Posts by Denarius

Are Fujitsu clearing the decks

to buy the ruins of IBM and take over the mainframe monopoly ?

buyout coming ?

does this mean M$ and HP are in merger or buyout talks on the quiet ? Suggest M$ buying printer ink producer because of the commonalities in manglement attitude to "customers"

well said

Good argument well explained. I spent many productive , sometimes happy, hours using an emulated VT100, unix shell and vi. Got work done, bugs identified and squashed, happy customers. the CLI can be way less stressing than using a GUI, but it does need more training for the users. In short, use whatever does the job but I agree modern GUIs are becoming unusable. No order, discernible structure and appalling colour choices.

Are we missing something ?

if the spooks and mangle type want a particular code or language , isn't it suggesting they have a way of exploiting it waiting to be used ? Remember that encryption algorithm trojanned by NSA 15 years ago ? Or has my distrust become excessive ?

weird entry

to reduce support costs, Voyagers upgraded to Windows 11

WC3 agrees that 7 bit ASCII is sufficient for email, HTML messages and agents banned for security reasons.

Computers on space station run CP/M as it copes with radiation induced memory errors better.

that explains recent adds in OZ

shiny shiny ads for TikTok about how it makes good things.

only 15 years ?

Sun had diskless workstation available when ? 1990s ?

AI on PC?

With Windows 11? An effective AI, (not that they exist) would spontaneous modify the OS to something like Win2000 UI, Linux kernel 2 or *BSD performance, run well in 2 GB RAM or less, take 1.5 GB on disk and refuse to run most web browser scripts. No hope. One hopes the BEOS clone rewrites and similar succeed.

<rant> I miss the resilience of HPs server firmware where I could do a cold backup of the entire OS and server disks without booting, the ease of use of the pre-CDE desktop, running servers with a few gig of RAM. I want a laptop that has a weeks run time of normal mixed office work use, a phone with a UI that only does what its told, no b*ed camera that appears when merely trying to unlock the damned thing, and no snooping on all of it. Yes, phone UIs seem to be made for small delicate fingers, not men. Looking at you Samsung mostly. </rant>

M$ training the APS ?

more Oz "content" looking like it says something but meaning nothing. Maybe generating "misinformation" to train the droids doing misinformation checking in the ruins of Oz guvvermint perhaps ?

familiar

An IT based 21st century version of the Opium Wars then ? Using addiction to make money. Paradoxically,the original victims sensibly forbade the supplier. AFAIRC.

did not see should be corporate mandatory DATA Dictionary in article

does not matter if one uses spreadsheets or DB if the data types are not common. Worked on a site where oracle gave inconsistent results sometimes. Digging into table definitions showed indexes and a few columns were different on multiple tables, long -char, integer,alpha-numeric ITIRC. Long time ago. This is the great advantage of older COBOL. The DATA section forced programmers to understand the data types in use and formally declare them. The cynic in me thinks that an old spreadsheet that did not "interpret" any entered data might be more failsafe. Since AI has no understanding of whats it is doing, I cant see it doing anything more than creating further PHB insistence that obviously erroneous figures are correct because the computer said so.

traffic lights more efficient ?

Odd. In Oz the timing goal seems to be to enhance inconvenience. Lights wont change until they can stop someone getting a clear run is normal performance. Sydney used to have a good system I am told. Run bespoke code on a VAX. (I know, showing my age) Then some genius said "Windows is the future" and the inevitable decay started. Naturally when the summer blackouts come the system will crash as the data center UPS might work, but the lights in streets wont.

what problem is this technology solving ?

given that users mostly wind up chundering (nauseous to English speakers)

Coming Soon

Calls for more Green Cards.

Coming After: More calls from pollies for people to spend to stop economy from collapsing.

So glad I dropped Linked* when M$ bought it. Waste of time anyway

An Assumption

that Oz will exist in a recognisable form to receive said subs. Now if only the armed forces of Oz could recruit and retain enough members it might.

as for astronomy

those super heavy lift rockets would also make putting and servicing far side of moon and Lagrange observatories way more cost effective. A 200 meter infra-red observatory anyone ?

A 1000km millimeter antennae on far side of moon ?

so when will they start warring with each other ?

Usually how autocrats wind up. Ask Stalin and Schickelgruber (sp?) about it at a local seance

too late

the HR droids and manglement classes have generated so much BS text in last 30 years the ChatGPT models are merely catching up Only the naive or technophilic will be taken in. The rest of us will continue to assume, usually correctly, that whatever "information" incoming is BS as we have become accustomed to

Blech

thats what yanks call cheese cake ? Yuk, gag etc

words again

Define colonialism ? Is asset confiscation the same as colonisation ? Especially if the local power structures are bought also ?

every time

I think M$ has hit a nadir, I'm wrong. Who is giving them lessons on user hostility ? I foresee another Windows 8.0 debacle