Posts by Sudosu

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

They hired Talkie the Toaster and reprogrammed him to get you to use OneDrive.

Would you like to move your data to the OneDrive?

Re: Suggestions?

A small data center I inherited support for had one of those and it worked perfectly when the delivery guy bumped into it.

I made them splurge for a protective cove for it after that.

Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue

Re: BS

Ages ago I had done some installs in those areas at plants and coal mines and had to use explosion rated (essentially dust proof) cabinets and explosion proof the conduit.

The conduit we had to pack and seal at the joints to prevent dust migration in and spark migration out.

Motors used in those plants had to be explosion rated as well, usually TE (totally enclosed).

Dust explosions are freaky scary stuff.

Re: BS

I still have a big rock divot in mine, right between my eyes.

It felt like someone punched me in the face when it struck.

Re: BS

I've done maintenance on air systems in many large industrial shops where there were several v8 engine sized compressors.

I've also maintained HVAC systems that used pneumatic controls (a lost art in many places)

They all had refrigeration based air dryers and purpose drain pipes with auto drains on them.

Water and air operated items do not get along well (especially in paint shops)

PS - I air blast my PC's with 100+ PSI air from my garage every spring and fall and have never had an issue as I keep my machines for well over a decade generally. I do run a drain on my tank every couple days when in use as I don't have a fancy air dryer.

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

Re: Mine updated yesterday

Why do I find the name of that game so intriguing?

Re: Gaming is the Key

I swapped over maybe six months ago to Bazzite.

I haven't run into any Steam games that have outright failed yet...but to be fair I have not gone through my whole library to test each. Some are pretty intensive and work just like they did on Windows 10 (or better as I used to have to shut of real time scanning from Defender to prevent stuttering)

I run Heroic for my Epic games library and all of those work so far but once again I have not ground through the library to check them all.

I run the EA App through Bottles and it works fine for the old games I actually own on there including an old BF game.

Blizzard is supposed to work in Bottles but I have not had luck with that, so I installed their app under Steam and it works great for all my games.

If your game runs Vulkan I find it will run way better than DX11 or 12.

Kernel level anti-cheat has no place on any computer I own, though others don't care so that is definitely a nope for functionality on Linux.

Office productivity etc. is still a gap for sure.

I don't run MS Office anymore and have lived with the online versions for my customers which is navigable but not as full featured as local clients like you mentioned. I would hazard they should work under Bottles or one of the other translators?

DaVinci Resolve is one I hear mentioned a lot, they had a Linux version but there are issues with the licensed formats, encoders etc. and the Windows version will not emulate yet.

Adobe has a quite a few products are also problematic (at least from what I hear)

The only current workarounds for those is a VM or moving to a similarish Linux based app. which means re-learning from scratch something you have been doing your whole career in some cases.

Anyway, for me its fine but there are definitely a lot of gaps from just walking away from your Windows install.

In my experience: Windows chews RAM, Linux chews CPU.

I honestly thought I would miss Windows a lot more since I have been using it for a very very long time.

In fact I still have my Windows 10 partition "just in case", but I have resisted so far and will for a while since I don't want to spend half my day patching it haha.

TLDR - Works for a lot of games barring ones with kernel anti-cheat. Works ok for basic office productivity, with MS Office online being a work around. Works not so well for big vendor creative applications. Its not as bad as I thought it would be.

Lego crams an ASIC in a brick to keep kids interested

Re: So much for pure imagination...

The only reason, as a kid, that I liked Lego for over Mecchano was that Lego creations could be more rapidly disassembled in mock battle conditions.

This was mostly accomplished by dropping or throwing them into each other while making explosion sounds (which can now be done by ASIC apparently)

Re: Proof reading?

Do the ASIC's run LegOS?

Re: Repeat after me...

Not to be confused with the poor Elf who has no Lego (there I took the "s" off) Legoless.

COOOOL!

I would have loved these when I was a kid!

Had the mixed multi-color bin of Legos as a hand me down, but I also got some space Lego as a kid which I actually reassembled last year from instructions I found online (and after fishing out all the fancy grey, blue and transparent pieces from said bin)

When we were 10 or so we bought LED's, resistors, switches and some wire from Radio Shack and built all kinds of battery operated lighting solutions for our creations.

Space Lego Hack - We used sharpies to color the backs of the space figurine's heads so you could rotate them and have a full tint visor in their helmets.

Baby's got clack: HP pushes PC-in-a-keyboard for businesses with hot desks

Re: screen breakage

I took a spill in an icy parking lot and used my issued HP laptop in a thin shoulder bag to help break my fall.

It never quite sat level on tables after that but it worked fine until it was replaced during the next refresh.

Re: What's the problem with worn keys?

My poor WASD keys are almost worn through.

Researchers poison stolen data to make AI systems return wrong results

Re: Oh what a great idea

This is just starting to take off in the music industry as they are aggressively hoovering up everyone's music to make sloppy copies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMYm2d9bmEA

Takes a lot of GPU but it seems to work.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella becomes AI influencer, asks us all to move beyond slop

AIie?

Keeping Windows and macOS alive past their sell-by date

Prosessor

For desktops I usually try and find the best processor for that generation of slot/socket and upgrade it as well (if they are cheap, some are not for some reason) once it gets old enough. That is part of the reason I've started moving to AMD on decent boards for my new builds; they make chips that fit for ages.

Its a good idea to replace your thermal paste regardless on older machines as it tends to dry out over time.

Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat

Re: Maybe the answer to soaring RAM prices is to use less of it !!!

Please, please, please do not consider this in any way, shape or form a political statement or endorsement but:

Make Assembly Great Again

Google sends Dark Web Report to its dead services graveyard

Re: ACR technology

For all of my TV's I ignore the onboard apps and use a vendor built older (i5 6600k, 16GB) Micro Form Factor PC with Mint installed on it.

You can get these for 0-300 dollarpounds if you shop around, I bought mine,which are HP off Amazon.

HDMI to the TV.

It has a wireless keyboard and mouse, though you can get tiny remotes with built in keyboards these days.

Installed Kodi for my media and separate browsers, one for Youtube and another one for the main streaming services (Netflix, Disney, Prime, Tubi, Pluto) that I set to remember the login credentials.

It is set up to auto login.

I still have an antenna attached for local over the air.

Have been living like this for ages and it works fine as you mostly just use the mouse to operate it for day to day stuff.

Apple blocks dev from all accounts after he tries to redeem bad gift card

Live by the Apple...

Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy

How do their news press feel about this

What will happen when whistle blowers are unable to securely communicate issues happening within a government electronically to your free press without being spied on by that same government (and stopped)

...not that it is close to perfect now, but why offer help to the corruption side of the scale.

Re: Implemention says wut?

I hope this is not included in extradition laws if they figure out what you are doing.

When seeing proposals like this, one should always think of what it can be made to do if a group that diametrically opposes your beliefs (political, religious, social) were in control of it.

That road to hell ain't gonna pave itself...

Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape hatch

Go Proxmox

I've been running it for somewhere around a decade and I really like it.

I moved after VMWare pay-walled backups on their free offering.

Shopped around, tried out a bunch that were available at the time (xen, hyper-v etc) and Proxmox "checked all the boxes" that I wanted.

-built in backups (there is even a separate free backup server)

-does HA clustering and auto fail-over

-free (but you can pay for support and I encourage you to do so to ease the version update process)

-has a web interface and does not require a separate web node (i.e vSphere). There were some commands you had to run in CLI, but I think they are in the GUI now.

-has KMS memory balancing (similar to VMWare balooning)

-now has ZFS (but I still use a couple OmniOS ZFS NAS's via NFS)

It is stable, I go over a year between reboots sometimes on some nodes

Upgrades can be done without paid; you essentially backup, migrate guests to new nodes, install new version with new name, add to cluster, migrate back or restore.

Yes I am a fanboy, but only because Proxmox has not ever burned me.

Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator

"My sweet little son unwittingly created something that I spent over a decade of my life preventing others from doing."

...so I had no choice but to sue him.

Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits

If it is your own laptop you could use a Linux live USB install (i.e. Mint) to see how the WiFi holds up.

That would at least help narrow down if it is a hardware or software issue.

Hybrid

I wonder if companies are ever going to consider a hybrid environment where they can roll out Linux to basic users and keep their Windows for the ones who need it for specific apps.

A lot of apps are web based these days (even a lot of the MS stuff).

I rolled out a pile of the 365 office products to a large organisation while living on a QubesOS* laptop; I just had to use the web-ified versions of the software, which MS was pushing everyone toward anyway.

*I did have a virtual Windows VM for testing things

I run the EA through Bottles.

Works fine for the non-Javelin kernel pwned games.

Will have to check out what you did to see how it works.

Re: win2k snappy ?

Win2k was dead stable, easy to install and did not have much for hardware requirements.

It is probably my favorite Windows I have used and supported.

For large organisations this generally this means a wipe and re-image of the machines.

This is a real pain when you have say 300-400 remote locations without dedicated IT staff on site.

It also means the usual productivity impacts from starting over and having to get all your software back and tweaked.

Windows Autopilot may help, but I would hazard that most large orgs are still SCCM or hybrid.

Seven years later, Airbus is still trying to kick its Microsoft habit

Re: MS to Google

Or even worse, an accidental sort without expanding the selection.

Microsoft's fix for slow File Explorer: load it before you need it

Re: So it slows down faster too?

Its not directly related but I used to kill the indexing service to speed things up markedly.

Not sure if that still works on not as I am not on Windows anymore.

Re: Explorer

Copilot has to ingest all that data before you get access.

Atlassian ran a tabletop DR simulation that revealed it lived in dependency hell

KISS

My guess is that it is not easy to detect intrusions with that pile of spaghetti

You are likely to be eaten by the MIT license: Microsoft frees Zork source

Hitchikers was my fav too, but I did like Planetfall a lot.

Re: Adventureland

My fave C64 game was Nukewar by Avalon Hill.

It was like Battleship, but with an arms race.

Managed to get it running on Vice emulator on Linux the other day and its still fun to play.

HOTWAR!HOTWAR!

Tens of thousands more ASUS routers pwned by suspected, evolving China operation

Re: The report contains a deeper list of indicators of compromise for those hunting threats

Maybe its front ended by an Asus router...

Zoomers are officially worse at passwords than 80-year-olds

My password is far more secure than 1234567. It goes to 11.

The Steam Machine rises again as Valve readies 2026 hardware trifecta

Re: No pre-orders yet?

And Portal 3

AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory

Along with his AI bride.

Re: Fake it 'til... you get the idea

WRBT - Music for robots, by robots.

Windows 11 26H1 is coming ... for new processors only

Re: Smell the wind of obsolencence ?

Checked out the video after looking up the quote...forgot how much of a banger it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos

That's going in my playlist.

Re: Smell the wind of obsolencence ?

My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks

But it was obsolete before I opened the box

-- "Weird Al" Yankovic

52-year-old data tape could contain only known copy of UNIX V4

Re: Damn AI!!!

AI as in H.A.L not Al Bundy

A.I. Bundy would be interesting though.

You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will

Re: Most Popular Password : 123456

Ime goes to 11

Bumper stumpers

Game on! Penguin levels up as Linux finally cracks 3% on Steam

Re: One reason...

I think I read somewhere that after the Crowd Strike fail Microsoft is going to work to block these things from running at the Kernel level they do.

That means these anti-cheats may have to retool, maybe they can then work on Linux.

EA's Javelin essentially stopped me from buying Battlefield 6 as I'm on Bazzite these days.

International Criminal Court kicks Microsoft Office to the curb

Re: Rob Braxman says…

I really like Rob a lot and follow many of his strategies; however watching his videos kind of depresses me due to how he shows the level in which companies and governments are collaborating to take away every thread of privacy an control you have over your digital life.

We don't even know what we don't know about what they are doing to us.

@theregister, - You folks should consider engaging with Rob to create some articles on digital protection and privacy.

Re: Linux Mint

Yeah, they should switch to BSD. :P

Microsoft threatens to ram Copilot into Exchange Server on-prem

Stuff of Nightmares

The call is coming from inside your house!

How do you solve a problem like Discovery?

Re: Make it somebody else's problem...

So it will carry the shuttle, and a bunch of parcels.