Posts by Pinkerton

Inevitable and predictable question...

I wonder who the most gullible and lucrative recipients are, Brexiters or Remainians...

What if there had been a real fire...

...And the Halon had gone off?

(Why do I always think of the worst possible outcome?)

Proprietary 32-bit NetWare or SLES-based 64-bit OES?

One for the the author of this article 'cos I is confused!

Are the Chinese rolling out old knocked-off copies of the no-longer-sold NetWare (32 bit only, NLMs, Abends, proprietary kernel) or are they on the current product, Novell Open Enterprise Server (64 bit only, NetWare-stylee services running on SLES)? If the latter it kind of knackers the headline because that isn't NetWare, it's OES. NetWare having gone out of general support in 2010.

There was a brief period where the two products ran side-by-side, branded as OES NetWare and OES LInux but the NetWare brand has long since gone.

I am genuinely interested to know which of these two different products - proprietary 32-bit NetWare or SLES-based 64-bit OES - they're all going for in China.

Hmmmm...

Is this even real?

It seems a tad reminiscent of Bonsai Kitten to me.

...Or maybe I've just reached a point in my life where I don't believe anything I read on the internet any more.

Call me old fashioned...

...but I'd rather it be kept a secret until the actual regeneration.

I'm flying, Steve...

Is this the beginning of a rearranging-the-deckchairs-on-the-Titanic strategy?

Pah!

Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here downloading apps.

In them days we used to type in games from a magazine.

But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.

Be careful what you wish for...

It is said that you don't know what you've got until you lose it. I fear the BBC is in this category.

Perhaps they should make a pre-emptive strike and broadcast nothing but Fox News for a week. That might be the bitchslap we need to remind us to be grateful for what we've got.

Gartner: Making vendors add nonsense to software...

Much like the news media should be reporting the news rather than controlling it, Gartner should be reporting innovation rather than controlling it. Neither of these cases are true, obviously.

Was once on a training course for some complex product or other and on some configuration sections we skipped over important-looking parameters with the instructor saying, "You can ignore that - it's just there to keep Gartner happy - nobody will use it in the real world".

I was left wondering what was left out so that could be put in - or left out as Gartner didn't deem it important.

Well done Gartner.

At the risk of stating the obvious...

> Forum denizens the internet over seem to view CLI versus GUI as a binary choice

It's not just CLI vs GUI.

Human nature seems to err towards *everything* being a binary choice! Whether it's Windows vs Linux, Labour vs Conservative, Man-made Climate Change vs Natural Cyclic Climate Change, Today's Music vs When I Were A Lad, Bitter vs Lager and so on.

I reckon that for any given debate, those that are willing to see all the various hues of grey are in the minority with most commentators firmly at one pole or another.

And a big round of applause...

...For the rocket scientists at Argyll and Bute Council who must be the only people on the planet too out of touch to have foreseen exactly how this decision would turn out.

Well done Argyll & Bute. Very well done indeed. Worth every penny of your council tax.

...And no, it doesn't matter whether it's a real nine year-old girl, her father pretending to be her, pernicious hippies or whoever: The council stuck a bloody great big luminous flag in it saying Lookie Here!

Everyone's a winner!

I'm playing fallacy bingo using this url - http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/poster - as a score sheet.

A couple more articles like this and I'll have crossed them all off...

Boom tish

*Beep*

Alice: What's that?

Bob: A text message from Charlie - he says he's going to kill himself.

Alice: Aren't you going to do anything?

Bob: He's on T-Mobile - the funeral was yesterday.

Why does this matter?

The BBC's Have Your Say forum is awash with yards of debate about this. Why?

A programme or two gets moved from one channel to another.

After the digital switchover is complete, everyone who has access to BBC1 and BBC2 will also have access to CBeebies and CBBC. Nobody has lost anything.

What am I missing, here?

Someone explain.

Please type slowly as I can't read very fast.

My money is on WH Smith

What are the chances of the hackers putting the apostrophe in correctly? Slim to none I would suggest!

...More efficient, smaller, faster, more flexible and re-useable code...

So we've eliminated disgruntled Microsoft employees, then.

Boom tish. Thangyouverymuch. I'm available for weddings, birthdays and bar mitzvahs, etcetera.

I think...

... that my copy of AdBlock Plus must have expired!

On the bright side...

...George Lucas is not involved.

What's the betting...

...That The Sun will start whining and bitching that the public are unfairly judging those that have been arrested before any evidence has even been heard in court?

I bet "weird"*, "lewd"*, "creepy"*, "angry"* & "disturbing"* Chris Jefferies must be pissing himself laughing at the brass-necked hypocrisy of the situation.

I just wish that the media wasn't such a closed-shop and that a few titles would break ranks and do a hatchet job on those arrested - dredge up every last element of their past and then retell them out of context and in sinister tones.

* (c) 2011 The Sun.

Here we go again...

Oh no! A new Facebook layout. Someone has changed this free service that I'm not obliged to use.

That's my life ruined!

Hmmm...

Why not ask my wife?

After all, she has an answer for f'cking everything!

(C) 1976 Bernard Manning.

Has anyone told them...

...To switch it off and on again?

Dammit...

...Arse and bollocks. Piers Morgan is only 46.

What did I miss?

Has Novell been wound up?

I've double-checked the press releases and it looks like Novell is going to be run as its own business unit, alongside Attachmate's other existing business units and a separated-out SUSE.

You'd never know it judging by the 'Novell is already dead, buried and its grave pissed-on' reports, though, would you?

Perhaps I'm old fashioned...

Why do people think it's OK to steal in the aftermath of a mistake or accident?

No matter whether someone leaves the doors open on a Kiwi supermarket, motorbikes get washed up on a Devon beach or a hurricane tears through New Orleans, stealing is stealing is stealing.

When you consider that there are very few reports of looting (i.e. stealing) in Japan in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami it makes the rest of the world look like a bunch of thieving chavvy bastards.

I'm going for the 'Only Sensible Post' prize!

[Yank Rozzers] added: "We're going to investigate and determine, number one, the source of the comments and then based on the investigation determine what intent was and where we go from here. If we believe they were actually intended as threats we will work toward prosecution."

...Which is more than can be said for all those involved in the Twitter Joke Trial who made no effort to establish intent and differentiate between a pisspoor joke and an actual desire to kill.

OK, OK, I'll get back in my box.

Bee decline denial...

It's only a matter of time before this is all uncovered as a conspiracy...

- Bee decline is not happening

- Even if it is happening, it is not caused by humans

- Even if it is caused by humans, there is nothing we can do about it

- Even if there is something we can do about it, it's too expensive, will require higher taxes, mean we have to drive less and stop us flying to sunny places on holidays

It could be worse...

...George Lucas could be involved!

Meh!

Before selecting candidates for interview, I immediately throw away half of the CVs.

This weeds out unlucky people.

Bloody woman.

I thought she'd gone for good.

I bet...

...Artificial Rhonda never had these problems!

Same old same old!

Labour: They just can't help themselves, can they?

In power or in opposition, they just have to keep on watching, collecting and cataloguing every last bit of information on or about us.

How many people will suggest...

...that is it now essential that we keep a very close eye on the checkout girl's mammalian protuberances in order to ensure no overcharging.

The story was posted at 14:47 so I reckon, a mere 17 minutes later, at least 17 people have already suggested it - that'll be me and 16 others.

Forward thinking? Nah - it'll never catch on!

Why get organised and do something in good time when you can leave it until the shit is about to hit the fan and then do it all at the last minute?

I'm convinced the world is run by students!

Pre. Dick. Table.

So... Post a tottie-based, perv-bait story on a Friday afternoon and then stand back and see if more than one in 50 posts are actually fit for human consumption.

You're either:

(a) Trying to keep La Moderatrix busy

(b) Doing a survey in to Pavlovian response

I almost forgot: Phwoooargh, I'd do that, etc, etc, etc.

Proving that terrorists are dumb and security services dumber...

I've never understood why terrorists are so keen to blow up planes anyway. Why not just let the bomb off in the airport? You'll save yourself the price of a ticket which means you won't show up on any watch-lists (*and* the saved money can go towards the nibbles at your funeral - bonus).

The airport terminal would be closed for weeks. A coordinated attack in all terminals at all major airports and you've grounded planes for longer than 9/11 ever did and you don't even have to go near a security check.

If that were to happen, the next step by the security services would be to have a perv scanner and shoe-sniffer outside the airport to stop bad guys entering. Then all the terrorists need to do is blow *that* queue up.

...or a Premier League football match.

...or a music concert or festival.

...or the next anti-government demo.

...and so on.

What's the fascination with planes and why are both the terrorists and security forces obsessed with them? The latter should really be concentrating on these far more obvious threats in case our not very bright, thickie terrorists get a clue.