Posts by Aldnus

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

I remeber in the early 90s having to do security night shifts at SGI in theale. the day shoft used to get the noce jobs of testing equipment by playing games for the company as it was cheaper to the security staff to do it than thier engineers.

I will add it was nigh on impossible to get on the day shift ,I was stuck up the road at DEC park in Reading. Was only a fill since being made redundant thankfully

Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of generative AI

ooooo

TTell us something we didnt see coming 10 years ago. and the biggest culpri will likely be social media platforms and the crap they store

CrowdStrike hopes legal threats will fade as time passes since it broke the world

They may not be suing as that costs money so does cancelling contracts mid Term, Wait for renewals and watch there sales plummet and contracts not renewed.

Microsoft PC accessories rise from the grave just in time for Christmas

Erm Missing th point

Many of the items marked Microsoft (keyboards,Mice) where infact rebranded Logitech units, Back when Logitech made nice kit.

Many pc manufacturers also used Logitech, Ive just sadly had to say good bue to my faithful 18 year old Fujitsu Business line keyboard nice and heavey with proper feel.

That was a logitech . the ms equivalent was Black instead of two tone brown.