Downvoted for what exactly? AHV is perfectly capable, I run my production workloads off of it on Dell XC nodes
Posts by FreeTard
291 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Jul 2008
1 in 5 VMware customers plan to jump off its stack next year
Meta to use work badge and Status Tool to snoop on staff
It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system
Apple tells European Commission it's nutty for slapping €13bn tax bill on Irish subsidiary
Poor people should get slower internet speeds, American ISPs tell FCC
Exclusive to all press: Atari launches world's best ever games console
PM urged to protect data flows post-Brexit ahead of Munich speech
Lots of brexiteers on this, El Reg is not the place I ever thought they'd appear.
Anyway, coming from an EU 27 country, I can tell you that brexit just doesn't matter as much to us as it does to the UK. The only place I ever read about it is in the guardian & FT - and now El Reg!
Brexit is a total fsck-up. But I don't think there's any going back since the Maybot triggered article 50. I hope I'm wrong, coz we still love you guys.
The 'DUP' joins El Reg’s illustrious online standards converter
Hotheaded Brussels civil servants issued with cool warning: Leak
Samsung Electronics reportedly ponders buying Fiat parts
Spotify seeks hardware boffins
Sayonara, Brits! The Irish tech sector could benefit from Brexit
Do you qualify as poor in Palo Alto? Spoiler: Yes, yes, you do
Re: Come to Spain
"The commute would be a bit of a bugger though - wouldn't it ?"
Not as bad as the commute into and out of Santa Clara every day. Was working there last summer and it was a total nightmare. It was so bad that it made no difference whatsoever what time you left work on a Friday, the result was frequent stops on the freeway for minutes at a time.
Tor users are actively discriminated against by website operators
Dell PowerEdge R730: Reg rack monkeys crack smiles over kindness of engineers
Evil NSA runs on saintly Linux, Apache, MySQL
Doctor Who's Under the Lake splits Reg scribes: This Alien homage thing – good or bad?
Re: Event Horizon in the same league with Alien?
Hold on there, as a fan of Alien I agree with you about watchability, but that is only because I am absolutely terrified of watching Event Horizon again. That flic gave me nightmares for weeks such is its genius - and I'm in my 40's FFS.
They are totally different movies and cannot be compared.
Pwned so many times - but saved by the incident response plan
UK exam board wants kids to be able to Google answers
Hoping for spy reforms? Jeb Bush, dangerously close to being the next US prez, backs the NSA
Amazon: Put our ALWAYS ON MICROPHONE in your house, please. WHAT?
Facebook's Zuckerberg in EBOLA VIRUS FIGHT: Billionaire battles bug
Facebook preps ad network to TARGET YOU WHERE YOU LIVE
Dell thuds down low-cost lap workstation for cheap frugal creatives or engineers
Re: low cost?
Isin't everything more expensive in Oz?
The wife was in Sydney for Xmas, and she was getting me to transfer 500AUD every few days - and the accomodation was already paid for! Cost me a bleedin fortune... case in point, Camembert cheese - 15dollars, bread to go with it 3 dollars WTF?
French youth faces court for illegal drone flight
Google warns Glass wearers: Quit being 'CREEPY GLASSHOLES'
Re: don't get it
I for one find this entire concept creepy. I do not like people taking videos / pictures of me and sticking them on the interweb. This is the very reason I have no "social" network account. With facial recognition you cannot say with certainty that your image in a random pic will not be recognised by glass. Do you not care about privacy?
The only thing I can imagine glass being good for is an app that lets you see everyone naked - fake nakedness would work well here. Perfect for those of a nervous disposition and had to do a talk in front of a room of heads.
Judge: Google owes patent troll a 1.36% cut of AdWords' BEELLIONS
No patents for...
A discovery, a scientific theory or a mathematical method;
An aesthetic creation;
A scheme, rule or method for performing a mental act, playing a game or doing business, or a computer program; or
The presentation of information.
http://www.patentsoffice.ie/en/patents_excluded.aspx
Patents must be novel, have industrial applicability, and an inventive step.
This covers basically the EU and most of the world....
...then we have the US
Dell staffers react to news of 1-in-3 axe dangling overhead
Vintage wine laid down in 1600 BC was 'psychotropic'
Teenage Rum
A load of us schoolboys went to a french class mate's gaf in France. His grandparents had left the family a house in the sticks of the Loire valley. But the house had not been used for donkeys.
There was a (disused) cave and we found two crates of seriously old Rum. The bottles were all twisted so God only knows how old it was. But it looked like the bottles you'd see in the old pirate movies.
Being teens we got twaddled and drank the lot. We had our fun and that's all that matters.
Ex-CEO Elop's plunder to total $25m in voyage from Nokia to Microsoft
Canadian family gives up modern tech to live like it's 1986
Re: iPhone and iPad?
It is a really good idea actually. I've had to change the passwords on the TV, laptops, ipad and telephones just to get the bloody kids to go outside and play this summer.
I caught my 13 year old son hiding in the wardrobe in his room playing poxy minecraft, and it was 28C outside.
If he was having a wank I could understand, but minecraft FFS!
When I were a lad....
Bradley Manning* sentenced to 35 years in prison
For pity's sake: DON'T MOVE to the COUNTRY if you want to live
Re: How to survive in the countryside
Yes but D.U.I is simply not considered an issue in the states. Last year when over there I went out with some locals one night, and we got totally blattered. I was the only one who ordered a taxi home. And the other lads and lassies all drove their own cars home and they had more to drink than I did.
When I mentioned a taxi as a good alternative, they said, "No, were used to drinking and driving, you're not, so that's why you need the cab".
WTF
Steve Jobs' death clears way for '13-inch' JUMBO iPAD HYPEGASM
Innovation?
This is as far from innovative as you can possibly get. What shall we do next, eh, attach a bigger screen and someone might buy it, even though it will be too big to hold comfortably for any period of time - like Microsoft's surface.
Seriously apple, innovate if you want to sell stuff.
Girls, beer and C++: How to choose the right Comp-Sci degree for you
Who did Apple LIE TO: Australia or America?
If it were me...
I'd simply tell apple that unless they give me a lower price than the US, they can stuff their sale and we'll give the cash to some other company that will comply.
These companies NEED these deals, not the other way around. Mind you, when you work for the gov it's not your money and is essentially a bottomless pit, so whatever.
A backdoor into Skype for the Feds? You're joking...
Coke? Windows 8 is Microsoft's 'Vista moment'. Again
Re: It is a pile of turd
Correction - I don't actually remember what the BSOD's were, so cannot say for sure if they were the same. I seem to remember the bitmap being difficult to read as it was not at all clear, but it was a freshly installed machine with all updates and no apps installed, this should not crash - since MS provided all the software.
Re: It is a pile of turd
Yes I did, and they were different BSOD's each time. The laptop has been running constantly, only using sleep mode for the pas couple of years, running various virtualisation technologies, xen, kvm, vmware workstation and also the one from SUN that the name escapes me. I managed to run lots of windows flavours on this host for testing apps and running other scenarios.
The machine has never crashed before, yet with windows 8, it would BSOD just idling. Also ran memtest86 over night and other diags. Never an issue found.
So it is not a hardware issue, is a shit OS.
It is a pile of turd
I installed a licenced copy of windows 8 pro on my thinkpad x61s, installed every update available. Installed a single app - avgfree and I had 8 BSOD's in two days.
I re-installed it, did the upgrades, installed defender instead of cvg and the BSOD's continued.
I then nuked it and put fedora18 back on.
I wanted a windows machine as I have another thinkpad and didn't really see the point in having two almost identical OSes.
Using win8 was fairly painful, as the UI makes no sense unless it is on a tablet or a telephone, so they are right to vista it. Whether I'll try blue when it comes out in another question.
Branson's SpaceShipTwo succeeds in first rocket-powered flight
Blackstone gives up on $25bn bid to snatch Dell from Mr Dell
Re: Go ahead Carl Icahn
Speaking as a (minor) Dell stockholder, I couldn't disagree more. Dell have done great strides to become a great services company, I see a great future with them. If Mickey D gets to go private, I'll get my cash back, and if not then I'm keeping them for the long term.
Anyway, you are wrong. They are no longer a "PC" company, times have changed mate, look at the acquisitions they have made and look at their service offerings.
p.s.: I'm also a HP share owner, but I'll likely ditch them soon as they have seem to have made some serious fuck-ups recently.
Bitcoins: A GIANT BUBBLE? Maybe, but currency could still be worthwhile
'You can keep it' - Brit's nicked laptop turns up on Iranians' sofa
Two laws potentially broken here
One, the receipt of stolen goods - against the law in Britain, don't know about Iran.
Publishing pics and address of people without their express consent - this is a breach of the UK's privacy laws.
Both are likely now invalid since the new 'owners' offered to return it when they discovered it was pilfered and the pic poster has removed the pics from his site. However, the Daily fail still has the pics up so this one may be too late.
p.s.: That Iranian chick is quite fit.
Nearly a quarter of all books sold in US in 2012 were ebooks
Meh
ebooks are shite, give me a real book any day of the week. This is an entirely personal opinion of course as these kindle things seem to be very popular with both my inlaws and my dad.
My mother, kids and wife are with me though, and have zarro interest in them. Feck the trees, I'd rather pay full whack and provide the jobs and the joy of turning real pages over.
I can understand using technical books in e-format though, as there is no joy in reading them in either format, and I prefer being able to CTRL-F for strings of relevant text. But when would you ever do that for a novel?