Microsoft FAIL
So ... Qualcomm and Microsoft have invented the Chromebook. Except this one doesn't run Chrome natively. Epic fail.
Posts by IGnatius T Foobar
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Lap-slabtop-mobes with Snapdragon Arm CPUs running Windows 10: We had a quick gander
Get ready for laptop-tab-smartphone threesomes from Microsoft, Lenovo, HP, Asus, Qualcomm
Tech giants at war: Google pulls plug on YouTube in Amazon kit
Wednesday 6th December 2017 22:29 GMT 
Seems appropriate
I have no love for either of these companies, but it is ridiculous that they've banned each other's media on their respective devices. Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft are all globalist scum, but if you want any technology at all in your home, you basically have to decide whose ecosystem you want to have, otherwise you're buying four of everything. In my home we've gone Google so we have ChromeCast on every screen. And for that, we can't watch Amazon Prime Video on the telly. I'm not buying FireSticks just for that!
So yeah, these guys need to have a truce or something.
Boffins foresee most software written by machines in 2040
The six simple questions Facebook refused to answer about its creepy suicide-detection AI
Jingle bells, IBM tells more staff it is D-day ♫
Rolls-Royce, Airbus, Siemens tease electric flight engine project
Tuesday 28th November 2017 22:13 GMT
Re: Advantages
Until we've got small nuclear reactors that are capable of making the electricity to efficiently propel the plane through the air, I expect that pure mechanical systems (like turbofans) are better than hybrid electrical ones.
You're correct, of course, but the same people who hate hydrocarbon fuels also hate nuclear fuels because they labor under the mistaken assumption that wind and solar are scalable, and will fight/tax everything else until they get their way.
Microsoft scoops Search UI out from the gaping black maw of Cortana
DNS resolver 9.9.9.9 will check requests against IBM threat database
Monday 20th November 2017 18:19 GMT
Defining /32 routes isn’t exactly rocket science, however I’d expect that they defined something like a /28
If they are announcing it from lots of different places around the world, likely in an anycast configuration, they would have to use 9.9.9.0/24
Almost no networks allow anything smaller than a /24 in their BGP tables
iPhone X: Bargain! You've just bagged yourself a cheap AR device
Nathan Barley blamed for global GDP slump
Aww: Apple won't be HomePod for Christmas
Saturday 18th November 2017 19:01 GMT
Apple FAIL
Seriously, why didn't Apple get something like this into the market two years ago? Steve Jobs would have been on the job right away, and probably would have given it some "wow" features. Instead we get a boring, overpriced, "meee tooo" product from The Company Formerly Known As Apple.
Ho-hum, you're-dumb. Pass on this one.
Microsoft exec says ARM-powered Windows laptops have multi-day battery life
Facebook's music plans mean you'll never leave Facebook
Donald Trump's tweets: Are they presidential statements or not?
Munich council: To hell with Linux, we're going full Windows in 2020
Monday 13th November 2017 19:06 GMT 
Pyrhhic victory for Microsoft
It's a little late for this small victory for Microsoft. It is true that the Linux desktop has failed to catch on in a big way. But it's also come to pass that Linux now dominates pretty much *every* other sector of computing. Mobile? 80+ percent Linux, and pretty close to 100% non-Microsoft. Network infrastructure? All Linux. Cloud? 100% Linux, except for Microsoft's own. Servers? No one runs Windows Server anymore, except to run Microsoft's own server applications. The game of Microsoft using its desktop monopoly to take over everything else is pretty much over, and they lost.
The point is: Microsoft is no longer an existential threat to everyone who is not itself anymore. That mantle is now held by Amazon, and to a lesser extent, Facebook.
OpenStack says its work is largely done. Now your hard work can fill in the blanks
Sunday 5th November 2017 22:58 GMT
More likely...
More likely, OpenStack has kind of lost its lustre. Punters wanted a turnkey solution that would give them an out-of-the-box "Mini AWS". OpenStack is clearly not that. As it turns out, running a cloud is hard! VMware can get you there with vCloud Director but even that takes some effort.
Guess who's now automating small-biz IT jobs? Yes, it's Microsoft
Google lets Android devs see nanosecond-level GNSS data
HMRC's switch to AWS killed a small UK cloud business
Google slides text message 2FA a little closer to the door
Monday 23rd October 2017 13:27 GMT
Compromise via SS7?!
Last month, Positive Technologies named gmail as one service still vulnerable to compromise via SS7.
So to intercept a login you have to compromise both the site being logged into, and the telephone network itself? That's not easy. In fact, it's far easier to compromise the mark's IP network than it is to compromise his mobile provider.
Ubuntu 17.10: We're coming GNOME! Plenty that's Artful in Aardvark, with a few Wayland wails
Saturday 21st October 2017 15:38 GMT
The year of Linux everywhere except the desktop
We've been going at this for too long. The conventional wisdom was that unless Linux takes the desktop, Microsoft will leverage its monopoly to take everything else. Well guess what, kids -- here we are, literally DECADES later, and Windows still rules the desktop. But Linux has taken over literally EVERYTHING else. Linux dominates handheld devices like phones, embedded devices like set top boxes, network infrastructure, and even servers: no one uses Windows Server anymore except to run Microsoft's own server software.
The lesson learned here: if Linux hasn't taken the desktop by now, it probably never will; and if Windows hasn't taken "everything else" by now, it probably never will. The truth is that Microsoft is no longer the existential threat to everything that is not itself, as it was in the 1990's and 2000's. That mantle now belongs to Amazon and Facebook. As for me, this dyed-in-the-wool Penguinista who ran desktop Linux for 20 years has switched to Windows 10 (with Cortana disabled, of course). It's safe now, kids. Come on out.
No, the FCC can't shut down TV stations just because Donald Trump is mad at the news
Wednesday 18th October 2017 03:27 GMT
Hyperbole
President Trump (peace be upon him) doesn't actually think he can shut down TV stations, nor does he even want to. It's just hyperbole, and part of his style.
And not even needed, either. The anti-Trump hysteria coming from the Hitler-equivalent left and their left wing TV stations are making their ratings sink by themselves. Between the rape factory called Hollywood, the America-hate factory called the NFL, and all the other left wing enemies of civilization self destructing, it's no wonder the ratings are going down the toilet.
Millions of Americans have already "cut the cord" and more are going to.
Thank God for President Trump, finally a leader who represents the people and not special interests.
IBM: We're now a, what's not losing money? Ah, a cognitive cloud champ!
Resellers on Surface: Yeah, go ahead and kill it. What do we care...
Open source sets sights on killing WhatsApp and Slack
How many times can Microsoft kill Mobile?
Monday 9th October 2017 20:05 GMT
Re: Andromeda
By all means use same underlying OS, such as drivers, filesystem and kernel, but only a moronic egotistical company inflicts SAME GUI on every device.
You mean like Linux with X11 on desktops and Linux with the Android UI on phones? Yup, it works great; millions of satisfied users confirm it :)
Monday 9th October 2017 19:58 GMT
Re: Microsoft is trying very hard to kill itself.
Microsoft may no longer be the powerful force that can turn the whole IT industry on its ear with a single announcement like back in the late 90s, but those products still generate gobs of cash and Microsoft doesn't even really need to do anything to improve them at this point.
And we like them that way. Microsoft is no longer an existential threat to everyone in the industry who is not Microsoft. Combine this with the fact that after a 20 year beta period, Windows is finally usable now, and a lot of us can finally be a bit more chill about these things.
2019: The year that Microsoft quits Surface hardware
Oracle VP: 'We want the next decade to be Java first, Java always'
Bill Gates says he'd do CTRL-ALT-DEL with one key if given the chance to go back through time
Microsoft teases web-based Windows Server management console
Confirmed: Oracle laid off 964 people from former Sun building
Windows Subsystem for Linux is coming to Windows Server
Looking forward to Solaris 11.next this year? Whomp-whomp. Check again in 2018
Big Tech slams Trump on plan to deport kids
Saturday 2nd September 2017 23:17 GMT
DACA bad. MAGA good.
Ignore the hate coming from the political left who assume everything President Trump does is racist. The man does not have a racist bone in his body. Look at the diversity of the people he is working with and for in Texas right now. He is a compassionate man who loves everyone.
President Trump is against *illegal immigration*, nothing more, nothing less. He doesn't care about a person's ethnicity, he cares about whether they are in the country legally or if they have committed the *crime* of crossing the border without permission.
Why does Big Tech have an opinion? Simple: they want cheap labor. Anyone who is employed in the United States (including *legal* immigrants) is opposed to loose enforcement of immigration law which allows Big Tech (and others) to have a cheap supply of what is basically slave labor instead of hiring American citizens at American wages.
New York Police scrap 36,000 Windows smartphones
Facebook may print money but thirsty Wall Street wants more
Wednesday 30th August 2017 15:01 GMT
Re: All that lovely advertising lucre
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the reason of Facebook's success was the data it gathers from third-party websites
That's why it's important to run a Facebook Blocker extension on your browser. Yes, there is such a thing, and yes, you need to be running it, to keep Facebook (who are LITERALLY Hitler) from following you around all over the web.
Can North Korean nukes hit US mainland? Maybe. But EMP blast threat is 'highly credible'
Wednesday 23rd August 2017 15:00 GMT
military strategy
I think that very much depends on whether Trump decides the strategy or [...] one of his Generals.
If recent events are any indication, President Trump (PBUH) knows he needs to listen to the Generals when it comes to anything involving the military. From Syria to North Korea to Afghanistan right down to deciding whether to allow trans to serve, he seems to be perfectly willing to listen to what the Generals are recommending.
Old Firefox add-ons get 'dead man walking' call
Surfacegate: Microsoft execs 'misled Nadella', claims report
Monday 14th August 2017 16:51 GMT
Microsoft FAIL
Seriously, why bother with one of these things anyway? They're basically just overpriced status symbols. They're not very good at being a computer *or* a tablet and they run the same version of Windows as everything else. Just get an ultrabook from a reputable manufacturer; Intel has already done all of the enginnering and worked out the thermal tolerances etc.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
