
Loose tongues and oily seamen: Lost in machine translation yet again
Friday 12th July 2019 09:50 GMT
Re: Prior art
Dutch: Mijn hovercraft zit vol palingen
Basque: Nire aerolabaingailua aingirez beteta dago
Czech: Moje vznášedlo je plné úhořů
French: Mon aéroglisseur est plein d'anguilles
German: Mein Hovercraft ist voller Aale
And, of course, in the original Hungarian: A légpárnás hajóm tele van angolnákkal
Reports of cyber attacks fall, says UK.gov survey: GDPR? Fewer nasties? More targeted attacks? We just don't know
Friday 5th July 2019 08:12 GMT
The number of corporate attacks may have fallen, but that doesn't explain the sudden rise in the number of emails I'm getting (to multiple mail accounts) for 'Property Investment Opportunity in <insert Northern Powerhouse city of choice> City Centre' or 'I've recorded you watching Porn, you naughty boy. Send Bitcoin to ...'
Biting the hand that feeds IT
