Posts by Youngone

Re: Hmm

Film scanners definitely existed in the 1990's. The company I worked for at that time owned two.

Crossfield was the brand, made in the UK (if I remember properly) and they cost about $800,000 each.

Re: Springdale Linux

Don't apologise. I asked John and he thought it was funny.

He's an Ubuntu user though.

Re: Government links

I was also struck by "the CIA and the 16 other intelligence community agencies."

That's a lot of secret policemen. Erich Honecker would have loved that.

Re: Why this

Inane bollocks? I'm in. That's my favourite.

Re: A Heavenly Santa Comes Early ...... :-)

sudo systemctl restart blather

He was sacked wasn't he?

Pretty sure he'll pop up somewhere else with "CFO of Capita" on his CV and fail at his new job too.

I've worked with a few guys like him I suspect.

Re: So what did they think of Boris ?

So he's Macedonian? Not that he's particularly great.

Re: Bork? Borkbork

Yeah. At least the good folk of the Ilam electorate have finally come to their senses and turfed out the idiot Gerry Brownlee.

Re: memories...

Your. It's your.

And we've all done it.

The massive corporation I work for is escaping from Oracle as I type this.

They are escaping to SAP though. Due to the lockdowns the dozen support people who were going to fly in and support the users through go-live are attempting to do that remotely.

Ask me if it is going well.

It is not.

Re: MS Trawling OneDrive

Not that I condone the illegal downloading and sharing of copyright materials you know.

I do.

Re: @overunder

No, Brexit was a cash grab by Big Concrete to get contracts to pave over Kent so that all those lorries have somewhere to park.

They were playing the long game.

Re: Brands and subbrands

I have heard a marketroid call Chinese consumers* "unsophisticated" as they seem to be easily lead.

There is a luxury brand retail outlet near me which is full of cheap tat, priced as if it is high quality merchandise, and they limit the number of suckers customers they let in at one time.

The people in the queue outside are exclusively Chinese.

* Generalisations about any group of people are just generalisations, of course.

Re: 20,000 people?

The very big company I work for has developed into a sub-group of the second type.

A company that has consolidated its industry to the point where competition has become merely theoretical and so it can glue its feet to the floor, and still make huge profits.

Re: AManFromMars

Hilariously amanfrommars1 chips in trying to prove Martin Summers wrong, and proves him right instead.

That is exactly what I come to El Reg for. Priceless.

Re: But ...

I am. For tax purposes anyway.

Re: Congratulations, Bellman!

As that App is linked to the America's Cup, I'm going to assume the good taxpayers of New Zealand paid for it anyway, because we put hundreds of millions into every regatta they hold.

I am unsure why anymore.

Re: These point scoring things....

I'm a 6.

No-one at the company can tell me if I am a 6 out of 10, or 50, opr 1,000 or even how they came up with 6, but apparently that's what I am because that's what gets put on my review every year.

Re: Punters should have asked themselves...

Come on Prof, don't hold out! What's the address? I have £4 11 s ready

Re: Downvote...

I read it.

I think amanfrommars1 believes some stuff, but I have no idea what.

He is getting more coherent. I am unsure if that is a good thing.

Re: $21,999 85-inch jumped-up whiteboard

I have bought several "digital whiteboards" for various bosses (or whatever the trendy term was at the time) in my career, and some of them cost way more than $21,999, but none of them were used for more than a couple of months.

Maybe this one is great, but I wouldn't bet on it, if it were my money.

Re: Oh how the mighty have fallen...

I installed Fedora on my home laptop a couple of weeks ago after trying to get rid of snaps from Ubuntu and failing.

I have no complaints, it's great.

I wondered the same. I suspect Lineage won't be available for a while, if ever. It depends on Huawei's bootloader policy I suppose.

Re: Venus is a terrible place

I love this bit: The upshot is: Your plane would fly pretty well, except it would be on fire the whole time, and then it would stop flying, and then stop being a plane.

Understated.

Re: Anti DDoS anyone

According to the article their ISP is Spark who are not the worst ISP in New Zealand, but that is a very low bar.

Re: Total Huawei ban in 2027.

I'm not sure it's licking the Chinese government's arse as much as it's trying to stay on side with the current American regime at the same time as not annoying an important trade partner.

It might not matter after November.

Hangings too good for 'em

This is probably some young people with their terrible haircuts having fun, and I for one will not stand for it.

A spell in the army would do 'em all good.

Bah!

Re: China has little incentive to increase external bandwidth

As the article explains, it is not a matter of bandwidth.

Re: well..

There are no problems with the US health system.

If you get sick, your insurance company takes all of your money. It's a simple system and easy to understand.

Oh, don't get sick twice.

Re: Absolutely livid Boar!

"If you encounter a wild boar, the best advice is to give it your laptop, it just wants to check it's online auction."

Unless your laptop is running Ubuntu of course. It is well known wild boars don't like Systemd.

Re: Why?

That sounds a lot like Internet Explorer

Re: Nope.

True, but that's not unique to China. You should go to Thailand (for example).

Re: Brilliant stuff

Yes, the more we look the more we find.

The problem is we're trying to do a stocktake in a huge warehouse by peering through the keyhole.

We ought to be sending people to have a butchers at these things.

Re: RIMFAX

Is a plugged nickel something like a ha'penny?

Re: Toilet as a verb!

Yes, I'm normalling at the moment.

Re: Nope

In my view Win XP was pretty rubbish, but by SP3 it was extremely good.

I also found Win 7 poor, and many of my users at the time complained about several things, which werte later fixed.

Win 10 has continued this trend, and it is not too bad now although not quite as usable as XP SP3 IMHO.

Now I need to find out why one of my users seems to be on Version 1903, when he had 1909 last week.

Re: Teams' Architecture

I was going to comment sarcastically some thing like:

A Microsoft spokesperson commented to El Reg: "We created Teams "We purchased Skype to combine the ability to collaborate with the ability to connect via video, because that’s what people want.

Because that's what they did in 2011. Then they ignored it until competition appeared.

As is tradition.

Re: Tucows Rating

Wow, Tucows has changed since the last time I looked at their site, which would have been 2000?

I'm pretty sure when I installed Internet Explorer 5 (?) from a CD supplied by my ISP Tucows was one of the favourites it installed.