* Posts by Boris the Cockroach

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This is the end, Windows 7 and 8 friends: Microsoft drops support this week

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Win 7

died a long time ago for me

Thats when its HDD died destroying the OS in the process..

Fitted the machine with another HDD and hit 'install win 10' since I have a valid win 7 key still..

God what a waste of time..... spends anywhere between 40 mins and 90 mins thrashing the HDD to death doing god knows what before it will allow you to actually use the machine.

And thats when I found the GParted live USB, and the mint live USB.

And its a happy dual booter now and although mint boots rather slowly for my taste(about 2 mins to the desktop), at least I can use MY computer for doing computery type stuff while win 10 might be booted once every couple of weeks(if its lucky)

Oh and for the record its a I7 quad core with 16GB RAM and a 500 gig HDD and it used to blast along with win 7 ......................

Cleaner ignored 'do not use tap' sign, destroyed phone systems ... and the entire building

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Re: Operator Purée

You'd never get away with that now.

We have the robots in cages, you cant open the cage without pressing the big red button, and standing orders are if you have to work in the cage, your padlock goes through the breaker lever (mines a nice purple colour... I did offer the pink padlock to the PFY when she started..... she said she'd rather have the orange one... not exact words but we're in polite society here )

If you're found in the cage with the power still on.... all sorts of bad things will happen to you....... and then you'll be given a final warning/sacked

Beer because I've escaped to the pub

Rate of disruptive tech and science discoveries has slowed over the decades, claims study

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Re: Fewer great developments, or just more crap ones?

And a voice synth

A sprinkling of AI

And a list of toasted bread products....

Corporations start testing Windows 11 in bigger numbers. Good luck

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Its not the stuff under the hood that the problem.

No one and I mean no one gives a stuff about stack protection.... or thread scheduling.

What people dont like is spending ages learning howto use tools and the program interfaces to those tools, and then some tool at m$ hq decides "Hey... its looks cooler as a flat icon that resembles a phone, and then we use contina to access the menus as a bonus feature" while the control panel has been renamed and hidden away further leaving the only option on the 'settings' tab "Reset to defaults"

I dont care how great the interface is.. and how many awards its won from the arts council if users have to spend 12 weeks learning the new interface... might just as well got linux if we wanted that.........

Japan lacks the expertise for renewed nuclear power after Fukushima

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I'm surprised

well not I'm not.

But looking over here at the dearth of skilled engineers, you do begin to wonder who's going to be keeping the lights on in 10 years time...

But I suppose its like a lot of skilled technical jobs that require a lot of knowledge and a hons degree level education, those who are capable of doing it are put off by the cost, the lack of pay , and the lack of chances for advancement. so only those than can afford to take the chance sign up to the course.

So it falls the government actually do something about it (removing university fees for STEM courses and sponsoring people who cant afford to take 3-4 years out for uni for a start )

But I have no hope that any government will do that........ even though it would help stop the 'crisis in the NHS' stories currently running(hint: train more staff, and build capacity for more beds.. although thats too bleedin obvious for any of the current lot of politicians)

India sets USB-C charging deadline for smartphones

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Re: So much for "Brexit freedoms" eh ?

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" We have lost any influence we had on one of the worlds biggest standards setters."

It may not occur to you, but we still export stuff to the rest of the world. and we have to make the damn stuff to the standard that country wants and dont have any say in what that standard is.... One of our customers exports to the US and has a line for that express purpose.

In fact sometimes he complains that its more difficult sending stuff to france than it is to the US, even though the stuff he makes has been made to the same french or US standards for the past 15 yrs.

Computing's big question for 2023: How many more questions can we endure?

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I think

you missed

"You've read 3 articles on our website. would you give us your credit card to read more?"

Beer because its new year

An IT emergency during a festive visit to the in-laws? So sorry, everyone, I need to step out for a while

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I always go back

to the day after heart surgery when my boss called, not to see how I was (sore , pissed off, and full of morphine), but they had a problem that needed sorting and only I had the ability to sort it(which was a lie as I'd left instructions with several people about all sorts of problems including the one he was complaining about)

When I got back to work I blamed the drugs and pain for me telling him to f*** off

The era of cloud colonialism has begun

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Re: That reminds me

Only in the amended 'Eastasia' rules

In the standard 'Eurasia' rules normal throws still apply

University students recruit AI to write essays for them. Now what?

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Terminator

Quote

"So if you have a known AI that can spot AI writing, you can just pair them up until you've evolved an AI that's not detectable."

At which point it decides that humans are worthless and launches all the missiles...

BOFH and the office security access upgrade

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Question

Why lock the boss in the stairwell?

Surely it would be better for the app to declare him dead in the lift and then since the lift is empty to turn the lift off to save electricity.

If he's in the stairwell, theres a chance in an emergency situation that somebody will use the stairwell and find him, however in an emergency, no one will want to use the lift.....

Anyways... merry xmas from my place of employment where I'm suppossed to be doing the annual cleandown.... but only after I finish running the backups(that were done yesterday so I can spend the rest of today before pub time sitting in the office browsing el-reg)

Cheers >>>>> icon

Tesla driver blames full-self-driving software for eight-car Thanksgiving Day pile up

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Re: Hmmmmmmm

Quote:

Humans are pretty good at driving.

No they bloody aren't.

Think how bad the average driver is, then make a note that 50% of drivers are worse than that.

We're talking the people who use 2 cable ties to defeat the 'hands on wheel' device , then climb into the back seat of the car and then blames the tesla for driving into a tree (I call this darwin in action)

But even without a tesla or its drive assist (or any other drive assist), people are almost completely useless at driving their cars..... eg last weekend, pissing with rain, heavy spray on the motorway.... nearly everyone is driving at the same distance apart at the same speed as they would on a bright sunny day even though you can barely see 100 yrds... and there were even a couple of cars with no lights on.......

All I see when tesla mention the drive assist is just another device like the seatbelt, airbags, and anti-lock brakes that protect the occupant of the car from the actions of the stupid around them.....and the stupid in the driving seat.

Don't lock the datacenter door, said the boss. The builders need access and what could possibly go wrong?

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Re: rebooting the system

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These are just recent examples. I've heard stupider and I'm guessing those reading this have heard much worse, especially those who work in IT (I'm a software developer, programmer, or software engineer, but none of these terms is properly understood by my acquaintances either).

Then you have not learned the mantra of every highly skilled technical staff member : "Never ever tell your friends/acquaintances/passers by exactly what you do"

Good luck fixing Auntie Flo's broadband connection on christmas day.......

FTX CTO and Alameda Research CEO admit fraud, pair 'cooperating' with Feds

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FAIL

Guess

he stole the wrong people's money

Lose a couple of billlion in little people's retirement funds and the official response is 'meh'

Lose a multi-billioniare 1% of his wealth in a foolish investment scam and the perp is given a short ride to 25 yrs in the slammer

UK's Guardian newspaper breaks news of ransomware attack on itself

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Re: cyberattacks by criminals and nation states

Which reminds me of

"How many policemen does it take to break an egg?"

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"None... it will fall down the stairs by itself"

Elon Musk to step down as Twitter CEO: Help us pick his replacement

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I'm sorry

but we all know there can be only one

To run twitter

El-reg's very own BoFH with his faithful PFY sidekick

Opps Mr Musk... that 23rd floor window I did report for being loose and unsteady, but we will state it was an accident when you tripped on that bag of corpse grade quick lime, rolled across the floor incidently wrapping yourself in the carpet before plummeting out of the aforementioned window into the back of the company van never to be seen again.

Financial authorities fine UK bank nearly $60m for platform migration disaster

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Re: subject for investigation

And that wisdom was usually gained by crying 'no no no' at meetings where all the mangler responsible wanted to hear was 'yes'

And then getting shouted at for sabotage when the project fell over and burned because it was an ill concieved idea in the first place.

With the result the mangler either went up the ladder for 'showing leadership and ideas in a crisis situation' or was moved sideways to 'help another department in crisis'

While us poor engineering types gathered up the pieces and made something that we should have done in the first place ....which the new mangler took credit for in their attempt to go up the ladder.....

Patch Tuesday update is causing some Windows 10 systems to blue screen

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Re: On a positive note ...

m$ have been providing 'bork' articles for YEARS !

Carmack quits Meta, brands it inefficient and unprepared for competition

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Re: (Senior) Managemant

From what I've seen of manglement

Manglement is all about stamping down on the minions below you, back stabbing the manglers at your level and arse kissing the mangler above you.

And since I cant do any of the above.... guess I'm stuck at the level of irreplacable* technical expert

*hint for new to the world of IT/engineering/anything really.... never be irreplacable, if you cant be replaced , you'll never get promoted

Elon Musk starts poll with one question: Should I step down as head of Twitter?

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Re: Tick Tock, Elon

I like Gagh ... especially fresh

When we asked how you crashed the system we wanted an explanation not a demonstration

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Re: Whoops - lets do it again and watch this time.

I have this on unimpeachable authority that this tale is true.

There was a case like this near me ages ago.

Said operator managed to crush his fingers in a press brake... all nicely broken and bleeding...... so pack him off to the hospital for fixing

He came back 8 weeks later to a manager and health and safety inquiry about how that accident happened...

So he loads up the press brake with a part , slides his hand in where its not supposed to go and pushes the treadle..... crunch.

Loads of blue flashing lights as he goes back to the hospital to have his fingers unmangled again......

Corporate execs: Get back, get back, to the office where you once belonged

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WFH

remains my dream

100% of the time I'm paid, I'm in the office... or shop floor or ranting about how stuffs gone wrong (see the interlock comments)

I cant do my job from home... sure the programming, and complaining at tool suppliers that their prices are too high I could.... but then disaster can strike at any moment and my body is required at work not 45 mins away.

But as other people have mentioned, if your metric for 'getting work done' is a full office with 100% of seats that have bums on them....... then you're a pretty crummy manager.

Our metric is simple....."Have we made money this month?" and if that means one of the programmers sits at home all day on his laptop doing programming, then brings in the finished product the next day for testing, then as far as we're concerned, hes done a good days work. we dont need to see him in the chair opposite me. we dont need to know hes done 'X' amount of code (lets face it, lines of code/day is a lousy way of measuring productivity too).

plus he's taken the kids to school, and had an hour for lunch with his other 1/2 which makes him a happy employee.... which is quite valuable.

Server broke because it was invisibly designed to break

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The hell that

is interlock switches....

where I attend on a daily basis has them everywhere... safety doors, robot cages, manager's ofice door(no wait I'm fitting that one next week...)

What really bugs me about them is that every machine/robot manufacturer goes out of their way to use a different switch on everything, so that when an interlock switch goes to the great cage in the sky, you have to get the exact one to replace it. even if the machinery is supplied by one company, they have to use different switches on the enclosures.

Oh... and dont try running the machinery after bypassing the lock.... that ends......... badly

On the plus side though it gives the janitor something different to mop up.....

Voice assistants failed because they serve their makers more than they help users

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Big Brother

Nope nope and...........

Nope!

I dont have one at home , cant see the point of it.

However I could try one at work.....and use it for doing my job.......

Alexa: Load model <customer name><part number>

Alexa : Rotate model Z axis 90 degrees positive.

Alexa : extract model edges at grid 45, 78

Alexa: Move extracted edges to Z datum plane.

Alexa : Link missing edges.

Alexa : define high speed path using Z plane as template.

All well and reasonable... except I'd have to be damn precise in my wording and know full well I'd have to do it 3 or 4 times using a voice assistant....

Whereas using the mouse/keyboard would take me about 50% less time with far less errors.

Sorry amazon/google/apple/et al , but about the only use for your toys is playing music,and setting alarms.and a small side order of letting the powers that be watch us all the time(if they can be bothered)

Server installer fails to spot STOP button – because he wasn't an archaeologist

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Painters... the

memories........ the bad ones

The company I worked for a long long time ago decided on "corporate rebranding" to enliven our rather scruffy appearance.

Paint colours were considered.... new overalls, t shirts, sweat shirts all colour coordinated to got with the new paint job, however all the machinery had to be repainted too...

For us CNC pilots, it wasn't too bad.. at least the painters managed not to paint over the computer screens... however , in the precision grinding bay it was a very different story.

Hand dials, the digital displays all painted over, and the rather precise mating surfaces that the grinders moved over were de-greased and painted over.

Took us 2 weeks to undo the damage and resume production.....

Luckily that mangler only lasted another few months before being rightfully booted for being a wasteful prick... to be replaced by a horay henry fresh from private schooling/oxford.... and hes another very long story.....

UK lawmakers look to enforce blocking tools for legal but harmful content

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Back to

the good old days of IRC and FTP to share the naughty stuff then.

Until the the great british firewall is erected.

But then I guess that will be like youtubes algorithms that forces me to sign in with a credit card to prove my age to watch some friends play a video game, but will quite happily let me watch pulp fiction's 'apartment' scene uncensored

"say 'what' again I double dare you ....."

Boss installed software from behind the Iron Curtain, techies ended up Putin things back together

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Coffee/keyboard

We need a

'vomit' icon

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Only time

I've been monitered is 4 jobs ago....

Where the boss under the guise of 'security' put up multiple CCTVs across the factory, with the assurance that they were security cameras, and NOT cameras so he could moniter the workforce and what we did.

Until one of us noticed that a camera turned on (flashing red led) and turned to follow an employee as he went to the tool store.....

"Comrade.... you have been wrecking socialist production targets by sneaking away for a smoke... As an ememy of the owner , do you have anything to say before 9mm revolutionary justice is applied "

BOFH: Come back to the office. Your hotdesk is nice and warm

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My eyes have been

Opened.

Because thats exactly the lines my boss uses when he talks about the christmas bonus , before telling everyone on dec 23rd that there is'nt one because of 'its been a bad year'.... just like every other year.

Still at least someones got something this yuletide eve, as the PFY has just upgraded from 'Boyfriend 3.0' to 'Fiance 1.0' and has a sparkley ring to prove it too....I dunno what she sees in him.... must be the way his knuckles drag along the ground or something..

Oopss something just went bang... and judging by the screams theres good odds it was the boss's coffee maker.... coincedence? who knows..... we've been having electrical surges all day....

Victims of IT scandal in UK postal service will get fresh compensation

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What really burns me

about all this is that in my line of business (aerospace manufacturing) we have a rule that anyone can challenge or stop production if they dont like the results, or have a query about the results.

So from Jim the operator through me to the QA manager , anyone can stop the machines at any time to sort a quality issue out on the basis its cheaper to fix a problem before it escapes to the customer or gets to an aircraft.

The boss does not like it, but it was his plan for quality ..

The guys at fuckitso were altering data on the horizons system when challenged by the postmasters yet no one said "STOP", the QA guys must have been aware of the issues and brought them up with the manglement , yet they did'nt say "STOP" and the manglement at fuckitso were happily going "Its fine.. its fine" even in court when they had e.mails saying the systems fucked.

The PO lawyers were seeing the results from postmasters eg week 1 25k in takings, week 2 25k in takings , week 3 75k in takings, week 4 25k in takings, and yet the post office records show only 100K turned up in the po accounts that month. therefore 50K must have been stolen rather than 'hold on... double check week 3"

So as far as I'm concerned both fuckitso and PO manglement should be in the dock in front of a judge and jury explaining why they sent innocent people to jail when they knew the evidence in the case was bollocks.

Postscript: If we were caught falsifying records like that, we'd lose all the aerospace business in a heartbeat and more than likely have the costs of replacing everything we've made over the past couple of years..... then bankruptcy... .... check out when BNFL Sellerfield did that sort of thing with the MOX fuel pellets they were supplying to various customers...

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Dont get your hopes up

with this one.

I'm pretty sure the PO/fuckitso lawyers will drag out any inquiries for at least another 10 years and the government will be happy to let them do so

Reasons are 2 fold: all the affected postmasters will be getting old... and a fair few will have passed away naturally and be unable to sue.

And second one is much the same as the first : the people at the PO/fuckitso who made the decisions to charge the postmasters despite knowing that horizons was faulty will also be getting old... and retired and possibly cleared off abroad, so they wont be charged with anything because "It wont be in the public interest to charge such old people with crimes"

And as a postscript.

The police had the decision to charge people with crimes taken away from them and handed to the CPS because the police couldn't be trusted to give out all the evidence in a case, plus it was a conflict of interest that the police arrested, charged and prosecuted criminals when they had an interest in getting a conviction.....

The PO told defence lawyers for the postmasters that the horizons data was correct when they knew damn well it wasn't

Industrial robots in China push people out of jobs, slash wages

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we've

had to do the 'throw out the unskilled' routine,

actually what happens is a combination of upskilling those staff who can learn and want to learn and natural wastage when old timers decide to hang up their boots or people leave for another job.

Its not nice and it does lead to friction, but what else do we do? carry on making stuff as before and get undercut by those buying and using robots , or accept the robots are here and get on and use them.

The real downside is what happens to the extra profits generated by the robots (no holidays/sick*/days off to watch footie)........

And what happens to those people who can work, but cannot do the hi-tech bullshit that the readers of el-reg do? tell them 'tough , you'll always be poor and unemployed' ?

*cell #7 decided to spit its oil out of a broken hose this morning.... I have the PFY making it feel better.. sadly this isn't making the PFY feel better heh

Killing trees with lasers isn’t cool, says Epson. So why are inkjets any better?

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Paperless office

cant see that flying in the aerospace business

We have to have a papertrail for everything we do , from goods inwards to goods delivered..... and then to add insult to injury, its all entered on our computised records system.

And then emailed to the customers if theres a problem....

And then theres the day when the printer takes it into its head to go "f you I'm on strike"

And lo, the 3lb lump hammer was retrieved and verily I sayeth unto you "That thou blessed printer, being possessed by a foul spirit, thou shall be exorcised of said foul spirit in the place of personal convayences.."

Blockchain needs a reason to exist, Boris Johnson tells roomful of blockchain pros

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Re: Get yer finest blockchains here...

Can I drive the bulldozer? ... pleeeeeeeease

Two signs in the comms cabinet said 'Do not unplug'. Guess what happened

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Please touch

this switch

We had the opposite problem.....

When newbies start with us, they are given the talk "This button shuts everything off, this button starts everything.... if you have a problem hit the stop button and we'll sort it out"

So I retire to the office to do some important work (reading BoFH stories in el-reg most likely) and all is good for hour or 2.. until the noise starts..and continues....

So I'm out of the chair... down the stairs , across the unit to the offending machine and wham the stop button.... and our newbie is just standing there going "Is it suppossed to make that noise?"

Icon... for how I feel most days...

Just 22% of techies in UK aged 50 or older, says Chartered Institute for IT

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I'd have loved to

make the switch from bashing bit of metal with keyboards to just bashing keyboards

Sadly my Z80 assembler experience including designing programs to be multi-tasking via interupts(you try making sure everything gets done in 1/64th of a second before the next interupt arrives..) plus Open university qualifications in concurrent systems design(comes in handy when usings the old cells with the add on robots that need sync signals going back and forth to make sure everything works as planned and does'nt result in a big mangled mess of metal) and a fair amount of Java programming(including analysis of the RS 232 signals from the machines) didnt count for shit when I tried to swap careers aged 40.

I was'nt aged 22-24 with a still wet degree and 2 years experience in a 6 month old technology therefore I was not suitable for the position........ so the career change never happens and that £25/hr job(with no oily robots to cope with) was out of reach.

Still on the bright side.... only 6 more years of this bollocks to go :)

'What's the point of me being in my office, just because they want to see me in the office?'

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You're my previous employer and I claim my $5

Well actually its $450 you still owe me you bastard

Britain has likely missed the boat for having a semiconductor industry

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Re: Nice to see the House on the ball

Wont be much done on that enquiry until the all party investigation into ursine defecation in arboreal areas is complete.

UK cuts China from Sizewell nuclear project, takes joint stake

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Re: Rough timing

Quote

"Interestingly and concerningly, it does seem we aren't ramping up our defence industries to replenish stocks being rapidly consumed in defence of Ukraine."

According to an old friend brothers who works in that sort of area....

That statement is very much untrue.....

Rolls-Royce, EasyJet fire up first hydrogen-fueled jet engine

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Re: hydrogen as jet fuel

And easier to detect if theres a leak... 'cos all the passengers will start squeaking.

EU still getting its act together on European Chips Act funding

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Re: Meanwhile, in the UK...

Bakerlite?

That way too advanced for the likes of the tories....

They are still funding the expansion of our flint napping industry..

Study suggests AI cruise control could kill traffic jams by cutting out the 'intuition' factor

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Re: Stick with the lane the trucks are in works for me

Mythbusters tried that one on

Only works if you are within 20 feet of the rear of the truck otherwise your are in the turbulence of its wake and any efficiency gained is lost

Sadly being 10 foot from a truck at 60 mph and the truck has to do an emergency stop...... you just have to do as the jokey sign says

"If you cant stop.. smile as you go under"

HP Inc to lay off up to 6,000 staff, cut costs by $1.4 billion

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I wonder

how much of that profit is going in the form of a share buyback scheme to increase the share price even more (also increasing the C-level's share holding as well) rather than the proper way to put the share price up of investing in new products/technologies/staff to add value to the company's turnover thus increasing its profits for next year

Nope I'm being stupid again.... share buy back takes 30 seconds to show a return with no risk, investment takes 1 year to 5 years to show a return (maybe) so its buy back

Windows Subsystem for Linux now packaged as a Microsoft Store app

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Re: Already 4 flavours of WSL?

Embrace, extend and extingush?

Jaguar Land Rover courts coders caught in big tech layoffs

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Re: Need more than coders

Quote

"one reason automotive manufacturers in general are having particular problems with electronic supplies is that they have a bad reputation for being overdemanding assholes."

I can testify to that, demanding 20 000 parts per month before covid, before stopping production due to covid and we're like "You wanted 20k month and we're gonna deliver and charge you for them" and they're like "Take our terms or we'll go elsewhere when we want parts again"

Watchdog warns UK health data platform could damage patients' trust

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Its not quite

like that

Its whichever company offers to most non-exec directorships to the most number of ex-tory MPs*

*judging by the latest polls that will be about 160 .........

Aviation regulators push for more automation so flights can be run by a single pilot

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Where do they

get their ideas? beancounter central?

I'm responsible for making (among other bits) some aircraft landing gear parts, once the computer has swallowed the CAD model, the CAM software has generates a program(helped by yours truely), I've built the fixture and tested it all out to make sure it all works, I am not allowed by the company rule book to be anywhere near the inspection department while they are checking it.

On the basis, if I've made an error , then hopefully they'll pick it up.

If something as simple as I make has to have a 2 man rule, I'd damn well hope that something as complex as a commecial jet has a 2 man rule too.

Icon .. for what happens if people involved with aircraft get it wrong...

Biden administration earmarks $13b to modernize electric grid

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Can we

divert that money over this side of the pond

We could do with it too.... since our political parties are too busy pissing into the wind to even notice how much of our infrastucture is kaput

IT manager's 'think outside the box' edict was, for once, not (only) a revolting cliché

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Re: Engineer?

Dont talk to me about 'engineers

In our experience , they fall into one of three categories

1. The 'Sproglet'(aka the fresh grad) Usually given crayons.

2. The 'Junior' .. has learned enough not to eat the crayons, and given a piece of paper too

3. The "Engineer" has proven to be able to put crayon to paper and thus given a high end CAD workstation.

And then this information flows to the production department who question the sanity of a 14mm clearance hole for an 8mm bolt in a part thats 12mm in diameter...........

And people wonder sometimes why I spend so much time out of the office laying under a robot machining cell(usually reading el-reg on my phone)

BOFH: We're an industry leader … in employing idiot managers

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Coffee/keyboard

Well

After the PFY's keyboard died mysteriously earlier today*

I'm pretty sure the BoFH is setting his whole office building up to be greenified........**

We had the lights changed to 'high efficiency, low cost ones'

I was'nt very popular when I pointed out with the power saved we could run the 2 compressors for an extra 5 mins per day...

*shes somehow managed to aquire the other chair in the office... possibly a black market deal with one of the senior programmers....I'm making sure the new carpet is nailed down and checking the lift when I use it so that its there when the doors open......

**after being purified by fire of course