Posts by Aldnus

User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't

In this instance i cant blame the user for this!

Cant blame the User for the IT team being either too lazy to visit (especially in thoose days) or the the IT team being too lazy to load a tape reel. !!!!!

Apple knits up $230 sock for your iPhone in time for Christmas

Nan get ya knitting needles out

I can here the clicking now as all the nans of the world start knitting for christmas, guess it wont be jumpers this year. ps wouldnt be seen dead with that but the school racksuite and white trainer brigades will love it along with the ugg wearers and pyjama attired girlyies in walmart/asda in the evenings.

Russia’s first autonomous humanoid robot staggers and falls on debut

anyone else think the names ahem a bit Dodge

Aidol a bit similar to the last nutter who wanted to take over europe about 80 years ago, just sayin

UK asks cyberspies to probe whether Chinese buses can be switched off remotely

Re: Keep licking the American boot, Britons

and much of ciscos tech is built where exactly, O yes the little men in pointy hats and pyjamas, but who reads the labels on the back when installing anyway.

UK's Ajax fighting vehicle arrives – years late and still sending crew to hospital

Typical MOD bid scenario

So MOD probably cut and pasted 1,200 requirements for a field kitchen in the bid proposal or was each a new requirement introduced as a change meaing more money for GD as those costs would not have been included in the original contract.

UK military looking for tactical comms, systems suppliers in deal worth up to £9.6B

thales or Harris

So itll be Thales or Harris thats about it maybe Liedos as the sign off for risk will be 18Bn and most companies wont sign off that amount of liability so itll be a consortium. nothing new here

'Highly sophisticated' government goons hacked F5, stole source code and undisclosed bug details

and where is the hardware made

Yep

US

Mexico and ROC

who said its not a bit closer to home

Any one wondering that GCHQ may also be hacking to find the loopholes as F5 are the new kids on the block.

Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

oh tell me more

So please dont tell me know one else except me saw this coming , ieven posted the same on face book years ago, Excessive AI and social media will pushenergy geeration back into the victorian age. and just add EV charging into that mix the quiet hours has seen demand quadruple over the last two years. and we arent even at the tip of the ice berg yet for market saturation.

Jaguar Land Rover engines ready to roar again after weeks-long cyber stall

Proping another indian cmpany

So where is TATA holdings in this, They own JLR so its an indian problem regarding costs and no doubt cost cutting on IT and poor engine and interior quality.

The British tax payer proping up an Indian company shouldnt be allowed and the parent company certainly has the money valued at 436 billion.

iPhone 17 Scratchgate is real, iFixit warns – buy a case for your fancy phone

errrr

so nothing to do with aluminium being a lot softer than Titatnium then, who knew it would scratch.titanium reaches 340 Hb where as the hardest alumium (7075) merely 150HB.

I dont get why youd spend a grand or more and not spend a few for a case any way

Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league

Re: Doom, anyone?

When i joined my current company (nigh on 30 years ago) yep we set up a network in the warehouse with a few pcs and me in the office all loaded up with doom. that was fun except i had the slowest PCso always got slaughtered

By way into IT I worked as a logistics manager for Motorola PMR back in the late 80s and early 90s

Cricket was one past time in the warehouse, Along with Rounders and football, the balls where old pallet wrap and bats what ever we could find, Even to the point as the warehouse supervisor we just carried on until the office wallers devided theyd get in on the action, the order and finance girls joined in and the materials managers, every lunchtime the offices would empty and the fun would begin.

At one point even two of the directors got in on the action.

What they didnt know about was the obligatory pallet truck races and swivel chaor bowling.

I will say we never caused any damage as that was the rule any damage was out of your wages, and those radios werent cheap.

what was worse i was the health and safety rep as well!!!!!!!

Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide

Training

And how much is it going to cost to poperly train every civil servant, Military etc to use open source software and also who is going to support it. Microsoft has special costs with the goverment and they dont pay as much as people think for licensing.

Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK

has anyone seen the Microsoft Pricing policy for MS and the goverment

My guess is these numbers are being touted as consumer pricing. The goverment is paying for the extended support for its products way beyond the advertised in service life of such products as server 2012 and old back office and services than it does for the actual products.

By going to other suppliers the problem will just be the same just a different supplier and all that hassle of retraing all its staff in the use of new tooling. Out sourcing support to companies probably ill fitted for large scale support matrixservices as the big boys arent interested in supporting google docs etc. I know support is ropey on those platforms as a few caouncils went that rope and left the users high and dry, Hampshire and also Berkshire and Windsor and Maidenhead. which just turned into confusion as the documents where being retrieved from storage where corrupted nearly every time with Formatting problems and just garbage text. These are documents which ultimetely could be used in Tribunerals and cours cases for the support of eductional needs and medical requirements.

NASA boss calls for nuclear reactor on the Moon

A bit late

Theres already mini nuclear reactors up there in the form of the power sources for the junk they left up there. Its not all solar powered much is mini nuclear reactor powered.

Prohibition never works, but that didn't stop the UK's Online Safety Act

Obviously the most and easiest option!!!

Shut access to the internet completely and go back to 1996. Else get rid of broadband and problem solved who wants to go back to dial up.

We are turning into North Korea and china where everything is sensored. People have a choice, I dont see anything being really done about the sales of Vapes, the use on public roads of illegal vehicles, the use of drugs in the street. yet we are taking peoples choice on internet content.

AWS wiped my account of 10 years, says open source dev

a 10 year account and worth of work

On a system thats only been around since 2016 - so in reality it isnt 10 years, and local backups as other have said if the work was that important you would trust the cloud.

UK's Ministry of Defence pins hopes on AI to stop the next massive email blunder

So no one to blame

So when the next leak happens they can blame AI and not a person. AI doesnt mean it wont screw up, AI only does what its told, there is always human intervention to start the chain of events.

Atlassian's Trello redesign may be 'worst in tech history' say frustrated users

Re: I love when they change software interface for the sake of changing it

Not in all cars , you have to take into account older and cheaper models and brands dont have this feature to provide visual information in the dash board.

Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed major Russian drone maker's entire network

Just remember peeps

Once this conflict is over where do think they'll be hacking next and who is to say they did it on thier own without any outside influences.

Both sides are hacking each other by goverment funded operations, that wont just cease once the conflict is over.

Still at least people arent really dying by hacking its just preventative. the bombs will keep falling and the bullets will still be able to fly.

ALmost guarantee the manufacturer in question is probably privately owned

Remembering when NASA stuck a Space Shuttle on top of a Boeing 747

Re: Dear Santa...

I completely missed Lego out and progressed straight to Meccano, as my father was a Mechanic and engineer he thought it more useful. he was right. Lego always felt childish and pointless to me as all anyone ever built was a house with not enough windowsf or silly cars that fell apart (if you where lucky enough to have enough wheels or the dog hadn't chewed one up. I had a good friend who was Lego Mad and had buckets of it and what did he build, Absolutely nothing. Now 50 years later with advent of technix lego, you can build stuff following instructions without the need for imagination. That i see is a step back.

Wanted: IT manager for UK government agency – £60k

Enforced minimum wages !!!!!

The problem we are seeing now is enforced minimum wages for non skilled workers is impacting the salaries of time served skilled workers and managers. in the public sector we havent had a pay rise in two years and I am a qualified and time served IT manager with over thirty years experience.

So when the floor cleaner on minimum wage gets 4-5% payrise a year their wages are moving at an alarming rate towards fully skilled personnel with time and investment in learning over the years.

We are seeing our worth eroded whilst companies are forced to pay non skilled more than they can afford.

Tesla FSD ignores school bus lights and hits 'child' dummy in staged demo

not quite fsd but

My last two company cars (now off the scheme as i don't want electric) a 2017 golf GTD and a 2020 BMW M135I Where fantastic at auto speed reognition and auto braking. The golf i actually drove through central London on cruise control and just steering it braked and accelerated perfectly , I will say it was kind of scary and a foot poised over the brake pedal at all times. So the tech is out there already if TESLA want to use the Bosch systems but my guess is TESLA dont and go there own way,. Which obviously doesn't work.

Meta just saved an Illinois nuclear plant that was set to be mothballed

Does Zucker plan to run power cables into all his datacenters specifically. or as everyone knows its pumped into the national grid!!!

What will UK government workers do with an extra 26 minutes a day?

A study Funded by ?

Microsoft probably, in concession for reduced licensing premiums.

How sticky notes saved 'the single biggest digital program in the world'

So techies grab a post it and work on it. Dont think so

My guess is when there's no one around someone (manager) grabs all the post its and divies them out out and says fix it and let me know how much time so it can be billed. Else its just one major change exercise waiting to go tits up due to silo working.

IDS clearly has no idea that making a change here can and will at some time cause another problem elsewhere in the system.

PIRG's 'Electronic Waste Graveyard' lists 100+ gadgets dumped after support vanished

obsolescence right there

Anything under 5 years old is naughty , anything over is a bonus. i try to avoid tech that relies on software updates and support. I know its getting harder.

Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims

Re: "because the warranty had expired and the recall didn't apply to him."

failing suspension parts unless physically deteriorating would be a case of fair wear and tear and subject to maintenance. without knowing the specifics some suspension parts at 50k could easily be worn out and need replacing, suspension take the weight of the whole vehicle and with the added weight hey will wear out faster.

Museum digs up Digital Equipment Corporation's dusty digital equipment

I worked in DEC park for a while

Sadly not for DEC direct, or possibly thankfully. The place was its own village and had shops barbers/hairdressers, travel agents banks etc all on site and a very nice company car pool fleet we had to organize.

And oh the whitely wiff

Now its a housing estate or something, havent been that area of reading for a while

Linus Torvalds forgot to release Linux 6.14 for a whole day

And no one of note noticed or cared!!!!

SpaceX Dragon pod arrives at ISS to finally pick up stranded Boeing astronaut pair

Am I to assume 9 months overtime coming their way. plus unsociable hours and away from home allowance, but the ride home in the company vehicle is a taxable benefit

China's EV champ BYD reveals super-fast charging that leaves Tesla eating dust

Calll the fire brigade before hand

So wait for vehicle fires to increase due to heat build up and combustion of the cells. unless they've managed to change the laws of physics or invent some new wonder cell. charging is inefficient as most of the power creates heat so speeding it up will create more heat. itll also destroy the cells faster.

We do need ultra fast charging, say to 80+ percent in less than 5 mins ,but that cant be done with Lithium cells at the moment. and they'll be gone soonish anyway to be replaced by Aluminium-Air batteries or some other material. which i welcome.

UK government to open £16B IT services competition after 6-month delay

Re: "...exclude suppliers on the basis of past behavior"

this wont open the door to small business suppliers as those types of company could not get the capital together to meet the contract requirements and liabilities should things go south.

For example a current contract 2 month extension for the MOD is approximately 1 mil but the liabilities are in excess of 12 million which is more than the original contract value. This is not a scenario but how the government plays. That and there awful payment terms means cashflow and wages are potentially at risk for small companies.

The only companies who can achieve underwriting government contract liabilities are the big players.

UK must pay cyber pros more than its Prime Minister, top civil servant says

contractors

Most Gov contractors already are. they make up most it and cyber staff for those not in the forces. nothing new here.

Google begs owners of crippled Chromecasts not to hit factory reset

In built obsolescence

smells like inbuilt obsolescence myself, where they hoping older devices would be dead and in landfill by now. a security certificate that runs for 10 years. Still 10 years is better than later Amazon Kindle fires which die after a few days out of warranty yet Amazon dont want to know its out of warranrty !!!!!!

$16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet. It hasn’t gone well

If it aint broke

Why use a database if you don't need to. These dbases are just licenses to print money for the likes of SAP and ORACLE. New zealand total population is just ove 5 million, Birmingham is over 1.1 million for the city !!!!!!

The spreadsheet will be income/outgoings for the service deptartments with sub excel sheets for specfic depts and expenditure. So whats the problem.

Oh Brother. Printer giant denies dirty toner tricks as users cry foul

Every printer loses money whe sold in todays market

The cost of parts and manufacturing processes, shipping etc. and the retail value of the printers now means most printers will lose money. Print device companies according to HP in the past don't sell printers they sell Toner the Print device is just a means of getting the product on to the paper/Medium.

Still doesn't make it right to restrict the use of non OEM Ink/Toner. Sadly we aren't paperless yet, its only been on the cards since 1988 where companies tried to go full paperless, then i believe only Scania managed it at the time (didnt end well for SAAB).

Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal

Completely agreed

Sexual harrassment will be immediate dismissal following investigation in any contract of employment at any level in the UK. So obviously Germany allow this witin contract that CEO etc can do what they want and still walk away with a payout if found to be in breach of contract.

No one will touch him with a barge pole for employment for a few years hence he now has 7.5 mil to live on.

Framework Desktop wows iFixit – even with the soldered RAM

Inbuilt obsolescence more like

Love the excuse for performance which essentially means wev'e built in obsolescence so you'll have to buy a new pc bearing in mind apart from PSU's the biggest part failure on a pc is the RAM nowadays, unacceptable really on a machine that can use SODIMMS quite easily

Already three years late, NHS finance system replacement delayed again

Without competition.

Ermm basically no one wants to touch this lemon with a barge pole. itll end in a mess and well over budget and it wont resolve what it needs.

London has 400 GW of grid requests holding up datacenter builds

Not all data centres

This amount of power is required for Vehicle charging which has been known as an issue from day 1 f any green infrastructure ideas. Resources thatsuck wads of power around london will come second as this affects our 2035 targets agreed with Europe. (its actually 2050 but well done Boris et all promising something thatcant be done)

Does this thing run on a 220 V power supply? Oh. That puff of smoke suggests not

Blown Cap

The blown cap was just a noise reducer in the across the mains rail to filter unwanted noise is my guess, of course it would work, Luckily it wast an internalfuse that went. that would have been a lot more fun to sort!!!!!!!!!

Microsoft's London 'Experience Center' packs up and goes home

surprised it lasted that long. all done for a posh london address, better suited to a kebab shop in luton!

The channel stands corrected: Hardware is a refresh cycle business now

doh a bit late

I thought stating the obvious and anyone who hasn't seen this coming since 2005 clearly has been asleep at the wheel.

Three and Vodafone: We need to merge because our networks are rubbish

Voda and cornwall dont mix

Having spent a week last week in deepest Cornwall, all i can say most of my network was 2G wherever we went. i feel for those having to live with this permanently, there's a reason they still have live phone boxes in some places which wont be replaced once the digital switch over happens. I suspect this wont be improved as the population is fairly low so no desire to improve things.

FBI raids HQ of US govt IT giant Carahsoft

Love to know what company

Not Crowd strike by any chance.

Lebanon now hit with deadly walkie-talkie blasts as Israel declares ‘new phase’ of war

Terrorist tactics against the Terrorists.

Ill get me coat

'Hyperscale customer' to take massive datacenter site near London

Sounds like someone decided to buy some land and dont know what to do with it.

Major constraints will be the fight for power, bearing in mind there's a lot of warehousing in and around that area and companies moving to Electrified trucks whose range is between 5 and 120 miles per charge and those babies swallow good old electricity like a a rain drop in a well. and will require super fast charging to make it worthwhile and these are required to meet 2030 carbon emissions. whereas a lovely useless AI datacenter which tells you your fridge is empty or there's someone at your front door isn't exactly urgently required.

Delivering goods will outstrip AI in importance than another datacenter so i wont be at all surprised if this use of land doesn't change again.

I can fix this PC, boss, but I’ll need to play games for hours to do it

Same idea with new tech for me

For a few years in the Early 2000s till 2010 I was the hardware introduction engineer for a large MOD project and therefore every new piece of equipment except servers and network components came through me for selection and testing before being passed to Integration and Test

Screens Mice keyboards and PC's where the best as the best way to test this kit was to literally play games as well as office applications.

You'd be surprised how much equipment would fail screen refreshes and memory issues when under stress and slow refresh rates to a crawl. At this time we where also playing with full 3D graphics using screens which didn't require the silly glasses , that was fun with flight simulators in high terrain areas. on a 40 inch LCD on my desk.

Ahh those where the days