Posts by Zoopy

Microsoft yanks Windows 11 preview update after install failures

Re: Production quality?

> I think I fell off my chair laughing.

You're... not sure?

Whitehall seeks lone C++ coder to keep airport passenger model flying

I'm reminded of the great RiffTrax short, "Mr. B Natural":

https://www.rifftrax.com/mr-b-natural

Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats

Re: Chilling story

Is reporting this to the police not an option?

It's considerate to let an employer know as well, but they're not government nor law enforcement.

Microsoft investors sweat cloud giant's OpenAI exposure

Re: Sweaty Nads

To be fair, A1 probably a bit smarter than American yellow mustard. Yuck.

Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the network down

I'm sorry ITMA, due to the pun quality we've decided to eliminate your position.

Re: "Oh yeah, I just push it back in when it falls out"

> someone had fitted the DVI connector into it backwards.

With what, an industrial metal press???

X's location tags remind users of the internet's oldest rule: Trust nothing

Re: The internet

Sorry to burst your bubble, but they're all interested in meeting ME, so ...

AMD grabs more x86 share as Intel stumbles in entry-level chips

How is AMD's tooling for developers these days?

A few years ago when I last looked, they didn't appear to have anything truly on par with Intel VTune.

OpenAI’s viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft

Wouldn't the right term be "accurate"?

‘ERP down for emergency maintenance’ was code for ‘You deleted what?’

Re: "I've accidentally deleted some relations.”

"and I had a box of 3.25" floppy discs in my locked desk drawer"

However, finding that there were no 3.25" drives in existence, you realized that the data were truly gone :)

Transatlantic chip war fizzles as EU and US framework confirms 15% tariff cap

Re: Capitulation

I think there's a fundamental tension between wanting Trump to get a taste of his own medicine, vs. knowing that it's a disgusting low road almost regardless of reason.

Codeberg beset by AI bots that now bypass Anubis tarpit

Re: While Anubis is a good concept

Wow, thanks for a kinda gross reminder of my childhood ;)

My family didn't add syrup though.

No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms

> Can somebody explain to me why Blackboard is a problem but Whiteboard isn't?

Honest answer: I think they implicitly have an "oppressed" ranking, and then apply that to the motion that one shouldn't "punch downward".

So, for example, they consider white people to be (in some ways) superior to black people, and white people therefore have a "noblis obligae" towards their lessers.

I think the basics impulse to stand up for the little guy is praiseworthy, but basing it on such demographics leads to some logically absurd results

Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo

Re: "which did not seem like a good omen"

> You take down Amazon.com today and it is possible that you will never work in IT again.

Okay but what's the downside?

Trump tariffs turn techies topsy-turvy as US braces for PC tax

Re: Idiotic tariff nonsense

As an American, I agree entirely.

The recipe for Starbucks is to burn the beans in napalm, and then sell the water used to cool the ashes.

'Cyber security' behind decision to end defense satellite sharing of hurricane data

Re: SimEarth

Don't leave us hanging!!! Was the beer okay?

Folks aren’t buying the PCs that US vendors stockpiled to dodge tariffs

Re: Upgrade? Why?

FWIW, I set my octogenarian mom up with Pop!_OS and (for remote support) Tailscale. It replaced her dead Windows 7. I also did a little tomfoolery to get Windows' FreeCell working on it.

The only tech support she's needed in the past 4(?) years is when her USB Wifi adapter was having problems.

I mention this in case you find, for whatever reason, that Windows 10 is no longer an option.

US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data

Re: Krasnov

> What's even crazier is that to a one, all those "coastal" states affected by severe hurricanes in the US vote republican.

Maybe I'm not understanding, but that seems factuality wrong.

Hurricanes can hit the entire east coast (and Gulf coast) of the US. I'm the 2024 presidential election, about half of those votes against Trump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election

Field support chap got married – which took down a mainframe

Re: VAX field service engineers

> This is actually a significant part of the reason I took to wearing bow ties, which don't suffer from that problem

There's something that 90% of people in the forum want to tell you, but it's best if you hear it from a trusted friend over coffee.

Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday update fails on some Windows 11 VMs

Re: They shot their own Azure foot!

Windows NT was pretty serious about stability, IIRC.

Britain's cyber agents and industry clash over how to tackle shoddy software

Re: Software Vendors Are The Tip Of The Iceberg!

"international bodies such as NIST"

International? The first word of NIST is literally "National".

Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists

"Is is possible to steal something *with* permission?"

How about stealing her HEART?

Sincerely, your friends at DeBeers.

I was *waiting* for a No True Scotsman argument!

Trump wants to fire quarter of NASA budget into black hole – and not in a good way

Re: Is Trump just not capable of grasping the concept of knowledge?

I suspect that on balance, Vance is less bad than Trump.

My impression is that Vance's main weakness is that he lacks character and will change his stated views based on what seems expedient.

But unfortunately we're in a situation where that's less bad (IMHO) than the sitting president.

Re: Make Aerospace Grotty Again

Just curious, which sub base? Asking because I grew up near Groton.

Congress wants to know if Nvidia superchips slipped through Singapore to DeepSeek

Re: Medism?

If we're talking about *this* Bond, then he'll yeah! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_(string_quartet)

DOGE geek with Treasury payment system access now quits amid racist tweet claims

In (half-hearted) defense of Trump voters, the Democrats fielded their own differently terrible candidate.

Politically moderate voters had no good option.

Ontario responds to Trump tariff by pitching Starlink deal into the trash

Re: Great pic *roll eyes*

"Nobody except Musk himself will ever really know what was meant by it."

The same can be said regarding pretty much any communication.

How confident one should be regarding Musk's true intent is a judgement call.

Microsoft vet laments a world where even toothbrushes need reboots

Re: Mental

I had a very marked improvement in dental health once I start using electric toothbrushes.

I mean this to my dental hygienist once, and he said he sees a very clear trend in the teeth of those who do and don't use electrics.

I encourage you to give it a shot.

AI chatbot startup founder, lawyer wife accused of ripping off investors in $60M fraud

Re: Which is worse?

Yes.

Linux rolls out the welcome mat for Microsoft's Copilot key

Re: Pretty obvious

You need to be careful with that command. Depending on your localization, it might also / alternatively remove the Finish, Fula, etc. locales.

Re: Pretty obvious

I don't know if this is true for all unixes, but IIRC "rm" just removes a directory's reference to a file.

The underlying file continues to exist until (at least) there are no processes that have it open, and there are no other directories / files that have hard links to it's inode.

Or something like that.

Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?

Out of curiosity, what games does a 75 year old like you enjoy playing?

I'm in my early 50s, and I've simply lost interest in the genres that I enjoyed in past decades.

Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog

Re: Here we go again...

Gavina?

Microsoft adds another problem to the Windows 11 24H2 naughty list

Re: Smug

Is it possible to do those cmd line steps before creating an account as the GP described?

When your technological ghosts come back to haunt you, expect humbug

Re: Very good piece

"Helping someone with their first few paraglider launches is an amazing treat"

Is that you, BOFH?

No, I can't help – you called the wrong helpdesk, in the wrong place, for the wrong platform

Re: "They also didn't understand time zones very well."

When I worked for Microsoft, this was endemic in internal emails.

Nobody seemed to understand the difference between PT, PST, and PDT.

Perhaps this is a generational thing, but I was very unimpressed.

Re: See...

Since a death threat is a criminal act, I'd consider first reporting it to the police, and *then* HR.

HR is not a valid substitute for law enforcement.

This sounds like the setup for a very tame porn scene.

Techie fluked a fix and found himself the abusive boss's best friend

Re: The Power of Fear!

The sabbatical was to stay out of town until the Model M lost interest in returning the favor.

Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI

Re: I would argue that the Reg comment boards are antisocial media.

"Fuck the fuck off!"

I fear that even a large conference of physiologists, linguists, and pornographers would be unable to pin down the meaning of that utterance.

You, sir, are a true vulgarian.

Police arrest suspect in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, with grainy pics the only tech involved

We should also count the loved ones of former, now deceased or disabled, policy holders.

I don't advocate this kind of killing, for religious reasons. But I find the anger against insurers very relatable.

Re: Dead men don't suffer.

My first instinct would be that such questions could be a prelude to robbery. (My neighborhood is quite safe, but I'm the suspicious sort.)

So my answer would be yes, either way.

Windows 11 24H2 rolls out to more devices – with a growing list of known issues

Re: Break/fix/break

Are there any good, cross-platform alternatives to SMB at the moment?

The last time I looked into it, the only viable-looking alternative was NFS, which had its own challenges.

Microsoft confirms there will be no U-turn on Windows 11 hardware requirements

Re: Well...

Heads up, your caps lock is... oh, nevermind.

Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz

I've had good luck with "Pop_OS!".

Microsoft reboots Windows Recall, but users wish they could forget

Re: When stuck in a hole

Microsoft only understands two answers: "yes" and "ask me later".

I'm not proud of the revenge fantasies such behavior inspires on me.

Like the ad

This article is also showing a CyberArk ad, that rotates a cube so that is occasionally covers nearby text.

It's annoying as hell, especially for someone with ADD.

Another example of neat trick, bad idea.

Microsoft slaps Windows 11 update hold on hardware connected to eSCL devices

So what I'm hearing is...

we can use USB devices to prevent unwanted Windows updates?

Totally worth it.

One thing AI can't generate at the moment – compelling reasons to use it for work

Re: Just plain exquisite

I have little comprehension of what your comment is trying to communicate, but it's clearly a great work of literature.