* Posts by Georgski

21 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jul 2012

Elon and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad legal week

Georgski
Pint

Re: Just how did he become so successful

He can get money (aka, grift)

That's it. But just occasionally the money gets remarkable people doing remarkable things like Falcon 9 rockets.

More often it's a trail of woe and silliness. hey buddy wouldya like some FSD?

FAA gives Boeing 90 days to fix serious safety shortcomings found in report

Georgski
Facepalm

from your first link

> David Calhoun, CEO of Boeing said in a recent earnings call that Boeing is glad that the FAA paused its [Boeing's] production expansion, which gives the company time to fix things and do right.

So: Even after the short term-ist, stock price driven, engineering has caused terrible results for everyone _even the shareholders_, he still won't take any action to fix it until forced by the FAA.

Great.

Staff say Dell's return to office mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women

Georgski

What are they good at?

Our org is not buying any more Dell as, on top of build quality declining, they aren't even getting the selling bit right? Often we have ordered laptops, had long waits, and then the arrived spec is different (eg wrong Windows licence). Sometimes the laptop immediately requires service repair.

Can't think that this cackhanded approach to layoffs is going to turn them around.

Preview edition of Microsoft OS/2 2.0 surfaces on eBay

Georgski

Re: Nice museum piece

Here's a fun restoration project. Scientists needed recovery of paleontology data from the 70s (8" floppies) ... seemed to work fine. Of course the text was in EBCDIC but then, it was about fossils.

https://youtu.be/5FVwheTVWko

FCC boss says 25Mbps isn't cutting it, Americans deserve 100Mbps now, gigabit later

Georgski

Re: I'd say more like 50/10 is realistic

I gave you an upvote as I get by on 50/20 as a home coder. We are in an era where D-VCS won, where we have large package caches, and continuous integration so we're not pushing up the stuff we build locally.

But it's entirely unworkable for content creators - and TikTok et al made everyone into content creators.

Microsoft kicks Calibri to the curb for Aptos as default font

Georgski

> Cleartype, neat software trickery that won't stand up to today's 4K screens

Anyone know why this is so?

I would have thought a super high res screen makes it “unnecessary but harmless”

Fancy trying the granddaddy of Windows NT for free? Now's your chance

Georgski

Re: Kernel design

This (plus MAX_PATH) is my single greatest issue with Windows and is absolutely baked in to the design. :-(

Azure admins warned to disable shared key access as backdoor attack detailed

Georgski

Re: "these permissions could be abused" . . .

This is a bit of a nothingburger; if you get the super key then you can use the super key. No exploits were used to obtain the super key.

What they could do however is disable super keys by default. Sounds like they are thinking of doing this someday. IMO they should do it sooner than that.

Chipmakers, you can have these billions – but Uncle Sam wants a cut of your profits

Georgski
Trollface

East Germany also tried this pivot

Fascinating stuff.

"How Semiconductors Ruined East Germany" from Asianometry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxrkC-pMH_s

Twitter begs some staff to come back, says they were laid off accidentally

Georgski

Re: More proof

There's quite a detectable shift in my timeline since it happened - tons of people astroturfing post-truth and pro-Musk memes.

Some of it may be bots; some may be prodigal children who had departed for "Truth Social", "Gab", etc. and are now returning to support the new boss.

Tesla reportedly faces criminal probe into self-driving hype

Georgski

People who think "Autopilot" means autonomy, need to spend 5 seconds googling that topic.

"Full Self Driving" OTOH ...

How Wi-Fi spy drones snooped on financial firm

Georgski
Megaphone

Re: I think we're reaching a point...

I'll answer you in a minute, but first: This video is sponsored by NordVPN...

Court voids 34,000 unfair Fuji Xerox contracts

Georgski

Your comment chimes with my layman's understanding of Australian law too, so I'm interested to hear more about this judgment. Local outlets like itnews .com .au might tell us more.

The "Australian Consumer Law" offers really strong protections, but is only for consumers hence the name.

General Motors charges mandatory $1,500 fee for three years of optional car features

Georgski
Trollface

Re: milk the cow

No-one here wanted to see your porn folder thanks

Microsoft extends life of cloud servers from four to six years

Georgski

Re: Accounting Tricks 101

Confused me too.

If old kit is past its useful life then it should be written off. But the converse does not follow (afaik)

Twitter sues Musk: He can't just 'change his mind, trash the company, walk away'

Georgski

If they had a reliable "bot test" then they would ban them all, no?

My guess is that 5% is a guess.

M&A law is not new to regretful buyers who found a mistake or exaggeration, and think it could be a handy pretext to pull out of the deal. It is going to be very difficult for Elon to win on that argument.

Side note. The dude actually started out by claiming he could FIX THE BOT PROBLEM! Now saying it has a bot problem so he must withdraw! He is a clown.

Microsoft suspends free trials for Windows 365 after a day due to 'significant demand'

Georgski

Re: How much?

A bank I worked at wanted it for their summer internship programme. They gain 1000 extra staff (or some huge number) over summer and then lose them when their next year starts at uni.

Tech biz must tell us about more security breaches, says UK.gov as it ponders lowering report thresholds

Georgski

In general, EU members can set more stringent parameters if they like. For example nearly every other member state had greater restrictions on freedom of movement than the UK did.

@El Reg: if you have any analysis of why the EU regs would have stopped this, I'd love to read it. For obvious reasons UK.gov is not a neutral party on this topic.

Dev creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure, was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep

Georgski

Re: LinkedIn

Linkedin's ownership doesn't matter for this story.

Salesdroids, recruiterdroids, all kinds of droid find it easy to find anyones LinkedIn profile because they feature real names with real employer names

And so does the Azure profile, obvs.

Visual Studio Code 1.45 released: Binary custom editors and 'unbiased Notebook solution' in the works

Georgski

VS is slower and slows down more the larger your solution gets. (And what is the point of solutions anyway?)

It's ridiculous how much faster "Find in Files" is.

Lots of things are at least a tiny bit faster - you might only wait a beat in VS, but in VS Code it's done instantly as your fingers go clicky clicky on the keyboard. You feel like a wizard.

I am currently using both VS and VSCode, Code filling the role of Notepad++. (It totally kicks its ass. For starters - No menu-hunting ever!) Yeah Jetbrains IDEs are usually pretty nice, need to get me back a Resharper license.

Let's talk about the RBS IT cock-up

Georgski
Pint

Transcript

I presume El Reg will post a transcript after the chat?

(- Ex RBS staffer, now in a really bad timezone)