Posts by Zoopy

Re: Chilling story

Is reporting this to the police not an option?

It's considerate to let an employer know as well, but they're not government nor law enforcement.

Re: Sweaty Nads

To be fair, A1 probably a bit smarter than American yellow mustard. Yuck.

I'm sorry ITMA, due to the pun quality we've decided to eliminate your position.

Re: The internet

Sorry to burst your bubble, but they're all interested in meeting ME, so ...

How is AMD's tooling for developers these days?

A few years ago when I last looked, they didn't appear to have anything truly on par with Intel VTune.

Wouldn't the right term be "accurate"?

Re: "I've accidentally deleted some relations.”

"and I had a box of 3.25" floppy discs in my locked desk drawer"

However, finding that there were no 3.25" drives in existence, you realized that the data were truly gone :)

Re: Capitulation

I think there's a fundamental tension between wanting Trump to get a taste of his own medicine, vs. knowing that it's a disgusting low road almost regardless of reason.

Re: While Anubis is a good concept

Wow, thanks for a kinda gross reminder of my childhood ;)

My family didn't add syrup though.

> Can somebody explain to me why Blackboard is a problem but Whiteboard isn't?

Honest answer: I think they implicitly have an "oppressed" ranking, and then apply that to the motion that one shouldn't "punch downward".

So, for example, they consider white people to be (in some ways) superior to black people, and white people therefore have a "noblis obligae" towards their lessers.

I think the basics impulse to stand up for the little guy is praiseworthy, but basing it on such demographics leads to some logically absurd results

Re: "which did not seem like a good omen"

> You take down Amazon.com today and it is possible that you will never work in IT again.

Okay but what's the downside?

Re: Idiotic tariff nonsense

As an American, I agree entirely.

The recipe for Starbucks is to burn the beans in napalm, and then sell the water used to cool the ashes.

Re: SimEarth

Don't leave us hanging!!! Was the beer okay?

Re: Upgrade? Why?

FWIW, I set my octogenarian mom up with Pop!_OS and (for remote support) Tailscale. It replaced her dead Windows 7. I also did a little tomfoolery to get Windows' FreeCell working on it.

The only tech support she's needed in the past 4(?) years is when her USB Wifi adapter was having problems.

I mention this in case you find, for whatever reason, that Windows 10 is no longer an option.

Re: Krasnov

> What's even crazier is that to a one, all those "coastal" states affected by severe hurricanes in the US vote republican.

Maybe I'm not understanding, but that seems factuality wrong.

Hurricanes can hit the entire east coast (and Gulf coast) of the US. I'm the 2024 presidential election, about half of those votes against Trump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election

Re: VAX field service engineers

> This is actually a significant part of the reason I took to wearing bow ties, which don't suffer from that problem

There's something that 90% of people in the forum want to tell you, but it's best if you hear it from a trusted friend over coffee.

Re: They shot their own Azure foot!

Windows NT was pretty serious about stability, IIRC.

Re: Software Vendors Are The Tip Of The Iceberg!

"international bodies such as NIST"

International? The first word of NIST is literally "National".

"Is is possible to steal something *with* permission?"

How about stealing her HEART?

Sincerely, your friends at DeBeers.

Re: Is Trump just not capable of grasping the concept of knowledge?

I suspect that on balance, Vance is less bad than Trump.

My impression is that Vance's main weakness is that he lacks character and will change his stated views based on what seems expedient.

But unfortunately we're in a situation where that's less bad (IMHO) than the sitting president.

Re: Medism?

If we're talking about *this* Bond, then he'll yeah! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_(string_quartet)

In (half-hearted) defense of Trump voters, the Democrats fielded their own differently terrible candidate.

Politically moderate voters had no good option.

Re: Great pic *roll eyes*

"Nobody except Musk himself will ever really know what was meant by it."

The same can be said regarding pretty much any communication.

How confident one should be regarding Musk's true intent is a judgement call.

Re: Mental

I had a very marked improvement in dental health once I start using electric toothbrushes.

I mean this to my dental hygienist once, and he said he sees a very clear trend in the teeth of those who do and don't use electrics.

I encourage you to give it a shot.

Re: Which is worse?

Yes.

Re: Pretty obvious

You need to be careful with that command. Depending on your localization, it might also / alternatively remove the Finish, Fula, etc. locales.

Out of curiosity, what games does a 75 year old like you enjoy playing?

I'm in my early 50s, and I've simply lost interest in the genres that I enjoyed in past decades.

Re: Here we go again...

Gavina?

Re: Smug

Is it possible to do those cmd line steps before creating an account as the GP described?

Re: Very good piece

"Helping someone with their first few paraglider launches is an amazing treat"

Is that you, BOFH?

Re: "They also didn't understand time zones very well."

When I worked for Microsoft, this was endemic in internal emails.

Nobody seemed to understand the difference between PT, PST, and PDT.

Perhaps this is a generational thing, but I was very unimpressed.

Re: The Power of Fear!

The sabbatical was to stay out of town until the Model M lost interest in returning the favor.

Re: I would argue that the Reg comment boards are antisocial media.

"Fuck the fuck off!"

I fear that even a large conference of physiologists, linguists, and pornographers would be unable to pin down the meaning of that utterance.

You, sir, are a true vulgarian.

We should also count the loved ones of former, now deceased or disabled, policy holders.

I don't advocate this kind of killing, for religious reasons. But I find the anger against insurers very relatable.

Re: Break/fix/break

Are there any good, cross-platform alternatives to SMB at the moment?

The last time I looked into it, the only viable-looking alternative was NFS, which had its own challenges.

Re: Well...

Heads up, your caps lock is... oh, nevermind.

I've had good luck with "Pop_OS!".

Re: When stuck in a hole

Microsoft only understands two answers: "yes" and "ask me later".

I'm not proud of the revenge fantasies such behavior inspires on me.

Re: Just plain exquisite

I have little comprehension of what your comment is trying to communicate, but it's clearly a great work of literature.

Re: I'm not surprised...

Sir or madame, I regretfully refer you to "Muphry's Law".

Re: Reminds me of the fat-thin client 1990's

"Windows 10 is 9 years old, not new but not really ancient, it could easily be extended for a few years until..."

I'd argue that Windows 10 could be extended indefinitely.

For what most people want from an OS, Windows 10 needs nothing more than security updates and hardware drivers.