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Posts by original_rwg
54 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jan 2022
Microsoft pulls Windows 11 24H2 from Insider Release Preview Channel
Windows 11's Recall feature is on by default on Copilot+ PCs
Tape is so dead, 152.9 EB of LTO media shipped last year
IBM Consulting bought into Microsoft's Copilot – now it'll help customers do the same
Microsoft claims it didn't mean to inject Copilot into Windows Server 2022 this week
Microsoft gives Hyper-V ceilings a Herculean hike
Britain enters period of mourning as Greggs unable to process payments
Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair' – lawsuit
Google dragged to UK watchdog over Chrome's upcoming IP address cloaking
Wanted: Driver for rocket-powered Bloodhound Land Speed Record car
No, no, no! Disco joke hit bum note in the rehab center
Beneath Microsoft's Surface event, AI spreads everywhere
Capita staffers told attackers stole data from its own pension fund
Microsoft enables booting physical PCs directly into cloud PCs
Shocks from a hairy jumper crashed a PC, but the boss wouldn't believe it
Saturday 29th April 2023 23:34 GMT
Re: Multi I/O Boards
Can't remember the board maker but think they had hdd and fdd direct attached by ribbon cables. Parallel and serial ribbons to a separate slot. They could support 2 x hdd and 2 x fdd and some even came with a game port - 15 pin D type. The machines were beige boxes branded Wren. Originally started out as 486DX-33 but we upgrade them to 486DX-66 (wow!) and fitted a cooler for the CPU. So sad that I can remember all that :(
Friday 28th April 2023 08:20 GMT
Static
This story reminds me of an event many years ago. I was performing some routine maintenance on multiple 486 machines running Windows 3.1. Walking back and forth across the carpet a few times was enough to build sufficient a static charge in me that when I reached for the mouse of one machine, I felt the zap of the escaping 'angry pixies' and watched as the machines hdd led came on and stayed on. I had fried a vital component of the multi-io board (remember them?) and the box was now totally unresponsive and unable to boot.
While awaiting the delivery of a replacement multi-io board, I placed a note on the monitor which read "Under treatment". I kept tropical fish as a hobby at the time. One of the other staff members added "Nil by mouse" to it. Amused by this I agreed she could submit it to The Readers Digest. They published it in one of their end of article fillers and we shared the spoils.
Microsoft probes complaints of Edge leaking URLs to Bing
Microsoft suggests businesses buy fewer PCs. No, really
April Patch Tuesday: Ransomware gangs already exploiting this Windows bug
Friday 14th April 2023 09:37 GMT
Re: RE: "more holes than Swiss cheese"
Er, F.Y.I. I didn't make any comparison with the supposed security of any other software or cheer lead for it. Yeah, sure I get that Micros~1 have a dominant market position and have lots of "legacy fluff" to support so it's their bed but most of us have to sleep in it.
More holes than a Swiss cheese is IMHO an appropriate description when amongst this months 97 CVE's that have been addressed, there are 12 fixes just for print drivers - 12 FFS!
Down vote now... D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. :)
When Google cost cutting goes molecular: Staples, sticky tape, and PC sweating
British Prime Minister Sunak’s plans for UK NFT on ice
Microsoft admits Azure Resource Manager failed after code change
Microsoft's Copilot AI to pervade the whole 365 suite
Microsoft and GM deal means your next car might talk, lie, gaslight and manipulate you
NASA fixes solar observation spacecraft by turning it off and turning it on again
'Brittle' Twitter suffers bad case of the Mondays: Links, pics, vids fail
Windows 11 update breaks PCs that dare sport a custom UI
Microsoft upgrades Defender to lock down Linux gear for its own good
Meanwhile, in Japan, pet fish run up credit card bill on Nintendo Switch
Microsoft is checking everyone's bags for unsupported Office installs
First Patch Tuesday of the year explodes with in-the-wild exploit fix
FTX's crypto villain Sam Bankman-Fried admits 'I made a lot of mistakes'
Time Lords decree an end to leap seconds before risky attempt to reverse time
Musk tells of risk of Twitter bankruptcy as tweeters trash brands
Microsoft finds critical hole in operating system that for once isn't Windows
Deluge of of entries to Spamhaus blocklists includes 'various household names'
Thursday 18th August 2022 09:21 GMT
Re: IT much?
I too run my own mail server and when my I ended up on a blocked list it was because the smarthost I was using was the offending spam-merchant. I stopped using the smarthost and set up an SPF record but some months later got on to a Spamhaus blocklist because my fixed IP was not on their list of 'authorised mail senders' (Who knew there was one?).
Getting myself removed was relatively simple. Their unblocking service web page had an option to select if you run your own mail server. I chose that and within a few hours I could send mail again.
Scientists use dead spider as gripper for robot arm, label it a 'Necrobot'
Apple-1 prototype hand-soldered by Woz up for auction, bids expected to reach $500k
Get over it: Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days
Even robots have the right to learn from open source
Microsoft readies Windows Autopatch to free admins from dealing with its fixes
Robots are creepy. Why trust AIs that are even creepier?
Not to dis your diskette, but there are some unexpected sector holes
Friday 22nd April 2022 08:45 GMT 
Density
Many many years ago, we had a mix of 3.5 inch HD and DD floppies at our place. We also had a number if IBM PS/2's that were quite lax at checking what type of floppy disk was in the drive and would happily format DD disks (720KB) to HD capacity (1.44MB). Given that the DD media was manufactured as HD but failed to make the grade, this was mostly fine. Until of course the incorrectly formatted disk was taken to a machine that did check the disk type properly....
Why the Linux desktop is the best desktop
Complaints mount after GitHub launches new algorithmic feed
Epson payments snafu leaves subscribers unable to print
How experimental was Microsoft's 'experimental banner' in File Explorer?
Microsoft slides ads into Windows Insiders' File Explorer
Tuesday 15th March 2022 20:00 GMT
You can't make me.
A few years ago when Windows 10 was first released* I read many stories about the telemetry, the data collection and all the 'phoning home' that it was going to be doing. I decided then I wasn't going to have Windows 10 at home. I don't and I won't. I have to use it at work and while initially, it was quite frugal with resources and responsive to use it has descended into a steaming great pile of sh1t. It's licensed spyware and Micros~1 are doing exactly what Google have been doing for years. Collecting every bit of data they can about you and monetise it any and every way they can** Edge is just Chrome in a cheap frock.
*Released in as much as it was forced on most.
**It's MY tinfoil and if I want to make it into a hat, I will :)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
