Posts by Tams

First they came for Notepad. Now they're coming for Task Manager

Re: Who Cares?

But... Windows does what I want it to do and I can run all the programs that I want.

Linux/BSD are nice and all, but from my experience there's always something not working properly and, no matter the DE, it always looks a bit more ugly than Windows (even after Microsoft UI botches).

And then there's the Linux/GNU/whatever community, that on the whole I find to be preachy and have a lot of people who think very highly of themselves. I'd almost rather use TikTok than ask them anything.

Nvidia promises British authorities it won’t strong Arm rivals after proposed merger

I'm onto you

Do you happen to have a penchant for leather jackets, by any chance?

Nvidia are one the scummiest of the massive companies. They just do it quietly.

In a way, thankfully, the Conservatives have little control over this after Softbank bought Arm (another story of woe).

And the UK regulatory, will important to this, is the small fry against this. The US and EU regulators also have their guns firmly aimed at this deal.

Flash? Nu-uh. Windows 11 users complain of slow NVMe SSD performance

Re: Let's be honest here

Well, I installed it out of choice.

Sure, there were some issues at first, but it's run fine for a while now. And yes, some stupid UI changes haven't been reverted (and some likely never will), but there are enough ways around almost all of them.

Windows 11 is how I like my OS now.

No one asked.

What is it with the number of people in the Linux/GNU community who insist on making sure everyone knows they use it?

Microsoft gives Notepad a minimalist makeover to match Windows 11 style

Re: Pointless

Do they insert something into you Americans at birth that gives you a propensity to think about suing or is it a nuture thing?

Re: FFS. How slapdash can Microsoft get? It's Notepad one of the simplest Apps ever written.

While Microsoft should be able to do this quickly and cleanly:

1. It's in the developer build. Complaining about lack of polish there is silly.

2. You [better program of choice] attitude is silly and mute when this is about a program that's very reason for existance is to be as minimal possible. The author here even mentioned that.

3. It's not a program for coding. You can do that sure, but that's like using a Renault Cleo to tow a caravan.

4. No one but a few anoraks care that your program of choice uses GTK3.141 or whatever.

Spar shops across northern England shut after cyber attack hits payment processing abilities

Re: Cash Is King

I think you missed a sentence somewhere in your diatribe there.

And that wasnct really their point now, was it? Cash will always be useful as long as electronic systems can fail. And I don't see a future where they couldn't all fail. Well, at least not this century.

Reviving a classic: ThinkPad modder rattles tin to fund new motherboard for 2008's T60 and T61 series of laptops

I've had my eye on some of the old Thinkpads for some years now.

Is an X230t worth bothering with? My only concern is the bottom bezel which seems like the big one I had on a Fujitsu T730. Annoying, but not a deal breaker.

UK Telecommunications Act – aka 'power to strip out Huawei' – makes it to the statute book

Only there's little security risk with using Japanese, Korean, or Taiwanese technology and certainly not the moral questionability that using Chinese (PRC) technology does.

Streamlabs shamed into dropping 'OBS' from product name after open-source OBS Project wades into Twitter spat

Re: Complaining on Twitter

Yep. After weeks of back and forth (being told to do the same damn thing) trying to get back into a Microsoft account, I was sorted within a few hours of complaining on Twitter.

A tiny island nation has put the rights to .tv up for grabs – but what’s this? Problematic contract clauses? Again?

Re: Do it yourself

Because someone's pockets are getting lined and they have to do very little ongoing work for it.

Running it themselves would require expending effort.

Robo-Shinkansen rolls slowly – for now – across 5km of Japan

Re: Afraid of the car

It's not cheap. Driving is almost always considerably cheaper, even with quite high parking charges.

Re: "But the train did come to a complete stop just 7.5cm from its intended stopping point"

Only some shinkansen stations have gates and barriers between the platform and the track. I don't think any of the minor shinkansen stations do, and not all major stations (one(ish) per prefecture) do either. Hell, the Tokyo Metro probably has more.

But yes, they do always stop at the designated spots.

Russia blows up old satellite, NASA boss 'outraged' as ISS crew shelters from debris

Re: People In Glass Houses.....

That when the US did it, there were no humans at risk from it. And yes, it was still very irresponsible then, but considerably less so. And being a first, it was a mistake as is often the case.

I was going to type that in my reply but I though that as a reader here that you'd have the brains to think of that yourself.

Re: Just wondering...

If that were the case, they could have at least told other countries and perhaps even discussed what to do with it.

Considering the value of that altitude of orbit, ither countries may even have been willing to help.

No, this was a bizarre show of 'force' that wasn't necessary and was high irresponsible. Par for the course for the Russia of today.

Re: People In Glass Houses.....

That's not 'being fair'.

Skylab came down in 1979.

Re: People In Glass Houses.....

The Americans shot down a satellite at a put lower orbit that was a potential risk if left alone. Of course it was convenient target practice, but the orbit means that very lottle debris remain in orbit and only for a few months.

It's not comparable to what the US did decades ago, or the what the Chinese did not too long ago and Russia just did.

India were a bit reckless with theirs, but theirs was also at a low altitude.

So enough with the dishonesty from you.

Re: Capabilities

China were not the first by a long shot; the US did it in the UK 80s (and not again at such an altitude as even then it was a reckless, selfish, irresponsible, and self-inflicting thing to do).

China were just as grossly irresponsible as Russia have just been. The difference being that they seem to have learned their lesson (likely because if their own space endeavours - also at risk from this).

RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81

Re: Fraudulent too...

So very forward thinking then?

Royal Navy will be getting autonomous machines – for donkey work humans can't be bothered with

Re: "our platforms will be designed as uncrewed"

Others already are. There are enough out there who don't give two shits about any morals.