Posts by David 132

Re: muhaha

Oh, behave!

Re: @Ian Michael Gumby Not surprised...

You can never have enough cat videos.

640 kitties should be enough for anyone.

Re: "Once paid for, that's it."

Mrs 132 and I were in the old Oregon ghost-town of Shaniko a few weeks ago (well worth a visit, btw), and among the exhibits is a mid-C19th John Deere covered wagon (of the "Oregon Trail" sort). The thought of some hardy 1860s pioneer being told that he couldn't modify, improve or disassemble his newly-acquired wagon in any way makes me laugh. Compare with the company's current products, which as you say, come with an EULA that makes Oracle look like a bunch of property-is-theft-man hippies. Very depressing.

Lee D Magnetic history is absolute, 100%, anti-science, tosh. There's no way that a piece of magnetic material remembers where it used to be, or that you can recover - statistically or probabilistically - overwritten material on a magnetic medium.

But if I understand it correctly... if you dissolve the magnetic material in water, then take a drop of that solution and dilute it again, then repeatedly dilute it a dozen more times - then that water will contain a memory of the data.

Er, or maybe I've got my bunkum, codswallop, pseudosciences muddled up.

PAH! SCSI or death! :-)

Happened more often than you think - every SCSI installation involved a Terminator.

Re: Windows is a fish

Specifically, a "Flounder".

c:\windows> powershell -command "$totalsize=[long]0;gci -File -r -fo -ea Silent|%{$totalsize+=$_.Length};$totalsize"

32206581760 aka 32GB

I'd say Windows 10 these days is more of a bloater.

Re: Roomba

Round and round the rugged rug, the robot Roomba roamed...

Darn it, now you've reminded me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9arcRujTBc

RIP Kenneth Williams.

Re: Who's of thunk it

Nothing special about that. I often pay escorts to download music and movies. It's a win all around.

I used to have an escort, but I gave it the boot.

Now it's an Orion.

Re: What is Microsoft 365?

....dows that mean all customers must upgrade to an XBOX 365?

No, but when the battery dies, you get a bonus MSFT product - Ex-cell.

Re: No contest

Red Dwarf for the win. Smeg all the others.

And its near-cousin, Hyperdrive.

"You have done a bad thing. We are going to re-habilitate you.

And look! Another kitten, sitting in a hat! What a lovely world it is where kittens can sit in hats!"

Re: Started at Prog 13...

I think one of my fave Dredd moments was when confronted by a man who could change into a man sized fly if he smelt rooting food. I can't quite remember all the exact dialogue.

It's possible nay probable that I am confusing it with another story, but ISTR the title of that one (or maybe it was just a badge the protagonist wore?) was "I'm Manny, Me Fly". It took years before I discovered 10cc and "got" that particular reference!

BTW will I lose all squaxx dek Thargo credibility points if I admit that I rather like the Stallone version of Dredd?

Re: Why does the final product price determine the royalty?

Did you actually think about that before you posted?

Spend £10 producing a bit of kit, throwing it in the bin to save maybe £1

No no, I think he's onto something - it sounds like a great way for Apple to make a small fortune.

Of course, it presupposes that they start beforehand with a large fortune...

Re: I face a dilemma.

AC And best of luck to your friend.

Thank you for your simple, touching gesture of humanity. Very rare on Internet forums where everyone's usually too angry and convinced they're right to stop, pause, and reflect that we're all human beings... well, apart from those who are dogs, but on the Internet no-one knows that, as the old saying goes ;)

These are old friends of mine, and she just got a diagnosis of multiple cancers with a prognosis of weeks at most. Sucks, rather, and puts my own problems into perspective. May no-one here ever be faced with the same situation.

Re: You. You with the money. Yes you. Go see a live gig.

I really need to get my eyes tested. I read your subject line as "Go see a live pig" and was momentarily flummoxed by the surrealism of it.

But yeah, gigs. They're good, too.

Re: SEP = Standard Essential Patent

You are truly a hoopy frood.

(if iOS autocorrect had had its way, you would be a "hoppy droid". Cupertino philistines.)

Re: Where are the instructions?

I haven't seen any instructions about how to do this, and rather vexingly there's no link in the article. Does anyone have the link / some guidance?

A Virgin (Customer)

Don't worry, we've done it for you.

-Random Chinese Hacker Collective

Re: Canadians vs Americans

Was he using a Martini-Henry rifle?

Touché. Upvoted.

Wandering off-topic... here in Oregon, the "Don't Drink & Drive" roadside signs use a representation of a martini glass, of all things.

I find this highly amusing - the unavoidable mental image is of plaid-clad burly PNW lumberjacks daintily sipping their martinis in roadside taverns before getting in their logging trucks to weave unsteadily down the highway.

I'd like to think that the original Microsoft denial, before nervous lawyers toned it down, went something like this:

"No customer data was accessed, and we're confident in the integrity of our software and systems... Bob Doe (53) of Boise, Idaho - the video record of the 30 seconds you spent excavating your nostrils in front of your webcam last Tuesday evening is safe with us. Molly Bloggs of Ottowa - that sexytimes note you drafted in Notepad on Monday will remain a secret between you, your boyfriend, us, and carefully-and-rigorously-selected third party marketing partners. And Tim Smith-Smythe - we know which websites you went to last week from your house in Acacia Avenue, Stoke-on-Trent, but fortunately you used Edge's Privacy Mode so only we and the Five Eyes intelligence agencies know... the hackers didn't get that either. But you might want to wipe your keyboard now. Use the yellow cloth that's to the left of your coffee-cup. No, not that one, the other one."

Re: Not so easy...

Due dill?

I assume you mean "due diligence"?

"Due dill" is the term for when you ordered a burger but didn't get the pickle you were expecting.

Re: Secure Chats

I attack the gazebo with my +1 sword!

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

Re: Nuns

Perks of working for The Register, #47*:

- You can search the image library for "sexy nuns" on company time, without anyone raising an eyebrow.

*see also: vast amounts of money, groupies, adulation, rock star status among journalists

Hopefully there's an extra £15 in the headline writer's pay packet this week...

Steady on...it was good, but not 100% pay-rise good...

Re: A ghoul stood on a bridge one night..

"A ghoul stood on a bridge one night..

..its face was all a-quiver.

It gave a cough,

its leg fell off,

and floated down the river."

I have no idea what the relevance of this is to the story under discussion, but thank you anyway for reminding me of a limerick I last heard when I was, ooh, about 9 years old.