Posts by Anonymous South African Coward

I have had too many issues with crapjets (epson, hp et al) that I now totally avoid crapjets of any make, model, manufacturer etc.

I prefer a laser printer. Sure, may be more expensive, but it works just as well, and it can idle for long periods of time (not in use) without the head getting all dried up and clogged up.

The old HP inkjet printerers was fine kit, nowadays the kit you get is so flimsy and feel like it's going to fall apart at the first fart.

Started off with an Epson LX400, fine dot-matrix printer. NLQ was just a waste of time and ribbon, tend to print in draft most of the time, was quicker and readable as well. Ah, those were the days.

A real crabapple...

Better start the process of getting your money back, folks.

PS: The US state of California has approved a law that "bans the distribution of manipulated videos and pictures that maliciously aim to give someone a false impression about a political candidate’s actions or words within 60 days of an election," according to Assemblyman Marc Berman (D).

Good luck in trying to enforce that on the WWW... it will be like trying to carry water with a sieve.

"fragile"

In contrast, the design made by M$ seems to be much better.

Still won't buy anything that folds, either from Sagsmug or M$, or somebody else.

Will still prefer a single screen - for now. Let the fanboys have jolly good fun first, and based on their experience and feedback, better versions will be released.

/inserts no_rage_face.jpg

If you outlaw $thing, only outlaws will use $thing.

I also want one.

Pricing may be a bit of a hassle here in SA...

Early 1990's had a client in Centurion. Anybody who'll know Timber City, will know them.

Anyways, they had a big shop and a 2-storey building separated by a roadway which trucks was using for deliveries.

A CAT5 cable ran from the server room (on the 2nd floor) all the way down to the road, then underneath it, crossing over to the shop section, then up and then through the wall, terminating in a wall box, and a 16 port switch.

Can't recall when, but one evening we had a lovely thunderstorm, most possibly the same one Bilbo and the dwarves were stuck in going over the Misty Mountains.

Anyway, next day the shop manager phoned us and asked us to come out and take a shufty at their network, nothing is working.

So off we toddled, and on arrival we found some impressive traces of arcing inside the wall box, and a dead switch. The server, surprisingly (Netware 3.12) only lost one network card and was fine otherwise.

A new cable was duly pulled (fiber this time) and we never had any repeat of lightning strikes.

Lightning is a weird beastie.

*yawn*

will this break market saturation, or are everybody just as jaded as I am?

I'd prefer longer battery life, batteries which won't self-combust and the such.

Excellent apisode, another classic in the making.

Forwarded this to our networking guy, and he had a good laugh about this.

Now... vere isst mein heatgun?

First red flag should have been the absent refunds policy.

I'm hungry. Anybody for a nice pie 'n chips 'n gravy?

I was using webcrawler and ananzi for my searches.

Got introduced to google, and yeah...

Now I'm a greybeard and long for the simple days* of yore, where there were no hackers, data slurpage and the such.

*Preferably with a working Speccy/Commodore/Amiga and a nice big HDD.

Instagram account security emails

Good morning all

Just wondering if ZuckCo is pulling a fast one again.

Yesterday at 23:44 I received two emails from Instagram telling me that some ne'er-do-well in Malaysia has accessed my Instagram account.

Initial reaction was like WTF as I had closed down my faceboob account quite a while ago. So I mosey'd on over and noticed that the account seems to be normal, void of any pictures etc (since I never used this feature of faceboob) and in the security settings only one logon was logged, and that is my current logon, and nothing else.

Of course being the Bastard that I am, I set my Instagram password to a fiendishly strong one (and no, it's not HorseBatteryStaple or something like that) and enabled 2FA.

So now we will see. I'm pretty sure somebody is trying to zuck people into something that they can zuck data all the more from.

Bully for them. I'm not interested in that.

Streisand Effect is a bitch to those who try to hide the truth.

The stew is starting to thicken nicely.

Just keep on stirring, you never know what'll come out next.

In light of this I'm so glad that the proposed nuclear deal ex-pres Zuma tried to push through (in a very underhanded and devious way) did not materialize at all...

Memo from the Grand BOFH.

Research nanolasers focused on the Boss's crotch.

Find out if nanolasers can be self-replicating.

It also appears to offer screenings of fake Medieval fantasy soap Game of Thrones every Monday. ®

Quick! Send in the lawyers! That'll shut it down for sure.

Winter is coming.

Forum I help to moderate was on vBulletin, but we made the move over to Xenforo.

vB was dropped due to lackluster support etc.

'ere, 'oo's been playin' silly buggers again?

The new way of doing business - ensure top manglement get healthy bonuses and that the shareholders are happy.

Toughies for the workforce and customers.

Any means of inducing some laxatives into said Burritos prior to delivery?

Because the BOFH inside me would, and then record the action for posterity on CCTV for world+dog to see.

Bonus BOFH points if you can get the entire gaming hall to be brownwashed.

Sparky McSparkface

Mechanical Hound of Fahrenheit 451, anybody?

No country for old men.

Too little, too late?

Ah the heady days of yore.

Got a call from an opthalmologists office. Turned out their HP inkjet printer died and I was to install a new printer.

OS was OS/2 Warp.

Got the printer installed and checked that everything was fine and working. Did a reboot and then noticed a shedload of windows and templates and other arb stuff still open after boot, and that some stuff was not right.

By default OS2 autostarts everything that was open at the time of shutdown. This was duly fixed, and people was glad to have the pc snappy and responsive again.

Came back at a later stage, and installed the last warp fixpack (warp3) and it was even better then. Glad it went off without a fubar.

It was some controller for machinery to check eyes.

Despite the problematic release, Fortin maintained that the quality of Windows releases has been improving. "Over the last three years one of our key indicators of product quality – customer service call and chat volumes – has steadily dropped even as the number of machines running Windows 10 increased," he said.

Coming soon : Cortana - the Fortin project. Not to be confused with Colossus - the Forbin project. Although they will have the same outcome.

Nice try, you won't be able to stop any piRRRRRRRates that easily.

Sheep farming in the boondocks far away from all things IT is starting to sound better by the day.

We also have issues with pesky ne'er-do-wells stealing anything that's a cable for its copper value here in sunny south africa.