* Posts by chivo243

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White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake

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Re: Burger slinger?

White Castle is a Whitey's, a common term in and around Chicago. Slider is a very small sandwich, resembles a hamburger. They are steamed, and not far from a turd. There are far too many good taco joints near Chicago to bother with that crap...

I was trying to defend hamburgers...

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Burger slinger?

I don't think 'sliders' are considered burgers... and burgers are definitely not sliders! Can anyone who's visited Whitey's after midnight concur?

The second dust bowl cometh for America, supercomputer warns

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Re: John Steinbeck

Mine with the copy of Renegades by RATM.

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American Midwest

So, anywhere between Indiana and Nebraska... That narrows it down.

More victims of fake crypto investor scam speak to The Register

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Re: Common risk factor

¿Si, que, what!

Now where's that ticket to Torquay?

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Re: Complete this saying:

A fool and their money are easily <what> ?

We used to say "A fool and his money are soon out partying".

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Re: Scammers scamming scammers...

I'd wager quatloos to donuts that the scammers are also running the Telegram Group, what better way to stay one step ahead of dupes you just duped? And set them up to dupe them again!

Once again, welcome to Barnumnomics...

Outage-ous: Twitter OKs cannabis ads, then goes up in smoke

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Re: decriminalisation

Legalization is when it's legal. You can buy ciggys at the corner, and no limit as to how many you can buy? Decriminalization is where you don't go to jail for possession of small amounts, will pay a fine for larger amounts, and when you have too much, then it becomes a legal issue. I'm thinking of NYC...

So, Decriminalization = Regulated illegal?

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No ads for

Tobacco, Alcohol(beer, wine or hard spirits) weed, firearms, and Window 11!

anybody who wants these things doesn't need ads, they know where to find them ;-}

I can't advertise, but I can buy you one on a Friday! ->

If you have a fan, and want this company to stay in business, bring it to IT now

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that's but a blink of the eye

At my last gig, during height of the supply chain strain, we had the arico go out in our main server room. We did our due diligence of opening windows, pinching every fan in the building, strategically placing pinched fans to move as much cooler air as possible. Then the airco engineers came, they spoke with the head of facilities. His entrance to our office, spoke volumes, but the news was worse than let on. There were no spare parts, the unit was EOL'd the previous year*. There were none to replace the unit with our needed specs at the time. Estimated time of delivery 1 week! We rented portable airco units and industrial fans, and limped through the week. After installation, one day after to be exact, it conked out. Facilities manager is furious, the engineers come back, there's no coolant in the damn thing, they fill it again, test it, and once it's blowing cold air again the leave. A week passes and same thing. A week passes and same thing assuring us the found the issue. A week passes and same thing. Fearing they will lose the account**, they send out the senior installation\trouble shooting engineer. Within one cup of coffee, and 10 minutes of checking around, he finds another valve that's not closed properly! He closes the valve, fills the system again and all was well. My ex-colleagues haven't mentioned another outage, I'm still in regular contact ;-}

*This was the second piece of equipment that went EOL, and when we needed service, we got dumb looks instead. Wouldn't sales be interested in warning something was being EOL'd.

**Oh boy, did they lose the account, and I'm sure it wasn't small potatoes. The were responsible for the HVAC for the entire campus, 3 buildings

icon - I just worked there...

Musk says he ain't going anywhere as Twitter CEO until at least late 2023

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Re: Pop-corn shortage

I've said it before, I've had enough popcorn! It was good for the first few metric tonnes...

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Re: Go Home Elon, You're Drunk

End of 2023? I'm predicting Elon is the last man standing, and should turn off the lights when he leaves, if the Electric Co hasn't already done it for him...

Perhaps David Letterman and his posse can get Twitter cheap at Elon's Telsa garage sale?

Uncle Sam backs right-to-repair battle against Big Ag's John Deere

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It would be interesting

to know which politicians have stock in JD... and how much. And suppliers for JD too.

Biden: I want standard EV chargers made in America by 2024 – get on it

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What about a converter?

Half way through my first cuppa, and I thought there are tons converters for lots of stuff. Just make a converter! Then in my half sleep stupor, I had a scene from Brazil flash into my brain... the first time we see behind Sam's apartment walls, and I thought no adaptors please. Make a standard!

Icon wiping sleep from eyes!

Wow, so they actually let AI fly an F-16 fighter jet

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Air Force Lt. Col. Ryan "Hal" Hefron

C'mon! I'll bet he's been in the Air Force since at least 2001!

US defense forces no match for the unstoppable fiend known as Reply-All

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Reply All Mail Bomb!

I survived a couple of these... Worst was at a school, when listservs were the rage. Out of Office replies were becoming more common place. Summer vacation rolls around, and a couple of guys start a conversation on the same listserv, have their out of office enabled... First one guy complains, and the next school admin type guy replies all crying about the problem, adding all faculty to the message so they knew about the problem! BAM over 30,000 messages in my inbox alone! The mail admin at the time quickly found the tick box for one reply per out of office message.

Namecheap admits 'unauthorized emails' pwning its customers

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Namecheap and missing coins?

Namecheap and missing coins? That's Gold baby, the story that writes itself!

US military spends weekend shooting down Useless Floating Objects

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Re: Brigadier General Patrick Ryder said it "wasn't an aircraft per se"

My guess would be Darwin candidates... Any yahoo can launch a weather balloon. However, after watching the movie Explorers, I'm hoping it isn't our next great scientist pootling around up there ;-}

Learn the art of malicious compliance: doing exactly what you were asked, even when it's wrong

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Breaking in that new manager!

When a new manager came in, he wanted our inventory to match his wishes. It was in a relational database... I was instructed to change some fields. After a few reports were ran, and came back jibberish, I had to change other fields. Rinse, repeat for a few months...

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Old timers advice to the young married man... when you're asked to wash the dishes after dinner, wash them slowly and badly. The second night break a plate or a glass. The third night, enjoy watching the new missus washing the dishes!

Microsoft switches Edge’s PDF reader to pay-to-play Adobe Acrobat

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Re: WTF??

"Adobe's PDF technology in Microsoft Edge means users will have fast and secure access to critical digital document capabilities." *

^^- This guy knows how to keep his job!

and he's thinking...

"Adobe's PDF technology in Microsoft Edge means nothing to me, I gotta keep writing this drivel before some AI does it for me." ...fast and secure access to critical digital document capabilities? It sounds like is already being done.

*Bingo! I win BS Bingo!

Elon Musk's Neuralink probed over pathogen transport

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Re: Unusual amounts for fines

civil penalties of up to $96,624 … minimum penalty of $582

Did these start off as round numbers and get boosted for inflation or something?

I do believe these are the calculations of the great American Random Number Generator Fine determiner... Much like the random prison sentence number generator...

IBM says it's been running 'AI supercomputer' since May but chose now to tell the world

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An AI tool

Fed solely internal IBM info? If I was a manager, I'd be packing my jump bag\go bag about now. I'd book several trips to different places for the same time, and vanish to one of them, change my name, have my finger prints removed... maybe if I'm lucky I won't be terminated.

BOFH: Generating a report the Director can show the Board – THIS is what AI was made for

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Re: The BOFH & PFY using ChatGPT

Are those robots still in the basement?

Uhm, sort of, mostly, well, not mostly...

What's up with IT, Doc? Rabbit hole reveals cause of outage

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The butler couldn't have done it...

I'm a bit curious as to how Roger got behind the fridge. the one our hero had to budge out of the way to find the power cord? It's animation, it's all done with smoke and mirrors! Just ask Kenny!!

Ring system discovered around dwarf planet Quaoar leaves astronomers puzzled

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oh, a ring! not a Ring.

I thought to myself, I'm thinking? How small is this planet if a doorbell can surround it?

Find My Kids app is basically AirTags for your offspring

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Re: Who on earth buys an Apple Watch?

I haven't worn a watch of 'any' kind since 2004, when my arm got caught in a 19" rack. The band popped, and I've never put a watch back on my wrist.

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Marketing Genius!

I wonder how long it will take the Apple Law Team to bust down the front door and ask for their cut...

Icon for effect!

Transmission FOSS BitTorrent client hits version 4.0

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Most DVDs

Most that came through my hands were run through handbrake, and the file is easily found in my library, where as the DVD may be in any of 7 different boxes spread over three different countries and two continents...

You can run Windows 11 on just 200MB of RAM – but should you?

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after seeing this... https://www.neowin.net/news/new-video-shows-how-much-more-data-windows-11-sends-compared-to-older-versions/

I was very afraid to open any apps.

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I ran this Tiny11 in a vm, with the 2gb, it ran, but without activation ya can't change the flippin background, and I couldn't look at that default 11 wallpaper. So, there it sits, installed and abandoned.

Take the morning off because Outlook has already

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Vegas?

Do bookies in Vegas take bets on the actual number associated with Office3xx? That would be a good pool to run! Now what would be a good number to pick? I see someone has already picked O356!

School laptop auction devolves into extortion allegation

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Re: Silly school

You'd be surprised how these un-wiped machines got back into the pool... school admin brings the computer in after hours, right to the tech director who's working late etc, assuring him he's wiped everything, tech director passes it off, or does the bit of admin himself telling his team the next day it's all good...

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Silly school

I did this exact thing for many years. Wiping all student and faculty computers destined for the broker. Checked, and double checked by a second techie. All units wiped had all data migrated to the users new laptop prior to wiping and putting a factory image for the broker.

These un-wiped machines were most likely from School Administrators who couldn't be bothered to bring the unit in when required, and they fell through the cracks, hence the "Sensitive" data being left behind.

It's all too familiar behavior from a school district.

Eager young tearaway almost ruined Christmas with printer paper

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misunderstood an instruction

Only once, when "Get in here!' really meant "Get OUT!" Like a slow motion train wreck, can't stop, can't turn away. Only having my coat as a personal belonging, it made for a quick and easy exodus! And yes, this was some time ago, back in the mid 80s.

HeadCrab bots pinch 1,000+ Redis servers to mine coins

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Head(of The Crusty)Crab

And mining coins! Hilarious! Who names the bots, the owner, or the discoverer?

By Boyo!

British government torched over lack of chips strategy

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Re: No tar and feathers please! I'll go peacefully

Thanks for the explanation! Is there a VEN diagram somewhere?!! Thanks again.

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No tar and feathers please! I'll go peacefully

but aren't MPs part of the gov't? So, aren't they actually blowing hot air on their own failings??

No, you cannot safely run a network operations center from a corridor

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Re: Classical "Told you so"

I've seen some cable porn that will make most techies shed a tear! And not porn on cable...

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Coffee/keyboard

Hold my sake. There are redneck Japanese?? Who knew!

Time to make another cuppa... and grab a towel or two

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Re: Huh?

At a place I worked at, the cleaners were charged with waxing the floors, all of the floor... Copiers, printers and vending machines(you read that right!) were moved with out unplugging the network cable... I got to repair the RJ45s in the wall and replace the network cables. I was also tasked with finding physical solution for preventing these unfortunate 'accidents'. My first thought came right out of Simon's rantings...

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Huh?

Where's the rest of the story?

Did you forget the part about the cleaners??

Prepare to be shocked: Employees hate this One Weird Clause

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In NL

I was presented with a contract with one of these 'non-compete' clauses, I had a law dude look it over, and he said unless you want to flip pizzas for two year after leaving, don't sign... I didn't! But he also said, that because of the poor way the contract was written, it probably wasn't enforceable.

Latest Windows 11 build shares desktop real estate with, er, Spotify

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weird headline?

Or is it too early, and I need another cuppa? Tried to send a correction, but reg.com says enable Java, I enabled it, still no go...

The latest Windows 11 build shares some its desktop real estate with Spotify?

No more free API access, says Twitter: You pay for that data

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Rules of Acquisition!

It seems like we now in a Ferengi world! It costs you just to see the taxman! Brunt is that you?

Boeing bids the 747 a final, ultimate, conclusive farewell

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So long!

Not sure which version of 747 I flew on as a 6 year old boy, but it was an adventure! My uncle worked for TWA at the time, and we flew from ORD to LAX to visit my aunt. I had all the goodies, playing cards, captains wings etc, but didn't get to visit the cockpit, grown man naked make me nervous anyway!

Everyone's doing it: PayPal sends 2,000 workers packing

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Big Tech

These are tech companies, and they have probably automated a lot over the years, and now are realizing that "Hey, we can do it with less employees and save money!" Thanks for your help, there's the door, don't let it hit you on the ass on the way out!!

I once worked for a big faceless corp 30+ years ago, never again...

Beijing grants permit to 'flying car' that can handle 'roads and low altitude'

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Re: Speed Racer did it first...

As someone who has watched all of the Speed Racer cartoon, many, many times, I believe there was one time the Mach5 did fly... Now I have to watch them all again to find it! Wait, it did have the little wings for gliding!

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On second look

This has to be the beta model... safety features are not ready for prime time yet!

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Monsieur Scaramanga, you've been watching too many James Bond films from the 70's!

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