Posts by ICL1900-G3

Ousted US copyright chief argues Trump did not have power to remove her

Goat

It really, truly is 'Sieg'...as has been pointed out eine Zieg is a goat!

Musk's antics and distractions are backfiring as Tesla's car business stalls

Re: It's no suprise.

And... Jesus, they're ugly.

Kawasaki and Foxconn build robot nursing assistant to tackle hospital scutwork

Re: I don't see that working

But... shareholder value...

I think nursing staff are saints. They pay for their education, do a difficult and stressful job, are poorly paid and, to add to the insult, usually have to pay through the nose to some slimeball car park operator. End of rant.

Gone in 40 days: US drops ban on export of chip design tools to China

Re: TACO indeed

Indeed... (US) arses and elbows spring to mind.

US imposes sanctions on second Russian bulletproof hosting vehicle this year

Re: Drop that phrasing

Exactly! Whoever wrote that, and I use 'wrote' loosely, achieved the opposite of what they intended. Does no-one learn English language any more?

Deutsche Bahn train hits 405 km/h without falling to bits

Re: Maglevs

And use a lot of energy. Levitation doesn't come free and trains are very heavy.

ORM

Thanks for that... I never knew it existed. Brilliant.

There's no international protocol on what to do if an asteroid strikes Earth

Best option

Grab your coat and snatch your hat, leave your worries on the doorstep

Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street.

The year of the European Union Linux desktop may finally arrive

Re: US cloud providers are officially poison

I think you're right... fear of the unknown and MS marketing machine feeding people lies, people who don't understand tech but control the money.

Before the megabit: A trip through vintage datacenter networking

An insightful comment. It really was fun and an awful lot if what we did was unexplored territory. My first job was getting an ICL mainframe to talk to remote data acquisition devices and download data that was previously sent on paper tape. When it eventually worked I was beside myself with joy, it truly seemed like magic.

Exif marks the spot as fresh version of PNG image standard arrives

Re: Pronunciation ...

Definitely 'shriek' if you are an old George 3 user.

Eat or be eaten by AI, Amazon CEO warns staff

Re: Post capitalism and Tech Feudalism

Amen to that. Stopped years ago for, oh, so many reasons.

Behold! Humanity has captured our first look at the Sun's South Pole

Nice place

Wouldn't want to live there, though.

Apple-Intel divorce to be final next year

I have one Intel machine from 2007 and one from 2011, both running Linux, both doing useful work every day. Like Trigger's broom, neither is exactly as it was when new, then again, that's not even an option with a Mac. Neither would be much good at matrix inversion, but it's seldom I really feel the desire for something faster. If it ain't broke...

Old but gold: Paper tape and punched cards still getting the job done – just about

Hand punch

I still think of open and close parentheses as 5,8 and 6,8, the holes you needed to punch with the hand punch on the ICL 1900. Sad bastard!

Trump lifts US supersonic flight ban, says he's 'Making Aviation Great Again'

Re: Its only taken 50 years....

And a story related to the photo... captain announced that they had just been overtaken by two guys in space suits, while you are in shirtsleeves enjoying your cocktails.

Re: "Test flights in January proved out the concept [of Boom Supersonic]"

Blimey, and I think £80 an hour is ruinous!

Re: "Test flights in January proved out the concept [of Boom Supersonic]"

I flew a 172 from Bodmin to Leeds Bradford and back yesterday to save a friend 9 hours by public transport. The landing fee at a very empty Leeds Bradford airport was a reassuringly expensive £102. Still, we did get a very nice cup of coffee.

OpenMamba: Eat your greens, they're good for you

Re: Festa della Repubblica

Quite so...it is a big hurdle going off-piste like this, if you will forgive the mixed metaphor. If you Google 'how do I do xyz in Debian/Fedora/whatever' you will most likely get a reply, this... probably not so much. A distro for the adventurous, methinks, not that there's anything wrong with that.

Russian IT pro sentenced to 14 years forced labor for sharing medical data with Ukraine

Re: @ICL1900-G3 - Potted Russian history

Because this is an English language website. Posting in Russian is pretentious and bad manners. I could post in French, German or Dutch instead of English but I would not necessarily expect to be understood.

Potted Russian history

Russia is, always has been and probably always will be a shit place, run by paranoid psychopaths.

From Russia with chokehold: Putin says foreign IT firms still in Russia should be 'strangled'

Re: Sounds like a pipe dream?

I believe tradition demands that someone say 'and how's the weather in Moscow today, comrade?' at this point.

The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet

Re: Linux alternatives

'stinks up the place ' ... don't be silly.

Absolutely. It's fabulous... I actually discovered it here on El Reg and am so pleased I did.

Re: "Home users don't use Illustrator, Photoshop, Xcode or Autocad or one of those hundred..."

I'd better tell my Canon G500 it doesn't work with Linux, it seems not to realise.

The 12 KB that Windows just can't seem to quit

Re: Memory Lane

Foxbase's descendants FoxPro and Visual FoxPro were pretty good RAD systems, but too left field for MS.

30 years of MySQL, the database that changed the world

Re: Naming of MariaDB

A story with a sad ending, unfortunately. What an achievement all the same.

90-second Newark blackout exposes parlous state of US air traffic control

ATC explained by David Gunson

All you need to know:

https://youtu.be/7KbUNzi58wM?si=LFazkUCmS_7CLQvw

Saw him live once, recommended.

Google details plans for 1 MW IT racks exploiting electric vehicle supply chain

Re: Fun stuff

Indeed, and it's impossible to let go when it's dc.

AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals

Re: AI models routinely lie

The first million years were the worst...

Chris Krebs loses Global Entry membership amid Trump feud

Re: Probably only a matter of time

Suits me.

Christ, that guy's a cunt... Trump I mean, lest there should be any confusion.

Musk’s DOGE probed by top watchdog after poking around Uncle Sam's systems

Yeah... just paid my council tax...£350 a month for? Getting the bins emptied, as far as I can see. Looking at you, Cornwall Council.

Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence

Munich

Ever been there? You should. Munich and the whole of Bavaria are wonderful.

After leaving citizens on hold for 798 years, UK tax authority has £1B for CRM upgrade

Re: The best way to spend the money...

According to my accountant, as soon as anyone at the Revenue gets to be halfway decent, they leave and go into private practice.

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

Sophie

I don't know if you drink beer, but I would happily buy you one. What genius!

When Microsoft made the Windows as a Service pivot

Re: A willing victim of late-stage capitalism

An option which works a treat.

Re: Lessons skipped and still not enough paranoia

Of course they do. Who wouldn't trust MS?

America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside

Re: Surely

Murdoch allegedly said of Trump 'he's so fucking stupid, he has no idea how stupid he is'. Maybe it's true... certainly looking that way.

ICE enlists Palantir to develop all-seeing 'ImmigrationOS' eye to speed up deportations

Re: The one "advantage" to all of this is...

One can only hope that Orban gets his marching orders in the not too distant future. But I'm not holding my breath.

Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances

You probably don't read El Reg...

... Mr President, but just in case you do, you're a wanker. Just saying.

Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online and weirdly alive

Re: Quality HW

Sadly my cheese grater died last week. I transferred its Linux OS to an only 20 year old AMD box and it kind of worked.

Re: Running new OS on old Mac hardware

Seconded. There is sometimes a need for snark; this was not one of them. I'm a fan of your writing, Liam, but on this occasion, a downvote.

Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying

I know of another 'very stable genius'. Any relation?

I share your conviction. The public face of Brexit was designed to appeal to xenophobic halfwits, leaving the path clear for the Establishment to do whatever suited them best.

The LittleGP-30: A tiny recreation of a very big deal from the 1950s

Bendix G15

Anyone interested in this sort of thing should have a look at the Usagi Electric videos on YouTube, especially the ones about the Bendix G15. Dave Lovett is a genius at getting old stuff to work. He's also a great presenter and seems like a good guy.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnw98JPyObn3QSIwUz5Iv6NA1x-uGFqAa

Microsoft total recalls Recall totally to Copilot+ PCs

Eh?

Apart from the police, I can't imagine why any sane person would want this.

OK great, UK is building loads of AI datacenters. How are we going to power that?

Re: Hmm

And getting another planet when we've broken this one will be a piece of piss

'Copilot will remember key details about you' for a 'catered to you' experience

Re: Where will Copilot store its memories ?

Amen to that.