Posts by Tubz

NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts

What's the problem, consolidating all the feeds to one site with each feed having a headlining article that leads to a sub section common practice.

Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 Start Menu updates

Just strip out the crap, you can do it for a Xbox branded handheld to use the cheapest useable components.

Seagate still HAMRing away at the 100 TB disk drive decades later

Quantum Bigfoot 2.1GB most reliable drive I have and still going in my retro 486 machine, when Seagate can provide that type of service, I may buy another one of their drives or hell freezing over.

BT won't budge over pay hike for manager grade employees

Revenue down, pay rises down, payments to shareholders and the board up, business is good for some !

Wanted: IT manager for UK government agency – £60k

Civil Service Pension, with an employer contribution of 28.97 percent ... why is this still allowed, should be a capped amount controlled and if the unions and their sheep don't like it, find the door and exit the job !

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

He hammered away at the problem until a solution was found

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

You would think an O/S company that also hosts said O/S as VMs would test their patches to ensure those VMs don't go bork, ah yes, time for another entry to Microsoft's own goal of the month competition entry. Don't worry we have a QA co-pilot script for that.

Ex-Meta exec: Copyright consent obligation = end of AI biz

So OK for Megacorps to pirate content, just not Joe public who would face potential jail time ! Clegg was the original experimental useless political tool and now we have moved on to the ultimate useless political tool in 2 tier Keir and his Liebour party.

Even a humble keyboard is now political in Taiwan

Re: ? perhaps by force.?

Agree, China's political word guarantees nothing.

Re: Funny how the dishonesty in the US

Except the BBC is as bias as any American outlets, just not as bad or open about it.

'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers

Blocks now, but by the time UK/EU get these datacenter capacity up and running, I would think UK/EU legislators will be tightening controls and forcing the moves and contracts coming to an end or negotiations won't be favouring the American megacorps anymore.

What would a Microsoft engineer do to Ubuntu? AnduinOS is the answer

As a one man development, I think he's done a great job, may still need a few more tweaks and can you image if he included Windows support OOTB, his bosses would shit themselves or threaten him with unemployment !

User unboxed a PC so badly it 'broke' and only a nail file could fix it

Reminds me of the time we did a hardware refresh of dell AIOs, we had bought some nice trollies that could move 30 at a time safely for deploying to desk, sadly not so safe as we found around 50 with scratch screen, as the staff that had been invited in to help and work overtime, had ignore our orders and stacked them on top of each of other screen to screen. Dell refused to warranty as it was user damage, even when reminded of size of hardware order and I don't blame them.

Actors' union complains about Epic Games cloning Darth Vader

AI will win, SEJ signed over his rights to allow Lucas/AI to use his voice, is there a clause on his death that SAG-AFTRA continue to represent him or even have the right overrule his or his estates rights to do whatever he/they likes with his personal IP. This sounds more like SAG-AFTRA desperately trying to protect the money train and in some ways is right, for living members, without separate agreements.

Torvalds' typing taste test touches tactile tragedy

Re: The best keyboard...

Call with a ZX-80.

I use the Corsair K57 RGB Wireless Gaming Keyboard, wired to my laptop dock during the day and charging and wireless to gaming PC and hate the thing, feels like I'm constantly misspelling or not getting a key registered. Wasn't cheap but don't feel as if it was value for money.

My favourite keyboard ever, was an ICL DRS (Black Tactile Space Invaders Switches), clicky but not overly loud and accurate key pressing and trained me up to a respectable 55 wpm.

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

Back in my youth, was working for local council computer department when they had a full mainframe rig, was tasked with writing some Cobol code for the benefits section and was told off for putting in extensive comments, as they complained how much extra memory it would take when running on the mainframe. They couldn't grasp that the code was compiled, and comments ignored, so being the junior, I ripped out all the comments. I had a phone call from my old boss a few years later after I had left asking if I knew why such and such was misbehaving after they had done some code updates but they couldn't follow the source code, now leaving on good terms with him, hoping to return if possible, I told him I left a copy of all my code in my notes folder, hidden at the back of the old fire safe that held tape backups and disaster recovery stuff. Met up with him the next weekend and he got me well and truly wasted on fine ale.

Post Office finally throttles delayed in-house EPOS project

How about paying the compensation owed to PO victims first, funny if this was an Irish terrorist, foreign fighter or immigrant, government would be splashing our cash willingly.

As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database

US CVE will probably close and probably better if the EU did look after the database, another source of information out of the control of one unaccountable fascist state.

US tech titans rejoice in $600B Saudi shopping spree

and once the Saudi's start taking US Ai jobs, in come the tariffs from Uncle Trumpy, if he gets a 3rd vacation at the White House.

Microsoft facing multibillion legal claim over how it sells software

Re: Open source?

Sadly, that ship will never sail.

But remember the good old days when you actually had competition to Microsoft with Netware and Lotus, but they became obsolete being too slow to evolve and pricing themselves out of business.

US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired

So if I get some software, crack it and use for a couple of weeks to test it and then uninstall, I am not a pirate, as the use of copyrighted material doesn’t impact it's market or value, fair use will apply.?

Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you

No excuse now for router manufacturers to improve their software, they can use a lot of open source software to create very powerful kit, OPNsense+Unbound DNS+Pihole, just takes them to have the will and not put out rubbish consumer tat that has short lives and gaping security holes.

If Google is forced to give up Chrome, what happens next?

Chrome makes no money directly from Google, the revenue is from the ads that the data Chrome recovers uses to target users.

Google could as easily just say, screw this and just hand over Chrome to an open source Foundation and say let them provide the core browser but with a stipulation that Google is the default search engine and let the minions fight over what features they add to diversify.

No monopoly, Chrome can become many versions but retain compatibility and the potential of thousands of developers to brainstorm, it worked for Linux but this time they can fix some of the issues that Linux has from the beginning.

UK's smaller broadband operators face tough road ahead, consolidation possible

Communication Networks, should be modelled on the energy sector, Openreach and VM02 networks should be merged in to one infrastructure supplier who charges ISP for access to network at a capped price by OFCOM who has more power for the consumer and not just protecting the industry. BT, VM should be split up in to regions and offered to smaller players give the a bigger footprint and offer better opportunities and alternatives.

TikTok fined €530M after EU user data ends up on servers in China

Doesn't matter in no data breach, TikTok broke the law and must now pay the fine, simple as, no appeal and escape clause from Irish regulator !

Brewhaha: Turns out machines can't replace people, Starbucks finds

Went to Starbucks once and never again, now I use Greggs and get a great pastie or sausage roll too.

808 lines of BBC BASIC and a dream: Arm architecture turns 40

Am I sad in keeping an eye on Ebay for an ICL DRS in that old cream and brown colour, that I used in college, good memories, actually met my future wife on the same computer course.

Microsoft pitches pay-to-patch reboot reduction subscription for Windows Server 2025

Pay for a feature that should standard, another head up arse moment for Microsoft greed.

Google goes cold on Europe: Stops making smart thermostats for continental conditions

Re: Again

Agree my British Gas Hive controller went out of support after 4 years, as they wanted to switch off servers and they wanted as stupid price to replace it with a model of the same features , told them to do one and used my brain and fingers !

What the **** did you put in that code? The client thinks it's a cyberattack

A colleague of mine had put together a PowerPoint for the top dogs and had used various placeholder names for information for us to put information that he formatted and on the last page he had a placeholder for "any other shit that the bean counting cretins will want" and yes never removed it. Thankfully it must have been a long day and nobody noticed but our boss giving the presentation and quickly blocked the screen before switching slides.

European biz calls for Euro tech for local people

Does that include us Brits as European but only if we give you our fish stocks and billions to squander on white elephant projects and broken economies of countries like Spain and Greece, that Germany punished?

Fujitsu promised to sit out UK deals ... then Northern Ireland called with £125M

If nobody wants the job and Fujitsu UK are available, then give it to them and keep the money in country to some extent and UK jobs active. A big difference to running land registry to financial system.

Yes everybody involved in the scandal should be held accountable, but at some point, we need to move on and no risk a people's jobs by limiting Fujitsu to breadcrumbs.

Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades

Re: Huh?

We rewrote some ancient NT4 broken badly patch "c" code with some equally dodgy RUST code and didn't follow QA.

Not good if Microsoft can't follow their own rules and expect people to trust them with automatic patching feature of Intune.

TalkTalk Business pulls disappearing act on customer emails

Jen Barber Relationship Manager for the IT Department dropped "The Internet" and caused a blackout.

Now 1.6M people had SSNs, life chapter and verse stolen from insurance IT biz

Always makes me laugh that these billion dollar companies are neglecting security so bad, do they never do deep dive pen testing to stop these type of leaks? yes its costs money, but compared to the costs of a leak in reputation and financial terms, is tiny !

Japan serves Google a cease and desist order over its Android bundling deals

Android, Google ADs and Google Apps, should be split off and let the user make their choice. Yeh I know, a radical thought !

Avnet accuses Arm chip slinger Ampere of screwing it over on server deal

plain old fashioned greed by Ampere and now breaking a contract, shouldn't' take long for a judge to sort this one out, if Avnet have the documents.

Windows 11 stops freaking out over wallpaper customization

Re: Software Not Ready

Because Windows 11 will never ever be complete, updates are not now just bug fixes, they are enhancement packages, replacing old code, with "cleaner, faster, more secure" versions and adding "value applications" for the user experience.

Google Cloud’s so-called uninterruptible power supplies caused a six-hour interruption

APC has gone downhill badly with Schneider, currently using Eaton and actually had to tweak reporting as it was telling me too much information, that was not truly BAU requirement.

EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits

"Washington is not Beijing or Moscow," no they are worse, they are supposed to be friends and allies. Trump and his band of goons have destroyed decades of co-operation and trust, that will take many years once he is a shameful footnote in American history to repair, if at all. Many see his fascism as the wakeup call Europe needed to finally stand on it's own without the Bullly Boy USA pulling strings for it's own benefit.

'Copilot will remember key details about you' for a 'catered to you' experience

and all free thanks to mothership Microsoft and her AI crew sucking up all your data secretly.

Court filing: DOGE aide broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted database

Re: Clearance?

Yeh, but the MET don't hide the fact they are institutionally racist, suspect everybody, break the law on a whim, or ignore it and now act as a semi-untouchable Gestapo.

This one weird trick can make online publishing faster, safer, more attractive, and richer

Surprised nobody has come up with a community-based news system, where you just add your favourites sites, a yearly payment based on some sort of metric and the user feasts on all they can handle, sites all share a % of the revenue. Yes, you'll get some big winners but no adverts or fussing with Patreon etc.

Apple's alleged UK encryption battle sparks political and privacy backlash

Funny that the USA a country notorious for secret courts and dodgy silencing laws, should be displeased with another countries attempts to do the same, because it's an American company! You think they would be supportive, as they can ask MI6 to tap an US citizens phone, tell nobody and no laws broken?

Microsoft adds another Copilot hotkey – this time for AI voice chat

Can just see the Windows development office in Redmond when Satya Nadella walks through the door ..

SN - hey guys, you fixed any Windows bugs this month?

DEVS - nah but we have this new cool AI voice chat.

SN - Nice, anything else?

DEVS - Yeh, we assigned it a new key, so users will to invest another keyboard, more hardware sales.

SN - Nice, a productive month, see you next month.

DEVS - Isn't he a great boss!

Free95 claims to be a GPL 3 Windows clone, but it's giving vaporware vibes

Has 2 working functions, Hey BillG3, he has 2 more than you ever wrote and 1 more than Windows 11 and that's for the phone home telemetry.

The IT world moves fast, so why are admins slow to upgrade?

Wise admins take their time, test, test, test even more and always cover their own backsides from blame.

Admins that are at the beck and call of users, make mistakes and get the blame along with the get P45s.

I'm a wise admin and if no change control and approved plans, no work !

Brits end probe into Microsoft's $13B bankrolling of OpenAI

Didn't Microsoft pop round for tea with Sellout Starmer, wonder if they had a quiet word to drop the investigation.