Posts by cozappz

Opening up the WinAmp source to all goes badly as owners delete entire repo

Re: Simplest solution

Let's start with any application which used public funded money, more than 100 USD.

Win 11 refreshes delayed, say PC makers – and here's why

Re: Five year old PCs need replacing :o

Recycled like in moving to Ubuntu?

100% of it.

Azure VMs ruined by CrowdStrike patchpocalypse? Microsoft has recovery tips

Re: Seriously why run a VM

There is a pod for that in kubernetes.

VMware license changes mean bare metal can make a comeback through 'devirtualization', says Gartner

Re: started doing this in early 2014

There's also postman, if you don't have root.

Damn, is so freaking easy to spin up a pod with a stack of servers and provisioning is kid's play.

But hey, I have more migrations of technologies unde my belt than a guy that started with fortran on ultrix.

I didn't touch a thing – just some cables and a monitor – and my computer broke

Re: Yeah, sure. Nothing changed. Pinky promise.

I know, stupid parents, stupid employers.

Some investors bet against Nvidia, expecting AI bubble to burst

Remember, every great supercomputer is decommissioned at one point.

Is there a recycling system fo all these Nvidia AI cards in place?

Tech titans assemble to decide which jobs AI should cut first

The entire C-suite

The entire C-Suite is replaceable by AI.

And they won't even know what hit them.

Going green Hertz: Rental giant axes third of EV fleet over lack of demand

Re: The problem with EVs for rentals....

I know a lot of car rental businesses have a 0lace, away from airports where they inspect their rolling property.

I see a lot of car carriers cargo-ing the cars into those vast lots.

Maybe they can 8nvest 8nto electrifying part of them.

SAP to cough up $220M to drag bribery charges into recycle bin

Re: CoB

Bribery becomes legal above a certain threshold, this is what US shows to the world.

Unity to slash 25% of workforce under former Red Hat CEO Whitehurst

McDonell Douglas

So, B buys McDoD because of what 8nstead of letting them crush and burn.

Then puts the entire C suite of McDoD in charge.

Did B aim was to crush and burn all along?

SAP admits attempt to adapt on-prem security for its cloud flopped

Re: Common cloud threats that legacy tooling cannot see

And agents usually developed for on-prem do not 0lay along nicely on-cliud.

Other agents count on VM daily restart to mitigate memory leaks that can kill a micro service container fairly quick.

First ever 64-bit version of Windows rediscovered … and a C compiler for it too

What MoBo for 2023 gaming rig?

CAN do attitude: How thieves steal cars using network bus

Re: Easily solvable....

So, your answer confirms is not easy solvable but it has to be approached seriously and addressed fully, not half-baked as it is now.

It reminds me od Cisco router security in 1990, btw.

Fixing an upside-down USB plug: A case of supporting the insupportable

Re: We had a whole batch of faulty Fujistus do that by themselves

Weren't those Fujitsu Siemens by chance?

Got a thousand of them commit suicide by the aforementioned method.

No error 1000 give or take.

Nothing's working, and I've checked everything, so it must be YOUR fault

Re: I think that step is optional

Most of us wish to be like you, helping clueless people on their career change paths.

Re: Blue flash

May <deity-name-here> protect us from a hard-working id10t.

Re: Bit of a twist to the ending

Lucky you to meet Occam's.

I mainly stumbled upon Hanlon's.

Tech security at Equifax was so diabolical, senators want to pass US laws making its incompetence illegal

GDPR down the throat

Because of these m'rons we got the GDPR down on our throats. Now, we canot read quarter of global sites because of the gdpr-blaming-walls.

Yes, HP will still sue you if you make cartridges for its inkjet printers

Not really, Xerox is the official one.

Don't touch Sony, Panasonic's junk, says credit agency

From the S&P

The general meaning of our credit rating opinions is summarized below.

‘AAA’—Extremely strong capacity to meet financial commitments. Highest Rating.

‘AA’—Very strong capacity to meet financial commitments.

‘A’—Strong capacity to meet financial commitments, but somewhat susceptible to adverse economic conditions and changes in circumstances.

‘BBB’—Adequate capacity to meet financial commitments, but more subject to adverse economic conditions.

‘BBB-‘—Considered lowest investment grade by market participants.

‘BB+’—Considered highest speculative grade by market participants.

‘BB’—Less vulnerable in the near-term but faces major ongoing uncertainties to adverse business, financial and economic conditions.

‘B’—More vulnerable to adverse business, financial and economic conditions but currently has the capacity to meet financial commitments.

‘CCC’—Currently vulnerable and dependent on favorable business, financial and economic conditions to meet financial commitments.

‘CC’—Currently highly vulnerable.

‘C’—Currently highly vulnerable obligations and other defined circumstances.

‘D’—Payment default on financial commitments.

Note: Ratings from ‘AA’ to ‘CCC’ may be modified by the addition of a plus (+) or minus (-) sign to show relative standing within the major rating categories.

Ten freeware gems for new Macs

Re: Where's the finder Replacements then?

And a payware called Forklift, which is an unlucky clone of Total Commander. But for Mac should be just enough. Or not.

Europe promises immigration action as North Africa moves

Only for UK!

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty

to purchase a little Temporary Safety,

deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

You knew this was coming, don't you?