Posts by Aitor 1

Citrix finds new use for virtualization: Avoiding PC price hikes caused by tariffs

Re: Citrix is done

In good part due to the cost of citrix AND windows licenses. Had it been cheap, VDIs would be the normal thing to have in offices and homes these days, along portable devices.

Raspberry Pi launches CM4 variant that laughs in the face of frostbite

Re: Extended temperature

But how long would electrolytic capacitors last in those conditions?

Also, flash memory doesn't like high temps operation.

London's poor 5G blamed on spectrum, investment, and timing of Huawei ban

Re: Pointless

More efficient use of frequencies, less power usage, reduced latency.. there are many benefits, not all need to be directly to the consumer.

In any case 5g and 4g coverage in the uk is poor at best.

Ampere bets on Arm to muscle into Intel's telco territory

Re: heard of fpga ?

Fpga is not the present in these systems.

Quite a few use xeon platinum processors in specific configurations for SDN equipment.

These processors are very expensive and power hungry, but correctly use can process ungodly amounts of traffic in a flexible way.

A DSP will.process a lot of traffic cheaply... But is set on stone.

A fpga is expensive and way slower, but flexible.

What Ampere is trying to say is they are cheaper than Intel and less power hungry.

Why UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers

Re: ...chances of Ofcom even discovering...

But they will have the capacity to investigate those that annoy/offend someone in power.

This is quite terrible.

Europe hopes Trump trumps Biden's plan for US to play AI gatekeeper

Re: No limit for the Netherlands but for EU?

Precisely.

The European commission should reply with a ban to us interests of asml and lenses, and to Taiwan if they sell gpus etc to the us.

There, fixed.

AMD grabs a quarter of x86 market with desktop gains, but server growth slows

Re: Who's still wanting Intel chips?

My company for example. They only buy Intel, and nobody would risk their jobs by suggesting amd or forcing the issue. So we have less for more.

Warren Buffett’s favorite insurer GEICO drops VMware for OpenStack

Re: Hey Broadcom !

It is likely, but by then they will have probably extracted more money from their customers than the price paid for vmware, giving them a nice benefit, and will then decide to sell or keep the remnants.

Would you rather buy space broadband from a billionaire, or Communist China?

Re: This seems unnecessary in China

With satellites all over, drones are incredibly useful both in military and civilian usages. Not to speak about other realtime comms for military.

I think that China had a look at Ukraine and wants Starlink, so they are trying to build it.

Faulty instructions in Alibaba's T-Head C910 RISC-V CPUs blow away all security

Re: This is likely just the beginning

They also limit you in many ways, just ask Qualcomm, or look at changes in licensing.

They essentially own you, and can make "the Vader change in agreements" for newer isas, etc.

Still a good option, but not ideal.

SAP system gives UK tax collector a £750B headache as clock ticks on support

Re: Programming in a c**p language

This is essentially buying a trailer home when you actually needed a cargo seaplane, and insisting on it being made to fly and float, and still be a trailer home.

Cold comfort to teachers who got paid late, but ERP software rollout had 'unrealistic' timeline

Re: Why?

Elected officials should absolutely be able to override and run the day to day job in the council, otherwise it is pointless to elect anyone.

That being said, the bucket should also stop with the clls.

Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time

Re: In a word "Adoptium"

But of course that is the trick, want updates? New license.

China orders its telcos to rip and replace US chips with homegrown silicon by 2027

Re: Expensive

It is going to hit hard companies like Cisco. AMD and Intel will be affected, losing sales, but won't be hard hit.

The government is also going out of us controlled processors.

The biggest consumers of processors are data centers, business and tertiary personal devices.

I guess that will come next.

More worrying is the timeframe. Looks like China is considering going to war with the us after 3/4 years, and they obviously can't do that with us made processors and sw everywhere.

Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO

Logic

I disagree. It is immoral, but quite logical.

You have hostages (clients) and you buy for day 1 billion. Extract 2 billion in 2 years, and move on.

Amazing benefit.

Now move on and extract value from the next company.

This was done in the 80s repeatedly with terrible consequences for the economy, as it is essentially a hostage situation plus setting a company on fire. Value is overall destroyed and resources (money) plundered.

Re: Alternative to Player with USB support?

And even how you install virtualbox used to be a legal issue.

I mostly used virtualbox to play dos and w95 games, but they removed the dx support, so no more dx passthrough for old games

Re: Joke's on them

Increasing prices this much and removing training and certification will probably give them the benefits of 20+ years in a couple of years.

Of course it will seriously damage the long term value of vmware, but they are essentially strip mining the value of the asset they bought.

It is immoral, as it breaks the assumed agreement between partners (vmware and clients), but probably legal in most parts of the world.

Overall I find it quite damaging for IT and the world in general, but sadly this was to be expected.

Broadcom boss Hock Tan acknowledges 'some unease' among VMware community

Re: Way to go : Tan

It also covers sound, and more critically remote desktop.

Broadcom ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers

Oracle move.

As others have commented.. this is an Oracle move... The installed base will suffer, but revenue won't, and costs will plummet until all the value has been extorted from the clients.

Why Nvidia and AMD are roasting each other over AI performance claims

Re: "benchmarking shenanigans"

Also, I remember how nvidia converted 16bit precission to I think 8 in certain assets of certain games. At driver level

The battle between open source and 'sort of' open source is as old as software

Selling software

Monthly fees and "online dongles" is not selling software, but services.

It is terrible for many clients, as it also includes auto rolling of new versions. Change for change sake isn't good.

Re: Most of these companies only exist because of OpenSource

I would pay per use for software.

For example. Photoshop.

If a license is say £20 a month, then a reasonable cost should be pennies per hour. But no, they just want rent.

Western Digital execs vote to split biz in two: HDD and flash

Re: So the two new companies will be HGST and San Disk right?

Yes it was. I sold a few and the clients were impressed. In the wrong way of course.

From browser brat to backend boss: Will WASM win the web wars?

Re: Our experience with Excel to WASM compilation for the last few years

FileMaker pro? 123? Dbase?

Criminals go full Viking on CloudNordic, wipe all servers and customer data

Re: Offline backups??

That is the standard now.

On different vlans ordifferent virtual environments.

But looks like the miscreants still had c&c servers abke to access everything or it was a time bomb

Re: Where are the backups?

Most of my big customers always had the backup network port and network, plus servers. Everything independent.

But it was expensive.

So they recreated that as virtual appliances.

Still expensive.

So they "went to the cloud" as it seemed less expensive. And threw caution to the wind.

Now it is more expensive than the initial situation and less resilient, but they are trapped.

Re: Where are the backups?

It also makes it look like an insider job..

Re: "their own backups as a contingency"

Constant backup on cloud premises is neither practical nor affordable.

The cost is huge, and makes the cloud difficult to justify.

Almost everyone that uses Amazon has the data in amazon. In another region as backup, yes, but still on amazon/azure/google.

Virginia industrial park wants to power DCs with mini nuclear reactors, clean hydrogen

Clean hydrogen

I hate clean hydrogen, as such thing doesn't exist.

Also, how do they pretend to store hydrogen long term? That is, in practice, impossible without loss.

Under pressure it will go through the pressure vessel and potentially embrittle it, and liquid it needs to be extremely cold, and that requires energy input to keep it cool.

Where they want to source this hydrogen from is also of interes.

They would be better served by batteries.

If you already have a massive bank of lifepo batteries.. more options open.

Maker of Chrome extension with 300,000+ users tells of constant pressure to sell out

Ruler redux

I used to use a ruler for web dev.

It got sold and malware was hot dropped.

So it was forked into ruler redux.

It was sold.. and again, malware.

This would be solved if we knew who is signing the software. As we could just put them behind bars.

Also, hot download of features? Nope.

US Supreme Court allows 'ghost guns' to fall under federal purview

Re: "suspected ghost guns"

Because they are not a gun.

A legal or illegal gun with a 3d printed part is being called a suspected ghost gumd, 3d printed. And they insist the stock can be a gun.

Infineon to offer recyclable circuit boards that dissolve in water

Re: High humidity environments?

My experience with this type of materials is that they are very unstable.

OpenAI pulls AI text detector due to it being a bit crap

Re: either that or they get along just fine in life, using the tools they have to hand

Why?

Ai is a tool, and I don't require to know how to paint in order to take pictures.

LG to offer subscriptions for appliances and televisions

Rent seeking

Everyone is now rent seeking, leeching their victims, I mean, customers.

Just put your favourite stick into the HDMI and ignore the Smart TV of the day, be it LG, Samsung, TCL or whatever..

Europe's largest city council runs parallel systems to cover Oracle rollout mess

Re: The right question

This is the correct answer.

If you are going to spend this much money, spend it in your own systems.

Millions of Gigabyte PC motherboards backdoored? What's the actual score?

Re: How do we defend against this? - Linux edition

You are correct, but uefi is just wrong. It is running a mystery os that is unaccountable.

It does have benefits, but is very unsecure.

If we add the "secure" enclaves mystery os, plus complex os/firmware in drives and network cards, what a security nightmare.

Lenovo profits sink 75% as PC demand continues nosedive

Re: Its not just that....

Lucky you. They would just not sell us 100 laptops, in the uk.

So we switched companies.

Python Package Index had one person on-call to hold back weekend malware rush

Re: And I bet

Defaults should be safe. Yesterday I pushed a new default into a system, and it is disabled by default so clueless people don't scree their systems.

Sonatype axes 14 percent of staff, reminds them not to talk to the press

Fire experienced engineers

Keep engineers based on salary.. lower salary you are retained.

Looks like they want to keep the lowest performing ones plus young people.

Perfect way of dooming the company.

23-year-old Brit linked to 2020 Twitter attack and SIM-swap scheme pleads guilty

Re: "You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000."

If only 1 in 5000 fall, you are golden... And someone is going to be stupid, drunk, mentally ill or desperate enough.

Datacenter fire suppression system wasn't tested for years, then BOOM

Not proportional to cost.

Having it fitted we are looking at £500 or about.

I did install it because even if overkill, hey, it is my life, and I can afford it.

But considering how many fires are, and how many lives this would save.. I think this is overkill.

There are about 44 deaths by fires in Scotland per year.

Lets assume the US number of 55% reduction is correct.

There are 2.53 million households in Scotland.

Let's assume all those 44 deaths are residential, and no firefighters, etc (so best case scenario for alarms)

This would save 24 lives.

The battery ones last about 6 years really, not 10, and the installed ones are very expensive to install.

The cost? 8.8 million pounds per life.

While life is quite valuable, there are many things than can be done for less money to save lives, and actuaries would agree.

I would say, fix potholes, put lights on dangerous intersections, do colon cancer screenings sooner, etc etc.

If you fit them yourself, it is better value, still quite expensive, but I did it for £200

Sources:

https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Data-research-and-tools/Detection-and-Signaling/Smoke-Alarms-in-US-Home-Fires#:~:text=The%20risk%20of%20dying%20in,to%20trigger%20a%20smoke%20alarm.

https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/households/household-estimates/2021

Europe's right-to-repair law asks hardware makers for fixes for up to 10 years

Re: A good start, but ...

All source code, etc etc.

Also the schematics abd board views should be provided day 1, otherwise you can't sell it.

Parts should be sold at reasonable markup, and exclusive contracts with suppliers should be illegal, parts should be available from suppliers.

Free-Teams-gate: Docker apologizes for shooting itself in the foot

Re: IBM Forced Us Into It

Well, maybe you can creat a podman.. but is it supported?

I don´t support configurations not on out list of approved configurations are agreed with the client. At least in theory..

Thanks to generative AI, catching fraud science is going to be this much harder

Re: Goodhart's Law

It is already a thing... i have seen people get fired over fakes.

But some desperate people will always think "either I fake it or I lose my career". Not putting people under this stress will reduce burnout and false data. Sadly it will still be a thing.

Financial red tape blamed for London losing Arm IPO

Transparency

Either that or rules are incredibly expensive and convoluted.

I don't have a legal and market analysis of these rules at hand, so I can't tell what are the consequences of these rules.

FBI boss says COVID-19 'most likely' escaped from lab

Re: Credible or not, the motivation is suspect

Australian sources are even less trust worthy.

They could be telling the truth, but their rhetoric is "China bad" no matter if actually bad, or even involved.

Not that I like the CCP, they are mostly not a force of good, but this is getting a bit ridiculous.

Remember when Huawei was being accused of being a security risk? This is probably part of the same confrontation between the US and China.

As someone living in Europe, we can only lose from this.

Most Londoners would quit before they give up working from home

Divided groups

I have interacted today with people in the UK, Serbia, India and the US. This is my team. If I go to the office I would have a couple more, and some chats on the coffee machine, but not get more work done.

5% of the cloud now runs on Arm as chip designer plans 2023 IPO

Re: The death of CISC?

Software blocked its death.

The platform does not matter. Software and the ecosystem is what matters. But now as software is running behind closed doors on walled gardens, they can use something they control and not pay royalties and huge margins to others.

It is also terrible for the small players, as we are moving from open systems to everything proprietary, including hardware.

US stalkerware developer fined $410,000 and ordered to modify apps so they reveal spying

Uk and law

In the uk our security agencies have been repeatedly found to be breaking the law, with no real consequences. This is not what I would call democratic.

Only court authorised and controlled should be allowed.

I think the guy should be jailed..but at least he was fined.

South Korea to treat crypto tokens and virtual assets as if they were securities

Not securities

They are certainly not securities in my opinion, but more akin to gold, as there is no promise whatsoever.

I guess they are using the definition of any financial tradable asset, but that makes almost everything a security..