Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Huawei reportedly furloughs Russian staff and stops taking orders

> a moral difference exists between say the Allied invasion of Sicily in '43

I'm still sore about a French adventure in 1066

>We've noticed that some countries and regions have issued some policies

The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan'sRussia's advantage

Re: Russia is a small market, probably not worth the risk

But this is a company that is America-banned anyway, to the extent that the Americans ordered the Canadians to keep the boss's daughter under house arrest for a year

>you shouldn't invade a country without warning; that a declaration of war should be made prior to the use of armed force

And you should take flowers or some nice baked goods when delivering the declaration - good manners costs nothing

Why the Linux desktop is the best desktop

Re: One reason to stay with Windows - Outlook

>Outlook works fine in the browser, Teams less so the last few times I tried. Those, of course, are just for work.

Teams native on Linux now works perfectly, I suspect the Microsoft teams Linux dev team are being forced to use teams!

Re: One reason to stay with Windows - Outlook

>for my casual needs Inkscape is a breeze to use.

Yes but there are professional users that need Illustrator, or Photoshop or Autocad.

It's like saying electric scooters are good enough for my casual use, great I'm happy for you, but if I drive an excavator for a living that doesn't really help me.

Ironically I use a bunch of software for work that only runs on Linux, so I have to have a separate windows laptop for minor corporate stuff - mostly outlook plugins - that only works on Windows

Re: "Linux Desktop"

>What, you mean like MS' changes in UI and the "Where is the control panel today?" game from XP - Vista - Win7 - 8 - 10 - 11?

At least when you buy Windows it doesn't ask you if you prefer Cinnamon or MATE before you can download.

Or rather than full blown Ubuntu I'll install the simple xfce desktop, first thing it asks me on login - "do I want gdm3 or lightdm"

I've been using Linux since it came on Soft Landing System floppies, and Unix for 10 years before that and I don't want to care / know / have an opinion on desktop login manager daemons.

Re: Linux "Desktop"

>These days it's mostly a process of "plug in USB cable, wait for drivers to install, print" on every OS.

HP: plugin USB, wait for 4Gb download, find that your machine now launches 97 pop-ups offering to sell you printer ink everytime you move the mouse

Re: Linux "Desktop"

I know - people just don't pay enough attention to this.

TSMC's logo looks like 1980s Amiga Paint - if they can't have a cool logo how good can their 5nm chip technology be ?

Dell trials 4-day workweek, massive UK pilot of shortened week begins

Re: I'm not sure I understand how this is going to work.

>Either, of the original 5 days there is a 1 day of work that doesnt need to be done

Ever been in an office job ?

Re: There s no way to buy more time

>It does not stop you doing your *existing* British domiciled work, - even for US clients - just from there.

You have to be careful, you can work for NeilPost's independent traders (New York-Paris-Peckham) while at DisneyLand, but you can't go into the New York office and claim you are doing your London work

>I work in healthcare, and always kept looking incredulously at each tightening of sickness policy

I think that's what's known as organic market growth

Re: There s no way to buy more time

Move to Kaliningrad and tell the German authorities you consider it to be German.

See if anybody wants to make an official ruling against you !

Is Dell in NL an 'IT' company or is it just sales/service for shipments in Europe?

There is a lot of difference between SAP needing to got to 4day because otherwise programmers will leave, and a call center+warehouse operation staffing more shifts

If you do it in the right direction you gain a day, so you can have 3day weekends every week !

So you want to do overtime for the same rate as your normal hours?

Re: 4 days, nah not for me, happy with WFH though

I find I have a lot more focus if I'm working 4 days.

It means I have what needs doing on each day plotted, while if you are working a 'full' week, Friday seems so far off that you aren't really in the zone til Wednesday

Re: There s no way to buy more time

>It does seem like that visa specifically excludes doing work

It gets complicated. You can go to the USA to sell / install / service /train people on your foreign kit

You can't do any work or receive training.

Once had to get a special ticket for a conference I was speaking at, stating I was banned from attending any of the training sessions.

One got stopped when I was heading to our US office for a week - asked if I would be doing any work while I was there. Told INS there was a corporate re-org and we were going to spend a week being Powerpointed at - and I could guarantee nobody in the company was going to get any work done that week.

They waved me through with a smirk

Re: There s no way to buy more time

>I am not entirely sure I'd appreciate a 4-day work week over a 5-day work week with, say, 6-hour working days

If you have a 2 hour each way commute here on the west coast.

> however, within reason, I am pretty sure I would gladly accept a decrease in salary for these benefits.

I requested to work 4 day/week for 80% salary and work said no, because we have too many big projects and it's impossible to find staff. So I'm leaving at the end of June (end Q2, tax reason) - they just don't know yet !

Zuckerberg gets $26m in 'other' Meta compensation

Re: Guys, guys, guys

Didn't Germany make companies pay union dues for assembly line robots ?

Re: Zuckerberg currently sits in 13th place with a fortune worth $79.5 billion.

(because land bought that was stolen, is still stolen)

That's really going to take a chunk out of the UK's housing market.

Re: personal security for Mr Zuckerberg cost Meta $15,195,103 last year

>Zuckerberg family's security at home and while traveling, even for personal reasons.

Cos nobody would try and kidnap or kill him when he's travelling for personal reasons - that wouldn't be against the rules

>- Disclosure of income tax records without consent or a court order is a crime.

Where?

If you claim all your income is earned in the Narnia Islands and you are tax resident in Morder you can hardly run to the feds to claim USA law should protect you.

Similarly if somebody hacks the bank accounts in Narnia and publishes it in the independant republic of Sealand whose laws are broken ?

Nokia quits Russia over Ukraine invasion

Re: Who?

But all that Huawei 5g stuff is full of Chinese spyware remember

What are they going to pay in? Rusty warships?

Soon Ericson could have the 6th largest navy

Industrial cybersecurity group gathers lobbying force

Re: This is not a solution to a problem, it is a marketing body for problems.

But now there's no need for any government regulation because they are self regulating.

Except there will need to be a regulation making it illegal to report on any cyber-attack (for national security reasons) and to prevent companies being sued for any damage caused to their customers

Russia cobbles together supercomputing platform to wean off foreign suppliers

Re: The TS/SCI Stuff No One is Going to Tell You Anywhere Near the Whole Truth About.

Nobody can be told what amanfromMars1 is, you have to experience it for yourself

unified interoperable platform to accelerate the pace of important substitution

Have we unleashed the hordes of Mckinsey on them ?

PC sales start to ebb as pandemic buying spree ends: IDC

Re: If Only...

A botched unwanted update to Windows 11 (I accidentally clicked No to the "do you not want to disregard the option to not upgrade" mesg) killed my Win10 machine.

Made the switch to only Linux, after years f using it for work stuff, so far haven't found anything missing

Ericsson pulls out of Russia 'indefinitely' to protest war in Ukraine

Re: For or against?

About the war.

Pete “I was against it...”

Dud “I think that we all were?”

Pete “ahhh, but I wrote a letter!”

Day 7 of the great Atlassian outage: IT giant still struggling to restore access

Re: But but but....

We use Atlassian on-premises, so not affected

Atlassian are stopping on-prem so we are currently trailing switching to Github cloud (?)

Volkswagen: Expect chip supply problems until 2024

Volkswagen's problem

All the semiconductors they can find calculate 2+2=4, when VW's requirement is that 2+2=3

What do you do when all your source walks out the door?

Re: Backup AND Restore

Requirement was that they were backed up, they were backed up.

You want a file restore system? Then specify one !

Re: Never get the chance to do it again

>The accurate weather forecast

if Wimbledon | cricket:

rain()

Why is IBM selling post-quantum crypto when it's still a pre-quantum company?

Re: Meh.

IBM announced to shareholders that 90% of their sales are quantum computers (well semiconductors are quantum aren't they?)

US defense department wants to fund open, interoperable 5G

Re: Two-faced pot and kettle

>Open RAN ecology is based entirely on open standards, and commodity hardware leaving no room for vendor-specific spyware

So long as you are allowed to do your own clean room build of the source and install your own certified binary on all the base stations

This Dept of Defense

It pays everyone the same

It limits access to weapons to those who have had proper training

If gives people free government paid food and accommodation

It gives free college education

It offers free government paid health care for life

Now it promotes open source software

Seems like some unAmerican activities .....

Re: Much Worse

>They are willing to perform wicked medical experiments on mankind, paired with draconic "lockdowns" on the populations.

Ohh kinky, do they get leather uniforms too ?

Direct lithium extraction technique for greener batteries gains traction

Re: How green?

>Reverse osmosis works well for Lithium.

Ok. I thought evaporation was best case and this was like using solar panels to power a tumble dryer rather than just hanging out the washing

Still assuming they need to do some massive electrolysis to get metalic Lithium or can you chemically convert LiCl into whatever Li-ion the battery needs ?

How green?

So this extracts Lithium salt from water containing lithium salt with reverse osmosis - rather than evaporating it.

Exactly like extracting salt-salt from seawater without evaporating it.

Getting to lithium metal is still going to involve a whole lump of entropy

California suggests taking aim at AI-powered hiring software

Re: I guess I will have to wait then

>Not because the basic idea is bad... without actually accomplishing their goals

Cynically you would say that this achieves the goals of telling their voters that "we stopped evil AI" while telling the businesses that fund them "don't worry it won't change anything" while the lawyers on both sides figure they can bill $$$ arguing over it

Re: The burden is as alaways...

State has a bot that submits the same CV with male/female/different ethnicity names - runs stats on the results - take company to court

Company either has to argue that it is guilty of using ML which just looks for CVs that match the board members OR it has people deliberately screening out women and low albedo candidates

First Light says it's hit nuclear fusion breakthrough with no fancy lasers, magnets

Re: Winding up dead....

I think General Fusion patented that business model

Re: not tokamak, as it's a knot tokamak :)

More importantly a stelerator is stable, a tokamak only holds a plasma while the field is changing. The field can't increase forever so it has to dump plasma and start again every few minutes.

Rivals aren't convinced by Microsoft's one-click default browser change

But you have a choice

Just create a registry key for the IP address of each websites you want windows to open in an alternative browser - how much more choice could you have ?

Buying a USB adapter: Pennies. Knowing where to stick it: Priceless

A CEO with a screwdriver should definitely be thumped before they do any damage

Congressional pressure mounts to pass $52b CHIPS Act

Re: Next generation semiconductors aren't the only thing that needs help

That's the whole irony, Intel / Nvidia / AMD will use this to build cutting edge fabs, because these are the most expensive so govt $$$ helps and it gives them negotiating power with TSMC.

But its going to do nothing for the shortage of 25c chips in cars

Re: @NoneSuch

The US will probably require that Federal users, then anybody doing business with the feds or getting getting federal grant money - have to use freedom CPUs (for national security).

More difficult for the Eu to insist everyone uses American company's chips made in Europe

European Right to Repair resolution headed for vote

Re: (Yet) another regulation the UK will need to abide by

>Scotland is five years for a reason I don't know.

It was extended to life of the customer