Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

I don't know what pressing Delete will do, but it seems safe enough!

and backups

The first requirement for a DBA is fear.

Fear and surprise

Fear and surprise and sanatizing user inputs.

Win 11 refreshes delayed, say PC makers – and here's why

Re: Five year old PCs need replacing :o

>Time due for many organisations who use 365 to consider installing Mint or Ubuntu for certain user types, and adding Edge for Linux, then running 365 within Edge.

I keep arguing that we could issue Chromebooks

Everything office-ish we do is online on O365/Teams/cloud/Sharepoint and it all works fine from the Linux desktops

And the few Microsoft-only packages we need are too heavy for the corporate laptops anyway

And Chromebooks are built to be child-proof so can safely be given to managers

Re: Dear, dear Michael Dell

>"Every piece of software that you're going to use is going to have an AI assistant.

systemd-AI = the end of the world

sendmail.cfg-AI = it goes mad so you don't have to

fdisk-AI = manic Joker laugh

Re: Five year old PCs need replacing :o

There is no need to review the AI generated email yourself.

The recipient isn't going to read it either - they are going to get AI to summarize it.

Re: Five year old PCs need replacing :o

We get our corporate Windows laptops replaced when the Dell warranty runs out.

While the Linux desktops we actually do work on are much older, just add more ram, upgrade SSD->NVME and add this years fanciest graphics card

Ironically the most common 'upgrade' we have to do is a bigger PSU to feed NVidia's insatiable power demands.

Re: Five year old PCs need replacing :o

But how can you do modern office productivity tasks like replying to emails, playing with Powerpoint formatting and reading Facebook - with a 5 year old PC ?

That's an i7-9000, barely 500GFlops, you wouldn't even be able to use emojis with that

Homing pigeon missiles, dead trout swimming, butt breathing honored with Ig Nobel Prize

One interesting, but unfortunate, side effect of modern drug trials is that placebos become more effective.

If you have people come into a lab with lots of flashing machines that go ping, lots of people in white coats and have them sign lots of impressive forms about risk of death - they believe the stuff must be powerful and get better. Irrespective of if it's real. Making the placebos have side effects will make this worse

It means a lot of safe effective drugs have failed trials simply because they aren't statistically better than the placebo.

EU OKs $1.9B aid for Intel Polish plant, assuming x86 giant doesn't end up cutting it

It sounds like a politician has added the $1.9bn back hander grant to the $4.6Bn plant and come up with a $6.5Bn project

It's a bit like the UK buying £250M of wind turbines from Germany. Shipping them to Belfast as a £250M plan to repurpose the docks as offshore wind support and investing £250M in renewable energy programs in Northern Ireland. They were then installed off Morcombe as part of a £250M regeneration of the area and contributing £250M to renewable resources in the North East and adding £250M to the Northern Powerhouse.

So overall £1.5Bn of UK eco-regional-goodness all for a mere £250M to Siemens

Re: More corporate welfare.

The government should take all the tax money it raises and hand it out to the people as cash

Then all the people can get together and build all the power-plants/roads/railways/chip-fabs that they need

You're not an Austrian economist by any chance?

Re: MAGA…

This isn't Eu funding - it's Polish tax-payer Government funding

The Eu is just approving that this isn't unfair state aid to subsidise a Polish company at the expense of the other members

Boeing union workers in US reject contract: 96% vote to strike

Yes that was rather my point. The "learn to code" you obsolete blue collar dinosaur = there is a lot more programming in machine shops than in web development shops.

Even if you get the surface file from engineering, the toolpath optimisation is a valuable skill

Re: replace them all

>Rocket Science *is* hard

Rocket science is trivial. Newton's laws and Tsiolkovsky

Rocket engineering on the other hand ....

> The union will kill the company, then where will all these idiots be?

Where will skilled machinists be in an America with 4% unemployment rate if Boeing shuts down?

Only fans presumably. Or they can learn to code (something beyond CNC)

Boeing's new motto. Built by the cheapest unskilled, untrained labor we can drag off the streets.

Not sure how that flys

Re: Easy fix

You're promoted to executive vice-president of door bolt installation

No there isn't a pay rise but you get new business cards.

Have you tried being in a field with limited practitioners and which brings economic value to customers?

Re: replace them all

>send them back where they came from

But who then will pick our fruit, play in our orchestras and teach higher mathematics?

Muppet broke the datacenter every day, in its own weighty way

Re: Boldly going where no portly tech has gone before

How did you get the root password?

Re: Boldly going where no portly tech has gone before

I have one of those. The back doors have been replaced by a sheet of cardboard because there isn't enough room to open them.

You have to Ministry of Silly Walks over the network cables to even get behind it.

This is in a "secure data center" as required by ISO 9001 but is actually a locked cleaners cupboard in the basement.

Re: Whoops there go the tape drives

Sounds like an HR-worthy conversation was involved

In a strictly scientific attempt to understand the problem did you have her wear a wide variety of other exotic materials?

AI giants pinky swear (again) not to help make deepfake smut

>researching ways to render illegal content unusable.

Ban typewriters and photocopies, Authors will still produce descriptions of illegal acts but won't be able to distribute their illegal content

Boeing's Calamity Capsule returns to Earth without a crew

Re: What’s the point?

>Could you name six of these benefits

Distracting the public from your presidential private life

Amortization of the costs of ICBM development

Strategic investment in aircraft makers without being a communist

Gives retired Nazi rocket scientists something to do

Gives redundant Soviet rocket scientists something to do

Allows people to run for office with a suitably macho story if we hadn't had any successful wars recently

Re: uh oh

Bungy cords from the ceiling= simple

'Hyperscale customer' to take massive datacenter site near London

Re: Cooling?

Normally increase the temperature to reduce the amount of fluid(ie water) you're moving.

You could take the 40C air from the racks and send it directly to homes and end up with 25C at the end - but you are going to have to shift a lot of air and people object to having pipes the size of the channel tunnel across their garden.

The obvious solution, given the housing situation inside the M25, is to move the people to the heat. A series of recyclable wood-fibre based pre-fab 'housing' could be built directly on the roof of the data center and be heated with no further infrastructure. As an extra bonus these can be recycled from the 'housing units' the servers are delivered in.

Japan to put a small red Swedish house on the Moon

Re: "a small red house on the surface of the Moon"

And that the foreign house will be unaffordable for native clangers

Pokémon GO was an intelligence tool, claims Belarus military official

So I suppose having soon sort of GPS tracking app running all the time would have good for the defendant.

There have been cases where police investigating a crime have asked for all cellphone location data near the area and then picked out an appropriate suspect.

A former prof of mine was an expert witness on radio propagation showing that the cell phone tower triangulation inside a large mall wasn't the super-precision perfect solution the police and cell company imagined.

Re: "members of the military should exercise caution"

>How stupid do you have to be to take selfies of the secret base you are living and training and post them on the internet

Or be a super-fit super-secret agent at a super secret base somewhere

And then run around the perimeter fence every morning and upload you route to Strava

SpaceX blasts being stuck in bureaucratic orbit as Starship approval slips

Re: "Campaign for a Rural Unspoiled Traditional England"

Yes, I couldn't remember the name of the actual group. It was deliberately chosen to be close to several legitimate groups called things along the lines of Preservation/Rural/Countryside and I didn't want libel any of them.

>Since the #2 in the London KGB office at the time was working for MI6 their visibility of UK KGB operations would have been quite good.

At the same time that most of the heads of MI6 were working for the KGB

If the USSR were spending $Bn on ABM defences when they could have just thrown a few DM at some student groups in the 70s/80s then they deserved the trip to the Gulag. Just like any Gasprom executives that didn't think investing a few $K in directorships for retired German chancellors was worth it to get German nuclear power shutdown more recently.

Re: November

And that guide dog

Ferdinand Porsche was a bigger knob but I wouldn't mind having one of their cars

The main backers of the "Campaign for a Rural Unspoiled Traditional England" who opposed windfarms in the UK did turn out to be Westinghouse's Nuclear Engineering division and the USSR were the backers of most European nuclear disarmament and anti-nuclear groups during the cold war.

If I were a national economic competitor then throwing a few $$ at the local Preserve the Lesser-Spotted Newt group when somebody was trying to decide where to build a new chip fab - might be a good use of my secret defense budget.

Re: November

>There is an important date on 5th of November in the US

Not really, most Americans don't do fireworks on Nov5.

Admittedly their recent enthusiasm for blowing up their legislature means they might embrace Guy Fawkes as a national hero

If HDMI screen rips aren't good enough for you pirates, DeCENC is another way to beat web video DRM

The trick is for everyone to pirate and share the ads. Then they will introduce ever more complex copy protection onto the ads until nobody can ever mange to display them

Re: and the like is doomed

>I could cut out both the screen and camera from that and get better image quality.

Only if your camera has "High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection" - the computer won't output content to a display that doesn't promise to only be a display

We know 'Linux is a cancer' but could CentOS chaos spell opportunity for Microsoft?

Re: $

>What is says is: if you provide software, you must provide its source code TO YOUR USERS.

> Only to its users. Not to the world. And for a paid distro, users = customers.

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GPL clause 6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the

Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original

licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these

terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the

recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.

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My understanding was that Redhat's contract limits its users from passing on the source code and fixes they receive - which would seem to be in violation of the GPL.

Re: Microsoft the trustworthy partner :|

"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships...... system is restarting for updates now......1% complete..... do not power off your system.

Bugger they got away.

Re: $

>Well, the GPL forces Redhat to provide the sources for packages it distributes.

And the GPL also gives RedHat the sources for those packages for free.

Still not entirely sure how RedHat have the right to restrict who then gets the sources it distributes - but RedHat have more lawyers than me.

It just means I don't run RedHat

Cyber crooks shut down UK, US schools, thousands of kids affected

Prevent kindergarteners

I appreciate the Generation Aleph_zero (or whatever we're upto by now) are all hyper-connected digital natives but surely you can operate a kindergarten without server access ?

Children sit in a circle and listen to me read a book not on a Kindle

And .... George, Don't Do That ......

HPE wants investors to buy shares to help finance $14B Juniper Networks acquisition

Re: After Autonomy would you buy into this?

>The managerial HP guys on aprox 25 year had spent cuasi 50 B$ in purchase companies

How much did they spend on printer ink to print the contracts ?

(Yes I know HPE isn't the same HP as printer HP and none of them are the same as real HP )

Feds urge 3D printing industry to end DIY machine guns

Re: Okay, sure

>“The real problem” is that regular folks have no way of disqualifying the kooks in politics!

Have you thought about forming a well-regulated militia ?

Re: What difference will this make?

Didn't we solve this by putting those "explicit lyrics" warnings on CDs?

Re: What difference will this make?

>There is no way that this will stop merkins shooting up schools with legal guns...

Not while schools are still legal

Fortunately many right-thinking political leaders are committed to a solution

Re: Okay, sure

>Has there been a school shooting with a fully automatic weapon?

Has there been a school attack using a thermonuclear weapon?

No, and yet there are all these busy-body government regulations on minors owning even the simplest Hydrogen bombs

Oracle wants to power 1GW datacenter with trio of tiny nuclear reactors

Although perhaps at the cost of combat effectiveness. He prioritized the safe operation of 'his' boats over the actually being used for anything.

Famously he didn't allow any commanders who had been decorated in WWII, on the grounds that winning a medal meant they had behaved recklessly.

Bomber command not losing a single airframe in WWII would have been an achievement but not necessarily an optimal goal

How $20 and a lapsed domain allowed security pros to undermine internet integrity

I think the original.yhwh domain is still authoritative but he does get a little tetchy if people use the full name

MI6, CIA using generative AI to combat tech-driven enemies

Re: The Buck Stops Here .......

Welcome back, we were worried you'd been deleted killed in the AI wars