Tag Archives: stupidity

Publishing photos of criminal suspects

The SAPS act of 1995 is widely rumoured to grant protection to criminals from being photographed, and from the publication of their likeness. This rumour is based on lawyers lying about the law. Imagine. The horror. Analysis of South African … Continue reading

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Find my device or anything that saw it recently and has travelled 15km or so

Google’s “Find My Device” function does a pretty good job of finding a device. It has a few mechanisms: That last method, bluetooth snitching, produces some interesting results. I dropped my phone by accident, and discovered it missing when I … Continue reading

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Hannah’s three bullocks: yes, three.

In the King James Bible, we read this: And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of … Continue reading

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2023: ABRSM theory exams are impossible

For the Covid scam, music theory examinations by ABRSM switched from in-person invigilated to remote computer-invigilation. The price didn’t go down though – the tests were horrendously expensive, and the price just went up, if anything. There’s a small problem … Continue reading

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Licences are a lie

My wife and I have two cars. To drive these cars according to government rules, we need six licences: two for the cars, and two each for us (the one car is bigger). It is, however, well nigh impossible to … Continue reading

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Plugin ‘SPIDER’ registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.

I fixed a stupid error which had me stumped. Here’s the answer for posterity: I was doing this on mariadb to install the spiderdb engine, and it was not working: The .so file was present, and there’s really no reason … Continue reading

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Shoprite wishes you a very Halal Christmas

We bought a turkey for Christmas from Checkers/Shoprite. It cost a stack of cash, but you know, Christmas – all about Christ, the Son of God, come to earth to save us from our sins – good tidings of great … Continue reading

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Freeradius Module-Failure-Message = “Failed retrieving values required to evaluate condition”

One of my radius servers stopped doing its radius thing. Everything was going along swimmingly, and then it suddenly stopped at 1:00AM.  Restarts didn’t fix it. The way this server works is that the default handler receives accounting packets, writes … Continue reading

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Search-engine assisted fraud HOWTO

As many of the readers of this fine site are career criminals, it seems good to explain a new and popular procurement fraud scam.  Here’s a piccie to muddy the waters, followed by the blow-by-blow account, in which the numbers … Continue reading

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Computer insomnia

I updated my Ubuntu system installation on a laptop.  This went fine.  I installed more memory.  This went well.  But on the second day, I discovered that my laptop had insomnia.  It could not sleep.  Close the lid?  It’s still … Continue reading

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