Posts by herman

Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees

Re: "Who's the supposedly smartest person who has asked you a dumb support question?"

Wow, you must be really old to have worked with Albert Einstein

Re: One Trick Pony's

Moving at the speed of light?

Re: Ponies

Ponies - Honey, have you see little Melania's jodhpurs?

Re: Stupidity plus arrogance

The people with really old money - such that you cannot really count it - sometimes live very normal lives, but the new monied usually like to flaunt it.

Re: Stupidity plus arrogance

Now do the needful.

Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data

The Remark command

Teach the suit the Remark command:

rm * of course

Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info

Re: I give up, What's a digit?

Hex you say? - Bring the Malleus Maleficarum!

Holy smoke

Holier than than the Swiss cheese of the guard

Year-long Russian attacks infect users as soon as they look at an email

Re: WTF is Zimbra?

Zimbra dancing? Some of the girls can be quite sexy

Fortunately nobody actually use Zimbra.

Oracle drops 1,449 security patches like it's the new normal

If you apply patches one by one, then you better get started

LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware

Re: Reasons not to use Windows ...

The correct number of reasons is 666

Ransomware curdles production at Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy biz

Jack Daniels Coke

Coke is now marketing 10% alcohol Jack Daniels Coca Cola in Europe - Perfect Schtuff! Hic! Uhmmm...

Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme

Re: Grasping at straws

This is just the start of AI. The language models are good at handling gov red tape and large company procedures, but they cannot really think yet. So there is a lot of room for future improvement to get from Pretend AI to Deep Think AI.

Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size

Re: "security tools"

1000% - it is amazing how many CPU cycles are needed to send all your work to the CCP.

End of era as the BBC switches off Radio 4 Long Wave service

Re: Irreplacable...

The real problem is the gigantic electricity bill for megawatt transmitters.

NASA tests AI medic for astronauts too far from Earth to call a doctor

Natura Medica

Please state the nature of the medical emergency!

Notion kills its Gmail client after AI agents keep humans from troubling inbox

AI Email

So, email that was already made useless by marketing and HR spam is now made even more completely useless by AI agents talking to each other.

Users claimed they'd never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles

Re: older generations

Hmm, almost anything is better than punching cards on a machine with a dry ribbon

The official UNIX editor is ed.

Grammar

Imagine their horror when they accidentally enable a grammar checker.

Britain sending Ukraine an extra 30,000 drones – now 150,000 all up

Lots of Russians here it seems.

Legs cost even more

Yup - The RF is a petrol station with a flag on top. What this fight showed, is that Ukraine was the real power and brains behind the CCCP, despite being much smaller than the RF.

Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts

The bigly T

I take it that the T in HTC stands for Trump.

Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR

CRT TV

In the local community hall is an ancient 10 inch CRT TV with a bust of Lenin on top - been there for a while. The TV is notable for having only two control knobs - tuning and volume.

Bend the beam like Beckham to defeat anti-jamming tech

Side lobes

As I understand it, airy beams have lots of side lobes, with >80% of the transmit power. So I'm not sure how useful they are in reality.

Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans

Re: Minor Misstep

Well, maybe the next version they should rather buy on AliExpress.

HP investigating BIOS updates that leave premium laptop users in boot loop limbo

Bill Gates used to be in charge of QA.

UEFI is a shorter abbreviation than BIOS? Wow.

Microsoft lets users exile floating Copilot button after interface rage

Re: UnPilot

Something like format c:\ will probably fix it for you.

UK Typhoon jets fitted with bargain-bin drone busters for Middle East sorties

Re: Cannon?

Speaking of cannons - BAE makes anti-aircraft 155 mm ammo that can be fired from howitzer guns with a range of 80 km.

Re: I have a better idea

As Vance put it, two can play that game. The other gulf states are doing just fine, thanks to pipelines, roads and railways to the west coast. So Iran just shot themselves in the foot, since Oman or UAE can also keep the strait closed and levy fees on Iranian tankers.

Re: I have a better idea @YAAC

Pipelines, roads and railways bypass the strait. Closing Hormuz mainly hurts Iran itself. Closing it is an own goal.

Re: I have a better idea

The strait of Hormuz doesn't just belong to Iran. Oman and UAE also control their half of it. While these two have the ability to keep their half operational, they have instead decided that avoiding the use of the strait is a much more cost effective strategic solution and built east west pipelines and railways over the past decades. So within a few more months, the other gulf states will not need the waterway at all anymore and can keep it shut down so that only Iran will suffer from it being closed.

Re: I have a better idea

UAVs and Drones are hardly new. I've building them for decades. Anyhoo, the Iran conflict is about the crazy bronze age mullahs wanting nuclear weapons. That simply cannot be allowed, since they will use them as soon as they have them. They said so. Repeatedly. Nothing else matters.

Intuit axes 3,000 – without blaming AI

Blame storming

So if it wasn't AI then it must be Trump's fault.

Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't

Re: but VPNs with a different purpose

And shut down all the banks.

Re: Virtual Porn Networks

It depends on how wealthy you are and the quality of the lawyers you can afford. If you are not wealthy, then you have to follow the law and wait for a wealthy person to challenge the law.

Virtual Porn Networks

Technically, it is not the legislator's concern how the Virtual Porn Network slingers will make it swing. Comply with the law, leave the state, or go to jail. Yeah, it sucks.

F-35 software delays leave UK buying time with US glide bombs

The UK has various glide bombs - some of which can be chucked out the back of a Herc, without the need for a F35.

LocalSend puts your sneakernet out of business

Re: Netcat ????

Netcat is not exactly convenient. One needs to to find the IP addresses of the computers and provide a file drop target - things one can do with a Perl or Bash script. Why don't you write one for us?

Nitroshare

I've been using Nitroshare - also cross platform.

UK reloads artillery plans with £1B remote-control howitzer order

Re: Nice

Not exactly - all main battle tanks have a stabilized turret and can fire while moving since about WW2.

G6 howitzer

The six wheeled G6 howitzer goes back to around 1983. So shoot and scoot with fast moving guns has been the way to do it for forty years at least.

Re: Nice

Provided that you are not shooting near maximum range, consecutive shots can be launched in high flight paths to land simultaneously.

Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages

There are various issues. Some crappy compilers will produce different optimization results depending on how much memory your computer has.

DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to

Re: Beacons

Sure, that is what radio hammateurs do. They build stuff.

EU hits snooze on AI Act rules after industry backlash

Lifts and what?

I think you meant Lifts and Doors, not Toys. It is that contented sigh that really makes AI worth while.

60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour

Re: Have I Been Pwned ?

i am OK, I use a capital letter.