Posts by TeeCee

Re: Who cares about the cleaner

Yup, seen that one too. Regional (i.e. Europe) server and comms room. Every AM, something's been unplugged. Mostly trivial but annoying. The solution was to carefully label each plugged in item in Dymo with "Do Not Remove This Plug". Sorted.

That night, the cleaner came in and found nowhere to plug in the hoover as all the sockets were occupied with plugs so labelled. Then she noticed a nice block of sockets in a line, handily mounted at "not having to bend down" level too. She whacked in the old Numatic "Henry" and switched it on. Said sockets were in the back of the comms rack and the clean power supply they were attached to shat itself on the spot, producing a Europe-wide outage of all the European shared services.

Moral: Sometimes, finding your screen unplugged in the morning ain't such a bad thing......

@sabroni

Oh I got there all right. However, I am no more likely to respect their opinions than I am of those who reckon the pyramids were built by aliens or the Yeti is actually Lord Lucan in a fluffy suit.

Wingnut arsehattery is wingnut arsehattery, no matter who spouts it or which particular type of lunacy they suffer from.

Re: HTML optimisation.

"Will SPDY sort these out..."

You didn't read the article then? That said that Strangeloop use a variety of optimisation techniques of which SPDY is one and one specific to Chrome at that. So no, by definition it won't sort out anything at all related to browser compatibility since none but Chrome will ever see it used.

@jake

You fire PowerPoint dweebs for a living?

I sooooo want your job, you just can't buy the level of job satisfaction inherent in that.

"....Byrne doing it in a ludicrously melodramatic fashion."

Not his fault he found himself in the midst of a ludicrous melodrama of someone else's making.....

See earlier El Reg articles about the Weiss gaming of Wikipedia, the cast of characters involved and their backgrounds. Shakespeare must be wishing he'd thought of it (even if it lacks a bit with a dog...)

Re: No guarantees

"...buying your own domain and hoping you will always pay the bills on time..."

You have to be pretty bloody useless to lose it through not paying. First, if where you have it parked / hosted doesn't provide plenty of advance warning and / or auto-renewal, move to one that does. Second, if you do fuck up, it'll move to a limbo state of retention for some time during which you can still retrieve it[1]. Even after that it's still usually possible to get it back, assuming you didn't pick something so mind-numbingly desirable that it gets snapped up once it's free.

[1] One of mine did this. The hosting types migrated their dashboard systems and a renewal that had happened, er, didn't. They were terribly apologetic, got it back from retention and gave me a couple of years free. Nice people at UK2. Two cockups in 12 years? I can live with that.

Re: So...

So you think he ought to be allowed to keep it then?

I'm sure most criminals would be delighted with the principle of; "We know this is stolen, but as we can't work out exactly who you stole this from you can keep it."

Re: Re: The correct way

Er, actually I think you'll find that it's precisely the opposite.

For some reason, councils (and government) seem to think that by reducing the number of car parking spaces provided with a new building, more people will use public transport. Of course this does not work. What it does do is create a massive parking problem in the immediate area, resulting in the introduction of a resident's parking scheme (with paid permits) and charged short-term parking. This is of course the *real* reason for the nonsense, profit.

They are obliged to ensure that developers provide adequate parking. The problem here is that anyone sane's version of adequate is currently running at about five times what a council thinks it should be.....

@Suburban Inmate

Brilliant! In order to take this further, I suggest badging sneaking up on a wild camel and shoving a lit zippo up its arse as a new Extreme Sport.

That should sort out the minor problem of finding sufficient volunteers daft enough to do it.

Re: RE: It time.

Preventing jailbreaking? There's a cloud for that.

I'm sure that's the next salvo in the war. No iCloudy stuff for unleashed devices.

Re: What a strange logo!

You mean like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gee_Bee_Model_R

Yup, there really is nothing new under the sun....

@sandman

"Watched one punter using an iPhone throughout the movie and was left wondering why he had bothered coming to see the movie in the first place."

To video the whole thing on his iPhone and then post the resulting incredibly crappy cam footage on a moody torrent site to piss off everyone trying to download the film?

Obvious really, innit?

Re: I could take exception

And so you should!

Ecky Thump is a Lancastrian Martial art. A vile calumny on the people of Yorkshire that and wars have been fought over less[1].

[1] Something to do with roses IIRC.....

@takhuii

Simples! Don't pay the $4-600 in the first place, nobody's forcing you too.

I haven't and I find that this gives me total immunity from any iScrewage. You had the answer at the beginning there; "Apple are a law unto themselves". That's themselves, not you.

Re: 3D?

"....why didn't they equip it with proper buttons like the xperia play."

Er, 'cos then they wouldn't be able to fleece you for another 500+ quid for the "Optimus 3D Game" in 12 months' time?

Re: balance a guiness on her head

Good idea. Teach her to play snooker and she can be Beer-tricks Potter.

@Ocular Sinister

I believe the approved method is to sit in the pub with a group of mates and talk about shit. Somewhere around the fifth pint going down ideas like that are to be had and make eminent sense, whereas in other environments they would be dismissed out of hand.

Hmm reading that back, I wonder if anyone's got the patent on; "Use of beer to aid and accelerate the development and identification of patentable processes."?

Re: I don't get it

No, this is what you get when Banks, Telcos, Hardware manufacturers and Software types get together with a huge development budget to build The Next Big Thing and then realise that they haven't got the slightest fucking clue what it is.....

Re: Can you think of a cheesier naming scheme...

No, but I now know what the next one's going to be.

iOutage.......

@CaptainHook

Simpler, lower maintenance and waaaaaaay more sexy: Anti-hovercraft ninja units armed with tungsten-carbide-tipped shuriken......

I suppose that if you wanted a more boringly pedestrian military solution, shelling the fuck out of 'em with ground proximity burst "beehive" flechette rounds would do the job too.

Re: Skype encryption cracked

Try telling us something we didn't know:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/26/bypassing_skype_crypto/