Posts by Snarkmonster

Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI for better results

HAL 9000

HAL 9000 certainly took threats well.

Thunderbird joins Firefox on the monthly treadmill

Re: I've never got...

Customer/consumer demand. They're used to constant updates and think you're falling behind if you don't have them.

Of course, a smart release manager can just bump the version number every week or two, and rebuild/release, without the pesky bit of making actual code changes.

TAKE IT DOWN Act? Yes, take the act down before it's too late for online speech

Offshore suppliers

I thought the aim of the Trump government was to build more things in the USA, not force server farms to locate elsewhere.

Decades-old bug in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas finally shows itself

Re: "[Do] Not ignore the compilation warnings"

Also, this bug sounds like a runtime issue - bad data in a file loaded at game launch. Runtime errors won't be caught by any compiler ever.

The programmer SHOULD have put a message like "skimmer data file is bad" into a log somewhere.

New SSL/TLS certs to each live no longer than 47 days by 2029

47 ?

This is a good thing for security, but.... who pulled the number 47 out of their butt?? Not an even number of months, or weeks, or anything at all.

I'm sure that most IT departments will just do it once a month, way way easier to remember.

Fedora 41: A vast assortment, but there's something for everyone

Really? Poor update strategy

Read this yesterday on my F40 box.... which gave me ZERO indication there's a new version out (even though I do updates daily).

Update went fine (as usual), now on F41.... but seriously, dnf should show *something* to indicate there's a new major version out.

Photoshop FOSS alternative GNU Image Manipulation Program 3.0 nearly here

PLEASE change the name

Love the software, but.... had to tell a handicapped person once about FOSS graphics programs.... that was embarrasing.

Qualcomm's Windows on Arm push would be great – if only it ran all your software

Windows on ARM is *AWESOME*

This is going to provide a huge number of lightly used ARM systems at a cheap price that will run linux extremely well.

The billionaire behind Trump's 'unhackable' phone is on a mission to fight Tesla's FSD

Hackability

Vendor: "This software is unhackable".

Kevin Mitnick: "Hold my beer".

UPS supplier's password policy flip-flops from unlimited, to 32, then 64 characters

Re: WTF - Password length limits?

There has to be SOME limit. You need to allocate a buffer to receive the typed password, for a start.

If there is no publically stated limit, then each implementation will be different, and someone's 786 character password won't work after Joe rewrites the input method and uses a 512 byte buffer instead of 1K.

We know 'Linux is a cancer' but could CentOS chaos spell opportunity for Microsoft?

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CentOS was a cheap-n-dirty rip of RHEL. Companies that wanted an enterprise-level linux, but were too *ing cheap to buy RHEL, used CentOS.

Those customers aren't going to start ponying up money to Microsoft (and having to change scripts/etc to match the new distro). They're just going to migrate to something like Rocky, which is the new free-RHEL distro.

Infosys CEO promises jobs to 2,000 graduate recruits it has kept on hold for two years

Good news / bad news

Good news: you have a job now.

Bad news: it's for Infosys.

Google to kill off URL shortener once and for all

Domain reg

Hopefully Google will keep the goo.gl domain registered forever.... if not, future Reg article coming when someone else grabs it and redirects links to malware instead of a 404.

I don't see any use at all. If you are cutting and pasting it's just as easy to cut the real original http address as a shortened one.

SpaceX asks the FAA: 'Can we launch our rockets again, please?'

Re: Horse

Rename it to Phoenix. After all, SpaceX has created a *huge* amount of ashes.

Lansweeper finds a lot of CentOS Linux out there

Not sure who Lansweeper's customer base is, but if Ubuntu and CentOS are it's top two, I don't think it's major enterprise locations.

From the folk I've talked to on CentOS, Rocky Linux seems to be the path forwards.