Posts by jake

Microsoft totters from time machine clutching Windows 10 Workstation

Near quarter century old musings ...

NTFS first shipped with NT 3.1 ... mid 1993. NTFS was quite stable (for me!) in every version of NT that I used it with, right from the git-go. NT had read/write access to HPFS starting with NT 3.1, and could even be installed on an HPFS partition (remember, NT was supposed to be a version of OS/2. Also remember that MS also wrote HPFS, not IBM). Microsoft depreciated the use of HPFS starting with NT 4.0. Both NTFS and HPFS (and every other serious FS that I am aware of) can be marked read-only. The biggest problem with HPFS is that it wasn't a journaling FS. The other major issue was that NTFS and HPFS used the same partition type (07); some badly written disk utilities didn't differentiate between the two, causing all kinds of screwups when well meaning, if ignorant, users ran the wrong tools on the wrong partitions ...

UK PM May's response to London terror attack: Time to 'regulate' internet companies

Re: And then there's Trump

"But then again, he's not known for a big vocabulary or adult thinking."

Which brings up the subject of Alzheimer's. Be afraid, be very afraid.

It worked for Nancy's presidency, but she wasn't born behind the former Iron Curtain ... and she wasn't an airhead, either.

Arsenal does play at Emirates Stadium ...

Re: The Internet again!

Hang on ... Do I read that right? The House of Saud is paying ENGLAND $110Billion for weaponry? Is this the same England that can't seem to manage to field a decent Navy or Airforce? Sounds more like bribery to me ... What happens if you try to follow the money?

Book stores.

We should ban book stores.

Clearly people who hang out at book stores know how to read. And book stores sometimes contain subversive material (Mein Kampf, The Little Red Book, Playboy. and the like). WE MUST NOT LET ACTUAL READERS READ INDISCRIMINATELY!!!!11one!!!!11!!1!!!eleven!!1one Next thing you know, they'll be actually TALKING about such matters!

Does the idiot woman realize how bloody stupid she sounds?

'My PC needs to lose weight' says user with FAT filesystem

Panasonic Sr. Partner.

38 pounds of luggable (including case, manuals & floppies). At least it had a built-in printer. I still have it. You get attached to the daftest things after a quarter million air-miles together. Link.

It has an MFM controller in the expansion slot, a 20 meg hard drive in one of the floppy bays, and an aftermarket hack that upped the stock 256K of RAM to a more usable768K. I used an external modem. Yes, it still works. Came with Panasonic-labeled MS-DOS 2.2, but it currently boots MS-DOS 3.3 ... It might be hard for some of the younger readers to believe, but a LOT of RealWorld[tm] work was done with such primitive devices.

Re: IHTFP

Depends on the solvent used in the erasable version.

Re: FAT is still used widely

The 8-bit byte is only a defacto standard, do try to read for content. See: ISO/IEC 2382:2015

You say "Grandad" like it's an insult. I feel sorry for you.

Re: Scuzzy.

It was the minutes of the meeting. The transcriber had no clue.

When you have to explain the joke ...

Scuzzy.

I've corrected that one more than once. Heartlessly, with a straight face. No more balls than usual.

It's been awhile (thankfully!) ...

... but I can't for the life of me remember Win95's Explorer being useful enough to tell a casual user what kind of file system was in use. And "C:/ FAT" is nonsensical. This story doesn't ring true ...

IBM: ALL travel must be approved now, and shut up about the copter

The tighter you hold on ...

... the faster the mud squeezes out from between your fingers.

I wonder if IBM's Board still has enough power to shake up day-to-day upper management. Might be time for popcorn & beer ...

Ye Bug List

Re: Spurious Blank lines at end of comments

I've been looking for this since you posted. I've not seen it.

What I *have* seen is many more posts than normal without Subjects Titles. Kinda makes it more of a pain than normal to follow a thread in a non-threaded forum. Not sure if this is a bug somewhere (mobile users, maybe?), or just co-inky-dink.

The open source community is nasty and that's just the docs

Re: I'm not surprised.

Thank you for your testimonial.

Re: "may therefore not find documentation written by native English speakers easy."

To say nothing of the fact that American English, love it or hate it, is the lingua franca of the FOSS world, and indeed TehIntraWebTubes itself.

Don't blame me, it wasn't a choice, it just evolved that way.

Humans aren't all sweetness & light!

Film at 11!

Earth resists NASA's attempts to make red and green clouds

Can NASA read a map?

"NASA warned people living in an area triangulated by New York, North Carolina and Charlottesville, Virginia "

How do you get an area triangulated by those locations? That's two entire states and a largish city roughly midway between the two ...

The nuclear launch button won't be pressed by a finger but by a bot

Re: Heaven when I die? Not bloody likely...

Who the fuck cares? Both Lobo and Hell are nonexistant, developed to separate the drooling masses from their money.

Re: down votes

Bad troll. No cookie.

Re: The thing which is going to kill us all

Shirley that's 9.6 miles across at 29,396 miles per hour?

Or perhaps 15.45 kilometers across at 47,308 kilometers per hour?

We've already had a nuclear war.

It was a trifle one sided, but it was a war, and nukes were involved.

The next one, and people being people there WILL be a next one, won't be quite as benign. The trick is to move to one of two places: The back of beyond, or Ground Zero. In the first, hopefully you've found a place where the Jet Stream & miscellaneous eddy currents will conspire to keep the fallout away from your "victory" garden[0]. In the second, you are the fallout, and won't give a shit.

Me, I'm more worried about earthquakes. Rogers Creek is just a couple hundred yards from where I type(o) ... But it's hardly something I lose sleep over.

[0] And that you have enough ammo and know how to be able to harvest the chow ...

Walmart workers invited to shuttle packages

I suspect that if I were invidious and bought 4 bottles of bleach, the DHS would come a' knockin' and ask me to do some 'splainin' ...

Re: REALLY??

At our place in Fort Bragg (CA version) all of those outfits make deliveries with private vehicles. The USPS drivers are supposed to have a "Rural Delivery" sticker on them, but they rarely do. And that's barely 200 road miles from SillyConValley.

Re: And phase 2...

With depreciation, now they have all those drivers, it'll take 100,000 ELPs to make your dime ... only redeemable for in-store purchases of goods that haven't been marked down.

If anyone wonders/cares, I never shop down the walmart ... I don't do business with corporations which assume I'm a criminal simply for doing business with them.

Re: Let me know...

The hell they don't shoot their own kind ... Ever hear of the Hatfields & McCoys?

Microsoft founder Paul Allen reveals world's biggest-ever plane

Re: Hang on... Nuclear

Simple answer. Power to weight ratio.

Obvious answer:

Observation deck.

Re: Interesting

I wondered that too. All I can think of is they actually want it to have a little more flexibility. The thing is big, even a hundredth of a degree of difference between fuselages would add up to disaster if the tails were fused, especially under the kinds of load that this thing will be subject to.

How long before ...

... Ellison stops playing at toy boats? My guess is before the year is out.

Retirement age must move as life expectancy grows, says WEF

Re: This is all very well, but........

Electrician, plumber, HVAC, potter, mechanic, gardener, grocery clerk, gas(petrol)station attendant, cook, carpet installer, roofer, chick sexer, zookeeper, cobbler, small appliance repair, taylor ... Do I really need to go on?

Earth to the WEF ...

... The retirement age IS moving upwards, and accelerating, for the simple reason that folks can't afford to retire at all anymore! I know any number of folks in their eighties who need to work at least 30hrs/week just to keep a roof overhead.

Spacecraft spots possible signs of frozen water on the Moon

Re: GOD!

Bad troll. No cookie.

Out of curiosity ...

... what's the rate of sublimation of water ice at those temperatures?

Security company finds unsecured bucket of US military images on AWS

Re: Id imagine...

I haven't struggled with it at all. Clouds are a no-fly zone in these parts. Added complexity, more layers, out of my control ... tell me again why this is safer/more secure/a good idea?

There's a hole in me bucket,

dear ELIZA, dear ELIZA ...

Boffins spot 'faceless fish' in strange alien environment

Re: 6699 is 69 wrapped in 69

I made my first vinegar in 1967. From a bit of my Grandfather's mother & some hard cider. It was his grandmother's mother to begin with. The ol' girl is still alive & kicking.

Re: 6699 is 69 wrapped in 69

Non-brewed condiment ... right up there near the top, alongside watery bacon, on the "friends don't let friends ..." listie.

One wonders ...

... would a vegan eat a faceless fish?

IBM marketeers rub out chopper after visit from CEO Ginni

Re: they are consistent

I heard the same story at HP, Amdahl, DEC, Western Digital and Intel regarding various grand openings. No proof of the whitewashing, of course. At best, I'd say the stories are apocryphal (especially seeing as I attended friday afternoon "beer busts" at all of the above at one time or another ...).

Re: Choppering out the Execs -- Priceless. Cost of the Parachute -- AUUUUGHHH

That's not a setter, that's a retriever ... Totally ball-driven. For values of "ball" that include "personal wealth to the detriment of everything else", of course. Typical modern executive. Alas.

Corporate austerity (except the ruling class) is the new black ... Get used to it, it's not going away until the Nintendo Generation is out to pasture ... and maybe not then; I'm not all that impressed with the millennials.

Windows XP crashed too much to spread WannaCrypt

Or perhaps ...

... it would be more sane to avoid the Redmond clusterfuck entirely?

One thing to take from this ...

... the folks at Kryptos don't know how to properly setup XP.

I'm no huge Redmond fan, but XP was a fairly stable OS when installed properly.

German robo-pastor preaches the GNU Testament

Insert coin, receive blessing.

Now where have I heard of this before ...

Seminal game 'Colossal Cave Adventure' released onto GitLab

Re: Pardon?

It's called a "spring house". A structure built over a spring to keep critters & detritus out of the/a source of fresh water. Often used to keep dairy, fresh meat and/or some varieties of fruit cool back in the old days (whenever that was ... I still use mine as a larder/beer cooler occasionally).

Re: Still included in the BSD games on Slackware.

I should add that the source (in C) states:

NetBSD: main.c,v 1.16 2000/07/03 03:57:39

--and--

NetBSD: adventure.6,v 1.3 1997/10/10 11:59:33

--and--

NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.8 2000/04/24 15:15:05

A hodge-podge, to be sure. As it should be:-)

Still included in the BSD games on Slackware.

My nieces & nephews love the old stuff :-)

Sainsbury's IT glitch spoils bank holiday food orders

Re: Time to call a plumber?

You don't snort them, you have a snort of them. See: slug.

Don't make me cast a line o' type in your general direction ...

Re: Time to call a plumber?

Of course you can get coke out of taps. Also pepsi, rootbeer, gingerbeer, actual beer, wine ... Look up "Cornelius Keg" for home use systems.

BA CEO blames messaging and networks for grounding

Re: Regardless of anything else ...

Not a lot of gerundiving in English, but there is a whole lotta verbin' goin' on. Ceteris paribus, of course.

Regardless of anything else ...

... it would seem that BA is run by blithering[0] idiots.

[0] That's my verbed adjective of the week.