This is what happens when you put LLM in charge of update release. I know, they haven't said this is the case, but given their push of copilot down engineers throats...
Posts by beardman
63 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009
Microsoft slows Windows 11 24H2 Patch Tuesday due to a 'compatibility issue'
Ukraine strikes Russian bomber-maker with hack attack
Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare
Musk's xAI swallows Musk's X in ego-friendly, all-stock deal
The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway
How Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history
Monday 20th January 2025 09:04 GMT
Use of 386 protected mode was a lie until WindowsNT
Windows has not used 386 protected mode until WindowsNT. All 3.0, 3.11 and even 95 did not use protected mode. How do I know? In between 3.11 and 95 as a student I read about 386 protected mode and was fascinated. Even agreed with uni to do an assignment outside of my CompSci program. And I had 486 made not by Intel, but AMD. And mine 486 had a bug. It entered protected mode and worked as expected, but could not leave it. Upon instructed to exit protected mode it would just lock up. At first, I thought my code was wrong. But when OS/2, which did use protected mode, could not reboot my PC it dawned on me - this CPU had a bug and all the Windows I've tried on it did not use full potential of 386 architecture and instruction set.
Panic at the Cisco tech, thanks to ancient IOS syntax helper that outsmarted itself
$373M ASML chipmaker shrinks to $228 – but it's made of Lego
Chinese ship casts shadow over Baltic subsea cable snipfest
Happy birthday, Putin – you've been pwned
Python in Excel goes live – but only for certain Windows users
Where do Terraform and OpenTofu go from here?
What makes a hard error hard? Microsoft vet tells all
A year on, CISA realizes debunked vuln actually a dud and removes it from must-patch list
Moscow makes a mess on the Moon as Luna 25 probe misses orbit, lands with a thud
Kremlin claims Apple helped NSA spy on diplomats via iPhone backdoor
Friday 2nd June 2023 06:54 GMT
Why does Kremlin care about this?
The Western phones have been banned in that failed country shortly after their invasion to Ukraine and sanctions. Of course, some continue to use them and even buy new ones. E.g. the horse-head of ministry of foreign affairs carried iPhone 14 in the last summit in Bali. Double standards and hypocrisy - long standing standard in Хуйлостан.
Of course Russia's ex-space boss doubts US set foot on the Moon
Python still has the strongest grip on developers
Russian developers blocked from contributing to FOSS tools
Ukraine invasion blew up Russian cybercrime alliances
Microsoft makes a game of Team building, with benefits
Problems for the Linux kernel NTFS driver as author goes silent
Friday 29th April 2022 14:45 GMT
Paragon Software was founded and run by Russian folks
Given the current events that involve Russia, it might very well be that they are hit by the sanctions, cannot work with the western companies and are completely off the grid. Heck, some of them even might have been taken to army and brought into meaningless war and faced death...
Tech world's Ukraine response mixes evacuation efforts, ad bans, free phones, infosec FUD
Kremlin names the internet giants it will kidnap the Russian staff of if they don't play ball in future
Russia's Elbrus has a RISC-V competitor as Yadro prepares native chips for launch
AI recommendations fail fans who like hard rock and hip hop – official science
Wednesday 31st March 2021 11:42 GMT
all of the recommendation algorithms are a failure
Amazon always thinks I need more of the same that I already bought. Netflix cannot understand that I want to watch different genre movies and TV series, not more of the same I watched latest. Spotify recommendations are also bollocks as my taste spans a whole lot of music styles.
Oh, the humanity! Microsoft congratulates itself for Teams inflicted on 115m daily users
Office 365 enjoys good old-fashioned Thursday wobble as email teeters over in Europe
We need to go deeper: Meltdown and Spectre flaws will force security further down the stack
Monday 26th March 2018 10:52 GMT 
Intel x86 considered harmful
Back in 2015 Joanna Rutkowska published a paper (https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf) and pretty much predicted that attention will turn to hardware in search for new vulnerabilities. It's compelling, because owning a system at this level is more persistent, less visible and harder to get rid of.
UK, US govt and pals on WannaCry culprit: It woz the Norks wot done it
Firefox 57: Good news? It's nippy. Bad news? It'll also trash your add-ons
Colliders, containers, dark matter: The CERN atom smasher's careful cloud revolution
Rosetta's last comet pic
Microsoft lobs Files app at WinPhone users with lots of ... uh ... files
WHY didn't Microsoft buy RIM? Us business blokes would have queued for THAT phone
Monday 30th September 2013 11:06 GMT 
A totally irrelevant rant about ones dream. MS = WP8 and that rules Blackberry out of equation. And about sysadmin phone? Be consistent with your requirements, please for whatevers' sake. First, it's decent browser, which of all choices Blackberries' is the most laughable choice. Then all of a sudden it's full blown productivity suite..? Which again is not in Blackberry favor. And what the hell you do as a sysadmin that you need productivity suite..? I'd understand decent ssh client and remote desktop app, but that..?
El'Reg has just fallen short on respect points for posting this article...
USA's H-1B skilled worker visa applications open
Razzies set to torpedo Rihanna's Battleship
ESO's nine-gigapixel galactic image has 84 MILLION stars
Oregon farmer devoured by own hogs
Smutty books strip Harry Potter of Amazon crown
Disappearing space dust belt baffles boffins
Thursday 5th July 2012 11:18 GMT 
Magratheans?
It was the Magratheans who constructed the planet-sized computer named Earth (for a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings, the mice) to determine the ultimate question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, which is required to understand the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
I wonder what they have built now? I bet it's not another Earth.
Panasonic chief says no to low-cost OLED TVs
Relax hackers! NATO has no cyber-attack plans - top brass
World+Dog to demand ever larger tablet-phones
Web hosting
Motorola's bid to sink Windows, XBoxes sales snubbed
Chinese coders beat all-comers
Lithuania rules beer brewing 'vitally essential' to life
Monday 5th March 2012 13:12 GMT
my sweet lord of... whatever...
they may put any rules on this crapy carslberg "beer" factory. the fact is that less and less people drink their beer-product here in Lithuania. everyone I talk to are switching to small breweries (and there're plenty to choose from) production, because that's the real beer and not something produced at large quantities and very fast at some factory-thing.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
