Posts by RobThBay

DR-DOS rises again – rebuilt from scratch, not open source

DR DOS 3.41 was from 1989, not 1981

.....we recommend DR DOS 3.41 from 1981....

The link takes you to a photo of 3.41's boot disk. It clearly shows August 1989.

Ex-L3Harris exec jailed 7 years for selling exploits to Russia

Re: Typical American Bullshit

Their great orange leader is leading by example.

Pop music fans literally dying to stream hot new albums – in car crashes, that is

Re: Touchscreens...

I was in a Tesla last summer. None of the voice control stuff worked when we were out of cellphone range.

Hotel's rotary switchboard so retro it predates the concept of crashing

I'd forgotten about fax spam. The fax machine we had back then used rolls of thermal paper.

One morning we came in to and found some arse had sent a bunch fax spam overnight and used up an entire roll of thermal paper.

We ended up unplugging the fax machine overnight after that.

O say, can you see: FCC pushes patriotic programming for US 250th

Re: Dear leader

American culture.. hmmm... Girls with Guns videos?

Quebec vehicles agency spent C$245M over budget on SAP ERP it wasn't sure it needed

Not a state agency

...found that the state agency...

Fyi, it's a provincial agency.

Stash or splash? Lawmakers ask NASA to find alternatives for International Space Station

Re: Beyer's markup

My first thought was the same thing.

"Relocate" it to Mar-A-Largo

Why not drop into the Orange One's backyard?

Challenger at 40: The disaster that changed NASA

Truth, Lies and O-Rings

I recently read Truth, Lies and O-Rings. Fascinatng behind the scenes info, written by a former director of engineering at Morton-Thiokol.

Pressure from Nasa management "convinced" Thiokol management to green light the launch.

FAA signs radar deals to drag US air traffic control out of the 1980s

What?? No AI?

You'd think AI would have been mentioned.

Just think of the cost savings....

- no people needed.

- therefore, no consoles, workstations, lunch rooms, washrooms, etc needed either.

What could possibly go wrong?

Starlink to lower orbits of thousands of satellites over safety concerns

Re: strange idea

So, it'll be "satellite bits keep falling on my head" instead of raindrops in the near future.

iPad kids are more anxious, less resilient, and slower decision makers

Re: indeed

Also at around 10 years old (late 60s).

We found the ski from an old smowmachne (ski-doo). This thing was solid steel and heavy. I tied a rope to the front of it, stood on it and went sliding down snow covered hills.

Looking back, the rider could have been seriously hurt if they had fallen and been hit by the ski.

They call that snowboarding these days.

North American air defense troops ready for 70th year of Santa tracking

Ahh..simpler times

Just imagine if something like that happened these days.

Instead of a friendly air force officer playing along, the kid's house would have an armed reaper drone overhead and be surrounded by a swat team.

New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good

Re: TSR

TSR's and DOS... many happy memories.

Re: "Have you used tech to prank colleagues, and gotten away with it?"

I'd forgotten about PC Anywhere. Thanks for the reminder and memories.

Trump Media jumps aboard the speculative nuclear fusion bandwagon

Con+Fusion

Definitely sounds like Trump is involved.

Google's AI is eating your email by default. Here's how to shut its mouth

I work for a courier and the boss texted asking me to pick up a package at TransWest,.

Autocorrect fixed it for him and changed TransWest to transvestite.

Re: I don't see any way...

A donation to Donny and friends will take of any potential lawsuits.

Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI

Re: AI

Use the pre-AI ESR version. I'm staying with the ESR version.

MS Task Manager turns 30: Creator reveals how a 'very Unixy impulse' endured in Windows

Blow main tanks

...had the architecture to surface that information...

Does a klaxon go off when you decide to surface?

Google stuffs Chrome full of AI features whether you like it or not

an AI-simplified interpretation of any webpage they're on.....

Was this "improvement" added to help the Trumpettes and MAGAt's understand the outside world?

OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance

Re: OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance

I've had supervisors like that and they'd get pissed off if you pointed out the real world facts to them.

Apple's 'Awe Droppings' fall close to the tree

Battery life, according to Ternus, is "all-day."

Hmmm.....

The days pretty short here in the winter.

Sky-high budget gap: FAA launches air traffic overhaul, lacks cash to finish it

They should check with Canada's NavCan people. Their country-wide system seems to work fairly well.

On 2nd thought, telling the Trumpettes about NavCan will only restart the 51st state bullshit.

Europe Putin the blame on Russia after GPS jamming disrupts president’s plane

Notice to who?

We aren't allowed to say "notice to airmen" anymore. I think it's "now notice to air mission" or some such silliness.

US science left out in the cold amid plans to retire Antarctic icebreaker

What ice?

Trump is probably counting on the ice caps thawing (for no apparent reason). Then they won't need an icebreaker.

Trump's budget bill bankrolls $85M Space Shuttle shuffle

Re: A journey into the Gulf of Mexico

The voyage through the America Canal (former Panama Canal) would be quicker as well.

Deutsche Bahn train hits 405 km/h without falling to bits

ICE?

I saw ICE mentioned and wondered what Trump's Immigration Clowns had to do it.

Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage

Re: If you really want your scribbles readable in 3000 CE* ...

American midwest.....Trumpians??

DARPA is testing a device soldiers can swallow to make them less stressed

Not that BTO

Bachman Turner Overdrive. Great Canadian band from the old days.

Trump announces $175B for Golden Dome defense shield over America

Been there, done ths...

Back around 1960 the 'Merikans convinced Canada to join their missle defence system. Don't remember what it was called but it used Bomarc missles as interceptors that were based in Northern Canada.

It didn't work, the 'Mericans eventually abandoned their missle sites and left all their (toxic) garbage behind.

No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon

Re: With This and America Today...

I remember hearing about possible ozone layer damage as well.

Trump promises protection for TikTok, for which he has a ‘warm spot in my heart’

Re: Tiktok

I wouldn't describe him as little. Definitely strange though.

DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale

They also have problems with the letter U.

It seems to go into hiding with words like colour, flavour, neighbour, ....

Trump doubles down, vows to make Chinese imports even more expensive for Americans

Re: Let me tell you a few things

Canadanians??? Where the fuck did that come from?

We're Canadians!

Boeing 787 radio software safety fix didn't work, says Qatar

Re: with an estimated cost of $127.50 per aircraft

The patch plus 90 minutes of tech time is only $127???

Sounds like one of those lowest bidder gets the work jobs.

Re: 90 Minutes to install a patch????

Dont't forget the mandatory health and safety briefing including coffee & donuts. That's probably not included in the 90min to install timeframe.

China hits back at America with retaliatory tariffs, export controls on rare earth minerals

And try to make Canada the 51st state....

ISS resupply and trash pickup craft postponed indefinitely after Cygnus container crunch

Tariffed?

When the module returns to Trumpistan after being repaired will it be subject to tariffs?

Official HP toner not official enough after dodgy update, say users

Re: I remember when HP was a good company

I had a HP6L printer that I finally had to replace after 25 years. Toner is no longer available.

Replaced it with a HP M404dw.

As mentioned elsewhere, automatic firmware updates have been turned off, it works fine and doesn't need any "improvements" from HP.

'Cybertruck ownership comes with ... interesting fan mail'

Re: Unless a finger smear or a slice of cheese is enough to damage the Cybertruck

American cheese?? Ahhh you meant Freedom Cheese.

Feds: Army soldier suspected of AT&T heist Googled ‘can hacking be treason,’ ‘defecting to Russia’

The Orange One is a perfect example of D-K.

Amazon-backed X-energy bags $700M more for itty-bitty nuke reactors that don't exist yet

X.....

Doesn't Muskrat own everything X-related?

Trump hits undo on Biden AI safety order, EV mandate, emissions standards, and more

....ends up dazed and concussed.....

Would anyone notice?

Blue Origin postpones New Glenn's maiden flight to January 12

Gulf of ??

I guess it's still called the Gulf of Mexico for now. Until the Orange One gets into office and renames it to the Gulf of 'Merica.

Stranded in space: Starliner crew to remain in orbit even longer as SpaceX faces delays

Coming soon to a TV near you, Gilligan's Island in space.

Ambitious overclocker cools Raspberry Pi 5 with liquid nitrogen

You had an Intel 486DX-33 at the time??

Lucky bugger, all we had was.....

Monty Python skit goes here

Unbreakable Voyager space probes close in on a 50 year mission

Re: Closer to home

Didn't John Connor and his gang take out Skynet?

JPMorgan Chase sues scammers following viral 'infinite money glitch'

JP Chase makes all the funds from large deposits available immediately??

Serves them right for being so stupid.

The horror that is VHS revived for horror movie release

Collectors have turntables not record players.