Posts by Glenn Hunt

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

Re: End of security updates?

Yeah this definitely sucks. I have box running the Ryzen 9 3900XT - relased 49 months ago. Can't believe it won't get patched.

When everyone else is on vacation, it's time to whip out the tiny screwdrivers

I always figure that if it goes together and works without the missing screw, it was redundant anyway.

Canadian Windows demands a jolly good bit of validating

The only President's Choice product that is half decent is the chocolate chip cookies. The rest is mediocre at best.

Veteran vulture Andrew Orlowski is offski after 19 years at The Register

My favourite articles have always been yours and Ashlee's. What a loss for El Reg. You will be missed here, but glad to hear you will still be writing.

A year with Canada's Volvo-esque smartphone – The BlackBerry Z30

As always .... an excellent article Andrew. I am running the Z10 on 10.3.1 and I love it. For me it is 90% about messaging - the apps are quite secondary - and that's why I have a BB, and not an iPhone or Android.

A few comments though:

Deleting emails on 10.3.1 is WAY easier than the iOS. Instant actions can be shown or hidden by pressing the icon in the top right. If "confirm delete" is turned off, you can delete a message with one press. I can clear my inbox of crap in a few seconds. Also, you can customize what those instant actions are, or turn them off completely.

If you want a bigger font in the hub, then just to Settings | Display and pick a larger size. I know that doesn't change the font, but it might help.

You'll find Yoda at the back of every IT conference

Well, the album title would be correct if the author was bloke named "Ten Summoner". Assuming though that there are ten (as in 10) summoners, then it should be "Ten Summoners' Tales".

Just as we said it would: HP clamps down on server fixers

What HP is forgetting is that IBM, Cisco and Sun are not in the x86 server market. So they are actually getting "out of line" with the competition.

Windows desktop VDI

Depending on what software they need to run, it may run quite nicely using Remote Desktop on Server 2008 or 2012. The licensing is a capital cost, and is significantly cheaper than VDI. It also doesn't require nearly as much processing horsepower or RAM. A Server 2012 standard license lets you run two virtual copies on the hardware, so you can use one for the server, and one for hosting clients with only a single license.

GE shows off tank-tough tech

Really?

I thought that amongst tech heads it was common knowledge that -40F = -40C. I guess my mind for trivia shows itself.

The simple man's conversion is C * 9 / 5 + 32 = F. The reverse of course works too.

Facebook does U-turn on eternal data grab

It's all about the backups

Like any organization, Facebook will be performing regular backups/snapshots/archiving. When you delete your account, do you expect that they are going to go immediately and find all copies of your data on all of those backups/etc to make sure it's really all gone? That would be an administrative nightmare. But currently under the the ToU, that is what they would have to do. I'm sure some lawyer somewhere is saying "We could get sued over this" and that is what is driving the new ToU. Have they done an awful job of explaining that, and was the language ham-fisted at best? Absolutely. But new ToU are coming. With 150 million accounts, why would they care if a few thousand deleted theirs?