Posts by Pascal Monett 19183 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
They're also keyboard blockers. In winter, my cat has the knack of hopping on my desk table and lying on my laptop as soon as I have my back turned. I go get a glass of water, or go to the toilet, come back and bam! there she is, purring contentedly with the typical cat face of what ? I ain't done nothin' wrong, did I ?
So I've taken the habit of lowing the lid just far enough that she can't get under it, but not far enough to put the laptop to sleep.
So, the National Security threat is now over, is it ?
I love how the orange shitgibbon is taking care of every billionnaire's problems and totally ignoring the issues that the less-than-millionnaires are facing.
Hey, Republican trailer trash, are you happy about the actions of your Orange Baboon when you go shopping and cry over the price of eggs ?
"If we add up all the money we've ever spent on servers, from the year 2000 to now, we will have spent more on generative AI servers in five years than has ever been invested in traditional servers to do everything else"
So, please explain to me why we went to The CloudTM again ?
Wasn't that supposed to save us money ?
What a beautiful waffle.
So many nice words and noble intentions.
If you've got the time for that bullshit, you're not working hard enough.
Yeah, that was exactly the question I had in mind. If they are Starlink customers and Starlink is down, how can they report an outage ? Over their smartphones ?
But if they have Internet access over their smartphones, why do they need Starlink ?
For you, obviously, in your million-dollar estate far from the rising seas.
It's going to be far less solvable for the people in Florida and those along most of the east coast (including <gasp> Manhatten), when the streets are turned into a swimming pool.
But you're not going to be saddled with the bill, now are you ?
That's easy to say, but practically impossible to do.
Unless you accept that Government takes a decade to to redo all of its tools in Linux.
Which I would personnaly like, but I'm not concerned here.
In any case, this is a gold-plated arrow against Redmond and I hope that some good will come of it.
Allow me to protest that. China has no hold on El Reg, and Taiwan it its own country.
Do not play into Beijing's hand by confounding the two. Not on the Internet.
China can browbeat countries into no recognizing Taiwan, but we are not countries. We are individuals and we have the right to voice our opinions without Beijing's blessing.
Because when the system goes down, they are first in the line of fire for blame and furious calls to get things working - which only prevents them from actually solving the problem.
But it's comforting for upper management to be able to yell into a phone and, minutes later, see that everything is working again. They get the idea that they actually did something. Apparently, it doesn't happen to them very much.
All based in the US of A, which is fast becoming a mockery of democracy.
Get you EU data out of the grasp of the orange shitgibbons tiny hands and stop giving data to the US.
Yes, there will be a cost, but in the long term, it's indispensable.
I don't understand companies that behave like that. I'm a freelance programming consultant. When one of my customers calls to complain about the behavior of one of my programs, I'm damn well going to find out what's going on and what I can do about it. If I do find out that the customer's network configuration is the basis of the problem, I'm not going to lay blame, I'll just explain the situation and what I can do to fix it.
In an entirely different domain, my shower has recently developed trouble in getting hot water. The best I could get was a tepid shower. I called the artisan who installed the equipement and asked him to come over and and fix the issue. He was there the next day and, following my explanations, had already pretty much figured out the problem. He had come with a replacement piece of equipment but, instead of just replacing the faulty piece, he audited the entire bathroom. From that, we found that the hot water balloon was making the water too hot which, in turn, was dilating the joint in the shower's temperature dial which, in the end, was rendered incapable of delivering the desired temperature. We agreed that, apart from replacing the faulty piece of equipment, he would also set the balloon to a lower temperature that would avoid creating problems in the future.
What I want to demonstrate here is that a true professional is going to do his best to ensure that the customer is satisfied when he leaves. It requires dedication and knowledge of all the areas in connection to the one you're called in to work on, but such a person is priceless.
Companies are not priceless. What does that say about where we're going ?
One day, the White House is going to have to realize that it cannot dictate orders to the entire world.
There's 8 billion people on this planet, and most of them don't give a flying fuck about what some orange shitgibbon wants from a country they will never even visit.
It's time to stop the treadmill. Win 11 doesn't bring anything innovative, shouldn't exist and its hardware requirements are a figment of Redmond's imagination.
No more support ? Then stop paying.
That'll get Nadella's attention quicker than anything.
I'm thinking there's soon going to be some shareholders somewhere who are going to raise a stink when they're presented with yet another bag of billions thrown to something that has no ROI.
This is one case where I will accept that the selfish cunts put a stop to the project.
