Posts by prinox

Version 8 of open-source code editor Notepad++ brings Dark Mode and an ARM64 build, but bans Bing from web searches

Granddads use z/OS

Occasionally using Notepad++, but nothing beats the ISPF editor (or SuperC to do compares), happy with the overhead of IPL'ing z/OS, and the WSA makes the process seamless.

UK dev loses ownership claim on forensic software he said he wrote in spare time and licensed to employer

I must have been an exception. Worked for Willis for quite a few years during which I not only calculated "e" to 1,000,000 million digits (before the two Americans did so), but also created a truckload of useful tools. When I left them I asked if I could take copies with me, and was pleasantly surprised by the "We wouldn't be surprised if you had already made copies!" reply.

But I did at a later stint save them a small fortune by writing the tools (in about half-a-day) we used for the Y2K conversion, after the commercial software turned out to be a crock of crap...

US nuke agency hacked by suspected Russian SolarWinds spies, Microsoft also gets backdoored

Now suppose that they had compromised Microsoft, and the automatic updates would have been rolled out to one billion computers running W10...

Isn't it time automatic updates are completely stopped?

What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorbike? Core-js just found out

Maybe it's time to go back to the basics?

The proliferation of Javascript means that today an average website contains about 1% real content, and 99% junk, of which 99% isn't used..

Emacs and Vim both release first new updates in years

Only use the Ravitz editor and if I need to enter UTF-8 I occasionally use Notepad++. Very much in favour of tools that are the equivalent of the simple 4-function calculators...

Hacker kicks one bit XP to 10 Windows scroll goal

Re: Backwards compatibility

"Which other OS still supports running *binary* code written more than twenty years ago? Can you run Mac OS9 applications on the latest OS X?"

It's quite likely that z/OS is still capable of running binary code written twice as long ago...