Posts by hittitezombie

SpaceX Dragon huffs, puffs... and fizzles out as NASA aborts ISS boost

Re: SpaceX?

Hahaha, good joke.

More NASA spacecraft give controllers the silent treatment

My guess is the launcher damaged both. Definitely a Musk problem.

Legendary OpenPrinting architect looking for new role

Re: Oh really?

CUPS just works for decades now, especially for no-nonsense laser printers.

Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore

Re: "There is no way to enforce a code freeze in vibe coding apps like Replit!!!"

Let there be light!

British IT worker sentenced to seven months after trashing company network

Re: Idiot

Simply installing Oracle Java JDK onto a couple of computers is enough these days, no need to waste time with installing VMWare.

UK to buy nuclear-capable F-35As that can't be refueled from RAF tankers

We've had catapults before nuclear ones came on board. UK operated F-4s out of its carriers, do you think it was launched by a jump path?

Catapults and F-35C would be better, more capable, better range and overall the better aircraft. RAF's insistence of VTOL to replace Harriers was an extremely costly mistake.

Re: "In an era of radical uncertainty"

Q. Why can’t the F35A be fitted with the F35B refuelling option that already exists ?

A. Because the US uses the same refuelling tech Marines/NAVY uses, and F-35B is a Marines plane. USAF, on the other hand, is special, and requires booms. Why? Inter-service rivalry which we inherit by using US weapons.

That's ok, the range will be fine to bomb our traditional enemy - the French.

Don't shoot me, I'm only the system administrator!

Would you like to add wounded by police but not dead to the stats? The numbers are just nuts when compared to anywhere civilized.

More likely, once a cop starts killing and gets away with it, he will continue doing so.

Re: Land of the Free - to be shot

Of course it's the US.

Deal to 'save' UK colleges £45M in Oracle Java licensing fees followed audit requests

> only one in ten was likely to continue to stay with Oracle Java,

We found the brain-damaged control group.

Mysteries in polar orbit – space's oldest working hardware still keeps its secrets

My record is around 3200km on VHF, 6m from IO91 to KM64.

Re: pissing contest

FT8/FT4 are digital modes.

pissing contest

17350km on 5W with an FT-818, 14.080MHz FT4.

1.5 TB of James Webb Space Telescope data just hit the internet

A torrent would be nice.

Re: COMMUNISM!

As soon as Trump hears about this, he will demand his cut of the money.

NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts

Re: Flat Earthers vote MAGA too

It's the difference between me thinking you are a fucking idiot, and you demonstrating it by writing this post.

Vandals

Wayne Hale blogs are essential reading about risk and management of it, leave alone nuggets of details about the Shuttle era.

Deleting them is simply mindless destruction.

Marks & Spencer admits cybercrooks made off with customer info

Re: This is not just a breach, it's an M&S breach...

As for Harrods, if you ask about it, you cannot afford it.

Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction

Re: Fixed your headline for you

The main problem is the corporate and schools addictiion. Once that's broken things would be easier but no CTO will spend money to ditch Microsoft - it's iterally the IBM of our ages.

Re: I'e already said this

Not sure, at least it's got a less chance of corrupting a Powerpoint or Excel file being shared via Sharepoint.

Oh I really hate O365 framework.

Disclaimer: I am a Linux on Desktop guy since late 90s, and have been using Linux/UNIX since early 90s. Current work device is a Mac book. Everything else in the house is Linux.

Re: I'e already said this

Reading, cycling and other hobbies are available.

4chan, the 'internet’s litter box,' appears to have been pillaged by rival forum

I wish good luck to the hackers

The problem with hacking 4chan is, invariably the data you downloaded off them will have child porn.

Now you have a copy of it on your disk. Congratulations, you just violated pretty much any child porn law out there.

Trump doubles down, vows to make Chinese imports even more expensive for Americans

Re: Fascinating

We can pay the Penny Mordaunt to have a little accident with the sharp sword...

Nothing interesting to sell

The problem is, what do I want to buy from the US?

Computers? Nope.

Phones? Nada.

Petrol cars? Abso-fucking-lutely not.

Harleys? Do I look like a dentist?

What do you have to sell to us, apart from your companies, we should be interested in buying?

Software? Software? Is that it?

He's off his frog pills again

NURSE! NURSE!

European Gaia mapping satellite is retired but proves very tough to kill

Quoting Holly: Holly: I'm trying to navigate at faster than the speed of light, which means that before you see something, you've already passed through it. Even with an IQ of 6000, it's still brown-trousers time.

ISS resupply and trash pickup craft postponed indefinitely after Cygnus container crunch

Was Boeing involved at any point?

Surely it wasn't caused by DOGE firing capable 'heavy vehicle operators'?

Pirate Bay financier and far-right activist Carl Lundström dies in plane crash

Good riddance

I didn't knew about his Nazi background. Good riddance.

Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer

Knew it.

Embrace, Extend, Estinguish.

Trump nukes 60 years of anti-discrimination rules for federal contractors

Re: Good start

She was elected a VP. Any problems with that?

President Trump indicated he hopes his orders will return Uncle Sam to "merit-based" hiring.

If that's the case, he would not even be trusted with a box of matches.

The idiot went bankrupt how many times?

The channel stands corrected: Hardware is a refresh cycle business now

Re: Money dear boy

If you want performance out of your system, then the most important thing is not using Windows.

Re: Money dear boy

Not sure what you're smoking - hardware is CHEAP. All these years since mid-90s, £2000 would get you a top tier, and it still does, and you can get a £150 laptop off AliExpress and install Linux on it and have a very decent experience with it.

It has never been this cheap and this fast.

$800 'AI' robot for kids bites the dust along with its maker

... but one of the thing that gets bought out is the IP and the client data, they are worth something, even if the stupid toy robots are not.

We can't make this stuff up: Palantir, Anduril form fellowship for AI adventures

Not evil at all

Guess we just need to wait Morgoth to turn up, and Shelob to create us a brand new Web 4.0

Oracle's Java price hikes push CIOs to brew new licensing strategies

If your CIO hasn't already looked at this mess and haven't gone 'WHAT THE FSCK IS WRONG WITH ORACLE!?! SWITCH TO OPENJDK NOW!", then they need to resign now.

Fujitsu does not trust Post Office in use of Horizon data in future third-party prosecutions

When the majority of transactions were duplicate, it should have been very easy to sort this out. It should be very rare to see repeated transactions for the same amount, over and over again.

As I understand, significant amount of the complaints revolve around closing time calculations. The transactions would add up more than the take-in, and the difference would be requested from the postmaster. People lost everything they had trying to satisfy the 'system'. When they complained, the system was always perfect, the fault was always with the postmasters.

Buckle up, admins – Windows Server 2025 officially hits GA

Windows Server... Now that's a name I haven't heard for a long time...

Literally trying to remember the last time I touched one, must have been over a decade ago. Linux servers, or the clouds rule my life.

Boeing again delays the 777X – the plane that's supposed to turn things around

Re: Forget space if you can't even keep a door secured on Earth

Military pilots are used to aircrafts crashing so Boeing should do better there.

Re: The problem ....

Know-how lost by firing manufacturing workforce is not going to come back when you start rehiring.

Just shows we're not CEO material.

The CEO is a genius!

Everything is delayed because of problems in the aircraft? Fire 10 thousand people so that the remaining can achieve even less, working too many hours and finally striking because of low pay and how they are treated.

This plan cannot fail, he's a Trump-like genius!!!

Eric Schmidt: Build more AI datacenters, we aren't going to 'hit climate goals anyway'

Most-modern Nero. Give him a fiddle, he will play it as he watches the world burn.

Microsoft veteran ditches Team Tabs, blaming storage trauma of yesteryear

One word: Python

White-space-separated languages are stupid.

We know 'Linux is a cancer' but could CentOS chaos spell opportunity for Microsoft?

Re: MS Linux...

Embrace and enshittificate...

Rust for Linux maintainer steps down in frustration with 'nontechnical nonsense'

Re: Hmm

Billions of C code in the kernel, and one guy comes from Microsoft and tells everyone "You're doing it wrong, do it my way". Fuck that, mate.

Fuckity bye, you're a part of Microsoft's "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" mission.