Posts by Briantist69

Open source PostgreSQL named DBMS of the year by DB-Engines

shame about pgAdmin

Nice database, shame about pgAdmin.

Wrong time to weaken encryption, UK IT chartered institute tells government

The Pet Shop Boys 2007 version was quite good ("Integral") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4K6pe0HDrY

Even they got it 16 years ago.

Musicians threaten to make Oasis 'Live Forever' with AI

Re: Perfect harmony

Like David Bowie and Bing Crosby? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpXMy5GalI or Marc Almond and Gene Pitney.

The evidence suggests that's a bad idea!

Re: Today...

Perhaps they fed the computer an appropriate amount of "nose candy". It certaihnly sounds that way.

University students recruit AI to write essays for them. Now what?

Re: ChatGPT - Hmm

And yet ChatGPT totally failed with the most obvious of junior-school question "which is heavier a pound of feathers of a pound of gold".

It seemed to not care gold is measured in Troy weight. It at the very least needs a things-Giles-Brandreth-knows module, or perhaps The Chip Book Of Fascinating Facts from 1980.

Google tests hiding Chrome extension icons by default, developers definitely not amused by the change

Oooh, I like this.

I see with my 13 extensions, this is a much better way to operate.

The alternative that the ones you don't use appear in the three dots menu, which is OK until you have quite a few in there and it doesn't really feel like good UI.

Also, really like to know that I can see which ones (here it's Adblocker Ultimate, Google Dictionary, Google Translate, JSON Viewer) are active on the page I'm looking at.

Google does seem to blow hot and cold over "pins" in the UI, so interesting to see them in the Chrome UI.

Surge in home working highlights Microsoft licensing issue: If you are not on subscription, working remotely is a premium feature

Re: Microsoft doesn't make he only remote access software

- free MS RDC on Google play is really great on everything including Chromebook devices.

- free MS RDC in Apple store works really well.

The free Windows version - - does everything really well (as you might expect after 17 years of upgrade) including cut/paste of files to the desktop.

Take DOS, stir in some Netware, add a bit of Windows and... it's ALIIIIVE!

Re: All IT issues are caused by management...

The problem was that Novell Netware ran like a demon and Microsoft replacment didn't. You couldn't set up a Netware server unless there was enough RAM to cache the bitmap of the allocation map for the drive.

Also, Netware didn't waste CPU cycles on a graphical interface, so the time to transfer data from the disk to the network card was always as fast as it could be.

Any objectve comparison between a Netware network and a Microsoft one (using a Network Analyser) would always show that the MS one was ... poor.

But poor old Novell didn't really get that Microsoft were activily working to kill them off.

Re: All washed away like tears in rain

I'm still quite proud of my Certified Netware Engineer certificate.

Re: Progress

I started with "BBC Micro 32k" of which the top of the 32K was video memory (at least 1k for teletext mode, 20k for colour graphics) and the bottom 4k for the Operating System (more with the Disk Operating Sytem). The CPU ran at 1MHz.

A Notepad nightmare leaves sysadmin with something totally unprintable

And thus...

I think this is the reason that Intel invented Netports.