Posts by mirachu

So your [expletive] test failed. So [obscene participle] what?

Re: Good to keep a sense of humour

This sentence no verb.

People find amazing ways to break computers. Cats are even more creative

Argh, was supposed to say "That I *do not* have experience with". One kitty did kill an audio mixer tho.

Re: We had an issue with a rabbit

Red shirt? That's your problem right there.

Re: ahem

Or Shecate.

Re: rotating cat

Said cat can be harnessed to produce infinite energy. Supposedly.

That I have experience with. However, our kitty will on occasion sleep on top of one of my servers, because warm exhaust air through an AIO.

AmigaOS updated in 2025 for some reason

Re: Still runs well on 35 year old hardware

68050? Wasn't that canned in favor of 68060?

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

Re: Glad to know

Luxembourg is a freaky outlier.

Tech trainer taught a course on software he'd never used and didn't own

Re: been on many courses where the trainer has no answers

60s? I wasn't even born then and I have amalgam fillings. :D I think the switch was some time in the 90s here.

Re: The last time I heard that one ...

It was a night like this 40 million years ago?

The passive aggression of connecting USB to PS/2

Re: I have one in my box of "keep one of everything"

I have a serial mouse, because serial, I guess. I don't *use* it, of course.

Nuclear center must replace roof on 70-year-old lab so it can process radioactive waste

Plutonium? Which isotope? NASA is apparently running out of Pu-238 for probes.

Re: FTFY

Too cheap to meter? Funny, in Finland we're getting "electricity needs to be twice as expensive as now to make new nuclear profitable". Renewables have BOOMED.

Credible nerd says stop using atop, doesn't say why, everyone panics

Re: "You might want to stop running atop."

If there's a new vuln there's typically a grace period before full disclosure to allow patching before everyone and their cat gets to know about what exactly is wrong. In the meantime, vagueposting is all we get.

Developer wrote a critical app and forgot where it ran – until it stopped running

Re: Serious OOPS!

Old Thinkpads with swappable batteries <3

Google admits it deleted some customer data after 'technical issue'

Mucking about with Timeline gave me a Marvel TVA flashback.

Amazon, Meta, Google sign pledge to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050

Building that electricity requires permits. You can't just decide to do it.

Re: "AI doesn't run on fairy dust after all"

AI has some use (mostly in research), crypto doesn't.

Also, plutonium? You'll need to explain that.

Re: Small modular reactors (SMRs)

Oh, but we *can* keep nuclear safe. Finland is a good example, we are *still* running *Soviet-design* reactors (but with Western safety systems), and while there are glitches (as with any power plant), they've been a 0 on the severity scale. We're also getting above 100% of planned output, which means fewer maintenance breaks requires than were planned.

Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect

Re: If you've got nothing...

Because I hate waking up earlier than I need to and that glowing ball of hydrogen messes with my sleep.

Windows 7 lives! How to keep your favorite fossil running

CCleaner was sus over a decade ago and AFAIK it's now worse.

One stupid keystroke exposed sysadmin to inappropriate information he could not unsee

Re: Confidential.....

Gorf

Untrained techie botched a big hardware sale by breaking client's ERP

Re: Did you really pull the big red switch?

You didn't know that? HOW?! The good ones have on-drive RAM cache, cheaper ones use host memory. Then there tends to be "SLC" cache which, while already written to the drive, is limited and gets rewritten when things quiet down to utilise all the levels of multi-level cells.

Why did the Windows 95 setup use Windows 3.1?

Re: " It took nearly an hour."

FUD? I switched my 5900X desktop to Win11 about a month ago (in-place upgrade), it took *over two hours* to install things on an NVMe drive, and most of that was just the installer doing its thing. And opening the new Start menu for the first time took *ages*, possibly because I have tons of games installed. It's not like you couldn't populate it during the install. :P

Re: Marketing

Memory isolation? You think pre-emption requires an MMU? You'd be wrong.

Re: Marketing

Pre-emptive multitasking was possible a decade before Windows 95 on consumer grade hardware. AmigaOS did it.

Copilot+ PCs? Customers just aren't buying it – yet

Re: Missing the point

Why do you think having a TPM has anything to do with the ability to run OSes other than Windows?

Memories fade. Archives burn. All signal eventually becomes noise

Re: Trouble is that we aren't anymore

> "Now, a great film is only accessible by streaming. While hundreds of millions of people see and enjoy it, none of them have a copy."

Piracy FTW!

Re: Your life's work is cactus

i don't think there ever was a Library of Alexandra that was famous. Alexandria OTOH...

Intel rakes in €515M from EU after ancient antitrust fine nixed

You think "fit for purpose" is a new phrase? LOL.

Tech support warrior left cosplay battle and Trekked to the office

Re: What's the weirdest outfit you've worn to a tech support job?

Meat crayon? Yeah, I can see that, but I've heard "organ donor" more.

User said he did nothing that explained his dead PC – does a new motherboard count?

Re: PC Update

Slot A was AMD. You mean Slot 1. Also, I'm almosr certain AGP was a thing by that time. I remember building a box that had AGP and it was Socket 7, which came before Slot 1.

I've done a full brain transplant on Windows twice, first time was a bit of a hassle because back then AMD's CPU software apparently didn't bother to check that it was trying to actually run on an AMD CPU and failed to fail gracefully, instead stopping the boot midway. After that it was normal "install new drivers, uninstall old ones". Second one went better.

Life lesson: Don't delete millions of accounts on the same day you go to the dentist

Re: Auto-Account Deletion

Non ex transverso sed deorsum.

Devs sent into security panic by 'feature that was helpful … until it wasn't'

"The European fashion"? Funny, I don't remember Finland using either periods or commas as thousands separators. We use either a space or nothing. Point being, it's not "the" European fashion, it's "a".

Re: I remember the time...

Klingon? Impossible. Microsoft has no honour.

Re: Google Chrome auto translate PITA

Lidl doesn't have per-country language settings for their pages that serve the weekly offering publication. It's a bit weird to have the browser offer to translate German when there's actually no text and said publication is in Finnish where I live.

Re: Instead of disabling translation

Being a native speaker doesn't stop you from screwing things up.

systemd begrudgingly drops a safety net while a challenger appears, GNU Shepherd 1.0

It's not a toomah! (Yes, I know, Arnie never said that.)

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

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

GMT isn't UTC+1 in the summer. GMT is UTC without leap seconds.

Are these face eating leopards we're talking about?

Re: Me Too!

I fail to see what part of "girls playing D&D" implies non-nerdiness.

Microsoft hijacks keyboard shortcut to bring Copilot to your attention

Re: Can I assign my own keyboard shortcut?

That's only 9 keys, there should be keyboards that do that easy.

Re: A song for today

AI can be useful (see e.g. drug research). Generative AI I don't see a real use for.

Obviously BS. I never gave a permission to do whatrver the hell they want.

Re: Apple envy

You do realize that ALT is older than the Command key, and therefore has been used in shortcuts longer?

Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI

Re: Example?

You can't understand how something inapplicable could be wrong? Are you serious?

Re: Wetware filters are usually sufficient.

The obvious and probably correct answer is "money". Pay for a subscription, get hopefully better results.