Posts by William Higinbotham 172 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Nov 2007
I have had my share of failed updates while in IT. I always turn purple holding my breath while doing these. My last failure was my own laptop. I had a replacement sent. They used to have emergency BIOS recovery option on older PCs. Why there appears to no longer be this option is beyond my own capability to render. My new laptop had two SSDs and I keep my data on second drive. I also do periodic Image/Data backups.
I wish all the best when these situations arise.
I just have to use this article to say that I started on computers in early 1980s. I was taken back at the idea of integrating Outlook with Calendar App. I personally like having calendar app separate from outlook. I also work offline as much as possible so not to be interrupted by all the alerts and Microsoft features ads such as screen Light/Dark/other modes or AI. Also I am not allowed to sync all my email to my computer!
Right now I am responding from my MX Linux dual boot side. I wonder if there are any inclusive pay to use websites like AOL/Compuserve:-)
The ASCII Guy, head buried in bundles of old hardware collected over past 40 years.
So for the fun of it, I hit ALT + F4.
BitDefender automatically blocked a communication attempt. Stating msedge.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an expired certificate to deff.nelreports.net. We blocked the connection to keep you safe.
I tried to go to the site being warned Suspicious and to avoid it. I tried nelreports.net to get site not found :-)
Billy - USAF Veteran
1985 was also the year that Richard Stallman issued the GNU manifesto [Stallman] and launched the Free Software Foundation. Very few people took him or his GNU project seriously, a judgment that turned out to be seriously mistaken. In an unrelated development of the same year, the originators of the X window system released it as source code without royalties, restrictions, or license code. As a direct result of this decision, it became a safe neutral area for collaboration between Unix vendors, and defeated proprietary contenders to become Unix's graphics engine.
https://homepage.cs.uri.edu/~thenry/resources/unix_art/ch02s01.html
In 2008, NASA helped launch the Machine-to-Machine Intelligence (M2Mi) Corp to develop IoT and M2M technology, as well as the 5G technology needed to support it.
So why did NASA, the FCC, and FAA failed to see a problem until now?
Reference: https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/apr/HQ_08107_Ames_nanosat.html
I saw this quote from an alias named Peter Wong* who quoted: “It’s not uncommon for mainframes to process hundreds of millions of transactions on a regular day, per mainframe. It’s a very high throughput and stable system.” About two thirds of enterprise data goes through a mainframe computer. However, the speed is both an advantage and a drawback, as people try to integrate mainframe with cloud: mainframes were built to process transactions very quickly, but they were not designed to wait. “If you wait, it jams up. A hundred million transactions is nothing, but a hundred million waiting — that’s a disaster."
Reference: https://medium.com/supplyframe-hardware/its-mainframes-all-the-way-down-73de55d2884b
Author illustrates a shifting moral status view of human–pig relationships. Next, discusses personhood attributions through biological, philosophical, and legal frameworks; review benefits and risks of xenotransplantation; reflect on the moral status of non-human animals; and offer concluding thoughts.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7222736/
People who use Robinhood should read this:-) One item noted is this:
B. Background
Principal Trading Firms and Payment for Order Flow
10. Rather than sending customer orders to buy or sell equity securities directly to
national exchanges, Robinhood, like other retail broker-dealers, routed its orders to other brokerdealers (often referred to as “principal trading firms” or “electronic market makers”) to either execute those orders or route them to other market centers. Principal trading firms attempt to profit from executing large volumes of retail buy and sell orders either by taking the other side of customer orders and exiting the positions at a profit, which is also known as “internalization,” or
by routing the orders to other market centers.
https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2020/33-10906.pdf
This is why it does what it does. Under About Microsoft Edge - "This browser is made possible by the Chromium open source project and other open source software." I had older Windows 10 and for some reason, Microsoft Edge did not update itself to this new version. Then I came across about it and installed the new version on top of the old. I have not a clue. This is why I have 4 different versions of browsers on my machine:-)
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