to be fair, it is possible that sections of code just won't run be at this point. It's a called Canary (in a mine) for a good reason.
Posts by Briantist69
13 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jan 2020
OS-busting bug so bad that Microsoft blocks Windows Insider release
NHS drops another billion on tech in the hope of finally going digital
Monday 23rd September 2024 11:37 GMT
Re: fuck plantainr, just sort it out internally
6 clusters...
"NHS London provided strategic leadership for all of the NHS health services in the capital. NHS London overall responsibility for the performance of 31 Primary care trusts, in 6 clusters, 20 acute trusts, three mental health trusts and the London Ambulance Service. A further 16 trusts in London are self-governing as foundation trusts."
Open source PostgreSQL named DBMS of the year by DB-Engines
Wrong time to weaken encryption, UK IT chartered institute tells government
Musicians threaten to make Oasis 'Live Forever' with AI
University students recruit AI to write essays for them. Now what?
Tuesday 27th December 2022 14:15 GMT
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
Tuesday 7th April 2020 09:20 GMT
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
Friday 20th March 2020 14:56 GMT
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!
Monday 27th January 2020 14:55 GMT
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.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
