* Posts by Alan Bourke

968 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Aug 2006

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Microsoft decides it's done with Azure egress ransoms

Alan Bourke

Re: Wankery

They do.

At gunpoint.

The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?

Alan Bourke

Re: Confused

Like all Linux equivalents of Microsoft Office desktop applications, they're a pile of shite. Sorry but they are. If they weren't, businesses would be using it.

Microsoft calls AI privacy complaint 'doomsday hyperbole'

Alan Bourke

Everything but everything is hyperbole

with the AI hype train of venture capital bullshit.

Stuck paying for your apartment's crummy internet? FCC boss Rosenworcel wants to help

Alan Bourke

Re: Maybe not as easy as it seems

Um maybe the same way as every other country in the world seems to manage it ?

Flying car biz Alef claims 3K preorders, still hasn't done a proper demo

Alan Bourke

Ah yes flying cars

As unlikely to ever come to fruition as self-driving cars.

Google wants regulators to take Microsoft down a notch before it stifles AI

Alan Bourke

All these 'well I use Linux' commenters

are confusing anecdote with data.

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be coders, Jensen Huang warns

Alan Bourke

From our 'Grifters Getting Utterly Carried Away By Nonexistent AI' department

See you all back here in 10 years for a good laugh at this

Boeing-backed air taxi upstart Wisk plans to fly you across town at UberX prices by 2030

Alan Bourke

Is it 'flying cars are just around the corner' time again ?

Comes round quicker and quicker. When is 'Excel is dead\Email is dead' due to be up again?

City of London ditches Oracle for SAP in search of ERP enlightenment

Alan Bourke

Re: Frying pan

"There are businesses writing and maintaining payroll applications for small customer bases within much smaller jurisdictions than the UK, and sustainable for not much money per year."

Ireland, for example, which has a number of domestic payroll software vendors.

Microsoft warns Dev Drive daredevils to back up or beware after latest build

Alan Bourke

Re: So the moral of the story...

I think the moral is back stuff up before upgrading especially if you're on alpha or beta software.

Leaked memo: Microsoft employees should be using Copilot too

Alan Bourke

Absolutely hell bent

on shoehorning Super Clippy into everything

Ford pulls the plug on EV strategy as losses pile up

Alan Bourke

Re: Half-truths

The fact that they have to give them MANLY NAMES so that they sell in the US is never not hilarious. F150 Lightning indeed, it's not a fighter jet.

The FCC wants to criminalize AI robocall spam

Alan Bourke

Glad this nonsense

Is illegal in the EU

Windows 10 users report app gremlins after Microsoft update

Alan Bourke

STRAW MAN ALERT

If the Windows 11 hardware requirements cripple anything it's Microsoft's bottom line, due to people not being able to upgrade. You can still quite happily run decades old MS-DOS or Windows 16-bit software on 32-bit Windows 10. Microsoft exemplary compared to Apple and Linux when it comes to back compat, because of its huge business user base.

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface outfit Neuralink tests its tech on a human

Alan Bourke

Anyone remember the good old Kevin Warwick days

when El Reg would pull the piss out of 'Captain Cyborg' mercilessly ?

Microsoft confirms Windows Server 2025 is on the way

Alan Bourke

I can't believe that there were people butthut about WordPad.

What has been the use case for it for the last 20 years?

The rise and fall of the standard user interface

Alan Bourke

This far down in the comments

without someone claiming that WordPerfect 5.1 is better than all modern word processors?

Frankly amazing.

Users now keep cellphones for 40+ months and it's hurting the secondhand market

Alan Bourke

Re: no real need to replace it

Apart from the swiss cheese security, terrible driver model, lack of a decent terminal etc etc

For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything a company needed

Alan Bourke

Re: The problem with Notes

What you're doing there is confusing anecdote with data.

"Have fun with the Exchange server that can't manage more than 500 accounts."

Eh?

Energy breakthrough needed to build AGI, says OpenAI boss Altman

Alan Bourke

Another similarity to cryptocurrencies then

pointless wasteful hoovering of energy

Will AI take our jobs? That's what everyone is talking about at Davos right now

Alan Bourke

Will a thing that doesn't exist take our jobs?

Unless your job is writing SEO friendly clickbait filler content for shit websites, no.

Boss fight between Donkey Kong champ and leaderboard org ends with settlement

Alan Bourke

Re: thereby increase the value of the company

I dunno, the one with competitive sports of any kind?

Microsoft .NET MAUI devs vent over bugs backlog, response times

Alan Bourke

Re: Why not use QT or some other OS portable UI framework.

Because they look awful.

Alan Bourke

As ever they seem more concerned with a stampede to implement the new shiny into everything

than consolidating what they've already done. They propably have 3x more people trying to wedge Copilot into it than they have fixing issues.

Alan Bourke

Something non-browser will *always* be required as an option

Because of the sandboxing limitations of browser applications.

It's a preview party at Microsoft, but do you really want an invite?

Alan Bourke

Re: Access???

Yes indeed people still use it. Why do they use it? Because it's extremely easy to knock up a simple in-house desktop database-backed application without the insane levels of complexity involved in doing the same thing on modern .Net or as a web application leveraging (insert this month's trendy Javascript stack here).

Alan Bourke

Re: Trust

There was me thinking they were charities.

Top LLMs struggle to make accurate legal arguments

Alan Bourke

Of course it can't

since all it's doing is generating patterns based on previous examples of patters, with no actual intelligence.

HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten

Alan Bourke

As ever with printers

you pay peanuts, you get monkeys

Avoiding AI-capable PCs will be impossible by 2027

Alan Bourke

Ah yes, the not-actually-AI hype train of nonsense chugs on.

What have we got so far, let's see, jazzed up search engines and Super Clippy.

Microsoft floats bringing a text editor back to the CLI

Alan Bourke

What like Powershell's tab autocomplete?

Or is that different?

Alan Bourke

EDLIN?

Pfft, lightweights. I still use COPY CON to this day.

Want a modern console text editor for Windows?

Micro: https://micro-editor.github.io/

Doom turns 30, so its creators celebrate seminal first-person shooter’s contribution to IT careers

Alan Bourke

Exidy's "Death Race"

... from 1976

Microsoft issues deadline for end of Windows 10 support – it's pay to play for security

Alan Bourke

Re: ESU only delays landfill.

The reason corporates use MS Office is because it is by a country mile the best in class. Don't say LibreOffice. It's like a 2012 shareware application in comparison.

Alan Bourke

Re: ESU only delays landfill.

Hey fantastic. If only the software that actual businesses use to actually operate was on Linux. And games.

Alan Bourke

"we understand there are circumstances that could prevent you from replacing Windows 10 devices "

Well yes, the fact that I'd have to buy two devices with the required TPM support to replace two devices that are working perfectly fine.

Hershey phishes! Crooks snarf chocolate lovers' creds

Alan Bourke

Hershey's?

Wouldn't use it for dog treats. Terrible shite.

40 years of Turbo Pascal, the coding dinosaur that revolutionized IDEs

Alan Bourke

If anyone fancies doing some Commodore 64 and other 8-bit coding in Pascal ...

Turbo Rascal

https://lemonspawn.com/turbo-rascal-syntax-error-expected-but-begin/summary-of-trse-syntax/1

Elon is the bakery owner swearing in the street about Yelp critics canceling him

Alan Bourke

Nothing more tragic

than Musk stans.

Bitcoin's thirst for water is just as troubling as its energy appetite

Alan Bourke

The sooner this

Ponzi monopoly money and its attendant ranks of social media shills, crypto wanker fanboys and conspiracy nuts dies the better.

Honda cooks up an electric motorbike menu, with sides of connectivity

Alan Bourke

Just call me

Sam Porter Bridges

AI won't take your job, might shrink your wages, European Central Bank reckons

Alan Bourke

Not clear really how a search engine with nipples

is going to steal anyone's jobs. Maybe people who create the reams of SEO-friendly nothing text for clickbait sites.

OpenCart owner turns air blue after researcher discloses serious vuln

Alan Bourke

That Github issue is hilarious.

Complete with conspiracy tinfoil hattery and everything, it's *chefkiss*

USB Cart of Death: The wheeled scourge that drove Windows devs to despair

Alan Bourke

They would absolutely test it nowadays.

In a more organised fashion. Also, that is literally a part of what the beta channel is for

CEO of self-driving cab outfit Cruise parks his career

Alan Bourke

Self driving cars.

Still a solution that we're no closer to finding, solving a problem that doesn't exist.

You get a Copilot, and you get a Copilot – Microsoft now the Copilot company

Alan Bourke

Clippy with nipples

and added privacy violations.

OpenAI tackles 'major outage' hitting ChatGPT APIs

Alan Bourke

Did somebody Google 'Google' ?

Rookie mistake.

Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB in a PC

Alan Bourke

I see they've invented

path tracing too

Ireland to develop datacenter powered by fuel cells

Alan Bourke

" ... is planned to be sited ... in Castlelost ..."

I'm sure I wandered around there when I was playing Elden Ring.

Microsoft's 11-year itch: The uncelebrated anniversary of Windows 8

Alan Bourke

There's no 'benefit of hindsight' required.

Man + dog knew at the time it was an improvement on Windows 7 saddled with a UI that made zero sense on desktop machines. The 'future is all touchscreen' mantra was rampant like the 'future is pretend AI' mantra today. Remember how consoles and gaming PCs were going to be dead and it would all be tablets and phones?

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