* Posts by MikesInAK

9 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Dec 2023

Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor

MikesInAK

Good riddance

VMware was the ultimate test of an incompetent IT department.

Let’s double our infrastructure costs and gain all the features we already have, then dilute our skill sets so everyone’s floundering by them selves.

Cloud Software Group effectively snuffs open source XenCenter via a README file

MikesInAK

Anything to avoid Microsoft.

Rodent dependent admins trying to save money.

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface outfit Neuralink tests its tech on a human

MikesInAK

Putting the X in selfawareness

Coming soon, direct to brain advertising!

Musk lashes out at Biden administration over rural broadband

MikesInAK

Re: Let's go Brandon.

This is the Internet equivalent of lifeline. Need to be poor to take advantage of it.

Everyone wins when the infrastructure is built.

Microsoft hires energy mavericks in quest for nuclear-powered datacenters

MikesInAK

Why the dismissive attitude?

The only nuclear reactors we've built in the last 60 years are all small units in subs and carriers.

They could buy a sub from the navy and knock this out tomorrow.

Asia beat US, EU in chip building because the West didn't invest, Intel CEO claims

MikesInAK

Re: The West didn't invest

Read that again with a different perspective.

Chip design is where they're putting the margin.

Watch that margin shrink as cheap labor takes over.

Not even LinkedIn is that keen on Microsoft's cloud: Shift to Azure abandoned

MikesInAK

Re: Bullfinch

Blueshit is what I read on first pass.

Tesla says California's Autopilot action violates its free speech rights

MikesInAK

Unorignal

So in the last two weeks, the supreme court takes up the constitutionality of administrative judges, and trump tries to use the first amendment defense for witness intimidation.

It's like they were watching the news while trying to figure out a defense.

China's SpaceX wannabe recycles a rocket after just 38 days

MikesInAK

Good old Chinese knock-offs

Half the cost, half the safety.