* Posts by Geeks and Lies

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Label your cables: A cautionary tale from the server room

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Been there done that!

Got the t-shirt, mug and commemorative poster too!

Photos work as do basic port diagrams taped to the side of the cabinet!

Watch Dogs: Eat, sleep, hack, repeat

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Seems a fine game on the 360

Played a good 3-4 hours last night, really enjoying it so far, graphics are superb for the 360 reasonably immersive and not too easy to make you bored! Well worthy of 4 of 5 stars.

Google brings @gmail.com back to Blighty

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WTF?

Odd......

i have a "googlemail.com" addess and have always abbreviated it to @gmail.com without issue!

Blokes spend 11 months in shed

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Go

I detect shed envy...

clearly this man does not have his own shed, this is totally unfair and should be raised as part of the election campaign, sheds for all men!!

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Pint

I love my shed

Its my sanctuary where i keep all my stuff :)

Its being rebuilt next year into a nerd palace, i have been drawing it all up in CAD. Will be heated in the winter and cooled in the summer, a full lan, its own wifi network, workbench for car maintanence, workbench for computing work, freesat, coffee machine, really its an extra mini house all for me :)

NHS accused of politicising health records

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WTF?

@ AC what a crock of...

Seriously, why does everyone have to go on about the NHS having Windows??!?!?!?

You have to understand the NHS has a MASS user base all of which are general Joes in the technical sense and you have to give them something they are already semi familiar with, giving them all Linux, OSX or whatever would only exasperate issues AND spending as all users would have to be trained to use it, and dont give me the "its really easy to use line" i'll grant you the likes of fedora and ubuntu are moving more and more into a user friendly world but still lack teh familiarity of our favourite OS!

HOWEVER to validate your argument with a little merit, a company which for the purposes of this conversation shall remain Anonymous does already cater for the needs of most of the NHS (and is already in double digits worth of trusts) is a web based system that whilst is only fully compatible with IE at the moment could possibly be moved onto other browser platforms allowing the use of a different OS, i would dread to think what the development cost would be but suffice to say it is possible, but no one has ever requested it!

Faxing patient records around? You cannot be serious!!!!

Whitehall coughs £250k for Bletchley Park pothole repairs

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Pint

I really should...

visit this place more often as it is spitting distance from where i live!

We wouldnt be speaking English if it wasn't for them and always donate a bit extra when i go as they deserve the cash! Its a sh1tter that the powers that be dont appreciate it as they REALLY should!

Outlook bleak for NHS IT

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FAIL

grrrr

this project is a waste of bandwidth, especially when there is at least one company out there who can already do everything required of the program!

Freed Peter Moore will be 'paid in full' for time as Iraq hostage

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Excellent news

Quite rightly so this man should be paid everything plus more :-)

Although one can already smell his book deal!

That is all

Custard Creams can kill: Official

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Coat

Crumbs!

That is all...

NASA: Extraterrestrial sample holds ingredient for alien life

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Grenade

This hardly proves life is common!

But more that is probable! Still a great find to support the hypothesis that life outside of our solar system is out there. It’s extremely arrogant of us to believe otherwise in my opinion! I won’t be ordering my tinfoil hat just yet though! Well done to the boffins at NASA for the confirmaion :-)

Hilton's mum enjoys One Night in Paris

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Happy

Spam Javelin

Hilarious euphemism, hilarious. My new challenge is to get this into my next work meeting! Good work el Reg

Pig flu promises holidays for all

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Pint

Beer, Biscuits and DVD's

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

That is all

Vulture Central unleashes RegPad™

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Happy

Umbungo OS...

Was it developed in the Congo?

BOFH: A spot of bother

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Happy

Woooop

Friday just isn’t the same without the BOFH. Another literary masterpiece

HSBC online banking hits another wall

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FAIL

One day...

My name will apear on an el reg tip off :(

DARPA: Can we have a one-cabinet petaflop supercomputer?

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Alien

Bet the....

Aliens could do it!

BOFH: Stick this

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Genuine,,,

Fun for all the family :-) nice work!

People without broadband in 'I don't want broadband' shock

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Joke

Hahahahaha....

you said Penetration. Hahahahahha

El Reg reader crafts Gordo Lolcatprat

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Pirate

Will El Reg...

Consider a prize from the goodies stash for the best entry? I mean its only fair!

DARPA at work on 'Transformer TX', a proper flying car

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Boffin

Puddle Jumper Time :-)

For all those who dont watch Stargate: http://www.mustangmods.com/data/362/jumper1.jpg

Though technically not powered by ducted fans it has 2 "drive pods" and its completely fictional but it does sound exactly like the sort of thing DARPA are after :)

I want one, i want one, i want one.

Patients gain right to scrub e-records from NHS database

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How daft....

I mean really! Why would someone be so paranoid as to have their actual medical records removed! Also once they have been viewed then they are not deleted but archived due to legal reasons. Well newsflash people. Creating them puts a view on them so surely that means that nothing will be deleted only archived. Or if you take the view that creating them does not mean they have been viewed then what’s the point in creating them at all as no one would be allowed to look so why not just chuck all your paper work through the shredder and have your doctor continually guess what is wrong with you! IDIOTS! When is someone going to make common sense available on the NHS!

Atlantis home today, storms permitting

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Happy

Why not Iraq?

tee hee :-)

Mines the one with "Shuttles for Dummies" in the pocket!

Fox terminates The Sarah Connor Chronicles

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I care so little for this show...

... it makes me dizzy!

Yorkshire boozer establishes 'smoking research centre'

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GENIUS!!!

Love it :-)....shame it's t'up north though :-(

Virgin Media to add 500k homes to cable network

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Pirate

Does this finally mean....

.... i might finally get a fibre connection in Milton Keynes? bloody nusance the whole city was built on a cable network and Virgin havent properly hooked us up with it but they were willing to dig up half of Luton and Dunstable 10 mins down the road to put it all in grrrr!

BOFH: Defiling the profile

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Happy

Ahhh the slander.....

:-) carry on

British International Motor Show cancelled

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Unhappy

Ahhhh man!

I was looking forward to that as well, i missed it last year :( humph!

Bletchley Park attracts £300k extra funding

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Happy

I live in Milton Keynes :-)

And its nice to see we arte being praised for something for once! i have been to Blethcley Park more times than i can remember and apparently had family posted there way back when! Also it is the home of the computer after all!

UK IT should 'fire men first', says Kate Craig-Wood

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Hocum...

this is complete balderdash!

Ryanair trades blows with 'idiot blogger'

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Boffin

Ahhh the blogosphere...

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png

Reminds me of the good ol' days. Lets be honest here people. The whole thing was a waste of bandwidth that is getting even more precious in these parts

BOFH: Aspie no questions

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Pirate

Bravo....

I for one welcome our new Aspergers Overload!

Brit, French nuke subs collide - fail to 'see' each other

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Pirate

End of ze world!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZMwKPmsbWE

Bought that time aye chaps!

Satellites crash over Siberia: Iridium bird destroyed

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Alien

Must have been....

the same Alien (sorry UFO ;-) ) that smashed into that Wind turbine this ET is a clumsy bastard is he not! Dread to think how high this guys galatic insurance premiums will go, just hope it doesnt cost the eath.......

Father of Playmobil dies at 79

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Unhappy

Sarah Bee, you owe me a new keyboard!

Mine is now in the bin full of Red Bull!

Feds: IT admin plotted to erase Fannie Mae

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Stop

All your server are belong to us....

ownd.

this just shows sloppy security and change control practices!

/Carry on.....

BOFH: A safe bet

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I miss the good ol' days

but its still a great read. have been waiting since, like, forever for this one!

US Army working on 'exploding marmalade' missile tech

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Paris Hilton

Reports that Paddington Bear....

...has been hired to assist with the research are not as of yet confirmed!

Paris because she knows a thing or 2 about squirting thick liquids through a hole!

Suffolk braces for 300mph winds

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IT Angle

Kite flying....

or kite surfing.....hmmmm decsions, decisions.

Hilton 'sucks face' with MySpace CEO

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Alien

Face sucking aliens!

i for one welcome out new face sucking overlords!

UFO wind turbine prang site: Exclusive photos

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Coat

Can i place an order....

For an ounce of whatever you guys have been smoking in the office?!?!?!

Best, mockup, ever!

Mines the one with the Rizla packet...

Carry on....

Brit loonies adventurers headed to Timbuctoo by 'flying car'

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Coat

Awesome cakes...

another new and inventive way to kill myself...where do i sign :-)

mines the one with "Flying cars for dummies" in the pocket

UFO wind turbine prang site sealed

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Alien

Seriously considering investing in Tin Foil Hat business.....

they're comming, they're comming!

Whilst it would be great to finally answer the question of life on other planets, but sadly i feel any race advanced enough to get here in the first place would be sufficiently equiped to deal with avoiding a windturbine!

McKinnon lawyers push for UK trial

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Coat

But no one has said.....

What he found (if anything0?? :-( are they comming? Is it time for Tin Foil hats? Has anybody thought of the children?

Plus with UK prisons being bursting at the seams, then surely it would be better to ship him overthere.

Mines the one with the SETI Edition roll of tinfoil in the pocket...

LG KC870 cut-price 8Mp cameraphone

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Go

nice phone....

Doesnt want to make me ditch my C905 though! Might consider it for the missus though as a cheaper option to mine! We need a "Meh" icon Reg!

Nokia N97 touchscreen webphone demo'd

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Unhappy

32MB on board storage for *&^%'s sake!

Dear Mr Nokia,

You are a dumb ass.

Regards,

GeeksAndLies

In action: the Powermat wireless gadget charger

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Might be recieved better....

if it didnt cost the same as buying said device!

Send old Shuttles to Mars, says Scotty ashes prang man

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Stop

@ Erm, NO

Whats your point? :-) I'll still give it a whirl, where did we ever get not taking risks?

Carry on.....

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