Posts by s151669

One real reason AI isn't delivering: Meatbags in manglement

Re: "the AI tools didn't learn."

It was in the directors cut.

Windows is testing a new, wider Run dialog box. Here’s how to try it

That's just fine as long it is your personal laptop. But useless when navigating corporate network with standard installs.

What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

Re: snapflatimages

And the joke used to be that Emacs stands for Eight megabytes and constantly swapping.

Google imagines out of this world AI - running on orbital datacenters

Re: Skynet

More like Hactar, I think.

Company that made power systems for servers didn’t know why its own machines ran out of juice

That is why you use tape to set switch "permanently" to ON.

Firefox 144 brings fixes, features, and farewells for 32-bit Linux die-hards

Re: Password manager

There is a question mark instead. It is more secure that way!

The Notepad that knew too much: Humble text editor gets unnecessary AI infusion

Re: Hm

Emacs has a copilot plugin.

It's the final countdown: Windows 10 hits end of support in less than 30 days

SWMBO's laptop just announced that it will not work with 11. It does have the TPM 2.0 module but AMD Ryzen 2700u is not supported. WTF ?

Oh well, at least we will now have Microsoft free zone. Irony of this is that Microsoft itself is the best Linux salesman nowadays.

Microsoft removes the whiff of Vista from Windows 11 Insider Preview

Is the edit environment variable dialog still the matchbox sized thingy ? Have not touched 11 yet.

BOFH: The auditor is asking too many questions. We have just the laptop for that

alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.hamster.ducktape maybe?

BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96

Re: Just a collection of sub-programs

MSX Basic had ON A GO(SUB|TO) 100,200,300

Only gotcha of course was that the values of A were always 0,1,2 (could have been 1,2,3 - can't remember) for the example above. To get something like drawing program tool bar to work you needed to divide cursor coordinates so that values would fit. Cascading if to check if coordinates were within first button do this elseif coordinates were within second button etc was too slow.

Of course, it was Microsoft there, what did you expect ? Flood fill was especially slow and entertaining to watch. Especially when you left 1 pixel gap somewhere.

This uni thought it would be a good idea to do a phishing test with a fake Ebola scare

Mine had 51. Then they saw the light and accept a longer password with no need to change it.

Tesla steering problems attract regulator eyes for second time this year

Re: Five reports indicate an inability to steer

There are definitely more of these. I've seen it in person. Steering failed on my driveway. Locked up. On a brand new Tesla.

Of course steering did work when tow truck arrived. Apparently they changed steering gear assy or something similar.

Nope, I don't own a Tesla.

File suffixes: Who needs them? Well, this guy did

Just install Total Commander. No need to mess with the constantly changing and breaking ui provided by MS. Satisfied user since NT3.51 - if / when need to suffer windows.

First they came for Notepad. Now they're coming for Task Manager

Re: Ms just does not know when to stop fiddling

I suppose the set environment variable box is still size of matchbox with around 40 characters max visible ?

Help! I bought a domain and ended up with a stranger's PayPal! And I can't give it back

Perhaps original owner has tried to contact Paypal with little success.

Rust in peace: Memory bugs in C and C++ code cause security issues so Microsoft is considering alternatives once again

Re: Pretty obvious what the code does, surely?

It proves that you can write Perl in any language.

After IBM SoftLayer fails to scrub bare-metal box firmware of any lurking spies, alarm raised over cloud server security

Re: What the difference with open firmware?

Ever heard of login, c compiler and Ken Thompson? So much for building from source.

Why does that website take forever to load? Clues: Three syllables, starts with a J, rhymes with crock of sh...

Re: Every web site should...

Surely you mean xmodem or kermit ?