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When I read the story about the massive shellacking Intel® stock was taking I cannot say I was surprised. AMD® has been mopping the floor . . .| Logikal Blog
When I read the story about the massive shellacking Intel® stock was taking I cannot say I was surprised. AMD® has been mopping the floor . . .| Logikal Blog
By now most of you have heard of the Great CrowdStrike Outage of 2024. Actually using the year in the name is probably making too . . .| Logikal Blog
Error 80070643 is something that won't "fix itself." Part of me thinks it was deliberate because most of the "fix" recommendations consist| Logikal Blog
In a discussion thread on the MX Linux forum someone made the comment “flatpaks are magically bloated in size.” Kids today! Statements like this require a lengthy response. Despite what Twitter and “news media” have conditioned you to believe, life is not a soundbite. Being a very old geek who started out on Commodore Super PET then moved to PDP-11/70 running RSTS/E . . . having written some geek books that won an award or two, … Flatpaks are Magically Bloated in SizeRead more The ...| Logikal Blog
In life, the journey is the reward. Old Timer certainly has had a journey through this life. For nearly forty years he has been both a geek and an assassin. Despite someone at his company having given him the contract decades ago, nobody there actually knew what he did, just that the client paid. Had he told anyone about it, especially his coworkers, they would have laughed in his face. Since late January, 1992, he … Five Nuclear Wars You Can WinRead more The post Five Nuclear Wars You Can ...| Logikal Blog
It took CopperSpice almost 16 minutes to build the same QList Qt built in under a second. I have spent more than a day creating the test case and running the test data. It is currently 6:24pm local time. I started my callgrind test of this at about a quarter to 2pm. It’s still running. Here are the current stats. Here is the code: The Qt version is a CMake project. I developed this on … 16 Minutes to Build a QListRead more The post 16 Minutes to Build a QList appeared first on Logikal Blog.| Logikal Blog
I reported this to ZipRecruiter months ago. When you use Agile, off-shore and “priced right” labor, one cannot expect valid software or anything that was even partially tested. Agile is just hacking on the fly after all. To start with, C++ is one of the most popular embedded systems programming languages ever. It’s predecessor, C, is the “portable assembly language” used to write numerous operating systems, including Linux. Anyone who went to college for an … ZipRecruiter Duth Suc...| Logikal Blog
Linux Mint gets the most complaints about Grub not updating but it is not really a Mint problem. The volume of complaints is due to the fact Mint is the most popular flavor of Linux. The other reason is so many people install Linux on older hardware. This is another example of why Agile is not now, nor will it ever be Software Engineering. Your Jenkins automated testing doesn’t test squat. Here is the real … Linux Mint Grub Won’t UpdateRead more| Logikal Blog
If you are using XML, JSON, or the other trendy free text data transmission formats loved by script kiddies, you are the security breach.| Logikal Blog
A new release of RedDiamond, version 3.6.4, has been released. You can find AppImage, RPM, and Debian packages here.| Logikal Blog
Yes, I’ve finally written an Emacs book. I spent the first two decades of my career on DEC platforms using EDT and have always been offended by PC editors forcing me to use mice or memorize draconian keystroke combinations. Off and on I used Emacs over the years. Once I found it had an EDT emulation mode I used it a lot more. What has offended me, both morally and professionally is the relentless stream … New Emacs BookRead more| Logikal Blog
There is a rather persistent rumor going around that Ford has fired Microsoft, or at least ended the use of their software in automobiles. Of course if Ford wants to really get on the fast track they will end the use of Microsoft software on the desktop and every other part of the company. Does anyone know if this is true? It won’t be long and I will be in the new car market, probably … Read more| Logikal Blog
I answered this question on Quora but wanted to display the answer to the much broader community reading my blog. The story behind Itanium's failure.| Logikal Blog
Once again the battle between tiny x86 minds and reality has happened. They continually claim an LTS is only 5 years when it needs to be a . . .| Logikal Blog
Even if it is free, a policy from Humana (NYSE:HUM) comes at too high a price. It's time shareholders threw out the board of directors| Logikal Blog
Given recent pricing decisions, one has to ask if Microsoft is going out of business. Wall Street has been worried about the massive . . .| Logikal Blog
Yes, we have complete whack job in charge of HHS, and the FDA is lead by an anti-vax nutter, but, they could still do something that would| Logikal Blog
Trump keeps spouting out that ass sitting on his shoulders about mass deportations and illegal alien raids, but is he willing to raid . . .| Logikal Blog
Tales that just make you want to scream and other humiliating kicks to the crotch.| Logikal Blog
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I kid you not, this opening popped up on Dice. Indian firms looking for U.S. Citizens. Keep in mind this is for a Senior developer . . .| Logikal Blog
I stumbled into DocPad recently and just had to share a mention of it. Normally I, and all other professionals, avoid using Microsoft . . .| Logikal Blog
If it hasn't happened to you yet, you must have a wired network connection because posts about Ubuntu's disappearing wifi are all . . .| Logikal Blog
I try to stay off social media because social media is human poison. From time to time I will go to Reddit for technical discussions.| Logikal Blog
An informative rant about the hand polished turd that is QML and getting it to "work" with relational models.| Logikal Blog
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What life gives you when it doesn’t give you want you want.| Logikal Blog
The world is quickly abandoning Ubuntu. At one time it was a much loved Linux distro but now it is a pariah. Much of it started with that . . .| Logikal Blog
Flatpak printing and file attaching, especially with email clients that have been flatpaked, is a major (&)(*&+_ing nuisance. "Oh, we're . . .| Logikal Blog
I see this mostly on Manjaro Cinnamon, but it's rampant on other distros given the volume of complaints. It is yet another reason why . . .| Logikal Blog
Today even people who know nothing about computers have heard of hackers, ransomeware, and spyware. There was even . . .| Logikal Blog
I first noticed Intel graphics screen jitter under OpenSuSE. Previously I had an NVIDIA graphics card in this ThinkCentre . . .| Logikal Blog
I have been hearing so many friends and relatives who are Trump supporters complain "If Trump doesn't get in this time ammo prices . . .| Logikal Blog
I get so pissed off with this Two page Myth that it is finally time to empty my colon. When an HR professional tells you a resume . . .| Logikal Blog
IT consultants are refusing to work in Chicago because the cost of corporate housing is insane. Priced for Uber rich coming to . . .| Logikal Blog
At its core, for assembly line manufacturing, Six Sigma could be made to work. It was bounded by the realities of physical science and ...| Logikal Blog
There was a time when Netgear owned the consumer networking router and hub market. Not anymore. Customers are running away screaming.| Logikal Blog
OpenSuSE has a well deserved reputation for being "expert friendly" and Leap 15.6 doesn't do a lot to fix that. Despite copious . . .| Logikal Blog
I keep a Lenovo ThinkCentre SFF with Windows 10 on it because I have email and a few other things for one specific client on it. . .| Logikal Blog
It's kind of quaint to think of running Evolution PIM on just one computer so you never have to synchronize anything. When I see . . .| Logikal Blog
I've been seeing this Win-G contract for a few months now. That's by no means its official name, but good enough for who it is for.| Logikal Blog
Not since Ubuntu tried to force its Unity desktop onto the Linux world has a desktop been hated as much as Gnome 3. This is a case . . .| Logikal Blog
We desperately need a Medical Device Developer Linux distro. I know I've blogged about this before, but with all the wet-behind...| Logikal Blog
I really hate it when a search takes me to a "Stack" site, especially a Linux based "Stack" site. Everybody who does anything serious . . .| Logikal Blog
I have railed against the incredibly poor design of QML for years. Even wrote about The Death of Commercial Application Frameworks| Logikal Blog
On page 206 of Beginning C++17 ISBN: 9781484233665 published in 2018 you will find the following about smart pointers.| Logikal Blog
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