Posts by Uncle Slacky

Re: So our future robotic overlords will be unfailingly polite?

"Please render unto me your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle."

"I am terribly sorry to tell you that your foster parents are no longer with us."

Re: Boxen

It's quite old hacker slang, similar to the use of VAXen as a humorous plural for VAX machines:

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/boxen.html

Re: My only wish

No, "billg" is his usual internal name at MS.

Re: Linux system upgrade may not be much better

It's dead easy to upgrade/reinstall if you put / and /home on separate partitions to start with.

I think I'll wait for the opinion of Professor Henry Brubaker of the Institute of Studies.

Last year's news

A quick duckduck shows quite a few articles about the expenses claim from this time last year:

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/buzz-aldrin-filed-expense-claim-for-apollo-11-trip-to-the-moon-20150731-giov2m.html

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/03/buzz-aldrin-travel-expenses-moon-apollo-11

etc.

Re: 24 hour service response...

Easy - Guernsey's not in the UK...

Re: Sounds all to familiar

"'PC LOAD LETTER'? What the *fuck* does that mean?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QQdNbvSGok

Fine as long as your niece doesn't mind that all her data are now belong to Microsoft - you *did* mention that to her, didn't you?

Re: Been there, done that...

How about this (as seen on the IT Crowd)?

http://www.cafepress.co.uk/+no-i-will-not-fix-your-computer+t-shirts

Re: To think that...

You might want to try something like Plop Boot Manager - for PCs that won't boot from floppy, USB etc. as standard: https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html

Re: Simple solution

"their name but also their bank account number and sort code. Surely this means you can now withdraw all the money from their account?"

Isn't that what happened when Jeremy Clarkson did that?

WOPR got it right

"Nuclear brinkmanship was a lose-lose game."

ITYM

"THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY."

Re: "While it may underwhelm a little"

ITYM "Pokémoon".

Re: Let's talk balls

"I like bouncing, boing boing boing boing..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOUTimHYj5w

Re: You've missed one key justification

Indeed, there was at least one study a while ago that showed that those who pirate most also purchase the most legal content.

Re: Wine to the rescue!

After about Paint Shop Pro 5, they started to add a lot more needless bloat and not many useful new features, so there's no need to go much beyond v7. Certainly there's no advantage to the Corel-owned versions. The earlier versions (at least) are also dead easy to pirate - just zip up the directory tree & contents and unzip on the target machine.

Exactly what I thought - a little baksheesh would have helped a lot!

Re: And in other lessons from history...

She never actually said it, anyway.

Re: make it go away

But if it went away, journalists (I'm looking at you Grauniad) would have to do some actual journalism...

Re: Eh?

> The Republican Party seems to have no ideas beyond being even more like Reagan.

Nah, Reagan would be way too liberal for today's GOP.

Re: wait....... what?

https://www.reddit.com/r/FloridaMan/ exists for a reason...

Re: 48 hour SLA?

The operative word is "should" - if it ain't "shall", it ain't a requirement!

Re: There is *something* somewhere ...

> I suggest we name the device the 'Wrist Occasional Glance'.

Dunno, I think the acronym might need some work...

Re: Programming skills .NE. programming languages

I can write Fortran code in any language!