My thoughts too.
Not realising he was leaking hence the denials.
So many incompetents in one place.
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US foreign minister Mike Pompeo to give UK a bollocking over Huawei 5G plans
May Day! PM sacks UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson for Huawei 5G green-light 'leak'
Thursday 2nd May 2019 09:03 GMT 
Re: 50 Million, Try 2.7 Billion
Chris Fayling is a complete and utter twat.
Needs sacking, may be deselecting. Totally incompetent.
I noticed no one has reminded us about his cancellation of railway electrification schemes, forcing the purchase of Electro Diesels to fill in those gaps.
But his nadir has to be the pizza company.
And in current affairs... Apple recalls three-prong AC adapters after some shocking behavior
Monday 29th April 2019 08:58 GMT
Plugs
I do not like the new plastic earth pin craze.
Lost a decent power output USB PSU due to this.
Only had one plug fail, pretty old, it just shattered.
Most though seem to stay plugged in.
My least favourite is a plug with PSU in it with a switch to the lights on the output side. This light I HAVE to switch off at mains after turning it off. A bad design.
Perhaps Apple should get MK to make their adaptor.
Sophos antivirus tools. Working Windows box. Latest Patch Tuesday fixes. Pick two: 'Puters knackered by bad combo
Take your pick: 0/1/* ... but beware – your click could tank an entire edition of a century-old newspaper
Tuesday 23rd April 2019 11:08 GMT
Re: destructive hdd check
Pegasus Opera reverse ok cancel, so you tend to click cancel if you do not read, until you panic click on OK because you want to cancel.
What a shit idea.
I do not at all blame myself and this is what backups were invented for.
Mind you they were not fans of us, a customer with it had lots of index errors, (Pegasus said backup) so we reindexed using a software product of Extended Systems which happened to support a few variants of that file type. We knew that format trashed indexes so used the server engine we use to not get any index errors.
Mind you some was the natural animosity between Nantucket and Fox developers.
Last week in space: Giant aircraft, asteroid impacts and exploding satellites
Motion detectors: say hello, wave goodbye and… flushhhhhh
Samsung's tricksy midrange teasers want your flagship catch
RIP: Microsoft finally pulls plug on last XP survivor... POSReady 2009
Razer – perfectly happy to sell you a laptop for over $2,000, but when it comes to fixing security holes... tough sh*t
Wednesday 10th April 2019 14:13 GMT
Re: Official sponsorship
I tried to watch the Playstation Academy programme on ITV.
The following was blurred out so stopped watching at the first break. Cars were just a blur.
It appears that they were driving Nissan sports cars 370Z I THINK (blurred out)
The game (Gran Turismo), studio (Polyphony Digital), console (Playstation), maker (Sony) alll blurred out.
So blur, head, blur, legs. Standing next to a blurmobile.
Worst ever case of blurring I have seen.
Prince Harry takes a stand against poverty, injustice, inequality? Er, no, Fortnite
Friday 5th April 2019 15:49 GMT
Re: That joke is too effing old
Hewitt
Just not possible as Hewitt is not the son of Prince Phillip.
Look at the pair of them Harry is a chip off the DoE block.
I find it so funny as people really get wound up by Prince Phillip, then get similar by Harry.
I get great enjoyment out of people getting wound up like that as it makes them out to be fools.
Oh and look at those ears!
Friday 5th April 2019 15:43 GMT
Re: A "fun" game is addictive.
Toxicity in games.
Seen it in SP games with casual PVP where hard core types wipe out everyone, why not sod off back to COD.
Yet a more hardcore MP game with a SP element was not toxic until the COD crowd got a free trial. They whinged like mad as it was slow and they got wiped. Lots of cheating accusations and the like, no it was a game played by older skilled slower players, not so much by kids.
Game 1 was a casual but fun MP aimed at the SP players to give the game life. Got toxic.
Game 2 was a FPS with story and a decent MP needing skill more than reactions. Toxic for a week then returned to fun.
It does seem to be that the COD crowd are most toxic.
UK tech's gender pay gap: HP Inc closest to parity with 1.8% sliver – Civica, Huawei, Siemens straddle 40% chasm
Thursday 4th April 2019 16:02 GMT
This does seem an odd thing to me to measure.
What is the use of the information?
What is important is as follows.
Equal pay for equal work.
Equal opportunities.
So if the lower paying jobs are mainly one sex (techies and support staff normally male hence BT female skewed).
What is unacceptable is people earning more or getting better promotion simply due to trouser, pant or knicker contents.
BOFH: Tick tick BOOM. It's B-day! No we're not eating Brussels flouts...
Tuesday 2nd April 2019 10:28 GMT
Christmas music
And do you know what is worse?
Covers of Christmas music.
A few genuine is nice, but 5th time today of Fairy Tale New York or Merry Xmas Everyone it gets to grate.
But a shitty Sladeless cover of Merry Xmas Everyone, brings on the killing feelings.
And I like the song! But requires Noddy to sing. Was fun in August 81.
Friday 29th March 2019 10:58 GMT
Re: My OCD is firing up
Fruit, sour apples
Horrid things, I like sweet reddish apples, especially Gala. Other apples are best fermented.
Oranges, need to be easy peel or it messes my keyboards.
Now to noise, if that came in to my office I would be on strike until removed, I reckon half a day before done.
Brit broadband giants slammed as folk whinge about crap connections, underwhelming speeds
Tuesday 26th March 2019 15:43 GMT
On BT they are OK
Why did I go with them?
When I moved from ISDN to ASDL, the ISDN ISP were crap, I kept losing it as they were depreciating it for modems.
At the time BT were best bet, so used them, went dialup for a few weeks (horrid) then got broadband.
Stuck with them with occasional calls to get it cheaper via FTTC.
I am on unmetered unrestricted BT Infinity now. And it appears regularly going over 500GB a month, one month 800GB.
Only outages have been at my end (reboot kit).
Paying over the odds but been fast and reliable (unlike colleague with internet so bad they use their phone as a hot spot, he was saving money by getting really cheap BB)
UK joins growing list of territories to ban Boeing 737 Max flights as firm says patch incoming
Thursday 14th March 2019 14:01 GMT
Re: The reason that the Max series need MCAS
Pedals not connected
Brakes
Wrong, they are connected hydraulically to the pedal, yes there is a servo but it would take a leak to stop them working.
Steering
Wrong, power steering seems to work by a walking beam type system to operate the power bit, no power steering works.
And there is a nice solid bar with universal joints between the steering column and the steering box
Accelerator
Depends, some are, some are Drive By Wire, last car was DBW and had a motor on the throttle body, previous similar one had a cable. DBW advantage was easy cruise control.
Current is DBW by necessity as it is a unit injector Diesel.
Wednesday 13th March 2019 13:21 GMT
Re: The reason that the Max series need MCAS
My last car hit a kerb at low speeds because it would not stop, foot to floor on brake, ABS pulsing and doing eff all.
In those conditions ABS at 5mph was a total liability.
Current car reports an ABS failure but it still works.
Intermittant contact as one of these units with steel soldered
UK pr0n viewers plan to circumvent smut-block measures – survey
Aussie engineer accuses 'serial farter' supervisor of bullying, seeks $1.8m redress
TV piracy ring walks the plank after Euro cops launch 14 raids and shutter 11 data centres
Saturday 23rd March 2019 12:10 GMT
Pay to watch sports
Here goes.
Given up on F1 totally, no loss to me, more time to do other things.
I can only name one England cricketer and that is because he is local and discussed on the radio.
Football as a sport is small team, the big ones are an industry now, how can a big pile of foreigners with a foreign manager represent your locality? They don't hence an industry.
Science says death metal fans delightful and intelligent people, great at dinner parties
Thursday 14th March 2019 13:53 GMT
Metal
Brings back memories, never a thrash fan, but did like NWOBHM.
As to earworms, somebody at work commented that another colleague was paranoid.
Luckily I do like Black Sabbath.
Night clubs, the staff love metal nights as there is a lot less trouble, boring nights usually have shirt and trouser wearing tossers taking lumps out of each other.
And I have just discovered that I can fit in jeans again!
I knew a few bands then, no named ones, just local but decent local, but two of them were really good.
So my car CD changer is half full of bands who knew/know the owner of the car.
I could link to some but it would fully identify me.
Windows XP point-of-sale machine gets nasty sniffle. Luckily there's a pharmacy nearby
Liz Warren: I'll smash up Amazon, Google, and Facebook – if you elect me to the White House
Biker sues Google Fiber: I broke my leg, borked my ankle in trench dug to lay ad giant's pipe
Still fewer Windows 10 devices out there than Instagrammer Kylie Jenner has dollars
Tim Apple. Larry Oracle. Ginni Layoffs: It works so why the heck not?
Silent Merc, holy e-car... Mflllwhmmmp! What is that terrible sound?
Wednesday 6th March 2019 13:11 GMT
Best electric vehicle noise.
Found it first at New Street station, first time I had seen AC electric locos.
The big ones (86s 87s) with their various fans sounded powerful, and they are/were.
What is it about rail traction and noises?
GWR exhaust bark. English Electric charge cooled V engines. Napier triangle engines. AC express locos with fans on full blast.
You have the right to remain on-prem, but you should really head for the cloud, UK plod told
Long phone is loooong: Sony swipes at flagship fatigue with 21:9 tall boy
IBM so very, very sorry after jobs page casually asks hopefuls: Are you white, black... or yellow?
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