This one is for @microsoft.com #thanks
I just ran a compiled exe that I had written 2002 and last run in 2003. It worked perfectly.

Microsoft sometimes gets a bit of hate but when it comes to backwards compatibility no one beats them.

I would imagine they are quite lucky it was only €5.3 million

He needed to visit @sirpatstew.bsky.social

Hurrah to @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social More or less for new Carols 👏

Hmm @swiftonsecurity.com maybe there are no Aliens because all intelligent species Dr story themselves within a few thousand years! Never lasting long enough to find each other

ROU: Public Mistrust is Irrational

Designers do a job if they are let do it

a “Space Force”, if you will

If companies spent 10% of what they spend on Windows licenses on funding a desktop Linux we might get somewhere

Any way to get the TShirt

If you are Irish you are always closer to the sea!

TobyDB - fully SQL92 compliant except delete from table without a where clause raises an error!

What is the minimum Oxide configuration? FAQ Friday #24

Just a little change. Couldn’t possibly break anything. I’ll just save time and push without tests. 🤯

Hooo ya

Today is when the Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works column  "It's always DNS" is a long-standing sysadmin saw, and with good reason: a disproportionate number of outages are at their heart DNS issues. And so today, as AWS is still repairing its downed cloud as this article goes to press, it becomes clear that the culprit is once again DNS. But if you or I know this, AWS certainly does.…

Today is when the Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout

Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

A whole heap of stinking code and calamity will be produced between now and then.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV Series 2022– ) ⭐ 6.9 | Action, Adventure, Drama 1h | TV-14

Rings of Power season 2 was damn good

www.imdb.com/title/tt7631...

Nobody’s brain works the way NFTs do.

In 20 years time they will sell the whole thing to a vulture fund and pulp your tree!

Well don't I feel stupid

Why do you say that?

Not yet. Not yet.

That’s quite important for people to see the consequences of actions. I approve

Just when lots of very clever people were making progress on tying down as many #cybersecurity vulnerabilities as possible, we invented #AI #Agents to make sure they didn’t run out of things to do.

I am so happy and so is the memory that now has a new life.

Just in case there is someone out there that appreciates this.

I just fixed a 10 year old pc that had a bsod by swapping out the memory in it with some memory I had decided to save from a machine I scrapped 3 years ago. The memory has been sitting on my desk since then.

Pentagon orders journalists to agree to new reporting rules - or be barred The move has sparked outrage from journalists' groups, with one calling it "a dangerous step toward government censorship".

You are so fucked

news.sky.com/story/pentag...