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"Nurse! He got to the computer again!"
Posts by TheRealRoland
772 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jul 2009
Microsoft mistakenly rated Chromium, Electron as malware
California to try tackling drought with canal-top solar panels
In a time before calculators, going the extra mile at work sometimes didn't add up
Oh Deere: Farm hardware jailbroken to run Doom
Burger King just sent spam receipts to customers
Garuda Linux 'Talon': Arch, but different. Dare we say it? Better
Martin Shkreli, out of prison for running a Ponzi scheme, now pushes Web3 thing
Microsoft Teams outage widens to take out M365 services, admin center
Walmart-controlled flight booking service suffers substantial data leak
SCOTUS judges 'doxxed' after overturning Roe v Wade
Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same
Dell's rugged Latitude 5430 laptop is quick and pretty – but also bulky and heavy
Apple's return-to-office plan savaged by staff
Rocket Lab successfully catches falling rocket booster with a helicopter
FAA to airlines: 5G-sensitive radio altimeters have to go
NASA's modified Boeing 747 SP SOFIA to be grounded for good
Accenture announces 'Accenture Song' – not a tune, but a rebrand
Engineers up the torque to get Lucy's solar array latched
Google tests battery backups, aims to ditch emergency datacenter diesel
Logitech Lift: Vertical mouse for those with small hands
Tuesday 19th April 2022 16:00 GMT 
Biggest problem : dirt magnet
I used a larger one, the Logitech MX Ergo Plus. Nice and heavy design, could tilt to allow for a different angle. Really tried loving it. But in the end, dunno why, had to clean the inside rollers at least once a day. Guess my paws are dirt magnets! So back to the regular mouse it is.
HP finance manager went on $5m personal spending spree with company card
Why Nvidia sees a future in software and services: Recurring revenue
Apple seeks patent for 'innovation' resembling the ZX Spectrum, C64 and rPi 400
One decade, 46 million units: Happy birthday, Raspberry Pi
Photon fantastic: James Webb Space Telescope spies its first starlight
Out of beta and ready for data: 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS is here
Friday 4th February 2022 14:45 GMT 
Running a Pi4 w 8GB of RAM, and an SSD, using NextPVR, a SiliconDust tuner and ClearQAM cable TV signal. Happy camper, since that allows me to use the little box as a PVR without any issues. Downside is that it's so easy to record everything, so that very quickly you'd need to empty out the SSD, and move to a slower 8TB external drive :-)
Building up my personal classic movie collection this way is easy though :-)
I may just start tinkering with the 64 bit version, if it's a slow week of movies.
Running Windows 10? Microsoft is preparing to fire up the update engines
Tuesday 25th January 2022 19:09 GMT
Already happened to me
Had an HP Spectre with Win8.1 laying around, fired it up, and it immediately started with installing Windows 10. Don't think i had a chance to stop it from happening. It's fine in my case. Needed to wipe clean this Windows instance due to a lot of bloat that i could not remove by simply uninstalling things.
Google fixes bug that stopped some Pixel phones from making 911 calls
Wednesday 5th January 2022 16:44 GMT 
Gotta dust off my Playbooks :-(
And see what's still working. End of an era :-(
Those Titans, not the Pocket Titans, anyone using them with Verizon in the US? I know the camera will be crap, compared to my Pixel 3a XL, but to have that keyboard, and the shortcuts, and all that good tactile typing again...
IntelliJ IDEA plugin catches lazy copy-pasted Java source
It's the day before the grand opening but we need a firmware update. It'll be fine
Microsoft gives Notepad a minimalist makeover to match Windows 11 style
It's primed and full of fuel, the James Webb Space Telescope is ready to be packed up prior to launch
New study demonstrates iodine as satellite propellant... in space
What a clock up: Brit TV-broadband giant Sky fails to pick up weekend's timezone change, fix due by Friday
Darmstadt, we have a problem – ESA reveals its INTEGRAL space telescope was three hours from likely death
EasyJet flight loadsheet snafu caused by software 'code errors' says UK safety agency
Tuesday 19th October 2021 14:24 GMT
Now, when flights are fairly empty, that's ok. However, when i have to trade in an aisle seat for something else, because i have to move, but now transformer-fold my 6ft6 frame into a cramped area, no thanks.
This mostly happens on rinkydink planes anyways.
Also, happy i'm not flying anymore. My body is very thankful for not having to endure that abuse every week...
Electric car makers ready to jump into battery recycling amid stuttering supply chains
Amazon's AI chips find their way into Astro butler bot, latest wall-hanging display
Good news: Japanese boffins 3D print what looks like marbled Wagyu beef. Bad news: It's tiny and inedible
The Register recreates Apollo 15 through the medium of plastic bricks, 50 years on
84-year-old fined €250,000 for keeping Nazi war machines – including tank – in basement
Misconfigured Azure Blob at Raven Hengelsport exposed records of 246,000 anglers – and took months to tackle, claim infosec researchers
Boffins find an 'actionable clock' hiding in your blood, ticking away to your death
Florida Man sues Facebook, Twitter, YouTube for account ban
Hubble Space Telescope to switch to backup memory module after instrument computer halts
Fastly 'fesses up to breaking the internet with an 'an undiscovered software bug' triggered by a customer
There is no escape: Atlassian to send Jira into places only Excel dares to tread
Friday 30th April 2021 16:16 GMT
Oh, Atlassian
Bunch of hot garbage. Half-rendering views, misusing existing fields for different purposes (Beta roadmap, anyone?) which then changes your existing stuff, JQL hampered by in my mind the absence of very simple functionality (but you can buy the plugin on the market place, but only if you have this very specific version of Jira and are not using next-gen projects).
Bah.
But, necessary evil :-(
Biting the hand that feeds IT
