Ubuntu-on-a-phone folks UBports emit OTA-19, warn some devices face the chop in future
This could very well be the last release based on 16.04
22 Sep 2021 |
Employed as an intern at Vulture Central in 2018, Richard Speed stuck around and managed to achieve the lofty title of Reporter after demonstrating his prowess at carrying beer glasses. He studied English Literature and Computer Science at university before spending a quarter of a century at the sharp, pointy end of IT. Now he much prefers writing about it rather than having to make it work. Richard covers Microsoft and open source software. He is also responsible for the Bork!Bork!Bork! feature, and the On Call and Who, Me? columns.
Canonical gives administrators the chance to drag their feet a bit more on Ubuntu upgrades
Two more years! Two more years!
21 Sep 2021 | 10
JEDI contract might be no more, but case should live on, says Oracle: DoD only wants Amazon, Microsoft for new cloud deal
Just when you thought it was safe to get out of the courtroom
21 Sep 2021 | 13
A Burger King where the only Whopper is the BSOD font
Bork!Bork!Bork! Come for the bork, stay for the burger
20 Sep 2021 | 11
GitLab all set to go public as revenues – and losses – rise
IPO was expected last year but then we had a pandemic
20 Sep 2021 | 10
US Federal Aviation Administration issues draft assessment of SpaceX Super Heavy impact
The environmental impact, not the smoking crater made by an impact
20 Sep 2021 | 21
Crank up the volume on that Pixies album: Time to exercise your Raspberry Pi with an... alternative browser
The Register dips another toe in the Flow
20 Sep 2021 | 22
I would drive 100 miles and I would drive 100 more just to be the man that drove 200 miles to... hit the enter key
Who, Me? When a server crash became a motorway dash
20 Sep 2021 | 74
Microsoft does and doesn't require VMs to meet hardware requirements for Windows 11
Either way, it's bad news for VirtualBox – it's stopped working
17 Sep 2021 | 82
Microsoft doles out Office Long Term Servicing Channel for cloud refuseniks
Redmond doesn't do things by half – unless it's Long Term Support
17 Sep 2021 | 15
Amazon UK business swelled by 50%+ in 2020, and taxes soared. Lol, no, it means those paid by its staff
Jeff Bezos founded biz at the 'apex of the Big Tech tax avoiders'
17 Sep 2021 | 30
Sometimes we all feel a bit like Shutting Down. So just imagine how tired Windows 7 is
Bork!Bork!Bork! So many stuck trains, so many cancellations. Giant blue screen of Nope, we salute you.
17 Sep 2021 | 10
Relics from the early days of the Sinclair software scene rediscovered at museum during lockdown sort-out
Remember when a games developer could be one guy with a ZX Spectrum?
17 Sep 2021 | 25
Electron-to-joule conversion formulae? Cute. Welcome to the school of hard knocks
On Call Shake, rattle and roll is incompatible with your PABX
17 Sep 2021 | 145
The age of the Service Pack is over. The time of the Modern Servicing Model has come
It's CUs and GDRs here on out for Microsoft's SQL Server
16 Sep 2021 | 7
Turing Award winner Barbara Liskov on CLU and why programming is still cool
Interview Error handling and encapsulation remain the name of the game
16 Sep 2021 | 13
SpaceX prepares to launch four civilians and a glass dome into space
Musk to demonstrate his is mightier than Bezos or Branson's
15 Sep 2021 | 14
The Register speaks to one of the designers behind the latest Lego Ideas marvel: A clockwork solar system
Who needs a 3,000-piece orrery? We do, of course
15 Sep 2021 | 44
Running on empty, out of battery, power draining... three things the UK government definitely isn't. Oh no
Bork!Bork!Bork! Video connected – check. Plugged into the mains? Er...
14 Sep 2021 | 15
Astro Pi 2: New Raspberry Pi hardware with updated camera, sensors to head to the ISS this year
This time it's... quite a bit faster
13 Sep 2021 | 19
The day has a 'y' in it, so Virgin Galactic has announced another delay
A potentially iffy component in the flight actuation system this time
13 Sep 2021 | 29
You want us to make a change? We can do it, but it'll cost you...
Who, Me? How does $100k per character sound? And that's just for labour
13 Sep 2021 | 77
Microsoft releases new Windows 11 builds, confirms running on an Apple M1 'is not a supported scenario'
Old proverb: If Windows crashes on a Surface Pro X, will anyone see the bugcheck?
10 Sep 2021 | 27
Music festivals are back in the UK. So is the background bork
Bork!Bork!Bork! Stage fright? Or the knowledge that Windows is lurking behind you
10 Sep 2021 | 25
