* Posts by chivo243

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Frenchman scores €50k compensation for suffering 'bore-out' at work after bosses gave him 'menial' tasks

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Full day for a Frenchman?

I had to buy some supplies – a few sheets of paper – and then my day was over."

Disclaimer, the missus is French...

Beer as there is no glass of wine for the French!

An Internet of Trouble lies ahead as root certificates begin to expire en masse, warns security researcher

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I saw one today!

Too bad we can't post pix (yet??) here on El Reg, I read this story earlier in the afternoon, and after that I had to help a user with a different issue, but there it was plain as day a microsoft domain complaining of a cert gone out of style! Gladly it was on a citrix session to some other poor sap's network, and not my worry!

MacOS on Arm talk intensifies: Just weeks from now, Apple to serve up quarantini with Kalamata golive, reportedly

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Is this the year of Apple on ARM?

I couldn't resist! I wish I had a coat for the penguin!

Yet another beefy BSOD spotted lurking within the walls of US patty pusher

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Looks like a Matrix bork?

It's painful to see a display abused in that way. Why?

Smart fridges are cool, but after a few short years you could be stuck with a big frosty brick in the kitchen

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No appliance in my house

Should be smarter than I am... nor should it be able to access the intertubes.

If Daddy doesn't want me to touch the buttons, why did they make them so colourful?

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I have one too!

I was playing a game, and my son hit the power button on the Winbox, and poof... the game never worked right again.

Staff in a huff, personal call with Trump, picking fights with Twitter, upsetting civil-rights groups – a week in the life of Facebook's Zuckerberg

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Re: I still, to this day

"You don't use Facebook"

I think he said "I don't GET FB"

not "I don't use it..."

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Re: I still, to this day

Can I have the cuckoo-cuckoo clock please? I really couldn't take another up vote.

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Re: I still, to this day

Warm and fizzy like I just drank a beer! Thanks!

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Re: I still, to this day

But, here on El Reg, there are down votes...

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Erratic behavior, bad hair cut, lots of money

Naw, it can't be happening...

Hey Mister Prime Minister ... Scott! Can you get off my lawn please, mate?

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Devil

Me, let's see

No time like the present, to water the newly seeded lawn!

$5bn+ sueball bounces into Google's court over claims it continues to track netizens in 'private browsing mode'

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Feed the lawyers

Google... defend itself vigorously against the claims 5 Billion will be down to millions(see title) and the payout to each user will be less than the cost of a bank transfer, and therefore something, something and they won't do it...

Tech set responds in wake of American protests, police violence and civil unrest

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The more things change, the more they stay the same

Yes, things have really changed since Rodney King was nearly beaten to death. Just not for minorities.

Guess what, birth rates in caucasian America are falling, maybe caucasians will be a minority soon? Can we extrapolate here...

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

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If that happened today...

Our featured story teller would probably be tar and feathered, and likely fired, especially if the user was a "Karen".

Or conversely, he could be working for one of those places where sexual harassment is the norm, and be promoted.

So you really didn't touch the settings at all, huh? Well, this print-out from my secret backup says otherwise

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Re: Load?

Flux capacitor?

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Re: Paper trails...

Love paper trails, just had a VIP blow up about a software upgrade. I went back to our meeting minutes and found the section regarding the upgrade and copied it to the colleagues catching the blowback, there are smiles all around!

Yes you knew, you were in the meeting... Soz you weren't paying attention!

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Bad Babs!

Chalk one up for the good gals!

Two hot functional tests go pear shaped? And nobody fesses up? Reports vanish? Espionage? Sabotage?

This'll make you feel old: Uni compsci favourite Pascal hits the big five-oh this year

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Re: I remember it in the early 90s

I remember mom doing coursework for her PASCAL classes in the mid-70s...

Made-up murder claims, threats to kill Twitter, rants about NSA spying – anything but mention 100,000 US virus deaths, right, Mr President?

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Re: Muhwahaaaha ha

When Reagan got elected, I knew there was trouble.

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Re: Muhwahaaaha ha

So glad someone got my point, especially the DV crowd... I wish I have more votes to give.

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Muhwahaaaha ha

The temperature is rising.... the pressure is building, his cork will pop soon. President Pence, do you have any thing to say? President Pence, "I'm surprised it took this long?"

yes, thank you, I'm here all week, closing with three shows on Saturday!

'I wrote Task Manager': Ex-Microsoft programmer Dave Plummer spills the beans

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Today's Taskmanager

Isn't your daddy's Taskmanager! It was faster to reboot 2012r2 than fuddle with killing processes. TBH, I didn't have issues with Win7.

Lawsuit klaxon: HP, HPE accused of coordinated plan to oust older staff in favor of cheaper, compliant youngsters

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Hidden risk

Of working for hyper-global-mega-corp. I know of a strategy... one of my relatives successfully used, get in, make your dosh, get out by 55.

Chicago: Why I just grin like a dork... It's my kind of Bork

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Re: My Kinda Town!

Garage South! On Montrose avenue??

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Re: My Kinda Town!

College? CCC? Class of '90!

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My Kinda Town!

When I was a student there, CTA = Chicago Transit Apathy. Lots of times the last run of the bus didn't run! (it used to be the Sheridan 151), forcing me to walk 15 Chicago blocks to catch an alternate bus to my hood!

Das reboot: That's the only thing to do when the screenshot, er, freezes

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Re: Yes, Daily, or even hourly!

yes, the millennial solution, when in doubt grab your phone...

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Re: Seriously though...

funny, we, in the office, were just talking about making attachments that fit the screen perfectly ;-} No scroll bars on the sides or bottom!

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Yes, Daily, or even hourly!

Ever had to resort to words of two syllables or less? Computer have become just a gadget, users rarely RTFM or RTFS. I wish I had a beer for every screen shot of an error emailed to me asking for the solution... RTFS?

Home working is here to stay, says Lenovo boss, and will grow the total addressable PC market by up to 30%

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Re: Market +30% = wages -30%

"poor areas and areas outside town generally have much slower and less reliable internet service."

Yes, these areas aren't ready yet, hopefully this will help put internet service at the same level as electrical service. In reality, this could be another way to divide the population yet again...

Hooray! It's IT Day! Let's hear it for the lukewarm mugs of dirty water that everyone seems to like so much

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Re: Tea addicts, but I've seen fiends go through three cups an hour

Hi my name is Bob, I've been drinking tea since 1970. Just keep that fufu fruity tea away. I like my tea like coffee drinkers like their espresso...

Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)

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Re: our tech team is busy enough as it is

Window hinges, ah yes, beloved like the stairwell, and the elevator\lift shaft.

Copy of the Whole Shebang in my pocket.

Berlin's renowned nightclub scene is showing signs of life. Just one problem: No dancing

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Now is when we Dance on Sprockets... in Stuttgart?

Couldn't resist... sorry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZR9SA5pOg

Or maksnel mit die artthings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_Pt76Fm20Q

Rogue ADT tech spied on hundreds of customers in their homes via CCTV – including me, says teen girl

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I've fallen and I can't get up!

Security companies are parting fools and their money... Especially on the home front.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ve_fallen,_and_I_can%27t_get_up!

Apple's MagicPairing for Bluetooth fails to enchant after mischief-making bugs found hiding in the stack

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Headmaster

20 years ago

We were sold a VB log on script when we moved to AD. Is it Elementary or Elementry for a school? Spilleng misteaks we're rampent....

If American tech is used to design or make that chip, you better not ship it to Huawei, warns Uncle Sam

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Re: Globalization: Time to rethink education?

@onemark03

It was a filler course(s). I had to have full time credits to keep financial aide, there were no classes available for my major at the time I registered for classes, everything was already closed. Lessor of two evils and all that stuff...

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Re: Globalization: Time to rethink education?

I have degrees, just not in my current field of employment. That was 20g spent back in the 80's for diplomas that do me Zero good at this point. I now consider the whole university concept to be horse and buggy thinking. Most jobs I've had I was "trained" once I got there, and my course in Mid 20th century military conflicts wasn't applicable. Nor was my course in creative writing...

Beer gut-ted: As many as '70 million pints' spoiled during coronavirus pandemic must be destroyed in Britain

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Re: It's probably not actually "bad".

Here in NL, the missus is friends with a pub owner, he has given us two batches of beer that is past it's sell by date. He gave us Motörhead Road Crew American Pale Ale? and one called Bastard. They won't be on my shopping list...

If you don't LARP, you'll cry: Armed fun police swoop to disarm knight-errant spotted patrolling Welsh parkland

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MP

Just a flesh wound!

Mirror mirror on the wall, why will my mouse not work at all?

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Apple blue tooth mouse

I've had more than one call out for the mouse doing the opposite! If it wasn't for the Apple logo, more users would be in the same boat!

The end really is nigh – for 32-bit Windows 10 on new PCs

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Re: I honestly thought it never existed

I just found out recently too! 32bit in this day? Ghast~Flabbered!

Driveway karaoke singer who wanted to lift lockdown spirits cops council noise complaint

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Soundgarden!

I would Karaoke any Soundgarden song! I'd do the Jesus Christ pose, the suit fits!

The Rise of The (Coffee) Machines: I need assistance. I think I'm running Windows. Send help

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turn that coffee into an altogether different variety of frothy, brown liquid.

Like the stuff cow farmers spread on fields?

Users of Will.i.am's Wink IoT hub ask 'Where is the love?' as they're asked to pay for a new subscription service

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Re: This is why...

Crap! I just saw we have a Jamie Oliver chopping block... must have belonged to the missus before we met?

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This is why...

I don't have a George Foreman grill. Anything pitched by a celeb, fugedaboudit...

Microsoft doc formats are the bane of office suites on Linux, SoftMaker's Office 2021 beta may have a solution

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Re: Obligatory XKCD

software as a sieve?

It is unclear why something designed to pump fuel into a car needs an ad-spewing computer strapped to it, but here we are

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Details!

I want to see the Details!! And one of those Wendy's brekkie things!

DBA locked in police-guarded COVID-19-quarantine hotel for the last week shares his story with The Register

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He has his priorities right

After being cooped up for that long, a Mexican meal is at the top of the list, I would have put a nap in my own bed ahead of keyboards or monitors though...

'We're changing shift, and no one can log on!' It was at this moment our hero knew server-lugging chap had screwed up

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Labels people, and read them!

This feels like a course in RTFM, RTFS or RTFLable!