* Posts by chivo243

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Alien rock causes cosmic disturbance in New Jersey home

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Re: Farcelink

Well called! +1

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Re: Farcelink

Many, many El Reg readers have no association with, or long since terminated any association with facebook.

I would add IG and TT and Twiterverse, but hey, that's where the shiny attention getting things are... I'm sure there are more. I'm old, and either I don't care, or my memory is going...

I'm more interested in the Bowie and Fogerty comments, and didn't someone quote the band America with the stardust bit?

New York AG offers law to crack down on backfire-happy cryptocurrencies

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typo?

The draft Crypto Regulation, Protection, Transparency, and Oversight (CRPTO). isn't there a letter missing in that acronym?

Owner of 'magic spreadsheet' tried to stay in the Lotus position until forced to Excel

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Kicking, clawing and scratching

I've had a couple of ex-users that we had to drag into this century. One was a mac user who was married to Entourage... What a dumpster fire that was. That app makes Outlook seem stable...

My coat as I'll never have to do that again!

Datacenter fire suppression system wasn't tested for years, then BOOM

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Re: death trap

Makes you understand why the BOFH and PFY like Halon! Speaking of those gents... perhaps today we get an episode?

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Re: Err

My framed version states "Bad planning on your part does not necessarily constitute an automatic emergency on my part."

Pornhub walls off Utah in age-verification law protest

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Re: Why do some posts have a bold black line above them

Snarky for the Win!!

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Re: Why do some posts have a bold black line above them

Why do some posts have a bold black line above them and the post above has a bold black line below it? I'm sure it must be significant but I've no idea what it means.

The remnants of ads... using an ad blocker? Javascript blocker?

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I wonder if the built in vpn in opera would defeat this?

Red Hat layoffs spark calls to unionize, CEO wades in

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I Be Milkin' it!

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Bandwagon...

Ever since Muskolini (Thanks Mr. Idle for the new moniker) took to swinging the axe at Twittville, all most all big tech companies have followed suit, while still making profits(except Twitville), big profits too. More cash for the exec bonuses...

Your security failure was so bad we have to close the company … NOT!

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Not so harsh, and not at work

"A good" friend of mine is a huge Beatles fan, and one birthday, he received as a gift, a pack of Beatles collectors cards. One of these cards was black and white pic of Paul, with his hand on his cheek, and looking oh so dreamy. Other friends and I made sport of that photo, so the "good friend" had photo copies of it made. Pretty soon we started finding these photo copies in our coat pockets, in our cars, and even in our mail boxes! It was all good fun! We called that getting "Dreamy Paul'd"

Not too long ago, I found one of those photo copies in a photo album, and have snapped a photo of it, and now I do the Digital Dreamy Paul now and again...

UK emergency services take DIY approach amid 12-year wait for comms upgrade

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Re: Record incompetence

How many politicians are still in their original positions after 12 years? And did the successor pick up the ball and run? Or did they do what they wanted ( as all politicians do these days, instead of what the constituency wants? ) and say it was a mess before I started, and I have no clue how to move forward? And pass it on to the next seat holder?

Hot potato anyone?? Musical Chairs???

Where is the totally clueless icon when we need one?? GET with it Reg.com

Shocks from a hairy jumper crashed a PC, but the boss wouldn't believe it

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Re: "Hairy jumper"

Hairy Jumper had me thinking the HDD was covered in lint, and causing the jumper issues... perhaps connecting to 4 pins instead of 2?

Eric Idle tells infosec world to always look on the bright side of life

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Tip of the Hat

To Mr. Idle, this is a great moniker for such a wanker and a tosser... "Muskolini" I Love it!

We need to be able to use more than one icon... I'd also use the Thumbs Up, and Mr. Smiley and The Pint!

Google Cloud slips over in Europe amid water leak, fire

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Re: Resilience?

Reading my GMail from Occitanie as we speak... Must be sorta resilient?

Microsoft makes Windows Server 2022 licenses a little less cynical

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Re: it wasn't just Ballmer

+1 for your historic memory, but I'll pass on the property... I'm not that gullible, geesh. I remember the cancer quote being attributed to Stevie...

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Microsoft was still calling the entire community a cancer...

Well, to be fair, that is attributed to our Comic CEO Ballmer... In recent years, M$ has woken up and has smelled the coffee to a certain degree.

Balloon-borne telescope returns first photos in search for dark matter

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Re: Missing word?

Dude! You're so right... I was wondering if this line came from a Cheech and Chong movie??

IBM pauses counting its billions to trim Red Hat staff

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the customers won't notice

But the employees will, on many levels. Even the ones that dodged the knife of reduction will have a much different experience, always wondering when the blade will swing again... increased workloads... I'm sure there's more.

Support chap put PC into 'drying mode' and users believed it was real

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Buying time

Once, long ago, I was in way over my head, I didn't know the app in question at all, I told a PA to a D level that her computer needed to be shutdown* and unplugged for 10 minutes to drain the capacitors, I needed a few more minutes to read up on her App's error message. And was praying to the reboot gods for assistance too. When I returned to her desk, I found my boss clacking away on the keyboard, he looked up without missing a beat and said, "The capacitors are drained, and I've been able to correct the error." I could tell there was a smile under his beard somewhere...

*Shutdown as in shutdown any other questions I couldn't answer, she was the PA to a Director... I didn't want to look incompetent!

What does an ex-Pharma Bro do next? If it's Shkreli, it's an AI Dr bot

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Stealing ideas from cartoons!

Isn't this Big Hero 6 meets real life?

Kidding aside, all he's marketing here is a talking medical encyclopedia\dictionary, what frippery!

With a mighty hand, and an outstretched arm, Musk scraps Pope's blue tick

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Really?

"...some advertisers abandoning the site." Just some? "Some", what an ambiguously lovely word!

CEO sorry after telling staff to 'leave pity city' over bonuses

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Are you her accountant?

Might be good to be her lawyer! As a lawyer, you don't have to agree with your client's point of view... but you can work like hell for her to pay you.

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All the tact of a Sherman Tank...

Just like His Muskratiness et al..

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2023/04/19/musk_says_twitter_advertisers_can/#c_4653321

Microsoft nopes out after Twitter starts charging $$$ for API access

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Lots of toys, big pram...

See title, not much more to add. Or is that Ad?

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Re: Let me see now...

Tact? I mentioned this yesterday... Trump and Musk are only the tip of the iceberg.

How DARPA wants to rethink the fundamentals of AI to include trust

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Re: "The current state of AI is impressive"

So it's the closest thing we have to vastly overrated 8 ball. Plus 1 for that!

Should we then call the computer running AI a ouijamotherboard? We all know that Ouija Boards are controlled by those little fingers guiding the thingamobob...

Musk tells Twitter advertisers: You're welcome back, but don't make demands

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really doesn't communicate with the tact...

Seems that is what counts now for leadership, tactless, confrontational name calling and finger pointing. MillerKnoll Pity City anyone?

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I don't think I would have the brassneck to lecture a self-made multi-billionaire on how to run a business or make money.

Self-made through inheritance? and didn't his family make this fortune through questionable channels too? It seems that the internet has been scrubbed of articles that confirm or deny this in full.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-mine/

Child-devouring pothole will never hurt a BMW driver again

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They should have called...

The Governator! He took it in his own hands to fill in a pothole, https://abc7.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-potholes-street-repair-quickrete/13114603/

Then it turned out to be something else!

https://fandomwire.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-humiliated-after-pothole-he-blasted-los-angeles-for-turns-out-to-be-a-service-trench/

Meta's Zuckerberg paid $27M in 'other' compensation for 2022

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Will he ever move on...

Really? Will he? Would it make any difference there at Meta?

We really need a replacement icon for Paris and whuh?

More ads in Windows 11 Start Menu could be last straw for some

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How strongly are the ads vetted?

Are these the same ads that pop up on dubious news sites? Served with a side of Malware with trojan cherry on top?? I'll pay the Cupertino tax instead... I'm writing this on an 11 year old macmini, it was free, a gift from a friend who upgraded 6 or 7 years ago.

Student requested access to research data. And waited. And waited. And then hacked to get root

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Hmmm? Searching where?

Altavista or that famed warez site astalavista?

Substack copied Twitter so Twitter is copying Substack

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Re: Talking of Substack...

Yeah, Substack is a hot mess in terms of navigation, and navigation, did I say navigation yet? How many clicks does it take to read the story??

Automation is great. Until it breaks and nobody gets paid

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When Automations Collide

Back up takes much longer than on Day 1, instead of running from Midnight to 2am, it now runs from Midnight and finishes when it's ready, 4 or 5:30. Group Policy for WindowsUpdate set to pop at 4am. Random Virus scan decides to kick in at 4:30am. Cue MaxHeadroom!

BOFH: We send a user to visit Kelvin – Keeper of the Batteries

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The force is strong with this new one

But alas, there can only ever be two Sith? er?

Love the Moody Blues reference Red is Green... unless you want red...

Tencent said to have demoted and fired tech bosses after brief outages

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Re: There is a lot to dislike about Chinese society

Who's your Daddy carries a bit of weight... Dynasties and all that.

Theranos founder Holmes ordered to jail after appeal snub

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who said that while she didn't pose a flight risk... That's a nice thing to say, but not reality.

Tupperware looking less airtight than you'd think

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Re: The death knell ...

tsk, tsk, plastic in the microwave... There's your problem. Where's my Jamie Hyneman icon, probably out with Paris!

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Re: The death knell ...

Yes, and no... I have a whole bunch of this pyrex stuff, and the lids don't fit for shit... just hand washing them warped the lids, now they rarely get used. Besides with Tupperware, you buy it once*, and it last a looong time. Up until my last move, in 2021, I had Tupperware from my Grandma's estate, she died in '97 and had the stuff as far back as I can remember.

*It usually had to be bought at a Tupperware party too, not sure how many people were throwing Tupperware parties in lockdown.

Just because on-prem is cheaper doesn’t make the cloud a money pit

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Balance is key

And not putting all of your eggs in one basket. Keep a foot in both worlds. Years ago, the team I worked with wanted a Co-Lo, we scoped it out, visited the facility, and looked at cost. Not so attractive. A few years later, a move to the cloud for email, then a few more things, but it stopped there for that org. They still had a 3 node cluster of VMware hosting lots of services that could have gone into the cloud. A handful of physical servers doing local stuff, it worked well I must say.

Pager hack faxed things up properly, again, and again, and again

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Last pager I saw...

The last time I had one of these doohickies on my belt was 1998, and was never so happy when I took it off for the last time, and left it on the owners desk, that 25th anniversary will be coming around soon! And as for FAX, I put them in the same hopper as printers... The devil's devices! To put it nicely ;-}

Thieves smash hole in wall to nab $500K in Apple iKit

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Re: Process

^^ Yep! any gear on display at an Apple store is already on a list.

My gut says inside job, but anyone working at an Apple store would know about the immediate bricking of the devices... so it's a theft for scam operation?

Techie called out to customer ASAP, then: Do nothing

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Re: The BOFH had a term for this

That was my first gig on my first team, go to the customer, see what the problem might be, fix it if I could, if not, I reported back and told the more senior guys what I saw...

CAN do attitude: How thieves steal cars using network bus

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Re: Vui Bono?

"...but a moderate level of theft and thus extra sales doesn't actually seem to to have much of a downside to counter the extra sales."

Leaking this kind of info would also 'boost' sales, the invisible column in the spreadsheet, repeat customers? Maybe not if their car gets boosted!

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What's old is new?

Still hot wiring cars! Now it's from the outside! Now they break into the exterior lighting compartment, that's thinking out of the box!

Parts of UK booted offline as Virgin Media suffers massive broadband outage

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Seems Reg.com is 'borrowing your joke'

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/04/virgin_obit_launch_company_files/

Virgin Obit: Launch company files for bankruptcy in US

Just as namesake ISP Virgin Media* falls silent out of respect

Defunct comms link connected to nothing at a fire station – for 15 years

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Yep, been gone a year and a half

...knowledge of each box's function fades into legend...

I still get a phone call once in a while about what some things do, or should do, I always answer and help my old teammates out in a pinch. I don't think any call has lasted longer than 10-15 minutes. Happy to be the archive, I did pass on my previous managers hand written notes for AD to the poor soul that would pick have that dumped on his plate...