Posts by esherrill

Python, Flutter teams latest on the Google chopping block

Re: > it is there to make PROFITS

https://htmx.org/ - looks interesting.

It's a preview party at Microsoft, but do you really want an invite?

Access???

People still use that??? Augh…. please go away already. Real MS-SQL, if you must stay in Redmond’s orbit, or any of the OSS alternatives. Even Excel is better.

Project is kinda meh, Excel (or any Scrum/Kanban tool, including actual whiteboard w/Post-its) can do 80% of its job. But don’t kill Visio please, unless you release the source.

When humanity perishes in nuclear fire, the University of Essex's radiation-resistant robots will inherit the Earth

Chernobyl

Anyone remember the scene in the HBO miniseries where the robot essentially died immediately upon being put on the roof? Something like this would’ve been very helpful for that. Also for the Japanese power plants in Fukushima that succumbed to the tsunami in 2011.

Average convicted British computer criminal is young, male, not highly skilled, researcher finds

Sounds a bit like the plot for a spy flick, or a season of Spooks...

All the decent ones have surely been tagged, recruited by GCHQ, MI5 or MI6 (or whatever they are being called these days), and given blanket pardons from any previous criminal acts, as long as they continue to work for the "good guys" in the gov't....

HPE to move HQ from Silicon Valley to Texas, says Lone Star State is 'attractive' for recruitment, retaining staff

Re: HPE have history in TX...

I think you're thinking of Dallas (Plano/Frisco area)

Re: Texas doesn't surprise me

Spring Texas is pretty far north of Houston, probably far enough inland for anything but a Cat 5 hurricane to be shrugged off. Relo to Galveston or Baytown, on the other hand, would be insane.

NetApp and Fujitsu to integrate products

Interesting times...

More interestingly, Fujitsu is the only active maker of SPARC chips nowadays... though Sun is emphasizing x86 more and more lately, could this be a backdoor play for NTAP to help handle any eventuality stemming from Sun/Oracle possibly winning (or at least failing to promptly settle) the ZFS/WAFL patent battle?

Tape users wait for news of LTO 7 and 8

MLC flash as replacement for tape?

I think if the $/GB of 4-bit per cell or higher MLC flash can be brought down quickly enough, it will be very competitive with tape in the near term (2012 timeframe). Poor MLC flash write endurance won't be as much an issue when used for WORM or tape-like applications - after all only 200 full overwrites durability is quoted on LTO4 today (and IRL it can be much less, with excessive shoeshining, leader pins snapping, etc.). And flash of course has similar power requirements, form factors, etc. as tape (plus tape drive), and would likely have similar if not better long term archival reliability. So perhaps the LTO consortium is looking at flash removable drives instead of tape as a long term replacement?