Posts by capnkirk

808 lines of BBC BASIC and a dream: Arm architecture turns 40

A game of Zarch anyone?

For commemorative purposes.

Microsoft preps for a year of enterprise-impacting M365 retirements

OneNote for Windows 10 going!!

Oh no! It's the best version of OneNote (the other one reminds me TOO MUCH of Lotus Notes).

BOFH: Videoconferencing for special dummies

Screen sharing

The screen sharing line had me in bits, almost up there with Billy Connoly's prescription windscreen joke.

Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater

The rise of Lotus Notes!

Lotus Notes 15 debuts becomes the dominant email client as it doesn't have any AI features at all.

1-2-3 isn't far behind it.

(13 & 14 skipped to appease superstitious types)

World's most powerful free-electron laser upgraded to fire a million X-rays per second

Avengers?

Someone's bound to be made a superhero (or villain) as a result of this!

HCL proves Lotus Notes will never die by showing off beta of lucky Domino 14.0

Key-based "security"

Does it still have the animated key ring? (recall it was meant to distract shoulder-surfers when entering the login password)

Congrats, Meg Whitman, another multi-billion-dollar write-off for the CV: Her web vid upstart Quibi implodes

What about Luke?

The one from Westworld, not the one from the Hunger Games, or the one from Thor

Up from the depths, 864 servers inside, covered in slime, it's Natick!

What next?

Maybe they could strike up a deal with local swimming pools as a new way to heat the water?

Slack apologises to Europe for TITSUP* services

There's a Star Trek episode in there somewhere: crew of the Enterprise have to negotiate a peace treaty with a race of beings who only speak emoji (it's TNG obvs)