* Posts by Will Godfrey

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All of the norths are about to align over Britain

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Re: The KLF were correct

You miss spelled Opp Norf

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Yes, and it's a bugger when you have to smash the rocks up with your bare hands.

Nitrux 2.5: The latest update to a radical Linux

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Ummm

Devuan testing has had kernel 6.0 for a while now.

uname -a

Linux devuan 6.0.0-2-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_RT Debian 6.0.5-1 (2022-10-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux

US Treasury thwarts DDoS attack from Russian Killnet group

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Rule one

Don't gloat.

It loses you friends, and makes your enemies try harder.

Singapore to phase out checks for businesses by 2025

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Re: Checks and balances

Got me too at first. Made me think they were taking our lot's deregulation to the next step!

Oh, great. By peering into twilight, boffins find 'planet killer' asteroids in our system

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Alien

Vogons

Douglas Adams was right!

UK facing electricity supply woes after nuclear power stations shut, MPs told

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Hmmm.

I wonder how much of that is due to real technological problems and how much profiteering unforeseen expenses.

Linux world gains ability to repair exFAT drives

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Joke

Never mind the theatrics

Just give us the FATs Ma'am.

Zoom to mandate client updates every ninety days, starting Nov 1

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Well that could take me out

The only machine I have with a camera is a 32bit laptop. They stopped producing a 32bit Linux version some time ago.

The boss worked in a fishbowl, so office tricks were a treat

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Re: Pranks and things

Definitely not a place I would have wanted to work.

Privacy watchdog urges companies drop emotional analysis AI software

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Why HR likes it

No person then becomes responsible for hiring decisions that go seriously (possibly expensively) wrong.

The GNOME Project is closing all its mailing lists

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Re: Beware of The Leopard

Gnome and Redhat's relationship seems to be somewhat schizophrenic . In some ways they seem to compete for the crown of who can piss off the greatest number of people. At other times, they seem to team up to go nuclear on the userbase.

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For a moment...

I read that as "The GNOME Project is closing".

For one... glorious... hysterically happy moment.

If you think 5G is overhyped, wait till you meet 5.5G

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So they need to gee up... Neddy.

BOFH: I know of a small biz that could deliver nothing for a fraction of the cost

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Ahhhh!

All is right in the world again. The BOFH is clearly on a roll... extended payroll.

US orders safety recall of Tesla Cyberquad-for-kids ATV

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Re: Rollover protection?

This reminds me of a D.I.Y set of roll bars attached to a Land Rover... made out of scaffold poles and couplings.

On a serious bit of Off-Roading in Wales it was 'tested' and worked perfectly! This was in the late 1960s.

Biden now wants to toughen up chemical sector's cybersecurity

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Compared to our government

... Biden's lot are looking absolutely brilliant where industrial security is concerned

Ubuntu continues expanding RISC-V support – now, the $17 Sipeed LicheeRV

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Interesting

I'm not keen on ubuntu itself, but the more distros that work on RISC-V the better - not too happy about Allwinner though. their license looks rather dodgy, considering they are using open source hardware.

India's – and Infosys's – favorite son-in-law Rishi Sunak is next UK PM

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WTF

Have I accidentally switched to Twitter or Facebook?

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We'll See

At the moment I can't think of anyone in any party more suitable. That's not really saying a lot.

Microsoft's Lennart Poettering proposes tightening up Linux boot process

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May I remind you (as reported in this very rag) that other security 'improvement' - so-called secure boot - has proved to be a vector for malware?

Fool me once - shame on you.

Fool me twice - shame on me.

Lenovo thinks customers simply love IT-as-a-service

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I think he's got it!

I'm sure he's got it!

OpenBSD 7.2: The other other FOSS xNix released, runs on Apple M2 Macs

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Re: Front page image

Well that's good news. I'm all in favour of people breaking stereotypes

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Re: A big advantage of ****BSD...

Lest you forget, there are a number of SystemD-free Linux distros.

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Re: Front page image

I did wonder if a heavily tattooed young-ish woman was a typical BSD user. I guess things have changed without me noticing.

Microsoft ships non-Surface PC: a cheap Arm box for devs

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Re: That'll make a nice Linux build box to run "C.I." in my WFH-environment, locally..

Ha! Beat me to it. That was my first thought too!

Starlink decoded for use as GPS alternative – without Elon Musk's help

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Yes, but what type of meter?

Voltmeter, Ammeter, Gas meter?

Firefox points the way to eradicating one of the rudest words online: PDF

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Horses for courses

HTML for lightweight user guides, PDFs for advanced reference manuals. The former have few images and re-flowing is not a problem. The latter can give highly detailed fixed format displays where there are a lot of graphics with attached notes, references etc.

How I made a Chrome extension for converting Reg articles to UK spelling

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Re: What a lot of comments!

One pint is not enough

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Re: I remember...

... he drove the fastest milk float in the West

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Re: I remember...

Not allowed now, so unwanted food is just wasted.

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Re: American English, British English...

Gibt es einen Unterschied?

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Re: I remember...

I remember the rag and bone man, coal lorries, horse-drawn milk floats and London trolley buses.

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Appreciate the effort but...

Like so many others have said, it's really solving the wrong problem. The problem being the loss of unique identity that attracted me to El Reg in the first place.

Incidentally, why exactly was "Biting the hand that feeds IT" dropped. Seems a perfectly innocuous and amusing by-line.

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Nor in China. On a visit there, I had a number of free meals (and some other offers) simply for speaking 'proper' English and correcting the people's grammar etc.

P.S. and I'm by no means a teacher - just born and bred S/E Englander.

IBM doesn't think Brexit is such a bad thing these days

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That would be three separate Red, White & Blue tapes.

Ubuntu 22.10 is out, with an extra remix in the family: Unity

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Re: For me it's 'none of the above'

Oh. That's an unfair comparison - a tank is lighter than Windows.

(upvoted anyway)

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For me it's 'none of the above'

ubunto is getting extremely fat - downright podgy in fact. It clumps along whereas a really lightweight system umm... runs

Boffins shatter data transmission speed record

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Re: Are boffins sort of like puffins who can solve tech things?

I'd be delighted to be referred to as a boffin - as would just about any (even slightly) tech-y Englander.

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With those teeth

It's not surprising the pet... ahh... bites

20 years on, physicists are still figuring out anomaly in proton experiment

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Look, I keep telling you

It's turtles all the way down.

Bias toward office staff will cost you: Your WFH crew could walk, say execs

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Re: Why not name the company?

Presumably that's Left Pond. I can't see that flying over here - or if it is, they'll pretty rapidly lose any talent they've got.

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If the weather is decent I find my best thinking/planning place is walking along a stretch of the North Downs Way.

Mars rover Curiosity reaches sulfate-rich Mount Sharp after 10-year journey

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Re: 28.15 km: how are its wheel bearings holding up?

The roads are even betterer that the ones we have in the Mudway Towns

To make this computer work, users had to press a button. Why didn't it work? Guess

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Re: If I have to look in the manual (absolute last resort of course) it's a really bad design!

It's probably impossible to find a simple anything these days.

Millennials, Gen Z actually suck at workplace security

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Re: Cookies are not a security risk

I stand (or rather sit) corrected.

Don't you dare do that again or I'll be forced to throw an immature (roll around on the floor) tantram.

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Re: Cookies are not a security risk

Wrong!

Any information you give away is a potential security risk, and much more so when you don't know just what information they got.

Two pieces of information commonly sent are your browser and OS.

Oh, and there's the time and possibly your location.

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Re: Easy one this

Whatfor this "Win-dohs" of which thou speakest :P

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Not surprising

When so many companies come out with the stock "We care about your security" when it's plainly obvious they don't.

Also how about doing that survey here in the UK? Might give quite different results.

Verizon prepaid accounts hijacked by SIM swap crooks

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Quite predicatable (and was some time back)

The more 'connected' everything is, the easier this sort of thing becomes - and it's not just money. There was a case a while ago where a man had his house 'stolen' and sold while he was on holiday.

The best security is multiple totally independent and DISconnected forms of verification - but that's more effort.