* Posts by Dizzy Dwarf

230 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Aug 2021

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NASA's lunar Roomba set to suck up Moon dirt for study

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Re: If they need it testing

I seem to have an infinite amount of pine needles.

They are welcome to come over anytime.

A New Year's gift from Microsoft: Surprise, your scanners don't work

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And here I was thinking that my scanner isn't working because

the printer part has run out of magenta.

SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system

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Re: SvarDOS and 42

I was thinking more: floating head, gun, mankini

Even Netflix struggles to identify and understand the cost of its AWS estate

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Re: xyzzy

Nah, nothing happens.

Aliens, spy balloons, or drones? SUV-sized mystery objects spotted in US skies

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Re: If you tied a weather balloon to an SUV and sent it skywards...

There's prior art: Lawnchair Larry.

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Avoiding Alien Tentacle Rape

1. You cannot, sorry. You can only delay it.

2. If you're in Tokyo, get the fuck out.

3. Avoid bodies of water. This includes hot-tubs.

4. Wear jeans. Avoid miniskirts.

5. ???

6. Profit!

No, I can't help – you called the wrong helpdesk, in the wrong place, for the wrong platform

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Re: Also lunch time

Why do you keep booking meetings a lunchtime?

Well ... it is the only time everyone is free.

NASA wants ideas on how to haul injured moonwalkers

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Trebuchet. The gravity is low; they'll fly for miles.

NASA fires up super-quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft

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Re: SPV

Not 100% sure that supermarionettes are sensitive to those kind of stresses.

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SPV

With the video cameras, shouldn't the pilot be seated facing backwards?

The horror that is VHS revived for horror movie release

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Pah! Paper-tape or a box (or several) of punch-cards.

Got an idea for dealing with space waste? NASA wants to hear from you

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All of the packaging should stack together like Lego. Then you can build anything.

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How much could be used as stock material for 3d printers?

SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission completes first commercial spacewalk

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There are no stars / The earth only looks curved because of the fish-eye lens / It was all filmed in Hollywood / etc

Scientists find a common food dye can make a live mouse's skin transparent

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You need to fall into some radioactive sludge

As documented by 2000AD's "Visible Man"

Python script saw students booted off the mainframe for sending one insult too many

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If Rodney quests long enough ...

... he should find his teluma

If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do

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Re: But what...

... is an AI-PC?

Well - they have a purple LED.

Lego's Concorde is the only supersonic jet you can build for the price of a fancy dinner

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Re: Scale?

You'd hope that it'd be 2.718281828...

BOFH: The true gravity of the Boss and the 3-coffee problem

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That's where he keeps the chainsaw

Lovely :)

Using 1Password on Mac? Patch up if you don’t want your Vaults raided

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it's all cool here

I've got falcon-sensor installed. Um...

CrowdStrike meets Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong will

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Blameless Post Mortem

Gotta wonder how that went.

BOFH: Well, we did tell you to keep the BitLocker keys safe

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Thanks for all your hard work fixing things.

Have an UberEats voucher.

CrowdStrike shares sink as global IT outage savages systems worldwide

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FAIL

Re: The best time for a significant update

And it's not even a bank-holiday weekend!

Speed limiters arrive for all new cars in the European Union

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Re: Good

Someone should invent a system of dashed and solid lines.

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Re: Good

The M25: where getting into 2nd gear feels like you're winning.

Babel fish? We're getting there. Reg reviews the Timekettle X1 AI Interpreter Hub

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Will it be able to translate teenagers?

Europe blasts back into the heavy launch biz with first Ariane 6 flight

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Re: "understand how the rocket behaves in microgravity, because that's not possible on Earth"

Do you really expect to be allowed onto an aeroplane with more than 100ml of rocket fuel?

I'm not sure you've fully thought this through.

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Lift-off

I insist that Nasa start saying "décollage".

It just sounds way cooler.

NASA ought to pay up after space debris punched a hole in my roof, homeowner says

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Re: Sounds fair

Hmm

My insurer would say: that roof has been there for 50+ years, and you’ve made no effort to protect it against falling space wotsits.

Elon Musk to destroy the International Space Station – with NASA's approval, for a fee

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Re: Can't help wondering

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iss-deorbit-analysis-summary.pdf

systemd 256.1: Now slightly less likely to delete /home

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Re: Another name for the list

No, of course not.

That's what the Dad's Army ref is for.

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Re: Did anyone of us actually ask for systemd?

Hmm ...

$ systemd-cancer --help

systemd-cancer --infect <exe> [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS:

--ignore-established-usage [DEFAULT]. Completely ignore the normal way of doing things.

--honour-established-usage [NOT IMPLEMENTED]

Replaces <exe> with systemd-<exe>. Breaks all existing usage.

Dizzy Dwarf

Another name for the list

Poettering

Boccassi

[don't tell him] Pike

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Coat

Re: What changes would you have made?

But, ecreat makes no sense

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In the beginning systemd was created.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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Re: Isn't systemd great?

That makes me feel old.

NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense

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This is why the US needs ...

... Bruce Willis for President.

Arm security defense shattered by speculative execution 95% of the time

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Re: Is 4 bits enough?

The chances are 50:50

This is especially true if you fancy the other person.

BOFH: An 'AI PC' for an Acutely Ignorant user

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Betalight

A purple LED is all very well, but - a purple betalight - what boss could resist an AI that is still thinking even when the pc isn't even plugged in?

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Re: The AI'diophile

The pins on an AI-grade purple LED are made from 100% oxygen-free-copper.

Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy'

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The vi/emacs war was eventually won by:

$ systemd --run-as-Administrator notepad.exe

NASA hits wrong button, broadcasts ISS emergency training by mistake

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> using a foot pump in zero-g may be problematic.

You'd have to put it in between your arse cheeks and twerk for America.

Seething CEO shoulder surfed techie after mistaken takedown of production server

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All servers should be called ...

... gandalf, elrond, frodo, strider, sauron, etc ... everyone knows this.

I didn't touch a thing – just some cables and a monitor – and my computer broke

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Computer won't switch on

Tech: Can you check the power cable.

User: Yeah, but it's a bit difficult to see right now - we have a power-cut.

High-flying drones on a leash could blow traditional wind turbines away

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Re: Nope

Kinda like the tide goes in and out?

Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

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Re: 40 years of IT and the lesson is the same

You start coding; I'll go find out what the users want.

NASA and ESA take a close look at Europe's International Habitation Module

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ISS

Lots of delta-v needed to boost it from leo to lto.

And you have to miss all that other space junk as you're spiralling out.

Pfft: Mere technicalities.

Better than dumping it in the ocean.

Evidence mounts that Venus has multiple active volcanoes

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What's needed is boots on the ground

Bored students can now enjoy Sonic 2 on TI-84 Plus CE calculators, thanks to port

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Graphing Calculator

Still yet to find a decent graphing calculator for the iPhone/iPad.

Thanks for the nostalgia.

BOFH: Come on down to the dunge– erm … basement

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Coat

Bit of a rubbish episode

(sorry)

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