* Posts by Anonymous South African Coward

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Servers crashed and burned. So, Qualcomm's back to Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V'ing Arm cores into phones

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And what about SPECTRE and Meltdown?

ISP TalkTalk's Wi-Fi passwords Walk Walk thanks to Awks Awks router security hole

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Individual looked puzzled so I suggested the Googled Talk Talk data loss and see if they were happy to have their personal details with a company like that.

Googled it, seems they had two data losses/breaches...

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TalkTalk won't TalkTalk.

Astroboffins, get in here and explain Saturn's odd-shaped balls

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Bah and humbug.

I was thinking of building a bunker on one of those moons, until the scientists mentioned that collisions with other moonlets/asteroids/alien spacecraft may occur.

No way that our local inn-sewer-ants companies will cover such a risky venture...

GDPR for everyone, cries Microsoft: We'll extend Europe's privacy rights worldwide

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Then what about asking Musk nicely to put a server or two on the moon? Pretty sure your data will be safe there, until somebody annex that particular portion physically...

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I had a 100% success rate with a Linux install CD.

No more "phone home" shenanigans for me.

HPE: Hell yeah, those job cuts worked out great… for our investors

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In the short term, yes. Things will look good.

But, in the long term...

Big bimmer bummer: Bavaria's BMW buggies battered by bad bugs

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BMW = Buggysource Mit Wheels

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Code reuse may be a good thing, but then again it is an Extremely Bad Thing, especially if the code is Close Source and not open for review by the public.

'Facebook takes data from my phone – but I don't have an account!'

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Just do the following :

rd .facebook_cache

touch .facebook_cache (to create an empty file)

That should be enough to confuse the ne'er-do-well zuckerborg crapplet, yes?

I've used this method to block a couple of worms on computers whose AV was braindead to the worm phutzing around.

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LineageOS FTW.

Pity you don't get ROM's for more devices. I have two Huawei Mediapads, but no ROM's for them. :(

Hitler 'is dead' declares French prof who gazed at dictator's nashers

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Re: Death of Conspiracy theories?....not likely.

1 Brain 1 Jar?

Microsoft, Google: We've found a fourth data-leaking Meltdown-Spectre CPU hole

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More fun and games.

The great Dell EMC storage slimdown: Giant to trim off product bloat

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"XtremIO and ScaleIO are merging, focusing effort on the Cyclone platform. XtremIO will cease working on version 6.4 and future version 7 (based on the same hardware platform as Cyclone). The Cyclone team still doesn't know about this."

My prediction is that this will be fumbled in some way or other, as it seems they did not plan well ahead.

Proper planning means that everybody will be informed of the road ahead. Trying to do so at the last minute will only lead to chaos.

Router admin? Bored? Let's play Battleships using BGP!

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Wot's next? DooM over BGP?

Your parents love you, Cortana. That's why we bought you an upgrade

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Ai ja, Cortana.

Probably spawn of Clippy.

>self-censored ruminations follow<

Sysadmin hailed as hero for deleting data from the wrong disk drive

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Bah.

Deleted a .VHDX by accident once - deleted the offending entry in Hyper-V, closed it all up nicely, and never made a mention of it - nobody mentioned anything missing....

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Sidenote Am in your neck of the woods this week - Johannesburg.

Format, reinstall or destructive format? :)

Safe trip!

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Played around with OS/2 on a spare 2Gb HDD.

Then I needed to use said spare HDD in production - made sure the spare is set as slave, and a windows (the one I was to copy from) is the master.

Started up ghost, went my merry way, ghosted it over.

And OS/2 booted up instead of Windows. Luckily a rebuilt-from-scratch was not a major operation, and was well-documented.

Blood spilled from another US high school shooting has yet to dry – and video games are already being blamed

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Just want to say this :

If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns.

Flamin' Nora! Brit firefighters tackle blazing fly-tipped boat

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No Captain's log in this one then?

What's up with that ZX Spectrum reboot? Still no console

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Vaporware then.

Trump’s new ZTE tweets trump old ZTE tweets

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Realpolitik?

TalkTalk ups the (dis)satisfaction ante as UK folk wake up to borked email

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The Register has contacted TalkTalk for more information and will update if anything is forthcoming.

via email?

Want to know what an organisation is really like? Visit the restroom

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The Man from S.H.I.T.T.E.R. strikes again!

NASA fix for Curiosity rovers's damaged drill: hitting it, repeatedly

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Re: There is nothing like:

Ta, needed the laugh on this Friday :)

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NASA engineers are great at exceeding expectations.

Must be fans of Montgomery Scott then :)

Tesla forums awash with spam as mods take an unscheduled holiday

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good, will give those spammers some other place to peddle their pills then, and leave the rest of us alone.

And THIS is how you do it, Apple: Huawei shames Cupertino with under-glass sensor

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Re: A removable notch, that's Genius!

Notch se stink agterent. Hulle kan dit indruk waar die son nie skyn nie.

I don't need a notch.

How could the Facebook data slurping scandal get worse? Glad you asked

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hooverbook - proudly sucking up your data

Did I say Chinese jobs? I meant American jobs says new Trump Tweet

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Trump trumpetting his trumps while Putin's puttin his troops at the ready.

You've got pr0n: Yes, smut by email is latest workaround for UK's looming cock block

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I can imagine some enterprising entrepreneur will amass a collection of memory sticks, and stick a couple of pr0nz on these (outside the borders of Blighty) then smugglebring them all in under the noses of customs, then distribute on a royalty basis (like the old DVD/Video superstores of old).

With occasional trips to outside Blighty to get updated content in to keep frequent clients happy and paying for the privilege.

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Any other subject will result in pornography (or lolcats).

The BOFH in me will most probably put a sniffer on the outgoing email queue to detect such a request, then mangle the contents of said email, so the senderBossly Unit will get lolcats all the time.

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Re: Probably mentioned already but

Smoothwall/pfSense with Shalla's blacklist and added pr0n as a blocked content.

Bliss. Except for when the pr0n peddlers will start to use other ways and means to peddle their wares... *cough*

Apple MacBook butterfly keyboards 'defective', 'prone to fail' – lawsuit

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"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good." - Bill Gates

Prez Donald Trump to save manufacturing jobs … in China, at ZTE

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Cause and effect.

Cut off some trade partners, and some of your own people/factories/whatever may need to close up shop.

And somebody else will fill that niche*.

*Most probably somebody you don't want to do trade with, leaving you in a poorer position.

NASA will send tiny helicopter to Mars

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Airwolf - the Mars chapters

Chap charged with fraud after mail for UPS global HQ floods Chicago flat

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Henderson-Spruce has previously suggested the address change happened by mistake, and that his identity may have been stolen.

Yeah, try selling that to the judge...

Fixing a printer ended with a dozen fire engines in the car park

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Once some colleague put a 'tater in a microwave, wandered off and forgot about it.

Lovely pong of burnt potato all over the office, and the microwave got tossed.

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One ex-manager thought it was a good idea to, when requiring IT assistance, phone IT and inform me that something is smoking.

Which caused me to drop everything I'm currently working on and rush to his location.

First two times it worked. Thereafter it was taken with a "oh, you again" and a pinch of salt. Pissed me off seriously.

Sueballs flying over Facebook's Android app data slurping

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/checks

Nah, facebewb android app is not installed on my Xiaomi device. Neither is it on my other devices.

Don't want it, it just sucks you dry in the battery, data and productivity dept.

Shining lasers at planes in the UK could now get you up to 5 years in jail

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It is a good step into the right direction, BUT how do you catch the buggers shining lasers?

Enforcement and catching the ne'er-do-wells are the two biggest problems with this issue.

There will be blood: BT to axe 13,000 employees

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Ouch.

Condolences to the to-be-laid-off.

IBM bans all removable storage, for all staff, everywhere

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NeXT up - only punch cards are allowed as a viable means to transfer information around.

Australian foreplay: Bum-biting in an underground hole

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Gives new meaning to the term "bite me"...

Africa's internet body hit with sexual harassment cover-up claims

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This is the way we roll in Africa...

...and I'm not proud of saying that. More like ashamed.

Mike Lynch's British court showdown v HPE pushed back to 2019

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Re: Buying pigs in pokes often lets cats out of bags.

Love your title.

Here, have one then :)

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Re: Caveat Emptor

As per recent Reg articles, many within HP, including the then CFO, thought the same but they were railroaded and/or simply ignored.

Quite

They must be smug and have "We told you so" attitudes.

IIRC the CFO was fired for sticking to her guns? Can she use this case to sic some lawyery types onto HP for a bigger payday?

Every major OS maker misread Intel's docs. Now their kernels can be hijacked or crashed

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Re: I'm impressed

Wow... Symbos.de just blew my mind.

Now that is proper programming within the hardware limits...

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Re: I'm impressed

Could we please go back to IBM/370 ARM2 Assembler

There - FTFY. 16 instructions, and a debate over whether to include Multiply...

Z80 CPU's in parallel rather?