Posts by Alan Bourke

HPE CEO: 'Best interest of shareholders' to pursue $4B damages from Lynch estate

Re: A storm off the coast of Sicily

Oh there's a batshit insane conspiracy theory behind everything these days.

Apple owes billions in back taxes over Ireland state aid rule break

Re: General Court erred

Except that's not what happened, Brexit Boy.

Ah well at least we'll be able to afford a few more bike shelters for politicians ...

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0902/1467936-leinster-house-bike-shed/

"Answers needed from OPW over €335k bike shelter"

What is this computing industry anyway? The dawning era of 32-bit micros

Ah Concurrent DOS

Fond* memories of setting up cheapo star networks with Wyse terminals hanging off a 16-port serial board. And of course C\DOS didn't run a lot of MS-DOS software like WordStar properly,.

*not fond

Where the computer industry went wrong – the early hits

"Even less relevant was CP/M, which bloated the price for no useful gain. "

Not only that but the C128 implementation was dog slow:

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2361/why-does-the-commodore-c128-perform-poorly-when-running-cp-m

Microsoft sends Windows Control Panel to tech graveyard

cue the wailing

About things not staying like Windows XP

Brit tech mogul Mike Lynch missing after yacht sinks off Sicily amid storms

Re: Coincidence or what !!!

Not everything has to be conspiracy you doorknob

It's all drying up: Microsoft to erase 3D Paint from digital store

A very odd product

Who's it aimed at - casual 3d scene artists? Lots of those guys ...

WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, is re-released for free

Re: Came here for the absolute loons saying it's better than Word

Hey all the millions of you worldwide using Word for years very successfully - what if I told you Excel is a better word processor! I've lifted the veil from your eyes!

By no sane metric are either WP for DOS or Excel a better word processor trhan Word.

Came here for the absolute loons saying it's better than Word

... wasn't disappointed.

FTC grabs controller as Microsoft jacks up Game Pass price by 81%

Obviously it is

if you're 15 and everyone else in your class or group of friends has the latest COD\FIFA\Madden on release day and you'll look like a twat if you don't.

Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience

Re: Beyond me

Tell me you haven't got the first notion about modern Windows etc. Why didn't you put a 'Micro$oft' in there as well like it's 2002? If the cheaper alternatives proved to be actually better in the corporate world outside your bedroom then everyone would be using them.

CrowdStrike file update bricks Windows machines around the world

Re: Fun Times......

You can log into your 365 from another PC or your phone.

Re: Related?

It's a Crowdstrike issue, not Microsoft. Try reading the article.

What, like this one you mean?

https://macresearch.org/macos-big-sur-boot-loop-fix/

Getting sick of evermore intrusive endpoint security suites

riding roughshod over everything else on systems like they have some sort of divine right.

Windows Notepad gets spell check. Only took 41 years

It's a text editor

WTF does it need spellcheck for ?

Windows: Insecure by design

Re: how much punishment are you willing to take?

Medal's in the post.

SoftBank boss says 'artificial superintelligence' could be three years away

This man

is talking out of his hoop.

Digital Realty CTO weighs in on AI's insatiable thirst for power

Ugh I hate

f**king techbros

Microsoft cancels universal Recall release in favor of Windows Insider preview

Oh it'll be back ...

they're postively doing the backstroke in a swimming pool full of AI Kool-Aid now ...

The origin of 3D Pipes, Windows' best screensaver

Re: My main memory of these ...

I am because I don't discuss f**king screensavers.

My main memory of these ...

... is of several customer sites having kittens about terrible performance in networked applications, going out to the site, waggling the mouse on the server to stop the 3D screensaver hoovering up all the CPU, saying "problem solved?" followed by "Don't enable any screensaver other than a blank screen on servers."

By 2030, software developers will be using AI to cut their workload 'in half'

Re: See you all back here in 2030

It's not a form of AI. None of this is. Where is the 'I'?

See you all back here in 2030

when absolutely nothing of the sort will have happened.

Will Windows drive a PC refresh? Everyone's talking about AI

I do, yes ...

That was where we connected things that had no business being on the internet to the internet, when we can't even keep things that make sense to have on the internet properly secure.

Tape is so dead, 152.9 EB of LTO media shipped last year

Oh, dead as a doornail ...

alongside email, Excel, COBOL ...

I stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite – and no one wants to fix this model-breaking bug

Nobody wants to hear about it because

they all have their fingers in their ears going LA LA LA HYPE TRAIN LA LA LA CAN'T HEAR YOU and they have $ instead of eyes.

Tesla self-driving claims parked in court

Re: Self-driving cars remain ...

That's the Ozempic answer. Obese due to lifestyle choices and not medical reasons? Here, pay big pharma a stack of money and inject yourself every month for life! Exercise schmexercise.

Americans are shit drivers? Maybe teach them properly, enforce the laws and give them an opportunity to drive less.

Self-driving cars remain ...

... a solution we're many decades from achieving (if ever) to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

Neuralink keeps losing the thread on brain implant wiring

Remember the good old Captain Cyborg days on El Reg?

Good times.

Dublin debauchery derails Portal to NYC in six days flat

From our 'what did they think would happen' correspondent.

If you're going to do this, do it in a large shopping centre or something, where passersby are not pissed up kids.

Google Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders

Someone here mentioned Kagi recently

and I'm glad they did

Elon Musk's latest brainfart is to turn Tesla cars into AWS on wheels

"Let's burn electricity on absolute horse shite"

It's the techbro mantra.

Throwflame launches fire-spitting robo-dog from Hell

Nice headline grabber

but entirely useless as a practical weapon I'd imagine.

Tesla misses the mark on all fronts in quarter of chaos

Owning a Tesla

"Imagine your printer is also your car. That's what owning a Tesla is like." - Gary Whitta

Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs

Re: Alternative

Well done you. Obviously you don't need to use anything a business needs to run in the real world, or games.

Alternative operating systems are available

oooh and do the latest versions of those run on ancient hardware?

No.

Microsoft to use Windows 11 Start menu as a billboard with app ads for Insiders

They just can't help themselves can they

fixated on that ad nipple

Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins

If LibreOffice provided anything even approaching an alternative to 365 in functionality ...

... then this task would be so much easier.

GenAI will be bigger than the cloud or the internet, Amazon CEO hopes

Oh great so many of these in the last decade or so

3D printing, blockchain, all a new dawn of humanity or something

Notepad++ dev slams Google-clogging notepad.plus 'parasite'

Google is increasingly useless

Increasingly noise to signal, even with Personal Blocklist et al.

Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources

Re: Economics are a PITA, aren't they?

"AI could potentially change the whole planet in unimaginable ways. It WILL change it, but the only question is when."

Been hearing that since the 80s. We're still only at Super Clippy being hyped by techbros stage.

Google is wrong to put AI search features behind paywall, says HPC leader

Fine by me

it's an effective way to ignore it

Microsoft decides it's done with Azure egress ransoms

Re: Wankery

They do.

At gunpoint.

The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?

Re: Confused

Like all Linux equivalents of Microsoft Office desktop applications, they're a pile of shite. Sorry but they are. If they weren't, businesses would be using it.

Microsoft calls AI privacy complaint 'doomsday hyperbole'

Everything but everything is hyperbole

with the AI hype train of venture capital bullshit.

Stuck paying for your apartment's crummy internet? FCC boss Rosenworcel wants to help

Re: Maybe not as easy as it seems

Um maybe the same way as every other country in the world seems to manage it ?

Flying car biz Alef claims 3K preorders, still hasn't done a proper demo

Ah yes flying cars

As unlikely to ever come to fruition as self-driving cars.

Google wants regulators to take Microsoft down a notch before it stifles AI

All these 'well I use Linux' commenters

are confusing anecdote with data.