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Posts by K
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Datawind insists $42 tab isn't Chinese
Google avoids tax with ‘Double Irish Dutch Sandwich’
Cloud upstart Nirvanix bins another round of US sales bods
Thursday 22nd November 2012 08:52 GMT
Simply too expensive..
The Nutanix product looks amazing and its perfect for the SME sector, but starting price in the UK is about £75,000 then about £7500 for support - which for 4 servers and a bit of flash is simply to much.
I wish them all the best, but they need to be realistic on the costs.
Taito's Double Dragon
UN: Greenhouse gas emissions gap is out of control
Wednesday 21st November 2012 15:54 GMT
Re: Sorry, third world, you need to STAY POOR
FACT: There is not enough resources to go round!
Unfair yes, but you'll be screaming for the goverment to do something when your new car, electric bills, living bills get 2-5x more expensive because demand outstrips supply, you find you can no longer live the life you want.
Evildoers can now turn all sites on a Linux server into silent hell-pits
Wednesday 21st November 2012 09:00 GMT 
"intermediate programmer with no extensive kernel experience"
Sounds like they are making this person out to be at the lower end of the "intermediate" skill set (amateur)...
Bear in mind, he probably created one of the more advanced Linux based root kits publicly known - that sounds like somebody with pretty advanced skills to me!
Google hires top US traffic fed for driverless cars project
Wii U disassembly reveals unusual innards
Cloudy admin? Here's how to ward off Call of Duty-playing teens
Drone security project to go open source
Ten four-bay NAS boxes
Saturday 17th November 2012 22:07 GMT
Re: I don't get NAS boxes...
Sorry, but you talk bollocks :)
I built and use an Intel i3 based NAS box, with 5 hot swap drives. The case has a 150w power supply.. but actually draws less than 100w. The drives are Samsung 5.2k rpm ECO drives.. And no the HDD's don't power down, in fact I run VMWare on it at least 4 VM's running at all times..
Saturday 17th November 2012 13:40 GMT
Re: I don't get NAS boxes...
Can't fault you on your logic - but your wrong.
I've built many bespoke NAS boxes over the past few years for home usage - most of them run Windows, I can't recall 1 of them having a problem.
The issue with using a *NIX OS for the NAS, few "home" user comprehend the bare OS, so if they have a problem, its next to impossible for them to reliably fix it, and even if they Google for a solution, its gibberish to them. Windows on the other hand is prevalent, 99% of users are familiar with it and I'd say 75% are capable of finding a solution to most problems (of course they try to hit up their "IT" friend to fix it first!).
GoDaddy puts gratuitous sexy pics on IT content
Pollster predicts mega UK smart TV sales
Thursday 15th November 2012 13:03 GMT
With you on this one!
Though I like the idea of things like Voice and Eye tracking etc, until standards are made, you'd be a mug to buy one of these.
The best option is stick with your xBox or a Small Media streaming box, which you can pick up for < £100.. you get much more flexibility without the manufacturer lock-in.
Samsung readies bendy smarties for 2013
New Microsoft Windows chief 'shocked' by Sinofsky defenestration
'I'm a PIRATE' confessions spew from OED iPhone dictionary
Cawing retail vultures circle dying Comet, might rip some chunks off
Wednesday 14th November 2012 08:40 GMT
No wonder they are going to the wall..
Was in there yesterday and they are having a "Clearance Sales, everything must go!"... fair enough you say..
But their definition of Clearance Sale is a 10% discount, even with that I can still buy the stuff cheaper online. They need to take a leaf from Best Buys book, when that place shut down they were offering 40-60% discount, and absolutely everything went, including the ship fittings!
Sinofsky OFFSKI: Is Windows 9 now codenamed 'Defenestrate'?
Tuesday 13th November 2012 16:07 GMT
Sinofsky is no failure.
You forgot at the bottom "this article was sponsored by Sinosky!"
Back to reality, this is a failure of biblical proportions and rather than listening to customers and IT professionals, didn't put their fingers in their ears, oh no, they put on Ear Defenders and blind folds! Completely oblivious and ignoring all the feedback.
The whole senior management should be put in ejector seats equiped with Anvils rather than parachutes!
Windows boss Steve Sinofsky exits Microsoft
VMware wants to play 'Server Tetris' in your data centre
Tuesday 13th November 2012 09:05 GMT
Meh..
I smell BS - I bet you said the same thing when the last version of Hyper-V was released.
Can't remember where I read it, but somebody wrote "I'll only take Hyper-V seriously once I start seeing products such as Fusion-IO being actively and heavily marketed for it". And I can only agree..
Fact is 90%+ of Virtualisation implementations are VMWare, even if M$ chew into that by 10-15%, its still does very little to the current landscape.
Apple MacBook Pro 13in Retina display review
Intel Xeon Phi battles GPUs, defends x86 in supercomputers
Intel uncloaks 'highest performance' desktop processor
Surface sales 'modest' so far, Ballmer modestly admits
Storage upstart Huawei snatches NFS filer crown
Friday 9th November 2012 08:47 GMT 
Not bad kit..
I tested Huawei kit a couple of weeks ago, very well priced and it run really well.
Unfortunately, information about the Huawei systems is sparse and since they are still the new-kid on the block for storage, I've absolutely no indication how good their support is. So I couldn't take the gamble and ended up running with EMC (better the devil you know!).
Twitter survives election after Ruby-to-Java move
AMD shutters German Linux lab, gives devs the axe
Classic game 'Elite' returns … on Kickstarter
Consumer VPN service could be popular as regional paywalls go up
Monday 5th November 2012 13:26 GMT
Re: Moan, moan, moan
People are not moaning about the VPN - they're moaning because this ad is disguised as NEWS!
If El Reg stated it was an ad, or even pushed as a "Hey guys, heres a service you might try for X, Y and Z reasons". Then they would be getting a pat on the back, not nagging readers... but the problem is they don't
Tiny Ubi Android machine pre-orders open
HP hopes to give itself a shot in the arm with its LeftHand
Monday 5th November 2012 08:46 GMT
Not enough...
HP are always behind the curve on this.
I'm in the market for some new arrays, budget is not such a concern, and I've evaluated the Dell EQL, HP Left Hand and EMC VNX. We've decided to run with the VNX simple because of the functionality it offers such as the SSD Caching and Tiering.. Dell offer tiering on their high end EQL, but AFAIK HP have no such functionality for arrays in this price bracket.
Sock-wielding movie pirates go to prison
Big Data lets CIOs go all CSI
Friday 2nd November 2012 09:12 GMT 
Quick quick... Clouds not your bag, but get a load of this Big Data...
... Bullshit!
Another overhyped fad that is being shovelled down business leaders throats.
El Reg - News might be slow, but please stop publishing these "press release" ad's, or at least create a new corner of the site, I'd personally recommend "Odds and Sods -> Drivel"
iPad Mini's quite a handful
Acer is the latest maker to delay plans for a Windows RT fondletop
Story gone
Intel halves SSD power draw with 20nm chip shift
World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria review
Tumblr and Google App Engine down as US traffic plummets
Vaunted Windows 8 RTM updates 'actually featured from Win2000'
Thursday 25th October 2012 12:41 GMT
Its all a ruse to prepare for the 2nd coming..
Its all a ruse so that Billy Gates can do a "Steve Jobs's" and have a 2nd coming, he'll return as the saviour of in 2014..
Looking into my Crystal ball, I see that Windows 8 is going to flop, Sinofsky will be thrown to the wolves as the architect of the failure. Ballmer will go shortly after. Billy will state "he feels people frustration and pain, and promise to fix the mistakes", Windows 9 will then be released and praised as the true successor to Windows 7 (As Windows 7 is to XP).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
