Posts by Kev99

US Navy backs right to repair after $13B carrier crew left half-fed by contractor-locked ovens

Since when do swabbies or grunts wait for permission to fix broken kit? Most of the repairs made during The War, Korea and Viet Nam were done on the spot by the users and "scroungers".

Trump guts digital ID rules, claims they help 'illegal aliens' commit fraud

His lover must be ecstatic.

Please tell us Reg: Why are AI PC sales slower than expected?

Re: We all know what'll happen

I had a solution to getting copilot without being asked. I just deleted EVERY reference to edge on my main drive and in the registry. Computers, including my (unfortunately) win11 box all run just fine without it.

Why are AI PC sales slow? You don't need to an expert in anything to realise that AI is a product searching for a market. No one has come up with a viable business use yet.

Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire

Wouldn't it make more sense to ship the vehicles with absolute bare minimum batteries installed and then then install the batteries at the destination? Each vehicle could be isolated, kind of like what they do for fireworks manufacturing.

Ukraine strikes Russian bomber-maker with hack attack

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania thank you.

Scammers are deepfaking voices of senior US government officials, warns FBI

How to tell if a call / message is a deep fake of El Tonto naranja? The speaker is coherent, logical, and truthful.

Microsoft winnows: Layoffs hit software engineers hard

Mictosoft actually has software engineers? From all the patches, bugs, updates, and fixes they spit out, I thought their software was coded by the kids at Tom McCall School.

37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions

They charge you for your own data? They're clearing umpteen billion a year and they want to nickel & dime users? Bugger those blokes.

The 12 KB that Windows just can't seem to quit

I seem to remember there's another file buried in the windows folders that also had some icons in it. Plus, a number of .exe & .com files have icons buried in them.

IRS hopes to replace fired enforcement workers with AI

So that's where all the congress who are going to get sacked in 2026 are going work. Gives a whole new meaning to artificial intelligence.

Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift?

The minimum requirements for win 10 over win 7 were a sales play. I had win10 running on a pc I built in 2010 with no problems. I also had win11 running on the same box for an unholy while (both it and homebrew are gone.) The requirements exist solely, in my opinion, to sucker buyer into buying new kit that isn't needed, and new software that is usually worse than the previous version.

Windows 11 24H2 now 'broadly available' ... complete with yet another 'known issue'

After how many decades of coding and mictosoft still can't write clean, safe code? Oy gevalt!

Brain-inspired neuromorphic computer SpiNNaker overheated when coolers lost their chill

I've seen pix of mainboards submerged in various fluids to help with cooling. I wonder it would be possible to set up atomizers / misters to spray over the components to keep them cool would work.

Nationwide power outages knock Spain, Portugal offline

Ah, yes. Let's connect all of our business critical, confidential, proprietary, life supporting infrastructure thru the internet. It's perfectly secure and safe. Besides, IT'S FREE!

Build your own antisocial writing rig with DOS and a $2 USB key

On my first PC, an Amstrad, I used pfs: Write, later moving up to pfs:Professional Write. I also ran Quatro Pro. When I got a 286 PC, I upgraded to Quatro Pro 4, which had TABS. I also used pfs:Publisher. At the time I was the Chief Fiscal Officer for a multi-million dollar entity. It was quite easy to create annual reports, prepare fund distributions, and annual budgets. In addition to my Panasonic 24 pin printer I was able to connect my IBM Wheelwriter for official correspondence. Guess what? They all worked just fine nd I didn't need to worry about any mictosoft spyware / bloatware.

Google admits depreciation costs are soaring amid furious bit barn build

Depreciation costs are fictitious, easily manipulated numbers that have to no basic in reality. Why companies are allowed to report these facetious numbers is beyond me other than to fudge financial statements to avoid taxes. I used to help me dad do farm taxes and he'd change the depreciation method to create a gain or loss. The only time depreciation should be recorded is when the asset is actually sold or otherwise disposed. And in 95% of the time, if those assets are real property, the actual market value has increased, not decreased.

Ninite to win it: How to rebuild Windows without losing your mind

"It even removed the documentation on bypassing them."

The Internet Archive is your friend.

Microsoft mystery folder fix might need a fix of its own

"Microsoft testing"?? That's a bigger oxymoron the "military intelligence".

As far as security updates (another mictosoft oxymoron) there's simple solution I've been using since Hector was a pup. DON"T click on every URL that pops up. DON"T open every email without checking the real email address first. On most reputable emails, hovering the cursor over the sender's name will disclose the actual address. And, TURNOFF your Pc when it's not in use. Following these simple steps gave me years of safe & clean browsing under win7. I'm still looking for a good reason to have upgraded from 7 to 10 besides mictosoft's sycophants crippling their gear to not work under 7.

Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims

Boo hoo hoo, Elon. Maybe you should be deported "accidentally" back to South Africa where you try to restore apartheid there instead of bringing it to the US.

Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted

I was able to completely kill off copilot in win10 by using a file search program to find all references to edge.*. Once found, I deleted every one. I then regedit to again search for edge as well as copilot references and killed them off. And finally I used a couple drive cleaners and they finished the job of whacking related files. No more edge. No more copilot.

Next step is to see if the same process on my new (and unfortunately) win11 unit will work.

Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online and weirdly alive

A few years back I bought "cheese grater" mac Pro with 2 Xeon CPUs and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. With a little tweaking, I flashed the EFI from 1,1 to 2,1 and installed El Capitan. Ran just fine. Problems? You mean beside the fact the unit had two 64 bit CPUs but Apple purposely crippled the EFI so it only ran in 32 bit mode? That no versions of Firefox after v12 (I think) because of the crippled EFI. It didn't really matter because I could still travel the internet as easily as on my win10 PC, unless a website had been rewritten to intentionally not work on any version of Firefox before the most recent.

Japan serves Google a cease and desist order over its Android bundling deals

We'll never see an action like this by El Tonto's DOJ / FTC / Commerce / etc.

And I'd love to see some action that would force the cell phone companies to allow users to delete any installed apps. Samsung is especially bad about this.

Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades

Still can't write clean code after forty years

The title sums it up. Mictosoft has been coding windows since at least November 1985. What a bunch of maroons. Don't they pay attention to CVEs or what is in their code?

California sues President Tariff

El Tonto obeying the courts? You're kidding, right?

El Tonto has repeatedly thumbed his nose at every federal court from district courts, to circuit courts, and the supreme court, as well the international court of justice in The Hague.

Do they really think El Tonto and his band of know-nothings will really pay attention to any law suit? Barr already screwed the public under El Tonto the First by claiming the president can't be prosecuted.

Even though there is NOTHING in the constitution or US Code stating this claim.

CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home

El Tonto actually allowed a US agency to continue to help the rest of the world?? Did miss something from the Black House? CVE Foundation had better start pounding the bricks and get funding from every country, corporation, and charitable foundation out there ASAP. Otherwise, in eleven month they're going to be tits up.

Nvidia paid $1M for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown

Is that bribery or extortion? Or both? Where's the great hue and cry to "Lock him up?"

Microsoft resets 'days since last Windows 11 problem' counter to 0

Safest & most secure windows ever, huh? What a bunch of maroons.

Bad luck, Windows 10 users. No fix yet for ransomware-exploited bug

Windows came out how many decades ago and the stumblebums at mictosoft still can't get the code right? Do they even bother to read, review and disseminate the thousands of CVEs to the coders? Don't they know how to check for vulnerabilities?

Ubuntu 25.04 beta takes flight – but this Plucky Puffin is still molting

I sometimes wonder if these new releases aren't more an attempt to keep the coders busy instead of playing minecraft all day instead of any real improvements. Although in mictosoft's case, the upgrades, patches, and whatnots are a result of lousy coding.

Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs

Ever hear of Smoot-Hartley? Hoover? Black Friday?

Those who fail to learn from history...

Forget Signal. National Security Adviser Waltz now accused of using Gmail for work

He has permission since El Tonto and Hilljack already authorised sending military secrets over non-secure cell phone apps.

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

Windows 3.1 was tolerable although I preferred DR-DOS with Software Carousel & QEMM386,, not to mention pfs:Professional Write & Quattro Pro 4 (which tabs and macros that worked first time everytime). The only reason I "upgraded" to win10 was because so any of mictosoft's sycophants crippled their software under mictosoft's orders to not properly work under win7.

There'll be all those naysayer that'll claim how much faster and more secure win10 and especially win11 are but win7 just worked, and I NEVER had any security propblems with it. I also didn't have to install a patch that was fixing a previous patch every week either.

Trump yanks CHIPS Act cash unless tech giants pony up more of their own dough

Finally, El Tonto does something smart. Intel is throwing off untold BILLIONS is cash every year, as is Micron, AMD, NVidia, etc. They no more need subsidies that the man in the moon.

US defense contractor cops to sloppy security, settles after infosec lead blows whistle

I wonder if mictosoft was handling their security? We all know how safe & secure windows is.

HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional

Does this include their OfficeJet inkjet printers?

Don't want Copilot app on your Windows 11 machine? Install this official update

I have win10 and got rid of copilot AND edge at one time. How? Using Advanced File Search Lite (or similar product) I searched for edge.* and variations thereof. I deleted them all. I ten regedit to find reference to edge and copilot and deleted them all. No more copilot, no more edge, and mot as much mictosoft snooping.

Choose your own Patch Tuesday adventure: Start with six zero-day fixes, or six critical flaws

Mictosoft has been building windows code for how many decades and they STILL can't write safe & secure code? CP/M running GEMM is really good about now.

Crypto takes a dip as Trump signs Bitcoin Reserve order

Anyone who is foolish enough to buy a "currency" backed by nothing, supported by nothing, and valued by whimsy is foolish enough to suffer the consequences. Any more, all real money is issued by fiat but is usually backed by the full faith & credit of the issuing nation or by some tangible asset. The US gold reserves are no where near enough to support the US dollar by itself ($687B as of 2024 vs $2.333T cash in circulation).

Windows 7 lives! How to keep your favorite fossil running

The only reason I upgraded from win7 to win is so many of mictosoft's sycophants crippled their code to no long run under 7. I NEVER suffered from viruses, malware, hijacks, or miscreant behavior under 7. That's because 1) I always kept Norton running, 2) I never opened emails from unknown or faked addresses, 3) I never clicked on every URL that showed up, and 4) I promised all users of my kit a manusectomy if they didn't adhere to my rules.

Incoming deputy boss of Homeland Security says America's top cyber-agency needs to be reined in

Khrushchev was unbelievably correct. And Yamamoto Wouldn't have said the Japanese Empire had woken Sleeping tiger. Shoot, it's so far into REM sleep it's scary.

HP CEO pay for 2024 = 261,658 toner cartridges

That FEW cartridges? With what I paid for two ink jet cartridges, 261 seems like a more realistic number.

Ad-supported Microsoft Office bobs to the surface

Torvalds and the Document Foundation should send thank you cards to mictosoft for this latest "feature".

Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list

I believe mictosoft played this same game when win10 came out. I had win7 and it just worked. No continual upgrade or patches. No nefarious actors, no problems. It just worked. Sure, it was moated than a congressional budget bill, but nowhere near as much as win10 or win1. I did a file search to rid my on pc of of all traces of edge and copilot after a clean install. Over 500,000 files!

Anyway, I had to ditch several perfectly functional programs because mictosoft forced them to rewrite their code so they wouldn't work under 10.

National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future

El Tonto doesn't believe in sciene, only poppy-cock, codswallup, taradiddle.

Why did the Windows 95 setup use Windows 3.1?

And after these years you'd think the schemers and machinators at mictosoft would 1) know how to write clean, compact code; 2) close all the holes, leaks, backdoors and other assorted and sundry failings; and 3) write code that JUST WORKS.

Even Linus Torvalds can have trouble with autocycle … autocracy… AUTOCOMPLETE!

Pardon my ignorance, but if Linux is supposed to be vetted by umpteen hundred developer why does the kernel need to be continually updated? Are the fixes/patches/inclusions really adding anything?

Techie pointed out meetings are pointless, and was punished for it

Where I used to work, my manager must have been Palmer's manager's father as he too insisted a weekly meetings that would run up to three hours. He also insisted each department head, of which I was one, hold weekly meetings as well. The other departments were "unitary" whereas mine was a consolidation of four disparate units that had nothing to do with each other. Needless to say having a departmental meeting was a waste of everyone's time. If I needed to know what was happening in a section I just went over and asked. The only time we had departmental meetings was when something affecting the whole office needed to be shared. My manager was not at all pleased, even though my department consistantly met or exceeded all parameters and would even help the others.

LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab

mictosoft word has a stranglehold on the PC market because mictosoft has bribed, coerced, threatened and otherwise strong-armed manufacturers into preloading it. I have a couple niggling complaints about LibreOffice (envelope printing, location of some menu items, setting margins) but over all, I prefer using it to word. I do wish they'd port it over to Fire OS.

Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study

Uh-oh! Putin's in trouble now. He's obviously cheating on El Tonto.