Posts by Steve K

Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next

Can it find the arse already in "raspberry"?

Broadcom loses another big VMware customer: UK fintech cloud Beeks Group, and most of its 20,000 VMs

Where were the changes made though?

The article didn't say whether they made changes to OpenNebula itself or whether their monitoring sits on top (e.g. via an API) as a separate suite of tools

Yup, half of that thought-leader crap on LinkedIn is indeed AI scribbled

Re: Head of Feed Relevance

Head straight for the “B” Ark, please

UK council still hadn't fully costed troubled Oracle project 2 years in

Re: “ no fully costed and resourced plan in place to enable delivery of the program to completion.”

I don't think you'd ever deliver Oracle ERP using Agile....

Thousands of AI agents later, who even remembers what they do?

Indubitaludally

Indubitaludally

Unbreakable Voyager space probes close in on a 50 year mission

Re: Uh oh..

You can also see a much younger version of Dr. Garry Hunt interviewed by Patrick Moore on Sky At Night on iPlayer in 1986/1989 when Voyager got to Uranus and Neptune respectively.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02vkf6f

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02vkp7b

Schneider Electric ransomware crew demands $125k paid in baguettes

Re: Why did the ransomware scum demand payment in French Bread?

You're croissant a line there

Your air fryer might be snitching on you to China

Re: They want data?

I often use W12 8QT as the postcode (the old BBC TV Centre, burned into my mind from 1970's Blue Peter/Vision On competitions!!

Dave: I'm afraid I can't do that, HAL

Dave: I'm afraid I can't do that, HAL

Oregon Trail 'action comedy' film in the works from Apple

Anyone remember "Best of the West"?

Anyone remember "Best of the West"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_the_West

Just me then....

$180 for an overpriced, dubious SSD drive? Maybe don't join the USB Club

Almost an NFT?

You mean like a NFT?

Microsoft teases latest Windows 10 build despite looming end

Re: Timebombs?

I suspect that these "cards with details of your hardware" are part of this plan for nag-alerts to remind users that their functioning hardware running W10 isn't supported by W11 and they really should buy a new PC (bonus ponts for links included to CoPilot-ready vendors)....

Raspberry Pi AI Camera takes inferencing load off the CPU

Re: Just think for a moment about how far we've come..

The PiHut have them (or did yesterday at least....)

IBM and Oracle to support 280,000 users after winning mega ERP govt tech contract

Re: Oracle, seems I've heard that name before

Far be it from me to defend Oracle, but it wasn't Oracle's consultants who implemented the Birmingham ERP fustercluck

OpenAI in throes of executive exodus as three walk at once

Re: Valuation

Three-fiddy is the best I can do

LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in

Re: This is fine.

Can someone make sure AManFromMars leaves this switched on?

Japan to put a small red Swedish house on the Moon

Re: "a small red house on the surface of the Moon"

..or to dislodge and disable the rover the minute it lands

EV sales hit speed bump as drivers unplug from the electric dream

Re: Several factors come to mind...

There are amazing deals on first-generation Audi E-trons at the moment (more so on the 50 model due to the limited range). You can get a 3 or 4 year old one for well under £20k

I was tempted, but the insurance costs puts me off, and also the (potential) maintenance costs, since a £67k car still needs £67k car parts fitted when required.

Microsoft Bing Copilot accuses reporter of crimes he covered

Re: Copilot accuses reporter of crimes

Here, just drink this milk.....

Buying a PC for local AI? These are the specs that actually matter

No…

…I’m a waffle man

Organized crime and domestic violence perps are big buyers of tracking devices

Re: "Prohibiting sales for illegal applications"?

How dairy!

Oh Sonos! App update borks users' favorite features and worse

What about playlists...?

You can't even edit/clear playlists...

Before the update you could edit playlists, set tracks to play next or add to end of queue.

Now all you can do is replace a queue with your selected track!! How this got out of Beta I'll never know

If I had just bought Sonos gear and had to use this app I'd be getting a refund on the speakers and switching to another brand ASAP.

If you are on iOS you can't roll back, but more recent devices are accessible via AirPlay 2 for example ( doesn't help with older S1 devices though)

WTF Sonos - at least make the old app available still - none of this was mentioned in the Release notes......

Hey, Reddit. Quick question. All those clicks on my ads. Were they actually real?

Re: Obligatory.

You have my sympathy!

This is why I have 2 synced Pi-holes!

Nvidia turns up the AI heat with 1,200W Blackwell GPUs

Can it write Doom/Crysis

Halley's Comet has begun its long trek back toward Earth

Rosetta/Philae

<quote> Humanity is yet to land a spacecraft on anything like a comet, </quote>

I am pretty sure that the Rosetta/Philae mission landed on a comet - more than once as I recall?

The Philae probe bounced into the shadows, and Rosetta was deorbited onto the surface at the end of the mission to 67-P/Churyumov/Getasimenko

Tesla sues Swedish government after worker rebellion cripples car biz

Re: I am enjoying this dispute

I bet you were Surrey about that

Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough

Re: Apple TV+... anyone? anyone?

“Slow Horses” and “Severance” are worth signing up for a month…

Microsoft's big bet on helium-3 fusion explained

Re: Bad name, won't work.

Already got one related to the Fusor - Hubert J. Farnsworth (Futurama)

Slack adding generative AI to interact with colleagues, so you don't have to

Electric Monk?

Just brand it “Electric Monk” for Slack and no-one ever needs to apply any thought/effort to their interactions with colleagues…

Douglas Adams was close to the mark again!

US officials probe Tesla's incredible detaching steering wheel

Re: They're not the only one - Nissan has the same problem

Well the most dangerous part of the car is the nut behind the steering wheel.

This was the reason for the omission.

Tech CEO nixes AI lawyer stunt after being threatened with jail time

Re: Music from code

Douglas Adams got there first in “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency”!

One of the protagonist’s software projects turned Corporate Financial Statements into Music.

Polish for Windows Spotlight and tabs for Notepad in latest Insiders build

Re: Polishing a ...

…but you CAN roll it in glitter!

LUMI supercomputer puts GPU partition through its paces with hardcore science

Quantum Foam

Lager than expected? Is that anything to do with Quantum Foam?

BBC is still struggling with the digital switch, says watchdog

Re: A few things of interest.

I’ll check that out.

I have been looking at others with this issue on hummy.tv and there seem to be a few with it.

Re: A few things of interest.

The custom firmware on the FOX-T2-HD has given what is a 10+ year old device a new lease of life (with a 4TB HDD upgrade too)!

Simple things like not wiping your recording schedule and channel lists when the channels change - why on earth the Freeview spec does not allow for this is beyond me!

I think that mine may be on the way out as I get the green/black HDMI issue on my new TV. It doesn’t owe me anything.

Mozilla, Microsoft drop TrustCor as root certificate authority

Re: Trust and CA's

Starfield is Amazon…

Version 252 of systemd, as expected, locks down the Linux boot process

Re: For a second....

“Og” ikke “och”? Med mindre I Sverige….?

* DuoLingo, 1 year - apologies …;-)

Porsche wants to sell you a rusty tailpipe soundbar for $12k

RUST?

That is definitely not rust!!

It will be heat staining on the exhaust from manufacture or testing (assuming that the part came off the production line). This is not caused by corrosion, but rather hotspots from welding, or where exhaust gases contact the metal at bends.

Voyager mission's project scientist retires after 50 years of service

Re: To boldly go where no man has gone before

In due time (hopefully following a long and happy retirement) that should go on Ed Stone’s headstone

Rocket

Rockets?

We ad t’fart us selves into orbit

Cops swoop after crooks use wireless keyfob hack to steal cars

Re: Progress of car security

Talking of interchangeable parts, I once spoiled an Austin Ambassador with a Ferrari washer

Foldable smartphones crawl to one percent of global market share

Re: The modern flip-phone

It was 10,000 folds, not 100,000 I think?

Re: The modern flip-phone

when once of my dogs sees a squirrel while I am holding it.

Easy - don't pick up a squirrel when your dog is looking

Google kills off Stadia

Re: self fulfilling

Yep - cancelled projects all the way down.....

Hurricane Ian blows NASA Artemis Moon launch into October or November

Demeter?

NASA have had problems with Demeter in the past…..

China discovers unknown mineral on the moon, names it Changesite-(Y)

Re: A question

Maybe it's a bit like Changesite but not entirely? So is Changesite-y?

A refined Apple desktop debuts ahead of Wednesday’s big iThing launch

Re: 64K

Was it like sideways RAM on certain BBC Model B expansion cards?

NASA builds for keeps: Voyager mission still going after 45 years

Re: Technology Perspective

Voyager launched in 1977.

45 years before that was 1932 wasn’t it?

That doesn’t change the rest of your post’s sentiment of course

That was fast: MetaGuard emerges as an 'incognito mode' for the metaverse

East Ham or Woodgrange Park

Let me guess - you live in East Ham or Woodgrange Park (or maybe Upney)?

Bloke robbed of $800,000 in cryptocurrency by fake wallet app wants payback from Google

Hmmm

Cryptocurrency is good for this….