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Windows 95 support chap skipped a step and sent user into Micro-hell

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Re: Scandisk?

Eeeevullll…

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Techie saved the day and was then criticized for the fix

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Re: Locks.

We once filled a guy’s cubicle with packaging foam peanuts - put cling wrap over the opening.

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Re: Locks.

You don’t need to open a toolbox to fill it with oil. Anyhoo, now I wonder why we never thought of that…

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How a single buck bought bragging rights in the battle to port Windows 95 to NT

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Re: Windoze NEVER worked well.

The /s tags are missing.

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Re: Windoze NEVER worked well.

I realized that Linux has become mainstream when my brother and his wife bought Linux laptops for their realty business - about 15 years ago.

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Re: Windoze NEVER worked well.

Apple invented the mouse. I always found Clickety-click to be pretty intuitive one any OS.

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Hillary Clinton: 2024 will be 'ground zero' for AI election manipulation

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AI == Absolute Idiot

So far, the much touted AIs cannot even hallucinate convincingly. They are good for authoring bed-time stories, or political speeches, but not anything that requires truth, such as selling secondhand cars.

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Plastic Dossier

Not to worry, I have a dossier I can sell Hillary that explains it all.

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Canonical cracks down on crypto cons following Snap Store scam spree

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So Canonical has a problem with protecting criminals and scammers from each other, because it creates bad press?

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PostgreSQL pioneer's latest brainchild promises time travel to dodge ransomware

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IT Angle

Poof

It is cloudy vapour all the way down.

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Boeing paper trail goes cold over door plug blowout

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Missing QA Team

Boeing needs to do something about their QA, that is for sure - and a QA manager should not have Harvard MBA.

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DBA made ten years of data disappear with one misplaced parameter

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Re: Why do the reports 2 months after activity has ended?

The 2 months are required for creative accounting.

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Fujitsu to shutter operations in Republic of Ireland

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Good for Ireland

How much did Ireland need to pay them?

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Euro-cloud consortium CISPE calls for investigation of Broadcom

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Re: Is there a viable open source cloud?

I think Openstack is one of the reasons why Broadcom is shutting down^W^Wconsolidating their VMWare business.

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UN: E-waste is growing 5x faster than it can be recycled

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Enshittification of Crapware

One would expect the enshittification of high tech kit would help with organic decay.

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Euclid space telescope needs de-icing

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Egg cartons

So using recycled egg cartons as a low cost enviro friendly insulation wasn’t such a good idea after all…

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European Space Agency to measure Earth at millimeter scale

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Re: Geoid, anybody ?

In the middle of Abu Dhabi, where you can see the sea way down the hill in front of you, GPS typically indicates 13 meters below sea level.

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Re: What are they using as their zero point?

So the satellite is super glued to heaven?

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Tesla Berlin gigafactory to take week-long nap after suspected arson

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Dum dum doobee dum

Hope Tesla sues these dum-dums out of existence.

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Intel scores $8.5B in government cheddar to supercharge fab builds

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Taking credit for Trumpisms

T’was Trump who started the make in America process, wasn’t it?

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What strange beauty is this? Microsoft commits to two more non-subscription Office editions

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Re: it tends to screw up the formatting.

This page was intentionally left blank - every so often - solves that problem.

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Re: First hit is always free-ish.

Use gnumeric not calc.

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Standalone educational version

My wife (teacher) uses the standalone educational version of MS Office on her laptop PC and it works fine. Internet access is sporadic, so an online version would be a pain in the derrier.

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Yes, I did just crash that critical app. And you should thank me for having done so

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Out of office

…and then you set up an out of office response with reply all…

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Your PC can probably run inferencing just fine – so it's already an AI PC

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Re: No wonder hardware vendors are on board

Yup - I definitely need a LLM to control the six valves of my garden sprinkler system and the one thermostat of my home heating. Then it can figure out what to do when the wifey complains 21C is boiling hot and 23C is freezing cold.

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Attacks on UK fiber networks mount: Operators beg govt to step in

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Pretty sure no 5G towers were lit on fire in the middle ages.

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Grab a helmet because retired ISS batteries are hurtling back to Earth

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From the heavens above

Five people died today when a pallet of food fell on them. A pallet of stuff falling from the sky moves very, very fast.

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BOFH: I get locked out, but I get in again

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Locales

Swapping key caps is totally beneath a BOFH. Messing up the locales can be done remotely and blamed on a virus/SW update.

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Some Intel Core chips keep crashing, game devs complain

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Re: Golem.de looked closer than ElReg...

200 Watt should be enough to heat your home…

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BOFH: Hearken! The Shiny Button software speaks of Strategic Realignment

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Re: Resource re-alignment?

Lemme guess - you worked at Boeing?

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Sounds like Oracle or SAP

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Re: Shiny button software...

An XML database I presume?

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Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks

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Re: Being polite is great

That is eeevul!

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Dutch insurers demand nudes from breast cancer patients despite ban

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Booby traps

One would think that there are enough boob pics and vids online already.

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Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all

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Clear coat it

Even aluminium skinned Airstream campers have a clear coat. It will take quite a few rattle cans to coat the whole thing though.

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Developer's default setting created turbulence in the flight simulator

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You have to test the whole range 0 to 100%

For aircraft system everything has to be tested to full specification. Although granted, I would not start a test at 100%.

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BOFH: Looks like you're writing an email. Fancy telling your colleague to #$%^ off?

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Re: Life imitating art

ChatGPT is good for writing children's bedtime stories, but not much else it seems.

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University chops students' Microsoft 365 storage to 20GB

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Lecce

All those cloudy electrons should be recycled.

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Now OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants billions for AI chip fabs

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Re: build enough assembly lines to ensure there is a healthy supply of AI processors to meet demand

It could indeed be a silly con.

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Uncle Sam wants to make it clear that America's elections are very, very safe

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Re: In All The Good Democracies ...

The US is only slightly better than Russia, where voters have only one party and one candidate to choose from.

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Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet

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Sol Invictus

The sun is beaming down from space all the time.

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Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get faulty Windows 10 update installed

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Re: When did Windows turn into Linux?

So, your point being? :)

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WTF? Potty-mouthed intern's obscene error message mostly amused manager

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Re: I'm ok with a foul language every now and then on a rare error...

Java isn’t designed for use doing anything useful.

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Re: Code comments

There is nothing wrong with using syscalls. Better than writing new code with new bugs.

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Re: Potty mouthed password generator

I preferred DE AD BA BE.

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Proficiency

You only really know English, once you can insult someone so bad that his Grandma will disown him, without using any swear words.

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Boffins demo self-eating rocket engine in Scotland

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That seems like a fun place to work.

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Another airline finds loose bolts in Boeing 737-9 during post-blowout fleet inspections

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Re: Let Me See How I Can Put This ...

Being made sure that the door would not hit anyone on the way out.

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DC10 vs Max 9

Well, one has to give Boeing credit that doors falling off, is better than having engines fall off.

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People power made payroll support in putrid places prodigiously perilous

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Navy Mil Std 901

The Naval shock and vibration specification has a 9G shock requirement and I have measured 7G shocks in practise. There are special cable loop shock isolators for that.

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