* Posts by Hans 1

3796 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Aug 2009

Yes, people see straight through male displays of bling (they're only after a fling)

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WTF?

Re: Really?

Does your Civic come with a rotor to mow the grass, I mean, it is a Honda, after all ? Honda spares in France have always been extortionate, no cheap Honda spares in France, it has gotten better with Nissan because Renault now owns that, but that is another story.

Except that those cars, like most, start to age around the 100k km mark ... Ahhh, Ok, I am an old fart, did not know that, always buy cars 2nd hand, usually 2 to 4 years old and keep them for another decade or so.

I even have a 20+ year old BMW Z3, all nice and shiny, yes I had to buy replacement parts, door-handle decoration, the rubber was dis-integrating, rear screen because some jealous bastard cut it to pieces, and "air-vents" because somebody nicked them ... apart from that, and the usual oil change and brake pads, nothing over the past 4 years I have owned it.

My 106 has been 10 years without any special treatment (I bought it 4 years old), timing belt once (it was new when I bought it), brake pads, tires, exhaust, and oil service ... only recently did I have to replace a universal joint and the clutch is starting to go south ... did over 160 000 km with virtually no problem.

In 1999, I bought a 2 year old Polo with 30 000 km, that thing lasted to 300 000 km without anything abnormal ... It also depends how you treat your car, regular oil service, greasing anything that must....

GoDaddy exiles altright.com after civil rights group complaint

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Headmaster

Re: I'll just leave this here :

As far as free speech it does not exist. At least in the UK.

Yes it does, subject to restrictions. We are a signatory to the ECHR, So thanks to membership of a European institution we finally got freedom of speech in 1998.

You both forget speaker's corner in Hide park, but then again, you only have drunks as audience there...

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Angel

Re: re: The solution is to educate people

You have to. Otherwise there is no examples to work with and educate the kids of what is wrong and what is right.

You have to. Otherwise there is no examples to work with and educate the kids of what is altright and what is right.

TFTFY

Nvidia quickly kills its AMD-screwing GeForce 'partner program' amid monopoly probe threat

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Re: nVidia sucks all around

As to their business practices, Microsoft got their hand slapped for doing something similar in the 1990's here in the US.

MS have been doing it ever since, though ...

Hurry up patching those Oracle bugs: Attackers aren't waiting

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WTF?

Attackers faster than patchers ?

cf title

Twitter: No big deal, but everyone needs to change their password

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Pascal, I am the downvoter Because plaintext passwords is n00b, no dicking around, it should not have been possible, plain, simple, and if it is, n00bs!

They can pay all users €100, still, it is n00b!

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Plain texte passwords = n00bs, no ifs, buts, or maybes. You on twatter? Delete your account.

Microsoft's latest Windows 10 update downs Chrome, Cortana

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Joke

Re: the "Fix"

Windowskey + Control + Shift + B

Don't Apple have a patent on Twister-style keyboard shortcuts ?

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister_(game)

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Re: Try Linux. - Or DON'T! (My love/hate Linux rant.)

My wife insists on windows, so we had to buy a new printer to work with her laptop. I'm still going to keep the Samsung going until I run out of Toner though...

Why not simply buy a raspberry pi, hook up the printer, there, network printer ... then if you tell us on stackexchange.com what printer model it is (which language it speaks), we should be able to point you at one of the generic printer drivers in Windows to speak to it ;-).

Fun project, espectially if the result is a 90's printer that support wifi-print ;-)

HP Ink to compensate punters for bricking third-party ink cartridges

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: Why Australia

One downvote ? We seem to have one HP schill, Matt Bryant, is that you ? If so, good to see you're back!

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Happy

Why Australia

Hoi, EU, get your head around this, please, YES! we want similar action, HOWEVER,

1. HP have to refund any third party cartridges purchased that were detected as "damaged" by the printer 2. Pay us €70 a pop for the inconvenience caused.

3. HP printers are to accept any third party cartridges in the EU

Thank you very much!

Juniper revenue dries up, company says clouds to rain cash soon

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Happy

There's always a Juniper bush on a dry mountain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCFBndlScBc&feature=youtu.be&t=5m41s

Oracle Access Manager is a terrible doorman: Get patching this bug

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Coffee/keyboard

Oracle running padding oracle in its goalkeeper

Clive Tyldesley: Goooooooooaaaaaaal!

Gary Taphouse: Actually, that was the goalie so an own-goal, Clive!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l3EGGfxIz0

Ex-Netflix veep allegedly banked payola for tech deals with web TV giant

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Where! Is! The! Yahoo! Reference!

Kail left Netflix as vice president of IT operations in August 2014 and joined Yahoo to lead the company's data and infrastructure team as CIO.

Press F to pay respects to the Windows 10 April Update casualties

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Happy

Not getting me ;-)

Why do business machines, in an AD domain, get the updates early ?

I am lucky, seem to have something installed that is incompatible, I am getting 0xc1900208 -> This could indicate that an incompatible app installed on your PC is blocking the upgrade process from completing. Check to make sure that any incompatible apps are uninstalled and then try upgrading again.

Unreliable source: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-update/update-fails-with-error-code-0xc1900208/6fcea993-07e8-42aa-97db-6d002c567abc

'Computer algo' blamed for 450k UK women failing to receive breast screening invite

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Unhappy

Jemma, I have read both your comments and feel very, very saddened. I used to call it the National Homicide Service after my mum was denied treatment (in my case a question of a GP who had reached his annual budget for referrals, and managed to delay the referral of my mum by three months), your No Hope Service is much, much better, imho.

Crikey it all started at age 14, makes me think of my daughters. Not knowing all the story, I assume you were probably not much older when you went through that with her... all my deepest sympathies!!! I do hope you are well surrounded by family and friends etc!

The removal from certain lists entails removal from other, non-related, lists??? This is of course unacceptable and needs to be fixed! I could not find anything on that, though (found nothing after a quick few g00gle's and am a bit busy right now, will try again later), I would really like to make sure this gets fixed, has it been reported [on] ? This listing issue seems to be one list to rule them all, want out of one, get out of all ...

As for racism, this seems to be a listing blunder. I'm not implying people making decisions in the UK's health system are never bigots, racists, homophobics, or whatever. But in this case it is much more likely a listing blunder, which, as your story implies, can kill, so we must make sure it gets fixed!

All the best,

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PS: Your particularly fitting treatment (imho) for the heartless comment@rd up there (last part of your previous reply) managed to squeeze a smile out of me!

DRAM makers sued (yet again) for 'fixing prices' (yet again) of chips

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Crikey, RAM prices .. bought a decent 64Gb kit (4x16) with 55% off, still over €500, just bought an Nvidia 1080 for €400 and a 2k+ screen (31.5", 75Hz, QHD) €150 from an online retailer. This was returned kit the retailer flunks at varying prices, GPU came in a different box with a bent cache (the metal thing with all the HDMI/DP port connectors), straightened it inserts and works perfectly, the RAM looked new, as in, un-opened and works like a charm, still waiting for the screen ...

But yeah, these RAM guyz are fixing prices ...

Umm, Oracle – about that patch? It might not be very sticky ...

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Happy

It looks like Oracle isn’t even fixing the issues here, they’re just blacklisting commands. In this case they missed the very next command.

Clive Tyldesley: Goooooooooaaaaaaal!

Gary Taphouse: Actually, an own-goal, Clive!

Newsworthy Brit bank TSB is looking for a head of infrastructure

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No balls, no glory

I step forward, I am sure I could do much, much, much better than what has been done so far. When it comes to systems, I am a paranoid pessimist, I live by Murphy's law, am both dedicated and lazy as fuck. Automator is my other handle and I have read up on PRINCE2, know devops, agile and waterfall methodologies and, as any sane person would do, take the best of all these (iow what I have personally experienced as "just works best") PLUS have people management AND product management experience!

Apple grounds AirPort once and for all. It has departed. Not gonna fly any more. The baggage is dropped off...

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Happy

I have an airport express and an airport extreme. The airport express died after 5 years, the airport extreme has been used daily since I dunno how long. I had hooked up an HD to it at some point as backup, this is now done by the Raspberry pi. The pi is my DHCP and DNS server also, because, well, dynamic DNS is handy (as in DHCP sends updates to my DNS).

Can't log into your TSB account? Well, it's your own fault for trying

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Thumb Up

Muse Ik ?

As for music, Led Zep are solid, but I always thought of this song:

https://youtu.be/ZFjfa_RB6Pc

Obviously ...

Blighty stuffs itself in Galileo airlock and dares Europe to pull the lever

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: £14 billion

it will be controlled instead by the intelligent honest qualified professionals who inhabit the house of commons.

This is witty wisdom of the day!

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Coat

Re: Grande Bretagne

When Brexit comes into effect, Britain will become Air Strip One ... if it has not already ...

Win 7, Server 2008 'Total Meltdown' exploit lands, pops admin shells

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Facepalm

With Microsoft's broken Meltdown mitigation in place, apps and users could now read and write kernel memory, granting total control over the system.

Clive Tyldesley: Goooooooooaaaaaaal!

Gary Taphouse: Actually, an own-goal, Clive!

You say Halo and I say goodbye: Microsoft has a word with unauthorised mod devs

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WTF?

Hm

These guyz offer a mod which patches a free-to-play game that has been discontinued... the mod itself, it appears, does not include any MS code. To use it, you need the free to play game that has been censured on the net.

PC recycler gets 15 months in the clink for whipping up 28,000 bootleg Windows 7, XP recovery discs

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Boffin

Re: Microsoft isn't Adobe

IANAL, however, any software license is transferable provided you live in a civilized jurisdiction, such as the EU. You might have to fight this in court, but legal precedents have already been set ... This, of course, regardless what is written in the EULA.

Reg writer Richard went to the cupboard, seeking a Windows Phone...

Hans 1

If anybody can come up with a way to flash Linux on the Alcatel Idol 4S, I will buy it at $99, even from MS because I know they are making a loss ;-)

Amazon and Netflix join Hollywood to lob sueball at 'Kodi' service SetTV

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Re: Shame they couldn't have joined together ...

Indeed, can they not make a legit plugin for kodi ? Dicking around with creating full chromium debs for pi's is a bit of a pain...

Yes, even you, Apple, you can do it ... BTW, does iTunes support flac, yet ?

Thing is, they are too thick, have not seen the market potential, yet ...

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Paris Hilton

Well, Kodi is a fine solution. These thugs, however, are making $$$ selling kodi devices with illegal plugins. Profiteering from the work of others, and silly them, defrauding media outlets -> never ever do that, they will most probably face multi-life-time-sentences, nobody is to defraud the billionaires ...

Capita reports pre-tax LOSS of £515m for 2017

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Turn around in its grave, maybe ?

I have great concern for Crapita, or what will be left of it in 2020...

No bidding for unsustainable contracts ? At least somebody seems to have found a cluebat under the sofa ...

Yahoo! dismemberment! begins! as! Oath! offloads! Flickr!

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How much ?

Neither Yahoo!, Flickr, the pair’s parent company Oath, or SmugMug, have been crass enough to explain how much currency changed hands ...

Since the value of Yahoo! is a bag of crisps, I guess Flickr is probably worth half a bag ...

Planned European death ray may not need Brit boffinry brain-picking

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Paris Hilton

it would be an enormous pain to film guys in mirrored armor without the crew being visible in the reflection.

That, and then weapons would have two types of ammo, lazer AND bullets ... nothing like a bullet to break a mirror. I hope you have a backup in case the last disk of your mirror goes titsup.

A better question would have been: why did they not clone Yoda ?

Apple's magical quality engineering strikes again: You may want to hold off that macOS High Sierra update...

Hans 1
Coat

Going to "Special Update Install Mode"

I knew this was going to happen at some point, whenever you start being f'd up and require a special mode to install updates you know the devs have forgotten they are developing software for a UNIX system, so sooner or later, shit will hit the fan.

Anytime a hardware manufacturer decides to solder RAM and SSD's, you know the hardware team are beyond salvation.

What is left at Apple ? I dunno ...

PS: I have ran Apple software from OS 8.5 (8.* and 9.* sucked, but not quite as much as Windows 9x) to 10.9 (including 10.0 Beta). I had fond memories of 10.2 with Omniweb, so upvoted commentard above. When fink and homebrew were not around, you would download Xcode and hunt down the UNIX software you wanted, shit, back then, we would download the Xfree86 sources and compile them to run UNIX gui apps on our macs ... how times have gone by.

LESTER gets ready to trundle: The Register's beer-bot has a name

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Re: Can it please replace...

All Bar One

Given the name, I am sure there is one customer-oriented staffer, I guess they probably put him/her in the kitchen, though ...

Twenty years ago today: Windows 98 crashed live on stage with Bill Gates. Let's watch it again...

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Facepalm

Re: Bill Gates

I think your famous Commodore engineer should talk to Paul Allen, for example ... yes, Gates' high school buddy with whom he founded Microsoft! For those who do not know, one of the two was undergoing cancer treatment while the other tried the dilute his buddy's shares.

Besides, when Commodre was still in business, Gates was the most hated professional ... Gates later made ONE promise and has since become a philantropist-hero-angel-demi-dog, all previous lies, betrayals, bullying, extortion ... all forgotten, all thanks to one promise ... I judge people on what they do, NOT what they say ... and I ignore what serial liars say, regardless of what they have done, good or bad.

PS: I want a reliable source for your quote or I call bullshit. I cannot see how a "famous" (whatever that means in this context) Commode engineer could have any form of affection for Gates.

PPS: Regarding Steve, I do not think it is right to make up something like that considering he is dead!

Machines learned to assemble IKEA’s semi-disposable furniture

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Re: Not the real world

From all the furniture I put together and a number I found, I have more allen keys than any other kind of tool, yes, even spanners ... ok, granted, I have more nails and screws than allen keys ... though so many allen keys, in fact, I am happy to give them away to get rid of some ... must have half a dozen in my tool box, PLUS a bag with another 20 or 30 ... granted, some I found in the places I moved in to ... in weird places like under the bathroom sink cupboard ... in the attic, garage etc ...

I never read the instructions, I just visualize what I need to build, look at the parts, and get the job done.

Facebook's login-to-other-sites service lets scum slurp your stuff

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Re: And is anyone here surprised by this?

Yes, mongodb.com ? Where is the facebook login thingy on that ?

Europe turns nose up at new smartphones: Beancounters predict 7% sales drop

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Coffee/keyboard

French finance magazines estimate that losing roaming income will cost EU telcos between €1.2bn and €4bn a year which they have to get back somehow.

Yeah, sure ... where do you get that from ? daily fail or fox ?

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Unhappy

To pay closer to a grand for the latest generation that effectively offers NOTHING over this except the ability to burn through data plans much sooner...yeah sure. Can't wait to do that. Not.

Son (teen) here has a 100Gb/month plan (like wife, two daughters and I have) and HE somehow burns through that in a fortnight .... I am not sure how that is even possible ... it gets slowed-down after that (3G speeds), so not thaaaat bad, but still ...what are you doing? He just says, "I use my phone ... like ... constantly" and I am not sure what that means, I do not download two Windows Server ISO's every single day!!!!

He has a refurbished S7, after destroying three phones (LG 4 stylus, no-name Android, iPhone 5S) ... I think I'll give him my Nokia 3310, still works, though not sure about the battery and he will need an old sim ...

Microsoft has designed an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip. Repeat, an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip

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Happy

Re: Ah the sweet smell of corporate hypocrisy ...

I predict that if one drops a small bacterium of Irony at Redmond, after a few days' infection the whole place will implode.

I predict one BIG sueball from the EU, should they dare offer their stuff in EU-land, you know, GDPR and Azure or any US cloud for that matter are incompatible.

Come one,MS, save our health system ... we would really appreciate that 4% of revenue of yours ;-)

Facebook admits it does track non-users, for their own good

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Re: Sly Zuckerfucker- What's been done about this???

Billionaires can say whatever they like in a USian court or in front of congress, changes nothing ...

Australian Feds cuff woman who used BTC to buy drugs on dark web

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Headmaster

Re: Either that or

parallel construction

Yeah, USian cops need to be creative, UK cops do not have disclose anything, except the [possibly fabricated] evidence, of course. Thank you ever so much, Mrs May.

Then again, the US has secret courts that require neither parallel construction nor the constitution ...

Icon: closest I could find to a judge

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Happy

Re: Either that or

didn't keep Russ Ulbricht out of prison

He's in jail because he did not read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions_that_run_from_RAM

Go away, kid, you bother me: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla kick W3C nerds to the curb

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Holmes

No shit

Any DRM solution will always be broken, because there's just no way to simultaneously let someone decrypt content and prevent them from decrypting content, however much you obfuscate the keys.

Anon biz bloke wins milestone Google Right To Be Forgotten lawsuit

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Boffin

Re: Does this cover all search engines - or just Google ?

News flash: DuckDuckGo := Bing

Sysadmin’s worst client was … his mother! Until his sister called for help

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Me, mine, not the late mother or father, nor the wife

It's her friends .... as a lawyer, she gets all the cast outs that need help ... and that are rubbish at computers ... like one, YESTERDAY, wants to print out an email attachment, has an android phone, email is two weeks old, cannot remember gmail password ....try to reset it ... after a notification on her device, on my gmail, entering her mobile tel number, and answers to various questions google refuses to reset her password (the only question she did not know was her 4 yo landline number that she had when she created the gmail account) ... not sure about the answers, but ... come on ... and default Android mail client is useless, brain dead (it is 2018, she has 64Gb of space on her device, AND the mail client does not want to sync more than 3 emails on her device, YES, I tried ALL sync options and I am patient) ... the email we wanted was I guess the ~8th ... she had written the password into her notepad, as I had instructed her ... and misplaced that at home ... she is a pensioner ...

It's April 2018, and we've had to sit on this Windows 10 Spring Creators Update headline for days

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Happy

Re: cant win

Have an upvote, coming from me ... heaven must must be on fire ...

I was reading through all the comments and reached yours, the first sensible one. MS is not late, it has not given us a date, yet.

Besides, I am still waiting for the corporates to install the patch Tuesday stuff and report issues before I install that, so not a good time, imho, to release a Spring Kreator's Update (aka Bringer of Torture).

Brexit, again ? What has MS got to do with that ? And yes, I use Linux, also ...

Using Outlook? You should probably do some patching

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Re: Outlook preview pain

Get a license on Amazon, $10 ... download from MS, all good. This, is legal if you live in the EU, IANAL, but other regions seem to have different laws.

Basically, companies that have volume licenses purchase stuff which contains an OEM license for Windows/Office .... this OEM license they are legally allowed to sell if they do not use it. A bunch of companies buy these up and sell them on Amazon ...