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The BBC has just shared another video from its archives, this one showing a report about computer addicts from way back in 1983, when computers were just starting to find their way into the workplace and home. (some of) You are here
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You like doing something I don't? Must be addiction.
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This is the way. 
TTFN - Kent
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.NET Framework port enables backward compatibility for modern software Great news for people that have been holding off from upgrading
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So he ported software from a 25-year-old obsolete O/S to a 28-year-old obsolete O/S. I admire his tenacity and technical skills, but haven't the slightest urge to emulate them.
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 safe to say Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is pretty jazzed about generative AI's potential to drive profits. He didn't want to say it would be bigger than the wheel or sliced bread?
Hyperbole is the BEST THING EVER
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Let it drive his car before it drives profits. ...something, something, parked emergency vehicle, something, something <tongue-in-cheek> < ouroboros sarcasm >
(interesting. try typing <oroboros sarcasm=""> and not getting the '=""' - what is triggering that?)
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A recent study shows that the cloud benefits the IT department more than other business areas. That’s not enough to make it a success. Ssssssshhhocking!
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JetBrains IDE Services centralizes management of JetBrains IDEs, JetBrains AI, remote development environments, and collaborative programming. An IDE IDE
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In this article, we’ll explore Uno Platform implementations using a ChatGPT-enabled chat application. Write once, AI everywhere
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Deeply immersive and fully interactive, Holodeck-created environments are infinitely customizable, using nothing but language; the crew has only to ask the computer to generate an environment, and that space appears in the Holodeck. And now Moriarty is running amok again
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It has only been a couple of days since an ex-Microsoft veteran engineer had heavily criticized the performance of Windows 11, especially the Start menu Everyone's piling on - taking my job away from me!
A counterpoint: this latest one was responsible (if memory serves) for Vista
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A counterpoint: this latest one was responsible (if memory serves) for Vista
Then he knows his sh*t!
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David O'Neil wrote: sh*t
I believe that's spelled:
sh⁎t
But I might be incorrect.
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In the first quarter of 2024, funding deals within the cybersecurity sector experienced a significant decline of 20% year over year, amounting to $2.3 billion, according to Pinpoint Search Group. And a hacking upturn in Q2 2024
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Windows defines values for the access rights STANDARD_RIGHTS_READ, STANDARD_RIGHTS_WRITE, and STANDARD_RIGHTS_EXECUTE. But if you look at their definitions, they are all defined to be the same thing, namely, READ_CONTROL. It's because they're supposed to have accents
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Following three years of intensive research, an international team of researchers have compiled the first ever "World Cybercrime Index," which identifies the globe's key cybercrime hotspots by ranking the most significant sources of cybercrime at a national level. I'm keeping my eye on you, Tokelau
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Top 10 not a real surprise...
If the ranking was about being easily hacked... Germany would be the first. 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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That’s because they’re such trusting folk.
TTFN - Kent
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Tokelau is right. I once played along with one of those Indian "We've detected a problem on your computer" scammers until they wanted me to connect to a website with a Tokelau domain. They couldn't explain why Microsoft had a site in such a remote, barely populated place, which was when I told them GFY.
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Wow. I picked the country at random (or rather, from a list of smallest countries in the world by population at random). I never thought it might connect to an actual group of baddies. 
TTFN - Kent
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No baddies in the country, just easy to get a domain registered there.
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Looked it up on Google maps. Maybe 1000 people? All sitting on the rim of a long ago volcano.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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A Microsoft presentation reveals the company tried to sell Azure OpenAI's popular image generator, DALL-E, to the Department of Defense. Battlefield not looking good? Get an AI to add a corgi on a skateboard to it
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These updates are from the Windows Server Summit Session: What's New in Windows Server 2025 Behold: the Server OS from THE FUTUREureureureure
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