Noise! So much noise! Therefore, it must be a good car and more importantly, I must be a good driver. MORE NOISE!

It's a car, not a guitar. How misdirected must one be to think the noise of a car's engine has any relation to driving? And not even that. It's not even the noise of the engine. It's the noise of the exhaust. There is a shade of utility in hearing the engine, to determine its speed, because that is actually relevant to driving, but it does not need to be a noise that is even heard outside the car.

I'm reading a lot of "it's simple, just get a...". If you read the article, it says they're "associated with an early Mac computer". That almost certainly means these a GCR formatted disks, and need a drive that can do variable speed rotation.

It's not impossible obviously, but it's likely the best way to do this is with a vintage Mac itself. Which then implies hooking up a mass storage device of some kind to that Mac so that it can be transferred to something more modern. So not super rare and impossible, but definitely fiddly.

By definition, what things sell for now is what they are worth now.

Why don't you go to the next board meeting of a typical publicly traded company, offer to buy them out by giving them its liquidation value in cash, and see what happens.

Hmm - that site mixes operating systems with SSL usage on the same graph. But the other thing is - it's stats about public facing internet accessible sites. The majority of Red Hat clients are RHEL are internal or data centre, non-public. I'm struggling to get a link that works, but the 2025 estimate is around around 43% market share, and I'm honestly surprised it's that low.

Sadly probably not much. Individuals yes, corporations no. It's the new "Nobody got fired for buying IBM" - literally.

What they've already done - close it. See also Red Hat.

Competition?

The headline should read "Microsoft to replace one TSMC chip with different TSMC chip."

Updates aren't necessarily bug fixes - I had a lot of functionality upgrades on my cars from them as well. And also, you're fooling yourself if you think the other cars don't need bug fixes - it's just that they don't get them until the service. This is the "we never needed updates with cartridges" fallacy - yes we did, we just never got them. I can name 8 bit games for the Spectrum which flat out didn't work, and there were plenty of ROM or even EPROM revisions shipped on older computers before downloadable patches became the norm.

There's now a LeapMotor car in my family too. That LeapMoter also had a slick OTA update without any hassles whatsoever. They're not quite there though - registering the car with their app requires dealer action on order numbers or something, and that's still not sorted out. The OTA stuff though - couldn't fault it at all.a

I assumed that they're dividing the entire cost of creating, testing, packaging and delivering updates by the number of GB distributed. ISP fees would be a tiny fraction of that.

Why would anyone calculate such a silly metric in the first place? It sounds to me like the kind of thing an accountant would think up.

That's really not a good look. We're saying that until the 2025 leadership, an institution for information professionals didn't have information about its own professional organisation.

I don't know any of the background here, but well done to the 2025 crowd who dug in, found it and acted according to reality.

Maybe they're using IPv6, where the MAC address can become part of the IP address.

"The Humanoid Boogie" by the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band", 1968. Plus ca change.

I can't wait to see all of the thoughtfully planned, rigorously tested and highly secure applications that will be put into service using this capability.

I can think of no faster way to kill the word 'Vibe' than to associated it with annoying corporate nonsense. Go for it Meta! I'm counting on you.