Posts by launcap

Re: Unfortunate timing

Well - we all know everything is the Fault of the English[1]..

[1] Apart from the stuff that isn't of course.

Re: Genuine question..

> You can flash a custom ROM which will likely have this patch applied but that will almost certainly

> void your warranty.

It depends on the phone (and the process you use) - my previous HTC m7 and my current OnePlus One both maintained the *hardware* warranty if rooted and reflashed.

Re: We're gonna need

> Bigger shark...bigger boat...even bigger shark...warship...where will it end??

Dreadnaught?

Re: Did they catch the miscreant...

> ... by putting a tail on him?

Strangely enough, the tail was all that was left after one of the cats I grew up with[1] caught one. That and the mass of fleas that the cat was covered with (that soon left the cat once they realised he wasn't a tree rat).

[1] Even more remarkable, his back leg on the right didn't actually have the head of the femur after a close encounter with a car. All just held together with fibrous tissue.

Been using Crashplan for years (one payment, no bandwidth limits like others I could mention (*cough* Carbonite - who still keep sending me begging emails) and a pretty good UI.

Main flaw - it uses Java for the engine.

Re: Yuggoth

> "Roll for SAN loss..."

Sorry - character class [PHB] does not allow for a SAN score..

>It seems this particular poltico just managed to reinvent the meanings of the words "continue", "run" and "smoothly".

*All*[1] politicians are infected with the Red Queen linguistic virus as a condition of employment[2].

[1] Well - almost all.

[2] As opposed to condition of work.

Re: "however, boffins involved in the Rosetta probe have dismissed the suggestions."

> but there ought to be a plucky kid/woman/dog that will save us.

I was going to add a cat to the list. Then I remember the that the cat wouldn't care as long as the Evil Slime From Space fed them and provided nice warm places to sleep..

Re: i have a question

> Can somebody tell me the difference between Cloud and Thin Client?

Primarily - the site of the destination server. I'd be *very* surprised if any thin clients are being delivered by servers not within the organisations LAN/WAN. Also - thin clients generally boot off a local server and you really, really, really wouldn't want tftp being fudged to go over an internet connection.. (TFTP is about as insecure a protocol as possible)

Thin client == "running a remote desktop in your own environment"

Cloud == "running stuff remotely[1] but generally not thin clients"

[1] Generally - you can have on-premise cloud but that's not really cloud..

Re: Oh FFS... A better headline would be 'Humans reach new lows in cowardice'

> Did the fox have rabies?

Unlikely in the UK. On a par in the unlikeliness scale as a banker having a conscience or a politician having a competence..

Re: "I thank Baroness McDonagh for"

> driving the train so far..

.. before succumbing to an unfortunate attack of conscience and letting people know what the situation really is.

Either that or suddenly gaining another level in the CYA skills tree.

Re: Genuine question

> Late for what?

Cocktail hour? Lecture on the implausability of trusting politicians? Its own funeral[1]?

[1] I suppose you could term "slamming into a planetary[2] surface at x thousand kph" a sort of funeral

[2] Don't worry Pluto - I'll still call you a planet. After all, we still call Belgium a country..

Re: yaman tony

> Neither of which seem to have the ability to use upper case characters or punctuation.

I believe the issue can be summed up by the acronym PICNIC..

> Anyone else find it mildly odd that this is the second time a rocket carrying the same equipment

> has blown up?

It's aliens I tell you, ALIENS!

(And not the not-from-my-country sort either. It's the "we can't let those smelly partially-evolved-simians-into-space sort. Not being permitted to deploy Vogon poetry at us by the Galactic Sentient Rights legislation they have resorted to blowing up unmanned rockets instead*)

* And if you think I'm serious then can I interest you in this bridge I have? One careful owner.. (but beware of the large green regenerating lifeforms that live under it)

Re: "To question the managerial understanding of business processes"

>>"That's your role, right there. Inquisitor."

>There you go, thats the problem in a nutshell. Tech support Customer services never expect a call >from the serfish inquisition...

I was thinking Inquisitor on more of the Warhammer 40K Stylee. With the authority to slay unhumans (ie middle management) at will.

Re: Accountability or lack thereof...

> Some are corrupt, most are incompetent.

And the rest are incompetently corrupt.

> frozen sweetcorn

<Shudder>. How does freezing the yellow-bird-droppings-of-the-Evil-One make them edible?

(Not a fan of sweetcorn..)

Re: The Ultimate Darwin Award?

> Those curators had better be careful not to spill any on themselves.

I suspect very few moths go on to a career in museum curation..

Re: Has nobody told them X11 is a Network Protocol?

You forgot large incantations of "insecure" in your rant :-)

Re: The USA started all this crap ...

"The USA had been isolated from real terrorism for years"..

Apart from funding it of course. IRA? Sure - just a bunch of good ol' boys - give them money! Osama? Yeah sure - he'll kill the Russians for us! Contra rebels? Yeah sure - lets give them lots of weapons for fighting these evil commies and lets not worry too much about collateral damage.

Hypocrites and liars the lot of them. Not that our bunch of fools in charge are any better..

Re: Does anyone actually run Server Core?

We tried. And discovered that the 3rd party middleware stuff we used (and quite a few of the MS tools) whinged horribly or wouldn't run.