Posts by Zenubi

Techie traveled 4 hours to fix software that worked perfectly until a new hire used it

PICNIC

Problem In Chair Not In Computer

Trump wants to fire quarter of NASA budget into black hole – and not in a good way

Re: Make Aerospace Grotty Again

MAGA - Making America Go Away

Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops

Employ clowns expect a circus.

Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs

When free markets vanish black markets appear.

Nvidia GPU roadmap confirms it: Moore’s Law is dead and buried

Re: Not Enough Compute Speed?

Assuming of course that China is still willing to sell germanium. Thet have already put restrictions on it due to the mentally ill antics of King Orangeutang.

Photoshop FOSS alternative GIMP wakes up from 7-year coma with version 3.0

"lack of Photoshop was a deal breaker because they use it to make their YT video thumbnails, like it was impossible to achieve the same thing with GIMP"

Sigh

Anyone can make a thumbnail image in gimp or even a much more basic IMP. Have they not learned to float-copy-scale-save as ? Actions let one easily pull multiples.

I have been a PS user since 2.1 and notice that lots of its more recent "tools" seem made for people (tools) who have never really learned basic PS techniques.

Last time I looked at Gimp its method of dealing with layers was alien and awkward plus too many destructive filters and the like.

From what I have picked up this release seems a useful progression.

DeepSeek-R1-beating perf in a 32B package? El Reg digs its claws into Alibaba's QwQ

ha

Your names not Dave is it ?

GNOME 48 beta is another nail in X11's coffin

Re: Anyone on Gnome team actually use Nvidia?

AMD announced a few months ago they did not intend to compete with "high end" consumer GPUs so no equivalent to your 3090 is on the horizon.

Best will probably be a 070 equivalent or similar. Anyway, best hold onto that 3090 -it's going to increase in value given all the metals restrictions now being imposed by China (yea!).

DIMM techies weren’t allowed to leave the building until proven to not be pilferers

Just when I thought . .

Just when I thought I had heard it all along comes "burping his worm".

'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama

And Sarah Bee

Dude, you got a Dell, period! RIP XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, Precision

Displays are good though

My Dell Ultra-sharps have been on for many years now and still calibrate inside limits.

AlmaLinux project climbs down from being a one-to-one RHEL clone

Re: Not the one

Using Photoshop and later Nuendo.

Not the one

I guess this all means that this is not the year of the Linux desktop ?

Free Wednesday gift for you lucky lot: Extra mouse button!

Re: Windows supports 5 buttons

" I forget whether XB1 and XB2 do anything by default (Most mouse utilities will map them to browser back / forward)"

Yes - so useful - these also work as back / up folders.

Elon Musk hit with insider trading claims over his Dogecoin crypto-hype

Everything Marx told us about Communism was wrong. Unfortunately, everything he told us about Capitalism was correct

Boffins snap X-ray closeup of single atom – and by closeup we mean nanometres

Big News

No small achievement !

AMD undercuts Nvidia's 4060 launch with a $269 GPU

Reviews

Gamers Nexus

Do Not Buy: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB GPU Review & Benchmarks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2b0MWGwK_U&t=1s

AMD is a Mess: Radeon RX 7600 GPU Review & Benchmarks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCxYfXe1DAA

Nearly 1 in 5 academics admit close encounters of the anomalous kind

Astronomy 101 - How to identify that light in the sky

https://www.leagueoflostcauses.com/blog/2013/08/astronomy-101.html

Datacenter fire suppression system wasn't tested for years, then BOOM

I have a friend who was a fireman - he said the local nurses home - quite a large block - was subject to kitchen and other false alarms.

He said the tender was crewed in record time for these - especially at night.

One imagines many sleepy nurses in the parking lot in less than normal clothing but he would not be drawn further.

iPhones hook up with Windows as Microsoft’s Phone Link dials up Apple's iOS

I use PhoneLink

I use PhoneLink with my Pixel 4a

Don't use the call function as cannot be bothered to faff about with B-tooth.

The text function is very useful - it lets me send very long messages complete with correct punctuation that some have said are "very annoying".

Wonderful !

Curiosity gets interplanetary software patch for better driving and more on Mars

Well worth a read

A decent article on the methodology used on the shuttle software. Eye opening.

https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

Texts from your dog and brain-free astronomy: The best of the rest from CES

Chopping (what?)

Just what you want on a chopping board where you are using very sharp knives - a distraction.

LastPass admits attackers have a copy of customers’ password vaults

Sigh . .

KeePass

Open source

Free

PW file can be stored in the "cloud" / central location.

https://keepass.info/

I honestly do not understand why people use / trust these online PW stores. That said I don't understand why people do lots of things.

NASA's Mars InSight uploads its (probably) final image, shares it in a tweet

Best Ending

To an article I have read for years

In praise of MIDI, tech's hidden gift to humanity

Re: Nice to have.

Sort of. B5 used Amigas but as the host for a thing called a Video Toaster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yFdaCmRkBk

:)

Voice assistants failed because they serve their makers more than they help users

"Procrustean Bed of Late Capitalism"

Nice!

Ever wondered how the AWS leviathan develops software?

More of this sort of thing

Please.

JAXA: Research simulating life onboard ISS contained fabrications

It's Life (Jim)

But not as we know it.

BOFH: We're an industry leader … in employing idiot managers

Thank You

"less likely to change than a basement-dwelling Linux geek with only three days on his t-shirt"

Thank You So Much.

IT manager's 'think outside the box' edict was, for once, not (only) a revolting cliché

Re: What was the packaging?

Yes - Sarah !

French-speaking voleurs stole $30m in 15-country bank, telecoms cyber-heist spree

Re: The Best

Yes - there can be only one. How can ANYONE think to remake a Clouseau movie. As bad as The Producers remake or Tinker Tailor.

Re: What did they always say to Red Hat?

Nice

The Best

Whilst not condoning crime in any way it does seem (to me) that the French seem to have the best bank robbers, jewel thieves and maybe cyber-crims?

Tumblr says nudes are back on the menu – within reason

Re: Do you know...

Those same credit card companies will let you buy weapons !

YouTube loves recommending conservative vids regardless of your beliefs

I block based on keywords

I have a nice browser extension that lets me block YT clips based on title keywords. It can do RegEx too. (BlockTube)

Thus I never see clips with words such as { insane, sick, unboxing, cat, dog, kitten, puppy, awesome, crazy} etc in there titles.

Works well but what I really want is a filter to remove clips with people wearing baseball caps* back to front - I would then be spared an even greater deal of dumbness. I know I don't have to click on these clips of course but just seeing people like this makes me grrrrr.

* Where do they buy those hats anyway? I can only see the normal facing ones when I looked on Amazon. ( I wanted to see what else people who bought these bought)

I know that this extension can see what I'm looking at but that ship sailed long ago and I don't care.

Fixing an upside-down USB plug: A case of supporting the insupportable

Outrageous

Support staff running to a job - outrageous behavior. If we don't get a BOFH today it's because Simon read this article and is in shock.

Nvidia unveils RTX 4090 – but it's the 4080 to watch out for

Looking forward to my 4080

Looking forward to a 4080 replacing my 4 (?) year old 1080ti.

People may moan about price but I don't really care - it is what it is and, in hobby cost terms not so expensive - seen the price of a bike frame or decent DSLR lens recently?

We buy tech for what it can do and this looks like the first card to render 4k at a decent frame rate.

I am hoping that the 12GB version is enough though as power consumption is a thing now.

WordPress-powered sites backdoored after FishPig suffers supply chain attack

As If

"FishPig said affected customers can also reach out for "a free clean up service for anyone who is worried that this is affecting their site and needs help to resolve it."

hahahahahahaha

As if I would let then into the root of my site *!

Their InfoSec is not exactly trustworthy at this point although I suppose for some WP "admins" this might be welcome

( * If I was dumb enough to run Magneto as a WP plugin)

MX Linux 21.2: Middleweight Debian-based distro is well worth a look

Multimedia !

That menu - Multimedia - takes me right back to the 90's

(Beavis and Butthead laughing sound)

PanWriter: Cross-platform writing tool runs on anything and outputs to anything

Re: "This editor is the best ..."

LOL

BT demos 4-carrier 5G aggregation – on a live network

Tech I want . .

Is an internet connection without having to pay for a feking phone line and a price that does not increase by 20% each year !!!!

(I have FTTC - going to change when the contract rolls over)

China's 7nm chip surprise reveals more than Beijing might like

Nice

"an amazing, tottering pile of near-magic photon-wrangling audacity, a mélange of multiple overlapping mask exposures and complex production tricks"

Nice!

Micron's 232-layer NAND is a game changer for database workloads

Not so long ago

"to pack up to 2TB of capacity into a package smaller than a postage stamp."

Seems like not so long ago I was swapping out my Amiga 20mb drive for a 400mb IBM monster and wondering how I would ever use all that space.

(It's been emotional)

Thousands of websites run buggy WordPress plugin that allows complete takeover

Built In

Ah yes - Wordpress. A suite of security issues and attack vectors with a built in blog.

A client asked me, years ago, to take on an existing WP site. I was quite shocked at how basic it was and what a mess with all the plugin "extensions".

I declined.

First-ever James Webb Space Telescope image revealed

Re: Here they are!

Thank you

NASA's CAPSTONE silence down to a software flaw

How to write space software

Specifically the shuttle code. Very interesting article.

https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

Misguided call for a 7-Zip boycott brings attention to FOSS archiving tools

Re: I like WinRAR the most

A big plus of WinRAR was it's use on Usenet and the potential to make parity file set for it.

Like seemed simpler then