Posts by eswan

Two years after entering the graphics card game, Intel has nothing to show for it

The i740 of video cards.

Microsoft hits go on Windows 11 24H2: Fresh features, bugs, and a whole lotta AI

Mustafa Suleyman, executive vice president and CEO of Microsoft AI, described Copilot as "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to be With"

Gartner mages: Payback from office AI expected in around two years

With Gartner's track record

Will they be using AI on their itanium workstations?

Windows Server 2022 patch is breaking apps for some users

"making Registry changes could also leave a Windows installation unstable or hopelessly broken"

Much like installing Microsoft updates.

Take Windows 11... please. Leaks confirm low numbers for Microsoft's latest OS

"...there were those, after all, who raged at the imposition of the Start Menu over the Program Manager of old."

And progman.exe was included as an option in Windows 95, 98, NT4, 2000, and XP upto SP2.

GNOME developer proposes removing the X11 session

Re: Coming to a fork in the road

Did the long put off update to Slackware 15 on my main home computer a couple of weeks ago. Went without a hitch, and still systemD free.

Police ignored the laws of datacenter climate control

Had an IBM ps/2 model 30 that was in use at a gravel quarry. When I took the cover off, I couldn't see any of the chips due to the quarter inch (literally!) layer of rock dust over everything. Just kinda mounds here and there.

Linux on the Arm-based Thinkpad X13S: It's getting there

Sounds like the process for accelerated poulsbo (GMA500) graphics.

We'd pay good money to see... oh dear, Elon Musk 'needs an MRI scan'

Does that hold true for ex-twitter employees?

"If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill. No limit. Please let us know."

https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-staff-slam-elon-musk-did-you-bother-to-learn-2022-11

"...After the engineer appeared to question Musk's technical competence, Musk called the engineer out on Twitter."

"Musk later responded that Frohnhoefer had been "fired," but deleted the tweet a few hours later. The Daily Beast reported that Frohnhoefer was still active on the company's Slack for several hours after Musk had said he fired him. Later on Monday night, the engineer said on Twitter that he had been locked out of his work computer."

Microsoft whips up unrest after revealing Azure AD name change

Re: Keep calm

PowerShell or PowerShell Core?

Microsoft Operations Manger says hi.

No more feature updates for Windows 10 – current version is final

Added in 2016. They've made improvements, but the feature was originally added 7 years ago.

If only they'd stopped 5 years ago. Seriously, can anybody name one feature added since 2018 that improved windows?

Online Safety Bill age checks? We won't do 'em, says Wikipedia

Online Safety Bill

I can't read that without thinking he's the brother of 'Fire Marsall Bill'.

Can we interest you in a $10 pocket calculator powered by Android 9?

Re: Options?

I've got an HP 200LX kicking around with Derive loaded.

More victims of fake crypto investor scam speak to The Register

How to tell if a transaction involving cryptocurrency is a scam:

(1) Does it involve cryptocurrency?

Britain has likely missed the boat for having a semiconductor industry

Re: Add it to the pile

Finance, Inurance, and Real Estate?

Oracle's Larry Ellison shares fears of bankrupting Western civilization with healthcare

"Oracle's Larry Ellison shares dreams of bankrupting Western civilization with healthcare"

Fixed that for you.

Block this: Using satellites to plaster ads over our skies could work, say boffins

Re: what's old is new again

Heinlein's 'The Man who Sold the Moon'?

Computer glitches harmed 'nearly 150' patients after Oracle Cerner system go-live

Re: It goes to the unknown queue

Catch-22:

We've always haven't been told about the unknown queue.

DARPA wants to refuel drones in flight – wirelessly

Already seen this movie

LASLO

Maybe somebody already has a use for it, one for which it's perfectly designed.

JORDAN

You mean Atherton had something in mind all along?

LASLO

Look at the facts: very high power, portable, limited firing time, unlimited range. All you'd need is a big spinning mirror and you could vaporize a human target from space.

Unable to write 'Amusing Weekly Column'. Abort, Retry, Fail?

Re: Error saving filename.txt: Operation successful

Even worse, on a newish version of windows I've recieved the message 'Unable to delete file. Would you like to delete another file?' What, just one at random?

TRS-80 Model 16

The Tandy TRS-80 Model 16 was a Frankenstein's monster of an 8-bit Z80 system mashed together with the bits of a 68000 Unix workstation. Under normal conditions, the Z80 was supposed to handle bootup and pass control to the much more powerfull 68k but occasionaly could attempt to assert control over the running system, whereupon the computer would declare 'Bring her up Scotty, she's sucking mud.'

Journalist won't be prosecuted for pressing 'view source'

Re: Transcendental question

Making Pi=1 is no problem. However, 2+2 now equals 12.56637061.....

Happy birthday, Windows Vista: Troubled teen hits 15

Re: Windows stopped being good....

Seriously? The one with a tablet interface grafted onto a server? Yeah, go ahead and swipe in from the side over remote desktop.

Something 4,000 light years away emitted strange radio bursts. This is where we talk to scientists for actual info

Re: And here’s the Intergalactic Traffic report

299,792,458 m/s: Not just a good idea, it's the law.

To err is human. To really screw things up requires a wayward screwdriver

Could be worse:

"For about 10 hours in 1980, the United States faced a nuclear threat of its own making after an airman performing maintenance on a Titan II missile dropped a 9-pound socket 70 feet, ripping a hole in a fuel tank and leading to an explosion that propelled a 9-megaton warhead out of the ground."

https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/pbs-explores-1980-nuclear-threat-triggered-by-socket-wrench/

Too busy feasting on meatballs, Windows struggles to update itself in IKEA

Re: "At least a candle doesn't need a software patch every few weeks."

"They are, therefore, scented candles that are used to meditate, to do yoga, or simply to set a house."

Seems they left a couple of words off the end of that sentence.

Microsoft closes installer hole abused by Emotet malware, Google splats Chrome bug exploited in the wild

Re: patch_tesuday?

They'll have an update out next month to fix it.

A smarter alternative to password recognition could be right in front of us: Unique, invisible, maybe even deadly

Re: Been done

Alien: Resurrection is fine as long as you keep in mind it's the answer to "What would happen if Joss Wheden did an Alien movie?"

Microsoft touts Windows 11 SE: A locked-down OS to give Chromebooks a run for their money in schools

Re: not really

You'll get my TRSDOS6 from my dead, cold floppy drive.

Let us give thanks that this November, Microsoft has given us just 55 security fixes, two of which are for actively exploited flaws

And they still haven't fixed network printing

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-10-21h1#2737msgdesc

"Next steps: Microsoft is working on a resolution that will allow print clients to establish RPC packet privacy connections to print servers using RPC over SMB. We will provide an update once more information is available."

Microsoft admits to yet more printing problems in Windows as back-at-the-office folks asked for admin credentials

Windows ain't done 'till the printer won't run.

And the latest update ignores the workaround for the previous update.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/new-windows-10-kb5006670-update-breaks-network-printing/

"When the September cumulative updates caused printing issues, it was possible to fix them by allowing non-Admins to install printer drivers or disabling the 'RpcAuthnLevelPrivacyEnabled' Registry value.

However, this Registry key is no longer working for the problems caused by the October updates, and users are required to fix it using other methods."

How Windows NTFS finally made it into Linux

Re: Is this for systemd?

My guess is that ADS was originally intended to be a VMS like file versioning tool, but was never implemented. Later, it was repurposed to support appletalk file sharing with Services for Macintosh. Even later, it was relegated to use as metadata storage to tag files as having been downloaded by Internet Explorer.

There's a lot of weird nooks and crannies in Windows that seem like they were intended to be useful, but were never completed. Symbolic links, hard links, mount points. At one point they had most of a Heirarchial Storage System integrated, using tape libraries and ntbackup, but I think it's completely bit-rotted away by now.

Gartner Gartner on the wall, which is the hypest cycle of them all?

Re: Even a stopped clock

"And Linux is still only a server OS. But we didn't need Gartner to know that."

And telephones. And televisions, And embedded systems, switches, routers. And my desktop.

Following Torvalds' nudge, Paragon's NTFS driver for Linux is on track for kernel

Re: What's the use case for NTFS?

NTFS is in no way needed for network shares, and is unecessary for almost all shared resources.

Where on Gartner's Hype Cycle is Gartner's Hype Cycle?

Portal Ubiquity, Process Portals, Portal Fabric, Fried Portals, Boiled Portals, Barbque Portals...

'Organic Light-Emitting Devices' shows up in 2005.

Wonder what the obsession with portals was in '03-'04?

Florida Man sues Facebook, Twitter, YouTube for account ban

Re: It's the plot of 'The Producers'.

Springtime for Trumpy, and Q-anon.

Winter for Facebook, and Twitter too.

It's the plot of 'The Producers'.

Trump wants to raise funds through donations, then when the lawsuit is thrown out, he keeps the money and yells about how badly he's been treated.

Microsoft: Behold, at some later date, the next generation of Windows

Re: next generation?

I'm visualizing the cafeteria scene from Alien.

"Windows 11. It wasn't released, it escaped."

Oh hello. Haven't heard much from you lately: Linux veteran Slackware rides again with a beta of version 15

Been a happy user since version 3.0 (Now with ELF binaries!)

Hopefully still systemd free.

Mike Lynch-backed Darktrace to file for London IPO in aftermath of Deliveroo flop

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Microsoft previews Windows Server 2022: Someone took a spanner to core plumbing features

"SMB over QUIC will allow "mobile users, hybrid users, travelling internet users, instead of using a VPN, [to] tunnel SMB traffic over the QUIC protocol which is a UDP, TLS, highly secure, easily firewall-traversing protocol… "

Oh, that sounds terrifying.

European Commission redacts AstraZeneca vaccine contract – but forgets to wipe the bookmarks tab

"reminiscent of the early days of IT two decades ago,"

I really hope that was intended to be sarcasm.

The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software goes offline for good

Re: Walnut Creek CD-ROM

Still have somewhere my Walnut Creek CD-ROMs of FreeBSD and Slackware (Now with ELF binaries!)

US cyber intelligence officer jailed for kidnapping her kid, trying to hawk top secrets to Russia in Mexico

Re: a wealth of electronic devices:

Shoot, a fella’ could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

SHRT hits the fan for first-gen Surface Hub users: Jumped-up whiteboard can now be updated via dedicated tool

Re: Surface Hub Install Tool

Recovery, I believe.

-edit-

Snerk. Took me a sec.

IT blunder permanently erases 145,000 users' personal chats in KPMG's Microsoft Teams deployment – memo

Things I Learned Today

KPMG has their very own top level domain. http://nic.kpmg

How the hell do you pull that off?

Single-line software bug causes fledgling YAM cryptocurrency to implode just two days after launch

Re: I like this new term "a decentralized finance experiment"

Dunning-Krugerands.

Cisco restores evidence of its funniest FAIL – ethernet cable presses switch's reset button

Re: Either way

But they both run iOS