Posts by ghp

Infosys CEO promises jobs to 2,000 graduate recruits it has kept on hold for two years

"India faces a tech employee shortage despite offering one of the largest talent pools for IT professionals globally."

No doubt it is large, but, according to this story, could it be shallow?

China's top Office clone copies Microsoft again – with an inconvenient outage

In effect, you were not affected.

Chinese chip equipment maker AMEC sues Pentagon for entity list removal

I retain that μicro$oft is teaching the Indian kids about cyber security. To quote inspector Frost: "the irony".

Stargazing with the Beaverlab Finder TW2

Re: Beaverlab?

Haven't we had the discussion about the sex of angels?

Palo Alto Networks execs apologize for 'hostesses' dressed as lamps at Black Hat booth

Re: Who in their right mind...?

Unless s/he/it was light headed?

Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS

What's worse than a madman at the helm of an important country?

Chinese satellite broadband launch rocket breaks up into space junk

Re: Let's hopes those Everest drones really work

You don't get much flatter than Flanders - the Netherlands perhaps - but you should see the amount of litter left behind by walkers, bikers, car- and lorry drivers, briefly: people away and sometimes at home. Mountaineers are just as filthy as the rest of humanity. Then there's the filth you don't see ...

Techie told 'Bill Gates' Excel is rubbish – and the Microsoft boss had it fixed in 48 hours

Re: Ambiguous parse

Yes, those that are not a PoS.

Re: Ambiguous parse

If the part of that sentence after the hyphen had been put between double quotes, it would have been clearer it was Brad talking, most probably not about himself. Now it looks as if the author is speaking about Brad, since how is he to know Brad's boss? So you need to read it twice to understand.

Under-fire Elon Musk urged to get a grip on X and reality – or resign

Re: So what?

Zelensky should try that: write a letter to Vlad telling him to behave.

Google splats device-hijacking exploited-in-the-wild Android kernel bug among others

And how does one obtain and apply such a patch to ones android device?

Michigan probes Musk-backed PAC website that weirdly tried and failed to help register people to vote

Lone Skum must be quaking in his boots: Keith Starmer (UK PM) has "criticised" him. While Onel Muks was only exercising his right to free sleeze whilst fanning the right-wing havoc in the UK. Would the US extradite him if the UK issued an arrest warrant?

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely", said lord Acton (who nevertheless supported slavery and the south).

DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course

In my first contact with AS, I asked it to write me a routine to calculate a factor without using recursion. It wrote a little program using recursion. Pleasantly surprised, I told it "you're using recursion!". "No I'm not", it replyed.

May the Lord have mercy on us.

50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution

For most of us, 2023 lasted a whole year too.

Amazon, you will do a total recall of bad stuff sold through your site, watchdog barks

The Lone Customer

Just wanted to say that I haven't had a single bad experience with either amazon.fr nor .de. I'm not proud of being an Amazon customer, but they're often the only alternative when I can't wait for Aliexpress to get parts to repair an old machine, be it an iBook G4 or a Kenwood P-26.

French internet cables cut in act of sabotage that caused outages across country

Re: Fine French fiber

I also thought someone had an axe to grind with the neighbours because, amongst others, not being allowed to participate. Coordination, knowing where to hit ... Anyways, hats off for the organisation of the games. Some retards worry about singing headless Marie-Antoinettes, gay last-suppers, but couldn't care less that schools and hospitals are getting bombed around the world.

OpenBSD enthusiast cooks up guide for the technically timid

My boot trouble were probably caused by the fact that the install cdrom was still in the drive - I hadn't yet seen that symbol on the F12 key. Once it was removed, I could boot from "hd:,ofwboot".

The keyboard was fixed by a "fr" in "/etc/kbdtype" for the consoles, and Xorg allowed me to pipe and slash back once xorg.conf contained the "XkbModel" "macbook79" and "XkbLayout" "be" options.

I'm still using Seamonkey as my first browser and for all my mail. I don't remember why, but I used to build Seamonkey from source. Wonder if I could cross-compile it for ppc32.

Just installed it on an iBook G4, since it's the only up to date unix for a ppc32. No problem installing apart from no belgian keyboard support (even after installation), but getting it to boot from the hard disk took hours. Finally, analysing how the installation accessed the hd, I concocted "boot wd0:,ofwboot" followed by a "boot hd:/bsd" or something. Fiat lux! Found the fr keyboard layout could handle most of the keys. X started, but no Firefox or LibreOffice to be found, which was a bummer. A desktop, but what to do with it?

How did a CrowdStrike file crash millions of Windows computers? We take a closer look at the code

Re: Canary releases?

"Chi va piano va sano e va lontano", indeed. Whatever you call them, their customers want to be protected ASAP. But of course, quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes

Re: Why use Crowdstrike when you have SELinux?

Is there a Whinedoze version?

SpaceX hit by inflight Falcon 9 failure

Trying hard to catch up with Boeing?

Trump threatens to send Meta's Mark ‘Zuckerbucks’ to prison if reelected president

Re: An easy choice

That's "common sense". You must have missed this is the US of A we're talking about. They're more into "non sense". Herited from the Brits? Their last elections a glimmer of hope.

Big Tech's eventual response to my LLM-crasher bug report was dire

Re: Secreting problems removes fixer needs and feeds required to solve helpless dilemmas

Based on the output, they swallowed them hook, line and stinker (sic).

Re: Secreting problems removes fixer needs and feeds required to solve helpless dilemmas

When I came to the first comma in your word soup, I recognized the origin and saved myself a couple of seconds which I now more than wasted multiple times typing this with one finger on my tablet.

How NeWS became yesterday's news in the window system wars

This reminds me that half a century ago, someone of some renown warned us young programmers: "pretty soon you'll be wasting all of your time with UI, and there'll be none left for the functionality needed". Then came the 4GL's and I thought "maybe not", but saw many projects derail because the teams wasted their time trying to make the 4GL "behave", ie. different as was intended but much better (NOT) for the end user.

Who was it again that warned us?

Users rage as Microsoft announces retirement of Office 365 connectors within Teams

Re: Where's the Plan B for companies

"can easily taketh"?

Skipped some sunday classes, didst thou?

Stack Overflow simply bans folks who don't want their advice used to train AI

SO's always been a leech.

I contributed knowing very well - never having read the small print - there was a dark side to that site: if you found a solution to a problem elsewhere on the net, SO wasn't happy with a link to that solution. Always someone reminded you you needed to copy (!) the solution into SO. Never mind any copyright or that the www's intention was to link, and not to duplicate.

NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades later

"I want a revived desktop-tweaked Symbian running on a Raspberry Pi 5."

Thought you were going NSFW. Then I noticed the "m".

Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color, squishes ancient bug

Was hoping they'd use red for backdoor infested applications, like Zyklonb, err, sorry, Systemd.

Microsoft breach allowed Russian spies to steal emails from US government

Your arrival on this planet must be from a very recent date, I presume?

German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice

Re: Outlook/Exchange ?

It's "its name".

Malicious xz backdoor reveals fragility of open source

Re: Would This Have Been Caught Sooner In Proprietary Software?

Why would they bother, when all they have to do is find the existing ones?

Re: Lasse Collin suspended?

For some six years now: "Headquartered in California, it has been a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018" (wikipedia).

Belgian beer study acquires taste for machine learning

Re: New Belgian alcohol-free beer

As a kid we didn't drink Guinness (allthough it was said to be good for you), I still don't, but we had - still have - a table-beer Piedboeuf. I prefer it ten times to any coke. It tastes as sweet as the real Coca Cola, but it contains 1/150 the amount of sugar, and I kid you not. It just shows how stupid parents are, when they let the children drink that poison. Anybody complaining about rising obesity?

Re: Compared to what?

Took a beer with average appreciation, added or changed a component as advised by aye eye, and the beer got better appreciation in next test.

Fujitsu to shutter operations in Republic of Ireland

"Most of the ICL people are blameless"

I was afraid of that. They went along and delivered something that caused a lot of harm.

Article mentioned ICL. Have been following the post office disaster story for quite a while now, and suspected that was why Fuckupsu was involved with the post office, having taken over ICL. I'd like to know - was an ICL'er myself in an earlier century - if the post office cock up was ICL's doing or a more recent feat by F? My question is about the software, not the criminal reaction by the upper class.

Britain enters period of mourning as Greggs unable to process payments

Re: Ok adding my not so consipracy take...

"So once more, tell me a single benefit of Brexit."

The brits will cause no further harm to the union. That said, the harm they caused may prove to be lethal. First in my mind is the push for expansion with countries not really union minded. But: not a single decision was made with which not all governments agreed. So we can't really blame the brits. They've outsmarted us.

I'm suffering from an earworm now: "You don't get me I'm part of the union, You don't get me I'm part of the union, Till the day I die, till the day I die."

Should have been "We'll get them we're ...".

Rancher faces prison for trying to breed absolute unit of a sheep

Re: Real sportsmanship:

I preferred "One Man and Someone Else's Dog", Alas Smith and Jones.

Re: there were the foxes, and horses, and camels, and...

Indeed, and moreover: the burned skin may never be exposed to sunlight.

If they could only breed something able to shoot back, it would even the odds.

Re: "The .. crime we uncovered here could threaten the integrity of our wildlife species in Montana"

The average englishman is nothing to be sneezed at, either. Just ask the remaining aboriginals.

Linux 6.9 will be the first to top ten million Git objects

a billion?

" 9.996 million objects". I thought "nearly a billion!". But the dot was decimal.

YouTube workers laid off mid-plea at city hall meeting

Make America Googel Again?

Re: Remember this

Some examples, please? Like for videos?

Re: These were CONTRACTORS on the Day their Contracts Expired.

What, doesn't Hoehl have a creep with a name at the top?

When red flags are just office decoration: Edinburgh Uni's Oracle IT disaster

Re: Good software is invisible.

But that sounds like "made for measure", how oldskool. Is it still done, nowadays?

Well, if that is all the justification they needed, no wonder. We run a starship, so we'll boldly go ...