Posts by onefang

Re: "Presumably this is the pool for all future jurors."

Might have been referencing the fact that jurors are not allowed to access the Internet, coz otherwise they might stumble across information that relates to the case that has not been washed through the legal system. This will be much easier for people that have never used the Internet in the first place.

Re: A silly issue, distracting from real work

'I choose "fu" and "bar", so instead of a master/slave relationship, we would have a fu/bar relationship.'

So one is Fucked Up, and the other is Beyond All Repair. What can possibly go wrong?

"So really we can justify removing any word that causes pain anguish or suffering, hu Microsoft?"

Is it the micro, or the soft that causes you so much anguish?

Re: Makes me glad I'm old, accomplished,

For database systems, surely it's Tyrell Corporation / replicant.

Re: Apologies

"Otherwise we’ll end up w stupidly unclear euphemisms up the wazoo. Umbrellas indeed."

You don't want an umbrella up your wazoo, and if you do somehow end up with one of them there, do not open it.

We are still playing this game over on the recent Python thread. Though now my new suggested replacement is SJW / open source project.

Re: Again,

"When I am finished for the day I simply drive a large nail through the battery compartment of my laptop which consumes the whole assembly with fire and renders the laptop uncompromisable overnight."

As a bonus, no need to turn on the heater during cold nights. Takes a long time to boot in the morning though, walk to the nearest computer store, buy new laptop, walk to where ever your offsite backups are stored, bare metal restore, walk back home, reboot. Could get expensive, I hope you have a cheap source of suitable large nails.

Re: Again.. How many people turn their machine off?

"The other being a nastygram from the BSA that was quite costly."

"The British Shakesphere Association are real bastards."

To sue, or not to sue?

Re: Sociopathic

"What would the BOFH do?"

Similar to that bit you quoted - smacking the laptop owner with a clue-by-four until they learn better security practices.

Re: Again,

"How many people turn their machine off?"

I do. Or rather I don't use any sleep or hibernation modes in anything. On the other hand, I don't like laptops much, but I do use a couple that belong to others regularly, and I turn them off when I'm done.

I'm wondering why they didn't tell Linux and BSD people about this, only Apple, Intel, and Microsoft? Even AMD was left out in the cold (pun intended). Of those couple of laptops I mentioned, one is Linux only, the other dual boots Linux and Windows.

Re: Where art thou, Sapper?

"you could throw it in a board meeting"

Your board meetings sound seriously dangerous. Throwing laptops at each other? Or have you mixed up your agile scrums with your rugby scrums?

Re: "some of us consider 10's and 20's to be loose change. GBP that is."

"For the last sodding time - WE HAVEN'T LEFT THE EU YET!"

I'm afraid it wont be the last sodding time, until you actually leave the EU.

"I guess we should all go install Win10 if we haven't already."

I think most people don't install Windows 10. It comes pre-installed on most non Apple computers these days, or they upgraded from an earlier version of Windows, or the earlier version of Windows upgraded itself (even if you didn't want to), or they buy a Mac, or they install a proper operating system.

Re: I agree

"or even discover that the same article appears more than one because it falls into several categories"

I've noticed something odd about the RSS feed, some articles appear in it twice, coz they edited the title. Usually right next to each other, like it was changed quickly. Most of the time it's a rather inconsequential change. For example (both published on 2018-09-13 05:26) -

Whiskey business - DDoS attack leaves University of Edinburgh server Irn-Scru'd

Whisky business: Uni of Edinburgh servers Irn-Scru'd by cyber-attack

Re: Argghhh

"In the past I have used the Stylish addon to change the look of sites/pages but that addon got pulled from both browsers app stores when an update started sending data back to their servers."

"Page Colors & Fonts Buttons" has been working well for me for a long time. Shitty name, good addon.

Re: I am not a battery

Using humans body heat for electricity seems like a very inefficient way to generate power. Was The Matrix coded by Microsoft?

Re: This raises the question

Last time I checked there was anonymo.us. I wonder if there's a toys.r.us?

The problem with fucknazis.us is I'm not sure if it's a porn site for people with a Nazi uniform fetish, or something else.

Re: Windows?

"Nobody noticed that I forgot about the hostname ..."

73,000 years ago there was only one host, so no need to name it.

Re: Not a chance

"Wait a few more years until the twenties are well upon the wires."

Then the teenager will call you, coz they want you to buy them a car for their 21st.

Re: Emergency call

I've mentioned several times that I do volunteer work for seniors. One of them recently bought one of those fall alarm / panic switch type devices, with my help picking it out. She's an artist, paints portraits, mostly of bearded men (yes, she's done one of me). When we were discussing the pros and cons of wrist mounted versus pendant around the neck style, I pointed out that waving her arm around like she was painting broad brush strokes, might be misinterpreted as wildly waving your arms around as you fall down. My comment was accompanied by appropriate mimed arm movements. She went with a pendant.

It can be programmed with five numbers, it'll call each in sequence until it gets a result. The recommended sequence is family members, trusted friends, doctor / nurse / other designated care person, then emergency services if all else fails. Those five designated numbers can also phone the device, but otherwise doesn't allow incoming or outgoing calls.

The only ongoing cost is for the SIM and phone calls (depending on plan).

I can't recall the battery life, but way longer than 18 hours, that's pitiful. Yes, it has a GPS, water proof, and other features I can't recall off the top of my head.

She is very pleased with her new pendant, and has been extolling it's virtues to the other seniors. Two of them where complaining about their devices being broken, so they need to buy new ones. I pointed out to them they should probably buy a different brand, those brands are obviously not robust.

Re: Superhuman?

"Cultural references? I'll get some of them (e.g. Pratchett); others (like things off the telly) are likely to go straight over my head. You (other commentard) will share some but not all of mine."

Sometimes the context tells me that something is a cultural reference that I've never seen before. Sometimes I even bother to search for it, in order to understand the commentard better. Other times I just assume humour / sarcasm, and move on.