* Posts by chivo243

6085 publicly visible posts • joined 10 May 2010

Some fokken arse has bared the privates of 250,000 users' from Dutch brothel forum

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Devil

Re: Banggood

Bang bang Lulu,

Lulu had a boyfriend

his name was Diamond Dick

She never got the diamond

but she always got the bang bang lulu!

HP to hike upfront price of printer hardware as ink biz growth runs dry

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Holmes

We ditched about 90% of our HP printers for other MFPs and couldn't be happier about it. If we are an average group, I can see why HPs printer division is hurting.

MacOS wakes to a bright Catalina sunrise – and broken Adobe apps

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Re: I'd love to know the rationale...

@Charlie Clark

"Apple knows it can force people to migrate over time"

It's the MacOS Classic vs OS X (or the artist currently known as macOS) scenario all over again, rinse, repeat... I think the world got over losing Classic 9.2, they'll get over losing 32bit apps.

As mentioned above, Adobe knew for a long time that Apple is fleeing 32bitsville, and not looking back.

If you thought Windows Insiders was lacking a little in the leadership department, it is now

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a more sober line under new leadership

Whaaa? and kill the party in Redmond? Seriously, sober wasn't in the room when the "Insider Program" idea was hatched. Maybe *cough* some dank clouds were in the room, but sobriety?

Windows 10 update panic: Older VMware Workstation Pro app broken

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another group PO'd

I have to say the paying users are right to be peeved... VM WS14 was released in 2017, in October. 2 years and out!

https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2017/08/announcing-vmware-workstation-14.html

"Once released this October, in addition to supporting Microsoft’s Fall updates for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, and updated Linux support for Fedora 26 and Ubuntu 17.04, Workstation 14 Pro will deliver enhanced security with support for Virtualization Based Security (VBS) features of Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows Server 2016 Guests, improved Virtual Networking, and added new support and controls for working with vSphere and the vCenter Server Appliance."

Hey, I wrote this neat little program for you guys called the IMAC User Notification Tool

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Our Acronym!

I can't really give all the details, but the last two letters of our organization's acronym is SH and we are IT Support

Go on, let your imagination run wild!

Surprise! Copying crummy code from Stack Overflow leads to vulnerable GitHub jobs

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Re: student use

Back in 2004 a MS contractor tried to push a VB logon script off as his own. When the script didn't work right, during our search for answers, one of my colleagues found a very similar script on the net somewhere, with the same spelling errors. Elementary was spelled Elementry is the one I remember.

Sad thing is, this guy knew what he was doing, he couldn't be arsed to do the work himself. I heard he's selling stuff on youtube now.

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student use

I know of programming students grabbing stuff from Github for their assignments. Just get it from github was the phrase I heard many times...

Oracle demands $12K from network biz that doesn't use its software

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Re: I'm wondering whether...

One of our apps has an Oracle DB included in the install... an update is scheduled soon, fun times...

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Re: VB, phone home

I think I'm going to create a second login here at El Reg so I can upvote this 2 times!

+1

Well done!

Love the Seinfeld ref!

HP polishes the redundancy cannon, prepares to fire 16% of workforce

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Re: What is the deal with buzzword bingo?

familiar buzzword bingo... shoptalkitus?

I thought to myself, What, if anything does this mean, and "I wonder if this guy: a) Knows how ridiculous he sounds? b) know how to speak normally when not at work?

EU's top court says tracking cookies require actual consent before scarfing down user data

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Another reason I don't sync my googlily chromish stuff, keep it at work where it's required... not at home where I don't want to be reminded!

HMRC 'disciplined' almost 100 employees for computer misuse over 24 months

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Re: Hammy The Hamster Lives!

Posted using my work laptop in work time.

Here's my stats for the chart ;-}

Posting using my employers computer from home! Earlier today I posted from work using my employers computer!

Brighton perv cops community service for 'hacking' women's Facebook accounts

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admitted to 3

how many others did he actually breach?

600 armed German cops storm Cyberbunker hosting biz on illegal darknet market claims

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WTF?

I can't decide?

Which is weirder?

HRH Prince Sven Olaf of CyberBunker-Kamphuis

or

600 armed police officers storming an ISP, granted it is pretty big, and deep - but 600?

IT workers: Speaking truth to douchebags since 1977

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upside down and backwards

Years ago, when blogging was a new and cool thing, one user(now departed due to this stunt) blogged about our department in the worst possible light, (throwing shade?) Some other users found this gem. It didn't take long for the link to make the rounds, including HR and a couple of D Levels. The rest is history...

Now that's integrity: Bloke sinks 7 beers, turns himself in. Cops weren't looking for him

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1, 7 or 17?

I doubt it was the beer, no matter the brewer. Our friend Billy Bob probably also has a screw loose and needs other attention. I hope he finds it...

Sussex Police gives up on £790k Gatwick drone shutdown probe

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Black Helicopters

Re: Were there really any drones?

I get the feeling this falls under the "we know who it is, and let us never speak of it again" kind of cover up. The longer they don't talk about it, the more it they can deny it?

Hey, it's Google's birthday! Remember when they were the good guys?

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Big Brother

Re: I remember

um yeah, about that... I think Gogglphabet had some forethought in what they were doing, they surely had a roadmap, and it lead here.

Multitasking is a myth: It means doing lots of things equally badly

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Re: Questions

You could apply at any local gaming arcade, the ones with pinball machines!

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SLASH on bail.

He must be, he just opened a tour with GNR in the US recently!

I'm getting it, I'm getting it... you don't have to push!

BOFH: We must... have... beer! Only... cure... for... electromagnetic fields

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Users... never happy

even when you hang them with a "New" Rope!

I like the IT budget shell game... where it stops nobody knows!

Nice one Simon!

Pro tip: Plug in your Tesla S when clocking off, lest you run out of juice mid hot pursuit

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Re: This wouldn't have happened

+1 isn't enough, so have one of these!

macOS? More like mac-woe-ess: Google Chrome slip-up trips up SIP-less Apple Macs

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I play devil's advocate here

Why in the hell would any professional use their "production" rig to do any web surfing regardless of OS...

Gagarin's Start now Soyuz-FG's End as shutters pulled on historic launchpad

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Re: The days of Gagarin and Apollo are truly over

Seems it's the "Kondo time" for both space pioneering nations.

https://bgr.com/2019/09/25/nasa-lab-demolition-lunar-receiving-laboratory/https://bgr.com/2019/09/25/nasa-lab-demolition-lunar-receiving-laboratory/

Hacker House shoved under UK Parliament's spotlight following Boris Johnson funding allegs

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Windows

This used to be called the SlashDot effect...

Can you code a way to foil online terrorist vids? The Home Office might just have £600K for you

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Re: Sounds like a great project...

I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that, or can I? can I?

As halfwit, would-be dictator buried by UK judges, Spain would like to dig up a very real one

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What would Chevy Chase say?

"Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still valiantly holding on in his fight to remain dead."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalissimo_Francisco_Franco_is_still_dead

Nine words to ruin your Monday: Emergency Internet Explorer patch amid in-the-wild attacks

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Re: Not showing...

Correct you are, not on ours yet either...

Calling all the Visual Basic snitches: Keep quiet about it and so will he...

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Re: Bending the rules to breaking point

Back in the 80's, I used to sign my name hundreds of times a day on busy days, now once a month? I was shocked when I checked my old passports against my current one, my sig has changed substantially. I can see I don't really care what my sig looks like anymore.

The '$4.4m a year' bug: Chipotle online orders swallowed by JavaScript credit-card form blunder

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Re: Ordering food online via credit card, eh?

There are thousands of locally owned Mexican restaurants (with much better food) all across the states, last summer I ate at one in Minnesota! Why in hell would you eat at a bland, homogenized place like Chipotle? However, if Chipotle gives you the shits, maybe you should disregard my advice...

Beer to put out the ring of fire!

BOFH: What's the Gnasher? Why, it's our heavy-duty macerator sewage pump

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BOFH going down the crapper?

I'm just curious???

My coat with a map of London's sewers...

Remember that security probe that ended with a sheriff cuffing the pen testers? The contract is now public so you can decide who screwed up

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Headmaster

Potato potatoe

Even if the language is clear, one side will interpret it their way, the other side will say that's not what it means... in this context...

HP printer small print says kit phones home data on whatever you print – and then some

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Not good

but I would love the script that they use...

"information about your computer, printer and/or device such as operating system, firmware, amount of memory, region, language, time zone, model number, first start date, age of device, device manufacture date, browser version, device manufacturer, connection port, warranty status, unique device identifiers, advertising identifiers and additional technical information that varies by product."

This info would be immensely useful to most shops, except for the last few bits...

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Pirate

<clickety clack> go the PFY's fingers

that device's traffic won't be leaving the LAN now... You shall not pass!

Wake me up before you Gogo ... so I can jump out: Kenyan MP takes on aeroplane flatulence

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Must have been on the flight

The flight home from the cooked cabbage eating and beer drinking contest...

Also, I have to mention plane food doesn't help the situation either.

Just what we all needed, lactose-free 'beer' from northern hipsters – it's the Vegan Sorbet Sour

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Pint

Yep

Beer O'Clock, but not with that stuff... geesh.

Beer icon as an example of what beer looks like

A peeling solution to pothole has split the community... Yeah, they stuck a banana tree in it

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Re: Where I lived

Where I lived... This issue is a City Manager call\decision\action or inaction. He has to get approval from The Little Rascals + The Three Stooges before sending in Abbot and Costello + Laurel and Hardy to botch the job.

You can see how the whole process will start to seem futile.

Fairphone 3 stripped to the modular essentials: Glue? What glue?

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This is a start!

A good showing here might just get some bigger companies to follow the example. One can hope...

Like a grotty data addict desperately jonesing for its next fix, Google just can't stop misbehaving

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Headmaster

it can't be stopped?

I wonder if G's mail search etc services would function if the slurping was completely turned off?

Be still, our drinking hearts: Help Reg name whisky beast conjured by Swedish distillers and AI blendbot

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Picard's Favs?

Glen Borg

SmorgasBorg

Yahoo! customers! wake! up! to! borked! email! (Yes! people! still! actually! use! it!)

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is it up gives a code 301 for yahoo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_301

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yMail for me?

it's for a Yahoo group like ebay, but for a small geographic area... I don't give that addy out...

How do you do, fellow kids? Facebook now Boomerbook as British oldies outnumber teens

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not a cocaine delivery service

I'll bet it is now! Once a good idea gets out...

Tesla Autopilot crash driver may have been eating a bagel at the time, was lucky not to get schmeared on road

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Holmes

Whole story

This guy is definitely not telling the whole story here.

Seems that prospective buyers should take a lie detector test and an IQ test before being allowed to buy a Tesla.

Devon knows how they make it so steamy: Phantom squatter of Torquay curls one out on bloke's motor

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Mr. Hankey Returns

and rolls off a log... love that one " Devon and Cornwall Police have made a log of the incident."

The only way it would have been funnier: Devon and Cornhole Police have made a log of the incident.

I just love your accent – please, have a new password

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We're all friends here, aren't we?

See title!

Apple says sorry for Siri slurping voice commands of unsuspecting users

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Re: First thing

No, unfortunately, when you start a new iThing, it asks if you enable to use siri, I say no! So, that is the first thing? Maybe I was having one of those "it's obvious" moments that happen only in ones head.

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First thing

Was to disable siri on iAnything... Second is to laugh out loud...

Bloke who claimed he invented Bitcoin must hand over $5bn of e-dosh in court case. He can't. He's waiting for a time traveler to arrive

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Happy

Re: Perjury

Ah, the George Costanza defense...