Posts by Bitbeisser

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

Re: The next superpower ?

Yeah, sometimes it's the simple things that throw a wrench into the gears of a super power. Like forgetting to close a hatch on a US$3B nuclear submarine...

Yeah, they don't build them like this anymore today...

Don't just love that CD/CI stuff?

How much are they supposed to lower the prices? A lot of run-of-the-mill apps are just a couple of bucks anyway, do you have any idea how many you need to get paid for to just break even with your very own development costs. And if Apple if just taking another 30% of those couple of bucks, that means you need to sell a lot more of your app to even start to make any money. And don't forget that you have to pay another Apple tax as you need to have a Mac with the latest version of XCode to even get the code signing to get the app in the store in the first place...

Sorry, but what Apple does is just highway robbery. And yes, Google needs to made to change their commission scheme as well, Likewise Microsoft for their 12%/15% they are charging for games/apps in their store.

It's not that they shouldn't take a free for providing the service of that store, but IMHO, anything above 5% is absolutely excessive....

Re: 'State-sponsored' Good, 'Mercenary spyware' Bad ?

"State-sponsored mercenary spyware"?

Re: A physical visit is a lot more reliable

"In California the threat model is a little different. A wood framed house will survive most earthquakes as long as it's bolted to the foundation and properly built; a masonry house will collapse and kill you."

But then that wood framed house will provide no to little protection from mud/water coming down the hillside and in case of a wildfire (or unkempt palm trees catching fire, as it just happened a few days ago), the wood framed houses provide plenty of additional fuel in case of a (wild)fire. Same with those nasty juniper trees. Roman candle galore, with most houses that are not directly in a high severity fire zone are not properly prepared to deal with the embers...

Re: People keep saying "stop using so many dependencies"

Today's "programmers" aren't that anymore. They just throw canned libraries or "frameworks" at a problem, without actually knowing why and if there would be a better option to solve a problem, with less unknown "hubris".

To sort a small array or list, a quick hand rolled bubble sort might do just fine, without the fluff of pulling in a whole qsort library. Or throwing simple data into extensive SQL tables with vulnerable SQL statements/queries, where a simple, small random access data file would suffice.

Reusing code is fine, but one needs to know what to reuse, why and how.

But for far too many folks these days, that only know how to use a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail...

Re: I have done the air-con shuffle in the past!

Nautical/navigational miles, that is a totally different issue. And one that is based on an acceptable logic. Pretty much all of those Fred Flintstones units used in the US of A aren't...

Re: drag emails between providers

The emails are still in your local IMAP folder(s), of your local email client. I am doing this all the time, both for myself and for clients...