Yea, but more than a day late, and way more than a dollar short.
Posts by chivo243
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Trump silenced online: Facebook, Twitter etc balk at insurrection, shut the door after horse bolts and nearly burns down the stable
Boeing will cough up $2.5bn+ to settle US fraud charge over 737 Max safety
Failed insurrection aside, Biden is going to be president in two weeks. What does it mean for tech policy?
Facebook appeals ruling that it stole tech. So, Italian judge issues new judgment: Pay 10 times the original fine
Microsoft's Mojang brings pixellated axe down on AR Minecraft game because it's not like folk are going outside
Beware the ghost of operating systems past: In which our hero is visited by an old friend
Come, chant with us over a sacrificial goat and predict 2021's biggest tech stories to a high degree of accuracy
Explained: The thinking behind the 32GB Windows Format limit on FAT32
Julian Assange will NOT be extradited to the US over WikiLeaks hacking and spy charges, rules British judge
It's just a pair of arrows. What could be more innocent than that?
Server won't boot? Forgot to make that backup? Have no fear, just blame Microsoft
File format conversion crisis delayed attempt to challenge US presidential election result
What can the 1944 OSS manual teach us before we all return to sabotage the office?
Confessions at a Christmas do: 'That time I took down an entire neighbourhood'
As Uncle Sam continues to clamp down on Big Tech, Apple pelted with more and more complaints from third-party App Store devs
Brexit trade deal advises governments to use Netscape Communicator and SHA-1. Why? It's all in the DNA
Watt's next for batteries? It'll be more of the same, not longer life, because physics and chemistry are hard
No amount of Glasgow handshaking will revive this borked kiosk
The curse of knowing a bit about IT: 'Could you just...?' and 'No I haven't changed anything'
BOFH: Time for the MMOCC. You know, the Massively Moronic Online Christmas Call
Saturday 26th December 2020 10:02 GMT 
Re: Pardon?
PFY would have some SLA verbiage to protect himself from frivolous tickets such as these. It would have been written into his contract long before this need.
Just think of the literary possibilities when the PFY has access to users personal gear!
I think you're applying your feelings of trepidation to the PFYs situation.
Friday 25th December 2020 19:31 GMT 
Pardon?
The PFY is passing up a chance to install stuff remotely on people's home kit?
"I look over in the PFY's direction to note that he's not all that keen on remotely installing/supporting software on people's systems..."
Who is this Charlatan claiming to be the PFY? The PFY I have known and come to love would surely added his own custom payload...
Friday 25th December 2020 19:20 GMT
Great minds think alike?
"Oh, it's not mine," I say. "I've written a script to pick a random image from the browser cache of our user's desktops."
Do I get royalties?
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2020/10/19/who_me/#c_4130352
Ah, screw it, today is Christmas, have one on me!
Glad to see the Lads again!
Yes, Microsoft Access was a recalcitrant beast, but the first step is to turn the computer on
Everybody's time is precious, pal: Sometimes it isn't only the terminals that are dumb
Sunday 27th December 2020 10:07 GMT 
One of my favs
Receiving a call on the hotline... trying my best to resolve it with out moving my ass. No dice! Hang up the phone, and trek on down to ground zero, only to walk in the office and see the user with the phone up to their ear and an embarrassed look on their face. " I was just phoning you back to say the issue is resolved now" Without missing a beat I keep walking.
Pedant as his expression is close enough to the users
My website has raised its anchor and set sail into the internet oceans without me
A pub denied: One man's tale of festive frolics postponed by the curse of the On Call phone
Friday 25th December 2020 12:36 GMT 
Nice work
When you can get it. I remember a few 16 hour days, when our vendor at time couldn't figure out our networking issue, and sent a team to investigate\correct the issue, as their remote support was drawing blanks. I followed their guys around and opened switch cabinets for double time pay...
Elon Musk says he tried to sell Tesla to Apple, which didn’t bite and wouldn't even meet
'Best tech employer of the year' threatened trainee with £15k penalty fee for quitting to look after his sick mum
NHS awards £23m two-year deal to controversial Peter Thiel AI firm Palantir
And you thought that $999 Mac stand was dear: Steve Wozniak's Apple II doodles fetch $630,272 at auction
Windows might have frozen – but at least my feet are toasty
Search history can calculate better credit ratings than pay slips, says International Monetary Fund
Just let this sink in: Capita wins 12-year £1bn contract to provide training services to the Royal Navy and Marines
Atlantic City auctions off chance to hit Big Red Button and make grotesque Trump Plaza casino go boom
Dodgy procedures doomed Arianespace's Vega before it even left the launchpad
Friday 18th December 2020 12:56 GMT 
Wrong photo for this story
I remember when El Reg would have pulled the Airplane still of the guy holding cables and that look on his face...
I would hate to be the guy who mixed up these connectors. I'm no rocket scientist, but wouldn't it be prudent to make different shaped connectors for stuff like this? Making it impossible to cross lines?
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