Posts by Jon Massey

Machine learning the hard way: IBM Watson's fatal misdiagnosis

IEEE Spectrum

is the house magazine of the IEEE, not a journal, of which there are many.

Cloudflare says Intel is not inside its next-gen servers – Ice Lake melted its energy budget

fast ethernet?

... single-core AMDs? What is this, the 90s?

Audacity is a poster child for what can be achieved with open-source software

"In upcoming Audacity releases, the only information sent by default is:

IP address (unavoidable): (e.g. "123.45.67.89").

User-Agent string: (e.g. "Audacity/3.0.3 (Windows 10_0_19042; x64)")

This occurs during a check for updates and can be disabled in Preferences at any time. "

If you're wetting the bed over a UA and an IP address being sent as part of an update check that can be disabled then you need to have a serious look at yourself

"Audacity is now a spyware" - don't be ridiculous

OVH reveals it's scrubbing servers – to get smoke residue off before rebooting

Re: Communication

X8DTU - wow that's a seriously vintage board!

Imagine your data center backup generator kicks in during power outage ... and catches fire. Well, it happened

So what they're saying is

"there are machines that need to be inspected for water damage and may need to be rebuilt."

Don't turn it on, take it apaaaaaaaarrt!

LibreOffice 7.1 beta boasts impressive range of features let down by a lack of polish and poor mobile efforts

Lack of polish?

The language packs are right there on the download page!

Hold my Bose, we can do premium: Sennheiser chucks pricey wireless cans at travellers

Re: Does the noise-cancelling work without a source?

My colleague's WH-1000XM3s are the only thing stopping her from beating me to death with my Cherry MX Blue-equipped keyboard

Mythical broadband speeds to plummet in crackdown on ISP ads

Re: Well...

Have you unplugged the cable running into your superhub and had a look at it? You might be surprised at what you find

Why are we disappointed with the best streaming media box on the market?

Re: Which country?

Not available in the UK except for in the locked-down NowTV version.

Lenovo spits out retro ThinkPads for iconic laptop's 25th birthday

Might be a worthy replacement

for my W520 workhorse which hasn't skipped a beat since 2011. Had an SSD upgrade and a bit more RAM a couple of years ago but other than that it's all original, including the 9-cell battery which is still good for about 4-4.5h.

Time-rich netizens marshall ballot-stuffing bots against... Radio Times contest

Mischievous?

I think you mean naughty

Bye bye MP3: You sucked the life out of music. But vinyl is just as warped

Why the MP3 hate?

LAME -V0 is pretty much near-as-damnit transparent.

Huawei's just changed the way you'll use Android

Gestures

I miss the trackball on my old HTC Hero!

RAF pilot awaits sentence for digicam-induced airliner dive

Good job

It didn't hit the controls for the Canon

Facebook, Cumulus take on Cisco with 128 ports of open networking iron

Re: Just at CLOS in a Box

Clos, not CLOS. It's a bloke's name, not an acronym.

So you want to roll your own cloud

Seems dodgy

Check out the demo video on their website https://youtu.be/TIxJHDdcHnw?list=UUBwSqQJQ520NYoy2QlcYJKA&t=105 - the guy's "Downloads" folder is full of pirated music and warez!

Bloke launches twinkly range of BBC Micro:bit accessory boards

“I’ve designed my own connector,“

No. No no no no no no no. We don't need any more special connectors.Use a standard 0.1" pin header you numpty

Ridiculously small Linux build lands with ridiculously few swears

Ridiculously Small Linux

Here was me thinking that was an even smaller build of DSL

Google's big Spanner in the works for price war against AWS

Big?

12mm's hardly big.

Guessing valid credit card numbers in six seconds? Priceless

Card not present?

I thought the whole point of the CVV number was that is **was** required for CNP transactions?

Virgin Media is so rustic and artisan you get to hand-sort your own spam

Well bugger me...

People still use the email services of their ISP?

SQL Server on Linux: Runs well in spite of internal quirks. Why?

Re: Interesting

" ported Microsoft Office and Visual Studio (full version) to Linux as well (using the cross-platform ability of .NET)"

There are significant portions of native code in Office and VS

Fancy a wee quasi-DRAM? Supermicro bulks up server memory

If you look at the PR piece Chris has regurgitated - http://www.diablo-technologies.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Supermicro-Solution-Guide.pdf - you'll see the blanks

Read more carefully, Chris

1028U-TR4T+ is the server, X10DRU-i+ is just the board. It's also not a Fat-Twin server as those are the 2/4/8-node in 4U boxes

HPE tape library permits unauthorised remote access

Wait a minute...

An "enterprise" tape library runs PHP?!?!!

Gotta speed up HPC arrays. Flash or disk, flash or disk. Let's do both – Seagate

NVMe?

Interesting that that Supermicro enclosure has the red-tabbed drive trays (SAS/SATA), not the yellow-tabbed ones (NVMe)

CERN also has a particle decelerator – and it’s trying to break physics

Absolute zero

Really now?

Brexit judgment could be hit for six by those crazy Supreme Court judges, says barrister

UK judges

do not use gavels

Microsoft open-sources half-baked Azure servers to boost OCP innovation

Alphas?

I thought that processor architecture was long dead and gone!

Getting your tongue around foreign tech-talk is easier than you think

Shampoo for my real friends, real poo..

No poo

Big fad over here as well. Got right confused when a bunch of the ex-lady's friends were posting triumphantly about how they'd gone "no poo" for a week and it turned out they were just being mucky buggers and didn't have chronic constipation.

Intel punches out data centre flash cardlet

I think NVME with the U.2 connector in 2.5" format is establishing itself moreso as the backplaned PCIE-connected flash format of choice.

There's a couple of M.2-to-AIC adapters out there but HP is pitching these more as a workstation product rather than a server one. There's compatibility questions over lane division/pcie switching as well.

In its current state, Ubiquiti's EdgeSwitch won't have much of an edge on anyone

STH community Edgeswitch SFP+ transceiver/DAC compatibility list here: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/ubiquiti-edgeswitch-es-16-xg-sfp-compatibility-thread.11129/

Also worth a read on STH is the shocking QC issues found by Patrick https://www.servethehome.com/ubiquiti-edgeswitch-es-16-xg-review-quality-control-absent/

100Gbit/s Mangstor array blows interconnect cobwebs right away

Proliant?

You've put a picture of the older Dell Poweredge based one at the top

Swisscom claims world's first G.fast broadband service

Re: What is G.fast?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=G.FAST&l=1

No shoes for little Timmy, Mama needs a new 10TB hard drive

Re: tech?

PMR, not SMR apparently. Certainly makes the 5TB 2.5 inchers an attractive proposition

Pivot3 produces ROBO Edge Office

1U?

Looks awfully like 2U to me!

Store flaw? Naw! The hyper-converged vendor and the 'bug'-bash

Re: Firmware

An HBA can still have firmware issues that will ruin your day

Open-source storage that doesn't suck? Our man tries to break TrueNAS

300GB 10k?

Eeesh, what year is it?

Want a Dell printer? Unlucky – they've just stopped selling them

Then just buy a Xerox

any of the decent Dell ones are just rebadges

EU ends anonymity and rules open Wi-Fi hotspots need passwords

Those who use FAILboat memes

Should check their layout first

Pains us to run an Apple article without the words 'fined', 'guilty' or 'on fire' in it, but here we are

Re: Water to 30 meters, but what about SALT water??

Then how do you do your deco calcs?

Re: Water to 30 meters, but what about SALT water??

You wouldn't take an apple watch diving, it'd be no use. I take my tmx-upgraded luna and an old Vytec DS as a backup bottom timer with the plan on a slate. Never got the point of "diving watches" other than for posing. Get a computer, get a backup.

Galaxy S7 Active can't swim, claims site. But it can, vendor retorts

Re: Metric converstion

6.56 x 10^-6 Norrises per nanowales by my reckoning

98.1 million CLEARTEXT passwords pasted as Rambler.ru rumbled

Yaussian

Where's Yaussia to, then?

They kept that quiet: Toshiba unsheathes FlashBlade rival

Not /that/ out of the blue...

StorageReview covered it two days ago! They've got hardware pics and corrects specs, too

Church organist nabbed for playing glory hole in excelsis

IT Angle?

C'mon guys, you could have tried a bit harder to shoehorn one in

EMC insiders say Salesforce has ordered $75m of its kit

SSDs

If they're not SAS are we to assume they're NVME?

No, the VCR is not about to die. It died years ago. Now it's VHS/DVD combo boxes' turn

Re: Stop making me feel old

That and ADAT tapes which were (IIRC) basically just S-VHS