* Posts by HCV

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Oxide reimagines private cloud as... a 2,500-pound blade server?

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The most important question

What happens if you shout at it?

Microsoft's code name for 64-bit Windows was also a dig at rival Sun

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Also, the article itself: "Oracle said (in April) the boards of both the firms had given the transaction the thumbs up. It’s expected to complete this summer." Summer in Australia, it turned out.

I suppose it could be worse: the Broadcom VMware acquisition took a year and a half to close.

IBM to create 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license

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LJE speed test

There's fast and there's, "Oops, revenue impact ahead; time to change the licensing rules" fast.

California legalizes digital license plates for all vehicles

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What could possibly go wrong?

A license plate that can be controlled by the authorities, for only $19.95 a month? By Grabthar's Hammer, what a savings!

Smart thermostat swarms are straining the US grid

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Click

PG&E creates incentives for subscribers to limit power usage from 4 to 9 PM, and I'd been wondering what was happening at 9 PM when everyone's air conditioners click on in synchrony. Now I know.

Pentester pops open Tesla Model 3 using low-cost Bluetooth module

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Re: Always-on Security Hole

You might as well ask, "Why build a single-car rail transport tunnel?"

400Gbps is the new normal for biz networks

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I'm still betting on Token Ring. No one's leapfrogged that awesome connector since 1985.

Oracle creates new form of free Solaris

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Re: digression

Those are all consumer hardware manufacturers. The Power architecture seems to sell mainly in the more serious space. Here you go, a cluster with 31424 Power cores spread over 1964 processors.

You may be missing the point here. In the mists of history, the Power architecture used to have some interesting volume markets, such as Macintosh, OS/2, and Nintendo consoles. 31,424 cores is super-cool and awesome, but 1,964 is fewer than the number of Arm processors sold every three seconds not so long ago ("842 Chips Per Second: 6.7 Billion Arm-Based Chips Produced in Q4 2020", Tom's Hardware). I imagine the numbers have grown since then.

You've got to have a hell of a lot of margin to make that kind of market math work in your favor. You can be serious AF, but at some point you need to make money.

International Space Station stabilizes after just-docked Russian module suddenly fires thrusters

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Next fast-track mission

Emergency cargo flight with replacement underwear and cleaning supplies.

Blue Origin sets its price: $1.4m minimum for trip into space

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" I do still feel there is scientific validity "

"Are a fool and their money soon parted? In this experiment, we..."

Texan's alleged Amazon bombing effort fizzles: Militia man wanted to take out 'about 70 per cent of the internet'

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Isn't this basically "Live Free or Die Hard"?

Oracle exhumes ‘Older, Still Useful Content’ penned by Solaris and SPARC veterans

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"... a bit of trapped gas?"

Wooooo!

Meet the ‘DPU’ – accelerated network cards designed to go where CPUs and GPUs are too valuable to waste

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East/West (between racks) than North/South (up and down a rack.”

"East/West" refers to traffic between servers in a data center, "North/South" to traffic going in and out of the data center. That's a more useful distinction than whether traffic is staying within a rack.

Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' being shown to pilots

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I remember they were very excited to announce that to mitigate problems like this, Windows now included a feature where you could schedule an automatic reboot.

Oh goody! You've invented cron!

iFixit surgeons dissect Apple's pricey Mac Pro: Industry standard sockets? Repair diagrams? Who are you and what have you done to Apple?

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Stinking Bishop

It's a kind of cheese, and by the "name like Smuckers" test, I'm guessing it must be awesome.

Oracle leaves its heart in San Francisco – or it would do if, you know, Oracle had a heart

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Re: At what point will San Francisco realize ...

In 2014, the City of San Francisco spent $167 million annually on housing homeless residents. By 2016, total spending (including housing and treatment) was believed to be $241 million annually.

Internet jerk with million-plus fans starts 14-year stretch for bizarre dot-com armed robbery

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SME

...two convictions for disorderly conduct and public intoxication...

...Adams’ “entrepreneurial spirit” in gathering photos and videos of drunk students...

Do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life.

Pentagon beams down $10bn JEDI contract to Microsoft: Windows giant beats off Bezos

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As Babylon Five once said, "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal."

Scott McNealy gets touchy feely with Trump: Sun cofounder hosts hush-hush reelection fundraiser for President

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Re: Seriously WTF! ???

Argle bargle freedom wargle how dare you say things that I don't like why do you hate freedom

Apple kills iTunes, preps pricey Mac Pro, gives iPad its own OS – plus: That $999 monitor stand

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Re: only 1200x1600

Yes, the pixels weigh more

...right?

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Catalina

Will you be able to scan directly from Photos, or do you still need to do that from Preview?

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only 1200x1600

Well, there you go. If you had more pixels, you'd need a better stand.

Wondering why 'Devin Nunes herp-face' was trending online? Here's the 411: House rep sues Twitter for all the rude stuff tweeted about him

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If I mention here that this is conclusive proof that Nunes is not the sharpest doorknob in the bag, will I be getting El Reg in trouble?

Boeing... Boeing... Gone: Canada, America finally ground 737 Max jets as they await anti-death-crash software patches

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*whispers*

Boeing is not an airline

Tech bosses talk kids' books! Could they show a glimmer of humanity? You only get one guess

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the most coveted school in Silicon Valley is the Waldorf School of the Peninsular

Golly, I really hope that isn't true, because Waldorf schools are kinda... messed up.

Great salads, though, as long as you go light on the mayo.

(Also: "Peninsular"?)

'We broke a few things and will continue to do so... in a careful way' – Oracle's Reinhold on Java renovation work

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Re: Microsoft should sue them.

Wait, what, publicity says good things about thing they're publicizing? Tell me more!

Sysadmin shut down server, it went ‘Clunk!’ but the app kept running

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Re: FIXED: Halted machine on other side of the planet

Thank you! I've been trying to remember the "girl the plastic cover is named after" name on and off for years, and for whatever reason both my Google Fu and my friends' memories have failed me. I must travel in the wrong circles, or live in the wrong country.

Oracle's new Java SE subs: Code and support for $25/processor/month

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Re: Shutting the Stable door

I think you're ignoring the enormous success they've seen in jacking Solaris licenses into the stratosphere.

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I bet this will be a hot topic at JavaOne.

...too soon?

Julian Assange said to have racked up $5m security bill for Ecuador

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Re: 'There once was a time when [INSERT NAME HERE] were heroic figures'

Reminds me a lot of this

I guess it does if you squint just right: misuse of a thing in the service of a goal. Only in one case the goal was an odd stab at getting the United States to promote peace, the other's goal was stabbing the United States to promote Julian Assange.

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Re: Heroes

There once was a time when Wikileaks/Assange were heroic figures.

See: Milkshake Duck

Oracle pledges annual Solaris updates for you to install each summer

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Re: I guess its time to dump sun hardware forever

Exactly what "Solaris 10 mess" was fixed by Solaris 11.3?

Oracle ZFS man calls for Big Red to let filesystem upstream into Linux

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Re: time to buy shares in high grade memory fab then

"Query, whats happening to Reiser FS these days ? It did seem better for OLT with lots of small frequent transactions."

It turned out to be murder to keep development going.

Vibrating walls shafted servers at a time the SUN couldn't shine

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Re: "SUN"?

Just no. As a corporate name, it was never "SUN", and absolutely never "S.U.N."

The original SUN workstation project at Stanford preceded the formation of Sun Microsystems, and was never a Sun product. The first product from Sun Microsystems was the Sun-1 workstation.

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"SUN"?

WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING?

Behold iOS 11, an entirely new computer platform from Apple

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The Dock is now more like the Dock on MacOS – namely, something that's trying to do two different things: launch apps and keep track of running apps. That was a huge criticism of Mac OS X for years

Huge. Huge, I tells ya.

...really?

Itching to stuff iOS 11 on your iPhone? You may want to hold off for a bit

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"And yes backup beforehand you fools."

Thank you, Gandalf. Mind the landing.

Oracle softly increments SPARC M7 to M8, then whispers: We'll still love you, Solaris, to 2034

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tick tick tick

...and talk of delays for Solaris.next

Screven said during the webcast: "Fall of 2018".

That's pretty delay-ey. If they hit that mark, that'll be 3 years between Solaris 11.3 and Solaris.next. It'll be 7 years after Solaris 11. Can you feel the continuous delivery?

Confirmed: Oracle laid off 964 people from former Sun building

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It's a bit more than a "building"

The Santa Clara campus was Sun's headquarters of record at the time of the acquisition. It's something like 60-80 acres, IIRC, and has 20+ buildings.

Oracle staff report big layoffs across Solaris, SPARC teams

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Phipps didn't say "all". He said:

Oracle laid off ~ all Solaris tech staff yesterday

"~ all", as in "approximately all." It's a geek thing, which is appropriate, don't you think?

MongoDB quits Solaris, wants to work on an OS people actually use

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Oracle is canceling all sparc development and selling fujitsu boxes.

Kewl!

Sun people will remember OPL/APL. This sounds like the same idea, only with a brick wall replacing the light at the end of the tunnel.

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Re: Cross platform

original MongoDB post lists multiple Solaris distros, none of which run on SPARC

Argle bargle, Solaris is SPARC only, no one uses it on x86!

Nobody in their right mind actually runs Solaris for anything vaguely important on anything other than SPARC!

I can tell you with great assurance that many companies on Wall Street, in retail, and in government, just to name a few markets, ran Solaris on their x86 systems for their very important applications. One of the US' largest supermarket chains ran their entire business on Solaris x86 at one point.

...whether many companies still do is a more interesting question, since Oracle has worked for the last 7 years to make it difficult and expensive to get Solaris for non-Oracle boxes.

Your top five dreadful people the Google manifesto has pulled out of the woodwork

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Re: Screw the statistics. I'd use the best people I can find to do the job.

Someone on the Twitters noted that the fact that people like Damore can't see that diversity is important in creating quality projects demonstrates exactly why diversity is important.

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Re: Thiel Capital

Come for the gouts of magmatic tat, stay for the teenage blood transfusions.

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Re: asshe but

you should not fire someone because you dont like his political ideas.

But perhaps you should fire someone if they are a liability to your company. Or, more assertively: if someone is a liability to your company, you should fire them.

Mr. Damore has conclusively proven that he cannot work well with others. I would not assign him to any team of any composition, based on his documented thought processes and aggressive contempt for empathy,

In addition, he has put the company in a bind, internally and externally.

Therefore, I would give him the chance to exercise his right to be happy elsewhere, and at the same time make room for a more productive and less disruptive employee.

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Re: Assuming They Don't Post Anonymously

Well, obviously /someone/ complained to HR

Or, HR reads the news.

Oracle's systems boss bails amid deafening silence over Solaris fate

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Conventional?

If that is the case, it will represent conventional release cadence for Solaris.

Like a Swiss chronometer, it is, if by "like a Swiss chronometer" you mean "every November, or possibly October, unless it's April, or perhaps not at all that year."

MH370 researchers refine their prediction of the place nobody looked

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"a machine equipped with all manner of navigational and gps transponder equipment"

There actually wasn't that much equipment, and very little of it had the ability to communicate with anything when the plane was over the ocean. The only device equipped to communicate via satellite was the engine diagnostic reporting equipment, which is what gave the two most likely paths that the plane traveled -- narrowed down to one when debris started to appear.

The pings from the engine recorder delivered no direct information about the location or status of the plane (other than engine performance stats), and only transmitted once an hour. That's an incredibly sparse amount of data to work with.

The fact of the matter is that an aircraft over the ocean, once it gets a certain distance from land, is not readily trackable.

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Re: What can be learned of the crash at this late stage?

I would say the CVR is going to give very little information, because unless I'm seriously mistaken, it's only going to have the last 30 minutes or so of the flight, and anything of note that happened in the cockpit would have happened hours before then. (Unless someone really was hanging on to give a final soliloquy just before the engines ran out of fuel.)

The flight data recorder might note whether the plane was on autopilot, heading and such, but will mostly confirm what the very existence of the plane will indicate -- this is where it crashed by running out of fuel.

Separate from the data recorders, the most interesting information to glean may be indications of damage to the plane, perhaps caused by a cargo fire, which seems the most likely scenario to me.

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