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Tech support discovers users who buy the 'sh*ttest PCs known to Man' struggle with basics

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perl to swines alas.

MS poisoned the world when it pretended that computing was easy.And then made an OS to make it even harder!

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Capita: We are seeking staff to join our board. Just two please

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I have experience in developing large computer projects sucessfully.

So you dont want me then.

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Keen for much-hyped quantum computing to finally land? Don't expect it for a decade

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I like the idea of QC

But you seem to have to know the answer beforehand to be sure its worked.

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Now you, too, can snoop on mobe users from 3G to 5G with a Raspberry Pi and €1,100 of gizmos

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Can I use this to hijack someones 4/5G BB connection?

Asking for a friend.

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After all that! Ofcom proposes BT as only broadband universal services provider for whole of UK (except Hull)

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Re: fibre to the hamlets

And can I thank you for providing me with my free 4G internet connection!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/05/mobile_users_can_be_tracked_with_cheap_kit_aka_protocol/

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No, you haven't gone deaf – the Large Hadron Collider has been wound down for more upgrades

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Re: mmmm

How about the cheaper but better educated border albanians?

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STIBP, collaborate and listen: Linus floats Linux kernel that 'fixes' Intel CPUs' Spectre slowdown

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Re: Lets remove all

And lets not get started on BlockJains.

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Re: Worse than the Victorians,

How many pins do I have to make covers for this fucking time?

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OneDrive is broken: Microsoft's cloudy storage drops from the sky for EU users

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Re: WTF?

Do you think they are going to let me into the cloud to fix it then?

'Team up' is MS speak for 'fuck off and leave me alone, customer support makes me angry'.

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Re: Ah the Cloud

As we brummies say 'the rine in spine falls minely un the pline'.

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Canuck couple returns home after night on tiles to gaggle of randomers hanging out in their flat

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Re: It always pays to carry a Micro-Uzi in a shoulder holster

It never pays to carry a gun. Even simple statistics show the weapon you buy to defend your family is the most likely weapon to be used to kill them, and make it more likely they die.

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Interest in Kubernetes, chip design coding, Go soars among tech job seekers and employers

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Verilog isnt really a chip design language

its good for that but you can do so much more with it - its just so tempting to compile it all into a chip!

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GTA gamer cuffed, charged after PS4 live mic allegedly overheard him raping teen girl

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Re:Re: Reporting bias

Trump has less money than if he'd left his inheritance in trust so no amassing involved there,

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Pasta-covered cat leads to kid night operator taking apart the mainframe

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Re: Early DEC days

I had a hard drive that wouldnt spin up unless I gave it a little twist on powering up. Budget cuts meant the cover remained off my PC for a couple of years!

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Blighty: We spent £1bn on Galileo and all we got was this lousy T-shirt

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Re: Not it isn't allowed under WTO rules at all.

So? It will be at least 8 years before we are a member of the WTO and legally covered by those rules - according to the WTO, That is assuming we are allowed to join - the US wants us to sell them the NHS on the cheap before they give their agreement and Argentina is looking at some islands just off their coast...

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Bordeaux-no! Wine guzzling at UK.gov events rises 20%

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Re: Chef!

One thing I just remembered it some English wine in Lidl's - a couple of quid a bottle IIRC - is not particularly palatable but if you use it for deglazing your Sunday roast dish the gravy from it is actually VERY improved,

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Re: Chef!

I has guzzled quite a lot of the fizzy stuff in my time - some of which I have even bought. I live not far from the Camel Valley which produces some bubbly that has won international competitions. IMHO its better than anything the Champagne region can offer for twice the price - indeed my father in law has about 1/2 mile of french wine in his cellar and normally provides pop for events is well impressed with it. My rich relatives from California are also very impressed with it.

I've had glasses of other 'premium' english pop and it seems mostly pretty good.

If you remade the Chef nowadays with Lenny taking english pop over the French would sober up sharpish.

I must confess I'd rather celebrate with a pint of scruttocks old dirigible myself ( I likes what I likes) but people feel obliged to follow fashion.

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What the #!/%* is that rogue Raspberry Pi doing plugged into my company's server room, sysadmin despairs

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I would have powered it down

And then whipped out the SD and had a look around that. A diff with another raspbian (assuming it was) would have shown what evil lay within,

And then I would have had another Pi for a local computer club!

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Mobile networks are killing Wi-Fi for speed around the world

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If only the retro nokia had 5g and worked as an access point

I might use data on my phone in an emergency,

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Shocker: UK smart meter rollout is crap, late and £500m over budget

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Re: Smart meters DO save money!

Given we cant get a phone signal down here neither will they!

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Re: Nah.. They won't be getting a grilling..

No - do not subsidise LED light bulbs. As far as I can work out* the 20 or so LED light bulbs in my house are costing me about 6 times the cost of electricity they save in replacement - they simply dont last anywhere as long as they claim.

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Re: pros of the smart meter

Perhaps you should get out more!

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Re: I do not want a fucking smart meter!

Neither do I but I'm not convinced the EU ordered it to be implemented in such a fucking moronic way, The simple fact the meters appear to be non-transferable between suppliers suggests it was a deliberate UK fuckup,

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Re: Smart meters do not save energy

DJO but these are for domestic plants and are utter shit. I'd love one if, in the middle of the night without me going looking for it, it could tell me that the price has dropped to 2p a unit where I would know its OK to turn on electric heating/hot water etc and actually save me some money over (say) gas for heating the same.

I have a feeling these things were rushed out before someone could implement that.

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Re: Home security problem

Lee D. You ring my doorbell all you know is you're on my doorstep. I dont answer the phone or doorbell unless I feel like it, and you look worth talking to.

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Reverse Ferret! Forget what we told you – the iPad isn't really for work

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Someones noticed at last.

Spend 2hrs doing work on iPad. Move it to office PC and spend a further 2 hrs fixing it.

All for something that would take an hour on the PC in the office.

Phones are 5 or 6 times as inefficient as PCs.

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Behold, the world's most popular programming language – and it is...wait, er, YAML?!?

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Re: Whitespace

I write quite a lot of Python and can cope with it. I have in my time written shit loads of asp pages in a several languages and the thought of trying to write Python asp pages is enough to drive me to drink.

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Another 3D printer? Oh, stop it, you're killing us. Perhaps literally: Fears over ultrafine dust

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Re: 3D Printers

Recycled chocolate? No thanks,

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Re: 'Give us money'

I is now going to build a fume cabinet for mine. Could take up chemistry as well!

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Townsfolk left deeply unsatisfied by Bury St Edmunds' 'twig' of a Christmas tree

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Re: I like all Christmas trees

Until the flue glazes shut!

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Re: I come to Bury St Edmunds...

Oh beehive.

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Re: Goodness

I look forward to the coming storms blowing it to bits.

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Can your rival fix it as fast? turns out to be ten-million-dollar question for plucky support guy

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Re: Similar thing with SGI

Optimising benchmarks is easy tho - a good optimise will remove all non-useful code and just print out the names of the test and a very small number.

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Re: Not just assembly. Vax

I remember, while trying to teach myself C on our 780 deciding to have a crack at getting Small C up and running on it for shits and giggles as they say. Good way to learn about how computers work - and how beer does too!

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If Shadow Home Sec Diane Abbott can be reeled in by phishers, truly no one is safe

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Laugh at Abbot all you want

but I think almost everyone on here works for people who have minimal computing experience and only escape this sort of embarrassment because people like you work for them,

The government seems happy to pay massive consultancy fees to get worse than a good hack, Social engineering on a much higher level than this.

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European Union divided over tax on digital tech giants as some member states refuse free money

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Re: Paying tax?

I reckon it could be 10 or 20 years before the infrastructures of the world collapse to the point where people start realising what a good idea tax is, and then they can charge us for the privilege of re-inventing it.

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It would be nice if we could have a global agreement

so we can play whack-a-mole with any governments that look like they might be thinking this is a good idea.

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UK rail lines blocked by unexpected Windows dialog box

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TBF running the trains better is one thing Clippy could do!

NT but a replacement bus service the other way.

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Russian computer failure on ISS is nothing to worry about – they're just going to turn it off and on again

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Re: Could be worse

In space no one can hear you making meringue!

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Re: In Russia...

presumably they too the time to make it the red screen of death too!

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Macs to Linux fans: Stop right there, Penguinista scum, that's not macOS. Go on, git outta here

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It is not my hardware after all

and it never will be!

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GCSE computer science should be exam only, says Ofqual

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Re: When the kids own IT at home is better than the Sh*t they have at school

And if you have something better its not allowed on the net at school.

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Roscosmos: An assembly error doomed our Soyuz, but we promise it won't happen again

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@boltar and unions

Unions could be shit in the 70s. Some of those strikes were almost as damaging as the British Management,

Brilliant idea by thatcher to stop the unions damaging business by closing those businesses.

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The D in Systemd stands for 'Dammmmit!' A nasty DHCPv6 packet can pwn a vulnerable Linux box

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Re: Old is good

"The frame of the gate is part of the gate and doesn't swing." No, but it certainly bounces around when the gate slams shut in a strong breeze.

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I ship you knot: 2,400-year-old Greek trading vessel found intact at bottom of Black Sea

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I wonder if the sails are intact?

I'd love to see if they could sail into the wind. Many claim you had to wait for lateen sails to do so but if you check out the Bayeaux needlework thingy those sails must have had some advantage over the standard square rigs.

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Re: Wood floats...

I float. Fill me with a few amphorae of wine though...

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Roughly 30 years after its birth at UK's Acorn Computers, RISC OS 5 is going open source

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Re: RiscOS really was magnificent but...

Run it on the single core zero then! I have a copy of the version that was released for the Pi 'originally' and its gobsmackingly fast compared to Raspbian. It seems to run like a dream on the Zero but the apps were few and far between. I really wished someone would put the GNU developer stack on it and now it seems my dream may come true.

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Core-blimey! Riddle of Earth's mysterious center finally 'solved' by smarty seismologists

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Re: out of curiosity

Ignoring trace elements is not a good idea - carbon steel is a completely different beast to iron and only has 2% carbon in it. Could easily account for the fudge!

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The mysterious life of Luc Esape, bug fixer extraordinaire. His big secret? He's not human

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Re: ""Who owns the intellectual property and responsibility of a bot contribution: "

I'd assume the one accepting the patch would have a peek at the changes and have some clue as to what is going on.

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NASA chief in Moscow: 'We will fly again on a Russian Soyuz rocket'

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Re: Scheduling...

Re extending their stay up their to 500 days. Not nice to have jelly bones when you do come back though is it?

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