"we feel sure that this release will win it yet more admirers."
Never let it be said that you don't have a sense of humour about these things!
Posts by wolfetone
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Systemd 260 kills SysV, tells AI not to misbehave
Ofcom sees no need for overhaul in next phase of fiber rollout despite BT domination
Tuesday 17th March 2026 13:30 GMT 
"Ofcom says that it recognizes that BT, the former state-owned telco, still has "significant market power" (SMP) in a number of markets, and so will continue to impose regulations on Openreach, its infrastructure arm, to address its monopoly-like influence."
Why? They're clearly not working. Unless, an Openreach with SMP is a benefit to Ofcom...
Digital fruit fly brain model walks and cleans its feelers
Repopulate! Repopulate! Two lost Doctor Who episodes turn up in private collection
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble
Monday 16th March 2026 09:11 GMT
Re: And if you do need to keep them both live
Not even a banner. A simple "old." in front of the domain should be more than enough to indicate what the website is.
I feel incredibly sorry for Neil that it ended the way it did. It's all well and good keeping a back up of the code but it's quite another to spin it up to compare it to the new one.
AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches ‘hundreds of exabytes’
Prince of PDFs, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, to step down after 18 years
Polish cops bust alleged teen DDoS kit sellers – youngest just 12
Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns
Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought
Monday 9th March 2026 09:28 GMT
Re: So it's keyboards on the ground, then ?
Trump also ran a campaign on no more wars.
So by the Tango Twat's own performance, expect 500,000 American soldiers in Iran by Christmas.
All because he can't admit to the American people that he's a nonce. People will have to die before he admits that. Not any of the people he cares about of course, his own sons won't be anywhere near a military garb.
Norway's Consumer Council takes aim at enshittification
Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out
Office EU waves sovereignty flag with a familiar stack under the bonnet
Thursday 5th March 2026 20:32 GMT
I think it's important to understand something right now.
All of us are here and heading towards this "data sovereignty" thing in a knee jerk reaction to both the Tango Twat in America and all of the other TechBroDoooods with their AI bullshit. That is no bad thing.
But things do change. Life will ebb and it will flow. What is happening in America, and what is happening in the tech world, will not last forever. But like I said, it ebbs, it flows, it'll ebb again, it'll flow again.
The one thing about this all that is not being said yet it's the most important thing to remember about it all is that you must treat this like a bad relationship. Remember why you have moved on. Never go back. No matter how much they say they've changed.
Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays
French DIY etailer ManoMano admits customer data stolen
Friday 27th February 2026 15:46 GMT
"In its notification, the retailer said it "immediately took all necessary measures to protect your data," "
I mean this is a new one. Usually it's "we take customer security very seriously" or "this was a sophisticated attack". But I've recently seen this and a few others go, essentially, "we've taken the decision to shut the stable door".
Won't be long before one of these hacks results in the company going "yeah, well, shit happens".
Engineer held hostage by client who asked for the wrong fix
Friday 27th February 2026 08:50 GMT
Re: Outrageous
I think it's the first thought most experienced people would do. I mean for me I'd have marched back in to the gobshite who was dictating I was held and rip him a new one until I was let go. Or the fire alarm. Either or. I also know I'm a fairly confident kind of guy. I haven't always been, but you end up getting the raw deal from enough people you do learn to stick up for yourself. I think from this story, Kent was either still a bit green or the type who didn't like confrontation. There is nothing wrong with either of that, but I can understand why he waited.
Still, it's good that he was banned! Bet he was disappointed finding that out!
Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost
GhostBSD to ditch Xorg for XLibre as Red Hat's Wayland crusade leaves X11 fans out in the cold
Euro hosting giant hiking prices by up to 50% from April Fool's Day
Anthropic accuses China's AI labs of ripping off content – just like it did
Altman: You think AI is wasted energy? Try raising 100 billion humans
Monday 23rd February 2026 13:53 GMT
In October 2025, Mr.Altman stated that advertising on the platform was a total last resort because it's what failing businesses/models do in a last ditch attempt to get funded.
In February 2026, OpenAI integrated and started to implement adverts in to it's answers.
You could not believe his answer about what the weather was like outside without looking out the window yourself first. So his viewpoints, however comical, are to be ignored. Or laughed at.
Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos
Agile Manifesto turns 25 – just in time for vibe coding to test it
Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulnerabilities
Linus Torvalds and friends tell The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session
£111M later, frictionless post-Brexit border dream 'brought to early closure'
You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead
Feeling brave? Ministry of Defence seeks £300K digital boss to manage £4.6B spend
How Microsoft's legal eagles wrangled Happy Days for Windows 95
Wednesday 11th February 2026 13:58 GMT
Re: Jumping the shark indeed.
I took it as an example of Microsoft running out of ideas and reaching for ever more implausible options in order to keep Windoze relevant. "Jumping the shark" as it were.
Plus it isn't Mr.Speed's job to write an article in a positive or negative slant. His job is to essentially look out of his window and tell us if it's raining or not. It's not for him to tell us if it's good or bad weather. So with the Microsoft stories, if you feel they're negative, it's generally because the situation itself is negative.
OpenAI introduces ads...for the people!
BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers
Monday 9th February 2026 13:54 GMT
They're practicing for the World Cup with that. As shit as it is, in a dead ball situation like that shown, I don't think it matters as much as if they did it during the actual phase of play. But I remember when they had the F1 and they would cut to a commercial break, often missing action on track.
I know from the last World Cup though that the hoardings are changed digitally during the broadcast to suit the market they're going in to. So say in Qatar, obviously, you're not advertising Budwieser. But for the UK market? Yeah, you saw it. You'd never know it either.
Monday 9th February 2026 12:50 GMT
"better than it getting filled with adverts"
Is it though?
You watch all these things on live TV and there is always a f**king podcast being advertised through BBC Sounds. The same podcast that is available outside of BBC Sounds and is jammed packed with adverts. Adam Buxton, I am looking at you as an example.
If, for whatever reason, a license is required to watch TV then allow that option. I do not want to fund the BBC for various reasons, primarily the idea that they are impartial and unbiased in reporting news has long been debunked. And I do not want to fund an organisation who insist on sending people door to door without appropriate warrants to intimate people in to paying for a license they don't require. There is a lot of money to be saved right there actually, the red ink must cost a fortune.
I do find it a fascinating mechanism in how the UK lives it's life though. More effort is put in to finding people watching Great British Bake Off live on Channel 4 to see if they've paid for the privilege than we do in implementing licenses for dog ownership. We used to have that, we don't now. Yet we're faced with an increase in puppy farms and general anti-social behavior which, really, a dog license program would go a long way to combat.
Just an odd, odd thing.
Cache is king and DIMMS are bling as memory prices soar
Smartphones cleared for launch as NASA loosens the rulebook
New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor
Friday 6th February 2026 11:42 GMT
Re: Many moons ago now
Where I work we have an employee who's go-to fix for everything is reinstall Windows. He's adamant it's a fix all for everything. But, of course, everyone here knows different.
Problem was we had new guys start with us and one of them came to me asking for a USB installer of Windows. I got up to find one but I stopped and asked why, and he told me he needed to do a reinstall on Windows because it couldn't see the network. I walked with him and noticed the network card wasn't being listed in Device Manager. I asked him who told him this was the fix for such a thing, and it was our friend I mentioned above. I double checked that he was aware it was a network issue and he said he did, and this was the fix.
So I provided my own training to him, we had a spare network card lying around so we tried it and you know what? It worked. Took 10 minutes.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
