Posts by alisonken1

The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere

Re: Should visit a

Not to mention that newfangled Cisco RS232 cable with a DB9 on one end and modern RJ45 on the other.

Trump turnabout sees him re-nominate amateur astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA

Some hobby

Having fast jets as his hobby ...

Some hobby. I would say Draken International might be considered a little more than just a hobby.

What do we want? Windows 10 support! When do we want it? Until 2030!

Re: Lil' Help for the switchover?

THIS IS NOT EASIER THAN WINDOWS!

It's bullshit like this that puts people off Linux.

How do I check if my hardware is supported? The quick and dirty way:

1) Install live linux on a thumbdrive

2) Boot into thumbdrive

3) Play with hardware to see if something doesn't work

For those of us who actually do check, it's just as easy to look at hardware specs and see what hardware is windows only or requires windows drivers to be shimmed into linux. In that case, other hardware is preferred.

Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily

Re: Eh

You mean, like in Windows 11 you click "Uninstall" to XBox, Outlook (New), CoPilot, etc. and they "uninstall" themselves?

And then "magically" reappear the next day?

Space Shuttle war of words takes off as senator blasts 'woke Smithsonian'

Re: El Reg crowdfunding perhaps.

Not pre-ic.

The shuttle uses 486-class Intel chips. I remember because they sent out RFP's to find any available 486-class chips to work with the Shuttle refurbishments.

Re: Take an angle grinder to it...

...or maybe just a bit more to the south? Say, into the Gulf of Mexico, er, ...Gulf of America, er, ...Gulf of Trumpistan.

Preferably whilst fully equipped with staff and "leadership".

FTFY

Staff are typically career civil servants doing a decent job with what everyone else gives them. It's the 'Leadership" that have TDS.

50 years in deep space, and Voyager still can't escape budget gravity

Re: Gotta defund the Voyagers

Or they think Star Trek The Motion Picture is actually a biography and want to make sure that they don't come back.

Hundreds of millions of business PCs are still on Windows 10 as D-Day nears

Just like His Billness (allegedly) said 640k is enough for everyone. Such is the corporate/billionaire class.

No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut

Unfortunately, even a domain join will still include all of the MS telemetry and adverts.

Yes, I work in a domain environment.

No, my home machine is not MS.

Yes, I have a VM at home when I need to WFH. So far, once about every 3-6 months.

Windows 11 25H2 is mostly 24H2 with bits bolted on or ripped out

Re: wmic.exe gone is news to me...

Mostly it was plain ASCII files too, but not all software or computers accepted that the S in ASCII was "Standard" :-)

And the first "A" means "American".

And our current Cheeto-In-Chief is an excellent example of "American Standard".

_{/s would be nice, but our current government is the classic "Example of how NOT to do things"}

Re: Sorry, probably stupid question

Second, if I reinstall Windows I'd have to hunt down and reinstall a slew of Dell drivers and utilities, and that's another (but similar) can of worms

Open powershell

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PS C:\Users> get-wmiobject win32_bios

SMBIOSBIOSVersion : 1.34.0

Manufacturer : Dell Inc.

Name : 1.34.0

SerialNumber : < this is the service tag number to copy>

Version : DELL - 1072009

PS C:\Users>

=================================

Go to Dell support page driver downloads

Enter the serial number, then under drivers, install "Dell Command Update Application" (note: may require you to also install DotNet Desktop 8.x and remove older Dell Command Update).

You can find it under the "Find Specific Drivers" selection.

Under certain circumstances, you'll also get the option on first starting to "Install full driver library" for that machine as well.

Pentagon decrees warfighters don't need 'frequent' cybersecurity training

Re: Weird...

(But not a Coupe DeVille, that's obviously a Cadillac from hell, presumably driven by a BO also therefrom.)

Plus one for the inadvertent 101 Dalmatians reference

Huntress's 'hilarious' attacker surveillance splits infosec community

Re: Can an AI company claim the moral high ground?

Not the police.

More like a private detective since it's not a government entity but a private company.

Unlike most of Musk's other ventures, Starship keeps it together for Flight Test 10

What about all of the other rockets that were designed to fall into the sea?

Where is the outrage for those?

Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing 'cathedrals of complexity'

Re: KISS

And when I wur a lad, 'C Obfuscation' contests were training grounds on how NOT do program for longevity of code ....

_{Amusingly enough, the contests were also used to find out who the better programmers were because they also found the hidden gems in the language}

How Windows 11 is breaking from its bedrock and moving away

Try looking at what was said:

"... our digital environment ..."

MS only runs on your desktop/handheld. >80% of "digital environment" is via the internet. MS is <10% of the internet structure.

Re: 'Many of us'?

I thought it had a micro-kernel with BSD userland.

Micro-kernel is structure of how userland talks to kernel.

Unix is a system.

As noted, as long as your O/S compiles and complies with the (paid for) Unix tests, then it's a Unix O/S.

BTW - The BSD's are Unix, they just didn't pay to get the Unix &copy; &reg; &trade; marks.

A Linux alternative? Debian/Hurd shows microkernel Unix dream is alive

Re: Yawn...

Windows, which is apparently also an OS, has released 20+ versions in that time. Linux is now on v6.

Well, to compare apples to apples, Windows had released 20+ versions in that time. Fedora Linux (part of Red Hat Linux originally released in 1994) is now on version 42.

I believe Windows is running NT Kernel 5/6 and Fedora is running Linux kernel 6.15

Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't want – here's what we actually need

Re: sound switching

You must be using the wrong one or thinking back a long time ago.

I'm running the current Fedora KDE (42) and selecting sound output devices is at most 2-3 clicks. Can't say how well Gnome desktops are since I stopped using Gnome decades ago.

HP hardware, on the other hand, has become the WinPrint hardware of the computer industry (cheap hardware and only works well with MS since they only provide MS drivers).

Re: Don't blame Word

The only problem with your argument is MS has pushed Office as THE processing software. You know, like "Windows 10 will be the last O/S you need" style of productivity.

When they actively proceeded to kill WP (among others) in order to get their software as the defacto standard, they effectively told the world "I am the only thing you need!"

The problem is they only care about revenue, not end-users or end-user needs..

Re: A couple of things

And people complain that Linux requires command line skills to work .....

At least it would be an upgrade!

Voice, vision, pen: Oh dear. Windows boss says Microsoft is again reshaping OS

Re: More Shite being flung against the wall

Yep. Bribery Lobbying Technology at it's finest.

ISS is still leaking air after latest repair efforts fail

Re: Might be missing something here

Gaffers Tape is a bastardized Duct Tape (or Grey Tape).

Gaffers Tape holds the stage together.

Grey Duct Tape holds the Universe together. And based on Apollo 13 (Ron Howard and Tom Hanks were space nuts and were considered Technical Nazis during filming to keep it accurate as far as techie stuff goes), Grey Duct Tape (at least 1 roll) was standard on Apollo flights - and by extension, I would hope for all post-Apollo space habitats.

Windows 10 @ 10: How Microsoft led developers round in circles

Re: wxWidgets

(see icon)

It's actually GTK+, not GKT+. Acronym meaning "Gimp Tool Kit"

Oracle VirtualBox licensing tweak lies in wait for the unwary

Re: All because

Gotta love a guy with selective amnesia. Or, how did that saying go? "You can't convince someone who's paycheck depends on them not being convinced"

By forgetting the history of Oracle and how they "alter the deal" AFTER their product has been used (and legally purchased per the original license), you give the impression that you're an Oracle employee pimping for Oracle.

But I forgot myself - you're just a jerk with an agenda too. Not only about Oracle.

The real reason why Trump is killing the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai'i

Re: Trump and his cronies

"... If it is competitive it doesnt need subsidy, if it needs subsidy then its not competitive."

Interesting.

In that case, why is the petroleum industry subsidies OK and EV subsidies are because EV's are non-competitive?

Re: adding dry ice and measuring temperature

"... Heat is lost via conduction, convection, evaporation and radiation, ..."

I think you missed class. Heat is not "lost" - it's only moved from one medium to another.

"So still doesn't explain why, if CO2 is so brilliant at 'trapping' heat, we're not using it for heating or insulation."

So again, missed class.

You are so focused on CO2, the gas, you forget to look at infrared radiation from the sun and how IR and CO2 interact.

Might be time to go back to class and look at thermodynamics.

PUTTY.ORG nothing to do with PuTTY – and now it's spouting pandemic piffle

Re: Just do the right thing!

And don't forget the Windows (no relation to transparent glazed silica)

AWS previews Kiro IDE for developers who are over vibe coding

Re: Vibe coding

Disco Stu is in there too ;)

Lest we forget, Leisure Suit Larry FTW!

Stopping the rot when good software goes bad means new rules from the start

Re: Product liability

Blaming the users is sheer laziness.

Interesting. So you're saying that the user has no responsibilities in any of this? It's IT fault if the user clicks on a bad link? It's IT fault if user ignores warnings and clicks the link anyway? It's IT fault if the user changes what IT has set because "it's inconvenient"?

Nice blame shifting. IT can only do so much - after that, the user has to take some responsibility as well.

The price of software freedom is eternal politics

Ultimately, in a functioning democracy, you need to trust the voters.

Look where that got us this time.

Might have done better, but at least 1/3rd decided not to play and now look what we have.

Army and Navy have both asked for right to repair, now Senators want to give it to them

Re: Sense

Unless you're on a gas turbine ship, you are still using steam. Nuke carriers and subs all use steam.

In the case of catapults, though, there is the upstart EMALS coming in to replace the steam catapults ...

Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho

Re: the average US home only consumes around 30 kWh of electricity per day

A lot of homes that use forced air are gas heating with a/c.

Newer homes seem to be migrating to heat pumps (a/c with reversible condenser/evap units).

Re: Mixed units?

My house is 100a/240v (although I think it might actually be 208 - will have to check) split-phase 120v.

However, newer houses (and people who upgrade for their BEV) typically upgrade to 200a/240v.

Big push to move from gas homes to electric homes - even moreso than back in the 50's.

Northrop Grumman shows SpaceX doesn't have a monopoly on explosions

Re: Engine rich exhaust

Pretty much every missile made since Vietnam are SRM's.

The problem is this particular one is segmented so it can be shipped around before final assembly, and the nozzle is not fixed - it's a new class of thrust vectoring nozzle for SRM's.

The other problem is these SRM's make missile boosters look like firecrackers.

Aren't there quite a lot of solid rocket motors in missiles?

No. Missiles only have 1 solid rocket motor in their booster. Just like this one - it's 1 rocket motor, just scaled up from a missile.

Microsoft's next Windows 11 update is more 'enablement' than upgrade

Re: Unexpected?

Excellent use of caps!

Except I can't think of a "D" ending that would work.

The year of the European Union Linux desktop may finally arrive

" ... they also have a laptop with Windows on that managers use to waste their time with...usually has Teams, Outlook and all that guff on it."

Or, like me, they have a windows VM for those work-related things that only work on Windows.

Atlas V glitch delays second Project Kuiper launch

Re: or Soyuz (pay extra or…)

And who do you think the Russians got their ideas from? Hint: It's someone we all know and some love.

Japan set to join the re-usable rocket club after Honda sticks a landing

Re: As useless as Starship!

I upvoted on the assumption that this was a snarky comparison to all of the hate directed at SH/SS.

LibreOffice adds voice to 'ditch Windows for Linux' campaign

Re: As I've said before

" ... People are complaining about the lack of an NVMe M.2 interface ... "

Then they don't know how to google: (Note: RPi 5 items)

Single NVMe hat

Dual NVMe hat

At any rate, I have an RPi4 running Plex Media Server for my DVD Movies/TV series rips. For father's day, just got an RPi5 with dual NVMe hat so I can now put both of my NVMe 2T drives onto one device.

The RPi 4 had power issues when trying to connect 2 separate USB plugs with NVMe drives, so ended up having 1 connected to the RPi4 and the other one in my desktop with an NFS mount to the RPi4.

Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions

Same as Microsoft switched the .DOC / .XLS / .PPT format from Office 95 to Office 97, forcing everyone to upgrade to the bloated new version. That worked so after a decade and everyone forgot, MS did it again and switched to XML as well as the Ribbon on Office 2007.

I seem to recall that MS switched to XML-based because of the ODF having an open format that became "the standard" - and of course MS had to "improve" it, especially when agencies started requiring their documentation be saved in an "open" format. They even stuffed the standards committee to be able to claim "their open-style documents" were classified as a standard, which then can be used by said organizations.

Of course, the MS open document standard included a tag that could then wrap their binary-formatted document and still be classified as "open".

Interesting times. Unfortunately.

Trump lifts US supersonic flight ban, says he's 'Making Aviation Great Again'

"'My understanding is he has to drop his pants to count to 21."

Assumes facts not in evidence. At least for >20.

Windows 10's demise nears, but Linux is forever

Re: Linux was built securely.

"What rot.

Here we are, not even 1 year on from the moment when someone very nearly succeeded in achieving global backdoor access through openSSH on all Linuxes by attacking the build system for liblzma, and already there's statements like this being spouted again. No one has actually fixed the general class of problem that enabled that attack.

Linux is only "as intended" if one accepts some wafer-thin trusts."

Here we are and not even 2 months from the last windows PWN and there's another zero day?????

And you "trust" Microsoft????

Unending ransomware attacks are a symptom, not the sickness

Re: Make the management legally liable

"Maybe it's time that the IT world, including IT departments, started taking responsibility for shoddy upkeep of shoddy software on shoddy operating systems."

Maybe it's time for the holder of the purse strings listen to the IT department when they tell them what the problems are and how to fix them.

Oh, and not telling the IT department that [next shiny bling] WILL be used and no questions allowed (because of [reasons not related to IT]).

Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare

Re: Hmm

"

It WOULD be nice for the US to have a President worth being respected on the world stage again."

FTFY

Go ahead and ignore Patch Tuesday – it might improve your security

Re: Tell that to compliance (and ultimately the law)

If the government (either side of the pond) were serious they wouldn't be using MS products anyway.

Nationwide power outages knock Spain, Portugal offline

Re: This will happen again

"Why should they be allowed to invest in financial markets rather than invest that money into upkeep and upgrades?"

Because upkeep and upgrades spend money rather than add to investors stock price maybe?

Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying

Re: re: Chris Krebs

Civilian federal workers get a different ID card than the CAC that the Military get.

Re: re: Chris Krebs

BTW - when a court dismisses a claim, it's because there's not enough or no evidence of a crime. Lack of evidence is a pretty strong indication.

But, now that Trump is president again, you claim "new" evidence will be found? Wow.