Posts by LateAgain

Ukraine's techies a 'pillar of support' for national economy after Russian invasion

Didn't it used to be:

Darc (derestricted access route connection)

Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees

Re: Don't forget Outlook Express.

The last version of lookout that I counted as an actual email client !

ReactOS emits release 0.4.15 – its first since 2021

Include network drivers for VMs please

Every time I've had a go it's been as a VM.

Lot's of people would test it out then. If only to see if it can run that one program that needs Windows.

Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'

Microsoft have had quantum computers for decades

As in: will it come back after this update reboot?

Schrödinger predated home computing that's why he used a cat in the thought experiment.

Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months

Not defending anyone but...

If the "Oracle Project sub-committee" only meets yearly then 10 months is really quite good :-)

Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement

Let's just ignore the times when msrtc doesn't work

Been there.

The login defaults are different.

Certainly with trying RDP to azure connected machines mstsc didn't work and " Microsoft Remote Desktop" did.

UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order

What world do our politicians live in?

Tired techie botched preventative maintenance he soon learned wasn't needed

Repeat after me: NEVER break stuff on a Friday

Especially if it seems like "a good idea at the time"

Microsoft admits Outlook crashes, says impact 'mitigated'

Re: Hardly a surprise

Fixing anything on a Friday is just asking for a problem.

But that only really applies to IT support.

Catch Java 22, available from Oracle for a limited time

Jython :-)

Write it in python. Compile it to Java byte code.

Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage

Premature posting?

Surely the "coffee keeps fuel cells going" should be for April fools?

The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?

Re: Total confusion

Windows Mail was, last I looked, treated as an active sync device.

So no old email. Forget keeping it all on your PC.

Turns out cops are super interested in subpoenaing suspects' push notifications

Re: That would be easy to eliminate

But then they wouldn't have all that lovely food for the Big Data machine

FOSS replacement for Partition Magic, Gparted 1.6 is here to save your data

Not sure how anything can be feature complete when stuff gets added by any company with "a great idea" - but on their own stuff.

The one I remember was a utility, from the drive manufacturer, that added something that would load up on boot and let the BIOS handle massive drives (whole GBs !) Never did find out how that worked.

Microsoft might have just pulled support for very old PCs in Windows 11 24H2

Re: "The Ribbon" ... A Short Analysis

"NEXT BIG THING"

Not the Current Big Thing. Which has F all support.

Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount

It's not that long since the "chat" was a person

So a chat session with a real person and a chat session with a "bot" look the same and should be legally treated as such.

Quite a few sites actually still have people on the web chat. You can spot them because they go offline at the end of the "working" day.

Damn Small Linux returns after a 12-year gap

Damn

(Joke intended)

DSL was TINY.

Nowadays I the smallest ISO I boot is systemrescuecd.

That has stayed "one CD" size.

Why do IT projects like the UK's scandal-hit Post Office Horizon end in disaster?

Someone could write a book

And they did.

CRASH: Learning From The World's Worst Computer Disasters

NASA Juno probe to produce 'firehose of data' during close flyby of Jupiter moon

"firehose" ?

https://spaceflight101.com/juno/spacecraft-information/

They look forward to a 56k modem!

UK to crack down on imported Chinese optical fiber cables

Re: You Can't Buy Something Not Available

and this is why The Register needs to add a button for "laugh out loud"

Word turns 40: From 'new kid on the block' to 'I can't believe it's not bloatware'

ALL of office 4.3 fitted on ONE floppy disc.

And Excel didn't have to warn against opening macros.

US Navy sailor admits selling secret military blueprints to China for $15K

Not.

Only $15,000 !

1) can't have been that important

2) that's not enough to cover one year in jail.

Compare that to a British banker who stole £4.3m and got four years in a low security prison. (don't think the money was recovered)

X confuses the masses by removing all details from links

It's a silly name change

I tell you three times

CERN swells storage space beyond 1EB for LHC's latest ion-whacking experiments

Flashback!

Once upon a time 1 TB was an awesome amount of storage.

You had to have your own data center to even think about it

MongoDB's SQL-to-NoSQL converter uses AI to smash the language barrier

Call me cynical

If it says "WTF is all this crap" THEN I'll call it an AI.

(Or a DBA)

How TCP's congestion control saved the internet

The biggest reason for it's success

Is probably the simple fact that it's not proprietary.

Which meant that anyone at all could have a go at writing an IP stack. And not get sued.

EU right to repair updates pass latest hurdle

Software lifetime!

There's nothing wrong with my iPhone 8+

But many applications won't update. "Minimum requirements" get built in by the tools.

Whether needed or not.

Signal just stopped because the OS is considered insecure if it's not getting updates.

California passes bill to set up one-stop data deletion shop

Registration probably required

So delete from every database, except ours.

How long before that gets sold?

If anyone finds an $80M F-35 stealth fighter, please call the Pentagon

Looks like this...

http://4everstatic.com/pictures/850xX/fun/technology/invisible-jet-fighter,-soldier,-stairs-134407.jpg

Toyota servers ran out of storage, crashed production at 14 plants in Japan

I wonder how long the urgent requests for a new server have been ignored.

University cuts itself off from internet after mystery security snafu

Re: Confused.......

There is a map.

https://its.umich.edu/enterprise/wifi-networks/researchers/internet2

Japan's digital minister surrenders salary to say sorry for data leaks

Why did no one just write a "link these" app ?

Scan all the IDs on the phone and done.

30 years on, Debian is at the heart of the world's most successful Linux distros

Ubuntu - 3rd time lucky

Corel Linux and Progeny were, I think, the first two attempts to sell a Debian Linux version.

Re: Why old computers ?

That'll be the insistence on drivers that follow the actual spec rather than just trusting the manufacturer to provide a CD.

And that was because of the Microsoft "pre install" on hardware which meant that was all they tested.

Tesla's Dojo supercomputer is a billion-dollar bet to make AI better at driving than humans

Billion Dollar Brain ?

Didn't it turn out to be a big con in the film ?

Google toys with internet air-gap for some staff PCs

Don't give them a default route

It's the only way.

Back before "SSL everywhere" it worked fine. Blindingly fast with a squid cache.

I can only assume that Google bought a man-in-the-middle firewall and installed a private CA on all those locked down machines to accept all the fake certificates.

Re: Air-gap?

Perhaps they could see "the internet" complety via Google cache:-)

Someone just blew over $190k on a 4GB first-gen iPhone

Historical iPhone

That first iPhone is the device that broke us away from the network insistence on controlling the hardware connecting to "their" network.

Clingy Virgin Media won't let us leave, customers complain

Re: Simple approach

NOT using the virgin media email address....

Tesla plots entry to Britain's stagnant energy market

Is that Texas?

Not a good example. They aren't connected to the Grid that the rest of the US (mainland) uses.

Nobody does DR tests to survive lightning striking twice

Lightning always strikes twice !

SSD missing from SAP datacenter turns up on eBay, sparking security investigation

With RAID 5 or 6 perhaps. But using mirror pairs has become the default "fast" option.

UK emergency services take DIY approach amid 12-year wait for comms upgrade

Re: Evolution not Revolution.

It's the "outsource" culture.

Every****y project is put out to bid. Any actual surviving IT team is considered untrusted.

And we all know how a new supplier scraps the "legacy" kit that they refuse to support.

Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows code in memory-safe Rust

"I expect Microsoft to reuse the existing compiler"

Only until the, slightly modified, Microsoft version is finished.

Stop OpenAI training its models on your chats by turning off history

The Machine with no memory?

Straight out of Person of Interest !

Microsoft makes Windows Server 2022 licenses a little less cynical

Re: Squeezing the process

The further the branch the more it costs.

Will there be a discount for going around the same loop hundreds of times?

Thanks for fixing the computer lab. Now tell us why we shouldn’t expel you?

If they seriously wanted to punish him

He'd be doing the weekend cover m

UK consortium bid for NHS data platform falls at first hurdle

Re: "first hurdle"

So, same as a "public consultation" then.

Take a 14-mile trip on an autonomous Scottish bus starting next month

Re: Hope all algorithms are covered

https://youtu.be/R5TTA4f7Q3E Bob Newhart bus driver training...

Scientists speak their brains: Please don’t call us boffins

Meep.