Posts by Paul Herber

Oracle AI sailed the world on Royal Navy flagship via cloud-at-the-edge kit

Is the IoW ferry like a religion? There are 7 public crossings as far as I know. Which one to choose?

I sure if you found the right bunch of sailors they could ... whatever floats your boat.

'...to support decision-making ...'

Might 'left-hand down a bit' soon become 'right-hand down a bit'?

Lumme!

Is keelhauling no longer allowed?

Re: Cloud Act

Every ship (and boat!) has a bridge.

Coracle.

How an experienced developer teamed up with Claude to create Elo programming language

it's magic.

Elo - It's a Living Thing.

Female-dominated careers among most exposed to AI disruption

Re: Butchers were rated amongst the least adaptable,…

As far as I'm concerned butchers are always the major steakholders.

What happens when a PC at a dental surgery gets rooted?

Windows fails to tip the scales in grocery store deployment

'your' ?

AFAIC my 'C-suite' is where the cat sleeps!

I can't imagine trying to get a non-Windows based machine past the typical C-suite types on the board of directors. Treat it like a hot potato.

British Army's drone degree program set to take flight

Ten of the twenty will drop out half way through and the rest will go on to work in nail bars and hair salons.

'Program will train just 20 people per year'

I hope you realise just how long it takes to go through the benefits-risk analysis, health and safety, bean-counter costs-analysis, and drone diversity training?

Anthropic writes 23,000-word 'constitution' for Claude, suggests it may have feelings

Re: an ‘entity’ that probably has something like emotions

At least you can pretend to be a bit happier when it says sorry and that it really means it this time and promises to do better with the next assignment, however badly written the specification, talking of which just let me do that in the future.

Notepad will now tell you all the ways Microsoft has enshittified it

I wonder whether any one particular user asked for a great green-crayon option to be added? Best addition to an MS app ever!

P.S. can we please have bold/italic/underline etc added to the text editor, and font-size, bullet points, and indents, margins, page feeds ...

In a word ...

House of Lords votes to ban social media for Brits under 16

Ban the cigarettes, but leave them access to the ice-cream and figurines of the Virgin Mary!

Pesky kids won't allow you to get away with that!

Re: In the olden days

The Snapchat Influencers Party disagrees with you.

Doesn't really affect the 5 to 10 year old age group.

AI hasn't delivered the profits it was hyped for, says Deloitte

Actual zero and the concept of zero are different, er, concepts, actually.

Rock, paper, scissors based calculation and decision-making was an early attempt to extend binary into a trinitarian philosophy.

Binary as well. Rocks are zeros, sticks are ones.

Ledger? Luxury. Tally sticks not good enough for you?

News January 2036: AI hasn't delivered the profits it was hyped for.

Kids learn computer theory with wood, cardboard, and hot glue

Re: Valves (Tubes) impracticable?

But whose?

Re: Valves (Tubes) impracticable?

But can we trust those Russian valves? They'll either be sending data home to Moscow or there will be a remote turn-off facility. But there might only be a filament of truth in this!

Re: Inevitable

On paper, yes.

OpenAI is still figuring out how to make money, but wants you to believe in it

Re: Compute in GW

It's like measuring your capabilities by how many pints you can drink.

We can measure the input.

The output must be similar but we don't tend to measure that!

Useful work? Hmm. well, immeasurable.

ERP isn't dead yet – but most execs are planning the wake

Re: Redundant or irrelevent?

Are the agents now falling out of 7th floor windows?

Takes a leap of faith with all of them ..

Broker who sold malware to the FBI set for sentencing

Unfortunate ...

An unfortunate surname for the sort of time and lifestyle he'll have in a US jail.

Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

Re: Suggestions?

'Sadly, I've never actually shot at a powered on windows PC. I'm curious now if it would BSOD '

Bulleted Screen Of Death

Cloud to be an American: Congress votes to kick China off remote GPU services

Re: Europe needs to follow suit

' dubious utility as worker replacements'

With suitable model input an AI might even take over El Presidente's job soon...

Maybe it already has!

Affordable housing site goes live with meme-laden test data

Re: Darn, they must read El Reg.

password won't work. They're probably 133t hakkerz. Try p455w0rd.

Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote

Re: WTF

... or even worse, Noel Edmonds!!!!!

Re: Ahhh... reminds me of Star Trek

... and where are you going to find anyone who can clean out or replace the chicken soup nozzle?

ISS stint ends early as NASA aborts Crew-11 over crew illness

I would hate to get toothache while in space, or earache even, or even a paper cut!

But you're not going to be going up there if there is any sign of tooth decay.

Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info

Re: consumers are returning to physical media like CDs

'.. CDs smeared with jam!'

Best way to make sure the peas stick to the CD.

Re: consumers are returning to physical media like CDs

I understand that problems often occur on a Monday but by Tuesday they're not so bad.

(Yes, I know, but these are the words I want for the song in this context.)

Yes, criminals are using AI to vibe-code malware

What a Carry On

"dangling attack"

Sounds like something from Carry On Cyberattack Coding.

Oo-er. you keep your danglies to yourself!

The last supported version of HP-UX is no more

That was the start of Bill and Dave's Excellent Adventure.

Icon: Both divine beings.

Indeed.

And they were known as Hewlett Packard, not plain old HP!

From this article you might gather that once upon a time HP was a well-respected company that made interesting, industry-leading, technically proficient hardware and software.

Who knew?

Try telling that to the kids of today ...

Capita tells civil servants to wait for chatbots to fix pension portal woes

Helping to make "Lower Your Expectations" one of your life mantras.

Starlink to lower orbits of thousands of satellites over safety concerns

'pooh-poohed the notion'

Nothing worse than being pooh-poohed. Before you know it the pooh-pooh will get pooh-poohed and then that pooh-pooh will get pooh-poohed. We will end up with a pooh-pooh Kessler Syndrome.

Former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner passes, aged 83

Re: It must have been an awkward burial

'As soon as the casket was lowered it started spinning'

which gave someone an idea for a new quantum memory device ...

Re: Too big

Trouble is that the marketing dept. have become the customer.

Re: Do typographical 'letters' have carbon footprints?

In the past, typesetters used to receive monetary compensation depending upon the alphabetical length of the er, thingy wotsits.

A bit late in life to be taking his driving test, was my first thought.

Seville: Famed for blue skies and now Blue Screens of Death

Re: "Sevile"

If it had then got -> gotten, Shirley.