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PC sales to fall and fall and fall and fall and fall for the next five years

Friday 25th August 2017 17:17 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: asking people on the ground ...

"convince rich twits that they needed ultra-thin"

"a Raspberry Pi can handle email, internet banking and fartbook"

Fabulous. With an attitude like that, you should be writing for el Reg regularly.

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Virgin Media customers complain of outages across UK

Tuesday 22nd August 2017 12:17 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Virgin on the ridiculous.

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Daily Stormer booted off internet again, this time by Namecheap

Tuesday 22nd August 2017 08:32 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: "Never give a Nazi a break." - this all depends"

"I don't care about counts"

... but I'm going to whine about it anyway.

Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

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70% of Windows 10 users are totally happy with our big telemetry slurp, beams Microsoft

Wednesday 9th August 2017 08:24 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: I did it another way...

"Would you share please"



127.0.0.1 a-msedge.net

127.0.0.1 a.ads2.msads.net

127.0.0.1 adnexus.net

127.0.0.1 aidps.atdmt.com

127.0.0.1 az361816.vo.msecnd.net

127.0.0.1 az512334.vo.msecnd.net

127.0.0.1 b.ads1.msn.com

127.0.0.1 b.ads2.msads.net

127.0.0.1 c.atdmt.com

127.0.0.1 c.msn.com

127.0.0.1 cdn.atdmt.com

127.0.0.1 cds26.ams9.msecn.net

127.0.0.1 db3aqu.atdmt.com

127.0.0.1 ec.atdmt.com

127.0.0.1 feedback.microsoft-hohm.com

127.0.0.1 flex.msn.com

127.0.0.1 g.msn.com

127.0.0.1 h1.msn.com

127.0.0.1 lb1.www.ms.akadns.net

127.0.0.1 live.rads.msn.com

127.0.0.1 m.adnxs.com

127.0.0.1 msedge.net

127.0.0.1 msnbot-65-55-108-23.search.msn.com

127.0.0.1 msntest.serving-sys.com

127.0.0.1 preview.msn.com

127.0.0.1 reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com

127.0.0.1 sO.2mdn.net

127.0.0.1 schemas.microsoft.akadns.net

127.0.0.1 secure.flashtalking.com

127.0.0.1 settings-win.data.microsoft.com

127.0.0.1 statsfe2.ws.microsoft.com

127.0.0.1 telemetry.appex.bing.net

127.0.0.1 wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com

plus probably others.

Also be aware that Slurp's "telemetry" bypasses the hosts file and talks direct to the relevant IPs, so you need to block in an external firewall or your router.

Another vote for Spybot Anti-Beacon here. Re-run after any updates. You'll see how Slurp resets all the privacy settings you've carefully and laboriously set.

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HMS Queen Liz will arrive in Portsmouth soon, says MoD

Monday 7th August 2017 12:00 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

"keen naval gazers"

Brilliant.

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Universal Service Oh... forget the Obligation. BT offers to stump up £600m for 10Mbps

Tuesday 1st August 2017 09:32 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

"Lol. Virgin 200 Mbps is awesome. And under 40 notes a month"

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/31/virgin_hikes_bundles_prices_again

Suck it up, bitch.

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Tuesday 1st August 2017 08:59 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: voltage

"EU standard is 230v plus or minus 20v"

Nope. It's 230v +10% / -6%.

So 253v max, 216v min.

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It’s 2017 and Hayes AT modem commands can hack luxury cars

Tuesday 1st August 2017 09:16 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

AT+HACKED

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Firefox doesn't need to be No 1 – and that's OK, 'cos it's falling off a cliff

Tuesday 25th July 2017 15:44 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: more needed than ever

"pick up the mantle, probably under a different name and in a different form"

Already done. palemoon.org

Firefox without the bloat. Built on Firefox sources, so most add-ons run too. Used in combination with uBlock Origin and NoScript, websites load in the blink of an eye with no annoying crap.

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Stop all news – it's time for us plebs to be told about BBC paycheques!

Wednesday 19th July 2017 17:22 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Fsck me ...

Chris Evans is talent ? Last one out of the UK, turn the lights off...

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IBM's contractor crackdown continues: Survivors refusing pay cut have hours reduced

Tuesday 20th June 2017 18:10 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: The 'Hours Plan'

" it was unclear as to which tool actually generated the email"

One wonders whether the tool in question is software or wetware.

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IBM: ALL travel must be approved now, and shut up about the copter

Monday 5th June 2017 12:57 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

"Tesco Coagulante"

Thought I recognised the name. Worked with her at a small computer firm (IBM dealer) in north western England in the late 80s/early 90s. Recall her being very ambitious.

Her StinkedIn profile is interesting. Joined IBM and has assiduously climbed the greasy pole since.

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BA IT systems failure: Uninterruptible Power Supply was interrupted

Saturday 3rd June 2017 15:14 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: Boadicea House

"Street view allows you to see gennies at the DC too"

A very fetching shade of blue.

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Microsoft Master File Table bug exploited to BSOD Windows 7, 8.1

Monday 29th May 2017 10:16 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: More like from the 1970s

@coconuthead:

Wondering why your post got 3 downvotes. It was spot on.

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Train station's giant screens showed web smut at peak hour

Wednesday 17th May 2017 08:31 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

"rather stained his Google search history"

Priceless.

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Strap yourself in, fasten your helmet, and try out FreeNAS 11.0-RC

Monday 15th May 2017 08:16 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

NAS or OS?

This lot need to decide if they're producing NAS software or something more all-purpose. C'mon, virtual machines in a NAS? Really?

It's a classic case of creature feep like systemd. They'd be wise to heed the *nix philosophy: "do one thing and do it very well".

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IBM: Customer visit costing £75 in travel? Kill it with extreme prejudice

Tuesday 9th May 2017 11:17 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

"Overtime? What's that?"

"1 hour time in lieue for 8 hours work"

"seen people RA'd who have had far more time owed to them because they'd been working ridiculous hours"

"freeze on contractor renewals"

"getting approval to pay overtime (capped at 20 hours) for three weeks worth of work"

"working up to 80 hours every week"

"got canned the night before he was due to start"

IBM is fucked. You're fucked. Get out while you can still get a good reference.

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Will the MOAB (Mother Of all AdBlockers) finally kill advertising?

Wednesday 19th April 2017 14:38 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: I havent got the bandwidth yet

"the advertisers have no clue if we are seeing their shit or not"

You'll like this, then.

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FCC kills plan to allow phone calls on planes – good idea or terrible?

Tuesday 11th April 2017 17:06 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

'Ajit' rhymes with 'eejit'. How apposite.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/eejit

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Alabama man gets electrocuted after sleeping with iPhone

Tuesday 4th April 2017 11:55 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: Re:US "Edison" plugs fall out of the socket

Chargy McPhonetard

Upvoted just for that.

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Creators Update gives Windows 10 a bit of an Edge, but some old annoyances remain

Thursday 30th March 2017 10:32 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Creators Update, or how to apply lipstick to a pig.

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Why do GUIs jump around like a demented terrier while starting up? Am I on my own?

Sunday 26th March 2017 07:23 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: Zombie hard disk

"blocks inputs for a couple of seconds, beeps at you instead"

That'd be even more annoying than the jumping-around crap.

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Google's stock rating downgraded as YouTube ad boycott contagion goes global

Tuesday 21st March 2017 15:46 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

My heart bleeds for Google.

Honestly. Really. Hand on heart.

/sarcasm

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Microsoft nicks one more Apple idea: An ad-supported OS

Tuesday 14th March 2017 03:09 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: See MS does love Linux

"/me thinks of the TV screen from 'Idiocracy' that has 3/4 of its area COVERED in moving advertisements, while the middle 25% of the screen has the actual content in it..."

I offer you this.

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BOFH: Elf of Safety? Orc of Admin. Pleased to meet you

Saturday 25th February 2017 09:07 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

"The position itself has all the prestige of an unflushed turd and, as such, tends to attract the human version of the blowfly"

The H&S guy at one place I worked was not known as the Work Prevention Officer for nothing.

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Cattle that fail, not pets that purr – the future of servers

Thursday 9th February 2017 17:59 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

"delete the Linux distros downloaded by the work experience kid"

ITYM pr0n and w4r3z.

And don't forget the BitTorrent client busily seeding GoT, the Magicians, Mr Robot, etc. etc. over the company's nice fat pipe.

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Happy Friday: Busted Barracuda update borks corporate firewalls

Sunday 29th January 2017 02:56 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Duh.

Everyone in the IT industry knows you don't push out major software updates on a Friday with the weekend looming.

Either this was a to fix a serious 0-day and they couldn't wait, or clueless PHBs ordered the techs to push it out regardless. Or both.

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Oracle sues its own star sales rep after she wins back $200k in pay fight

Friday 27th January 2017 05:03 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Too many PHBs.

"seven successive levels of management"

I think I see the problem. Seven levels of management? Jeez.

It's a wonder anything gets done in that company. Oh, wait...

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It's official: Ejit – sorry – Ajit Pai is new FCC boss (he's the one who hates network neutrality)

Tuesday 24th January 2017 10:47 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

"I suspect the author of this piece believes whole-heartedly in the title quote from Karl Mark as well"

That's Karl Marx, idiot. Such a fundamental mistake puts the rest of your swivel-eyed Trumpian diatribe into perspective.

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Christmas cheer for KCL staffers with gift of extra holiday after IT disaster

Tuesday 20th December 2016 09:06 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Two days. Whoopee fuckie doo. While the vice chancellor of KCL trousers £458,000.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3441526/It-s-no-wonder-universities-want-curb-freedom-law-Dozens-vice-chancellors-pay-packets-soar-10-past-year-spend-thousands-flights-hotels.html

Nice to know you're appreciated, IT staff.

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HBO slaps takedown demand on 13-year-old girl's painting because it used 'Winter is coming'

Friday 9th December 2016 10:38 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Fuck you, HBO.

Makes me glad I torrented every single ep of GoT.

By the way... Winter is coming.

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A British phone you're not embarrassed to carry? You heard that right

Thursday 3rd November 2016 15:25 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: "WileyFox"

"Not strong on names, are they?"

Would you have preferred WileyCoyote ?

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Windows 10 market share stalls after free upgrade offer ends

Wednesday 2nd November 2016 20:08 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

"Something in W7 has changed in the last year that makes it very unpredictable to get the Bluetooth speaker to work every time"

Might be this?

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3099109/microsoft-windows/microsoft-yanks-buggy-speed-up-patch-kb-3161608-replaces-it-with-kb-3172605-and-3172614.html

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Wednesday 2nd November 2016 20:06 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: It's still free

"It's still free"

And worth precisely what you paid for it.

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Smartmobe made 'intermittent bright flashes and a hissing noise' in Biz class seat

Tuesday 1st November 2016 07:43 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: I wonder

"means that your stripping out protections"

you're. A contraction of "you are".

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Burgundian iPhone wrecker hit with damages, suspended sentence

Wednesday 26th October 2016 13:03 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

"threatened to do something unspeakable to the mother of Apple France's commercial director as well as defecate in his mouth"

How would anyone be able to tell? All marketdroids spout shit.

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Possible reprieve for the venerable A-10 Warthog

Wednesday 26th October 2016 12:06 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

"something that does not stay aloft by repelling the ground with ugliness"

Lovely.

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US judge rubber-stamps Volkswagen's 'Dieselgate' settlement

Wednesday 26th October 2016 06:05 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

So what exactly are VW going to do with 475,000 used cars? Dump them at sea?

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Just what Europe needs – another bungled exit: Mars lander goes AWOL

Thursday 20th October 2016 10:59 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

"the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has entered safe mode"

Serves them right for using Windows. The first BSOD in space?

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Aussie Aussie Aussie, oi oi oi you, you're fired: Apple sacks staff secretly snapping shoppers

Saturday 15th October 2016 10:19 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

"3.5mm jack-offs"

Gold. Absolute gold.

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Windows updates? Just trust us, says Microsoft executive

Saturday 8th October 2016 19:48 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

"The moment someone says "Trust Me" it's time to pull out the bullshitometer and watch the needle hit the red zone"

If I could upvote that a million times, I would.

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'My REPLACEMENT Samsung Galaxy Note 7 blew up on plane'

Thursday 6th October 2016 06:41 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: Wrong usage

"Personal Korean Barbeque Kit. Didn't he also receive cast iron pot and wire grill?"

Don't forget the dog.

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TalkTalk gets record £400k slap-slap from Brit watchdog

Wednesday 5th October 2016 14:55 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

"It had the most 0s the authority could hand out"

So the ICO gave TalkTalk a good gumming. Talk about toothless watchdogs.

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Microsoft paid me $650 to scrub Windows 10 from my grandpa's PC, says man

Wednesday 28th September 2016 07:23 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: $650 is nothing to MS

"a thousand pricks"

I think you just described Microsoft's managers.

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Turing, Hauser, Sinclair – haunt computing's Cambridge A-team stamping ground

Monday 26th September 2016 13:10 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: Also take a look at the Corpus Christi clock

"with the Chronophage on top"

There's another Chronophage at the Science Museum in London. It completely blew me away; I emailed the inventor, John Taylor to thank him and had a very nice reply.

http://www.johnctaylor.com/the-chronophage/

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Monday 26th September 2016 13:05 GMT cd / && rm -rf *

Re: I remember Acorn

I was asked to go and install VMS on a MicroVax that Acorn had just bought

That is interesting, since you see hints of VMS exposure in Acorn's subsequent machines. *I AM SYST to log into an Econet server as SYST(EM), for example. Using $ as the root directory on disk filing systems.

And in the way RISC OS picks up on the VMS usage of system variables with a $ in them, e.g. Run$Path, File$Path, Sys$Date, etc. in RISC OS vs. SYS$SYSPROMPT, SYS$SYSOUTPUT, etc. in VMS.

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