Just after a house move, I had a shopping list, quite long and diverse, because I wrote it all down, I remembered every item at the store while the list was on the kitchen table.
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Tetchy trainee turned the lights down low to teach turgid lecturer a lesson
Fixing an upside-down USB plug: A case of supporting the insupportable
Sunday 2nd October 2022 16:10 GMT 
Re: Can't put my finger on it
No BOFH this week either - hope that's not also on the chopping block.
At this rate the vulture is not only dying, its being eaten alive by mumsnet
I wouldn't worry about the BOFH just yet, Simon's stories often take a week or two to incubate...
But as of today, there's new style for comments, the reply button looks like a Wordpress plugin.
Friday 30th September 2022 09:47 GMT
Re: Can't put my finger on it
I noticed that part was missing right off, I chalked it up to part of the El Reg redesign, first remove Paris, then Dabbsy (https://autosaveisforwimps.substack.com/ )... then the banner for the category. What's next, removing the Vulture??
However I was referring to the story, too short, not enough action, other than running to the client.
Delivery drone crashes into power lines, causes outage
Ex-eBay execs jailed for cyberstalking web critics
HDD Clicker gizmo makes flash sound like spinning rust
Google challenges US ISPs with 100Gbps fiber broadband
Apple exec sues over 'ageist' removal of $800k stock bonus
City isn't keen on 5,000 erratic, traffic-jam-causing GM robo-cars on its streets
Australia asks FBI to help find attacker who stole data from millions of users
Save the whales – with, uh, artificial intelligence?
Wednesday 28th September 2022 09:53 GMT
Re: Stole
Indeed...
""This is a triple win for the planet – we save the whales, fight climate change, and promote community health by cutting air pollution.""
Sounds like the six in one knife-o-matic, it flays, it filets, it scales, it juliennes... None are a selling point in itself, but bundle them together? Presto! Instant uptake.
Meta busts first Chinese campaign prodding US midterms
What's Microsoft been up to? A quick tour of Windows 11 22H2's security features
Girls Who Code books 'banned' in some US classrooms
Monday 26th September 2022 10:10 GMT 
too much free time, too much time on their hands...
When I read about this kind of action, I can only think, what if these nosey NIMBY people had less free time? Less time to pontificate about their next targets? Less time to worry about what other people are doing with their lives. Less time to initiate some off target attack.
Serious surfer? How to browse like a pro on Firefox
Monday 26th September 2022 13:06 GMT
Call me Danny Glover
I'm getting to old for this sh!t. Brave was a good alternative when I started using it, now I read some not so flattering stuff, I always had FF as a backup, and use it regularly for all my 'inside the network stuff' modem GUI, NAS, PI-Hole, switch GUI etc... and should Brave not render or play nicely with a page, I'll give it a try in FF.
Someone wake me when the Browser war is over, and let me know who won?
Thanks!
I still remember Camino!
BOFH: You want presentation layer, but we're physical layer
Datacenter migration plan missed one vital detail: The leaky roof
Malwarebytes blocks Google, YouTube as malware
Tesla Megapack battery ignites at substation after less than 6 months
Wednesday 21st September 2022 17:17 GMT 
contradictory statement?
Per CNBC, firefighters on the scene allowed the battery to burn out, as is standard practice for lithium-ion fires. Firefighters planned to remain on scene overnight to ensure the system didn't re-ignite.
Ok, so the let it burn itself out because the can't stop it from burning, how do they keep it from re-igniting?
Where's Paris?
Boeing wants autonomous flying cabs in US airspace by 2030
Excel's comedy of errors needs a new script, not new scripting
Tuesday 20th September 2022 14:58 GMT
first step
make sure you've selected all columns and rows for you crucial calculation. My former boss once placed and order from "his" spreadsheet, using my hand collected data for every switch closet in the network. As the end of the refresh came near, I noticed that we were 3 switches short! Ensue lots of shouting, brow furrowing and finger pointing, by everyone in the office, he finally went back to his spreadsheet and found he had neglected to select the last row in his calculation!
My handwritten list had the correct number at the bottom, plus spares for the shelf, glad the spares came in handy so fast! He got lucky, the project finished on time, and he only needed to order the spares.
iPhone 14 iFixit teardown shows Apple's learning on repairs
Tuesday 20th September 2022 14:11 GMT
Been using a first gen SE for years, definitely showing it's age, I just looked at a new latest and greatest, and I'm shocked, shocked I say by the price. Easily 5 times the price I paid for the missus second gen SE when it was new...
Unless all my relatives die and leave all their money.... no effin way Apple. I've seen computers that cost less!
Bad UI killed the radio star
Can reflections in eyeglasses actually leak info from Zoom calls? Here's a study into it
Saturday 17th September 2022 16:05 GMT 
Decker already did it...
Enhance 224 to 176.
Enhance.
Stop.
Move in.
Stop.
Move in.
Stop.
Pull out, track right.
Stop.
Center and pull back.
Stop.
Track 45 right.
Stop.
Center and stop.
Enhance 34 to 36.
Pan right and pull back.
Stop.
Enhance 34 to 46.
Pull back.
Wait a minute.
Go right.
Stop.
Enhance 57-19.
Stop.
Track 45 left
Stop.
Enhance 15-23
Gimme a hard copy right there…
Don't say Pentium or Celeron anymore, it's just Processor now, says Intel
Ex-Broadcom engineer asks for house arrest over IP theft
Friday 16th September 2022 15:49 GMT
Re: What he said isn't relevant, what he did is.
"What if he took the information in his head? - like we all do when we leave a job."
I thought the same thing when I left my previous employer 8 months ago. An ex-colleague and still very good buddy messaged me recently asking about something(now his responsibility) I worked with for 10 years, and could NOT for the life of me remember the answer he needed. Disheartening really... Perhaps it's because I'm in the same boat as the defendant, the years ahead are much shorter than the years behind, and as much as I would like to think it, the memory isn't what it used to be... The information I may reproduce may look like something out of the Telephone game.
Keeping printers quiet broke disk drives, thanks to very fuzzy logic
Anti-Metaverse package 'explosion' at college VR lab probed by investigators
Google faces fines of up to $25.4b in UK and EU ad tech case
Ex-Googler Eric Schmidt's think tank warns China could win global tech race
Chinese researchers make car glide 35mm above ground in maglev test
Musk seeks yet another excuse to get out of Twitter buyout: This time it's Mudge's severance check
Chemical plant taken offline by the best one of all: C8H10N4O2
Meta disbands Responsible Innovation team, spreads it out over Facebook and co
BOFH: It's Friday, it's time to RTFM
Sunday 11th September 2022 10:34 GMT
Re: Pedantic description alert!
Bub
Stands for ‘Barely Useful Body.’ Sometimes used in a derogatory manner, but sometimes used to describe someone who’s been injured or physically unable to perform 100 percent. Either way, it hurts the ego.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/navy-sailor-insults/
Using the datacenter as a dining room destroyed the platters that matter
Friday 9th September 2022 07:47 GMT 
Smaller buddies
I once had the pleasure of assisting a user who wasn't the neatest person. They ate constantly at their desk. One day the keyboard quit working properly. The desk was always cluttered with notebooks, binders and lots of empty food wrappers and empty paper cups with remnants of hot chocolate or coffee. They demonstrated the problematic keyboard, and indeed, it missed the T and the A. I decided to swap the keyboard, and upon clearing some of the debris, and moving the keyboard, I saw a hoard of ants crawling about, in and out of the keyboard! I gave them the oldest crappiest keyboard in storage, and promptly took the keyboard back to the office, a daring colleague opened the keyboard, and we found a whole colony of ants going about their business!
Icon is self explanatory, I hope!
No, Apple, you may not sell iPhones without chargers
The crime against humanity that is the modern OS desktop, and how to kill it
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