Posts by tony2heads

Surely he should know the old phrase

“Welcome to the internet, where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents.”

As a defence he should claim that he knew it was not a 14 year old girl, but a cop.

So to get zero stars

Wipe out the entire human race and turn planet earth to a blackened cinder?

Re: Cyst -Era or Cist-Era

On reflection I think my first suggestion is the better

I remember this one; what ever were they trying to get me to do?

Error 503 Service Unavailable

Service Unavailable

Guru Meditation:

XID: 1521634984

Varnish cache server

I had a small pot of varnish in the shed, but could not find the cache server anywhere on the board.

Re: Ah yes - Gartner

Gartner forecasts are less reliable than Old Moore's Almanac

Re: How about the jobs that those robots create ?

I think you mean a Butlerian Jihad.

Re: Ahah! Not so fast Mr Scientist

Yes indeed, I can think of several fools who "know" that climate change is a conspiracy.

@Oengus

but how will my wife play bridge online?

By the way:

has anyone thought of setting up a website selling TRUMPery TRUMPets from TRUMPington?

@AC

I have heard of people resurrecting old dumped computers with some versions of linux

Re: What to use?

https://github.com/Grive/grive

Re: layer 4...

Thankss for the tip

Re: CAPS LOCK

@smudge

Welcome Mr Apollo

Re: Please do this TfL. @MyffyW

If any taxi driver addressed me as 'darling' or 'princess' I would be out of the cab instantly, as his eyesight would have to be failing.

I have never heard ANYONE addressed as 'treacle'.

Re: Missing icon for "you should be sooo glad this is a text rather than audio medium"

Cue the Edwin Hawkins Singers in ecstatic chorus

Re: Becoming "standard practice"

I thought that it was 'Arnaud Amalric'

See wikipedia

Re: lack of stealth ?!

Hannah Reitsch

BTW my father-in-law was Telegraphist Air Gunner in Swordfishes. They were trying to avoid a German fighter which was MUCH faster, so the pilot took them down to street level in a Norwegian town where they could turn through side streets, but their pursuer could not as he would stall at that speed.

I have heard that the Swordfish's stall speed was about 50mph

Would love to hear from any Norwegians to confirm the tale.

Re: Military-industrial 101

Don't forget the Poles, who did the earliest work on cracking Enigma (before they were invaded)

Re: An Adobe Wannbe?

Crap movies have The Razzies

Why not have an award for appealingly buggy software?

I suggest that El Reg is the right place to host it; what do you think?

Suggested topics could include:

Most Insecure software

Phone producers with the most bloatware

Corporation with most leaks

Corporation with most spyware

Website with crappiest interface

Website with most offensive/in-your-face adware

Re: Old news

I have the opposite phenomenon; they seem to be driven by non-artificial stupidity.

Re: Hands up if you've got debts

There are loads of people in first world countries with negative wealth, like students with massive loans to repay, people stuck with negative-equity houses....

The truly poorest are usually the ones without enough income to get a loan.

Vista

We're going to die!

@AMBxx

Bile green would be best (to represent the anger of the user)

Re: Hrm...

zerg swarm