Posts by Hans 1

As ChatGPT scores B- in engineering, professors scramble to update courses

Re: But when deeper thought was required, ChatGPT fared poorly.

I heard people say that aout Deep Blue.

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

Re: Glad to know

He means the wrong, simple, left and wrong.

Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition

Re: So that's why!

Anything M$ buys gets shittified, in that they are the same as Broadcom and Oracle.

Look what they did to Minecraft, github, linkedin, the show must go on ...

You trust Microsoft's firewall ????

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1imsmm/microsoft_windows_firewall/?rdt=36509

We call this kernel saunters: How Apple rearranged its XNU core with exclaves

Re: around for 100s of years

Jails were introduced in FreebSD 4.0 release in March 2000, so 25 years ago.

UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project

No comment

> "This was not required as the Council’s commercial team led the discussions, which resulted in a saving of [circa] £1m over the extension term when compared against renewals on existing terms,"

Infoseccer: Private security biz let guard down, exposed 120K+ files

> A good thing the files contained PII rather than "personal data", otherwise they'd potentially be in trouble due to GDPR

Yes, maybe will learn what data about the Pentium II CPU was on that server ...

Re: Not completly stupid ...

They probably already have....

Actually, if you get in to the server, download what you want and doctor the logs, you are good to go, nothing will be reported.

Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change

Re: Intel x86_64 is part of the problem

Well, this is the strategy, you have your tests in a pipeline, if code passes, code gets released. Then, obviously, a bunch of bugs emerge, these are fixed and tested by the same dev, what could go wrong? Tests are added for regressions. The fixes cause bugs elsewhere, of course, but code passes the pipeline. Start over ...

AWS claims customers are packing bags and heading back on-prem

Re: The cloud only increases your attack surface

<quote>NEVER Ever use a cloud vendors sw, Lock in is lock in. Once you are locked in you have no negotiation ability</quote>

You can use the cloud to your benefits, however, treat cloud in code as on-premise, do not use their shiny expensive features that are subpar anyway, build your own, pay once for the effort, and it's yours!

On-site is always better, but when manglement wants cloud, make your cloud infra cloud-agnostic.

Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off

Where are the sleeping giants when you need them ?

The port of the Windows 95 Start Menu was not all it seemed

Re: Called out by a commentard

M. Monette, quelle pertinence, excuse my French, to the point!

Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy'

Re: Distrust and disrupt the disruptor

Cracks have already appeared, instead of using glibc for DNS lookups they wrote their own, with a bug very similar to a long fixed bug in glibc.

The whole concept of système d is "Why use what works?"

IBM sued again for alleged discrimination – this time against White males

Yes, I can see it, it's over there --------->

Oh no, wait, that's the wrong..

It's over there

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#TFTFY

I can fix this PC, boss, but I’ll need to play games for hours to do it

In the early 2000's, I was tech support for SGI Visual Workstations, Diablo II was used to test the graphics performance. I had 4 or 8GB of RAM on these things with Windows NT. When the boss came around, I would say I am testing the graphics. I was waiting for calls, when a call arrived, I would switch to our app and die in the game. Fun times.

OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations

Re: I love OpenBSD

OpenBSD is for grown-ups, it is a tool and not a swiss army knife. What it does it does better than anything else and if you want to do what it does, you use it. If you do not know what you want, you would use Linux, the swiss army knife, if you have Windows, you are not entitled to an opinion.

Tesla Berlin gigafactory goes dark after alleged eco-sabotage

Re: It is not left wing extremists

Hitler & co were far-left.

Go find a picture of the Reichstag in 1931 or 1932, notice the NSDAP sitting on the far right in the chamber.

NSDAP, in light brown uniforms, leave the chamber, except Goebbels:

https://www.swr.de/swr2/wissen/archivradio/nsdap-droht-und-verlaesst-das-parlament-1931-reichstag-vor-hitler-100.html

Job interview descended into sweary shouting match, candidate got the gig anyway

"PC does not power up, no beeps etc., what's the first thing you would check?"

Static leccy on the motherboard. Unplug the PC, hit the power button a dozen times, plug it back in.

250 million-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released – but the internet isn’t built to use them

The problem is, of course, that many production systems use these IP addresses in production systems, since they are unroutable across the Internet.

IPv6 is the future.

Boeing goes boing: 757 loses a wheel while taxiing down the runway

Re: click bait

Roundabouts ?

Broadcom ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers

Broadcom is a software graveyard

I wrote it before, they excel at buying software then f it up so badly nobody wants it anymore.

Broadcom to end VMware’s channel program, move partners to its own invite-only offering

I would of have thought they believe the bullshit from some accenture trainée (excuse my French), and no, anything with a little experience does not work for that bunch.

GhostBSD makes FreeBSD a little less frightening for the Linux loyal

You forgot the most important, GNU's Not UNIX.

Same player shoot again!

Re: I've Used GhostBSD

glibc's malloc is not optimised for speed, nor effectiveness, that is why tcmalloc and jemalloc exist.

Re: Dual boot FreeBSD and Linux

FreeBSD is a server OS, it's meant to be installed, configured, and do the job. It does the job better than anything out there, it is not a toy, it's a tool.

BSD is for experts

I come here again because I failed to mention why I strongly believe BSD is for experts.

FreeBSD has the fastest networking stack in the industry, say whatever you want, fact, compared to Linux and macos, Windows is not even in the same ballpark even though they copy the FreeBSD network stack every ten years.

FreeBSD has many goodies, including an in-kernel load balancer, which is rock solid.

Even the docs are top-notch.

OpenBSD has never had a zero-day and been around a while.

Yes, they are harder to install than Windows, macos, or Linux, we don't care, we know what we are doing.

May I add:

They removed the root drive shortcut from Finder favourites, no clear way I found to get it back except Go -> Go to Folder -> / - annoying or open / in Terminal.app.

Every macos release consistently breaks music recording/editing software.

May I remove:

Tabbed Finder does not break drag and drop, it just takes some patience of yours to allow it to figure out you really want to drag and drop to the other tab - you have to hold the file over the tab for a few seconds.

Minix is a better server than Windows, in any sense I can think of, of course, minix will never beat linux and linux will never beat BSD.

Fair point, nothing to add, except my Apple rant - soldering RAM and SSD is a crime, since at least 1995, if not sooner!

BSD is for experts, if you work with crayons, stick to Windows, if you want something serious, go macos, it has BSD userland.

3D printer purchases could require background checks under proposed law

Re: Do those numbers include...

It is very dangerous to rip off the fuzz ....

Chinese vendor apologizes for claiming Microsoft open source code was its own product

"Xi Jinping intimidated Taiwan" What's wrong with that ? This is the offending equivalent: 习近平恐吓台湾

Intel promises next year's Xeons will challenge AMD on memory, IO channels

Catch up ? WTF ?

They could double core count on next year's kit and AMD will still have them for breakfast with currently available kit ...

Google wants to take a byte out of Oracle workloads with PostgreSQL migration service

Re: SYSDATE from Oracle does not have an equivalent in PostgreSQL

You should not be using sysdate but systimestamp instead, anyway, bloody hell, need to get ready for pub day tomorrow, grabbing coat ...

FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds

Re: Pretty impressive

Never say never, it all depends how many things you have to sort.

Want tech cred? Learn how to email like a pro

The exact reason why you guyz are still around - you make very good ones and sometimes bad ones, but at least we het one each time.

The thing I do not understand, is how a gold badge does not know this ...

There is an angle you forgot, here, which is the need to adapt to the person your are writing to. MBA's typically would not understand a properly unformatted email with a reply below and would probably mark it as spam - if you need to communicate with them, you have to adhere to their rules ... I learned that a decade or two ago ... when I write to techies, I usually append some silly thing at the end, such as _Sent from my CPC 128_

Atari Video Computer System returns in Lego form

Re: £209?

It is bricked, what would you expect ?

Version 5 of systemd-free Debian remix Devuan is here

Quadro 1000M

You have nvidia.com for the driver, right ? For the Quadra, you can even choose production or feature branches ...

OpenAI's ChatGPT has a left wing bias – at times

Re: a politically neutral 'truth'

Free as in free speech, NOT like free beer.

30 years on, Debian is at the heart of the world's most successful Linux distros

Why old computers ?

FOSS OSes also work better on older, slower computers, which drives adoption among the billions who can't afford the latest laptops.

FOSS OSes work better on all computers I have ever used, new and old, with the exception of the old Amstrad.

SUSE to flip back into private ownership after just two-and-a-bit years

Milking penguins

This sure does not bode well, RedHat and Suse, two harakiris in a quarter.

Nobody would ever work on the live server, right? Not intentionally, anyway

Re: Evelyn Hofer

Anything mentionning manics in any way gets an upvote - in zis case well dezerved, excuse my français

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Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023

XP always sucked

When XP came out, I too went to FOSS, mostly FreeBSD, Slackware, Suse (7.2 pro), and Mac OS X, I got a Powerbook. When I took the Powerbook to the office one morning, the founder came around to have a look at it. Mac user ever since. I tried to stick to Windows 2000 at work for as long as I could, when they forced XP on me, I installed Solaris in a VM and used that, I turned off everything I could in XP to keep it as lightweight as possible - why Solaris ? Just to show that it could be done.

Network died, hard, during company Christmas party, leaving lone techie to fix it

Re: Not checking is suicidal

xkcd

Broadcom asserts VMware's strategy isn't working and it basically needs rescuing

Free while VMWare is still a threat, as soon as VMWare dies, don't worry, you will have to fork out big $$$. The sad thing is, Hyper-V still sucks, performance and OS support wise.

Re: VMware is Legacy Tech

Why oh why would you run VMWare on Windows Server ? I can understand that you would want to run it on Workstations, maybe.

With dead-time dump, Microsoft revealed DDoS as cause of recent cloud outages

Re: Ah, what a nice bit of camouflage

I was astonished our vulture did not pick this up in the article ...

Microsoft stole our stolen dark web data, says security outfit

Never trust Microsoft for anything.

AMD extends Ryzen 7000 range to enterprise with Pro chips

Re: When running a Microsoft Teams session

I use that app to suck my golf balls through the garden hose, does a great job at that as well!