* Posts by chivo243

6665 publicly visible posts • joined 10 May 2010

Multitasking is a myth: It means doing lots of things equally badly

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SLASH on bail.

He must be, he just opened a tour with GNR in the US recently!

I'm getting it, I'm getting it... you don't have to push!

BOFH: We must... have... beer! Only... cure... for... electromagnetic fields

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Users... never happy

even when you hang them with a "New" Rope!

I like the IT budget shell game... where it stops nobody knows!

Nice one Simon!

Pro tip: Plug in your Tesla S when clocking off, lest you run out of juice mid hot pursuit

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Re: This wouldn't have happened

+1 isn't enough, so have one of these!

macOS? More like mac-woe-ess: Google Chrome slip-up trips up SIP-less Apple Macs

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I play devil's advocate here

Why in the hell would any professional use their "production" rig to do any web surfing regardless of OS...

Gagarin's Start now Soyuz-FG's End as shutters pulled on historic launchpad

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Re: The days of Gagarin and Apollo are truly over

Seems it's the "Kondo time" for both space pioneering nations.

https://bgr.com/2019/09/25/nasa-lab-demolition-lunar-receiving-laboratory/https://bgr.com/2019/09/25/nasa-lab-demolition-lunar-receiving-laboratory/

Hacker House shoved under UK Parliament's spotlight following Boris Johnson funding allegs

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This used to be called the SlashDot effect...

Can you code a way to foil online terrorist vids? The Home Office might just have £600K for you

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Re: Sounds like a great project...

I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that, or can I? can I?

As halfwit, would-be dictator buried by UK judges, Spain would like to dig up a very real one

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What would Chevy Chase say?

"Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still valiantly holding on in his fight to remain dead."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalissimo_Francisco_Franco_is_still_dead

Nine words to ruin your Monday: Emergency Internet Explorer patch amid in-the-wild attacks

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Re: Not showing...

Correct you are, not on ours yet either...

Calling all the Visual Basic snitches: Keep quiet about it and so will he...

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Re: Bending the rules to breaking point

Back in the 80's, I used to sign my name hundreds of times a day on busy days, now once a month? I was shocked when I checked my old passports against my current one, my sig has changed substantially. I can see I don't really care what my sig looks like anymore.

The '$4.4m a year' bug: Chipotle online orders swallowed by JavaScript credit-card form blunder

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Re: Ordering food online via credit card, eh?

There are thousands of locally owned Mexican restaurants (with much better food) all across the states, last summer I ate at one in Minnesota! Why in hell would you eat at a bland, homogenized place like Chipotle? However, if Chipotle gives you the shits, maybe you should disregard my advice...

Beer to put out the ring of fire!

BOFH: What's the Gnasher? Why, it's our heavy-duty macerator sewage pump

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BOFH going down the crapper?

I'm just curious???

My coat with a map of London's sewers...

Remember that security probe that ended with a sheriff cuffing the pen testers? The contract is now public so you can decide who screwed up

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Potato potatoe

Even if the language is clear, one side will interpret it their way, the other side will say that's not what it means... in this context...

HP printer small print says kit phones home data on whatever you print – and then some

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Not good

but I would love the script that they use...

"information about your computer, printer and/or device such as operating system, firmware, amount of memory, region, language, time zone, model number, first start date, age of device, device manufacture date, browser version, device manufacturer, connection port, warranty status, unique device identifiers, advertising identifiers and additional technical information that varies by product."

This info would be immensely useful to most shops, except for the last few bits...

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Pirate

<clickety clack> go the PFY's fingers

that device's traffic won't be leaving the LAN now... You shall not pass!

Wake me up before you Gogo ... so I can jump out: Kenyan MP takes on aeroplane flatulence

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Must have been on the flight

The flight home from the cooked cabbage eating and beer drinking contest...

Also, I have to mention plane food doesn't help the situation either.

Just what we all needed, lactose-free 'beer' from northern hipsters – it's the Vegan Sorbet Sour

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Yep

Beer O'Clock, but not with that stuff... geesh.

Beer icon as an example of what beer looks like

A peeling solution to pothole has split the community... Yeah, they stuck a banana tree in it

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Re: Where I lived

Where I lived... This issue is a City Manager call\decision\action or inaction. He has to get approval from The Little Rascals + The Three Stooges before sending in Abbot and Costello + Laurel and Hardy to botch the job.

You can see how the whole process will start to seem futile.

Fairphone 3 stripped to the modular essentials: Glue? What glue?

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This is a start!

A good showing here might just get some bigger companies to follow the example. One can hope...

Like a grotty data addict desperately jonesing for its next fix, Google just can't stop misbehaving

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it can't be stopped?

I wonder if G's mail search etc services would function if the slurping was completely turned off?

Be still, our drinking hearts: Help Reg name whisky beast conjured by Swedish distillers and AI blendbot

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Picard's Favs?

Glen Borg

SmorgasBorg

Yahoo! customers! wake! up! to! borked! email! (Yes! people! still! actually! use! it!)

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is it up gives a code 301 for yahoo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_301

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yMail for me?

it's for a Yahoo group like ebay, but for a small geographic area... I don't give that addy out...

How do you do, fellow kids? Facebook now Boomerbook as British oldies outnumber teens

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not a cocaine delivery service

I'll bet it is now! Once a good idea gets out...

Tesla Autopilot crash driver may have been eating a bagel at the time, was lucky not to get schmeared on road

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Whole story

This guy is definitely not telling the whole story here.

Seems that prospective buyers should take a lie detector test and an IQ test before being allowed to buy a Tesla.

Devon knows how they make it so steamy: Phantom squatter of Torquay curls one out on bloke's motor

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Mr. Hankey Returns

and rolls off a log... love that one " Devon and Cornwall Police have made a log of the incident."

The only way it would have been funnier: Devon and Cornhole Police have made a log of the incident.

I just love your accent – please, have a new password

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We're all friends here, aren't we?

See title!

Apple says sorry for Siri slurping voice commands of unsuspecting users

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Re: First thing

No, unfortunately, when you start a new iThing, it asks if you enable to use siri, I say no! So, that is the first thing? Maybe I was having one of those "it's obvious" moments that happen only in ones head.

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First thing

Was to disable siri on iAnything... Second is to laugh out loud...

Bloke who claimed he invented Bitcoin must hand over $5bn of e-dosh in court case. He can't. He's waiting for a time traveler to arrive

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Re: Perjury

Ah, the George Costanza defense...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moves to shut Parliament

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@RGE_Master

I will say it isn't in Bootnotes +1, BUT IT\Tech will feel Brexit, so it is IT related. -1

No vote for you...

Can't bear to part with that well-worn copy of Windows 7? Microsoft might let you keep it updated an extra year

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Am already inquiring

We have an Enterprise VLK, already have one of my minions on the task...

Beware the developer with time on his hands and dreams of Disney

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Re: Never live it down

That was many, many moons ago, NotLook had local something or other, please don't dredge up the blocked out memories!

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Never live it down

Bork one Directors .PST file, and you're branded for life... Glad we moved away from Exchange!

Uncle Sam is asking Americans if they could refrain from slapping guns on their drones

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Re: Where in "keep and bear arms" does it say anything about them not being attached to an aircraft?

I'd like to introduce you to my bear, Ben, his drone has the weapon on it...

American ISPs fined $75,000 for fuzzing airport's weather radar by stealing spectrum

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Re: If I recall ...

+1 for the Mos Eisley reference. Smiling is the force...

Cybercrook hands cops £923k in Bitcoin made from selling phished deets on the dark web

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he must have much more

Or he is spineless and caved way to easily... just the BOFH in me talkin... who turns over bitcoins?

I couldn't possibly tell you the computer's ID over the phone, I've been on A Course™

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Hang up

Call back later, ask for the user that requested the upgrade. Maybe I've been in the game too long?

Brits are sitting on a time bomb of 40m old electronic devices that ought to be recycled

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Step into my Museum!

I've lost count of how many vintage devices are rattling around my *ahem* museum. I know the missus wants to know!

Criminal mastermind signed name as 'Thief' on receipts after buying stuff with stolen card

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Shackleford

Just call me Rusty... On Bob's phone!

Security? We've heard of it! But why be a party pooper when there's printing to be done

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Do as I SAY not as I DO

Yes, the age old refrain... PHBs pfft.

World recoils in horror as smartphone maker accused of helping government snoops read encrypted texts, track device whereabouts

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WTF?

WSJ

Will Shoot Junk... We Sell Junk... Seems like a little muckraking, just a little.

Stuffing your MacBook Pro in a ziplock bag before a flight ain't gonna cut it, say Feds

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Just returned from Holiday

Who is responsible for screening for these MacBooks?? TSA? They were more interested in telling us to take off our shoes and belts.

Pokémon Red and Blue-era trading cards just made their owner a load of green: Complete set sells at auction for $107k

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The youngin

he's into this pokemon thing, he has way more that 103 cards, but they are the new gen... Maybe next month when the buzz wears off, I'll put them into a binder and then into a time capsule!

Apple is a filthy AWS, Azure, Google reseller, gripe punters: iPhone giant accused of hiding iCloud's real backend

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pissing into the wind

Taking Apple to court and winning? I get the feeling this is a fools errand.

Researchers peer into crystal ball to see future where everyone's ID is tied to their smartphone

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Health insurance provider

I recently found out that my health insurance provider will no longer 'proactively' send me a current ID card. I can request one, but their mobile app is now accepted in place of an ID... Yes, there's something wrong with this picture.

Here's to beer, without which we'd never have the audacity to Google an error message at 3am

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Remote support while on Holiday

a few years back, I was on holiday in the land of Wine and Cheese, and lunchtime quaffing. I had finished a nice lunch at the in-laws house, was on my third or forth glass of wine and cheese after lunch, and I get a text one of our DC's gave up the ghost. Gladly I didn't have to talk to anyone as my Franglish was kicking in. I sent an email back with my advice within 30 or so minutes. Not one word of my advice was heeded, it was a nice return to work ~ \s

Y2K, Windows NT4 Server and Notes. It's a 1990s Who, Me? special

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Re: Shutting down the wrong server

Poweredge servers? Aren't EOL by now? Dell is a four letter word in my shop, not my viewpoint, so, haven't used them in over 12 years...

How to avoid getting burned at Black Hat, destroyed at DEF CON or blindsided by Bsides

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Re: Don't Touch My Shit

better yet, leave your good shit at home... bring some burner goods with no data on them. Set up one time use email and chat accounts, don't use them again after the confo...

WTF are we a bunch of nOObs here?

Jeff Bezos feels a tap on the shoulder. Ahem, Mr Amazon, care to explain how Capital One's AWS S3 buckets got hacked?

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Big Brother

Didn't the slurper work for Amazon in some capacity?

I thought I read that the woman taken by a dozen or so officers in camo was an Amazon employee? What encryption is this that governments are beefing about?

Sorry crossed the streams here...