Posts by chris 143

Rent-a-GPU neoclouds need to adapt or die as the AI market evolves

Yep, definitely no bubble to see here...

Google rolls out pro-privacy DNS-over-HTTPS support in Chrome 83... with a handy kill switch for corporate IT

Re: DoH

The way you'll know is all the adverts start loading again.

Airbus and Rolls-Royce hit eject on hybrid-electric airliner testbed after E-Fan X project fails to get off the ground

Re: Electric planes?

I think the idea is that if they could run it on electricity then they'd have the option of alternative fuel options.

Also not being left behind if someone does develop a good fuel cell/battery/nuclear fusion/fusion energy source, maybe there's some efficiency to an internal generator, but I doubt it was ever the objective, just good enough for powering the test engine

Remember the Dutch kid who stuck his finger in a dam to save the village? Here's the IT equivalent

Re: Wrong Buttons...

I've done very similar over vnc on back up 3G connection.

Right clicked on the nic, nothing happened, right clicked again at which point the screen refreshed confirming that I'd just right clicked an the disable option....

Blood, snot and fear: Why the travelling lone tech reporter should always knock twice

Re: Wait, Wut?

condensation freezes then melts as you come into land and it warns up again - although I've only ever watched this process occur on the plane window, I guess it could happen elsewhere

Buy, buy this American PCIe, drove my PC on the Wi-Fi so the Wi-Fi would fly

Re: I'm going to look a prize clown here . . .

It's gigatransfers per second, a transfer is a word which doesn't have to be the same as a bit or a byte

https://www.edn.com/electronics-news/4380071/What-does-GT-s-mean-anyway-

No idea if the 10 bit word is still true or not

How'd your servers get that baby-smooth look? Dutch and Brit cool kids dunk Supermicro systems in synthetic oil

Re: Practical question

I don't think it's significantly more magical than lift it out and try not to drip oil all over the floor.

I've seen demos where they'd more or less taken the top off a 1U/2U server and removed the fans then dunked it in a vat of oil.

Apparently ssds/helium hdds are happy enough being submerged too. Although I imagine it'd invalidate any warranty

Altered carbon: Boffins automate DNA storage with decent density – but lousy latency

Reminds me of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1360

Impressive density (for the time) but useless for data that changes.

Dead LAN's hand: IT staff 'locked out' of data center's core switch after the only bloke who could log into it dies

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RANCID_(software)

Crowdfunded lawyer suing Uber told he can't swerve taxi app giant's £1m legal bill

Re: Who is ultimately responsible for collecting/paying the VAT

I don't see how he'd be able to make any claim on owned back taxes. Unless hmrc have some sort of finders fee reporting incentive

If you want a vision of the future, imagine not a boot stamping on a face, but keystroke logging on govt contractors' PCs

TBF their jobs aren't (always) computer based.

Body Cams would be far more appropriate

Fuzzy logic makes a comeback – in picking where Earth sticks its probes into alien worlds

Re: Curious unit of data measurement

someone who though 12TB seemed less impressive?

Anyone fancy testing the 'unlimited' drive writes claim on Nimbus Data's 100TB whopper SSD?

Re: "unlimited write endurance"

The controllers wear levelling should attempt at least to limit the damage

Re: Reality check

12 X 3.5" in 1U exists and supermicro make 90 drives in 4U options.

https://www.supermicro.nl/products/system/1U/6019/SSG-6019P-ACR12L.cfm

https://www.supermicro.nl/products/system/4U/6048/SSG-6048R-E1CR90L.cfm

Probably have to use a 1200mm deep rack though

SATA ssd

Those performance numbers are completely reasonable for a SATA ssd.

The ssds you've pull performance figures from are all nvme.

Intel: Our next chips won't have data leak flaws we told you totally not to worry about

Re: So

I believe you go down to your local retailer in 6 months or so and buy them

When clever code kills, who pays and who does the time? A Brit expert explains to El Reg

Who crashes a self driving car?

I buy a self driving car, I'm driven around by it.

Sure I might want theft insurance, but assuming I maintain it to the agreed standard any crash it's involved in isn't my fault - I was a passenger - it's $manufacturers.

I don't see them wanting to take on that liability.

Huawei guns for Apple with Mac-alike Matebook X

A recently acquired dell xps 13 installed a current Ubuntu without issue and I've yet to find something not working.

Sooner or later I will but it's hopefully not something I'll miss too much

Fitbit health alert: You appear to be bleeding

Re: Poor build quality to blame ?

Gluing hard plastic and flexible straps together can't be easy, but they've not managed to solve the problem either.

But my other half has the ALTA and metal strap. Which managed about 9 months before it also broke. So it's more than just issues with glue. Feels like there could be something lacking in the basic design quality too

I don't think quite true but being acquired was probably the only way various investors would be seeing their profit.

Did think having seen a advert for this watch that it might be the result of some of the software /people it acquired from pebble

WPA2 KRACK attack smacks Wi-Fi security: Fundamental crypto crapto

Re: Mitigation

If you were connected to a vpn or similar your traffic should be encrypted which would limit the information you could leak.

Red Hat acquires Permabit to put the squeeze on RHEL

Changing from 512 to 4k blocksize? Otherwise you should be able to do that.

It is a huge pain you can't add more disks to a parity raid though

Although if you're just upgrading a mirror then you can probably get away with exporting the old data to a new disk then rebuilding from that

Back to ASICs: Mellanox pumps up Ethernet speed to 400Gbps

Re: What about the NICs?

I don't think you'll be putting a 400GB nic in the back of a sever any time soon, largely due to the speed of the pci-e 3 bus.

HPE's cloud server wasting away on low calorie Microsoft sales

Re: "Low Cost" and "Data Center"

That doesn't apply to the same extent if you're running azure sized quantities of servers.

Any licensing costs are an accounting trick (microsoft selling to microsoft). Once you're up to the big cloud providers scale worrying about individual server reboots just doesn't make sense.

The ideal cloud native app just spins up a new node if one goes away for some reason.

Still no flash in a flash as chip supplies remain fried

Seems to be better than it was

Seems to be better than it was. Having been quoted lead times in months before mostly things seem to be arriving within a couple of weeks (about what were were seeing a year ago)

@el_reg any update on the ram shortage? lead times seems to be dropping to normal but the prices still seem high(er)

Evil ISPs could disrupt Bitcoin's blockchain

60% of bitcoin traffic

When you say 3 isps do you mean the big tier one transit providers?

Those networks that probably see a large fraction of any international traffic

Hold 'em, don't fold 'em: How to bite Bitcoin pools

Re: house of cards question

Go looking for some sha256 collisions?

The Psion returns! Meet Gemini, the 21st century pocket computer

even worse

It's worse than that

Hardware projects on Indegogo tend to be the projects that even kickstarter wouldn't touch (really early stage)

200K is far too low for a hardware at concept stage to be brought to market in a few months....

Also I'm suspicious that the early bird deal would raise enough on it's own to fully fund the project

Elon burning to get Falcon back on the launchpad

Re: Oxygen is not flammable

But lots of things you don't normally think of as flammable are in a high oxygen atmosphere. The fuel could have been almost anything from the carbon overwrap to the aluminium liner.

Custom silicon, 9PB storage boxes, and 25Gb Ethernet – just another day in AWS hardware

25G down a single wavelength, so 50G and 100G are also easy options. 40G is actually 4x10g.

Also the 25G costs are pretty similar to 10G..

Windows 10 pain: Reg man has 75 per cent upgrade failure rate

Linux system upgrade may not be much better

As someone who's been happily running Linux on the laptops and desktops in my life for years.

The actual ability to run a dist-upgrade successful may not be a lot better. Put cd in, install it'll almost certainly just work. Several years later when you want to update to the new current version? Consider starting from scratch with the new install cd

I'd be surprised if windows 10 didn't work on your machines, in place upgrades are hard though...

QLC flash is tricky stuff to make and use, so here's a primer

I was wondering something similar

I guess it's possible, but then the storage capacity of the cell drops too.

If it turned out you had a very small quantity of regularly written data on a drive of mostly static data perhaps it'd allow you to squeeze a bit more endurance out of the drive, but it probably suggests that you're buying the wrong grade of flash

Reader needs Aircon help

Free cooling

In most cases you'll get a lot more use out of a large fan, unless you've got a lot of money to spend cooling active heat sources (servers) can be difficult.

Brits unveil 'revolutionary' hydrogen-powered car

Then your acceleration away from the junction will be fairly poor

GOP senators push FCC to kill support for local broadband

Re: F'em

Health scare would be my bet.

Then they'll all get taken down as radio waves cause autism

UK.gov creates £500K fund to help universities teach cyber skills

£500,000?

Thats just about enough to pay the tuition fees for 18 students for a 3 year course....

Just ONE THOUSAND times BETTER than FLASH! Intel, Micron's amazing claim

Re: A MAJOR breakthrough,

If we say server memory at £5 per gig and the lower end server grade ssds at 50p per gig, I can think of a few applications that might be interested at £2 per gig for near ram like speeds

Comcast: We're twice as fast as Google's 1Gbps Fiber (for x4 the price)

Not sure why I'd need that much speed

Aside from business use (which I assume due to terms and conditions won't be able to use this) I'm unsure what a home user could possibly need this for.

There can't be many services that could supply a gig of traffic in a single stream, let alone ones that you might use enough to justify the costs.

SpaceX asks to test broadband in SPAAACE

Re: Firewall beater

No

There's a reason that the WiFi frequencies aren't used for TV/radio/mobile phone networks etc....

Business or pleasure? Crucial MX200 and BX100 1TB SSDs

micron m600s

The almost identical micron m600s are definitely worth looking at generally cost a couple of percent more for much higher endurance figures.

The internet just BROKE under its own weight – we explain how

You don't need NAT for IPv6

The idea is that you use your link local address to talk to local stuff (eg the network printer)

Then your router advertises it's /64 range.

So you get two IPs

fe80::2345:6789:0abc (local one)

2001:2345:6789:2345:6789:0abc (public one)

Tech that we want (but they never seem to give us)

Re: Uplink module.

bluevpn + android tablet + reasonably basic 3G phone might work

Picture special: LOHAN makes fire in the sky at 15,000m

heat issues?

If your motors were mounted end to end is it possible the heat from one motor lit the wrong end of another motor? (I don't really know enough about rocket motors but I could imagine it causing a large bang)

NASA agonizes over plan for Mars rock sample return mission

What's the range on a rover?

Given the expensive bit is getting it back into orbit...

Couldn't you send several rovers to different locations (probably still have to be within a few hundred miles but still, they don't have to be fast they just have to be able to run for a couple of years). Have them all arrive back to a central location. Then launch a whole range of samples back into orbit.

UK bank heist-by-KVM gang sent down for 24 years after nicking £1.2m

Re: £10 - really?

I was thinking that, the basic allows you to connect two pcs to one monitor/keyboard/mouse are about that price, but if anyone would like to link me to a proper ip kvm for less than a few hundred quid I'd be interested

Raspberry Pi to serve up bite-sized modules for bulk-buying biz bods

didn't you already post this?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/07/raspberry_pi_compute_module/

How Microsoft can keep Win XP alive – and WHY: A real-world example

I suspect VMs are your friend here

EIther win7 with the xp vm

or

my preferred option of linux + kvm and a windows vm that you clone, use for that day and junk, means any compromise is limited, also dual NICs should allow you to keep windows and the rest of the network as seperate as possible

SATANIC 'HELL DIAMOND' tells of sunless subterranean sea

Re: That's Amazing

Given the pressures it's likely to be some superheated liquid

The answer to the in/out question is probably both. Some water gets carried down by sinking tectonic plates and some rises up again via volcanoes

Intel's new Xeon: Easy to switch between dual memory modes? Uh, no

The 5500 series Xeons had mirroring

The 5500 series Xeons could do memory mirroring, (think memory raid1) if a DIMM failed you could schedule downtime to swap rather than the server crashed.

I doubt that the performance mode is unsecure, more that mirrored mode is more secure. If you've got 96DIMMs in a server the chances of one failing is far higher than a 4 DIMM server??

As for the switching modes, boot into the bios change setting reboot. Even on the very slowly booting HP DL360 G6s you should only be 5-10 minutes

Think Amazon is CHEAP? Just take a look at these cloudy graphs...

those graphs are pointless if you don't label your axes properly!

price ($) - is that per second/minute/hour/day/month? a one off cost?