Monday, July 22
Daily News Stuff 22 July 2024
Slow News Week Edition
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- Southwest Airlines escaped the CrowdStrike debacle because they are still running Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. (Tom's Hardware)
One small problem with this story: It's complete bullshit. (Twitter)
It's an internet meme. But even the guy who created the meme got confused and thought it was real.
Seriously, nobody runs their business on Windows 3.1. It doesn't even work properly on a computer with more than 512MB of RAM. Neither does Windows 95.
Tech News
- Speaking of which: The Apollo DN10000, a four-processor Unix workstation form 1988 with up to 128MB of memory. (Jim Rees)
Which used to be a lot.
- Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say. (The Guardian)
Yeah, no shit.
- A ransomware attack has shut down the largest trial court in the US, the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. (AP News)
Shame. A couple of hours later and all their computers would have been down with the CrowdStrike disaster and safe from hackers.
- Speaking of which more than 1500 flights were cancelled yesterday as technicians continue to turn things off and on again. (CNN)
Meanwhile interest in retiring and moving to Idaho to take up potato farming is at an all time high.
- A fake hotfix for the CrowdStrike problem is actually a RAT. (HackRead)
Because of course it is.
- Elon Musk is "gambling with Tesla's future" by endorsing Donald Trump. (The Verge)
Gotta love how they quote Trump saying But you can’t have 100 percent of your cars electric. as though it's a gotcha moment rather than a simple fact.
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Re: Apollo computer: I'm envious that they could order a memory chip, of any kind or capacity, that isn't one of those microscopic pitch ball-grid arrays.
Posted by: madrocketsci at Monday, July 22 2024 07:36 PM (hRoyQ)
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One of my coworkers missed a flight this morning because all the flights were cancelled. (She didn't say "at that airport", "for that airline", or anything specific like that.)
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, July 23 2024 01:38 AM (MItL9)
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Tesla was always going to have a potential failure mode that combines the end of the current electrification insanity with a failure to reach Mars. Preserving the electrification madness for a little longer, and ensuring that Mars is not reachable would not be a good strategy.
Of course, temporary political madness insiders are often very convinced that the temporary madness will be eternal.
So, Donald Trump? Musk already gambled on Trump with the Twitter purchase. The Democrats hate him for that, already, and would have wanted to sabotage Mars anyway. And they have also proven that they will randomly screw up critical bits of economy because of marketing whims during elections.
Of course, temporary political madness insiders are often very convinced that the temporary madness will be eternal.
So, Donald Trump? Musk already gambled on Trump with the Twitter purchase. The Democrats hate him for that, already, and would have wanted to sabotage Mars anyway. And they have also proven that they will randomly screw up critical bits of economy because of marketing whims during elections.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Tuesday, July 23 2024 02:02 AM (rcPLc)
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Back in the late 1980s I worked at a small company which had a number of number of Apollo workstations including a DN10000. They weren't really Unix systems, but had both System V and BSD subsystems running at the same time on their own OS. IIRC, except for the DN10K, our workstations had 4-16 MB of RAM, no recollection how much that DN10K had.
Posted by: Sam P at Tuesday, July 23 2024 06:41 PM (C5GOk)
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