Posts by DJV

Mine went stratospeheric and kept on going - I think it waved to the people on the ISS as it went past!

Re: The problem is not beheerder

Yes, though there are still too many people who are perfectly happy to do this!

Re: Advice saught please.

No, obviously you use them to barricade your doors and windows for when the (extremely spaced out*) mob find out where you live!

* as in distance, not magic mushrooms.

Re: The emergency regulations...

I've been trying to keep as much distance between myself and Boris Johnson for years!

@jake

I'd offer to send you a shovel but you seem to getting on fine digging that pit even deeper!

Re: Yesterday

No, a true BOFH would have issued the users with their own shovels, cement, quick lime and full printed instructions to carry out their own DIY burials. Possibly, to help them on their way, the company-issued keyboards would have come pre-fitted with (mostly) concealed cattle prods whose only visible sign is a tiny but sharp metal spike stcking out betwen the R and T keys ready to catch an unwary finger for an unexpected surprise >kzzzt!<.

Re: Too late!

By several decades, I'd say!

Re: So well deserved !!!

Absolutely!

I did a bit of computer graphics at Uni in the 90s - but my head borked at some of the maths required so I didn't take it any further.

Kudos to the two of them!

The first computer with a hard disk that I ever used was a Burroughs B21. It came with a hard disk with a capacity magnificent 5MB - it had to hold both the OS (BTOS) and all the source, object files, executables and data for the programs I was writing (in Pascal). Fun days!

There's a link to a B20 series brochure here for the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_B20

Re: you'd still struggle to get through a couple of rolls

Back when I was married a single bog roll would hardly last more than a single day. Sometimes, after using the loo, my wife ask me to help unblock it as she'd wedged so much bog roll down the damn thing that the flush water couldn't find the normal exit and threatened to overflow the pan.

Since becoming divorced I use no more than 1 bog roll a week.

Re: dual screen

Yeah, but this is Microsoft - so don't expect logic to come into it!

@sabroni

"The alternative is 10 years of cruft in a single monolithic service that encapsulates all 1,600 mico-services into one. All the same code but without being forced to create discreet interfaces or separate concerns properly. The monolith would be in a worse state after 10 years."

Hmm, that could be systemd's future then (shudders).

Re: A code

Yes, and there's probably time for another bath as well.

I know what you mean!

Maybe MS are like Gartner whose precdictions always seem totally inaccurate. So, to get MS to give us what we actually need, we should ask for the opposite - e.g. "Hey MS, we hated the old Windows 7 interface and love the new(ish) W10 one. Don't ever change it back!"

...and then wait...

(however, I suspect they'd just give us something even crappier that makes Microsoft Bob look usable by comparison.)

I "updated" from Barclays many years ago after some (typically) piss poor service from them. Wouldn't touch them (or TSB. for that matter) with a barge pole nowadays.

Re: Some people lie, some people cheat, ...

...and then they have a lucrative career in politics.

Re: Support call

Oh, you mean this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp-uKlhXvmo

Re: Spoofing of phone numbers should be limited

Agreed. I have complained several times when the local NHS eye clinic uses a withheld number and then tries to get me on my landline, which I have set to kill such calls (through necessity). They then have to call me on my mobile (which I don't give out to many organisations). When they tell me they tried my landline first, I ask if they are still using a withheld number and, when they confirm this, I go ballistic at them for doing so. They then say I'm not the only person to complain about this and that they "are looking at a solution".

They've been using the same damn excuse for about 3 years now! Pathetic!

Re: That photo!

If only!

It's simple - people ask Gartner for a prediction...

...and then know the exact opposite is going to happen.

"If there are cars behind you and not in front"

Which is fine if you are in, say, a 30mph limit and are doing 28-30. It's the bastards who overtake you because they don't think the normal limits apply to them, like the git who roared past me in a 20mph zone a couple of weeks ago when I had the nerve to actually slow down to 20 after being in the 30 zone!

Shouldn't they be Jovians?

No, they're pseudo British* and therefore always pretty unhappy about the weather.

(* I'm British so I vaguely know what I'm not talking about.)

Re: In a recent announcement

"Tim Cook reads the Register, who knew?!"

Yes, he needs to know which El Reg articles contain the words "We asked Apple for comment" in order to make sure he ignores them.

I think you answered your own question with your third sentence!