darkjedi521 - Slashdot User

Comment Not surprised (Score 1) 74

by darkjedi521 on Friday October 13, 2023 @05:59PM (#63923589) Attached to: LabView App Abandons the Mac After Four Decades

Not surprised at all. Emerson bought National Instuments on Weds. Of course, they are going to start chopping the elements that don't fit Emerson's business plans/use for the tech they acquired. https://www.emerson.com/en-us/...

Comment Re:(Insert Subject Here) (Score 5, Insightful) 239

by darkjedi521 on Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:43PM (#63551481) Attached to: Intel Mulls Cutting Ties To 16 and 32-Bit Support

People for whom a $2,000 NT4 compatible replacement system is cheaper than a $7,000,000 replacement electron microscope to eliminate the NT4 requirement.

Comment Re:In college (Score 3, Interesting) 69

by darkjedi521 on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @10:21PM (#62760998) Attached to: Linux May Soon Lose Support For the DECnet Protocol

RPI still has an active production VMS system on Alpha. Sadly, I have to keep it working, and the owner deemed it too expensive to upgrade to IA-64 before last order date. I kept that 8500 series VAX that replaced the 11/780 working until the console HDD failed.

Comment Re:door locks need an public cloud? and no readers (Score 2) 73

by darkjedi521 on Friday March 04, 2022 @01:02AM (#62324695) Attached to: How a Simple Security Bug Became a University Campus 'Master Key'

I work at a university. The students are petitioning to replace the "archaic" rifd/swipe cards and keys with NFC readers to interact with their phones.

Comment Could they be anymore obvious? (Score 3, Insightful) 146

by darkjedi521 on Saturday January 01, 2022 @08:08PM (#62134801) Attached to: 'Year 2022' Bug Breaks Email Delivery For Microsoft Exchange On-Premise Servers

A bug that breaks email for self-hosted/on premise exchange only? If that's not a move to push hold outs to their cloud, I've got a bridge for sale.

Comment Re:I still use it. (Score 1) 130

by darkjedi521 on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:30PM (#61926727) Attached to: It's Windows XP's 20th Birthday and Way Too Many Still Use It

I've got an open ticket at work to rebuild an NT4 box for an electron microscope. And that's one of the upgraded ones. The others output analog directly to Kodak products.

Comment Why? (Score 1) 408

by darkjedi521 on Sunday September 12, 2021 @03:12PM (#61788703) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Is Firefox Losing Users?

Because its the only browser left without Chrome at its core, and the internet has moved on to expect a Chrome based rendering engine. This is not a bad thing. I for one, am not looking forward to Google determining the defacto web standards ala IE 6 20 years ago.

Comment Saving the bandwidth (Score 2) 50

by darkjedi521 on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:33PM (#59853934) Attached to: Music Streaming May Actually be Falling Because of Coronavirus

I'm stuck on video conferences all day now. Besides not wanting the background noise, am making sure I've got enough bandwidth for the audio I need to work from home.

Comment Re:Now when voltage regulators fail (Score 0) 188

by darkjedi521 on Saturday March 14, 2020 @02:38PM (#59830454) Attached to: How Intel is Changing the Future of Power Supplies With Its ATX12VO Spec

Storage is already going all M.2 or hotswap backplanes, which renders the +5V direct from PSU not needed

Comment Re:A related problem (Score 2) 263

by darkjedi521 on Monday April 22, 2019 @10:20PM (#58475132) Attached to: TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns To Trick You Into Paying To File Your Taxes

NY Law prohibits tax software from charging a filing fee for NY State returns above and beyond the cost of the software.

Submission + - Paul Allen passes away

Submitted by darkjedi521 on Monday October 15, 2018 @11:24PM

darkjedi521 writes: According to Ars Technica, https://arstechnica.com/gadget..., Paul Allen, one of the co-founders of Microsoft has passed away.

Comment Re:Good thing there is Linux... (Score 1) 383

by darkjedi521 on Monday June 25, 2018 @08:11AM (#56841420) Attached to: Microsoft Quietly Cuts Off Windows 7 Support For Older Intel Computers

Bruker makes Linux based MRI and NMR units. They ship an HP workstation with a custom Centos 7 install with their units currently.

Comment Sign on things to come (Score 2, Insightful) 127

by darkjedi521 on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @10:19AM (#54340557) Attached to: Microsoft Unveils Windows 10 S, an Education Edition Limited To Windows Store Apps

If this gets adopted, expect it to become the norm at some point in the future for all editions. Once software devs adapt their distribution to not lock themselves out of the edu market, it will be very easy to throw the switch and wall off the rest of the OS.

Comment Re:But the questions remain... (Score 2) 239

by darkjedi521 on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @01:16PM (#54264121) Attached to: StarCraft Is Now Free, Nearly 20 Years After Its Release

You need to spawn more overlords first.

Comment Re:Sweet! (Score 1) 316

by darkjedi521 on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @11:16PM (#53112541) Attached to: Apple Rumored To Remove Old-School USB Ports On Next MacBook Pro

As Arnold said, they'll be back

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