Posts by DutchBasterd

Google institutional investor calls for wider cuts: 30k jobs

Re: I want your money honey, not your love.

Transvision Vamp!

Blizzard co-leader Jen Oneal leaps into escape pod after just three months in the role

If that's not equality, then I don't know what is.

IBM US staff must be fully vaccinated by December – or go back to bed without pay

The vaccinated also spread, so there's that. No point for me to get vaccinated if the vaccinated can still get it and spread it, like they say I do.

Horizon Workrooms promises a virtual future of teal despair

I wonder when they'll get sued by VMware.

I haven't bought new pants for years, why do I have to keep buying new PCs?

A 286 running Netscape? Yeah right.

Hacking is not a crime – and the media should stop using 'hacker' as a pejorative

Pretty much the same story with "karate kicks"

The classic hits keep coming from IBM: z/OS set for big update in September

Re: Weird

A company I worked for went bankrupt in 2013, and I'm sure that them clinging to the mainframe was a big part of the cause.

Bill Gates on climate change: Planting trees is not the answer, emissions need to be zeroed out to avoid disaster

Re: Greta was at least consistent

Greta is a puppet. An actress.

How do we combat mass global misinformation? How about making the internet a little harder to use

Just came here to say that this does not only count for the internet, but for using computers in general.

Dell Wyse Thin Client scores two perfect 10 security flaws

Oh wow. Version 9 dropped support for EVERYTHING except Citrix. Great, we use them with VMWare.

Dutch officials say Donald Trump really did protect his Twitter account with MAGA2020! password

"It’s worth noting there is less than a month before no one has to care what appears on Trump’s Twitter feed ever again."

We'll see.

Rambo: First Bork. Turns out John Rambo is no match for a bad CMOS checksum

Tudududu

Got the title song from the C64 game in my head right now. Fantastic game, awesome loading screen, great gameplay, quite difficult but not impossible. Remember to use the spacebar to select your weapons.

The power of Bill compels you: A server room possessed by a Microsoft-hating, Linux-loving Demon

Not a server, but I had this thing once with a 98 PC. It would bluescreen constantly. This was a workplace at a real estate business. So I took the thing home, switched it on, and there it sat, working perfectly fine for 24 hours. Took it back, BAM, bluescreen. After some puzzled thoughts I realized that the building this thing was in was quite old, so I told the customer to get their power outlet measured. Guess what, there was a slightly lower voltage in the building. But the computers that I sold them worked, because those power supplies could apparently handle it. This was an older PC, and well, it could not, apparently.

AI in the enterprise: AI may as well stand for automatic idiot – but that doesn't mean all machine learning is bad

The first url is broken, it lacks _mon

Former HP CEO and Republican Meg Whitman – who split HP with mixed success – says Donald Trump can't run a business

Re: Whitman would be better off promoted as former eBay CEO

Dunning-Kruger much? I'd say that failed CEO's have absolutely no clue about how they themselves failed, let alone another one, who was so succesful that he became president. 4 more years!

Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced techie is indistinguishable from magic

I had a costumer in the late 90's that had more or less the same problem with a mouse. If the sunlight went directly on the mouse, it would start to freak out. Took a good while to figure that out. Fortunately, that was their previous IT partner.

National Crime Agency says Brit teen accused of Twitter hack has not been arrested

I wonder if any of these kids ever seen the film "Hackers"

Twitter hack latest: Up to 36 compromised accounts had their private messages read – including a Dutch politician's

Re: Politicians!

This particular politician is in need of personal security for the last 14 years because of daily death threats, so yeah, it is more important than yours.

Intel's 7nm is busted, chips delayed, may have to use rival foundries to get GPUs out for US govt exascale super

I got a B550 a few weeks ago. First time ever I've built an AMD CPU based machine. But Intel has so dropped the ball with those comet lakes, which is what I originally was looking at. So now I got a B550 board with a midrange Ryzen 5 3600 and going to drop in a beast when Zen 3 comes out and be settled for the next four to five years. We'll see if Intel recovers.

Bill Gates debunks 'coronavirus vaccine is my 5G mind control microchip implant' conspiracy theory

Windows has never been better than 10. Powershell, Linux subsystem, great backwards compatibility.

Did you see that ludicrous display last night? Bork pays a visit to London's Silicon Roundabout

What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?

Linus Torvalds banishes masters, slaves and blacklists from the Linux kernel, starting now

Re: Reply to Linus Torvalds

Well, I guess Linux itself is racist because it's created by mostly white people. So it must be destroyed, right?

Re: Argh

I find that extremely offensive towards David Spade!

If there's a lesson to be learned in these torrid times, it's that civilisation is fleeting – but Windows XP is eternal

Re: Not the successor to Windows Me

Windows 98 was pretty great if you had some decent hardware. I ran it on a P-II 266 for quite a while, but I had to upgrade to 2000 after sticking in more than 256Mb of RAM, because 98 really could not handle that. 2000 was great after SP3 and the inclusion of directX. Windows ME is one of the shittiest pieces of software I've ever seen.

I helped my boss out a few weeks ago. He had some domotica thing that would only work on Windows XP and a serial port. A real serial port. And a real Windows XP. Fortunately I have a computer scrapyard and found a compaq evo 6000 dual xeon who was more than up for the job. Scored big points with that maneuver.