Posts by ICL1900-G3

AI slop hits new high as fake country artist goes to #1 on Billboard digital songs chart

Unbeatable country music

Hank Wangford... Joggin' with Jesus.

Ironclad OS project popping out Unix-like kernel in a unique mix of languages

Re: PERQ / Accent / Mach

I lusted after a Perq when they came out. For its time, hugely capable.

Re: 'A new language AIDA'

Brilliant. Have a beer on me!

Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks

@kurgan

I'm sorry but, compared to a lot of stuff one reads online, you most certainly seem to be an expert. Thanks for the interesting post.

Senate bill would require companies to report AI layoffs as job cuts reach 20-year high in October

Re: Trump's easily disproven claims

No... American cheese is an insult to humanity.

Agents of misfortune: The world isn't ready for autonomous software

Re: "all in alignment with human intent"

Just curious...why still use Amazon? I stopped years ago, they're hateful in so many ways.

'Vibe coding' named Word of the Year. Developers everywhere faceplant

Learning things?

Why bother? Just press a button and your job's done.

Gorge on Microsoft Store apps with 16-at-once installer

But why?

Bests me.

Metropolitan Police hails facial recognition tech after record year for arrests

Re: over 65s most supportive ?

'if' should of course be 'of'...

Re: over 65s most supportive ?

I'm in my eighth decade and I find this deeply troubling, as do most, but not all, if my equally doddery friends. Careful where you point your sweeping statements.

Students using ChatGPT beware: Real learning takes legwork, study finds

Blimey

Who would have thought it?

Smile! Uncle Sam wants to scan your face on the way in – and out

Re: I'm not planning to visit the United Hell Holes any time soon

I rather think she brought most of them on herself by talking such complete bollocks.

Flight simulator fans revive a classic Boeing 747 cockpit

Re: Fly where?

Amen to that. PPL/IR became a wee bit rich for me after I retired. Now I can fly my Pilatus to Courchevel whenever I get the urge. Which is quite often.

Re: Absolutely brilliant

You've met my dad, I see! I wish now I'd paid more attention.

Fake home invasion vid lands woman in real trouble

Is it any wonder...

...that Trump was elected?

AWS admits more bits of its cloud broke as it recovered from DynamoDB debacle

What a great idea

To put your business in somebody else's hands, to pay them a premium to manage something you could do yourself, control yourself...

Chamber of Commerce sues over Trump's $100K H-1B paywall

Technology background

@9rune5

Just checking... I do hope you're not suggesting that Trump does have a technology background? It appears to me he has trouble tying his own shoelaces.

Space Shuttle war of words takes off as senator blasts 'woke Smithsonian'

Re: “Woke”

Do you actually know any? Just curious.

Exchange Online will start archiving your oldest emails before your inbox bursts

I think you're expecting a lot there. Remember who you're dealing with!

Teens arrested in London preschool ransomware attack

Re: I note that the usual loud voices are quiet

You said it so they didn't have to.

Amazon grounds drone deliveries in Arizona after two crashed into a crane

Our top priority

So many companies have so many things as their top priority, I'm amazed they manage to achieve anything else.

IBM killing mainframe coding kit for PCs this year

Hercules...

... isn't bad for playing with big iron, but it's not in the same league as this. I agree that encouraging people to experience mainframes would appear sensible, they're not exactly seen as glamorous, but hey... IBM are IBM.

Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead? No, wait – it's on Windows

Re: Very nice but

Agreed, Sublime was brilliant, getting bloated. I mainly use Vim, but I'm like that.

Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project'

Re: Killing AOSP

I agree with you 100% BUT people like us are a rounding error in Google's 'customer' base.

Windows 95 was too fat to install itself so needed help from the slimmer 3.1

Re: Nothing ever changes

Don't be silly.

Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe

Re: MVS OS/360 - Almost certainly

At least you had the same instruction set. I always wanted to have a bash on System 4 but never managed it, sadly.

Re: Somewhat lacking in detail...

Agree...my bullshit detector has gone critical.

Re: MVS OS/360 - Almost certainly

I moved to IBM world having been a systems prog for ICL. I couldn't believe you had to ran a program (it was, indeed IEBGENER) to copy stuff. In George 3, a simple jcl copy command did the trick. George always seemed far more capable than MVS...that should start a flame war.

Re: Angle Park

Everyone, especially those who were around at the time, should read Soul of a new Machine... recommended. In fact, being an idle geriatric, I think I'll go and find it now.

If you can't use AI then it's bye bye, Accenture tells staff

Yes, that sounds totally logical, not trying to draw attention at all, of course not. Maybe add a few umlauts to look über cool?

Trump demands Microsoft fire its head of global affairs

Re: "It is highly unusual [. . ]"

Un pied... not une.

Zorin OS 18 beta makes Linux look like anything but Linux

Re: Sausage

Good for you, Liam, with you 100%

I suspect in the future as we continue to abuse our planet, meat-eating will not be an option, apart for the rich, of course!

Workers: Yes, RTO makes sense. No, we’re not going to do it

I agree with you. These days, I believe teaching your little sweeties what is acceptable is no longer a parental responsibility.

EU starting registration of fingerprints and faces for short-stay foreigners

Re: What about our fish?

Phew! Thank heavens Johnson was always totally straight and honest. Oh, how he's missed! Well, by Nadine Dorries if noone else.

MX Linux 25 reaches beta testing – complete with systemd

Re: Wot abaht ... ?

If you genuinely don't know the answer to your question, I suggest Linux is probably not for you.

Solar flair: Logitech's K980 Signature Slim keyboard runs on rays

Well..

that's solved a problem I didn't know I had.

You can now test drive Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10

Wise words... sadly, I don't think this madness us going to go away any time soon. Sinclair (Main Street) Lewis predicted something very like Trump in his novel 'It can't happen here'. Worth a read.

Slack threatened to delete nonprofit coding club’s data if it didn’t pay $50k in a week

Re: This is what you get ...

Absolutely. Remember, kids, just say 'no'.

Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact

Re: Jackanory and Romper Room Tales .... for Spent Forces Dealing with Almighty Troubles Ahead

To be fair, amfm does have form!

Re: Playing catch up...

Careful what you say, now...walls have ears!

Sky plans to ditch up to 500 staff in the Technology Group

TV

There is ALWAYS something better to do than watch tv.

Bring back your old Mac: 5 ways to refresh the OS on elderly Apples

Re: Nice to See This Being Done

Now just hold in... my dog is really fast, I bet she could beat you any day!

Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors

They work for us?

Never trust the government. Ever. Their agenda is not your agenda.

Nokia successor HMD spawns secure device biz with Euro-made smartphone

Nokia

Much missed. A European phone, albeit with a Qualcomm chip, sounds attractive in today's troubled world.

Fujitsu under fire for bidding on UK public sector deals despite Horizon scandal vow

Re: It's Northern Ireland

So true, sadly so many still don't see it.

Radar problem caused mayhem in UK skies on Wednesday

Re: VOLUME !

Living in Cornwall, I can only endorse that. Thank god summer is over!

Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector

I think that should be 'my ass' in Newspeak.

Europe Putin the blame on Russia after GPS jamming disrupts president’s plane

Re: Rust

VORs still there... I still use Berry Head (BHD) when flying up country. Airliners still have INS to the best of my knowledge.

Programmers: you have to watch your weight, too

Re: I know I am a dying breed

Ah... assembler...now you're talking !

Re: That's what you get for putting so much lipstick on a pig...

Amen! In George 3, the maximum chapter size was 1022 words, if I remember correctly.