Posts by MyffyW

Re: Are you ok?

I'm both old enough and mildly-dyslexic-enough to have called it Lunix until about 1996, when the only other person I knew who messed around with Slackware kindly pointed out my mistake. I'm such a newb....

I have worked in IT since the mid-90s and I can honestly say you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

I have steered several companies away from using Oracle product because of their ruinous business practices.

Re: An step in the path to reduce the number of pilots needed to fly commercial.

I challenge any autopilot to be able to repeat this sequence:

Sully: "You got any ideas?"

Skiles: "Actually Not"

Sully: [Raises One Eyebrow]

Thirty seconds later, flawless landing on the Hudson

Re: IBM

A horseshoe maker is rather a specific operation, being a blacksmith opens up many sources of revenue

Re: The commercialisation of space

Well I'm unconvinced about the wisdom of such sats, however I love the matter of fact statement:

"As expected in this scenario, there is damage to the launch facility. All personnel are safe, and fires have subsided."

Re: Drugs and alcohol powered

I am genuinely interested to know: is that a significant percentage of used phones?

Re: Seek and Ye Shall Find, has forever been the case, has it not?

I'm not sure the individual you allude to properly lives up to the "A" or the "I" concept, but I do find their posts a refreshing change from the immaculate grammar and vapidity of ChatGPT.

Re: Too expensive, too heavy, too range limited

@blackcat As a long-time Honda fan I loved the CR-Z, just wish they'd made it so it could be wholly propelled by electric. Have seen some interesting DIY attempts to retro-fit it as such

I remember many a time embarking on the long drive north with a full bladder, the logic being that dying from falling asleep at the wheel would be pretty bad, but my loved ones being informed that I had wet my knickers at the point of impact would be even worse.

Re: China could control territory and resources on the Moon

If I were the Clangers, I'd be keeping well away from any offerings of blankets and fruit that the early settlers bring with them.

(Ahh-Cho)

Re: You are Steve Bong

No Duck House? We must be stepping into a brave new world, but won't somebody think of the ducklings?

Re: That reminds me

I've been stuck in Nidd and so missed this particular round of the parlour favourite. Can I invoke the LBW rule, catch the up train at (Rui)slip and hence get down to St Johns Wood with an elevation to the MCC at Lord's?

Re: Surely the problem is heat

Soyuz capsules are already equipped with a gun for shooting bears

OMG, I knew there was homophobia in Russia, but that seems ... very, very harsh

Re: $10 per month for 30,000 words

Seriously, if it meant I never again had to see a gag about a rogue Christmas tree in Finglas, I'd be more than happy to suffer a technological singularity ... [goes to answer the door, "I'm Looking for Sarah Connor?"]

Re: Non-binary memory?

What toilet will it use?

The one it most closely identifies with? Respectfully.

Re: Rackspace Chief Product Officer Josh Prewitt

Too many corporate comms teams have the "important thing here is we don't want to say anything and ever have to walk it back" mindset.

The important thing is to be truthful, with the facts that you have to hand. And be honest about any ambiguity. And when you say something that later turns out to be wrong, own it, admit to it, and do better next time.

Or paint it a dark grey and put Maverick in it. Mach 10 .... 10.1 .... ooops

Re: How could you

It. Has. To be. Liz!

Re: Are there woolly horses?

Llamas always count. Alpacas on the other hand, not so sure about. Far too cute, I suspect they are a front for some nefarious cryptographic shenanigans.

Re: A telling statement...

@Anon true on both counts. I mean, I've done weed. And it did make me a giggling arsehole...

Re: It doesn't stop impressing me

After tinkering with it on a few topics I have knowledge on, it's replies at a general level are very impressive verbally. But dig into the facts and it won't back them up with sources. And that is the ultimate fail for any piece of work beyond GCSE level

Re: Dubious claims, In My Bombastic Opinion

UK would have been buying our fossil fuels from abroad regardless of having renewables, because overseas suppliers were historically cheaper (it's cheaper to tear up desert or virgin steppe than plumb the depths of the North Sea). The fact that contracts were signed to buy renewables regardless of market cost doesn't invalidate the technology's value, it just shows a lack of foresight in contract drafting.

If you are determined to paint renewables as the bogeyman of energy cost security, I'll leave you to it.

Re: jeez...

I wish I had sufficiently loose morals to hoover up this sort of VC cash

On the other hand, maybe I could make consultancy rates advising fools where not to put their money...

Re: Good.

There was a slightly disheveled gentleman logging onto the tosbox when I last took the tram. He seemed to be having problems remembering his password judging by his faraway gaze, rapid hand movements and audible groans.

Re: Microsoft beat them to it

As somebody whose early career was spent as much troubleshooting printers as any actual coding or systems configuration, I welcome the demise of the damned things.

The only consolation of myriad printer problems is it took me into the reception office, where Christine - who had finished Uni the same year as me - distracted one from the unremitting hell of the HP Laserjet and WordPerfect 5.2

Re: CICS is still a thing?

"might see the customer rebuild their application on something else, like SAP S4/HANA"

Gartner, you really are the mean, coercive boyfriend of management consultancy.

Just spare a thought for the subsequent owner of the van, it's tank and fuel lines now tattooed with Red DERV, and potentially some unwelcome questions from HMRC

Re: Need more than coders

The Jaguar of Dirk Gently was "built at that very special time in the company’s history when they were making cars which had to stop for repairs

more often than they needed to stop for petrol."

Let me try an experiment:

"The proper role of government is just to guard the coastlines, and let UPS deliver the mail"

Now, if that get's censored I will have proven what a hot-bed of leftist sentiment El Reg is. On the other hand, I suspect it won't because it's a perfectly reasonable piece of discourse representing a generally right wing view point.

Or how about:

"Probably it is true enough that the great majority are rarely capable of thinking independently, that on most questions they accept views which they find ready-made, and that they will be equally content if born or coaxed into one set of beliefs or another. In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance only for a small minority. But this does not mean that anyone is competent, or ought to have power, to select those to whom this freedom is to be reserved. It certainly does not justify the presumption of any group of people to claim the right to determine what people ought to think or believe" - F A Hayek

MyffyW - independent lefty

Re: Best of British

Oh please make it Liz! That. Would. Be. A. Right. Laugh.

A good choice version 1.1

The rationale for not giving this money to warehouse workers would seem to be that they would merely waste it on planet-destroying luxuries rather than the fine things Jeff would save.

I was tempted to come up with my own invective, but George Orwell got it:

"The damned impertinence of these politicians, priests, literary men, and what not who lecture the working-class man for his ‘materialism’! All that the working man demands is what these others would consider the indispensable minimum without which human life cannot be lived at all. Enough to eat, freedom from the haunting terror of unemployment, the knowledge that your children will get a fair chance, a bath once a day, clean linen reasonably often, a roof that doesn’t leak, and short enough working hours to leave you with a little energy when the day is done. Not one of those who preach against ‘materialism’ would consider life livable without these things. And how easily that minimum could be attained if we chose to set our minds to it for only twenty years!"

Re: For a second....

@Norman Nescio credit for referencing the particular North Manchester band. As for systemd - for me it just works, I have no need to throw Brix

Re: As a Win11 user myself, don't bother if you don't have to!

I'd cheerfully run WindowsXP if it wasn't for the security risk. Haven't seen a Windows productivity improvement that is actually useful since the turn of the century.

Re: If a mistake is bad enough ...

The Conservative Party have been the governing party of Britain for the greater part of the last century:

During this period the country has fallen in stature, both comparative and absolute, by virtually every criterion of measurement which can be applied

- Sleeve notes to Alan Clark's The Tories