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Some businesses have legitimate reasons to keep using Microsoft's obsolete operating system. But for most, the reasons that companies hold on to Windows XP boil down to not wanting to spend the money to upgrade. That's not a good long-term plan. Maybe it is time for that Norwegian cruise though
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Some businesses have legitimate reasons to keep using Microsoft's obsolete operating system.
As in the US Military?
And that article is only 10 months old. Not much will have changed in 10 months!
Marc
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I'm aware of a DoD system expected to be in use for another year or three until the platform its on finally is retired using NT4 embedded. (Thankfully it has no external network access at least.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Most likely a Managed Application that is contracted out; we have to lease the new version to meet DODI 8500 requirements! We can thank these bundled COTS solutions of that, and the truly messed up bidding process for putting us in this predicament to begin with.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Nope for all the but part of the first, being made by a 3rd party. Embedded system. Custom software controlling custom hardware. Not networked. No updates to the software at all after delivery/acceptance testing; the company who made the hardware only wants to sell boxes not support  and priced any software changes accordingly. It got yearly data updates until last fall from my previous employer (not the box maker); but our contract was ended as part of the platforms gradual replacement and winddown.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yeah, in the DoD compliance lexicon that's a Managed Application (systems that may be approved even if their individual components are not).
GenDyn does that to us all the time. At least when the gear is on lease they'll generally jump to and keep it updated.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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In the medical industry we have medical workstations that run XP and are not permitted to be upgraded at all (not even service packs).
John
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They allow you to declare multiple variables with a single statement that are initialized with values from a pair, tuple, array, or even a struct. Because all languages deserve to be Python
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Structured Bindings are just a limited form of pattern matching, and can be traced all the way back to, at least, SNOBOL. Python was fairly late to the game.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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In IT lots of features are late to the game. But often some tech popularises a feature and the users then regard that tech as the innovator.
Kevin
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That's too true sadly.
Alan Kay gave an excellent talk (tried searching, but couldn't find sadly) where he showed pictures of Einstein, Newton, and other famous scientists and asked the audience to name them. All of them got named. He then repeated with pioneers in computing like Grace Hopper, Douglas Englebart, John McCarthy, and Knuth and almost no one could, in a talk to programmers. Used it to illustrate the point that as a field too many developer's don't bother to study the history of computing, so fail to learn lessons from it. I've observed this in my own career - ideas keep resurfacing and being given a new name, frequently failing to address the deficiencies that caused the original to fall out of fashion.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Automated verification finds renewed potential for making algorithms safe. BFI is always an option
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I'm sad this article talks up SAT solvers so much and provides no worthwhile follow-up links. I'm a big proponent of TLA+[^] to verify all possible states of critical digital systems. TLA+ uses SAT/SMT[^] solvers in its model checker and I was hoping I'd learn a bit more about that technology 
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The SMB security flaw called “SMBLoris” was discovered by security researchers at RiskSense, who explained that it can lead to DoS attacks affecting every version of the SMB protocol and all versions of Windows since Windows 2000. Just in case you didn't get the message block sooner
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A team of Chinese scientists put the world's faster supercomputer to the test by using it to create the biggest virtual universe. Were they trying to make an apple pie?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Were they trying to make an apple pie?
That's too American. They were probably testing simulations of how to block VPN's from all potential extraterrestrial sources.
Unfortunately, they had to stop after they reached that point: Team leader Gao Liang said the supercomputer had other clients in line that day.
And what, they can't save the data and continue the simulation later? Now there's a design flaw! 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Multi-Tasking OS for Apple II Because 6502 spells love
Assuming anyone still has an Apple IIe that can start.
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Jeremy Falcon
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Boring! I added hooks into the Commodore PET's BASIC and extended it with preemptive multitasking co-routines (complete with parameter passing and stack swapping) back in 1982. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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 Did you also need two tape drives and a mixer for data? 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Did you also need two tape drives and a mixer for data?
Nah, that was the Apple II, where you had to use a separate tape deck and constantly fuss with the volume control. The PET was much more advanced! Built-in tape drive, no fussing!
Then again, I skipped all that and had dual floppy drives. Again, Commodore was superior to Apple -- double sided drives, higher density. The only reason Apple succeeded was because they gave away their computers to schools and kids went home telling their parents "I want an Apple!"
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Forget ‘mobile first’ and ‘cloud first.’ Modern applications being built today need to be ‘cognitive first.’ AI all the things!
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