* Posts by cosymart

509 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jan 2010

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Spam crusade lands charity in hot water with data watchdog

cosymart
Holmes

Re: "As part of this journey"

Because it's a long way "to reach out".

'I’m sorry for everything...' Facebook's Zuck apologizes to families at Senate hearing

cosymart
FAIL

Your product is killing people

Are we going to see the gun suppliers here at the next hearing?

David Mills, the internet's Father Time, dies at 85

cosymart
Meh

Re: Hmm!

I suspect most art teachers would automatically be selected for dishonourable discharge. Normal comment on my work "Hmm that's not how you draw/paint/sketch that" but zero attempt to help me improve :-(

Travel app Kayak offers Boeing 737 Max 9 filter after that door plug drama

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FAIL

Quailty Is Not ISO9000

ISO9000 is about consistency, doing it the same way every time so if you don't get the process and quality right and document that then you make the same shit product every time :-(

New year, new updates for security holes in Windows, Adobe, Android and more

cosymart
Facepalm

Re: Windows update Situation Normal

The world waits for a patch to fix the patch, this is a new low even by M$ standards or is that an oxymoron?

Here's a list of thousands of artists Midjourney's AI is ripping off, creatives claim

cosymart
Facepalm

Don't put it on the Internet

If you don't want your work copied then don't post it on the internet or allow anyone else to do so. Simple :-(

Polish train maker denies claims its software bricked rolling stock maintained by competitor

cosymart
Big Brother

Re: If you expect products to last, then products should come with warranties that you can use.

Google "Triggers Broom" :-)

Bank boss hated IT, loved the beach, was clueless about ports and politeness

cosymart
Megaphone

There are two reasons why you never give someone a public roasting. First, it's just bad management. (It's a sign you're a bully). Two, you just look like an idiot. Fixed it for you :-)

Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater

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Holmes

It Works

Microsoft decides that Windows 11 is perfect as it is and stops releasing updates.

Nobody notices but the internet runs faster on tuesdays.

Telco CEO quits after admitting she needs to carry rivals' SIM cards to stay in touch

cosymart
Holmes

Re: DR Strategy

One of the very reasons why duel sim phones exist - Doh!

Tool bag lost in space now tracked by garbage watchers

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Holmes

Spanners

Not just 10mm sockets, people "borrow" my 10mm spanners. But only 10mm, what is it about this size? (For west pondians spanner = wrench)

It is 2023 and Excel's reign of date terror might finally be at an end

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Holmes

Optional

Wow! You mean we might get some software that treats users as intelligent beings? We don't, really we don't want software that makes assumptions We want options - please.

Scandium-based nuclear clocks promise punctuality for next 300 billion years

cosymart
Holmes

Re: Clock speed variations

Balls - The Greenwich Time Ball is good enough for me :-)

Threads versus Twitter: Shouldn't we be happy the wheels are falling off antisocial social media?

cosymart
Joke

Stitch

If a message on Twitter is a Tweet is a message on Threads a Stitch? :-)

Virgin Media email customers enter third day of inbox infuriation

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FAIL

Re: "small proportion of accounts"

In this household it was 50% as mine was up and running fairly quickly but for SWMBO it took two days.

Parts of UK booted offline as Virgin Media suffers massive broadband outage

cosymart
IT Angle

It's Orf

Only half down at the moment, emails are borked as is the website but internet access seems to be OK.

Lenovo Thinkpad X13s: The stealth Arm-powered laptop

cosymart
Windows

Requires Office

"The thing is, though, that to get the best out of this, you will need to observe an almost monastic asceticism: pay the extra to unlock Office" Why not do what most sensible people do who want Office but don't want the abomination that is the 365 version. Just buy a stand alone pro version of Office 2021 for under £20? One big advantage is that you don't need to be connected to the mothership to do your work.

Hold off on that 2046 Valentine's date, asteroid might hit Earth

cosymart
Mushroom

23 Years

Only 23 years to find a replacement for Bruce Willis.

Most Londoners would quit before they give up working from home

cosymart
FAIL

Management

The real issue is managers who don't know how to manage other than the head round the cubicle with a "hello". A tad difficult with unoccupied cubicles :-(

Thunderbird email client is Go for new plumage in July

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Thumb Up

I Like Outlook

Let me clarify not the 365 version but the standalone version that you can have multiple non-microsoft accounts with. Accompanied with lots of folders and rules that posts the incoming emails to. It works and works very well!

cosymart
Meh

Re: See me after class

So those with the !Yahoo addresses didn't make the cut :-)

BOFH: Generating a report the Director can show the Board – THIS is what AI was made for

cosymart
Coffee/keyboard

One line.

"We wait a few seconds for the Director's 2-bit processor to catch up." Love it :-)

Forget the climate: Steep prices the biggest reason EV sales aren't higher

cosymart
FAIL

Sensible EV

I'm interested in an EV as our next car but I don't want one based on the heaviest top of the range SUV with the fuel tank switched for a battery.

Windows 10 – a 7-year-old OS – is still having problems with the desktop and taskbar

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Facepalm

Try this :-)

"If the resolution doesn't work, users can try restarting the Windows device, according to Microsoft." Nothing beats the old tried and tested switch it off and on again :-(

Royal Mail customer data leak shutters online Click and Drop

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FAIL

Facts?

" The service, which allows customers to print labels...." Followed by the comment "Who even owns a printer these days?" I think if you read your own article you have to own a printer to use the service.

Allowing interns to copy and paste again El Reg?

Microsoft fixes printing gremlin, ends that block on Windows 11 upgrades

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Childcatcher

Bet ya can't wait to slap that Windows 11 on your machine

Bet ya can't wait to slap that Windows 11 on your machine. I'm sticking with Windows 10 thank you if only to stop the One Drive bloody takeover!

Firefox points the way to eradicating one of the rudest words online: PDF

cosymart
Megaphone

Hate Columns - Agghhh!

I hate, hate, hate anyone who produces content for reading on a screen who puts it in columns especially if they use PDF format.

Don't, just don't - sob.

How I made a Chrome extension for converting Reg articles to UK spelling

cosymart
Holmes

You mean they use a barrel? I thought they were fished out of a small bin.

Lufthansa bans Apple AirTags on checked bags

cosymart
Flame

Re: Unchallenged acceptance of the no-transmit rule for mobile devices...

As for using Mobile Phones (Cell phones) at petrol stations/gasoline filling stations (USA translation). Lots of signs stating not to use your mobile phone but somehow it's ok to pay by phone within inches of the "do not use your phone" sign. See the advice! www.ukpia.com/consumer-information/mobile-phones-on-filling-station-forecourts/

>>>> handy icon.

No, working in IT does not mean you can fix anything with a soldering iron

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FAIL

Other way round

I have this the other way around as I am am electronic technician or was.

We were on holiday in Sweden staying at a swedish friends house when I had the request to look at a laptop with the dreaded BSD. As we were being hosted I found it difficult to refuse so I rebooted the laptop and was met by a string of screen messages all in swedish! I asked the lady of the house to translate but as most of you are aware error messages are not that helpful at the best of times so translating from swedish to english by a non-techical person was a recipe for disaster coupled to which any input needed was also to be in swedish. After a short while and even more BSDs I had to admit defeat.

Block this: Using satellites to plaster ads over our skies could work, say boffins

cosymart
Mushroom

Re: Somone will invent a suitable ad-blocker

I'd chip in to a crowd funder to do that.

Sage denies misleading customers over perpetual licensing, users not happy

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WTF?

Re: Imagine; two centuries ago; when your mother bought a fine china bowl

@ Chris Coles

You are "TheManFromMars" and I claim my £5

Signed A Surf.

Tetchy trainee turned the lights down low to teach turgid lecturer a lesson

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Holmes

Way Back

In the late 60s we had a college electronics lecturer who would appear at the start of the lesson, give a quick preamble and place a pile of OHP slides next to the projector and give whichever student was sitting closest the job of feeding the slides onto the OHP. The lecturer would then disappear with the parting words that he would return 5min before the end of the lesson to answer any questions.

Datacenter migration plan missed one vital detail: The leaky roof

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Facepalm

What?

So who starts a building refurb without consulting with the faculty dept?

Software fees to make up 10% of John Deere's revenues by 2030

cosymart
Trollface

Some folk here are going off at a tangent.

@nobody who matters - It's called the internet (magnified by a large % if you are on El Reg). If you have just bought a shiny new PC you have a very steep learning curve. If you are a dyed in the wool subscriber you are trolling :-)

GM's Cruise revises self-driving software after San Francisco crash

cosymart
Holmes

Re: Disabled unprotected left turns?

1) Failure 1 Calls "Frank" "Dave"...

2) The vehicle just takes you to the nearest airport that doesn't have unprotected left turns. Might be a long journey :-)

== Bring us Dabbsy back! ==

We were promised integrated packages. Instead we got disintegrated apps

cosymart
Meh

Re: You are doing it wrong.

Changed "The Wizard Smart Knob"

Enough with the notifications! Focus Assist will shut them u… 'But I'm too important!'

cosymart
Meh

New car

I bought a new car in the Summer and after a few weeks managed to understand the varous icons and beeps emanating from the dashboard - A few months later and I am driving home at night and I hear a strange high pitched beep accompanied by an orange dashboard icon that looks like an angel. In fear of my life I pull over and investigate, apparently it is a low temperature warning frost alert. On closer inspection the icon is a representation of a snow flake set in a triangle and for some unfathomable reason is set to come on below +6C All through the winter this annoying thing would ping into life :-(

Apple forgoes cooling systems in M2 MacBook Air

cosymart
Meh

Re: Adverts

Adblock Plus works here - what ads?

NanoAvionics satellite pulls out GoPro to take stunning selfie over Earth

cosymart
Boffin

Re: Junk

Nah, been doing it for years :-)

Leave that sentient AI alone a mo and fix those racist chatbots first

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Facepalm

Re: Fleshy Ones

If they are truly "welding robots" bolting them to the floor isn't going to stop them rising up is it?

No more fossil fuel or nukes? In the future we will generate power with magic dust

cosymart
Mushroom

Re: So hard to choose

See icon>>>>>

Amazon to spend $12b on five more datacenters in Oregon

cosymart
FAIL

Contacted

The Register reached out to Sweek for further comment; we'll let you know if he has any..... See subject.

BOFH: The evil guide to upgrading switches

cosymart
Holmes

Re: So tempting

Here on the correct side of the pond it's Good Friday tomorrow and a bank holiday, hence the early BOFH :-)

Microsoft slices Windows 11 update size by 40% (no, not by cutting hardware support)

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Facepalm

Re: Microsoft slices Windows 11 update size by 40%

Don't be silly, what would they have to do prior to Windows 12 in 3 years time?

Square-shaped hole in workers' wallets after payment system fails at peak tip time

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Big Brother

High time companies paid their staff a decent wage and this fudal payment system was outlawed.

Ransomware victim Colonial Pipeline paid $5m to get oil pumping again, restored from backups anyway – report

cosymart
WTF?

Criminal to pay Criminals?

I thought that in most jurisdictions it's illegal to give criminals money especially for blackmail?

Japan to start stamping out rubber stamps and tearing up faxes as new digital agency given Sept. 1 start date

cosymart
Meh

Electronic Banking

I volunteer with a small charity and we prefer cheques as we can bank these free, we are also happy with BACS payments. Any other type of transaction costs us money: Hire or purchase of card reader, % of transaction, connection to the internet. So why go digital?

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