Posts by Pascal Monett 18232 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
I never use emojis at work. I do use the smiley, which is not an emoji for me before I was using it before emojis existed.
If I'm texting with someone I know, I can use the wink smiley occasionally, but that will be the extent of it.
With my wife however, I'll use whatever emoji fits my SMS the best.
Azure wouldn't exist if it weren't for Linux.
Borkzilla actually tried to make its Azure platform run on Windows Server, and it failed abysmally.
So yeah, Borkzilla is now a Linux advocate - except on the desktop.
The leopard isn't changing its spots, it's just trying to survive in a world which needs it less and less.
Color me shocked.
Shocked, I say.
I wonder when that project will get to £10 billion.
I'm guessing before the end of the year, and with nothing to show for it.
Really, why does UK Gov keep throwing money into that pit ?
Oh, sorry, silly me : snoughts in the trough.
You mean, like the carbon nanotubes we've been promised for the last 25 years ?
Or the revolutionary batteries we still can't buy but have not stopped hearing about ?
Research is indispensable, but I would really like for these people to stop hyping up a product that doesn't exist and won't for decades.
It's like that fly at the picnic. Won't go away, and you can't do anything about it except shoo it off.
Annoying.
Call me back when they have a product that sells.
Yes, it's called buying the car.
If I buy a car, I expect all of it to work for the price I pay.
The only thing I am willing to pay for after the purchase of the vehicle is the yearly update of the GPS data.
And that is final.
When I decided to purchase a Synology DS414j, I said to myself that I had to stage the purchase of disks to avoid that problem.
As a result, the first month I bought a Seagate and a Winchester 3TB disk. The second month I bought another Winchester 3TB disk, and the third month I bought the final HDD.
When I decided to replace them with 8TB disks, I did the same, staging the procurement process through three months.
I'm hoping that that will avoid me the kind of problem that is outlined in this article.
I'm not sure I totally agree with that statement.
If your level of expertise is click-on-any-attachment-or-link-regardless-of-if-you-know-the-sender-or-not, then yeah, you're at risk.
But if your level of expertise is I-don't-know-you-and-I-will-not-click-that, then you're pretty much immune to that risk.
Well I guess that's a good thing, but it's no surprise that PC are on the decline. I've said it before and I'll say it again, COVID made a lot of people buy computers, they won't be needing another one before a decade.
If you really think 2022 will reproduce the figures of 2020, buckle up, you've got a long wait ahead.
30 years on and Windows Search is still as slow as it was before Y2K.
One wonders what Borkzilla is employing all those programmers for.
Oh, yeah, making useless interface changes and creating new emojis nobody asked for.
You want real, efficient search ? Try Everything.
That is a search tool. It returns results as you type, like a proper program should given the power of today's computers.
From The Economist linked article :
"This is the politics of fantasy, and you can trace it back to Brexit. In the campaign to leave the European Union Mr Johnson promised voters that they could have everything they wanted—greater wealth, less Europe; more freedom, less regulation; more dynamism, less immigration—and that the eu would be knocking on Britain’s door desperate for a deal. It worked so well that fantasy became the Tories’ organising principle."
Methinks The Economist deserves extra brownie points for a pointed article.
Looks like the Remainers were right after all.
Well, we're talking university here, so students are prone to paying attention and not clown around, but it would probably be easier to find teachers if the levels before University had competent teachers and sufficient material and supplies to do the job properly.
A passion for teaching ? Kids growing up in the US are not given the environment to foster that kind of ideal.
Of course not. Why slave and toil away when someone is promising you easy riches ?
A new one is born every minute, as they say, and educating them all on the facts of life is well nigh impossible.
Because "there is no such thing as a free lunch" means you actually have to work to get by, and nobody likes that.
Especially when you see TV/YouTube celebrities living large while producing nothing of value to society.
Because it's not your computer anymore.
Companies these days have the attention span of goldfish. Oh, a new idea ! Let's implement without thinking about its impact !
And we need to implement agile, because that means we're professionals !
Our society has completely lost the notion of stability and continuity.
I don't see that changing any time soon.
Seems that backdooring encryption has finally been dropped in the hallowed corridors of power.
So now they just make a law to slap a fine on companies that don't subvert encryption. That's not backdooring, right ? So you can't complain anymore.
Gotta hand it to 'em, they're persistent on this issue.
Too bad they couldn't more persistent on some other things, like the economy.
So, despite it being already openly stated that cloud does not savo you money, you expect to save not only millions, but hundreds of millions, by going to The CloudTM.
I await the follow-up on how you are desperately trying to waive an enormous bill of $700 million.
Good luck.
I disagree.
Hackers cannot make something do a thing it wasn't designed to do.
Hackers make things do something that the original maker did not intend, but included the functionality anyway and didn't think about it.
A hacker cannot make an RPi shoot a laser beam, but he can eventually reprogram it to take over the local network, and maybe access the CCTV records.
A hacker is not a wizard, he's just someone who looks at the equipment available and disregards whatever artificial constraints the maker thought he was imposing.
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