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* Posts by SgtFalstaff

21 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2010

Meetings in the metaverse: Are your Mikes on?

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...company executives would inadvertently be listed on-screen for the first half an hour as DRTYMUTHAFKR thanks to the intervention of their teenage kids.

Sure, blame it on the kids!

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Yule goat's five-year flame-free streak ends ignominiously

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> No one really knows why we set off fireworks on 5 November but it's good fun and generally accepted that the guy on top of the bonfire is a bad egg. ®

To be fair he was honest about his intentions in going to Parliament, unlike pretty much everyone before or since...

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A Burger King where the only Whopper is the BSOD font

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Re: BK signage

>Not a single car at BK.

Maybe the Burger King staff were really efficient?

...Yah, I'm not buying that either. Burger King even smells really strange to me.

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Who needs 'Bliss' in Teams when you can have the real thing on a Bristol bus?

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Re: Clippy nostalgia

In the thumbnail it looked to me like Clippy was on the loo...

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Nature is healing: Shhh. It's a lesser spotted Pi Bork nesting behind the bushes at IKEA

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Re: Bork

Surely said bits were put in a drawer to never be thrown away no matter how many times SWMBO asks you to even though their purpose is long forgotten and the original item they came with was disposed of ages ago.

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Salesforce fell over so hard today, it took out its own server status page

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Sometimes they are one and the same

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43 years and 14 billion miles later, Voyager 1 still crunching data to reveal secrets of the interstellar medium

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Re: 43 years

>Was that before or after the pandemic started?

Yes

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It was Russia wot did it: SolarWinds hack was done by Kremlin's APT29 crew, say UK and US

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A Recursive Nightmare

What if you're SUPPOSED to conclude you're SUPPOSED to conclude it was Russia wot dun it?

See where this is going?

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Quality control, Soviet style: Here's another fine message you've gotten me into

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Re: Russians, alcohol, making toasts

"Ah, what would St. Petersburg be with out the Finns?"

"A lot less crowded for one thing!"

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Take DOS, stir in some Netware, add a bit of Windows and... it's ALIIIIVE!

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Re: Indeed.

>$4,200 in July of 1980.

Which works out to about $13,000 in 2020 USD. Nine years later when I upgraded the hard drive in my XT to 20Meg (I was never going to have to delete anything ever again!) it was about $300 or like $650 now. No one came to set it up for me. :)

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Vulture gets claws on Lego's latest Apollo nostalgia-fest

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Re: Lego 928

I still have the 367 box and most of the bricks. Of course they are mostly mixed in with my sons other bricks but still nostalgic for me.

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Uncle Sam wants to read your tweets, check out your Instagram, log your email addresses before you enter the Land of the Free on a visa

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Re: Hello darkness, my old friend

I had that happen to me in an interview just last year. The thirty-something HR drone couldn't believe I didn't have a Facebook or Twitter account. When they called for a second interview I declined.

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Using WhatsApp for your business comms? It's either that or reinstall Lotus Notes

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Thank $DEITY for the T&C!

Sales droids were using WhatsApp and wanted to push the whole company to start using it, thankfully I found this in the T&C:

“Legal and Acceptable Use. You must access and use our Services only for legal, authorized, and acceptable purposes. You will not use (or assist others in using) our Services in ways that…involve any non-personal use of our Services unless otherwise authorized by us.”

https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/#terms-of-service

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Sysadmin sank IBM mainframe by going one VM too deep

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#2 Pencil?

Am I the only one who remembers it being the 'number' sign?

It was only after we get a push button phone did I hear the term 'pound' sign.

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Hell Desk's 800 number was perfect for horrible heavy-breathing harassment calls

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Gateway

In the mid 90s I worked the customer support line for Gateway computers. People would need to download drivers for their computer all the time, but being early days of the Internet we usually had to talk them through dialing in to an FTP server. Occasionally though customers would have web accounts and we would have to emphatically warn them NOT to go to www.gateway.com, which was a gay porn site. (The correct site was www.gateway2000.com)

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Amazon ports Alexa voice assistant to Raspberry Pi

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Re: Button

"Why haven't Amazon released a smart-phone version?"

Uhm-

http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-com-Amazon-Alexa/dp/B00P03D4D2

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.dee.app

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-alexa/id944011620

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HAPPY 20th Birthday MICROSOFT BOB

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Re: Memories of Microsoft Bob

Oh, it existed all right. One of my first tech jobs was on the Gateway Computer help line. I knew it was going to be a bad day when I got a call about their _customised_ version of Bob. Which was most days.

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Myst: 20 years of point-and-click adventuring

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Re: No mention of Obsidian?

I used to work in the call centre that did the tech support for Obsidian when in came out. Although we weren't allowed to give hints, everyone working there found an excuse to play through the game "looking for possible issues".

There were very seldom any calls about technical problems, but lots of frustrated players saying it must be broken since they couldn't advance!

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Windows 3.1 rebooted: Microsoft's DOS destroyer turns 20

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I have a box of old SIMMs I use as key fobs. I try not to think about how much they cost back in the day.

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IBM PC daddy: 'The PC era is over'

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I think I've heard this one before

Guess I'd better put my PC in the bin with all that paper I don't use anymore...

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Want to leave work early? Torch a filing cabinet

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It's been worse before

In 2007 a nurse in Houston Texas started a fire in her office to conceal the fact that she had failed to complete some paperwork on time. She killed three people and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

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