My thoughts exactly...
Posts by Juha Meriluoto
25 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2008
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
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...
First, stunning whistleblower leaks. Now a shareholder lawsuit lands on Zuckerberg's desk
Microsoft's problem child, Windows 11, is here. Will you run it? Can you run it? Do you even WANT to run it?
Firewalls? Pfft – it's no match for my mighty spares-bin PC
Arecibo Observatory brings forward 'controlled demolition' plans by collapsing all by itself
Eclipse boss claims Visual Studio Code is an open-source poseur – though he would say that, wouldn't he?
We lost another good one: Mathematician John Conway loses Game of Life, taken by coronavirus at 82
Huawei's horror show 2019 continues as Taiwanese research institute joins banhammer club
Hubble 'scope gyro drama: Hey, NASA, have you tried turning it off and on again? Oh, you did. And it worked? Cool
Mozilla insists Firefox 3.1 won't hit bum note for developers

FF3 a disappointment
I tried FF3, and it was a... well, I just could not see any speed improvements, plus it was quite unstable. Some quite mysterious behavior, too. And lots of broken addons. After a day or so I decided to upgrade to 2.0.0.14, which of course wasn't all that easy... Mozilla is beginning to look a lot like open source equivalent of M$.