Posts by Sandtitz

Intel bumps up core counts for 13th-gen vPro chips

Re: It's one thing to say "Buy my stuff because it's good"...

"I have perfectly good hardware that I can't use because I can't update the BIOS to get rid of Spectre/Meltdown/Zombieload vulns."

Can't update BIOS? I'd blame the motherboard or system vendor then.

I'm typing this on a 9-year-old laptop that received its final BIOS update three years ago and is patched against all those vulns.

Also, I'm not really the expert here - but won't the Microcode updates provided by most OS vendors be sufficient anyway?

Microsoft to give more than microsecond's thought about your Windows 11 needs

Re: Edge

"Just because you're not seeing the pop-up Windows in the right hand corner with prompts to instead, "continue using Edge 'securely' " (rather than doing what the user requested, i.e. download and install, after clicking download and install), when an attempt is made to download Google Chrome, doesn't mean it's not happening elsewhere in the world, assuming you're based in Finland."

If I try to download Chrome on Win11 with Edge - Edge show an internal (non-HTML) popup asking me to reconsider.

If I try to download Firefox on Win11 with Edge - no such thing. You wrote that this happens when downloading either. Seems to not be so.

Also, I still see no code injection here. The HTML that Google serves on their Chrome download page is intact as far as I can see.

"Plenty of people including myself, experienced the modified Google Chrome download page using Windows 11 (and this wasn't specific to an insider preview build), with the top half showing a half page reference to Edge Edge modified, aka 'injected' the underlying code into the Google Download page."

That would be quite newsworthy and El Reg here would probably report and investigate.

"Downloading MSN Weather, XBox Game Bar, MSN Money, Microsoft Teams, One Drive to user's machine without the user's permission,"

Those are part of the default Windows installation. Yet none of them block 3rd party software from being downloaded and installed.

Many/most(?) Win11 users will use a MS account which includes free OneDrive space, surely it is in the interest of Win11 users that the Onedrive is already there?

"Things like Rewards, could in the future have an impact on UK cashback sites like Quidco and Topcashback, again it's an abuse of MIcrosoft's market position because neither company can advertise in that spot within the OS."

"could have and impact" does not equal to abuse of market position. More Google Shopping has more impact on those two.

Perhaps it's the OS localizations or my location but there's no Rewards app or any kind of mention of it on my Win11 machines, and the whole rewards concept is something I haven't bothered with.

You earn rewards (Micros~1 Store gift cards?) it you use the Store, Bing, Edge and Xbox? Doesn't look like it will make any dent on those cashback sites you mentioned.

IMHO: all those cashback companies are man-in-the-middle sites who skim from the retailers profits and return *some* of that money to the cashback users. Find a more sympathetic example, please :)

Re: Edge

"Code injection/monitoring when you attempt to download and install Firefox or Google Chrome, for starters."

Code injection and monitoring? Either you don't know what they are or you are just lying.

I downloaded Firefox yesterday to my Windows 11 computer. With Edge. Just go to Mozilla and download + install it. Nothing to it.

Now, the installation of MSN Weather and the other apps - how exactly they make it "harder to use non-Microsoft apps"?

Same with rewards (?), Widgets and whatever you listed - they have ZERO IMPACT on 3rd party software.

Re: Edge

"the nefarious ways that Microsoft blatantly makes it harder to use non-Microsoft apps"

Which nefarious ways?

Privacy fail: Pictures cropped, redacted by Google Pixel phones can be recovered

Re: Hmmm

"Can someone explain to me why people keep lots of photos on phones and even do image manipulation there?"

Some people don't have a computer.

Some people may find the manipulation tools on the phone good enough.

IT phone home: How to run up a $20K bill in two days and get away with it by blaming Cisco

Re: The good old days :)

"Oh good grief, I remember those 3Com units..."

"I seem to remember there was a limit of 8 devices that could use the internet through them, no matter what subnet mask you used."

I have but good memories of the 3c891A with many of my clients - from 1996 or so until 1999 or so (hazy). Then DSL came and ISDN became obsolete.

That's the story in Finland at least.

The unit had a 25 user limit and I thought it was only because the WAN link is obviously limited to 64k or 128k, so the performance would be rather lousy for everyone even at the 25 user limit.

It was easy to setup, and you could just save a special URL in office users' browser Favorites or as the home page, and let them control the usage.

PS. I still have somewhere my FSOL ISDN CD.

Microsoft pushes out PowerShell scripts to fix BitLocker bypass

Re: To think...

"Once upon a time, Microsoft actually did have a QA department."

Was the amount of bugs or security better during XP or Win7 because of the QA dept?

Workers don't want these humanoid robots telling them to be happy

Re: Asimov nailed it

So... a ED-209 would be found more welcome? Asking you to smile with 20 seconds to comply.

Hands up who DIDN'T exploit this years-old flaw to ransack a US govt web server...

"Why the duck would any organisation be using IIS (especially on a public facing site)?"

...because the application vendor only supports IIS? ...it come with Windows and is easy to setup?

"It's a massive pain"

Pain?

"and full of holes. Apache, nginx, lighttpd, etc are much more suited to the role."

All of those products have had multiple security vulnerabilities last year. and some of them have had vulns this year as well.

I think IIS isn't any worse on the hole aspect, but feel free to correct me with some statistics.

Windows 11 puts 'disgusting' Remote Mailslots protocol out of its misery

Re: The trouble is…

"SMB 1 being turned off by default in the mid noughties."

SMB1 was only turned off by default starting with Windows 10 in mid-tens.

"But, there are still fairly new printers around (2016 or newer) that do "scan to share" and expect the server or PC they are connecting to to be using SMB 1"

Please name and shame.

Why ChatGPT should be considered a malevolent AI – and be destroyed

Re: Colossus the Forbin Project

First of all, Colossus (the book) predates Star Trek.

The book is a good read. The film is quite faithful and entertaining.

The two sequels to the book are appalling.

Microsoft pushed 'inaccurate' Windows 11 upgrade to unsupported devices

Re: re: And Microsoft benefits... @Steve Davies 3

"especially if their cunning plan involves charging a subscription to all W11 users ($9.99/month)"

Steve, you have parroted about the "imminent M$ Windows subscription model" for over a decade now.

That's the spirit. Do keep on - perhaps in another decade or two you will be proven right.

Starlink performance sees a bump, and so do prices

Re: So you pay more to have less?

"What a good idea to make people go away!"

Yeah... except Starlink is still gaining new users and for most people it still may be much better than whatever DSL or wireless offerings are available.

Obviously septupling the user base in a single year can cause congestion. I believe they can and will throw more of these birds up there, the constellation isn't finished.

Kremlin claims Ukraine hackers behind fake missile strike alerts

"Russia wore white bands. That lead to some confusion about who may have been the victims or perpetrators of previous alleged war crimes."

No. There's only deliberate, malevolent confusion from the usual mouthpieces.

Russia is the perp and Ukraine has had plenty of war crime victims so far.

Also, you handily forgot that in 2014 the Russian troops didn't wear any insignia when they took Crimea.

SpaceX cuts off Ukraine's 'offensive' Starlink use

Re: Appeasement

"So we shot down a balloon over our airspace [...] We used to fly U2 spy planes"

I earlier thought you tried to pass yourself as an Englishman, and now you're an америка́нскій? Try to get your your story right, bro.

There is no common-western-world 'we' that shot down a balloon or flew U2. It was just USA.

"There's also the recent precedent that nation's commercial infrastructure is fair game, eg the mystery around NordStream's destruction."

How do you know it was not Russian themselves? They already halted gas flow several times for repairs before the destruction and I believe Medvedev and others had already prophecied about "cold winter in Europe" and lack of gas flow anyway.

FWIW, this was illegal action no matter which state was behind it.

"If it's ok for commercial/civil stuff like that to be targetted, why not Starlink dual-use satellites?

Do YOU think it is 'ok for commercial/civil stuff like that to be targetted' or do you just sit on a fence?

"Well, in case you hadn't noticed, we already are. Plus it's something we've been doing for centuries anyway because we've always had overseas interests."

I asked: 'Why do you think UK should prioritise some far away locations over its own sovereignty?'

You answered something else.

Re: Appeasement

"After independence, Ukraine inherited thousands of Soviet Era vehicles, which were steadily flogged off-"

I was talking about the thousands of Russian tanks other armored and auxiliary vehicles and such that have been destroyed or captured there. And you know it.

Sure, thousands of Ukrainian vehicles are in ruins as well.

"After all, we're doing this to preserve EUropean stability and defend the world from Russian expansionism."

I'm glad you're finally seeing the light.

"doesn't our disarmament leave Poland, Latvia, Lituania, Estonia, East Germany etc etc rather vulnerable?"

East Germany...? What decade are you living in?

All those countries are part of NATO where UK is important but certainly not the biggest or most important member. Article 5 has so far deterred Russia from doing anything but cyber attacks on NATO. Russia is already in great trouble with Ukraine and it's not too modern but high morale army. Minor Western armament upgrades have pushed Russia back a lot and caused big losses. Should NATO actually be involved and F35's and other modern gear deployed instead of just a few HIMARS artillery units, Russia wouldn't stand a chance in conventional warfare.

Although the Russian leaders have shown great delusion (taking Kiev in couple of days), they know which side is better equipped and trained.

"Or maybe trouble will flare up in Africa, the Middle East, Asia etc, and our ability to intervene will be rather limited."

There's always trouble flaring up in some parts of Africa, Middle East and Asia. Why do you think UK should prioritise some far away locations over its own sovereignty?

Re: Appeasement

"Neither can Ukraine, but they're a convenient place to dispose of old inventory. Other countrys have been doing the same thing. Dump old stuff on Ukraine"

More than anyone, Russia has left thousands of Soviet era vehicles dating back to early 60's in Ukrainian countryside.

"Eventually. If you make that stuff, then your order books are looking extremely healthy for the next couple of decades."

Yes, Russian army suppliers are rolling in roubles.

"Want artillery? No problem, have some L131s. We have enough to equip 3 Artillery Regiments. Well, we had. The MoD's been quietly pointing out that current events have demonstrated a need for artillery, and our capability is being somewhat reduced."

I think the UK is quite happy to stop Russian war machine at Ukrainian soil rather than anywhere near UK borders.

You can run Windows 11 on just 200MB of RAM – but should you?

Re: How did we get here?

"What kind of backwards compatability should it have?"

None. It is of course possible to have much more responsive system than your standard Linux distro (or Windows) if you trim all the necessities and focus on response time.

DOS w/ Desqview was even snappier than BeOS and that's with just a 386 and 1 meg of RAM. Whoop-de-doo.

Re: How did we get here?

"NT was a memory hog with awful context switching as BeOS ont the same hardware illustrated

BeOS had zero backwards compatibility and it was a single user OS anyway without security features.

Among the thousands of ESXiArgs ransomware victims? FBI and CISA to the rescue

What the actual fuck?

"...make sure that ESXi isn't exposed to the public internet."

This is just FUBAR.

What else is there on the interwebs? SAN switches and storage arrays? Firewall management ports? Mainframes or supercomputers? All of these with default or 12345/Admin1! passwords?

Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised anymore.

Wind, solar power outstrip fossil fuel generation for EU

Re: Policy driven

"Given that you have flat out refused to condemn any Russian war crimes"

"And that is perhaps your most insulting and ignorant statement. I have condemned war crimes in the past..."

Now you are just lying or your memory jsut serves you poorly.

Unless you mean condemning US or UK actions in the past. Zero condemnation on Russia's part:

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2022/11/30/ukraine_cloud_migration/#c_4578467

Me: 'Do you now agree that Russian troops are guilty of war crimes or are you willing to absolve both Russia and the US?'

You: 'Nope, but let's wait and see what the West does.'

That was in last December and I was referring to Russian bombing of hospital, schools and residential buildings.

Re: Policy driven

"How long? And during that time, how many businesses will close, investment move elsewhere and our competitors reap the benefits. But war is basically an industrial and logistics challenge. We used to manufacture tanks."

If there is a will, there is a way.

By your logic UK and the rest of Europe and Russia should have capitulated to Nazi Germany because war is costly. Ludicrous idea.

Russia would obviously continue their expansionist policy "for historical reasons" so why should they be given any leeway in Ukraine?

Given that you have flat out refused to condemn any Russian war crimes nor call their "special operation" a war, makes me question your intent in any case.

Chinese surveillance balloon over US causes fearful gasbagging

Re: Why not shoot it down ?

"Use a high-service-ceiling, clamp-equipped helicopter to tow it away to the impound yard? The article didn't say whether or not the balloon was low-enough for that to work."

The article says:

"The balloon is known to be hovering at a higher altitude than commercial air traffic and is therefore not an immediate danger."

Helicopter altitude record is 12442m. Jets fly at that altitude and even higher, so if the balloons is deemed to be of not danger, it must be floating much higher than that.

Microsoft to enterprises: Patch your Exchange servers

Re: Where are the out-of-band updates?

"couldn't find any security update that has been released since the regular monthly update."

Regular? Exchange does not get regular updates. The Cumulative Updates (CU) are bugfixes and they're released whenever MS feels like it.

The Security Updates (SU) installed on top of CU's are released whenever new vulnerabilities are fixed. Latest SU's were released January 10 2023.

MS updates a list of Exchange build numbers with every CU and SU listed.

"So are MS actually saying many aren't even bothering to run updates on their Exchange servers, hence why there are servers out there not even running cumulative updates dating from 2021?"

Yes.

Ukraine slides closer to NATO with buckets of experience fending off Moscow's cyberattacks

Re: Barbarossa

".. in 1941 ? When Germany sent panzer against Russia by the thousands ? I'm not sure why so many people wish those times back, it's as if the USA decided to re-invade Vietnam."

Wait, you're talking about Russia, right?

Arca Noae is modernizing OS/2 Warp for 21st century PCs

"Would it work on a Sony VAIP P? Being around so long, OS/2 might have drivers?"

If the Sony VAIO P Wiki page specs list is correct, it looks like it would work, mostly.

You will get only unaccelerated VESA graphics for the Intel graphics, and no connectivity since Arca Noae doesn't have support for wireless. A cheap USB-to-Ethernet adaptec could get you going, however. Audio looks also promising since it is derived from ALSA.

HTH.

Re: 16-bit sw in Windows x64

"I did encounter some problems TBH. Some things are not of clear legality, some seem to have possibly virus-infected distribution files, and the ones that are 100% legit and work are not very stable, not very compatible, or feature-poor."

The stuff is in Github, should be easy to compile your own, if you don't trust the pre-compiled releases there. As i said, "YMMV".

Then there's the 25-year-old issue of Win32s. OS/2 used to support only up to v1.25 but Win32s spec 1.3 wasn't supported. Some software was known to use the latter API and didn't work with OS/2. Kudos to Arca Noae if they have overcome this obstruction!

"DOSbox is an emulator. If that's OK for you, good, but it has the same limitations as VMs. It can't talk to hardware, such as an ISA expansion card. DOSemu is the real OS on the real CPU, so I know people using it to write EPROMs in original Centronics-port EPROM blowers, for instance. That kind of thing probably won't work in VMs or emulators."

Yes, DOSBox is an emulator, but it can talk to serial ports and some non-vanilla forks also have had decent enough parallel port support to work with HASP dongles. If your use case is to run DOS era hw diagnostics thru serial, I'd go with DOSBox first. Expansion cards are a no-go, of course.

"FreeDOS works very well but it can't boot on a UEFI machine without BIOS emulation. It can't handle >2TB hard disks, which need GPT partitioning."

While true, those are issue (or a hindrance) only if you're dual booting with another OS. My 10th gen Lenovo T14 still has legacy boot option.

The latter can be averted if you boot FreeDOS from USB, so even an old 2 GB stick could be perfectly serviceable and is still spectacularly fast for old DOS stuff. I used to have a 16MB DOS stick (USB 1.1) back in early 00's for easy and fast BIOS & FW upgrades. (until the updates grew too large)

If you have a UEFI machine or GPT disks, you most likely won't have ISA or PCI slots. If it's an industrial PC with such slots, it will absolutely have legacy boot option as well.

Re: 16-bit sw in Windows x64

Your post is full of FUD.

"If you install "32-bit Windows 10" and disable all network access, will the OS be automatically deactivate after a number of months/years"

Easy to test. I powered down a PC, moved the date 10 years forward and booted Windows 10 up with no network. No errors or anything. Still says it is activated.

In my past I have deployed perhaps a few hundred POS systems with Windows 10 and never connected to internet. No issues.

"Would you trust a machine running a Windows OS to fully control production machines in a factory ?"

I do work for a multinational pharmaceutical with a lot of Windows computers running their machinery. Not an issue.

16-bit sw in Windows x64

"but no 64-bit Edition of Windows can run 16 bit code anymore"

Well, sorta true, at least out of the box.

I'm quite happily using winevdm to run a couple 16-bit Win3 era software on my 64-bit Windows laptop. YMMV.

Based on my hazy memories of OS/2 2.1 up to Warp 4 - DOS programs are still likely to run far better under DOSBox. If the business case is about running only DOS program(s) in bare metal, there's always FreeDOS.

If I needed to run 16-bit Windows code in a business environment, I'd more probably install a 32-bit Windows 10 than go with OS/2. Or just use the winevdm module.

If I needed to run OS/2 software, then this Arcaos would be an obvious candidate along with eComstation or Warp itself in a VM.

Sysadmin infected bank with 'alien virus' that sucked CPUs dry

Re: "perhaps best not to use a program called SETI@Home somewhere other than, you know, home"

"Disclaimer : I was a long-time contributor to SETI@Home myself, and ran it on every computer I had at home, plus my work laptop if I could."

I also ran it with my puny AMD K6-2 back then - without the graphical screensaver because the graphics slowed down computation measurably.

Anyway, for some time my job consisted of putting together PC's and I used my SETI@Home account for some CPU stress testing back in the day.

The it all went BOINC and I lost all my interest.

Corporations start testing Windows 11 in bigger numbers. Good luck

Re: No surprise here...

"With Windows 10 going EoL in October 2025"

Enterprises can use Windows 10 LTSC which is supported until 2027.

There's also the IOT edition for Enterprises and it is supported until 2032 or so.

Back to work, Linux admins: You may have a CVSS 10 kernel bug to address

Re: This does not belong in the Kernel

"As long as ksmbd is opt-in and documented as experimental during development, what's to complain about?"

If any vuln scores a Perfect 10, there definitely is something to complain about. Since it is created by Samsung, it is possible that some Samsung products has it enabled.

If the vuln was in Micros~1 product, this article would have garnered many times the current volume of comments denigrating M$ for shoddy code, lack of testing/QA. And rightfully so. No need for kid-glove treatment with MS or free software.

Asus' latest single-board computer packs a 12-core, 4.5Ghz Intel i7

Re: Would prefer something in the middle

"Say 2-3GHz"

It's available with lesser processors.

Longstanding bug in Linux kernel floppy handling fixed

Re: ZIP

"Thank goodness ZIP drives didn't become standard. At least, not while they were still affected by click of death. Did that ever get fixed?"

Some had the click of death. My parallel port ZIP100 from circa '96 worked well for uh... the 5 years I used it for and the Zip floppies were very durable as well, never had a single failure.

The parallel port drive was the slowest model, yet it was perhaps 10 times faster than normal floppy drives. It was also quite portable (apart from the power brick) and every PC had a parallel port.

'Russian missiles can't destroy the cloud': Ukraine leader describes emergency migration

Re: Oh dear .... that is certainly concerning and definitely disconcerting nowadays

"That's.. a pretty unique way to present armed insurrection and a coup. Around 120 dead, 2,000 injured, and 328 MPs left to vote Yanukovych out of office the day Svoboda and pals started the killings."

Now that's just untrue. Most of the dead were protesters, killed by Police snipers, riot police and Yanukovich very own paramilitaries, titushky.

"They say that in Russia, don't they. There was no civil war."

"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas_(2014-2022)"

Check the page again, son. The only people calling it a civil war was Russkies, no-one else. Others could say it was just another proxy war by Russia, feeding materiel and training to those who are disillusioned with the government - those people always exist in any country.

"Correct. We invaded"

Who is you? I certainly didn't, my country didn't.

Just to annoy you even more: yes, attacking civilian infrastructure in Serbia and Ukraine is a war crime. Do you now agree that Russian troops are guilty of war crimes or are you willing to absolve both Russia and the US?

"Zelensky passed a law last year authorising that, along with taking back Crimea"

International law states that Crimea is Ukrainian soil. Only Norks and Russia depended Syria supported Russia on this. Fine company there.

I'm fully all right with Ukraine taking back what's theirs.

Now, please defend Dear Leader Putin for a change and please remind us who are the "satanists" in Ukraine. After that you could educate us all why exactly Jehovah's Witnesses are an extremist group and were banned in Russia.

"now people can see what fake news really looks like."

There was embarrassingly wrong information, so the video was redacted, and EU posted a correction.

"So we imposed sanctions that prevented aircraft moving, or companies doing business in or with Russia."

Those aircraft or companies were still owned by non-Russian entities. Sei

"There are possible legal reasons to seize assets within Russia, eg they've not paid airport fees, wages, taxes etc so property has been arrested and seized."

Man you're grasping at straws again. Russia hasn't stated the reason for their seizures. They just took something that didn't belong to them.

"The biggie is still probably figuring out a way to steal the currency reserves and other assets though because they're worth around $300bn in cash and probably the same in other assets. Investing $100bn in Ukraine to get $5-600bn back is a pretty good ROI, especially when you can give reconstruction money to friends & family, or just skim 10% as a handling fee.

Russia has already done €600B damages to Ukraine so when they war ends in Russia's defeat, they will be asked for reparations. Because the Russian kleptocracy won't probably pay a single kopek, those assets are fair game to me.

Re: Oh dear .... that is certainly concerning and definitely disconcerting nowadays

Yes, that's what the pro-Russia trolls keep saying.

Oh, an ad hom from a бандерівець! How original!

I didn't call you a pro-Russia troll. I'm just alluding that you're just spouting what the big boys in the yard have been telling you.

"But what happened was a bit of a coup and armed insurrection that removed Ukraine's government and replaced it."

It was only a 'bit of coup' because Yanukovich fleed to Russia before an impeachment vote was to be done and thus failed to do his presidential duties. Ousting him was not done by the book because there was no government left (many ministers and other rich figures and politicians fled immediately after him) and a functional government was urgently needed.

Yanukovich still hasn't entered Ukrainian soil to face the music, and neither have the other accused. Yanukovich was sentenced to 13 years for high treason.

"Then a bit of a civil war"

They say that in Russia, don't they. There was no civil war.

"And an idea that 'we' could kick Russia out of it's naval base in Crimea and turn it into a proper NATO one."

No such thing with NATO. That's a fantasy of yours. Russia had leased Sevastopol naval base until 2017. Ukraine's constitution forbade permanent foreign military bases after 2017. See the Kharkiv Pact article on Wikipedia to get your facts right.

"As for wanton destruction, that mostly happened when Ukraine attempted to regain control of Donetsk and Luhansk."

Any references to back that up? Didn't think so.

"Plus wanton destruction can be legal, just ask the Yugoslavians."

There is no Yugoslavian, are you stuck in the Iron Curtain past perhaps?

Russia has quite effectively bombed the Ukrainian power plants, hospitals, schools and residential buildings. That's the wanton destruction part. Those were not military targets at all.

"My point was that diplomacy could have prevented this mess"

Diplomacy and decency cuts both ways. Russia hasn't played the diplomat role for quite some time.

"Ursula von der Liar"

Wow, what a way with words. I envy you not.

"cunning EU plan to create a new court to legally steal Russia's foreign reserves"

Putin had a cunning plan to steal Ukrainian land for themselves. Now it is backfiring.

Last March Russia seized hundreds of foreign airplanes for no legal reason. Please explain if you can.

"An analogy would be the UK deciding that Welsh, Scottish and NI autonomy isn't such a great idea."

Oh, I agree with you on this one. Putin has not come to terms with the collapse of Soviet Union and the independence of the several countries from its dissolution, and Vlad wants grab all of them back into a greater Russia.

Re: Oh dear .... that is certainly concerning and definitely disconcerting nowadays

"But those issues also help explain why Ukraine's in the mess it's in now."

Yes, that's what the pro-Russia trolls keep saying.

Ukraine is in the mess because Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and then quite foolishly started their inept war last year which has turned into wanton infrastructure destruction.

European Parliament Putin things back together after cyber attack

"They're cheap, they're effective, and they're in stock. So why not?"

Even your last post spoke of these Iranian drones in Russia as unimaginable and now you're like this is business as usual.

What a weathervane you are.

"But AFAIK Ukraine still isn't, and hasn't apologised. There's also not much in the way of evidence, and still a lot of questions. Like why the missile(s) were launched, why they didn't self-destruct, and what they were shooting at."

If not apologising is the worst case war crime Ukraine has done, I pity your lack of perspective. Russia is destroying civilian infrastructure daily but because those old Soviet era missiles landed for some reason in Poland, the Ukrainians civilians are fair game?

Anyway, you are grasping at straws there with the ludicrous innuendo you keep spouting there. Those missiles didn't have the range from Russian soil, so it couldn't have ended in NATO involvement in any case. Unlike Russians, the Ukrainian military has shown keen acumen in warfare tactics and strategy so would know that drawing NATO into this war with these two missiles is not on option.

"Me, I'd rather see the evidence."

You seem to take all Russian evidence at face value and systematically disputing all else. That's an untenable position unless you lack all critical thinking and ethics; or there is a personal bias or some compensation involved. And still the lack of morals. Are you getting your ideas only from Russian TV?

Numerous hospitals, schools and residential building have been flattened by Russian missiles, yet you make it sound like the war is about Ukrainians killing themselves. Friendly fire happens in all warfare, but certainly not in these numbers.

Are you still convinced that Russia can produce Kh-47M2 Daggers, but can't figure out how to put wings and a warhead on a lawnmower engine?

Well, all evidence points at that. What other reason there is to buy these lawn mowers from Iran?

"Ukraine killing Polish civilians"

War crimes are intentional. All evidence in this case points to an accident - even Poland is saying this.

Just yesterday Russia destroyed a maternity hospital and a new-born was killed. Do you not consider it a heinous war crime?

"The shock and awe sanctions have collapsed Russia, they ran out of missiles months ago"

Let's see. Couple weeks ago you vehemently claimed that Russia would never have any need for Iranian drones:

"There's also the 'Iranian drone' meme. Russia can produce 5th gen fighters and space station parts, yet we're meant to believe it can't produce what's essentially a souped-up RC aircraft. Err.. right."

Iran has stated officially that they have provided drones and other armament to Russia.

Made you look stupid and uninformed in Russian warcrimes.

Liquid and immersion is the new cool at Supercomputing '22

It's like early COMDEX again!

Every company getting out their own totally different computing platform designs incompatible with all the rest.

Have to give this one some years before standards emerge.

(and hopefully server room operators won't be needing plumbing certificates as well)

Microsoft gives away '$400m in cloud support' to Ukraine

Re: NATO -vs- Russia

"As you're having trouble inferring what was implied, "some" because most of the projectiles from Nato's game changing wunderwaffes were shot down."

Absolute nonsense.

HIMARS in Ukraine shoots rockets. They are not slow drones or even subsonic cruise missiles. They hit at supersonic speed. You can't shoot down them in any meaningful way. That's the way it works with many other rockets as well. Basic military knowledge.

"They are using Himars to deliberately target civilians,"

Ukrainian military targeting Ukraininan civilians? Absolute nonsense again.

With 100.000 Russian troops dead or wounded, I'd say Ukraine has targeted Russian troops.

"Those "mass graves" in Liman[...]Those corpses were of those dead Ukrainian soldiers"

Way to go watering down the killings.

Have you seen reports of Bucha mass graves? Close to 500 hastily buried. Eye-witness accounts from residents of Bucha said that the Russian Armed Forces carried out the killings.

"Valkyries"

Who are you trying to convince with this nonsense? Is this related to the Satanism that Putin has recently alleged to Ukraine?

>80% of Ukrainians are religious in very much the same way Russians are. Norse mythologies wouldn't in any meaningful way be represented there.

"More practically the Ukrainian regime does not want the dead to be collected and returned home to be buried, because if they're not confirmed dead then they don't need to pay compensation to the dead's families."

You are talking about Russian government there.

"It is a war crime by UN definition."

I see you didn't refute this at all. Targeting hospitals and infrastructure because soldiers are using them is a war crime. You seem to accept Russian war crimes as a normal recourse wars.

You could just be brainwashed with government propaganda, but access to El Reg website seems to contradict this, so more likely you are just trying to push this Russian kleptocratic point of view even when anyone can verify them to be factually bogus. Either you're pushing this for your own passtime (= Trolling), but from the zeal I'd say you're doing this out of patriotic, and possible also economic, reasons.

Judging from your earlier posts, you possess local knowledge in all things south of Sham Chun river. Now what does that tell us?

Re: NATO -vs- Russia

"When they were first deployed they did score a few hits and propaganda points by destroying some Russian arms depots and such."

Nope. You wrote that the NATO gear is underperforming and overpriced. Now you are just saying that they did hit "some" Russiand targets. You are not actually telling how it is underperforming.

Russian tanks seem to have tendency for Rapid Unplanned Disassembly, and their military tactis seem to be based on WW2 era.

Listening to you - it sounds like the Russian victory over the feeble Ukrainian forces is imminent and the Ukrainian satanist rulers will be overthrown in a jiffy. That's plain ludicrous because it's Russia that has been on the retreat for quite some time now.

Russia cannot even establish air supremacy even though it dwarfs Ukraine in numbers.

"Russia responded by dispersing their arms depots, hunting down and destroying himars units - in which they have been quite successful killing more than half the units sent."

Ukraine has built decoy HIMARS systems and the Russians fell for them. This isn't new tactics at all.

"Ukraine, per Nato training, responded by targeting more civilians."

No they didn't. Those mass graves in Russia occupied territories contained people garroted and mostly shot in the head. By Russians.

Your excuses are pathetic, subhuman even.

"The increased attacks by Russia on the Ukraine's electricity distribution network is a response to the high profile terrorist attacks carried out by the Ukraine"

Ukraine isn't terrorising Russia, it's the other way round. If you are referring to the Crimean Bridge explosion - the whole construction is illegal and Russia is occypying Crimea illegally. No difference to you building a shed on your neighbour's lot and him demolishing them.

"Ukrainian trains, running on electricity, are the main means of transporting troops and equipment to the front lines, hence the electricity distribution system is a valid military target."

It is a war crime by UN definition. Targeting hospitals, homes, schools and kindergartens are also war crimes. Rapes too. Russian military has shown great aptitude at causing great suffering for the Ukraininan people.

Re: NATO -vs- Russia

The main aim is to get rid of old Soviet era hardware to be replaced with overpriced and underperforming Nato gear supplied by the usual war profiteers.

Keep telling that to yourself, comrade crayon.

The US supplied HIMARS systems have been performing very well and it's the Russian Soviet era hardware and battle field tactics that are massively underperforming. The results are for everyone to see with the hundreds of T-72's and other tanks + armed vehicles, and the dozens of Ka-50 helos that are littered all over Ukrainian countryside.

Before the war started the Russian war machine was thought to be second only to US, and international Russian armament sales are not going to get any extra boost from their poor performance.

Most damaging attacks Russia has been able to do seems to have been done with the Iranian kamikaze drones on the civilian infrastructure targets. Pathetic, really.

World Cup apps pose a data security and privacy nightmare

"if you want local internet connectivity you have to purchase some local SIM contract which usually requires installing some app"

Examples? Never heard of such app requirements tied to a SIM.

Intel’s axed Optane biz spurts out mixed bag of new SSDs

Re: I don't get it!

"The Optane branding seems mis-leading considering all the previous Optane marketing has been for a sort of permanent RAM" thingy."

No. "Optane" brand meant Intel/Micron generated flash that had (and still has) superior latency to any traditional NAND flash. Optane also doesn't degrade in performance even when the drive is full; it doesn't require TRIM (or Secure Erase) that NAND relies on.

You are speaking of NVDIMM's (DDR4 socketed Optane) which - in a limited way - still is the highest performing local storage there is because the memory is by far the fastest interface of a CPU. Only Intel and Micron produced Optane storage, and Intel paired this with only Xeon platforms to win more server sales. (somewhat like limiting RDRAM to Intel chipset back in the Pentium 4 days, with no clear benefits for users at much higher prices. We all know what became of that)

Aside from NVDIMM's, Intel 7th-8th gen CPU chipsets' software RAID feature (RST) had support for a small (16GB-64GB) PCIe M.2 Optane module to act as a r/w cache for a single HDD. At this point many users already opted for SSD storage in which Optane produced minimal to no benefits with added complexity. Cost of the module+HDD drove people to just buy an SSD.

Intel also sold PCIe cards (900p and others) and later on proper M.2 NVMe SSD's with Optane flash. At some point they also sold hybrid Optane cached QLC flash drives. (QLC = slow crap)

Optane failed because the low latencies and IOPS numbers offered by traditional NAND is already enough for most businesses; NVDIMM's are expensive, small in size, require software support and other hw considerations, they eat up the precious memory slots, and only benefited some HPC applications.

Had Intel&Micron licensed the Optane tech to other companies, it could have changed the game.

OpenPrinting keeps old printers working – even on Windows

Slight nitpicking

Author used old HP Laserjet's as examples of not having drivers in Windows 11 ...not exactly correct.

LJ 4000 is PCL6/PostScript printer so you can just use the Generic PCL6 (or PS) driver that comes with Windows. HP offers their Universal PCL6/PS drivers and they contain extra HP specific settings for their printer accessories.

LJ 5Si is a PCL5 printer so you'd need the HP Universal PCL5 driver then. Unless you had the extra deluxe PostScript SIMM kit, then you're ready to go with the generic PS driver.

Carry on.

Intel's top-spec Raptor Canyon NUC can double as a 700+W space heater

Re: Quasi Product

"Whereas Dell Optiplex/Lenovo ThinkCentre/HP EliteDeskProdesk/Mini NUC’s sell by the truckload."

Those Dell/HP/Lenovo ranges are aimed at companies where as Intel NUC's probably more at prosumers.

Intel doesn't offer onsite repair, do they even have an affiliate network for to bring these NUCs in for repairs?

Self-driving truck startup TuSimple ousts CEO over ties to Chinese rival

Re: Solution is simple enough...

At the turn of the prior century, there were 500 Murican car companies... and only one survivor, FORD and they no longer make vehicles in the US.

Incorrect. Ford still makes vehicles in USA. ref.

Buick, Cadillac, Chevy and GMC are from around 1900. All brands are still made in US facilities. (+ globally)

"How could an investor have picked the winner out of 500 companies?"

That's the risk in all investments.

Some of those "500" car companies were bought out by competition - payday for the investors. Some of them were financially sound for a long time and made money for the investors. Some of them were ran by idiots who couldn't produce vehicles that were competitive. Not too different from the home computer market in late 70s/early 80s. Dozens of manufacturers, but only a few lasted even 10 years, either due to poor marketing, poor products or poor management. Nothing new here.

"Even more with electrics is the false claim of some kind of environmental advantage. Selling fluff. By the time you have made batteries, given the Taxpayer more debt, and sucked power off the grid, propelled by Nat Gas or Coal, there is no advantage at all environmentally speaking."

"No advantage?" So they are at par with internal combustion vehicles already?

"Electrics may do well for local traffic but are unsuitable for long distances."

"640k should be enough for everyone".

I pity you lack of foresight. People mocked cars at first because a horse could do a lot of things the car couldn't. Until it could.

EV's have been available as a real alternative to gasoline powered cars for a very short time, and they still have some serious shortcomings in range and battery charging, no doubt. But to think the current models are the apex in electic vehicles engineering is really shortsighted.

"They should be cheaper, with fewer parts, and fewer moving parts, but they are much more expensive.

Supply and demand are keeping them expensive.

Microsoft ships non-Surface PC: a cheap Arm box for devs

Re: RaspberryPi is $200.

"The Raspberry Pi is $200 for the 8GB model, in reality, not fantasy MSRP. So for $400 LESS you might only miss that "NPU" but, how powerful is that NPU anyhow?"

Ludicrous fanboi comment of the week.

Handily you forgot that the $600 Dev Kit has 32GB memory and a proper 512GB NVMe flash drive, not a puny SDHC interface. (you also forgot to check the price for a 512GB SDHC card)

Lenovo Thinkpad X13s seems to contain approx. the same CPU/GPU combination and packs a reasonable punch for everyday use.

The SoC is probably quite a bit faster than what RPi 4 can do because these things are aimed at different use cases. Similarly someone getting the RPi Pico laughs at your 8GB RPi extravaganza!