* Posts by MyffyW

2013 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2013

Reg Standards Bureau introduces the Devon fatberg as coastal town menaced by oily blob

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Re: But seriously though...

@tiggity I think Viz had a solution for poor toilet etiquette:

"Bottom Inspectors: Have you wiped properly"

Chinese rover pootles about... on the far side of the friggin' MOON

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Re: Chinese rover pootles about.

"put up a barrier 50m outside the places they wandered round and add a few frikken lasers"

And sharks, you've got to have sharks too.

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Re: Nah

Don't forget there are some knitted pink animals called "Clangers" and some rarely seen reptilian drinkers of soup whose name eludes me.

Excuse me, sir. You can't store your things there. Those 7 gigabytes are reserved for Windows 10

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If all you do is consume content then an iPhone (or Android phone) might be fine. If you are a creator of content (beyond Tik-Toks, cat videos and certain niche, Arthouse movies) then a real computer will likely be required.

Linux reaches the big five (point) oh

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@Ian_Johnston I think you ask a fair question. RasPi touchscreen support had struck me as a pretty specialist requirement.

The great thing about Linux is you can compile your own kernel excluding support for things that are not relevant to your use case.

Another greybeard has left us: Packet pioneer Larry Roberts dies at 81

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Re: TTL exceeded

I vote for 10Base5 ... not because of any intrinsic architectural benefits but because the hardware and cabling looked like something from Battlestar Galactica

- Kara Thrace of Llantisilly

Hacker cyber-gang: Give us cyber-cash for cyber-cache of 18,000 stolen Sept 11th insurance docs

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@StargateSg7 you are a wonderfully bonkers human being.

New Horizons snaps finish buffering: Ultima Thule actually two dust bunnies that got snuggly 4.5 billion years ago

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Re: Astronomical

A million to one, I believe

[this is not the meme you're looking for, move along]

Ready for Glasto-net? Cheap, local low-power networks up for grabs in the UK

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Re: Don't try it near Glastonbury

That is quite amusing.

If I was desperate to provide network services around my locale (I'm not, but that's 'cos I'm a lazy cow) I could of course just put a 5GHz WiFi AP on a 10m pole and manually turn the transmit power up to 26dBm.

New Horizons probe reveals Ultima Thule is huge, spinning... chicken drumstick?

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Re: Alice

Alice? Alice, Bob would like to know when you're coming back. Never? Well I suppose we could exchange keys remotely.

Found yet another plastic nostalgia knock-off under the tree? You, sir, need an emulator

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Frontier ... if anyone dares to call it "a little bit rubbish" I'll fire up my 4MW beam laser. And I have my finger hovering above the "B" key too.

What happens when a Royal Navy warship sees a NATO task force headed straight for it? A crash course in Morse

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Oh @RuffianXion I'm telling you the plot!

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My favourite is ibuprofen - sold as a headache remedy - in which one of the side effects is listed as headache.

Nobody in China wants Apple's eye-wateringly priced iPhones, sighs CEO Tim Cook

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Re: There's disposable income then there's

Hold their resale value? If I buy a £120 quid Android which lasts me two years (which I have) then even if it's worth nothing at the end, I'm still up on the chap who buys a £800 phone that "retains" half it's value.

China's loose Chang'e: Probe lands on far side of the Moon in science first, says state media

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Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

It's quite an achievement, hoping to see some human boots back there within my lifetime.

In the meantime I'm looking forward to Wish selling me moon rock jewellery for a quid.

50 years ago: NASA blasts off the first humans to experience a lunar close encounter

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Re: Remember

Six months old I was sat in front of our TV for the Apollo 17 launch in December '72 by my Dad. Can't remember a single thing about it, but deeply grateful to him to this day.

Mark Zuckerberg did everything in his power to avoid Facebook becoming the next MySpace – but forgot one crucial detail…

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There is a danger

If we focus our ire entirely on Facebook we provide a convenient lightening rod for the rest of the corporate data thieves.

Do what society has done best down the ages, educate the ignorant, tax the maleficent.

Boffins build bugged bees bearing backpacks

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Re: "Minimize harm done to their surveillance bees"

Very Punny, Honey :-)

My rational, boring conscience is however still trying to vocalise the what-the-fecking-fracking-feck from the substance of the main article. What's wrong with just getting a bit of honey from them and otherwise leaving the poor things alone?

China on its way to becoming the first nation to land on the far side of the Moon

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Re: One step at a time

Rumours that Donald Trump plans to put US boots on Mars in time for the prick's 100th birthday are unsubstantiated.

For fax sake: NHS to be banned from buying archaic copy-flingers

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Good Enough

So there are 8,000 fax machines in the NHS? Let's assume they last about 4 years and cost 200 quid to replace. That's GBP 400,000 that will be saved. Round it up to GBP 1 million to account for consumables and phone bills and it's still three parts of eff-all in NHS terms. Show me the NHS system that can replace everything they do and will "only" cost 1 million a year.

Basically this "ditch the fax" drive is a conjurers distraction. I suggest you guard your watch and check your change.

Dine crime: Chippy sells deep fried Xmas dinner

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Under no circumstances whatsoever should one consume sprouts as a nursing mother. The resulting nappies from your offspring are beyond explanation.

It's the wobbly Microsoft service sweepstake! If you have 'Teams', you've won a lifetime Slack sub

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Re: Of course, given recent statements from the rumor mill...

@jake well said, alas only two of us seem to have got the joke.

Have a set of "a" disks circa 1998 as a reward...

Total Inability To Support User Phones: O2 fries, burning data for 32 million Brits

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Re: Pffft

Vodafone have recently been strapping SIM cards to cows butts with an outfit called MooCall, so you can add the number of pregnant bovines to the overall phone count too.

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Lack of O2

I did wonder what Project Phlogiston was... but I was afraid to ask

Microsoft polishes up Chromium as EdgeHTML peers into the abyss

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just an idea

Turn Windows into a Linux distro?

Why, they don't even need to do that much. Just release it as a Window Manager and Desktop Environment on top of Debian.

Windows started life on top of a command line OS, seems appropriate to return there...

It was a lit CeBIT see, got teeny weeny, world's biggest tech show yearly party... closed its German fest's doors yesterday

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Re: English..

@El Reg - I think you need to renew your poetic license.

OneDrive is broken: Microsoft's cloudy storage drops from the sky for EU users

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Oh I don't know @tin_2 ... the little picture of a paper aeroplane with a snubbed nose well and truly made up for my inability to get to all my fecking files.

"How I learnt to stop worrying and came to love the cloud" - as nobody ever wrote.

Office 365 Exchange enjoys a less than manic Monday. Users? Not so much

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I don't like Mondays

I guess I chose the wrong day to pitch Office 365 to the board.

[unscrewing a bottle of nail varnish for the volatile organic compounds as we speak]

NASA's Mars probe InSight really has Mars in sight: It beams back first pic after touchdown

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InSight can drill 16ft!

I've heard those sort of boasts before. I'm hoping this little chap doesn't suffer from performance anxiety.

Black Friday? Yes, tech vendors might be feeling a bit glum looking at numbers for the UK

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Re: Maybe the UK isn't the best exemplar, right now.

I have a Remain clock that is completely accurate, but only two-and-a-bit years after the event.

Well that's just spliffing: UK Amazon merchants peddling Mary Jane

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Re: The products in question are no longer available

"They're coming! They're coming" and "Gorilla Panic" are still in stock.

Alas, "This is Permanent" had run out...

Microsoft confirms: We fixed Azure by turning it off and on again. PS: Office 362 is still borked

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Office 340

Process plants are commonly designed to run for 8000 hours/year, allowing time for routine maintenance and upgrades throughout that year.

I'd be quite happy to pitch this to my users if MS would provide a 10% reduction in fees. And serious recompense if they fell below that.

As it stands Microsoft seem to be achieving about 0.93 of a year, or about 1 unit of factory uptime.

As to the name of the El Reg unit, I nominate it "the Tony" after Factory Records founder Tony Wilson.

Finally a platform for train puns: IBM Halt station derailed

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I hope they issued shutdown -h under appropriate change control.

Azure, Office 365 go super-secure: Multi-factor auth borked in Europe, Asia, USA

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Re: Drink Cloudy Bollocks

I've probably drunk worse down the years ...

'Blockchain SAVED my Quango'

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Re: Copyright blockchain?

I ran across a suggestion that Blockchain could be used for land registration.

Because the one thing that one finds really stressful in house buying is the land registry?

[sorry, coat is on already, just doing up the buttons, leaving right now.]

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Re: Down under

That's A$700K worth spending if it stopped further idiocy.

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Re: Did I sleep too long?

I've got an idea for a Blockchain Sitcom

Surely that would be multiple, distributed situations providing resilient comedic opportunities...

If Shadow Home Sec Diane Abbott can be reeled in by phishers, truly no one is safe

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Re: I doubt she'll ever be Home Secretary, but...

Just because she's the shadow doesn't automatically mean she'd become Home Sec after a Labour win. That's in the gift of the PM.

Nikola Tesla's greatest challenge: He could measure electricity but not stupidity

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Don't blame the Serbs

British fears of German Naval strength, French desire to reclaim Alsace-Lorainne, Russian angst at the length of time it would take to mobilise their army, Austro-Hungarian dented pride mixed with internal contradictions inherent in a land empire, German expansionism and desire to avoid encirclement might all have a had a slight part to play beyond the single hand weapon that Gavrilo Princip discharged in Sarajevo back in 1914.

I'm out of breath now ....

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Re: country & western singers

@Pascal not that I disagree with you, but if you are successful in your suggestion some might identify you as an "influencer".

This revolution will not be televised – but it will be sanctioned: Googlers walk out over 'sex pest' executive scandals

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Re: "Feeling Googly"

... or the management response "The Sound of Silence"

Facebook sets Linux kernel tools free

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Been around for many years

Yes, but OMD are still one of my favourite synth bands of all time.

If you leave ... being about the most perfect accompaniment to Molly Ringwald's prom-night dilemma in Pretty in Pink

Budget 2018: UK goes it alone on digital sales tax for tech giants

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Re: There will be £10m for a scheme to identify ways to keep physics and maths teachers in schools

@Danny_14 said "The profession is basically boiling down to the same as the NHS - hopefully you can train enough people in 3/4 years to replace the ones who quit after 3/4 years."

The same grim equation that held sway on the Russian front for a similar period of time.

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Re: There will be £10m for a scheme to identify ways to keep physics and maths teachers in schools

I hate the idea of teaching subjects I love to indifferent teenagers but for £10m I'll give it a shot.

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Re: Brexit coin

> Shouldn't it be a 52p coin?

Err, more like a 45p coin given the deterioration in exchange rates since that vote.

F***=off, Google tells its staff: Any mention of nookie now banned from internal files, URLs

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Re: The evolution of euphemism

deeply offended ... I'm getting the flock out of here

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Re: Call me PC if you will

@cNova ... strongly recommend watching "The Thick of It" for the art form of workplace swearing in all it's glory.

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Re: Just tell 'em...

Spin up the FTL and get the frack out of there ...

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Re: And then there are Spoonerisms

Having spent time in the company of enlightened ecclesiastical folk, I happily raise a toast to the dear old queen.

Happy 60th birthday, video games. Thank William Higinbotham for your misspent evenings

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Re: would you like to play a game?

How about withdrawal from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty?

What do you mean that sounds risky? What's the worst that could happen?