Posts by A.P. Veening

I also moved four of my RPi4s across to Bookworm without a problem. However, OpenMediaVault doesn't work with Bookworm yet, so there are still a couple of RPis to do.

Re: I had already jumped ship at the time

W2K was very decent indeed, XP only really caught up with it at SP3.

Re: It just seems that way.

I'm sure you can guess why I no longer do work for Doctors, Lawyers or Politicians.

Doctors and Lawyers I can understand, but when have Politicians ever been educated?

Re: Fascinating stuff

With your silver badge you should have been able to make that a clickable link like xkcd 2840.

Re: Iron Maiden - Number of the beast

We get to play with magic?

Nah, that will be at 8-8-8 (PTrerry).

Re: Experts

Uuh, quite some radioactive pollution where you live, isn't it...

Not really, counting to twelve on your fingers is done by counting the falanges in your fingers with your thumb, counting to 31 can be done using binary.

Re: Overclocked & Overstocked

Make that three ;)

Re: "The NHS suffers from a chronic shortage of anesthetists"

Single click and hitting <F2> works as well for renaming, single click and hitting <delete> works as well for deleting. And the buffer between <F2> and <delete> is large enough, at least on my keyboard.

Re: Are you sure

European or African?

Re: not happening

Fact is that, if you want Linux, there are much better options than Mint. Which, as mentioned, is little more than an clone of Ubuntu. Which is one of the worst Linux distros there is.

I have good experiences with Linux Mint Debian Edition.

Sounds like MS SQL... One of the few major databases that don't have a mandatory WHERE clause on update/delete level commands.

DB2 has the same problem (but it does warn you by requesting confirmation about updating/deleting all rows of a table).

Re: Ear-vermicide

Nice one, I expected this, but this is a better ear-worm.

His reaction might cause us enjoyment (Schadenfreude).

Re: "Ever done a little thing that made a big mess"

A problem, not his.

Re: Not a lift but…..

Punts just don't sink. And they are even more fun on a lake with sail.

Re: IPv4 I'm selling mine

/24, so 256 public IP addresses?

Make that 254, x.x.x.0 and x.x.x.255 aren't usable.

Re: Error in binary expression at line 61

I haven't encountered the first company yet, where bosses aren't expendable.

How did you manage to win that latter one? I am pretty sure more Accidental Americans (and permanent expats) would like to know.

Re: Training?

That is (still) because HR is at the same level of "experience" as Microsoft Office user. HR isn't even qualified to select for it.

Re: Sausage Factory

With all chambers loaded.

I would say with a pistol instead of a revolver.

Hence that one house in every town covered in lightning rods.

In my experience usually a church if there aren't more modern (and higher) high-rises around.

Re: Blank coins

That was a story by Roald Dahl.

Re: Faux AZERTY

The only real annoyance is "à" which isn't always picked up by auto correct and sometimes require some copy/paste instead.

The trick for "à" is using a dead key lay-out and typing "`" and "a".

NB: "`" is under "~" (and to the left of "1"), at least on my keyboard.

You never quit until you have another (better) job.

Re: Unique keys

... to differentiate themselves from all the other Mohammed Cohens.

There are very few people with that name, Mohammed is a pretty exclusive muslim given name and Cohen is a pretty exclusive Jewish family name.

BSE spread because cows 'kiss' other cows, and other similar things like licking the same surfaces.

So why did that BSE epidemic stop when they forbade feeding processed offal to cows (and other herbivores)?

Why revive it, it never died.

Re: Last time I checked ...

Not only can, will.

I still remember how shocked American travelers were when Brazil enacted some reciprocal legislation and they had to have their fingerprints taken at Brazilian airports when they wanted to enter Brazil.

Re: Missing part

The user was intelligent; they obviously knew firstly to ask for a password and secondly not to ask for their password to be "Password", "Password1" or "12345678".

With malicious compliance, the latter would have resolved to password "2444666668888888".

The email app is supposed to be a productivity tool. You can't say productivity and web based app in the same sentence.

You can, but there has to be a negation in there as well.

Re: The boss chucked mine out

Tell that to the council drones who insist that we have to take all the stage lights down from the lighting bars every year to get them PAT tested (PATted? RAS syndrome!), plus unplugging all the servers, switches, etc...

Just make a video recording of such a council drone insisting on PAT testing such a non-portable and working stage light and make sure it fails the test, thereby making it non-working. Then tell that drone he (or his department) is now liable for the replacement as it was destroyed while undergoing a clearly unnecessary test insisted on by him. When he starts protesting, tell him you got the evidence on video and will make it public if/when necessary.

Re: Windows ME

In Germany called "Müll Edition" -> translates to "Trash Edition".

Somehow that works very well with the German reputation of never making jokes.

You left out Windows 2000 (or 2K), which was excellent. Windows XP only became good with SP2.