* Posts by William Higinbotham

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Back in black: Microsoft Blue Screen of Death is going dark

William Higinbotham

I remember the DOS days where one sets up the computer with a small program that would have all the characters fall to the bottom when the user started typing.

They should have the screen image do similar and have the error message appear afterwards.

The ASCII Guy

Scammers are deepfaking voices of senior US government officials, warns FBI

William Higinbotham

I have yet to hear any voice messages by any CEO or US Government on my answer voicemail box:-)

BOFH: Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?

William Higinbotham

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.

When even Microsoft can’t understand its own Outlook, big tech is stuck in a swamp of its own making

William Higinbotham

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.

HP Inc to build future products atop grave of flopped 'AI pin'

William Higinbotham

Gift from Mother-In-Law

When you are afraid to ask your Mother-In-Law what the broach does when it is a wedding gift!

Microsoft dusts off ancient MS-DOS 4.0 code for release on GitHub

William Higinbotham

Re: Early Windows source code versions

I not quite this old, but was not aware of multi-tasking of DOS 4. Our organization pretty much jumped from 3.1 to 5 that I remember. I was experimenting with OS/2 and multiple IBM DOS windows around the 90s. That was really fun:-)

Space nukes: The unbelievably bad idea that's exactly that ... unbelievable

William Higinbotham

The one thing everyone does not realize is that this is the surest and fastest way to deliver magnetic pulse to the enemie(s). Detections and response time is minimized. Just like submarines off of coasts.

Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater

William Higinbotham

Presidential prediction

Google AI will predict Alexa the winner. Apple AI will predict Seri the winner. And Microsoft AI will place Paperclip last in the running.

Microsoft hits Alt+F4 on internal ChatGPT access over security jitters, irony ensues

William Higinbotham

Maybe this is the issue about ALT+F4 and AI

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

Nuclear-powered datacenters: What could go wrong?

William Higinbotham

The IT techs would look like and sound like Homer Simpson at the Nuclear plant!

San Francisco cops can use private cameras to live-monitor 'significant events'

William Higinbotham

Is this is a bit creepy?

Local police like to help parents monitor their children's computer usage

https://www.pcsoweb.com/pcso-monitoring-software

William Higinbotham

A lot of county law enforcements are doing this:-) http://www.shawneesheriff.org/sh/eyes_on_crime.asp

Graphical desktop system X Window just turned 38

William Higinbotham

Historical Reference

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

Former AMD chip architect says it was wrong to can Arm project

William Higinbotham

And AMD Moves On....

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/from-opteron-to-milan-crusher-supercomputer-comes-online-with-amd-cpus-and-gpus

Small nuclear reactors produce '35x more waste' than big plants

William Higinbotham

Bill's (Earthquake) Fault

Bill is OK with NuScale's power plant in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Check out earthquakes in area.

earthquaketrack dot com/us-id-idaho-falls/biggest

earthquaketrack dot com/us-id-idaho-falls/recent

Record players make comeback with Ikea, others pitching tricked-out turntables

William Higinbotham

Soldering Iron and Hand Tools not included:-)

'Hundreds of computers' in Ukraine hit with wiper malware as conflict continues

William Higinbotham

I have my copy

Our nephew found a book our father had "You Can Survive The Bomb" By Col. Mel Mawrence, Copyright 1961. I am reading it now:-) Also there is this updated version www.ready dot gov/nuclear-explosion

Watchdog clears 90 per cent of US commercial aircraft to land in low visibility at nation's 5G C-band airports

William Higinbotham

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

Google denies Gmail users an early start to the weekend after problems accessing service

William Higinbotham

They called contracted support

Their outside help support, I believe is IBM. Go figure.

Reason 3,995 to hold off on that Windows 11 upgrade: Iffy performance on AMD silicon

William Higinbotham

Reflection of Big Money and IBM type Sales

Ever notice the disparity of Intel to AMD computers in major computers companies and brick and mortor stores? Microsoft just follows suit with the same type support:-)

IKEA: Cameras were hidden in the ceiling above warehouse toilets for 'health and safety'

William Higinbotham

Last Used?

IKEA admitted they had been in place since 2015. The company did not say when they were last used.

If the light was on then it is active. Maybe the company was not using these, but with the weak security of cams 5 years old, someone is watching:-)

Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline – unless it learns to migrate itself

William Higinbotham

COBOL, Assembler, PL/I and Mainframes - possibly why IBM migration failed

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

NSA: We 'don't know when or even if' a quantum computer will ever be able to break today's public-key encryption

William Higinbotham

We Don't Know When or Even If

Is the same as saying, The entirety of the NSA's systems can neither be confirmed nor denied, no matter how much information has been leaked to the press over the past year.

Tesla shows off the AI supercomputer training what it hopes will one day be an actual self-driving car

William Higinbotham

Will it run over it's own driver when they violate too many of their own rules?

Space station dumps 2.9-ton battery pack to burn up in Earth's atmosphere after hardware upgrade

William Higinbotham

Ooops

Sorry SpaceX, did we just knock out several of your low orbit satelites and cause interruption with others. Think of it as trickle down theory.

Hacking is not a crime – and the media should stop using 'hacker' as a pejorative

William Higinbotham

Where are the kid's safety glasses?

I saw the photo assiciated with the article. The photo got me more concerned than the article itself:-)

Revealed: The military radar system swiped from aerospace biz, leaked online by Clop ransomware gang

William Higinbotham

Sales Ad opportunity

If I was in sales, I would ask the company to put up a honeypot copy of their website with what looks like sensitive information, but to actually be cleverly created advertisements to be uploaded to the dark web:-)

NASA's hefty Martian rover will use an AI brain on a robot arm to map out signs of ancient life on Red Planet

William Higinbotham

Characters

Bet myself that they did not input Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian in their image library:-)

Supermicro spy chips, the sequel: It really, really happened, and with bad BIOS and more, insists Bloomberg

William Higinbotham

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2653167/fbi-worried-as-dod-sold-counterfeit-cisco-gear.html

Forget about an AI stealing your job, even pigs can be trained to use computers

William Higinbotham

Rethinking Sus Scrofa Domesticus

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/

Robinhood plays Sheriff of Nottingham as it pauses GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry etc stock sales, gets sued

William Higinbotham

Robinhood - SEC Dec. 17 2020

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

We regret to inform you the professor teaching your online course is already dead

William Higinbotham

Re: An Art History Lecturer dies

Such as Richard Feynman who's work will be enjoyed for some time!

'A guy in a jetpack' seen flying at 3,000ft within few hundred yards of passenger jet landing at LA airport

William Higinbotham

Check out Go Pro video in helicopter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=5NxxIxi_MHQ&feature=emb_logo

Breaching China's Great Firewall is hard. Pushing packets faster than 1Mbps once through is the Boss Fight

William Higinbotham

Through Earth - The Other Side

I remember a long time ago -"Flush twice, it is a long way to China"

ICE to see you: Homeland Security's immigration cops tap up Clearview AI to probe child exploitation, cyber-crime

William Higinbotham

Knock Knock. Who's there?

We see how Amazon's AI for offensive posts work. Be ready for a knock at the door, or more like tactical offensive into one's home:-)

This NSA, FBI security advisory has four words you never want to see together: Fancy Bear Linux rootkit

William Higinbotham

Find more information from hospital sector than our own:-)

https://www.aha.org/other-cybersecurity-reports/2020-08-14-fbi-cybersecurity-advisory-tlp-white-russian-gru-85th-gtsss

University of California San Francisco pays ransomware gang $1.14m as BBC publishes 'dark web negotiations'

William Higinbotham

Write-off instead

I wonder if they tried to bargain a official form showing the organization donated $1.14 million worth of technical support for tax deduction instead?

One year ago, Apple promised breakthrough features to help iPhone, iPad, Mac owners with disabilities. It failed them

William Higinbotham

IBM has had tools for handicap/disabled and blind for years.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Encyclopedia_of_Blindness_and_Vision/l7UN5asLD0cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=ibm+disability+blind&pg=PA119&printsec=frontcover

Wow, Microsoft's Windows 10 always runs Edge on startup? What could cause that? So strange, tut-tuts Microsoft

William Higinbotham

It does what it wants to do, brought to you by Open SourceProject

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:-)

As Uncle Sam flies spy drones over protest-packed cities, Homeland Security asks the public if that's a good idea

William Higinbotham

Re: You asked my opinion about drones...

Until your wife and kids are in the back yard sunning themselves and gets leaked.

Sony reveals PlayStation 5 will offer heretical no-optical-disk option. And yes, it has an AMD CPU-GPU combo

William Higinbotham

Here is the Sony PS-X5

I was looking for their manual and came across this. https://www.vinylengine.com/library/sony/ps-x5.shtml

Russia drags NASA: Enjoy your expensive SpaceX capsule, our Soyuz is the cheap Kalashnikov of rockets

William Higinbotham

Re: Foot in mouth

There are 2 other countries that can offer lifts - China for one and the other that may become a contender is India. But I wonder if China's seats are big enough for American astronauts, should we even ask how their toilets work? :-)

Hooray, space boffins have finally got InSight lander's heat probe back into Martian ground again

William Higinbotham

Temperature of planet?

And we will find out the planet has COVID-19 infection.

Amazon declined to sell a book so Elon Musk called for it to be broken up

William Higinbotham

Reply to Author

We are a creature of habits and I am still learning about my own.

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