Posts by Sandtitz

Just nitpicking here. :-)

"DX2-100 and they demanded whatever math co-pros"

DX2 wasn't available as 100MHz, you mean DX4 - both of which included FPU.

Of course at the time the boss "needed" a Pentium which was released before DX4 came out.

"SX for the plebs who were doing all the work and making the documents."

Well, at the time SX models were fine for any office work apart from CAD. Apart from lack of FPU, they were identical to DX counterparts and fast enough to drive any word processor / spreadsheet software of that era - at least on DOS. Even if used on those fake L2 cache motherboards...

Adding Windows to the mix could have been more of struggle - usually because of lack of memory that resulted in swapping.

Threadripper is not aimed at average PC users or to run typical desktop applications.

Threadripper supports ECC memory and has more PCIe lanes than what Intel or AMD Zen offers.

More cores are helpful with (nested) virtualisation.

With Threadripper rig you can have a test/dev environment at your own desktop for cheaper than using actual Xeon / EPYC servers. YMMV.

Re: MS is a monopoly

"Proudly MS free since 2016"

Proud of something - yet writing as AC.

Does not compute.

Re: if you tolerate this then your chilled air will be next.

"Struggling Acer pulls out Wang too late, then calls Wong number"

That's one title I'll never forget.

Re: Disinformation?

"Perhaps it is not disinformation, just the truth"

In your mind, is the whole Ukraine war only about "de-nazification" as Kremlin and its adherents ludicrously claim?

Re: They are getting part of a clue @Anon Coward

"Maybe you should use your brain or maybe you could point me to this information where Russia says it's has lost lots of machinery. Note the "Where Russia says" because anything else is propaganda or speculation."

There is a web page which lists Russian equipment losses based on pictures or video available. The current total is a about 12000 land/sea/air vehicles. Probably many more vehicles have been lost. The same site lists about 4300 Ukrainian vehicle losses currently.

Isn't 12000 vehicles lost "lots of machinery" in your book?

"Note the "Where Russia says" because anything else is propaganda or speculation."

No, why do you consider only the Kremlin narrative to be perfectly factual and void of propaganda?

Re: Meta chief and human being Mark Zuckerberg

I think he passed Voight-Kampff test on his second try.

"Last time I looked Office 2019 was the last version you could install on your own computer."

Last time you looked was years ago? Office 2021 is the latest version you can buy without subscriptions.

Also, all but the cheapest 365 Business Basic edition come with locally installed full Office version (including version for tablets/phones).

"BlackRock's asset realisation team"

I'm sure you're backing these conspiracy claims with good references in your next post.

"Wagner's coup was defeated in <24hrs"

By negotiation, not by force. Wagner apparently had 2 casualties wherease the feeble army opposition lost several aircraft and many times more personnel.

"But Russia's using around 10-15% of it's military to demonstrate the impotence of the NATO collective"

For the last month or so Russia has lost ground to the inferior NATO collective and Ukrainian forces.

If you think that's the whole force of NATO, you are ludicrously mistaken.

"Zelensky, meanwhile still can't find a decent suit"

I see you're grasping at straws. Is attacking Zelensky's attire the daily missive you've given?

"'Arsenals of Democracy'

Sounds almost like the Soviet's very own "Weapons of Peace".

"It's still entirely at the mercy of the West though and will never be independent again"

Ukraine does need external help since Russia is much bigger and with lots more weapons. They truly are at the mercy of West to provide materiel. They are still independent, even though Russia has tried to make them a vassal state for more than a decade now. Russia likes to have their puppets working for them, be it in Abkhazia, Transnistria, South Ossetia, or Luhansk and elsewhere.

"The mighty NATO, defeated by convicts with shovels."

That's something Skabeyeva might say in her show.

Russia has had problems enlisting people so convicts were the lowest hanging fruit. FWIW, those convicts were cannon fodder and most of them dead already. Yet Ukraine is advancing.

"If only Russia had de-industrialised like the West has, it wouldn't have been able to produce as many shovels"

Russia was supposed to have over 2,000 T-14 Armata tanks before the war. They only have a handful because all money was embezzled by Putin's cronies.

"Yes, well, there was the small matter of the civil war"

Again with the Russian propaganda viewpoint. It wasn't a civil war - hybrid war with Russia provided money, weapons and personnel - including Wagner mercenaries to fight war the separatists.

"and ethnic cleansing that started in 2014."

In 2014 Russia invaded Crimea and among other things jailed Ukrainians who didn't kowtow to the newly installed puppet regime.

Russia then started their persecution of Tatars, the titular people of Crimea.

"Again, we destroyed Yugoslavia"

You are telling revisionist garbage. Yugoslavia dissolved because Slovenians, Croatians and others wanted indepence, and Yugoslavia was already broken up when NATO came there.

"so why shouldn't Russia to the same to preven ethnic cleansing in Ukraine?"

There isn't ethnic cleansing going on by Ukraine, no matter how many times you write it.

"How would Microsoft have turned out if Gates and Bullmer had not tried to shaft Allen?"

Tried to shaft - how? IIRC, Allen resigned to deal with cancer.

Allen was the one who bought QDOS; whenever QDOS topic comes up here, most seem to view the deal with derision.

How would Micros~1 have turned out if Allen had remained there - who knows? Better or worse.

Re: ...Segoe, the font of the Windows 11 system UI

"That fugly monstrosity was baked in Windows 7."

Damn it man, when were you born?

That fine font was baked in Windows Vista.

"we all know the mouse wheel is the middle button."

I have to agree. This is a ZDNET article.

"I had a 3 button mouse for my Spectrum in the '80s"

I had a 3 button Genius mouse for my PC in the 80's - hideous in both aesthetics and ergonomics, no rounded corners there!

IIRC the middle button was supported in very few applications anyway, so kinda pointless. (Zsoft Paintbrush? Harvard Graphics? All forgotten!)

"My somewhat thrifty in-law decided to keep the coin action for parties, and it was a nice little earner."

Any relation to J.P.Getty who had all telephones physically locked and a separate coin-op telephone installed for guests?

"How does it know to provide answers to 1995 era questions?"

That's the easy part:

Me: "Let's pretend it is 1993."

ChatGPT: "Sure! Let's pretend it's the year 1993. How can I assist you in this imaginary scenario?"

Re: Beware drones carrying genies

"Recent events have shown that drones are a more effective terror weapon than they may be a weapon, ie the attack on the Kremlin's flagpole"

The Russian drone terror campaign on Ukraine would be far more representative of the last year, some did significant damage at Kiev and elsewhere.

Last year you were adamant that the Iranian drones were fake news, Russia would never acquire such things. How wrong/naive you were.

"Is there a "non-standard Standard Model"?"

There is the standard Standard Model, things we know we know.

We also know there is a standard Non-Standard Model, that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.

But there is also non-standard Non-Standard Models - the one we don't know we don't know.

Finally there is the non-standard Standard Models - the thing that you know, that you don't know you know.

Simples.

Re: In Praise of AI, but not as you were expecting it to be* We are where we are**

"Be honest, you've had access to ChatGPT years before any of us, right?"

Looks more like Google Bard to me.

Re: Security not

"Supplier of said router was taken over by a VC"

Were you working there? If not -> name and shame.

Re: Whatever next?

"Nice little vatnik."

I'm quite surprised any sane person would even try such an obvious cause-and-effect switcheroo as Zolko did. "Of course Japan had to attack Pearl Harbor because US firebombed Tokyo"

While many go beyond the call of duty apologising for Russia's terroristic actions, I'm left wondering how many is posting the garbage just to avoid decomposing on an Ukrainian field.

Re: "an indispensable tool when it comes to fighting terrorism"

"You have had one terrorist attack in your entire history"

9/11?

How would you classify the Oklahoma City bombing or Boston Marathon Boms? Unabomber? Wall Street bombing of 1920?

US has had plenty of terrorism, much of it domestic.

"Many of mictosoft's sycophant software peddlers tweaked their products so they wouldn't function properly on win7"

What a load of delusional conspiracy crap.

Software peddlers do not really care what Micros~1 wants. The reason why they cut support for unsupported operating systems is because that way they can clean up codebase (right...), use more modern compilers, use new APIs of the OS, and lessen their help desk duties.

Another explanation is that Windows 7 usage is dwindling fast into the single digit "others" area on desktop market share.

Many software could be run on Windows 95 if push came to shove. Did you cry for them as well?