Posts by JWLong

Trump administration set to waive TikTok sell-or-die deadline for a third time

Re: Fixed that for you America!

Trump is a Turd!

Windows 95 testing almost stalled due to cash register overflow

POS Systems

I remember in the early 80's working on registers from Data Terminal Systems that would lockup a on sale over $32,256.00.

$10,000 doesn't sound like shit. Must have been a artificial limit put in place by the powers that be.

US Navy backs right to repair after $13B carrier crew left half-fed by contractor-locked ovens

Galley Equipment

I learn lots of things working on mess equipment.

https://www.alamy.com/cooking-vessels-in-the-ships-main-galley-uss-midway-museum-san-diego-california-united-states-image227090939.html

What Is ............

"what's the USN term for Bodge tape / Black nasty?"

Monkey Shit.

I was on carriers during Vietnam in Engineering. Monkey Shit is what we used to temporarily repair holes/leaks in piping systems, bulkheads, you name it we fixed it with it.

Altman fluffs superintelligence to save humanity as OpenAI slashes prices

Pop Goes The Weasel

I can here the moans and groans of the AI bubble straining to contain the pile of shit it's full of.

Google outfoxed by crafty squatters in $1B London HQ's rooftop garden

Re: Fox's or Fox'es?

"Seppo"

Slang, from the land of Hitler.

How many millions did he kill?

Re: Fox's or Fox'es?

And how many people live in Austria.

9.132 million (2023)

We have cities bigger than that so your comparison is a crock of shit.

Re: Fox's or Fox'es?

Hey AssHole,

"""Ten people have been killed in a school shooting in the Austrian city of Graz, """

Since when is Austria in the USA, get a map - then a life!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ced27g4e6xwo

Fox's or Fox'es?

Aren't they a protected species now. I'm sure that the hunts of the past were made illegal recently.

What to do?

Microsoft slows Windows 11 24H2 Patch Tuesday due to a 'compatibility issue'

Microsoft

Do they even try any more?

Waymo problems in La La Land as robotaxis set aflame

Re: Easy

"What if you're a demented imbecile, would it still work"

NO, you become the president!

Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 Start Menu updates

Piss'n around

Just fix your fucking updates mess will you.

Floppy disks and paper strips lurk behind US air traffic control

Old Shit

I got systems still running from the late 70's-80's thru to the 90's generation of hardware.

This stuff is pretty much bulletproof except one thing, crt displays.

But, field monkeys like me working with video game (commercial) repair companies have figured out how to mod them with flat screens using CGA to VGA converters.

I can still source pretty much all the TTL components on board assemblies. Power supplies can be rebuilt as long as the transformers are good and Molex and AMP still make all the connectors.

Even the Z80 processors are available still.

And they keep chugging along,.........!

Not bad for 45 year old iron.

Field support chap got married – which took down a mainframe

Circa: 1970's

Working in Bowling centers world wide for the major manufacturers the mandate that management wear ties to distinguish themselves was soon modified to be that managment was to wear "clip-on ties only at all times".

This came about after an assistant manager (night manager) was working alone after sending the night mechanic home early because it was slow. He was found in the morning not breathing anymore, yet the machine was still running.

Seems that his "required tie" had become entangled in a 205 inch "B" series (high powered) ball wheel drive belt that was driven at at about a 400:1 ratio by the 1-1/2HP drive motor. Not a good mix!

Glad I didn't have to clean that machine afterwards.

Ukraine strikes Russian bomber-maker with hack attack

Re: Zelenskyy sure seems to hold a lot of cards

Ace reply

Of Spades!

Re: Zelenskyy sure seems to hold a lot of cards

Mollycoddled, I'm one of those and went to Vietnam.

Yeah, Vietnam the country given to France after WWII by Europe.

Thanks a lot,.............

Re: Thank goodness

DUDE, (AC) STFU.

Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire

Re: Tesla that burned so hot, it melted part of the road

You should see Phosphorus burn. Had fire fighting training in the Navy and Phosphorus was the one thing that we were told to not do anything.

It's so hot it will separate water molecules into hydrogen(fuel) and oxygen(oxidizer) just adding to the mess.

The only thing you could do was follow it as it burned through the deck plates and plug the holes with damage control plugs.

Visited a few bombing run sites in Vietnam where Phosphorus bombs were used, that shit will melt dirt!

X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it

Musk,.........

,,............this twerp couldn't pour piss out of a boot, even if the instructions to do so were printed on the bottom of said boot.

Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul

Meta

Just amazing how fast they cut the crap out when this was published on Arstechnica this morning.

I block over 1K IP addresses for farcefuckbook and yet they have whys of getting around the means that people use to stop their shit.

This cat and mouse stuff needs to end. User's should have a positive means of blocking any and all access from any web service if they so desire.

I know it will never happen, but, one can dream!

IBM Cloud login breaks for second time in a fortnight

IBM

Indian Bad Machines

Why does this problem sound so much like Microsofts shitware problems.

Must be outsourcing to the same two man one woman company as the other one does.

SHITWARE INC LLC.

Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter

Re: I have a hammer drill

Mine goes ingersoll rand, ingersoll rand, ingersoll rand, ingersoll rand.

Much higher grade assembly, to get the job done right!

Anthropic CEO frets about 20% unemployment from AI, but economists are doubtful

Re: Career Ending Oracle

Spit, don't swallow.

Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond

FFS

I use it to import new parts numbers to a 30 year old database of equipment part numbers, different suppliers, pricing, website addresses. I use CSV import through Excel then update the database with the spreadsheet, it just works like a batch job.

I don't need AI fucking with any of that process, it works very well and gives me all the update logging necessary to keep track of sources I use.

Screw their AI shit, I believe in "keep it simple shithead". and this is not that!

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

Update To Date

And they want to take over all software packages updates, yeah that's a problem right there.

Once again Microsoft shits on it's own kitchen!

Marks & Spencer admits cybercrooks made off with customer info

Re: I wonder ...

I just use 01/01/01.

Let them figure it out.

Re: MSM: The hackers are believed to have tricked IT helpdesk workers into resetting staff passwords

>WTF is going on when a major supermarket isn't practicing basic security principles?

Boosting their stock price!

Re: I don't really give a fuck that they got hacked...

Fine, I was born on the 2nd of August.

They don't need the year.

Microsoft is opening Windows Update to third-party apps

Suggestion #1

Microsoft, fix your own internal update mess first. Like try to get one months forced update to work.

Stargate to land its first offshore datacenters in the United Arab Emirates

Camels

Won't someone please think of the Camels.

Builder.ai coded itself into a corner – now it's bankrupt

Just another.............

TATA venture capital love child wantabe shit AI joke hit'n the shitter, who didn't see this coming.

Just anorther reason for corporations to raise prices again to pay for this garbage.

Trump signs TAKE IT DOWN law meant to stop revenge porn

Re: Hmm

" And while President Trump has to sign it to make it official,

No he doesn't, it passed with more than 3/4 of the standing House and full Senate.

Torvalds' typing taste test touches tactile tragedy

Re: Numeric keypad

ADC

Analog to Digital Converter

KeyTronic

They made some bullet proof keyboards. All steel housings and switch stems that never broke.

Some of the OEMs that I worked for used KeyTronic boards (Honeywell, Brunswick, AMF). Brunswick charged $1000.00 core charge if you didn't send the damaged board back to the repair facility.

Re: Numeric keypad

It was the phone company that turned the numeric keypad upside down to slow down data entry clerks from overrunning the touchtone computers of the time.

Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade

Adobe

I dumped their shit 10 years ago, I won't even use Reader anymore because of the garbage included with their shitware of the day. There is plenty of other software for the casual user to use, and for the "Professional" I hope you understand that you don't own or control anything you allow to their "Cloud".

Automatic UK-to-US English converter produced amazing mistakes by the vanload

Because...

....we know what we are talking about.....

/s

Sorry, I couldn't pass that one up!

Re: Do they really spell archaeology like that over there?

Wet.

Re: Still happening

Trugging across the tundra, mile after mile. Too St. Alfonso's house we go!

So don't eat the yellow snow.

Re: Whoops

May I knock up your wife?

Dilettante dev wrote rubbish, left no logs, and had no idea why his app wasn't working

Re: Divers log

Don't confuse fluid ounces with ounces of weight.

16 fluid ounces are a pint. 16 ounces of weight are a pound.

And don't blame us(the U.S.) for this, we inherited it from the Brits. /s

Got to blame someone so might as well the Islanders.....

Re: Divers log

And let's not forget "Fluid Ounces".

Re: Divers log

On Aircraft carriers top speed:

I was on the U.S.S. Midway towards the end of Vietnam and we were qualifying her because of a major casualty that had happen in #2 main engine reduction gear.

We had her up to 37.5 knots and she was screaming like a two dollar whore.

I was also station on the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk(also known as the Shitty Kitty) in 76. The big difference in the steam plant was that the boilers were 1200psi instead of 600psi like the Midway was.

Next week's SpaceX Starship test still needs FAA authorization

Young'ns

"I am old enough to have skipped school to watch the first shuttle launch"

I was 17 during Apollo 11, getting ready to ship out to Vietnam.

Ah yes, the summer of Love.

Whodunit? 'Unauthorized' change to Grok made it blather on about 'White genocide'

GPU

I think you're on the right track!

DoorDash scam used fake drivers, phantom deliveries to bilk $2.59M

Re: A Matter of Scale

Well, they had an inside guy working the numbers

Yet no one never noticed the ledger out of balance.

This is what double entry accounting systems are supposed catch.

So, either their software stack is a pile of shit, or this kind of thing is typical corporate happening's just pulled off by the C-suits usually.

DoorDash

So DoorDash, how's those off shore Dev's working out for you?

The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet

Win11 Server

If the current OS is WIN7 up with an activated key your good to go, it will self activate.

What you end up with is a very generic Win11 install.

To keep Edge tamed I deleted "TrustedInstaller" and "System" permission to write to the Edge folder, then deleted the contents of the folder. This confuses the update mechanism because the folder all ready exists but it can't do anything with/to the folder.

The Telemetry crap can be turned off in the registry, but Microsoft likes to override that so I use firewall rules to block outgoing comms.

What have you got?

I can tell you what I haven't got, CoPilot, Recall, OneDrive, Edge, or any of the other shit like Telemetry.

What I do have is 40 years of hardware test software that I use to troubleshoot and repair equipment that I work on.

Now I realize that you're not use to anything in life lasting longer than the loan payment's on it, but in industry there's a lot of legacy equipment out there chugging along doing it's job.

And that's the shit I got!

And, no Linux doesn't work in this scenario.

setup.exe /product server

I've done this a million times and works great.

The last one I did had a Hauppage video/tuner board from 2012 in it and works perfectly.