Exactly my first thought, and the undefined degree of slurping totally wipes out all the other benefits.
Posts by Will Godfrey
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Want a good Android smartphone without the $1,000+ price tag? Then buy Google's Pixel 3a
Buffer the Intel flayer: Chipzilla, Microsoft, Linux world, etc emit fixes for yet more data-leaking processor flaws
Hi! It looks like you're working on a marketing strategy for a product nowhere near release! Would you like help?
Panic as panic alarms meant to keep granny and little Timmy safe prove a privacy fiasco
Holy high street, Sainsbury's! Have you forgotten Bezos' bunch are the competition?
Veteran vulture Andrew Orlowski is offski after 19 years at The Register
US foreign minister Mike Pompeo to give UK a bollocking over Huawei 5G plans
'Software delivered to Boeing' now blamed for 737 Max warning fiasco
Can I get a RHEL yeah? Version 8 arrives at last as IBM given go-ahead to wolf down Red Hat
Cocaine, psychedelics, DMT? They sure knew how to party 1,000 years ago: Archaeologists make startling discovery
The Year Of Linux On The Desktop – at last! Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 brings the Linux kernel into Windows
Tractors, not phones, will (maybe) get America a right-to-repair law at this rate: Bernie slams 'truly insane' situation
Really good?
Who says?
How about a display module that uses deeply embedded filament lamps for various rather important indicators on a combine harvester. Dealer claims the unit can't be repaired and has to be replaced at a cost of thousands of pounds - in a week's time.
Well, the small engineering firm I used to work for made some discoveries. It became obvious that the reason the lamps were so deeply embedded was to stop people taking them out - but that was solved with a bit of rubber hose and a vacuum pump - they were ordinary bi-pin ones, only not quite ordinary. the pins were slightly thinner than normal and slightly further apart.
We solved that problem (and the deep embed) with an LED and a resistor - also resulted in a much brighter display.
Oh and as for the 'short' working days, round these parts they harvest well into the night using high powered searchlights attached to the machines.
Mystery Git ransomware appears to blank commits, demands Bitcoin to rescue code
Re: Fine for some
I wouldn't be paying - just resetting and uploading a clean copy.There are 4 of us that keep full repositories and we all work entirely via the CLI. We also keep more than one remote on different hosts.
None of us do any auto updates either - all done manually, barely any slower and much safer.
Personality quiz for all you IT bods: Are you a chameleon or an outlaw? A diplomat or a high flier? Vote right here
White House issues Executive Order on cybersecurity, including hacker Hunger Games
UK is 'not a surveillance state' insists minister defending police face recog tech
NASA fingers the cause of two bungled satellite launches, $700m in losses, years of science crashing and burning...
Sinister secret backdoor found in networking gear perfect for government espionage: The Chinese are – oh no, wait, it's Cisco again
It's May 2. Know what that means? Yep, it's the PR orgy that is World Password Day... again
Boeing boss denies reports 737 Max safety systems weren't active
Self-taught Belgian bloke cracks crypto conundrum that was supposed to be uncrackable until 2034
Huawei, Huawei. Huawei, Huawei. Feeling hot, hot, hot: US threatens to cut UK from intel sharing over Chinese tech giant
Out-of-office email ping-pong fills server after server over festive break
Hmmm - last time eh.
That would have been in the late 1960s when I said I had 'colour' experience, but didn't point out that it consisted of switching on and adjusting the tuner at customers' houses.
I sweated buckets for about 3 months and learned fast. Never repeated the experiment!
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But on the plus side, not many 19yolds were pulling in £25/week and driving a brand new Escort Estate in those days.
NSA: That ginormous effort to slurp up Americans' phone records that Snowden exposed? Ehhh, we don't need that no more
The difference between October and May? About 16GB, says Microsoft: Windows 10 1903 will need 32GB of space
BOFH: It's not just an awesome app, it'll look great on my Insta. . a. a. AAAARRRRRGGH
A copy-paste of Europe and a '5G' hotel: El Reg's Adventures in Huawei Land were fairly wacky
Buying a second-hand hard drive on eBay? You've got a 'one in two' chance of finding personal info still on it
Brit spy chief: We need trust or we won't have a 'licence to operate in cyberspace'
UK cautiously gives Huawei the nod for 5G network gear sales
Windows 10 May 2019 Update thwarted by obscure tech known as 'external storage'
Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz: Car hire biz demands $32m+ for 'defective' cyber-revamp
Take your pick: 0/1/* ... but beware – your click could tank an entire edition of a century-old newspaper
Defense against the Darknet, or how to accessorize to defeat video surveillance
Aussies, Yanks may think they're big drinkers – but Brits easily booze them under the table
Server at web host 1&1 Ionos decides to take unscheduled day off, sinks a bunch of sites
Canadian woman fined for not holding escalator handrail finally reaches the top after 10 years
Microsoft debuts Bosque – a new programming language with no loops, inspired by TypeScript
Enough about me, why do you hate Kaspersky so much? Revealed: Insp Clouseau-esque bid to smear critics as shills
Let 15 July forever be known as P-Day: When UK's smut fans started being asked for their age
The curious case of Spamhaus, a port scanning scandal, and an apparent U-turn
While Google agonizes over military AI, IBM is happy to pick up the slack, even for the Chinese military
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