Re: Centrix
Only the rich can be x-centric.
The rest of us poors have to put up with merely being mad.
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SEC: Startup had 'no functional streaming service', raised $1.3m anyway
FCC calls for mega $300 million fine for massive US robocall campaign
Thursday 22nd December 2022 23:26 GMT 
Not trying to out-hang-'em-and-flog-'em on you, but this is one instance where I'd be all in favor of the death penalty. And I'm serious. These cretins have caused so much stress and upset and cost millions of people time, money and peace. As repeat offenders they've had their one chance, but shown that they don't care.
A quick drop from Albert Pierrepoint's modern counterpart would definitely preclude any more villainy from this pair.
As it is, I'm sure they'll just declare bankruptcy, having carefully transferred their assets into others' names or tax-haven jurisdictions, and they'll pop up doing exactly the same thing a couple of years from now.
Why would a keyboard pack a GPU and run Unreal Engine? To show animations beneath the clear keys, natch
Wednesday 21st December 2022 02:54 GMT
Re: wow, bling value $millions
I just watched the video. As you said, utterly impractical, and yet I want one. TBH $350 is not that much by modern high-end keyboard standards.
However, I have to ask. Why, given that this is the cutting-edge of keyboard technology, does it have a case design that looks like a Victorian pianola or a William Morris wallpaper? Or possibly, being charitable, a steampunk cosplay item? Those artfully carved finials and flourishes would look wonderful on an antique Davenport desk, but a keyboard...?
Patch Tuesday update is causing some Windows 10 systems to blue screen
OneCoin co-founder pleads guilty to $4 billion fraud
Microsoft patent eyes ads in streaming online games
Tuesday 20th December 2022 16:23 GMT
Re: I wonder whatever happened to...
No no, he's got a point. Look at what happened to streaming services and movies. They have adverts before/after/in them now, and so the content companies did the decent thing and no longer charge the end-consumer. Which is jolly nice of them. After all, to charge people a subscription or ticket cost, and then show adverts, would be double-dipping, and that would be greedy, and I'm not sure I'd want to live in the kind of world where that was a thing.
Also, there are unicorns at the bottom of my garden.
Amazon, Games Workshop announce Warhammer 40k film deal
Plaice in spaaace: NASA boosts astronauts' cognition with piscine diet
Microsoft Teams: A vector for child sexual abuse material with a two-day processing time for complaints
Friday 16th December 2022 15:49 GMT
Re: Apple's recently announced end to end encryption for iCloud
In the old days, one of the shining characteristics of British (and Western in general?) justice was neatly and proudly summed up by the saying “better that a dozen guilty men go free, than that one innocent man be wrongly convicted”
Well now thanks to mob hysteria, showboating politicians and single-issue pressure groups, that’s morphed into “better that a dozen innocent men be wrongly accused, have their lives and reputations ruined, and suffer oppressive surveillance measures, than that one guilty man go free”.
Progress.
NetBSD 9.3: A 2022 OS that can run on late-1980s hardware
Malicious Microsoft-signed Windows drivers wielded in cyberattacks
Need a video editor, FOSS fans? OpenShot and Kdenlive both refreshed
To protect its cloud, Microsoft bans crypto mining from its online services
Raspberry Pi supply chain loosens just in time for the holiday season
Server installer fails to spot STOP button – because he wasn't an archaeologist
A brand new Linux DRM display driver – for a 1992 computer
Thursday 8th December 2022 01:22 GMT
Re: Falcon, ST, AmigaOS et al
Indeed. I remember my excitement when I got a 2.04 Kickstart ROM and plugged it into my A500, turning it into (more or less) an A500+.
I'd spent an unhealthy amount of time before that tweaking my Workbench 1.3 to make it resemble 2.0, but it was very satisfying to have the real thing.
Back in the days when a new OS version was exciting, and you didn't have to ask questions like "yes, new capabilities, but it'll harvest all my data and spam me with adverts... is the trade-off worth it?"
Wednesday 7th December 2022 19:48 GMT
Re: Good.
£25 in 1987 is the equivalent of today's £66, according to the BoE's inflation calculator.
So I was about to say yes, you'd definitely be able to afford an RPi. Then I looked on Amazon UK to see what they're currently selling for over there. Holy crap. For that money, forget the Pi, buy yourself a day's worth of central heating instead.
Tuesday 6th December 2022 03:11 GMT
Indeed. I had a friend at university (circa 1995) who bought himself a 1GB hard drive, and we all gathered round to worship it and bask in its capacious magnificence.
I'd have given my left nut - I certainly wasn't using it at that time, unfortunately, despite my hapless Richie-and-Eddie-esque pickup attempts - to have a GB of disk myself, never mind RAM.
Tuesday 6th December 2022 00:01 GMT
Re: Falcon, ST, AmigaOS et al
I’m going to politely venture to disagree with you. AIUI, the preemptive multitasking was a feature of the OS and was present even on the 68000.
What that processor lacked, and what you’re maybe thinking of, was an MMU. The lack of hardware memory protection meant that a single malfunctioning application on the Amiga could - and invariably, did - bring down the entire OS. Ah, the dreaded Guru Meditation, oh how little we miss ye.
Monday 5th December 2022 22:44 GMT
Re: "800 MIPS Amiga"
It got updated subsequently, but for a long time Sysinfo, one of the standard Amiga benchmark programs, would freak out when run under emulation. After running its (simple, whetstone-based? IIRC) speed-test, it would print a suitable comment - "Yawn", "Now we're talking", "Cooking!" etc.
And when run under emulation: "Call me NOW!!!!!!".
I often wondered whether to call the author and tell him how it was that I had an Amiga running at 35x the speed of an A4000/040, but I was always put off by the hassle. Calling Australia circa 1993, from Swindon circa 2010, was more trouble than it was worth, and the long-distance charges would be horrendous...
Microsoft reportedly mulls a does-everything 'super app' to expand mobile search
Longstanding bug in Linux kernel floppy handling fixed
Wednesday 7th December 2022 19:41 GMT
Re: Boeing use(d) them
Yes. I'm sure that if the remaining user(s) of floppy disks with Linux are ever identified, they'll turn out to be needing them for an embedded industrial application of some sort. CNC lathes, aerospace, or whatever. I highly doubt that there's any general-purpose home/office PC users still reliant on them... surely?
SAP still struggling to convert ECC customers to S/4HANA, says Gartner
Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams went down in APAC because Microsoft broke itself
Eat up, Windows 11 users – this is your last non-security preview update for the year
Submarine cable damage brings internet pain to Asia, Africa
CT scanning tech could put an end to 100ml liquid limit on flights by 2024
Too soon? Amazon commissions FTX mini-series
New SI prefixes clear the way for quettabytes of storage
Nvidia faces lawsuit for melting RTX 4090 cables as AMD has a laugh
Sunday 20th November 2022 07:05 GMT
Re: optimizing things
Look, I don't want any toast, and he doesn't want any toast. In fact, no-one around here wants any toast. Not now, not ever. No toast.
Or muffins. We don't like muffins around here. We want no muffins. No toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels. No croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes, and no hot cross buns. And definitely no smegging flapjacks!
Security firms hijack New York trees to monitor private workforce
Qualcomm teases custom Arm-compatible Oryon CPU cores designed by Nuvia
KFC bot urges Germans to mark Kristallnacht with cheesy chicken
Microsoft tests 'upsells' of its products in Windows 11 sign-out menu
Tuesday 8th November 2022 22:27 GMT
Re: Microsoft does everything to stay out of companies
>But the pro version should be without that trash.
Alas, the days when "Pro" meant "Professional" are long gone for Windows. You have to now think of Home, S and Pro as all being aimed at consumers, but with different mixes of lockdown, and Group Policy editor thrown into the latter - as if half the GPOs actually have any effect on it... no, for that, you need the Enterprise version.
In Microsoft's current approach, their corporate customers should all be on Enterprise editions, paid for monthly and with all that lovely lovely ongoing 365/Teams/Azure revenue.
Everyone else - home users, professional enthusiasts, small one-man businesses - can go hang. They're just a revenue stream to be monetized, data-mined, and "persuaded" into other MS services.
Actually, before someone corrects me, I take some of that back. Enterprise customers are also there to be monetized... but at least Microsoft is a little more subtle towards them.
Tuesday 8th November 2022 21:16 GMT
Re: Perhaps Next Year
It's funny isn't it, how up until Windows 10/11, anyone expressing enthusiasm for Vista would have been shunned as a clearly deranged lunatic. How times change.
Kind of like how until recently, anyone babbling about how "They" are watching us 24/7, satellites, spying on us, monitoring everything we do or say or buy... would be dismissed as a tinfoil-hatter. Now however the response is more likely to be "yes yes, all that's true, but apart from that, what's bothering you?"
Tuesday 8th November 2022 21:02 GMT
Hah, I'm not surprised that such a thing already exists. When I needed to work around this exact problem, I just threw a quick Autoit script together to accomplish the same thing. But then, re-inventing the wheel is my forté, it seems.
Opt("MouseCoordMode",1)
Dim $aMousePos
While(true)
$aMousePos = MouseGetPos()
MouseMove($aMousePos[0]+1,$aMousePos[1]+1,0)
MouseMove($aMousePos[0],$aMousePos[1],0)
Sleep(30000)
WEnd
Tesla recalls 40k cars over patch that broke power steering
Tuesday 8th November 2022 20:55 GMT
Re: Power steering
> 'cos otherwise I expect that some bright spark (did you see what I did there?) would have a completely 'drive by wire' steering train, like the fly-by-wire aircraft, and then they'd be completely *&^%$d.
Alas, I don't think Toyota got that memo. Their new "OMG" (yes, that's really the name they've chosen for it - One Motion Grip) steering system uses a yoke and fly-by-wire, with a battery as backup but no direct mechanical linkage.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/features/toyota-reinvents-steering-wheel/
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