Posts by Paul Herber

Microsoft Windows Firewall complains about Microsoft code

I expect the AI is autistic, OCD, ADHD and has Tourettes as well. Well, **** that.

Microsoft kicks off new fiscal year with more layoffs

You need to be very careful using the /s tag with Windows:

Googling brings up this as the first hit:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/windows-10-and-windows-11-in-s-mode-faq-851057d6-1ee9-b9e5-c30b-93baebeebc85

' ...streamlined for security and performance ...' Who might have guessed?

NASA tests shrinking metals to help it find more exoplanets

Re: A new way to solve an old problem?

I was expecting a video on TikTok.

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

Re: Customer preference

The Moon has other problems. It's what comes of being a harsh mistress.

The problem with local stations is that it allows passengers to get on and off somewhere near their start point and destination and there is one thing that messes up the efficient running of a railway it's passengers with their wants and needs!

' ...combine sloth-like speeds with unreliability... '

That combination can, and does, get extremely expensive.

(Actually, we travelled by train into our local city a few days ago and it was a very good service, if a tad on the expensive side.

There was only one announcement of a delay to another service caused by a broken-down train.)

Microsoft's next Windows 11 update is more 'enablement' than upgrade

Re: Unexpected?

Deliberately

' ...will therefore be disappointed... '

Windows releases seem to be more about disappointment management than anything else these days. I expect there is a whole User Disappointment Management Department somewhere, subservient to the Complaints Division, naturally. Before Windows 12 can be released I'm expecting the Reduced Expectations Branch to join forces with the above but all the incompatibilities have to be ironed out first.

There's no international protocol on what to do if an asteroid strikes Earth

Re: "Approaching at Hypersonic Speed"

What is the acoustic velocity of interplanetary space?

Er, African or European interplanetary space?

Re: Extreme weather event.

Gravity is a hoax and I have proof!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Morris_dancers_York_8667.jpg

Re: Resistance is useless

We saw a programme on TV yesterday featuring elephant seals. Gave me an idea about some overweight, bullying, officious type of creature ...

Poetry in motion, it was not!

Re: Didn't we solve this in 1979?

What would we call the game if there was nothing to replace the bits where the pews used to be?

Re: FFS

Outgassing. So this is all the fault of men, beer, beans and curry.

AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all

Re: HAL or Holly?

No, that's the tea ...

More like FOAD in a polite wrapper.

Gridlocked: AI's power needs could short-circuit US infrastructure

50,000 acres? 78 square miles? That's almost an armful!

French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools

Nice work if you can get it. MS sounds like a Cannes do company. Meanwhile, Rabbit Software open new premises in Juan-Lapin.

World's largest camera shows galaxy in 3,200 megapixel glory as Rubin telescope goes online

As any fule know, allowing a woman to think at that level will make her brain explode. This probably explains the big bang theory.

I suspect this telescope will point us at the fine details of the end of the universe as we know it, viz. women wanting to study at Princeton in the 1940s!

Probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon increases

Re: Spin The Moon, Please

There is one building (natural or artificial is indeterminable at present). It is a shop. It is a local shop.

I might not have a degree or masters or anything in astrophysics but if that asteroid did hit the moon then it would change its orbit. It might only change it temporarily by the size of a gnat's todger but it would change it!

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

Badger. Mmmmm. Beeer. Mmmmm.

Cranborne Poacher tonight.

Surely the teachers get a pretty decent salary these days.

Re: Fox's or Fox'es?

If they learn to fly then they could migrate.

On the roof it can be a drag and drop hunt.

Waymo problems in La La Land as robotaxis set aflame

Re: And so starts the rule of the Orange King

If these cars start causing problems then they should be arrested and charged.

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

Re: Its multi-year plan to shed up to 55,000 jobs

Is there a Mr Jackson who has been told to shed himself twice?

£127M wasted on failed UK nuclear cleanup plan

Re: Live to Fight Another Day

Wonderful story, but did morale improve?

Ukraine strikes Russian bomber-maker with hack attack

Re: Zelenskyy sure seems to hold a lot of cards

Ace reply!

Just 15 buyers are in charge of £14B in UK central government tech spending

Perhaps we can discuss this over a series of lunch and dinner meetings next month. Maldives or Bahamas? Send me the flight tickets and hotel bookings and I'll be there.

Windows 11 market share stalls ahead of Windows 10 cutoff

'fluctuations' - is this Trump discussing the Chinese again?

'must cause some consternation at Microsoft.'

I don't why they should act all surprised. Plenty of people would have told them exactly what would happen, but these people have been deemed to be non-team players, don't have the vision, don't have the correct mind-set, stick-in-the-muds ...

More layoffs at Microsoft as axe falls in Washington

Windows team

But is that the Team Pro, Team Personal, Team Executive, Team 365, Team Pro 365, Team Online, Team Online 365, Team Online 365 Pro, Team Pro 365 Online?

IBM Cloud login breaks for second time in a fortnight

Fortnight?

Fortnight? What's that in standard El Reg units? Ah yes, Two sennights. Now I understand.

Aussie businesses now have to fess up when they pay off ransomware crims

' ... a fine equal to 60 penalty units, which is currently AUS $19,800 ($12,700) ... '

Small change compared with the legal/accounting/management/technical costs of compliance.

Astroboffins analyzed old data and found a candidate dwarf planet in the Oort cloud

Re: Excellent news!

If your horoscope didn't predict this then you are reading the wrong horoscope.

Next week there will be an alignment of 27 severely obese people along the ley line between Belfast and Lille which will cause severe gravitational waves beyond Uranus.

China to visit Earth’s ‘quasi-moon’ and bring a chunk of it back home

Re: I think we could beat them to Mars and bag some rocks.

Proper job

Mmmm, good beer.

Re: A diameter of just 40 to 100 meters*

" * insert obligatory "gas or electric?" here. "

You need to know the diameter and altitude to work out your parking orbit.

China definitely needs to plant a flag there.

Sardina throws bait toward SUSE Enterprise Storage users

If I were seeking a new enterprise I'd be starting a business named The Chamaelioid Pilchard.

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

Re: Innocent Meta

An AI would attribute that quote to Marx Zuckerburg.

Re: Just for the record. . .

and doesn't publish that recitation for profit.

TeleMessage security SNAFU worsens as 60 government staffers exposed

El Reg.

AI ain't B2B if OpenAI is to be believed

A variation on the core dump?

Re: "astrological readings"

Best thing with astrology, take the pisc.

Well that proves it is making things up. It was instant coffee.

Cybercrime is 'orders of magnitude' larger than state-backed ops, says ex-White House advisor

attribute, not contribute.

I'll ignore the its. One has to.

AROS turns any PC into an Amiga with USB-bootable distro

A of AROS

So, if the A of AROS is the initial of AROS ...

China finds a previously unknown microbe on its space station

'wibbly wobbly, gummy food products'

Now you know why many American food products are banned in some countries!

Virgin Media O2 patches hole that let callers snoop on your coordinates

Re: Why the stupid and pointless geography lesson?

We're going to Armorica in a few weeks time. A place to enjoy!