Posts by Will Godfrey

One way out

If I'm being at all verbose I've got into the habit of typing it out in a text editor, proofing it then just copy/pasting it into the website's input field.

I wonder what their thingy makes of that!

Doh!

Put that into any spy story and everyone would have said you were being totally unrealistic...

but that was yesterday.

The Answer

Jupiter is obviously a relay station for intergalactic communications.

A.C. Clarke was almost right. {Actually he knew the whole story, but signed an NDA}

If you're designing an Internet fridge...

keep well away from me.

Wait!

I thot it was s'posed to be the Ruskies wot dun it.

Upset now

So many commentards already covered what I wanted to say!

Time to dig out an old joke

The Standard Brush

Clearly there is only the need to purchase one general-purpose brush. This can be manufactured to the lowest common denominator design so that it can adequately perform all of the following functions:

Clean floors

Remove cobwebs

Brush teeth

Groom dog/cat

Unblock drains

Brush suit

Dust kitchen surfaces

Clean toilet

Clear leaves from gutters

Brush hair

I just can't understand why people don't seem to accept such an obviously practical suggestion. Although I agree the 'standard profile brush' may not actually be ideal for any of these tasks, I can't seem to convince people of the convenience factor and ease-of-use benefits.

Wow! What a surprise

... not.

Tinfoil Hat Time

It's almost as if someone in high places doesn't want AMD to succeed so tries to destabilise their financial position.

7000?

So they had no problems snooping the other gazillion.

Sometimes it's impossible

I do some work on a relatively small project. If I post a bugfix to github/sourceforge I have no way of compelling the distros to update as well.

The scary bit

Not the claim, but that 90% of the population will believe it.

P.S. I made up that 90% figure.

Guess I picked the wrong month...

... to give up popcorn.

Really?

I see there's that magic word 'local'.

I shall proceed to not panic.

Storm? Teacup?

Well, as a relatively casual user I've not had any problems so far.

SVN however...

Pah!

Against man's politicians' stupidity the gods themselves, contend in vain.

A thing of beauty

See title.

Erm...

Wherefore art this twit-err of which thou speakest?

But of course...

None of the 'free world'(tm) countries are doing such things. That would be terribly anti-democratic wouldn't it?

Not for me.

Portable battery radio in the kitchen - late 1960s.

Home built tunar-amp + mid-fi speakers in the office - mid 1970s.

Serious quality tuner-amp + dual capstan cassette recorded + full size ported speakers in the lounge - mid 1980s

Additional DVD/CD player for lounge - early 1990s.

All in fine condition and in daily use... and nobody gets any information at all about our use.

Quite Transparent

They've linked 'Think of the children.' to 'We want more money.'

Presumably they've given up on boat houses in duck ponds and renting out second homes while getting paid for them by us.

A sort of inverted honesty

He has just proved beyond all possible doubt that he is a lying weasel.

I doubt even a 5 year old would try to pull something like that and expect to be believed.

Little Miss Amber

... and if I don't get my way I'll thqueam an' thqueam until I'm thick.

Can't be done?

Insufferable arrogance.

Hmmm

I wonder if there is a particularly contentions planning application in progress. Not that I'm suggesting anyone would use this to slow things down a wee bit while they consolidate their position.

Been there done that

New industrial control unit sited within inches of the main three phase bus-bars for the entire factory (hidden behind a thin partition). Our first clue was when we heard people's phones didn't work in that area and an engineers laptop kept freezing, but was fine everywhere else.

Patched

Now, next question?

Oh c'mon now

You lot are really milking this.

Could even say you're churning it up.

Well...

kopundic

magporwistic

zottenburg

libnocrup

Try your AI on those for starters.

P.S. I don't use any of them.

Still they pontificate

With all the knowledge and experience of systems that are supposed to be faultless yet do go wrong the politicians and generals think this can be winnable.

I have total confidence in our illustrative HMRC

No, that's not a typo. I'm sure they will illustrate exactly what happens when you combine (at least) two major, rapidly changing unknowns into a single project, that nobody has a clue how to implement within the required, unspecified but shortening timeframe.

Hmm

So, pandering to the audience.

This is terrible

I didn't get to read this good news till late this afternoon!

Translation

We've pissed-off/sacked all our half decent coders, so there's nobody left who can fix it.

Confused

Did someone just swap the names "Russian" and "American"?

Danger

Willy doodles would probably be illegal these days.

Oh dear

Over the last few decades we seem to be breeding a special kind of 'dumb'. This does not bode well for humanity's future.

P.S.

El Reg: Your flakiness is clearly down to cheaping out and using (badly) recycled electrons, so to be helpful I've sent you a few packets of brand new ones down the interwebby tubes.