* Posts by chivo243

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'Supporting Internet Explorer is hell': Web developers identify top needs – new survey

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Develop for IE?

The missus has never asked for a winstall to check her work. She tests on phones, tablets and her mac(s). She's found over time that fewer and fewer people use a computer to access her company's website. I don't remember the figures, but tablets and mobiles are at the top for her customer base. Yes, her company is at the opposite end of the spectrum from corporate entities that rely on M$ technology.

Five years in the clink for super-crook who scammed Google, Facebook out of $120m with fake tech invoices

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5 years

to plan his next caper, while the balance collects interest. I wonder where he will be doing his time? Someone important also housed in that Pen? Wasn't that a movie plot, guy gets put in prison so he can get close to another crim with better chops?

Cheque out my mad metal frisbee skillz... oops. Lights out!

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Re: Who me?

The new tagging of articles is really throwing me off... Like VonDutch, I don't know what day it is.

Das Reboot: Uni forces 38,000 students, staff to queue, show their papers for password reset following 'cyber attack'

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That photo of the queue

Looks like my days at uni when I had to do course selection, 5 days of queueing just to find out the class was full! I did meet some nice girls in the queue, that was the only bright side.

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Windows

"..a more efficient and effective way of cleaning PCs than running about with USB drives and sticking green stickers."

There has to be, but some educational institutes don't have the tools or techs to use the tools. Back in the early 2000s we chased NIMDA and KLEEZ with the sneaker net attack. Even after disconnecting every computer from the network(phase 1) and running to each computer to stick in a floppy to remove both offenders (phase 2) it didn't work. WE still had to do it like 3 more times.

I would hope each staffer and student who had to run the clean on their computers would get a discount on tuition or staff could ask for overtime?

Hate speech row: Fine or jail anyone who calls people boffins, geeks or eggheads, psychology nerd demands

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Re: I think she's trolling

Trollvertising!! El Reg has the branding covered ------------------>

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+1

Nice ELP reference there!

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You can have our badges

Whey you pry them out of our cold dead <insert_fav_nic> hands. Out of all of my friends, I'm the only one who is in IT.

iFixit surgeons dissect Apple's pricey Mac Pro: Industry standard sockets? Repair diagrams? Who are you and what have you done to Apple?

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you can’t just swap in a drive from Crucial

No, probably not. Not at this time, check back in a few months? If not with Crucial, I'll bet another vendor will have it. Still won't be cheap, but won't be the dry strip search from Apple.

Canada's .ca supremo in hot water after cyber-smut stash allegedly found on his work Mac ‒ and three IT bods fired

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Re: Catalogue of Errors

b/ Transferring data to a Windows computer.

This is bad m'kay!

It's 2019 so, of course, this Wells Fargo employee accused of stealing customer cash posed with wads of dosh on Instagram, Facebook

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Re: How many trainers?

I really don't understand social media...

Seems our friend doesn't either. Maybe he should hire a social networking trainer instead of buying shoes?

My eyes thank you, Google: Android to get dark mode scheduling in future update

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Picture change?

The photo for the story changed... Did Neil Young complain?

VMware warning, OpenBSD gimme-root hole again, telco hit with GDPR fine, Ring camera hijackings, and more

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password reuse

Well, there's your problem... Now I've got a great solution, sigh here... using the same username and password please!

Wham, bam, thank you scram button: Now we have to go all MacGyver on the server room

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Lucky Man!

A lot of our cabinets have Glassdoors. Some have the mesh doors, will have to remember this if I ever get locked out of a cabinet and need to restart.

Valuable personal info leaks from Facebook – not Zuck selling it, unencrypted hard drives of staff data stolen

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Re: Rank Amateurs

I thought FB was an IT department, just not very secure or ethical or moral for that matter

Admins sigh as Microsoft pushes Teams changes – let everyone play!

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When we were kings...

The days of iron-clad admin control over the minutiae of every application and device in use on an organisation's network are mostly over.

Quite honestly, crap devices and shoddy services on the web have become the toilet paper on our shoes. I once saw a user uploading photos to some crap site, and asked if they read the EULA or the T's&C's? Their response was what are terms and conditions? I guess it was never their data anyway.

Attention! Very important science: Tapping a can of fizzy beer does... absolutely nothing

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Minus a negitive?

-0.159 grams of beer lost isn't that a positive?

Why is the printer spouting nonsense... and who on earth tried to wire this plug?

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Happy

Hiring the same guy!

Well, that one was unexpected! A ray of sunshine!

$13m+ Swiss Army Knife of blenders biz collapses to fury of 20,000 unfulfilled punters

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FAIL

Can I get on that fits on a Unicorn?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/11/unicorn-scooter-failed/

Really, we have to stop the making of shitty products...

Non-unicorn $700 e-scooter shop Unicorn folds with no refunds – after blowing all its cash on online ads

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Fools and their money

yeah! invest in a luxury electric scooter start-up!

But, maybe, I'm wrong? Maybe this ingenious device is really a way to shape the gene pool? Remove the rich stupid ones?

When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games

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Unhappy

No longer shocked

It seems there is a disease that affects common sense, voters and elected officials alike. I'm no longer shocked by the idiocy that prevails these days. The fix is in, too many people making money off the deal to give a shit?

Oi, Queenslander who downloaded 26.8TB in June alone – we see you

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Re: I call fake news!

Me too! Was scratching my head...

Beware of bad Santas this Xmas: Piles of insecure smart toys fill retailers' shelves

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X-mas

Just checked my the list my son made. None of this crap made the list! I feel bad for buying VTech crap for my nieces, but that was well over a decade ago, and I don't think any of that tat was IoT.

The Windows Phone keeps ringing but no one's home: Microsoft finally lets platform die

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Go

Cortana, for one, has retreated into the depths of Microsoft's productivity suite?

Just rolling out Win10(well, in January), yes, cutting it close. Each new image for testing needs to have it killed! yeah! I read there is a way to remove it via GP, but finding all the necessary files, downloads from M$ and files from Win10 itself, then upload to sysvol, create the GP, apply the GP, and don't forget to move the computer to the OU that gets the Win10 policy ;-} And never run any updates, ever, hell keep the users away from it too!

Get a grip M$, there has to be a saner way...

Remember the Dutch kid who stuck his finger in a dam to save the village? Here's the IT equivalent

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Re: I've clearly been here too long...

I too, was in a moment of vuja de... It was something similar for sure. Not letting the circuit being completed. Didn't this guy have to use his nose or his knee?

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No response, wrong button!

Back in the junior days, I was sent to a rack to power cycle a non-responsive server. Kept pushing the button, but nothing changed. Finally my boss steams into the server room and tells me his Monitoring server has been going on and off! After finding the error in labeling, I was tasked with correcting the problem...

Oh, to be a Junior again?

Elon Musk gets thumbs up from jury for use of 'pedo guy' in cave diver defamation lawsuit

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Yep, He's a bully

Seen them before, poor or rich families, didn't matter. The rich ones just seemed to avoid consequences better than the poor.

OpenBSD bugs, Microsoft's bad update, a new Nork hacking crew, and more

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Re: "the reason why some companies are behind on their patching"

I like to error on the side of caution regarding any Windows related update. WSUS lets us roll out updates after the fallout... not approving any malcontents foisted by MS. Before WSUS I picked Monday at 23:55 to check, and download only WU.

As far as other shops, not knowing you have something running that was installed by a vendor can happen quite often.

BOFH: I'd like introduce you to a groovy little web log I call 'That's Boss'

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Re: Most people have nothing interesting to say on a regular basis.

I've found if I'm quiet too long, people think that I'm angry or something. A small burst of inane chatter seems to cure that. So, what about the price of rice in China?

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Re: @ Evil Auditor

Tweet like a bird, see their logo. thoughts were all a twitter...

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Coffee/keyboard

Thwaaaachk!

Let's make teeth great again! Now, about that keyboard...

Ohhh, you're so rugged! Microsoft swoons at new Lenovo box pushing Azure to the edge

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Pint

With those rabbit ears thingy on the back, I see why you read it that way.

Ooooo Subliminal!

See your way to the bottom of this one too! --------------------------------------------------^

You looking for an AI project? You love Lego? Look no further than this Reg reader's machine-learning Lego sorter

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Send it my way!

Just last week I cleared all Lego related toys from the youngins room. Some kits are still partially assembled. Over Christmas he plans to assemble them all again, and box them up ;-} We'll wait and see how far that goes!

Whoooooa, this node is on fire! Forget Ceph, try the forgotten OpenStack storage release 'Crispy'

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Devil

"ticket after soul-destroying ticket."

Aren't they all?

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Re: Back when OpenStack was launched with NASA, you literally ...

According to McCoy in Spock's Brain, brain surgery is child's play... until he forgot

Windows 10 Insiders: Begone, foul Store version of Notepad!

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Drive the drivers out

Thank you M$. Now if they would only remove that category from WSUS... Shouldn't drivers come from the hardware manufacturer?

Newly born Firefox 71 emerges from its den – with its own VPN and some privacy tricks

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Re: Few legitimate uses of VPN?

The other side of the pond needs to get some lawyers that can tell them what GDPR means and does... This blocking idiocy has to end! We're seeking solutions?

Den Automation raised millions to 'reinvent' the light switch. Now it's lights out for startup

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Boy Genius out smarted by smart light switch?

Seems the market takes a dimmer view of him now.

EU wouldn't! Uncle Sam brandishes 'up to 100%' tariffs over France's Digital Services Tax

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Blustery weather, wind is blowing harder

Must be coming up on election time. It's sad that the front runners have to attack some "enemy \ evil force" instead of focusing on sane government and doing the right thing.

I'll give you my Windows 7 installation when you pry it from my cold, dead hands (and other tales)

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Right tool for the task

Use what you have to use at work, use what you want at home ;-}

Why can't passport biometrics see through my cunning disguise?

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Happy

walking in parallel lines

I get the same issues when traveling... French wife, child with dual nationalities, and we always get the 20 questions, and slow everybody behind us down. Sorry if you ever got stuck behind us!

We've found it... the last shred of human decency in an IT director – all for a poxy Unix engineer

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Love a team player

My boss shielded me from the higher ups during a disaster of my own making. He asked how long until we were operational, and keep them at bay until we operational again. I don't want to be in that situation again, but if it comes to pass I want him to have my back. I still get the stink eye from one of the D levels...

One for Alessandro and my boss!

No wonder Bezos wants to move industry into orbit: In space, no one can hear you* scream

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"I always wondered by they send rocks up to the space station to be processed by belligerent rebels"

+1 for a DS 9 reference. But I doubt the ore came from Bajor, or the finished product went to Bajor. Most likely the rocks\ore came elsewhere and impulse engines seem to work for free...

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100 full-time workers and x amount of y centers reporting

There is the rub! If Amazon is like UPS, part-timers far out number full-timers(think full time benefits costs savings), so I doubt this stat is even close to being right. I'm sure the number of injuries\fatalities from the automated warehouses is much, much higher. Now I picture the dream Reece had in Terminator when he's sleeping in the stolen car by the construction site, human skulls being crushed by a track driven vehicle... I wonder if Jeff has trademarked the name SkyNet yet?

Irish eyes aren't smiling after govt blows €1m on mega-printer too big for parliament's doors

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3.1 metres in height

Is this the Optimus Prime of printers or what?

Beware the trainee with time on his hands and an Acorn manual on his desk

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Re: Oh, the joys

When we changed platforms, suddenly the "say" command was a barrel of laughs. It was easy to spot the offender, his chair had a pool under it from pissing himself.

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Oh, the joys

Net Send and students don't mix... depending on which viewpoint you take!

It woz The Reg wot won it! Big Blue iron relics make it back to Blighty

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Big Ideas!

What a project! I'm pulling for them! I'm still trying to find the motivation to get a Commodore PET2000 operational again.

PSA: You are now in the timeline where Facebook and pals are torn a new one by, er, Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen

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It's all an illusion

Those in power have been exploiting those not in power since the dawn of civilization(pretty strange word!). So now that we question those in power, the illusion they have perpetrated is dissolving, now those in power have to resort to the "Don't question me or else" tactics.

Land of opportunity? Opportunity to be fleeces and rolled?

Absolutely smashing: Musk shows off Tesla's 'bulletproof' low-poly pickup, hilarity ensues

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Something from the 70s

Looks like a vehicle from ARK II crossed with a BttF DeLorean,

https://johnkennethmuir.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/saturday-morning-cult-tv-blogging-ark-ii-the-flies-september-11-1976/

No link for the DeLorean, everybody should know what that looks like.