Posts by Wombling_Free

Name checks out, timing is about right

I will hazard a guess that this young 'Charles' went on to write novels featuring one "Robert Oliver Francis Howard". Just a guess, mind you.

Who knew media would be delivered digitally?

I mean really, who knew the NBN was going to be used for this? The government who planned it? I don't care which one; the current tuckfards or the arse-clowns before them.

I think the concept of email have *almost* crept into the heads of our Glorious Leaders; the concept of moving-picturemationology is still a bit beyond their grasp though.

Fail? It's Australian for everyday life.

Well, if its targeted at enterprise users...

Those mice will be a bargain at $799 US each.

and that's how we do it in Austfailia

I happen to know a very large retailer here runs entirely on SAP.

And as far as I can tell, hasn't patched anything since, oh.... 2009? Maybe? When did Windows XP SP1 come out? well, whenever. Since then - thats the last update that shows up in the syslogs.

What could possibly go wrong?

Wait a moment...

How are 50% of Austfailians going to download a film?

It would take years on a 28.8k modem wouldn't it?

Occams razor

Never assume malice when the event can be explained by stupidity.

It was a hard drive from a police station after all.

Simple answer

Don't be stupid enough to buy an Apple.

Where Hockey gets his metadata

Most likely from the anti-pirate brigade, who claim that Austfailians download eleventytrazillion dollars worth of films each day.

Quite how we download as much as they claim is beyond me, its not like we all have the NBN or something.

Also, Yes Minister looks like a serious documentary compared to the tuckfards who run this shothile.

Is it too much too hope?

For a piece of hardware from Jawbone that isn't totally crap?

I was given an UP2, which got sent back 3 times due to button falling off.

The fourth time the button fell off I just put it in a drawer and left it there.

I don't think you need a circuit diagram for that.

I'm currently (haha geddit?) building a Nixie clock, and that little demon doesn't look terribly difficult to recreate. It doesn't even need a USB interface chip, it would just get in the way.

As for plugging in unknown USB sticks, that's what my work desktop is for. I'm sure our my employer's AV software will deal with it. It does keep warning me that the last AV update was in 2009 (I wish I was joking) but I am sure our outsourced IT dept is hitting all their KPIs.

Give up now; sell ENTIRE NATION to Russia / China / venture capitalist

No, really, this country is a freaking joke. We cannot do a SINGLE THING right.

I suggest giving up now, cut our losses, sell the entire nation as an open cut mine, with the proceeds going to the current government and their donors, trust funds and offshore accounts.

The population is probably worth a few hundred each as indentured labour or something, but don't expect too much as the majority of them voted the current government in; they clearly don't have much between the ears. On the positive side they don't seem to notice when they are fed on sh1t3 so they are cheap to feed.

El Reg should be proud

since there is now a 'Vulture' flyable ship.

Pretty good ship too. Now we just need El Reg logos for it...

If this follows the plot from 'Titan' by Stephen Baxter

we all have only about 11 years to live.

One of the highlights to look forward to are carving statues of oneself out of ones own sh1t using ones teeth.

Oh, we've grounded the shuttles already? Just the statues then, not the sweet oblivion of a Chinese asteroid to the Atlantic.

Cables? Piping?

Or very secure straps to the Russian modules....

Uncanny

Or you happen to work for a certain large retailer.

Any Samsung fail counts as a win

if it means their bloody awful software isn't running.

I do note that my Chromecast, plugged into my Samsung TV, is working perfectly.

But how is Big Tony going to collect our metadata?

If we can't send the metadata, they can't collect the metadata.

If the governmonkeys want my metas, they can bloody well up the speeds so I can send it to them.

Maybe we'll all have to mail it in via AusPist.

It's a Samsung

So it's more like GALAXY FORKED. As in 'totally FORKED'. As in 'anything Samsung makes is FORKED'.

The top photo is wrong

Thats what your connection box looks like AFTER Telstra have "fixed" it.

They don't make them like they used to.

And sadly, given our current attitudes, they probably won't ever again.

my cobra makes a whining noise

Oh, wait. I just left the Elite:Dangerous forum window open.

I've never heard such a pack of over entitled whining brats as the E:D forums; but then again its the first MMO forum I've been a member of.

Frontier have done a wonderful job, and took a well publicized break over xmas - they did launch on the 16/12/14 after all.

It is a shame to see the Reg reporting only the forum trolls; those of us in the alpha/beta phase diligently reported bugs; hey it still has some, what doesn't? The can't connect failures are likely due to their apps on their PCs, not ED. ED lime any network app is sensitive to the actions of other apps - for instance I found that ED and the Citrix receiver don't get along very well. Close Citrix and my issues vanished.

I also suspect most of the glitches are peoples attempts to cheat / hack / crack ED for their own gain, then cry like babies when they corrupt their profile.

Disclaimer - Alpha supporter. Missed kick starter. Mature adult who has spent too much time over xmas break having hours of trouble free, glitch free fun in my Cobra MK3.

drive like a Christian? eh?

Ayrton Senna was devout Catholic, and when once asked how he got around corners so well answered: "Jesus is there pointing to the apex for me"

No idea if that's true or not, but as a certified agnostic I find that to be quite a beautiful image.

We aren't going to make it, are we?

We are doomed as a species. The universe belongs to nematode worms.