Posts by Piro

OK great, UK is building loads of AI datacenters. How are we going to power that?

Re: Hmm

The abandonment of nuclear is criminal.

Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition

I know why people say Windows 2000, but I can't ever agree 100% because I have memories of a remote exploit vulnerability that ruined one of my 2000 boxes.

I simply can't say the "best" is one with no built-in software firewall, that's an absolute requirement.

AI datacenters want to go nuclear. Too bad they needed it yesterday

AI needs to die.

End of.

Pentagon kills off HR IT project after 780% budget overrun, years of delays

Re: Awful piece, you'll regret this genuflecting

Not even close. Credit where credit's due.

Let's not pretend before doge we all thought governments were perfect and never wasted money.

Raspberry Pi Power-over-Ethernet Injector zaps life into networks lacking spark

Buy a poe splitter

I have several from "revodata" on amazon, I have a usb-c 5v/4A one for my pi 4b.

Job done.

VMware splats guest-to-hypervisor escape bugs already exploited in wild

Re: can disable VMCI ?

If VMware by Broadcom say there's no workaround, it's best to assume there's more to this.

Plus, a vm reboot is way more disruptive than a rolling upgrade of hosts in a cluster.

Framework guns for cheap laptops with upgradeable alternative

Re: $899 is not cheap

That absolute piece of crap is e-waste from the moment it came out of the factory.

BUT, I do agree that $899 is not cheap, and there needs to be a middle ground between those two prices.

Why did the Windows 95 setup use Windows 3.1?

Re: Marketing

I've run 95 on a 386SX with 4MB of RAM. 4 MB is not something you'd ever want to bother with, it's unusable on win95.

Does this thing run on a 220 V power supply? Oh. That puff of smoke suggests not

Hm

But the Dreamcast has an internal mains psu, with a figure of 8 input. The internal psu defines the voltage input, there is no wall wart.

FuriPhone FLX1: A Debian-powered brick that puts GNOME in your back pocket

Meh

I want smaller phones, and the wife wants another qwerty slider or clamshell.

Google Timeline location purge causes collateral damage

So.. people wanted Google to track them?

News to me. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

I didn't have this feature enabled.

Who had Pat Gelsinger retires from Intel on their bingo card?

Wrong argument. AMD has managed to advance things significantly in all aspects. The architecture is not holding them back.

D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identify

Maybe it's similar to the NAS vulnerability

Where you can include shell commands in a url that get executed, as a create account function passes everything to system

Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself after update labeling error

Re: I have to wonder if M$ does any QA testing at all anymore.

I thought it was pretty well known that they don't, they fired that group back in 2014.

They rely on basic testing in VMs, and then largely feedback from people testing early builds.

Absolute amateurs.

The Register takes AMD's Ryzen 9800X3D for a spin

First, the 9800X3D is a pure gaming CPU, it's absolutely not a productivity CPU, no-one would have recommended it to you for productivity, only gaming.

Secondly, you don't have a 9800X3D rig.

Thirdly, are you guy that runs userbenchmark.com ? If so, please seek help.

UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving for good

my alarm goes off at 5:30

Still, I get more evening after work, so that's something.

Fujitsu claims 634-gram 14-inch Core i7 laptop is world's lightest

Looks nice, bring it out elsewhere

Japan always has the best laptops, and they don't forget to add ports!!

Smart homes may be a bright idea, just not for the dim bulbs who live in 'em

Nasty. All the stuff I've got is locally controlled, and the house I'm building will be wired for KNX.

I have remotely controllable sockets, but they're ZigBee and I use Home Assistant to talk to them through my Hue Bridge. No sub, no internet connection required, and the wifi could even be down.

Best you can do is Home Assistant. There's an image for Raspberry Pi.

If someone's written an integration for Home Assistant, you're doing OK.

If something needs a subscription or relies on external (remote) services to function, it's an absolute no go.

Arrow Lake splashdown: Intel pins hopes on replacement for Raptors

Re: Not what I want in a desktop

Best I can do is recommend AMD.

You're right not to rush into running AMD, Intel's new manycore monster CPUs

Re: Reliability?

Rightsizing is something that never really happens.

There are several reasons, one of which is that the system administrator who wants to optimise is not the one deploying VMs

Brits hate how big tech handles their data, but can't be bothered to do much about it

Re: Compulive cookie clearer

You need the handy plugin "I still don't care about cookies".

Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster

Your regular reminder that Microsoft thinks this is funny and worth it

After all, they fired an enormous number of testers back in 2014.

Intel thinks it's got a final microcode fix for recalcitrant Raptor Lake processors

Weird, bad take. Has nothing to do with the isa.

Infosys scores deal to write code for EV-maker Polestar

Learnt something today

Another name for Bangalore. Fair enough.

Green recycling goals? Pending EU directive could hammer used mobile market

Apple already changed to usb-c a generation ago.

WhatsApp still working on making View Once chats actually disappear for all

Yeah that one is great, I remember we had info screens with calendar information for meeting rooms and it would just blast out the private title of the meeting on the screen even though the user thought it was secret.

Hasty fixes implemented.

Also smells of "redactions" in PDFs where an extra layer of black is on top of the words, completely unaffecting the text entirely when highlighted. Classic.

We're in the brute force phase of AI – once it ends, demand for GPUs will too

IT was a mistake.

What have we wasted our time and resources on?

Apple debuts iPhone 16, Watch Series 10, assorted AirPods

Re: Being amazed no more

Yeah that was done almost a decade ago, droid turbo 2

Veeam debuts its Proxmox backup tool – and reveals outfit using it to quit VMware

Plenty of others are in the same position.

After 3 years, VMware could have a serious problem.

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

VMware exit plans

The next three years will be filled with plans to move away from VMware, the world over.

What a waste of a good product.

Tenstorrent's Blackhole chips boast 768 RISC-V cores and almost as many FLOPS

Re: It's the AI song and dance...

Yeah, I'm hoping the "AI" bubble will soon burst hard. Sick of hearing about it.

Raptor Lake microcode limits Intel chips to a mere 1.55 volts to prevent CPU destruction

Re: 1.9v

and they didn't even beat AMD in gaming. 7800X3D is still the king, using often less than half the power.

AMD reverses course: Ryzen 3000 CPUs will get SinkClose patch after all

There we go

The good old predictable u-turn. Do the right thing from the start, AMD.

Cigarette break burned out a huge chunk of Africa's internet

Hm

Hm, maybe the producers of those Machines needed to do a bit more Research

AMD won’t patch Sinkclose security bug on older Zen CPUs

Until Steve Burke makes a video slagging them off, that is

They've already got the patch code deployed on Epyc.

Chrome Web Store warns end is nigh for uBlock Origin

Some of us never stopped using Firefox

Even through all of its issues.

I guess a lot of users will be joining us or coming back.

Intel to shed at least 15% of staff, will outsource more to TSMC, slash $10B in costs

Re: 14 15 stop!

I have a feeling we haven't seen anything yet re: intc and how low it can go

Speed limiters arrive for all new cars in the European Union

Re: Unwanted Nannyism!!!

Oh come on, no synchros? No power steering? Look at how heavy cars are now and how fat the tyres are.

You'd have to have some serious strength or some seriously geared steering with tons of turns lock to lock to make it easy to park such a car without.

I've had cars without power steering. Tight parking is not exactly fun. I wouldn't say synchros and power steering are "nannies".

What's next? It's not a "real" car unless it has keep-fit windows, or even better, ones that pop out?

I would argue that ABS and ESC can be very useful, but I do agree that those are in "nanny" territory, and although I consider them worthwhile, I think it's important to understand how they work and how to control a car without. Fair.

Bill Gates says not to worry about AI gobbling up energy, tech will adapt

But it can never adapt to 0 watts of draw

Which is right where it should be.

So it's fine the super-wealthy tell us what to do from their private jets and air conditioned mansions with heated pools; as they invest in energy sapping nonsense.

Yet we're supposed to feel bad. No thanks.

Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show

Re: Cheaper at the plug

Yup. Heavy evs are generating a lot of tyre particulates.

Microsoft pulls Windows 11 24H2 from Insider Release Preview Channel

Re: but I thought...

"Rust

Memory-safe programming language without garbage collection"

Venerable ICQ messaging service to end operations in June

Uh oh!

Fondly remembered.

CIO who dropped VMware 18 months ago now feeling thoroughly chuffed

Nutanix? No thanks

You're not necessarily saving money, and just ending up with some much less mature and flexible platform that can quickly be bought up or hike prices even further.

I'd rather have VMware than Nutanix.

Forget feet and inches, latest UK units of measurement are thinking bigger

Re: What the hell is a meter?

Well, your pipes are threaded to Whitworth's specifications.

Elon Musk's latest brainfart is to turn Tesla cars into AWS on wheels

Yep. Autopilot is a fine descriptor for a basic system.

Theft

So, steal customer's energy and degrade the battery.

Wow.

Micron says it's first to QLC NAND with over 200 layers

Qlc is rubbish

Let's just go back to 3-bits per cell at worst, and forget qlc happened

Got an unpatched LG 'smart' television? It could be watching you back

Re: Or your best solution is...

"It is also pretty much useless because you can't run any streaming stuff on it like Netflix, Disney+ and so forth. I imagine now is where you climb on your high horse and claim "I will never rent media, only own it" but when pressed by "own it" you mean you've ripped your old DVD collection and now you pirate stuff, using the excuse that because they won't make recent content available on your "chosen platform" of a custom built media PC you have no alternate but piracy."

This but unironically and literally. I don't pay for any streaming services. I use a PC and ripped media. My streaming use amounts to some YouTube videos.

Never connect to network

Problem solved. I have an LG TV, I patched it precisely once, I regretted that, it removed a bunch of features as I didn't agree with the new policy. So I disconnected it from the network.

I didn't use the smart features anyway, but it was undoubtedly a downgrade.

Forget it, don't patch, just don't have it online.