* Posts by Morten Bjoernsvik

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If Dell's Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PC is typical of the genre, other PCs are toast

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Qualcomm vs Intel

So this means chipzilla is toast then?

Snapdragon Elite X almost as fast as Intel I9. Something that was never ever intended to add into an laptop.

Broadcom has brought VMware down to earth and that’s welcome

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And where do you think you are running those Kubernetes container hosts? On a bunch of esx servers.

Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' still the Bedrock choice for moving off Windows

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Re: Hm...

Just like firefox sync

DigiCert gives unlucky folks 24 hours to replace doomed certificates after code blunder

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DigiCert can come up with a number.

> This will affect "approximately 0.4 percent of the applicable domain validations we have in effect,

> " the certificate authority said in a July 29 advisory. The Register has asked exactly how many

> domains this represents, and we'll let you know if DigiCert can come up with a number.

https://crt.sh/cert-populations -> 19,895,486 * .004 = around 80K

Db2 is a story worth telling, even if IBM won't

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Re: And the story is... use another DB

When it comes to documentation and IBM it is the rebook that counts

https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248527.html

I had a DB2 luw(e) story when I did a port from mysql to DB2 on a linux centos7/redhat app. Terrible performance on dynamic sql, but excellent on prepared statement optimized with db2look.

Next I did an oracle port trying to use the same tricks, but had to be assisted by a experienced Oracle dba to manage near the same performance.

It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer

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Re: Broadcom deals

>24k seats that are not profitable is business Broadcom is happy to see leave and be a burden on their competition. Frankly it frees up resources to better serve the remaining profitable customers.

We are talking software only. The profit is enormous, it is just the support, telemetry, reccuring licencing and distribution cost that adds and they are tiny. Unless they give the software away they make a profit on any customer.

VMware giving away Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro free for personal use

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Re: So long and thanks for all the fish

>I solved my problem by switching to VirtualBox.

We had a Oracle audit and they found a single virtual box running in our environment. I managed to shut it down before the final audit.

Oracle CEO says more tech can help offset tech's worst effects

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Re: "Oracle’s real purpose was to help humanity."

after 25 years of brainwash She believes it

Lords of May-hem: Seven signs it is Oracle's year end

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Dopesick

I just watched the Dopesick tvserie (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9174558/) and the Purdue Salesreps reminded me of Evil Reds audit team.

Dear Stack Overflow denizens, thanks for helping train OpenAI's billion-dollar LLMs

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Re: Why does OpenAI need to scrape Stack Overflow for bad code that often doesn’t work?

They need to train it and SO has lots of metrics to value if an answer is good or bad.

But they have a major problem with old outdated answers with massive score that always pop up first. I think both parties will benefit. SO can probably get a much better match and some much needed money infusion.

Over 170K users caught up in poisoned Python package ruse

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Re: Python, eh?

Put up your own repo server like nexus3oss (https://help.sonatype.com/en/download.html) it is completely free in its basic version, you can proxy the original repos, and

run tests and if they tests ok, You can push to verified repos you use in your production. No more downloading directly from the internjet.

I only proxy used packages, so all you do not use it do not care about.

I have a tiny Intel NUC with an image of this running: https://github.com/sonatype/docker-nexus3/blob/main/Dockerfile

serving Docker,Pypi,Maven and Nuget repos for all my needs.

Along with a gogs git repo server and Jenkins CI I have all I need so I do not have to push my stupid bad code out on gitlab.com or github.

Since pip can install directly from any private git server, maybe a private repo is the easies way to start if you only use python.

As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot real estate

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tax it

The recent https://www.cerebras.net/product-system/ clocks in at 15U @23KW. They claim 2xPerformance for the same Watts, so maybe we should just wait.

Sould be a extra taxation on top of nice to have features, or only allowed to use surplus energy, or when price/KW is below a certain pricepoint.

Nvidia rival Cerebras says it's revived Moore's Law with third-gen waferscale chips

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23KW per rack

How do you cool this? Sounds terrible expensive.

Starting over: Rebooting the OS stack for fun and profit

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looking forward to CVEs for memory

With persistet memory it will be like disk today. Not looking forward to the CVEs comming. But it will create lots of work.

Web archive user's $14k BigQuery bill shock after running queries on 'free' dataset

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Re: It's always the "power users" doing dumb stuff

From the post 'TIM' seems quite aware it cost money, suggesting a $5K limit. But racking up $14K in just 2 hours seem a bit above his expectation. He was using a python library that did not present the warning as in the webgui.

Space nukes: The unbelievably bad idea that's exactly that ... unbelievable

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Re: That was my thought, too.

Friend do not underestimate what desperate people can do with a large stockpile of nuclear weapons.

Russia is no longer a superpower, they can't produce modern weapons except for lots of cannon shells.

For US there is a no-brainer to support Ukraine. It is all weapons produced and developed in the US. Excellent for the economy and the military lobbyists. The get an other nation to tear down the iron curtain power, so the US can concentrate on China and Asia.

Microsoft says it'll throw €3.2B at AI ops in Germany

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Re: Coal-Fired?

THIS Germany that imports electricity from aged and decrepit nuclear plants placed conveniently far outside the borders as to be immune from the anti-Atomkraft lobby in the Bundestag, yet close enough to annihilate quite a damn lot of it, should they go boom as the misguided fears of the past foretold – the same fears that were over-played by, yes, the Greens, in fighting against Atomkraft and achieving a massive win for Big Coal, back in the day?

Iit is going to be powered by greenish hydro electric imported via underwarer cables across skagerak from Norway.

Our uttelry incompetent politicians used billions to lay cables to UK and Germany so we can sell electricity cheaply depleeting the water deposits and lay off all power intensive industry.

Ivanti devices hit by wave of exploits for latest security hole

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Juniper -> Pulse -> Ivanti

Wonder how many left from the original Juniper crew are left. None I believe

Still no love for JPEG XL: Browser maker love-in snubs next-gen image format

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pictures

>I have all the photos I've taken since about 2016 on my phone and even my music library takes up more space.

Before I bought a pixel 8pro, I now have 25GB of pictures since october. I think it is a trap to buy google diskspace.

Firefox 122 gets even more competitive with Chrome on translation

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Re: Shame on the Reg

Endorsing the horribleness that Firefox has become is not good.

Compared to years ago, it is now quite good. and It gives me a nice feeiling I'm not pumping metrics to google or microsoft, except for the

search. I prefer duck duck go, but then Mozilla do not get any revenues. And I have a bad concious since I've not donated the last two years .

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Firefox has a nice beta that autoupdates

go here and install:

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/123.0b2/

Then you can go to help->"about firefox" and it will autoupdate. Been using it since their flatpack only shite some years ago.

David Mills, the internet's Father Time, dies at 85

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Re: Hmm!

"In 11th grade, a teacher told him, "You're never going to get to college"

Some can take it, and use it as an inspiration, it clearly worked for Mr Mills.

Atari 400 makes a comeback in miniature form

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shelf porn

Love the aged patina white color. But the missis would be raged to see this on our bragging shelf.

I have the atari50 for ps4 so I have no need whatsoever to buy this, except for the bulky retro feeling of having it on the shelf.

Scripted shortcut caused double-click disaster of sysadmin's own making

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we have all been there

I cleaned the wrong database and wiped a 40 person department entire days work.

Luckily the DB-admin could do a rollback to last backup and then rollforward to exact at my delete operation.

But we lost 40 persons * 20 minutes of productivity because it was no cases in the queues coming from the mainframe.

In this case it was IBMs DB2 and a very nice DB-admin that saved my career.

(He actually got a cake from management for fast problem solving)

Lenovo to offer Android PCs, starting with an all-in-one that can pack a Core i9

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Re: Just... why?

There may be an initiative to create a bloatedcpu intensitive game in android.

Musk's first year as Twitter's Dear Leader is nigh

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Twitter^h^h^h^h^h^h^hX

The new name is what irritates me most. The X is way to ambiguous. When someone refers to it they always say "X formerly known as Twitter" or "X/Twitter". Nobody other than the Musk himself will ever associate X with a centralized social micro message platform popular in the early 2000s.

Intel slaps forehead, says I got it: AI PCs. Sell them AI PCs

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orthography

7nm, Apple A17pro is 3nm, Intel still has a wafer problem.

Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG

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window11

I have an old windows10 laptop I use frequently for testing It now asks me to upgrade to windows11 every time I log in. It is from 2010 and do not meet the requirements. Where TPM is one. but even if it fails It still ask. Every time.

Telcos need another $3B in Uncle Sam's cash to remove Chinese network kit, says FCC

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Re: And here we are...

US can just print more money, they have the benefit of being the worlds default currency. and All the major lenders have all the interest in keeping the Dollar stable.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny

march 2023 = $31,459,291,842,710.78 total debt / 334,721,373 population = $93986.50 per capita,

Poor lenders that will never see their money:

https://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt

What happens if China just stop to lend US more money? if the Yuan becomes the world currency?

Ramping up US inland production with Chinese financing that seem to be the answer. More Debth, more p#### of lenders.

Fed up with Python setup and packaging? Try a shot of Rye

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what we need another package bloat

I've done java maven and node npm and they are terrible and bloated.

a maven pom under 300 lines are seldom. and you need a artifactory or nexus local repo to build fast. and all the plugins.

npm a bit better but the directory stucture completely messy. typescrip ,

EDB offers 'risk-free' migration to lure Oracle users to the PostgreSQL side

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dont forget the audit

And this stupid audit every time you try to reduce the Oracle footprint.

Is there no license manager that takes care of this so you only run what you have license for?

I've used the free version Oracle Express 1core/4GB ram/16GB disk for porting away from oracle.

I had a hard time with the native blobs format, different from DB2 and MSSQL the blob format seems to be some oracle internal.

Since then I always store binaries as raw strings in cblobs. Someone says it has a performance penalty, but it makes oracle way more portable.

Oracle give you Golden Gate for free. So my DBA love it and cant it praise it enough. But it is a major part of the lockin strategy.

The nodes have it in the Great DB debate: Reg readers pick graph

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Re: It does help.......

>Excel is great.

I hated programming in rows and columns. I used this module: https://metacpan.org/pod/Excel::Writer::XLSX

Banking people got nice html reports from their data-warehouse and payed me to convert it to excel.

A customer had a >1TB database with financial data, they wanted extracts in excel, so I created a script that every morning created around 15000 spreadsheet.

After some time they wanted a way to import changes from the excel spreadsheeds back into the database. That was really hard. Worked a long time on it.

Ended up with adding alter transactions operations we feed into the transaction system.

They were wizards in excel, but learning a few lines of splunk, perl or python were no option.

Nowadays I program in dataframes in R and Python and present it in jupyter workbooks on a website. A dataframe is just a simplified CSV version of a excel spreadsheet.

Unix is dead. Long live Unix!

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Re: About 15 years ago...

hm 16 year agos SGI discontinued Irix, the best unix Ever,

still have a green 2xR10K 175MHz/2GBmem Octane/MXI in the attic,

It doesnt power up, So I'm not sure whats wrong It was last powered-up around 2010.

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

- xfs now the default filesystem on redhat

- CXFS - clustered filesystem long before Lustre or ZFS

- Geometry Engine and Open GL

- openMP - shared mem MPI

- 4DWM - Still miss the minimize into icon, you could easily have 100 windows arranged on a 1024x1280 screen.

- 4DWM also had backing store so, for the first time you could drag full video windows around.

- smake - sgis parallel version of make, when you had 4+ processors it was very nice

Google's Dart language soon won't take null for an answer

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boyce codd normal form

Databases with lots of nulls often have a lot less meaning than ones where the designer thought of the problem and fixed the representation of the data so they would not need null. When I see a null in a row, what does that mean?

You describe a perfect excample for boyce codd normalization. Perfect normalization results in a missed table row and no nulls. In my previous job I had this normalization wizard that fixed our 17Tb 120 tables 25 year legacy into a 12Tb 320 tables a with 300% query performance. Developers over the years had just added collumns to existing tables in stead of making new tables with foreign keys. Joining tales with loose connections and lots of ORs kills performance and waste memory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce%E2%80%93Codd_normal_form

openSUSE makes baseline CPU requirements a little friendlier than feared

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Re: missing the point

>The whole point of x86 is backward compatibility.

Dropping archaic hardware means less code to maintain.

I agree with Linus: https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-kernel-i486/ Havent used a 486 in decades.

Britain has likely missed the boat for having a semiconductor industry

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Still opportunities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Zeloof is already at 300nm in his parents garage with its 2nd hand 90ies tech and homegrown equipment.

Most universities should be able to jumpstart this.

You can also do a lot similar to xilinx with massive FPGAs, I think they are at 7nm with Versal.

I bet there are lots of ways to improve still.

Google and Microsoft add more renewable energy for datacenters

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greenwashing b*******

Microsoft did not disclose the suppliers for its renewable energy agreements, but other sources have identified Norwegian energy company Statkraft and Ireland's Energia Group as two that are involved, with the energy coming from a mix of wind and solar projects.

Unfotunately this is hydropower draining our dams in areas with little line capacity to import energy from middle and north.. Norway used to have a healthy surplus of water based electricity but all the greenwashing projects have exhausted it. The worst project is to electify europes largest fertilizer plant in Porsgrunn. It will need 4TWh yearly. Another idiocy is to electrify the oil platforms where they have today have gas turbines using excess gas from drilling for all their energy requirements. In north and middle Norway we have built lots of wind turbines and little capacity to export to south where we have megawatt cables to uk,germany,denmark and sweden. here the price per kwh is below hydropower maintenance rate so they let the dams flod over. while in the south is is 15 times higher rates and danger or rationalization. The result is a terrible poll for the ruling parties and massive small businesses layoffs. Our inflation is 90 percent energy related. Nothing you can solve with higher interests rates. Lots of talks to tax the powerlords and energy-companies but not much will because it is mostly owned by local counties which love the extra money for healthcare and social spending. hope they wake up before the last local business shuts down.

World's richest man posts memes as $44b Twitter acquisition veers off course

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Re: Waah

I loved Dabbs, every friday he had something great. but nothing for 3months:

https://www.theregister.com/Author/Alistair-Dabbs

Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move

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Let him brag

He has $44bill reasons to brag,

How do you protect your online systems? Cultivate an insider threat

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Re: "it boils down to the first rule of cybersecurity: people are the problem"

So it is much better to let it loose and let some strangers do it.

Exploit your own before some strangers do it.

Too little, too late: Intel's legacy is eroding

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Re: Ambitious?

itanic was a HP design. followup to pa-risc. Not much intel there e cept for the fabbing.

UK Parliament bins its TikTok account over China surveillance fears

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Re: social media service probably sends data about its users back to Beijing

You give your name and phone number and location data and taste of videos and friends to a chinese company. This is a nice starting point for further data probing.

Nothing more than Google, Apple, M$ or Meta is doing, but sending it to Beijing.

Linux may soon lose support for the DECnet protocol

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metrics please

Are there any metric gathering entity that can back up the decision?

There is nothing as good as showing numbers for management to contradict their decision.

And it happens a lot. in the IoT space there are lots of protocols and hardware now outdated, but still being used.

When you see 10% of your customer-base still using a dead protocol with old hardware, it will cause riots to abandon it.

Battle of the retro Unix desktops: NsCDE versus CDE

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4dwm

Anyone knows where to get a 4dwm for Ubuntu distros. I especially loved how it had this window of running apps. Or you could stach each running app as icons when minimized and no launcher. I had 4 1280*1024 heads on my indigo2 maximum impact back in 1997.

Ampere: Cloud biz buy-ins prove our Arm server CPUs are the real deal

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Real benchmarks please

Larger L1 and L2 caches and high core density and 5nm taping sound expensive. Price/performance benchmarks please. Arm risc may be easier to optimize than cisc, so it would be nice to see.

Atlassian: Unpatched years-old flaw under attack right now to hijack Confluence

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no problem here

We're still on premise v6.2 from 2017. we do not have this feature :-)

To get to the cloud we need to upgrade to some versions, but there are lots of database issues.

You have to take each update step by step every version, will take forever.

Feature maturity and terrible administration made atlassian drop on premise, just managing atlassian products are a full sys-admin/uber dba expert skill position, no one can afford.

If you're using the ctx Python package, bad news: Vandal added info-stealing code

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private pypi

We use private nexus3 pypi repos where we add packages when safety or snyk complains about outdated packages.

You can also simply create a parser for https://www.cvedetails.com on python. I'm pretty sure pypi is already full of them. The main drawback of cve is the long delay from it is being discovered until a cve is issued. but this can be solved by only using popular packages and wait some time until upgrading.

Heresy: Hare programming language an alternative to C

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just what we need

Another programming language - not

I already dabble in python, c, go, javascript, powershell, bash, java and perl5.

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS arrives on everything from a 2GB Pi to AWS Graviton

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jobs?

>110,000 job applications fielded by Canonical in 2021,

Are they job recruiters now?

Nvidia outlines subscription-fueled journey to $1tr revenue

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Hardware subscriptions exists

Oracle Exadata

IBM mainframes

Any cloud provider

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