* Posts by Alan Bourke

968 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Aug 2006

Meet Hyper.is – the terminal written in HTML, JS and CSS

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Since we're on the subject of alternative consoles

... there's also Cmder.

Someone just chucked another $21 million at carbon nanotube memory techies

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"we have one binary state (zero) and if they are separated we have the other (one)"

Thanks for clarifying.

Microsoft's nerd goggles will run on a toaster

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Still no holography involved in this.

the lying liars.

Beardy Branson's space bird spreads its wings

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And there was me wondering

why their broadband prices had gone up twice in 6 months.

Jeremy Hunt: Telcos must block teens from sexting each other

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"Because there is technology that can identify sexually explicit pictures "

No there isn't you absolute Tory tit end.

New state of matter discovered by superconductivity gurus

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Have we done

'Mind the pseudogap' yet?

Antivirus tools are a useless box-ticking exercise says Google security chap

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'Everything should be whitelisted'

i.e. everything must come from our monetised app store.

Microsoft: We're hiking UK cloud prices 22%. Stop whining – it's the Brexit

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Re: UK is doomed!!!

Who needs Microsoft? People who need the use the actual software that actual businesses need day to day? Gamers? And so forth.

Well done if you run Linux. So do I. You're delusional if you think it will be the year of Linux on the consumer or corporate desktop any time soon though.

Pair programming – you'll never guess what happens next!

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Dumb idea.

Good developers are by nature introverted beasts I think, plus there's always the thinly-disguised contempt for everyone else's perceived lunatic way of doing things.

Stickers emerge as EU's weapon against dud IoT security

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What we need is a mandatory kill switch on each device.

Marked 'Isolate this device from the internet'.

Adventures in (re) naming your business: Fire up the 4-syllable random name generator

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Pilp.com

Sign up today.

Our Windows windows will be resizable, soooon, vows Microsoft

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"Windows is only for the young and naive"

And people who need to use actual real software to run their businesses and so forth.

It's all fun and games until someone loses an AI

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YES. THIS.

So much lazy use of the term 'AI' being flung around in the tech and wider press at the minute. As if we had anything even approaching an intelligence, as opposed to a very expert system, pattern recognition etc. Are we really any close ro an actual AI than we were in the 1970s or 1980s?

Lenovo denies claims it plotted with Microsoft to block Linux installs

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Re: Microsoft will be paying vendors to deploy their malware os Windows 10....

"Microsoft will be paying vendors to deploy their malware os Windows 10...."

They don't need to, most people want to use it anyway.

Will US border officials demand social network handles from visitors?

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Shit ...

... I can't even remember my MySpace one from 12 years ago ...

Rise of the Machines at Sea: The British firm building robot boats

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"ASV is working steadily towards true artificial intelligence (AI) on its boats"

This again. The bandying about of the term 'AI' like it's either here or due next year is rife on tech sites now. Pattern recognition and pathfinding is not AI for fuck's sake.

Anyway. These look like they would be very handy for drug smuggling assuming they're small enough to avoid radar detection.

Pass the 'Milk' to make code run four times faster, say MIT boffins

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Lovely.

Milky milky.

Microsoft Desktop Bridge opens, Win32 apps can now cross into Windows Store

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Re: Safer

>we already know that all the Microsoft apps in the store have search hijackers ...

Eh?

Hololens for biz shocker: Surprisingly, it doesn't totally suck

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Does it involve actual holography yet?

or is it still marketing wankspeak for the easily led?

Apple: Crisis? What innovation crisis? BTW, you like our toothbrush?

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How can they have an innovation crisis

when they've rarely innovated? What, really, have they ever invented, as opposed to applying exceptional design and build quality to things that already existed?

Linus Torvalds won't apply 'sh*t-for-brains stupid patch'

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He's probably right

still a big baby.

Speaking in Tech: Windows is coming to smart refrigerators

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WHY

for the love of sanity. We can't keep the stuff on the internet that's supposed to be on the internet secure, why the fuck are we connecting fridges?

Tim Cook: EU lied about Apple taxes. Watch out Ireland, this is a coup!

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Re: They just picked a number from I don't know where.

BOOM he went there

More banks plundered through SWIFT attacks

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Re: It's not 2nd hand gear that's the issue

"Of course, it won't do mentioning that the SWIFT protocol itself is from the age of parchment"

Ain't that the truth ...

Having offended everyone else in the world, Linus Torvalds calls own lawyers a 'nasty festering disease'

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Linux is a fucking bell end crybaby

end of.

Ireland looks like it's outpacing Britain in the superfast broadband rollout stakes

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I don't think it's much different than the UK in totality.

I live on a 10 year old estate and can get 1 Gbps, and most built-up areas can pull at least 20 Mbps these days. If you're well out in the sticks though it's a very different story and that doesn't strike me as much different from what I see in the UK.

Oracle reveals Java Applet API deprecation plan

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True enough.

Web development is a mess. Hey ho.

Ireland's govt IT: Recession and job cuts forced us to adapt

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Bill McCluggage

Wasn't he in various Pratchett books?

Google killing app format used only by The 1%

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"Which was, and is, surely the best place to start developing almost anything these days?"

Quite a lot of things. Far from 'almost anything'. Browser is still a bad choice for many applications. And remains an ever more complex pain in the tits to develop for.

Cisco axes up to 5,500 workers in scramble to remain relevant

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Re: silver lining

We can't even keep the "internet of things that are supposed to be on the internet" secure from hackers and governments, why do people think connecting cars and fridges to it is a good idea?

Sage boosts profit but that means NOTHING without the CLOUD

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Re: No clouds for customers

While haven't worked with Sage since the mid 1990s (Sage Sovereign how are ya) but I assume the mid-range and higher is still customisable and extendable by resellers. All that will go by the wayside too if everyone has to be on the same cloudy version all the time.

Microsoft to overhaul Windows 10 UI – with a 3D Holographic Shell

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IT'S NOT F**KING HOLOGRAPHY!

ARRRRGRGH!

Google Chrome will beat Flash to death with a shovel: Why... won't... you... just... die!

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Re: Dear Google,

if only some of those tens of thousands of pieces of software in the repository included software that businesses need like MS Office, ERP etc, and some games ...

Microsoft axes 2,850 more Windows Phone, sales staff – a week after Justin Timberlake sang on stage for them

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Re: The Pirkinning

Not unless the business desktop stops existing by 2025.

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Re: Also a name change-

Right. Like 3 or 4 percent.

If we can't find a working SCSI cable, the company will close tomorrow

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"nobody from management or accounting batted an eyelid or offered Jean a word of thanks."

Standard. Gobshites.

Inside Electric Mountain: Britain's biggest rechargeable battery

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Of course we've had one here in Ireland

since 1974.

Linus Torvalds in sweary rant about punctuation in kernel comments

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What a

dickhead crybaby he continually proves himself to be.

Trans-Pacific FASTER fibre fires first photons, finally

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So any of you brainiacs

know how long a bit would take to travel end to end?

Microsoft releases cross-platform .NET Core 1.0 at Linux event

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Re: Is Microsoft ready for LINUX ???

"wxWidgets, GTK, Qt, and even JAVA make for better cross platform development than ".Not""

> snort <

Ahahaha. Ah man.

Docker taps unikernel brains to emit OS X, Windows public betas

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Re: Wondering how long...

Why indeed. Unfortunately nobody wants to. What *would* be extremely useful is running Windows software on Linux.

Boffins decipher manual for 2,000-year-old Ancient Greek computer

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WWDC 2107

Microsoft Antikythera

SELECT features FROM bumf... What's new in MS SQL Server 2016

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One PITA for developers here ...

... you can't install it on Windows 7. Way to nobble take-up, Microsoft.

Workers rejoice! Marx’s vision will become reality, argues SAP veep

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SAP should do less kite-flying

and more concentrating on avoiding disastrous implementations and lawsuits.

Microsoft has created its own FreeBSD image. Repeat. Microsoft has created its own FreeBSD image

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Re: Not sure if I should be happy

Oh grow up.

Samsung: Don't install Windows 10. REALLY

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Re: What an absolute

If only they ran the games I want to play and the business\productivity software I need.

Salesforce slaps UK Enterprise customers with 40% price hike

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Anyone who uses the term 'disrupts' ...

... needs a fourpenny one up the f**king bracket.

Politician claims porn tabs a malware experiment, then finds God

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They always find Jeebus don'[t they

Pathetic.

Apple will be grilled by Irish National Planning Board over €850m data centre plan

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Re: Puckering Paddies

Yeah we definitely have a 'three bags full sir' attitude to the Yanks, but in fairness US tourism and investments like this are about the only game in employment town in a lot of the west.

Is Dublin becoming as unaffordable as San Francisco?

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The corporate tax rate is part of it for sure ...

... however to cite it as the only reason is just incorrect - many of these companies are just as interested in the fact that Ireland is the only English-speaking country in the Euro currency area. And in the event of Brexit, it'll be the only English-speaking country in the EU.