* Posts by TrixyB

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UK throws millions at scheme to heat homes with waste energy from datacenters

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HaaaS Heating as a Service from a DC near you.

The cloud, now with heating as a service. Subscription based of course

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

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So you could say...

He has been around the block

You've put up with us banging on about IT for years. Now it's your turn. Grab a mic and join us on The Register's podcast

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Re: I know...

Not the same since Greg left the podcast i'm afraid

Sysadmin wiped two servers, left the country to escape the shame

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Just like a Robocopy mirror...

Everyone has ran /Mir the wrong way round at least once? OK maybe just me!

Speaking in Tech: Nope, sorry waiter. I won't pay with that card reader

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You know this podcast has been running every week for over 4 years now....

Speaking in Tech: Thousands audition, millions vote.... One wins. It's Podcast Idol

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Sad news...

Goodbye Sarah - you will be missed.

Thanks for making me laugh :)

There's a Moose loose aboot this hoose: Linux worm hijacks Twitter feeds for spam slinging

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FAIL

I thoght tha too. Have an upvote!

Speaking in Tech: 'Facebook Chat Heads – what a stupid name'

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Bad customer service

Hey Greg! In the UK you can go to any PC World and get bad customer service!

Watch out! KILLER HP firmware update bricks ProLiant server mobos

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I must have been lucky on my BL460c G5

I had an iLO failure on BL460c Blade last week which required a system board replacement.

After I changed the system board the HP firmware required an update. I used the SPP 2014.02 ISO which I had no problems with using the automatic upgrade options. Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708S on the mezzanine cards. I now think that I was extremely lucky.

New 4G router pitched at biz bods sick to death of titsup networks

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Draytek Vigor 28xx

Erm, Draytek have been doing this for years on 28xx series. 2830n is about £180

Bring Your Own Disks: The Synology DS214 network storage box

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Looks like Qnap interface

Those screen shots look very, very similar to my Qnap TS-469 Pro v4 firmware

The interface the same down to the icons!

AMD avoids a red-ink-stained quarter for once, market says 'meh'

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Anything to do with Bitcoin mining?

It could be that a lot of AMD kit was purchased to mine bitcoin before ASICS started shipping.

Performance of the 7970s are quite awesome! Gave up with mining a long time ago but kept 2 for crossfire gaming and dont need to turn the heating on upstairs anymore!

Your encrypted files are 'exponentially easier' to crack, warn MIT boffins

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Re: Compression

@nomnomnom

Post of the week!

Think you're ready to make a big career bet? Read this first...

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Good Article

Thanks for sharing and quite informative from the Reg on a Friday afternoon! More of this type of thing!

Plusnet's 'Everyone's a winner' claim is a plus-sized whopper

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Re: OT, what's with the sics then?

I thought it meant "Spelling is correct" [SIC] to prove that you are aware what you are quoting.

We're not making this up: Apple trademarks the SHOP

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Happy

Re: It's over between us

Possibly one of the best Reg comments I have ever read.

Forget 3D: 13,000 UK homes still watch TV in black and white

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Holmes

Blind People

If you were blind it would make sense just to have a B&W telly instead of a colour TV even if you do receive a discount. Just sayin'.

Hacking bazaar ExploitHub gets hacked, database leaked

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Trollface

Hackers hacking the hackers?

Whatever next?!

BOFH: Our Excel-lent new boss and the diagram plan

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Coffee/keyboard

Quote of the Week

"It's a bit like flushing a blocked toilet – you think the extra water might help clear things out, but in reality you just end up dealing with someone else's crap."

Absolute genius from Simon. More of this sort of thing!

Skype launches in-call ads

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Damn it...

Just as I was finding skype useful again.

BTW, does anybody else find that call quality gets worse the longer your call lasts?

Underwater Greek volcano brewing Lara Croft style earthquake

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Reminds me of an old Amiga Classic....

Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis!

Look at volcano...

Insert disk 9...

BOFH: The Cloud Committee Calamity

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Was beginning to wonder where Simon aka BOFH had gone....

Glad to see we all can't stand the co-lo cloud either.

Good stuff! Can we have another episode before the summer?.....

BOFH: CSI Haxploitation Cube Farm Apocalypse

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Angel

Fupping brilliant!

That is all :)

Updates galore in Microsoft's biggest ever Patch Tuesday

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Stop

No prizes for guessing what I'm doing this weekend...

And I've only justed patched my 2008 R2 boxes to SP1 and now this.... This could take a while as I have no WSUS anymore :(

Labour forum leaks email addresses

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Boffin

@ AC 12:32 Mom and Pop shops are:

I didn't know what that meant either so by the powers of google... here it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_business

Top Ten Arcade Classics

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what about...

Operation wolf? Gauntlet? I suppose the list would never be complete....

German net crippled by top level glitch

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Das ist mein bad!

Have they tried das reboot!? (sorry, couldn't help it!)

Not sent from an iphone

TalkTalk kills Tiscali

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My I be the first to say...

Nobody is mourning here!

Swindon twins with Walt Disney World

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Happy

OMG

I'm so glad i've left this town and now live in the City.

Depilatory Dell debuts beard-busting laptop?

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Coffee/keyboard

Still here...

http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/press-releases/DELLS-NEW-INSPIRON-Z-LAPTOPS.aspx

Classic

Novell fannies about with Open Enterprise Server 2

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Dead Vulture

Ummmm?

What am I missing here? Move along people... nothing to see

'External force' fractured French iPhones, says Apple

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Coat

Hearing about these claims...

Kinda makes you feel all glassy eyed!

HTC smartphones vulnerable to Bluetooth file sniffing

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Unhappy

Pity...

I used to quite enjoy my HTC tyan a couple of years back. I always thought they were quite good until my nokia N95 and now N97. You could install so much stuff on those HTC phones even years ago. If you didnt mind it crashing everyday!!

Users claim iPhone 3.0 GPS mis-map mishaps

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FAIL

N97

No problems here....

Humberside koi carp rustlers trawl Google Earth

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Coat

Phising Scam?

Mines the one with an A-Z in the pocket...

Nokia N97

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Megaphone

@ craigmcgill

Not too sure where you have been looking mate. Just upgraded my N95 today calling up three! TEE HEE. £38 a month

Shuttle XPC SX58H7

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Happy

To the AC @ 21:27 re: Handle

The handle is on the box so you can carry it around with it's foam packaging in its box!

Shuttle's are very nice if you can afford them ;)

Barclays IT systems have a strop

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Go

Back online now...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1193440/Barclays-cash-machines-online-banking-hit-hardware-failure.html

Staff still not back though...

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IT Angle

Hmmmm

Didn't Barclays fire a lot of their I.T. Staff last week?

VPN Accounts still enabled?

I.T. pic as "Where is their I.T." !!??

Microsofties lose their iPhones

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Jobs Horns

I agree with EINumbre

I'm amazed noby has thought of this all before. I'm more amazed that their even allowed to use iphones!

BOFH: Snout, meet trough

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Go

YAY!

Top class BOFH again! And no gold cookie required! :) Cheers Simon once again!

Tesco tills go titsup

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Coat

Barcode Battler!

Mine's the one with the price gun in the pocket!

Microsoft teams up with US gov on double 'ard XP

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Dead Vulture

Who?

Microsoft teamed up with Microsoft? How does that work?

C'mon, who runs any os with default settings? Reg, sort it out. This is not news!

Hong Kong supplier punts Mac-alike netbook

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Dead Vulture

@Tony

Nope, that link is unavailable too!

Google's AOL stake walks the plank

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Stop

@Ian - calc.exe ?

$274m x 5 = $1370

I make that $1.3b

Where's Wally Vista SP2?

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Gates Halo

Actually works quite well...

OK so I installed..... flippin' eck actually installs well!

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Stop

sp2 already available from msdn

I've had it for a few weeks but too scared to install it. Its about 400mb from memory?

Microsoft delays first Windows 7 public beta

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Jobs Horns

and to think I tried downloading this crud...

That explains it then.

</SHAME>

‘You can Google Checkout any time you like, but you can never leave...’

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Excellent!

Brilliant - A really good article. Keep up the good work El Reg!

Did the width move for you, darling?

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Renders better on my K850i - Much faster too

Yes I read the register on my phone... we are all geeks here! (mostly)

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