Even regular Windoze updates take ages... My Linux laptop installs a weeks worth of updates in one tenth of the time wifey's w11 taks ro find out what to install. And then it dowloads them... Zzz... and installs... Zzz.. and reboots...
Posts by Juha Meriluoto
57 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2008
Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs
Peace President's Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market
BOFH: If the meatbags can't agree on aircon, AI will decide for them
Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell
Sunday 1st March 2026 13:07 GMT
Back in the university, our cs department had far too few terminals for students (this was early 80'), so if you got away from one you were supposed to log out and give someone else a chance to get some work done. There was this quite strange guy who always left his session open while disappearing for some indefinite time. Finally, we got fed up with this and moved all the files in his home directory to a directory named '...' ...it too him some time to figure it out. You get what you ask for...
Trump orders purge of 'woke' Anthropic from government
Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every download
Anthropic launches new marketing blog, pretends it's being 'written' by 'retired' LLM
Google presses play on 30-second Gemini musical slop generator
Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat
Google says Chrome's new AI creates risks only more AI can fix
Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one
Microsoft appears to move on from its most loyal ‘customers’ – Contoso and Fabrikam
Rocket Lab's Neutron slips to 2026: 'Our aim is to make it to orbit on the first try'
Microsoft's data sovereignty: Now with extra sovereignty!
OpenAI goes after Microsoft 365 Copilot's lunch with 'company knowledge' feature
AI devs close to scraping bottom of data barrel
RubyGems maintainer quits after Ruby Central takes control of project
Flock storage: Audio boffin encodes data in a starling
Google plugs AI into nuclear reactor biz – what could possibly go wrong?
Meta reveals plan for several multi-gigawatt datacenter clusters
‘AI is not doing its job and should leave us alone’ says Gartner’s top analyst
Techies thought outside the box. Then the boss decided to take the box away
Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb
Signal chat app clone used by Signalgate's Waltz was apparently an insecure mess
What the **** did you put in that code? The client thinks it's a cyberattack
Monday 28th April 2025 09:22 GMT
I was once in a team developing some research software, in times when a '386 at 33 MHz was considered high-end hardware. As M$ C 6.0 memory allocator was a piece of cr*p we had to work around it... When the workaround ran into an impossible situation, it would give a 'Red Screen Of Death' saying 'Fatal internal system error: Press any key to reboot, or any other key to continue.'
Trump teases 25% semiconductor tariffs that will go ‘substantially higher’
Stargate, smargate. We're spending $60B+ on AI this year, Meta's Zuckerberg boasts
Investors just can't pull the plug despite datacenters facing AI power crunch
Classic Outlook explodes when opening more than 60 emails
US Army should ditch tanks for AI drones, says Eric Schmidt
AI-driven e-commerce fraud is surging, but you can fight back with more AI
Eric Schmidt: Build more AI datacenters, we aren't going to 'hit climate goals anyway'
Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off
Blue screen of death or Eurovision's Windows95man performance – what's less annoying?
Google is wrong to put AI search features behind paywall, says HPC leader
What if AI produces code not just quickly but also, dunno, securely, DARPA wonders
Microsoft's Notepad goes from simple text editor to Copilot conspirator
To build a better quantum computer, look into a black hole, says professor Brian Cox
The crime against humanity that is the modern OS desktop, and how to kill it
Happy birthday Windows 3.1, aka 'the one that Visual Basic kept crashing on'
Tomorrow Water thinks we should colocate datacenters and sewage plants
When product names go bad: Microsoft's Raymond Chen on the cringe behind WinCE
Thursday 16th December 2021 06:26 GMT
Not directly computer related, but...
...here in Finland, years back, our national alcohol monopoly launched a pre-mixed liquor that was pink in colour, featured a lady dressed as a cat on the label, and was named Koskenkorva Pink Pu**y. Really.
It was subsequently, and quite hurriedly (after a quick lesson in contemporary English, I presume) renamed as Koskenkorva Pink Cat. Those were the days...