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I can see these being very useful for search and rescue or disaster response teams in remote areas.
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The technique has come full circle. pI?
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IP address of downloads offers crumb trail to orgs who should be ready for Big Red, says licensing expert "I got a name, I got a number, I'm coming after you"
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Oracle: Making Microsoft Access look like a valid database option since 1982. Or was that 1977 (even before Access came into existence)?
edit:
"With Access v2.0, Microsoft specified the minimum hardware requirements to be Microsoft Windows v3.1 with 4 MB of RAM required, 6 MB RAM recommended; 8 MB of available hard disk space required, 14 MB hard disk space recommended. The product shipped on seven 1.44 MB diskettes. The manual shows a 1994 copyright date." - Wikipedia
Wow! Even though I never worked with Access back then, those system specs bring back memories! And the disks! Oh my God, the disks!
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And Oracle makes Microsoft’s business shenanigans seem clean and pure.
TTFN - Kent
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Ah, Oracle's latest attempt to eliminate Java as a useful language.
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Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted. Maybe they should try double dog daring them to come to the office?
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This is hilarious. The comments on the article are even better. Wednesday is my last day as a full-time consultant. I went into the building a couple of weeks ago to drop off some hardware. Prior to this, there was an email sent out shuffling cubes so that people in XyZ organization were all co-located so that they could "cooperate" more. I could not find anyone. 60% or more of the cubicle dungeons were empty. And I don't mean unoccupied, I mean empty - no phone, no computer, no papers, just unoccupied.
I'm still mindful of the manager that retired saying, "I don't care if you are more productive at home, you MUST come back to the office." I have to laugh, because the new trend was to move all senior management to corporate head quarters.
8 months after he retires... here we are, and I see no hiring.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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RTO requirements are always driven by one of two things:
1) CFOs trying to justify the contracts they have for office space.
2) CxOs who don't trust anyone.
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According to a new report, tech giants like Amazon and Alexa are allegedly spying on us with their smart home devices. Who would have thought that devices designed to spy on us are spying on us?
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We’re pleased to announce that starting in August 2024, developers who are not part of an organization managed by an IT administrator can choose to receive monthly Visual Studio security updates through the Microsoft Update (MU) system on “patch Tuesdays”. We dare you
Yes, I've reported on it in the past. But this one includes the Registry key to shut it off.
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you just cannot make this $$## up.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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New global research from secure storage maker Apricorn into the security and storage of data finds corporate information is knowingly put at risk by 55 percent of mobile workers. *Workers* put corporate data at risk. The remote ones just do it in their pyjamas
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"The remote ones just do it in their pyjamas"
maybe 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Yeah, only the workers ever put data at risk. Execs never do.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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ExectOS is a preemptive, reentrant multitasking operating system that implements the XT architecture which derives from NT™ architecture. Is this The Year of ExectOS?
Getting in before the official declaration
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The NT architecture is unmitigated bullshit.
It itself was sort of inspired by VAX/VMS if memory serves, and to that degree that it is this is 1970s architecture.
Look, I dev windows. There's a lot to like about it, but for god sake, don't keep it going.
Microkernels are where its at. A message passing core is fundamental to making fully connectible operating systems. Something like MachOS or QNX.
Why not refine an OS around POSIX? What the hell is so bad about POSIX? Apple stuff does fine with it.
It's old, but it has withstood the test of time across far more platforms than NT ever has.
Maybe I'm just crotchety, but NT like x86 needs to die, not have its shelf life extended.
/flame-proof-pants
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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The NT architecture has one big commercial advantage - it is running on more PCs (desktop, laptop) than any other O/S. Ditto for the x86 architecture.
I agree that if we started from scratch, we could build a better CPU and O/S, the question being what software would run on them. For commercial reasons, the new CPU would have to emulate the x86 and the new O/S would have to support running Windows in some manner (maybe a VM).
Apple managed to make the transition from x86 to their M-series partly because they paid attention to these points, and partly because they controlled both the hardware and the O/S. I don't see Microsoft developing a CPU, and if they developed one with Intel, there could be anti-trust issues involved.
Windows has been ported to ARM and ARM64, but these are still much less popular (and have many fewer native software titles) than the x86 family.
Like it or not, I expect that we are stuck with Windows and x86 for quite a while longer.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It's one thing for it to endure.
It's quite something else for some chucklef*cks to decide to go and make a completely new OS based on it. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Why the anger? If a group of people wish to waste their time rebuilding Windows XP, why should you care? No one is forcing you to contribute...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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There are some things that simply should not be inflicted on the world because it might actually be successful.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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The Biden administration on Thursday will announce plans to bar the sale of antivirus software made by Russia's Kaspersky Labs in the United States, a person familiar with the matter said, citing the firm's large U.S. customers including critical infrastructure providers and state and local governments. Anti-anti-virus
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The concern is valid given how paranoid Russia's government has become. The US DoD banned Kaspersky a few years ago from their systems and now it appears the ban will go government wide.
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