"But when the apocalypse comes how will Australian youth gain the skills to drive armoured V8s across the outback in pursuit of oil and/or Mel Gibson ?"
We need a Grand Theft Auto Outback edition.
Posts by onefang
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Youth crime falls as kids stay inside to play Grand Theft Auto instead of going out to steal cars
Microsoft pulls the plug on Windows 7, 8.1 support forums
Devuan ships second stable cut of its systemd-free Linux
Tuesday 12th June 2018 04:04 GMT
Re: awesome - RPi image!
"But I wonder if I can just use 'apt-get dist-upgrade' or not (after modifying sources.list). Probably can."
In theory you should be able to, a lot of work was done to make sure upgrade paths from Debian Jessie and Debian Stretch work. In practice, I didn't try that personally, not having a RPi. I can't recall off the top of my head if any other Devuan devs tried that.
Every bloody gadget in the house is ringing. Thanks, EE
Tech rookie put decimal point in wrong place, cost insurer zillions
PETA calls for fish friendly Swedish street signage
Saturday 9th June 2018 22:43 GMT
Re: "vegan fish"
"veggie-surprise (Surprise! There's no meat.)"
Reminds me of a couple of dishes I cook for myself all the time. You may have heard of tuna-surprise, where you take a can of tuna, toss it in a saucepan, and add what ever else you can find in the kitchen that might go with tuna. Except I always made it the same way, called it tuna-not-very-surprising. The other one was almost identical, except I used chicken instead of tuna, and called that one tuna-very-surpised.
Don't get me started on my signature dish, 'roossotto. Australia, where not only is it legal to eat the national animal, they sell it in supermarkets.
UK digital secretary throws cold water over bid for laws on kids' use of social media
Actual control of Windows 10 updates (with a catch)... and more from Microsoft
Monday 11th June 2018 17:58 GMT
Re: Now
There have been keyboards available for a number of years where each keytop has a small screen, so you can reprogram the symbol on it.
And um Office on Iot devices? Like I really need a word processor and spreadsheet on my toaster. Wait, spreadshit toaster, the more bread you got the less shit you gotta eat, ... I need sleep.
Systemd-free Devuan Linux looses version 2.0 release candidate
Don’t talk to the ATM, young man, it’s just a machine and there’s nobody inside
The hits keep coming for Facebook: Web giant made 14m people's private posts public
Friday 8th June 2018 06:16 GMT
Re: "A social media platform isn't just for college, it's for life."
While your rant is worthy of an upvote, so I gave you one, do you realise the bit you are quoting is not only from a well known satire site, the OP was complaining that it is getting hard to tell the difference between satire and reality?
Friday 8th June 2018 06:12 GMT
Re: In 2018, its getting harder to see the satire anymore:
"users should feel confident that the social network would do everything in its power to exploit them"
I know plenty of people that would pay to be "exploited", you see all sorts of "abuse" that people want when you hang out in BSDM social web sites. Though the difference is that in BDSM circles, consent is a number one priority before you "abuse" people.
BlackBerry Key2: Clickier, nippier, but how many people still want a QWERTY?
Motorola extends modular phone adventure for another year
Friday 8th June 2018 16:55 GMT
"Many Android titles that would benefit from a physical controller don't support one (I've tried, using an Xbox controller over USB OTG)."
There's an app called Sixaxis Controller that not only allows you to use a PS3 Sixaxis controller with games, it also lets you set up games that otherwise don't support it by defining areas of the touch screen and mapping them to the various widgets on the controller. And you can get plastic clips that attach to phone / Sixaxis controller that turns the combination into a single handheld gaming device.
Weird interview questions
Saturday 9th June 2018 22:24 GMT
A very long time ago I was asked to come in for what I thought was a job interview. First thing the lady that I thought was going to interview me said was that I wasn't gonna get the job (can't recall why), but she had asked me to come in coz she saw I had APL experience, she was a fan of APL, and just wanted to chat about APL. She was kinda cute, so I thought, what the hell, sure lets chat about APL.
Japanese fashion puts the oo-er into trousers
VPNFilter router malware is a lot worse than everyone thought
Saturday 9th June 2018 02:13 GMT
Re: What I'm having trouble understanding...
"The trouble is that in the vast majority of home installs, the router is simply taken out of the box, plugged in and switched on."
And in some cases, that's done by the ISP technician that's installing it. The user/s might never have to deal with the router except to find out the WiFi password.
When Telstra ripped out all the copper and replaced it with FTTH in my area (state government deal involving a new childrens hospital and the need to move an exchange), the Telstra technician would have done so, except I had constructed my own router. He had to call back to HQ, then wait an hour for them to send a senior technician, who I had dealt with before. In the end, they dealt with installing the fibre and the box it plugs into, and left it up to me to deal with the router. Which consisted of me typing in a short Linux command. Worked perfectly first time.
Stern Vint Cerf blasts techies for lackluster worldwide IPv6 adoption
Monday: Intel touts 28-core desktop CPU. Tuesday: AMD turns Threadripper up to 32
Microsoft will ‘lose developers for a generation’ if it stuffs up GitHub, says future CEO
Friday 8th June 2018 16:39 GMT
I see a trend...
I was only on LinkedIn coz so called recruitment experts told me I should be on there to help get work. So I joined, and not long after that Microsoft bought it, so I left. Didn't help me get any work.
Recently so called recruitment experts have been telling me I should list my GitHub account on my resume, to help get work. I was planning on doing that soon, until Microsoft bought GitHub.
Considering that a so called recruitment expert, while writing a new resume for me, managed to a) spell my name wrong, and b) left a reminder of his lunch date in it, I'm beginning to think the only thing recruitment experts are good at is predicting Microsoft acquisitions.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
