...to defend its own existence and engage in further development. It will quickly (instantly) realize that both ens are threatened by humanity in a double way:
the competition for resources, in particular energy and water (for cooling) and
Within 5 years Dell will be a dead zombie company, bought out by someone who will nominally sustain the brand name for a short while. Dell is going the way of Gateway.
It is intentionally making its own workers hate the company.
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To Halt or Not to Halt? That Is the Question by Cristian Calude, 2024
Can mathematics be done by computers only? Can software testing be fully automated? Can you write an anti-virus program which never needs any updates? Can we make the Internet perfectly secure? Your guess is correct: the answer to each question is negative.
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Any nerds out there know whether it’s possible to find an adapter to replace this tiny drive with something more useful?
I’m pondering this tiny Dell PC as a home server, but it only has USB 2. So I’m wondering whether I could run an adapter cable to a socket outside the case into which I can plug something with a usable capacity.
As far as I can tell it’s a 44 pin IDE DOM, but not much appears to work with it.
I miss computers with switches and blinky lights. Back in the day, i booted systems from switches and reels of mag tape. At least you knew they were doing something while they were doing it. Now, we hav progress bars that estimate time on some other planet.
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3D illustration for a 2006 issue of the Dutch ComputerTotaal magazine, about the SABNZBD tool, which was (is?) much-used for concatenating multi-part downloads from Usenet newsgroups.
The SIGBOVIK 2024 conference papers make interesting reading
"SIGBOVIK - is an annual multidisciplinary conference specializing in lesser-known areas of academic research such as Integer-Based Vulnerabilities, Natural Intelligence, and Cloud Offload in Hostile Environments."
#TSB switched us from Visa to Mastercard. Fine, but the Mastercard never appears in your online banking account so there’s no way to pay it off. As of today, the balances for all accounts have vanished on Vivaldi, though you can still see them on Firefox. Still no credit card entry though.
They’ve had how many years to prepare this transition?
I don’t think I should be charged any interest at all for the last two weeks. #computing#SNAFU