* Posts by MJI

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Who knew that hosing a table with copious amounts of cubic metres would trip adult filters?

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I would wonder what cum would mean for a measurement, but m3 is a SI standard.

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Re: Cubic metres? cm^3? ?? What is its abbrev.??

m3 not capital M, always small m

Mysterious metal monolith found in 'very remote' part of Utah

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You need to watch the BBC documentry about sheep.

Some are very clever, the farmer does not suspect.

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Period

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-51629880

Bloated middle age beckons: Windows 1.0 turns 35 and is dealing with its mid-life crisis, just about

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Still remember deleting it

What's the point, waste of disk space.

Back to the dos prompt.

Little did we know what would happen.

Not sunshine, moonlight or good times – blame it on the buggy

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Not Bill

He last worked on XP

Try Steve or whoever created eff Fluent

Police warn of bad Apples that fell off the back of a truck after highway robbery

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Re: Calvados?

I'd rather have a pallet of Gala.

I do like those.

Especially from local farms.

Watchdog signals Boeing 737 Max jets can return to US skies following software upgrade, pilot training

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Re: Dating back to the 1096s

Now if I was in that situation I would be asking around to see if anyone could get the mothballed SST going.

May as well go in style.

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Re: How to convince people to get aboard?

EasyJet use Airbus, fly them instead.

All they need to advertise is we fly Airbus not Boeing 737 Crashamatics.

Worn-out NAND flash blamed for Tesla vehicle gremlins, such as rearview cam failures and silenced audio alerts

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Re: We'll get used to it @Steve

For Rover I think the BMW engines were actually a disadvantage.

Rover group had a post L series Diesel, better than the BMW, never got used by them.

Land Rover had a range of engines, 2 of them were killed before lauch, the surviving middle one is an excellent lump.

Imagine a 75 with a G series, a Freelander with a TD4, or a L322 with a TD6.

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Re: We'll get used to it

I have a car with Rover in the name.

Failed parts on it are from Denso, VDO, and a few others.

That said, the supplied chassis rusts for England, tempted to put a galvanised one under it.

Bu the factory built parts are fine.

A visit to a crafted webpage would have been enough for a bad guy to munch all your Firefox for Android cookies

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Re: I hated Firefox last time I let it update

When I start Android Firefix it has the Bookmarks tab displayed, so I then press the site I want.

Why is that so difficult to have?

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I hated Firefox last time I let it update

It was totally horrid.

Ended up side loading the previous version and disabling updates.

EVERYTHING I used on FIrefox was removed and I found it painfull to use.

Is it back to how it used to be yet, starting in Bookmarks?

The revolution will not be televised because my television has been radicalised

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Re: You've only just noticed that TV isn't a substitute for education?

My TV does not try to sell me anything.

But then I mainly watch advertless TV.

After Cummings' Barnard Castle trip, cheeky Britons started using the word 'vision' in their passwords

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Re: Forced changes

And I left before Fearless

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Forced changes

Yes been there and inflicted with it.

Monthly changes.

So found a book and found lots of simple passwords.

Dreadnaught, Superb, Temeraire, StVincent were the first 4

We've made it: Microsoft deems El Reg relevant enough to have a play with the nerfed version of its upcoming Xbox

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Re: But

Sheep are not cool (except Shawn)

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Re: Clear as mud

I know what you mean.

They have the, XBox Fridge, XBox speaker, Souped up 3, slim 3.

Biggest confusion will be between the two X models.

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Re: Confusing

98 OSR2 AFAIR

I liked it, much better than ME.

I went WFW, 98OSR2, XP, XP, 7, 10

10 is quickest with worst UI

Did I or did I not ask you to double-check that the socket was on? Now I've driven 15 miles, what have we found?

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Re: Failing switches?

Those covers are dangerous, they knobble some safety features

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Re: I have never had a socket switch fail

Or they have OCD about it.

I am afraid I do, I know I have it but it doesn't bother me, I just switch them off.

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Re: Been there ... done that

Cleaners

We used to have a cleaner who never turned off the vacuum, she just unplugged and plugged it in.

Took out 3 sockets with arc damage and still did not think it was her fault.

I did asked how she turned off her car, did she pull the plug leads?

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British electrics

And I think it is right.

Being probably the safest system.

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I have never had a socket switch fail

In the over half century I have been around.

BS1363 FTW

NSA: We've learned our lesson after foreign spies used one of our crypto backdoors – but we can't say how exactly

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Re: How do you avoid US spy gear, it is everywhere.

i mention this because one coworker went to uni there and so did my daughter.

Another coworker does a posh boff then gets Bath shouted at him by two annoyed people.

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Re: How do you avoid US spy gear, it is everywhere.

Bath in a west country accent please.

Barth depends if posh Barth (soft R) bad or west country Barth (rolled Rs) good, Both, as in toff is even worse.

Oculus owners told not only to get Facebook accounts, purchases will be wiped if they ever leave social network

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Re: Not regretting...

My son with Vive and PSVR now wants one of these.

Spends ages in horror games and Beat Saber.

He could write upa lot of pros and cons of the two, one is comfy, other is better. One is n FOS beast the other nore accurate elsewhere.

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Re: Easy ways round this.

Actually it was me being sarcastic. I don't mind games companies having the data I give them, they are not trying to take over my life.

Or are they but in nicer ways?

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Re: How to piss off potential customers 101

Just remember HTC are still in the game (much better kit) and PSVR is similar cost IF you have a PS4.

I am going to borrow sons PSVR and play his motion controlled FPS game. As I am very good with MOVE and FPS* should be fun.

* Top 0.5% online with Killzone 3 and entirely with MOVE.

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PSVR

Not the best system but it works and the games are good.

Ask Mark Cerny about PS5

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Easy ways round this.

Very easy way of avoiding it luckily there are other good companies, one even works on a games console!

A son has the following VR platforms.

Firstly PSVR, it works really well and is a good entry level system. It may be tied to PSN but with a PS4 you tend to have to be.

Next Vive, very good setup not as comfy. I don't think it is tied but the games are from Steam.

Note NO OCULUS.

Also funny how gamers are happy to sign up to STEAM, PSN or XBL but Faecesbook no. What are they doing so wrong?

Microsoft drives users to the Edge: Internet Explorer to redirect to Chromium-based browser in November

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Re: Windows 7?

You are safe as it does not install and try to take over Firefox

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The attitude annoys me

Find your PC rebooted and a new browser installed and pushed in your face.

Click on a link to open a web page, intercepts and moans at me for using FF, PDFs similar with I think it was cutePDF. Moan Moan Moan.

Get out of my way I have work to do.

Fancy a steaming portion of Kentucky Fried Bork? A fingerlickin' flub that's pure poultry in motion

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Re: Urghh

Because we get peed off with people going on about it.

Oh and some people at work occasionally have it and it stinks.

I agree with a local radio chicken fan who also doesn't like KFC but since he likes chicken keeps getting asked about KFC.

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Urghh

Am I the only person who doesn't like KFC?

greasy bitter and slimy.

Prefer Nandos

Today's tech giants won't be as naive as I was in DoJ dealings, says former Microsoft chief Bill Gates

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Re: Subscribe to a hammer?

Workilight turning on is good, but the rest I suspect will gently fail.

Google screwed rivals to protect monopoly, says Uncle Sam in antitrust lawsuit: We go inside the Sherman parked on a Silicon Valley lawn

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Re: nose spite face

Snap On

And they have vans which visit the garages weekly.

Quality is good, as is support.

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Re: "so a majority of people do change search engines"

I used to use multimap then it got mapped to maps.live.com, then the German tin plate site.

I still call it multimap.

Will not work though on my phone which is a real PITA

Why is it so wanted here in the UK?

One reason above all others.

ORDNANCE SURVEY OVERLAY

When you gaze long enough into the bork, the bork will gaze back into you

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WTF?

I once abused someone for

Not washing their hands after a poo.

Dirty bastard.

Was in our Tescos as well.

I hoped he would complain so I could shout out the dirty bastards poor hygene.

UK tech supply chain in dark over Brexit preparations months ahead of final heave-ho

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Re: Bye lads....

If I was single and pre kids and I think I would go there are well. But 30 years too late.

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What a twat?

What are businesses supposed to do, no one has told them.

Lift us up where we belong: UK's Network Rail puts elevators online

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I used to take a bike on trains

And that was hard to push, especially with all my stuff tied on. But twice I was really naughty.

I rode up a ramp into a BG and another time I rode along the underpass.

I made a lot of use of station lifts in those 2 years.

Another time line shut so had to get to next station by road, all my stuff on a bus, but not my bike, sat their thinking until the BR chap said to ride it and told me where next station was, and I beat the bus.

I was a bit annoyed as I had to buy a ticket for it anyway and I also had to use petrol.

BOFH: Rome, I have been thy soldier 40 years... give me a staff of honour for mine age

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Re: Re alike

What like Bristol and Sud Aviation?

From the Department of WCGW: An app-controlled polycarbonate lock with no manual override/physical key

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Re: Today is your life's tomorrow

This bit was brilliant - so many UTOA tossers.

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Re: Surgeon Simulator 2 is on a par with the classic board game Operation

Would this weird toy be suitable for Dildo Hardin?

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Re: Cabeaux tape can get a cab.

"Are you my mummy?"

Was genuinely creepy.

A decades-old lesson on not inserting Excel where it doesn't belong

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Re: Pegasus Opera

And we are still using the same client server package with newer clients, still running DBFs but some are around 6GB.

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Re: Pegasus Opera

And it was a bit flakey due to networking.

But I could open the files with a Clipper application no problem.

Clipper had the magic of replaceble database drivers, one was a client server engine. Went years with no data corruption.

We did once reindex a customers Pegasus Opera as otherwise it was use the backup, we used the client server engine to do it.

Former antivirus baron John McAfee collared, faces extradition to America on tax evasion, securities allegations

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Re: is he still a US citizen ?

As a BFPO birth I investigated Malta - I am not at all eligable even though I was born there.

What a Hancock-up: Excel spreadsheet blunder blamed after England under-reports 16,000 COVID-19 cases

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Seen it wreck data loads of times

Barcodes are its favourites. After telephones.

Bye bye leading zeros.

Long barcodes as strings get turned into exp numbers and do not save as what they were.

I hate them