Posts by Bitbeisser

Re: Open source alternatives

Well, sounds nice but then they do have a rather long lists of routers that are "no longer supported"...

Re: UN?

But it might sound convincing enough for the poorly educated...

Re: As a former Be employee . . .

80286 CPUs, from 3rd party manufacturers, ran as fast at 25MHz. I used to work on a computer with a 25MHz 80C286 made by Harris. And I used to run for a while Coherrent 3 on it, after CP/M-86 and derivatives proved to be too limited for practical use at that point. That was probably as close as a "fun" Unix (though independently developed) would be on such a machine. I just gave up on it back then when Commodore decided not to move ahead with their CBM 900 project, for which I was already developing/porting business software before they pulled the plug.

Re: It's Northern Ireland

How about the door to the Big House?

Re: 10TB of backup files

Well, the Russian were NOT the good guys during WW1. On the contrary. The tsar was one of the driving war mongering forces, have his greedy eyes on Galicia, then part of Austria-Hungary, and invaded Germany to keep it from coming to the aid of the rather inept Austrian military at that time in the east.

Simple solution in 99.9999% of all cases

Install and use LibreOffice instead. Haven't touch myself M$ Office in about 20 years now....

Well, he sold the source code of a game called Bastar in BASIC for the SpectraVideo SV-318 micro computer to a US computer magazine for publication. Beyond that, probably not much from him around. It is even questionable if he even did any coding working himself at his first company, Zip2, which he founded with his brother Kimbal and a guy call Greg Kouri, who put up the first money and probably did most, if not all of the programming for their "online city guide"...

MUMPS is a disease, any way you look at it...

Re: MLs also require declaration before use, and it's pretty much always a good thing.

It's a good thing as it requires you to think more about what you are doing, properly designing your program than just slapping something together.

There is more to programming than just slapping together some API stuff as all those Javascript/Python framework monkeys think...

Re: nullllptr has been core dumped

>His colleague, the Citrix CEO, must now be hoping that it isn't terminal for himself.

Terminal? As in kinetically terminal, like falling out of an upper floor window? Well, those incidents might soon come to a high rise building near you... (if you live in the US of A)

Re: SvarDOS is not "open source"

The Stallman virus is strong with this one....

Interesting, it seems they "borrowed" that from Walmart, it's all over the Wallmart TV/YouTube advertising here in the US of A...

Sorry, but "Outlook Rules" and "easy of creation" seem rather mutually exclusive.

I wish Outlook rules could be created as quick as I can create all my necessary rules in T-Bird. And it seems to be getting more and more convoluted with each version of Outlook (currently at work dealing with Outllook 2010, 2019 and 2021)...

Re: Power on the bottom

Of course would worry about this in a Boeing with MCAS. Didn't teach the movie War Games anything to you? Just imagine if that PFY decided to play flight simulator on the plane and accidentally connected to the MCAS system.... >:)

Re: As for the generated text, Microsoft uses filtering to prevent problematic content being added.

Rewrite: "Microsoft, fuck off."

I see you are using profanity here. Which of the following options do you want to use instead:

1) "Microsoft, buzz off"

2) "Microsoft, pop off"

3) "Microsoft, sod off"

Re: Yes but...

Had already updated all my hosts to 103.2 before I even saw this article, and never once saw this message either. On various versions of Windows (server) nor on the latest Linux Mint...

Re: More is less

Those kiosks are utterly useless, at least that are in the local MickeyD's here in LA. And thus one more reason to boycott them (and any other chain that tries to force them on their customers).

It takes several times longer for a simple order, more mistakes made in the "kitchen" and thus more aggravation when you try to actually get hold of your "food"...

Re: Find all the law books

>Find all the law books

>And throw them at the accused perps!

I think sledgehammers would be more appropriate. Or the good old electric drill with a 15mm drill bit applied to both hands....

Re: Inference?

The Med certainly is NOT a tranquil body of water. And this was kind of a freak storm, a very localized hurricane/tornado that struck right where that ship was and with it's huge mast, those hurricane force winds apparently just pushed the boat over to capsize and sink rather quickly.

There was nothing that any forecasting could have done...

Re: i8088

I don't think that the availability of the CPU was an issue here.68000 were available in production numbers since late '79. By 1980, I used 68k based systems from Sage and Cromemco and even a pre-series model of the HP-9816 desktop computer...

What made a (cost) difference was that with the 8088, it was possible to use a large number of existing (and thus cheap) 8 bit peripheral chips, while offering up to 10x the amount of RAM than the then prevailing 8 bit CP/M systems and micros like the Apple II, Tandy TRS-80 and Commodore CBM 3000/4000/8000 were capable of. For more of a side show project at IBM, that seemed good enough and with the subsequent evolution of 80286/80386/486 CPUs by Intel, any initial advantage that using an 68k chip quickly vanished, even considering that Motorola very quickly dropped the price of the 68k chips and IBM could have easily gotten a similar sweetheart deal as Apple got for using the CPU in the Lisa and then Macintosh series...

And at the same time as IBM in Boca Raton developed the IBM PC, another IBM department was developing the IBM 9000 lab/instrumentation/process control system, based on the Motorola 68000, trying to compete with IBM and DEC in that market.

> Using that top-shelf tequila comparison on Microsoft products by that analyst drone was an insult to true top-shelf tequila the world over.

Well, in case of "true top-shelf tequila" you are more likely to get some actual value for your money....

Re: Don't mention Visual Source Safe

Somehow, this starts to remind me of Fawlty Towers... :P

Re: Why does Frontier even have SSNs?

More precisely, why does Frontier have SSN and associated names in clear text in their database?

Re: Should be given a medal

What a clown statement! Sorry, but this is on a military vessel, a place where very strict rules apply. That is something you are aware of from the very first day you join the military, something you quite obviously never did.

Installing such an unauthorized technology on a warship can endanger the whole crew and the mission of the ship in more ways that you can possibly imagine. In addition to the possibility to enable spying and other ways of allowing unauthorized access to shipboard functions...

Re: Love the idea, but need certain features

Somehow your post doesn't make much sense. Beside that on a 17" Framework laptop, you could upgrade an existing one, if GPU and the display itself would become available as modules by them.

But in general, you claim you need a large monitor due to age, but then you still can see the pixels on a 1920x1080 display?

Re: rubber bands and chewing gum.

Flex Seal. Works, for everything, everywhere, haven't you seen the advertising?

Re: In some ways, we haven't progressed much

That sheds a totally different light at the movie title "Beyond Thunderdome"... :P

That are those US Americans that lack reading comprehension of word 6 characters long or more. For them "social" and "socialism" is just the same, the don't comprehend the difference...

Re: BASIC

Too bad that a) nobody really read that article and/or b) doesn't understand the satiric/sarcastic nature of the article...

If the world would have followed the lead of Pascal from the late 70s on, we would be in a much better place...;-P