* Posts by chivo243

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Uptime guarantees don't apply when you turn a machine off, then on again, to 'fix' it

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Internal squabbles

The only thing that burns my butt more than internal squabbles, is a flame about 75cm high... I've had a couple.

TikTok: Is this really a national security scare or is something else going on?

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Re: Staggering

I think it's in knowing ignorance, they know and are still like "so what...?"

Google again accused of willfully destroying evidence in Android antitrust battle

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Re: Destroying evidence + Risk Management = Big Savings!

How much if we get caught for the initial boo-boo? How much do we save if we don't save messages and still come out smelling bad... That's a no brainer!

For whom the bell polls: Twitter voting is for Blue users only now

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yawn...

I'm tiring of this piecemeal picking at twitter's scabs... just cut the freakin jugular, hang it upside down, and be done with it. We can then move on to focusing on the TikTok drama... at least that has some IT angle...

Where's Paris when I need her!

The most bizarre online replacement items in your delivered shopping?

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Coffee/keyboard

Sellotape instead of loo paper

That's a sticky situation... Keyboard please!!

Just wondering if it was desktop sized tape, or standard package shipping tape?

Google says it did not train its AI chatbot Bard on your private emails

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Re: It's a sad day...

The PR rep was told what to say in very specific guidelines, the bot not so much...

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Re: Funny

Signed as Anon? But used your handle? Is Anon your name? If so, please disregard...

+1 for your comment!

Accenture puts 19,000 staffers' heads on the chopping block

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2029 is not far away...

The hundred years depression?

https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Depression

I wonder how many execs will take the plunge out of a window...

Any way you slice it, greed... and indifference to your fellow man.

Errors logged as 'nut loose on the keyboard' were – ahem – not a hardware problem

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Did the five Bobs get out of IT... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Guys

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Re: Lies, damn lies and metrics

"it was the *worst* code I have ever seen". Please tell me you're not the comic book buy of your org!! LOL -->

BOFH: The Board members are looking very ill these days

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Sounds like there'd be a lot of coffin...

It's a gin tasting not a weed sampling!

Green go for a reason!

B-List celebs including Lindsay Lohan fined after crypto shill probe

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Re: B list?

Overflowing Stack

B list?

Disrespectful

I hope you mean she isn't even on the B-List. Not on the List!

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Re: This is not the L.O.H.A.N. you are looking for

You can't bring back Lester Haines (god rest him) but you could bring back Dabbsy

I'm following Dabbsy over on Autosaveisforwimps... I don't think he would come back, El Reg is no longer El Reg, but Reg.com. I get the feeling that the disappearance of Paris in the icons and Dabbsy's exit come from a PC directive, you know, make it SFW. And we know that Dabbsy is anything but PC in his rantings.

I miss the post pub nosh, and the breakie after the pub! I guess that Reg.com needs the space for webinars and such frippery, not to be confused with Robert Fripp.

Dabbsy's coat...

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Re: This is not the L.O.H.A.N. you are looking for

I also want Eadon back. The comment sections on Microsoft articles are getting boring.

I think he's back, under a few different names... but I won't name and shame incase it isn't him.

Yes, Lester is missed! ----> One of these for those who remember him!

IT phone home: How to run up a $20K bill in two days and get away with it by blaming Cisco

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Thanks for the Monday pick me up

I'll be phoning home now, Elliot!!

+1 for the Extraterrestrial reference! And have a bag of Reese's Pieces for later!

You've been pwned, how much will each stolen customer SSN cost you? How about $7.5k?

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Re: SSN theft

Yes, the SSN system is wholly abused by every facet of life in America. At a lot of employers, it was my employee number. I'm not sure how Social Security and the IRS are connected, but the SSN is also your TIN...Taxpayer Identification Number?

I don't see any problems there /s

Now collapsed SVB's parent files for bankruptcy as Biden calls for stiffer penalties

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I agree, but President Biden seems to be doing some swimming against the current lately. Just keep swimming? It's all so weird...

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too lazy to look

Did his muskratiness borrow money from this institution? Enquiring minds and all that... The pieces of the big picture are starting to fall into place. Perhaps a great world crisis is upon us? Just like my daddy said, and his daddy before?

Damn, I miss Paris!

Techie fired for inventing an acronym – and accidentally applying it to the boss

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Re: Being dismissed was probably a blessing in disguise

Sue couldn't have written a better script! The new manager has to shake things up, put the fear of god into the plebs(like his muskratiness). Hal was the sacrificial lamb.

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Re: FUBAR

Fscked Up Beyond All Repair... FUBAR...

Workers don't want these humanoid robots telling them to be happy

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Re: Asimov nailed it

Everybody needs an ED in the family...

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Re: Asimov nailed it

Just call me R. Daneel Olivaw... they'll never notice!

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Re: It's just a thing

Long ago, I had a boss with the personality of a toaster... he had almost no emotion when talking, I never was inspired by him. Perhaps it was his medication(s) both prescribed and self prescribed, I know he was having couch time. Hi Bob!

Meta chops another 10,000 employees, closes 5,000 vacancies

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Re: Year of Efficiency

Just saw this again...

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/laid-off-meta-employee-says-the-fake-work-stories-are-true/447676

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Re: Year of Efficiency

No, the year of collusion, all the big tech players, except Apple, are laying off. I recently read that these companies were hiring people to do 'non-work' just to keep them from working for the competition. Maybe the Zuck, Elon and the other guys have had a meeting down at Carmine's Clam bar, and agreed that its time to stop wasting cash, and hurting each other's bottom line.

Pair accused of breaking into US law enforcement database, posing as cops

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Police posing as crims and victims, crims posing as police?

Huh? Goose, gander, sauce? I am all for the coppers doing good, but when they do bad for the sake of good, it's bad for all of them... Where is the trust? I rarely post anon, and I won't on this post... cuz the coppers could find out if the wanted. They probably have better things to do than ask Reg.com who chivo is...

Tough luck, Brits: Binance suspends UK deposits and withdrawals

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Meh

I wonder

If the Binance adverts I've been barraged with in a free game I use will stop? For the past two weeks or so, it's almost exclusively the only ad... I get it in French, German and English...

No icon for Huh... I guess Meh has to do it.

Cloud upstart offers free heat if you host its edge servers

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DC or DC?

DataCenter or DomainController? Glad the column says it's a DataCenter... Not sure how much heat a DC would generate, my experience says your desktop running Doom will generate more heat than a DC handing out addresses and resolving a few names.

Techie wiped a server, nobody noticed, so a customer kept paying for six months

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It was migrated!

Wow, similar situation, the application previously used a small executable on the client site. It was migrated by the vendor to an IIS(eww) server with a banal webpage. The trainer came, the users were trained. It was out of our hands. Sometime later(months?) the server was decommissioned, but not wiped!* A few days later the roars from the finance department were heard all over the office**... We, as in, me and my manager marched in, pulled up the webpage for the new banal IIS webpage, and some strange looks were exchanged between the finance department plebs(I'm sure coins were dropping). During the following days, it was discovered that during the training the cut over date wasn't really defined. So the users kept using the old system. In the end, the vendor was able to extract the months? of work from the old system, and massage it into the new system.

* One colleague wanted it for a test bed, but was too busy to pull the trigger!

**I'm pretty sure that was the day my hair started turning grey.

I feel older just talking about it!

Hold off on that 2046 Valentine's date, asteroid might hit Earth

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No, No, make that Date

Who wouldn't want to go when they're having a 'happy' ending to a date! Me, I'll be in my late 80s, so I doubt that is in the cards...

Welcome to Muskville: Where the workers never leave

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Re: Muskrat

A physicist friend of mine says that nothing sucks... So I guess that means only one thing.

A lot of my friends in the US carry guns. Not because the want to carry them. I worked professionally in kitchens for 20 years, can you guess how I protect myself? Not like that blowhard Ramsey either... I can use the F word with the best of them...

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pfftt....he was kneeling the entire time.

And Frank Zappa said, "There's a big difference between kneeling down, and bending over..."

I'll let your imagination run wild with the icon!!

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Angel

Gotta have religion! Elmo's religion!

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Only One city?

The Orange Wonder is proposing 10! Count'em 10 Freedom Cities. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/03/politics/donald-trump-freedom-cities-flying-cars Like the Jetsons!

We're doomed, DOOOMED! As I googled this string "proposed tech cities" I see that Nevada is proposing the same kind of thing...

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Re: creepy...

I was thinking of a Pleasant Muskville Sunday, here in status symbol land...

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Re: One wonders if he has a backup plan.

I think there's still a pitcher with some Kool-Aid.... I know there's a compound in Waco he can get for cheap too.

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Re: HiTech Pottersville

Sorry didn't read your post before posting my Pullman facts below... +1!

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Re: Company Towns

Getting paid in company scrip too! Would that be Dogecoin?

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It's been done, and abolished in South Chicago by a transportation magnate

Historic Pullman was built in the 1880s by George Pullman as workers' housing for employees of his eponymous railroad car company, the Pullman Palace Car Company. He established behavioral standards that workers had to meet to live in the area and charged them rent. Pullman's architect, Solon Spencer Beman, was said to be extremely proud that he had met all the workers' needs within the neighborhood he designed. The distinctive rowhouses were comfortable by standards of the day, and contained such amenities as indoor plumbing, gas, and sewers.[2]

Workers initiated the Pullman Strike in 1894, and it lasted for 2 months, eventually leading to intervention by the US government and military.[3] The Strike Commission, set up in 1894, ruled that the aesthetic features admired by visitors had little monetary value for employees.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman,_Chicago

Catholic clergy surveillance org 'outs gay priests'

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@Pascal Monett

Thanks for saying what needed to be said. +1. And thinking of the children.

Maybe if the men of the cloth could find their adult counter parts, we wouldn't have them molesting children...

BOFH: I care a lot ... about onion bhajis

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Pints all around!

"Well we better generate that now then!" I say, triggering the firmware update of the core router that I've been saving for a special occasion.

I also need a new keyboard, but since we're only allowed one icon per post--->

Duelling techies debugged printer by testing the strength of electric shocks

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well...

It is probably software, because it borked the hardware... Bad firmware update anyone? LOL

Adidas grapples with $1.3B in unsold Yeezy sneakers after breaking up with Kanye West

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Re: Maybe, just maybe

Seriously WTF????? I just saw a headline that some young movie star(?) spent his first check on Air Jordans... Adam somebody, can't be arsed to look it up fo you.

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Adidas

All Day I Dream About Sex!

Instead of business... Now they're fscked. They can't consolably do anything them due to political correctness...

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Adidas and Funko!

Maybe they can save space, and shove the Funko crap into the shoes before they burry them.

Cop warrant orders Ring to cough up footage from inside this guy's home

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Stop

Another tick in the NO column...

*See Title*

The Yes column is pretty barren.

Europe, America fear Twitter job cuts mean it can't protect users

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That's the Plan!

Fsck up so bad that the gov'ts cut you off! Brilliant!

What a fart knocker...

Ex-Tweep mocked by Musk for asking if he'd actually been fired

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Re: Not necessarily……

Calling Jim Jones! Got some kool-aid here...

Sure he pushed people around, and maybe the worked harder. Any jerk with money and no fears of hunger or homelessness can push people around.

Let the votes fall where they may!

And NO vote either way for you... validation and such.

Microsoft makes Outlook Mac native email app a freebie

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Windows

Double slurp!

If you put Gmail account on the new and improved Outlook that routes via M$ servers...

Last time I used anything Notlook was Outlook Express on a win98 box. Oh, if I knew then what I know now!