Posts by TrevorH

Samsung and Mousterian move ahead with floating datacenter for Texas

Is that a sub-division of Disney?

AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but at $4K, easy doesn't come cheap

ServeTheHome has an 8 unit DGX Spark cluster running.

Arm64 on the desktop? It’s spendy and it’s sluggish

I ran Debian 12 with the MATE Desktop on an 8GB Rpi5 with a 512GB M.2 nvme drive for about 6 months early last year. It ran thunderbird for my $dayjob emails, chromium web browser with maybe 10 tabs open, Microsoft Teams as a chromium webapp in a separate process and about 40 ssh sessions. It was not *quick* but it was adequate for most of the time. After about a week of uptime it got a bit sluggish but either closing all the apps and starting them back up or a quick reboot fixed that for another week. If I'd known I was going to use the rpi5 for this when I bought it then I probably would have bought the 16GB version (it was about £120 at the time).

History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system

You are using numbers based on the release of ISO images and those were only intended for use for new installs. CentOS would build the updates as a priority and get a working tree and then publish that in the CR repo for anyone to update a running system from. Once that was done then work was started on building the ISO images but since the updates were already out there, this was done at a more leisurely pace.

I checked 7.8 which was released by Red Hat on 2020-03-30 and the updates for that were built and in the CentOS CR repo and available for anyone to use by the following Monday, 2020-04-06. That's 8 days.

It's a similar story for 7.9 which RH pushed 2020-09-29 and was available to CentOS users on 2020-10-14. That would be 16 days so not as good but still less than half the numbers you are using.

> Users of the GA users were running unpatched systems for 2-3 months out of the year. It's actually hard to imagine continuing that process without major changes.

As the guy that used to nag the guy that built the updates, I'm pretty sure this is not true.

60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour

Re: Timing of MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512

I'm not sure your speed calculation takes account of the differing length of each of these and thus the increase in possible size of any database table lookup you use.

MD5 has been marked as a security concern since 2008 so anyone still using it 18 years later deserves everything they get.

We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to

Re: Two Things

The comments section links are gone completely in the Seamonkey web browser. I have to use chrome to see anything.

Register developers suggestion

I had not scrolled all the way to the bottom of the archive link and now that I have, I have a suggestion for the developers: please translate e.g. "1-100" into a date range or something, preferably with a drop down selector or something so we can narrow in on a page. Just listing the last 300,000 articles 100 at a time is verging on BOFH design.

Glad I read the archive link

I used to read theregister.com/Week/ which has now been renamed to https://www.theregister.com/archive so I hadn't really noticed much difference. I took a quick look at the landing page and, wow, it's a mess. It's 18 pages long with articles listed under subheadings and all over the place in a not very well defined groupings. I'll be sticking with the chronological listing on the archive page thanks.

UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs

In chrome I get....

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Chase got a spiff of $77 million to create one job with New York datacenter

A $77m spliff sounds more like Cheech and Chong.

Oh, "spiff"...

Japanese shipper MOL wants a floating datacenter, and Hitachi just climbed aboard

I went to a conference sometime in winter about 30 years ago on a ship that was moored by the banks of the Thames. The organisers thought it sounded like a great idea: "different". What they hadn't factored in is that once you got 100+ people in the big conference room and they all started breathing in and out, all that moisture got into the air and promptly condensed on the cast iron ceiling and after about an hour it was raining condensed sweat on the audience's head. Strangely no-one was amused by the sweat shower and most of them walked out.

Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

This appears to be an exercise in box checking. The post says "birthDate is excluded from user_record_self_modifiable_fields(), so only administrators can set or change it via homectl". So if you install your system and have root then you can change it post-install or during the install. The only children affected by this would be those whose parents do the install for them and do not give them root access (for as long it takes them to work out how to gain root and change it themselves).

Linus Torvalds keeps his ‘fingers and toes’ rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0

So this would be 2.6.120?

Let them eat Pi: RAM shortage bumps Raspberry prices as much as $60

as I read elsewhere recently: The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.

Systemd daddy quits Microsoft to prove Linux can be trusted

Feature creep

systemd-encrypt-everything.target

CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more

HAL 9000

Open the fridge bay doors please Hal.

AMD Strix Halo vs Nvidia DGX Spark: Which AI workstation comes out on top?

> amd_iommu=offwq!

That looks suspiciously like a vi-ism typo in that kernel command line parameter...

LastPass hammered with £1.2M fine for 2022 breach fiasco

Why so cheap? £1.2m is a drop in the bucket, add several noughts please.

How do you solve a problem like Discovery?

I seem to recall that the Chinese had a line of really large balloons that may or may not have accidentally flown over the continental USA by mistake and been shot down. Maybe they can borrow half a dozen of those and strap the shuttle to them and airlift it to where it needs to go.

Radiant Group won't touch kids' data now, but apparently hospitals are fair game

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvlgzk0xvpo

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters offering $10 in Bitcoin to 'endlessly harass' execs

So, how long a period in jail for harassment does $10 buy you?

Firewall upgrade linked to three deaths after Australian telco cut off emergency calls

What possible relationship is there between a firewall and calls failing to one specific number when all other calls connect correctly. A firewall might block ALL calls but calls to a specific destination, no, I don't think so.

As Xi and Putin chase immortality, let's talk about digital presidents-for-life

Thatcher was gone within months of saying that she intended to "go on and on". Is it too much to hope for that a similar fate awaits these 2 morons?

GNOME Foundation boss exits after just four months

I'd apply for the job but I'd want to throw out everything done since gnome 2 and start over with something that actually works for human beings.

Gadget geeks aghast at guru's geriatric GPU

Re: A graphics card?

Last time I saw an article about what he uses for development it was some form of threadripper or EPYC desktop board so, yes, no iGPU if it's the same machine.

Oracle VirtualBox licensing tweak lies in wait for the unwary

Re: VirtualBox 7.1 released Sep 9, 2024

There are several "rings" in x86 architecture and OS/2 is unusual in using more than just 2. Most things use 0 for kernel and 1 for user space. OS/2 uses ring 2 as well and not all hypervisors emulate it correctly (or maybe at all). VBox came from Innotek software, a German company that used to write OS/2 software so they made it work.

Innotek got bought by Sun(?) and then acquired by Oracle which is how Oracle ended up with it. I don't think Oracle bought Innotek directly, I think they acquired it via another purchase but I may be wrong about it being Sun.

Firefox is fine. The people running it are not

It's pretty easy, what Mozilla needs is a management team that use a web browser on a daily basis. All day, every day. And they need to be focused on making it easy to use, fast, accurate, cross platform, secure and stable. Not necessarily in that order. Oh, and I guess they need to know how to make money too.

Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions

I have seen conversations with people that are very familiar with the X codebase and they were of the opinion then, about 10 years ago, that it was a complete security nightmare that could probably never be fixed completely. They also said that most of those security problems had been known for 20 years, now 30 years, and were as a result of the way it was designed. From that point of view I can absolutely see why they would want to do this. It's also possible that they're sitting on a bombshell CVE that they can't disclose (no knowledge of that here, just speculation).

If they remove X support from Fedora 43, how will that affect all those other Window managers that are listed as alternatives to gnome? For example, can you still run MATE or xfce on a Fedora 43 that has no X support? I don't think wayland support on either is particularly great if present at all.

RHEL 10 quietly leaks ahead of Red Hat Summit

RHEL 8.10 was already the last point release to receive "new hardware" updates and that was released about 6 months ago. From now on it's security updates to 8.10 only for the next 4 and a bit years of its 10 year support period. You have plenty of time yet. But no new enhancements.

You don't seem to need to do anything special to see if from my login. I get in to redhat.com and go to the download link then to "All downloads" and it shows me all the links to download 10.0 isos, 4 of them, boot, binary, realtime and virtio-win isos plus 2 image files for KVM and WSL2. This is from a free developer subscription renewed about a week ago.

Direct download https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/479/ver=/rhel---10/10.0/x86_64/product-software will require a RH account.

AMD is Ryzen to the SMB occasion with a bundle of baby Epycs

I wonder why it maxes out at 192GB RAM when the desktop variety can use up to 256GB (if youcan find 64GB DIMMs). Perhaps there are no ECC 64GB DIMMs...

Microsoft tries to knife passwords once and for all – at least for consumers

Dear Microsoft

Please FOAD.

See I was polite, I said please.

Nationwide power outages knock Spain, Portugal offline

Re: To channel a certain class of reader ...

> Not relevant to ME?

And how close do you think .uk might be to exploring this new avenue of electricity delivery? If it is a cyber attack, would you rather read about it now in another country or wait until it arrives on your front doorstep?

Don't delete that mystery empty folder. Windows put it there as a security fix

IIS is still listed as having a 4% share of the web server market. There's an awful lot of web servers out there so 4% would still be a large number if you were needing to patch them all...

Trump's tariff turmoil leaves IT projects in deep freeze

I thought that HIGNFY quote was good too but I went to Google it to find out who had said it and it turns out it has been around in one form or another since 2019ish so it predates the current reported use by several years.

UK's answer to DARPA sprouts new ideas, like programmable plants

Are you sure this whole thing wasn't from a press release dated April 1st?

Hm, why are so many DrayTek routers stuck in a bootloop?

> What exactly, can your proprietary router do that this cannot?

Speak directly to a DSL connection without a separate modem?

Re: Over reaction

That rather depends on what security error your browser was showing. If it's "hey the self signed SSL certificate is... self signed" or, judging by the date on my Draytek's SSL cert, it is baked into the firmware and expires in about a year so not upgrading looks likely to give you a cert expired error. Which might encourage you to go in search of an update...

Bullet point #1 in the release notes for the 2762 3.9.9.2 firmware:

- Improved: Improve the web GUI security.

No sh*t!

Front page of the web UI shows you the current modem code that's in use like

DSL Version 8D1B17_A/B/C HW: A

You can use that to work out which firmware file to download.

BT unplugs plans to turn old cabinets into EV chargepoints

I imagine an EV charger also requires significant quantities of power that a green comms cabinet probably didn't need so the "they're already connected to power" point is probably moot.

Infoseccer: Private security biz let guard down, exposed 120K+ files

Their response appears to be the usual "kill the reporter, ignore the cause". Inspires confidence.

Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next

We're competing for a prize that no-one wants or has a use for?

Open source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own entirely repairable hardware

Call me when they ship a model with 3 x 2.5GbE ports.

RHEL 9.5 debuts alongside AlmaLinux, Rocky, and Oracle updates

> We confess to a moment's amusement at reading this section of the docs:

Even more amusing when you know that Lennart works for Microsoft these days.

AI PCs: 'Something will have to give in 2025, and I think it's pricing'

AI is to PC what 3D is to TV

The troublesome economics of CPU-only AI

> As we understand it, hyperthreading was disabled for these tests, so only 88 of the VM's threads were actually active.

What? Are you sure that's a valid assumption to make? 176 vcpus on a VM would be 176 vcpus whether you have HT enabled or not.