Posts by TReko

PCIe 7.0 specs finalized at 512 GBps bandwidth, PCIe 8.0 in the pipeline

Re: Mind blowing

Yeah modern signals are amazing. The DDR5 spec does channel characterization of the link to the RAM, something you'd used to do on an ADSL line or HF link.

Mind blowing

The signal clocks are 32GHz!

32GHz down a copper track on a motherboard is amazing.

LibreOffice adds voice to 'ditch Windows for Linux' campaign

Ancient OS, cutting edge Office?

Yes, Windows 7 doesn't have APIs that more recent Windows have.

But seriously, why do you want to run the newest Office suite on an ancient OS? Surely just stick with ver 25.2 on your old OS?

Perplexity offers training wheels for building AI agents

Mistakes as usual

> interactive map of the Pacific Theater during World War II

According to Perplexity, the British never fought or retook Burma during WW2

Three ways to run Windows apps on a Linux box

Re: $100 going to Redmond

Depending on where you live, you can often get this "Microsoft tax" back by rejecting the licence terms and then calling MS

They make you jump through hoops, and wait a long time on hold in the call center.

China spawns an x86 supercomputing monster, with an AMD connection

Benchmarks?

It is nice to see some more players in the x86 space.

Hopefully performance is now a lot better than when Anandtech (RIP) originally looked at these CPUs

Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond

Re: Wasn't Notepad itself used as an example program, once upon a time?

Notepad in Windows 3.1 was basically the default system text edit control, set to full screen size.

Microsoft open sources Windows Subsystem for Linux – well, most of it

Re: 9rdr.sys and p9np.dll

WSL2 is HyperV - with Linux running inside it and those hacked filesystem redirect drivers.

It is still a bit buggy, lots of unfixed bugs especially memory leaks in vmmem.sys.

SEC SIM-swapper who Googled 'signs that the FBI is after you' put behind bars

Re: I wonder if anything happened

Yeah, the article is a bit light on how the Feds tracked him down.

Returning the phone reminds me of the original car bomb World Trade Center crew, who went back to the place they rented the blown-up van to try to get a refund of their deposit.

Go ahead and ignore Patch Tuesday – it might improve your security

Re: 24H2

It would be fine if they actually tested their patches properly before every patch Tuesday.

The problem is that Microsoft fired around 70% of their QA dept in 2015 - they now rely on the end-users to test.

Microsoft to preload Word minutes after boot

Re: Andy & Bill's law is alive and kicking

A 30 year old joke:

"c - the speed of light, constant irrespective of the speed of the observer.

w - the speed of Windows, constant irrespective of the speed of the hardware"

Thunderbird joins Firefox on the monthly treadmill

Re: Exchange

I agree - proper Exchange support for Thunderbird would bring millions to Thunderbird/Betterbird

New Intel boss is all about ‘deleveraging’ the x86 giant

Re: AI strikes again

not just acquisitions - look at what they sold, too.

Intel sold their smartphone chip division in 2006. Great timing.

Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks

Re: Sceptic

>Microsoft develop a code editor, which they release under a very permissive licence for no monetary cost.

Yes, but they did this because their code editor was based on the open source Atom editor (MIT licence).

Microsoft did not develop VS Code from scratch.

Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying

Re: It makes me wonder ...

Very few cases ever go to trial.

The defendants can't afford to defend themselves. They usually take a plea deal, even if innocent. Usually the prosecution hits them with 25years of charges, but is willing to drop to 3-5 years if they plead guilty to a few of the charges.

Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months

Why should Microsoft care?

if it's broken, if you lose your files, it's not like most people have any alternative.

There's no real competition to desktop Windows or Office for most users. Yes, I know Linux, Google and Apple are there, but for most home and office users, it is a Microsoft world, and Microsoft owns that world as a monopolist.

FreeDOS 1.4: Still DOS, still FOSS, more modern than ever

BIOS for bare metal

Liam, what do you mean by the comment in the first line "you'll need a BIOS for bare metal"?

Does Freedos 1.4 now only work in VMs, or is it a pun I'm too stupid to catch?

UK finance watchdog spends millions 'enhancing' Workday software rolled out 4 years ago

Re: Sheet

Excel 95 is better than Workday financials - but it doesn't have the cool salespeople.

Boeing's Starliner may fly again, pending fixes to literally everything

Re: Whether or not astronauts will be aboard has not been decided yet

Maybe Boeing will put some whistleblowers on board?

Might be cheaper and less sus than the normal whistleblower hitman option.

IBM US cuts may run deeper than feared ‒ and the jobs are heading to India

Re: Why is anyone surprised?

For Crowdstrike and Boeing 737 MAX ACAS, moving development to India resulted in great savings for a few months.

Then things crashed and burned. Hopefully the CEO's cashed out their bonuses before that.

Boeing's Starliner future uncertain as NASA weighs next steps

Zero day notice

Two weeks still beats the zero notice the two Boeing whistleblowers got of the bullet to the head..

Oops, they did it again: Microsoft breaks Outlook with another dubious update

Microsoft fired 70% of their QA/testing department in 2015.

End users are now the testers. Saves money and corporate users are locked in.

Oracle JDK 24 appears in rare alignment of version and feature count

Lawyer safety

Also C/C++ or Go or Rust don't have the constant threat of Oracles legal dept threatening to "change the agreement, and pray we don't change it further".

Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement

Re: RDCMan

mstsc is actually based on Citrix code Microsoft's lawyers extorted out of Citrix 25 years ago.

Athena Moon lander officially FOADs – falls over and dies – in crater

Yes, the surveyor, apollo and viking landers all had a low centre of gravity. I guess we're smarter 60 years on?

101 fun things to do with a locked Kindle e-reader

Slow decline

I have a Kindle 3 and a Kindle 11.

The Kindle 11 has a much better screen. That is the only thing that is better. The reading experience stutters every few pages, downloaded books can't be found in the list, and you need to search for them, there is no longer folder support. The list goes on.

It's like Amazon decided to remove most of the software features of the Kindle 3, and replace them with advertising and online shopping on the Kindle.

Luckily, there's KOReader and Jailbreaking.

Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors

Case in point

The US government requested and got backdoors in the US phone system. Last year the Chinese hacked this to evesdrop on anyone's voice and SMS.

2 + 2 = 5?

“The laws of mathematics are very commendable but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.”

Malcolm Turnbull (14 July 2017) Australian Prime Minister.

Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list

e-waste Generation?

I wonder how many hundreds of millions of perfectly good PCs and laptops are going to end up as e-waste because of this.

I shows that Microsoft's "commitment to the environment" is just green-washing bullsh1t.

Rather than add a backdoor, Apple decides to kill iCloud encryption for UK peeps

Re: Without an understanding

Now every Apple user in the UK will be more vulnerable.

Luckily the wise and benevolent UK government can now spy on HM's subjects to "keep them safe".

Laptop makers stalled on repairability improvements

Re: Dell

Lenovo's still pretty good.

They just lost repairability points because the whinging French won't look at pictures with English next to them.

HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls

Instruments

Old HP also used to make superb measurement instruments in the 1980s. Things like oscilloscopes, logic analysers etc.

They sold off this division in the 1990's, and now make junk.

The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway

Re: Let me be the first to say

Well, stated, but the author ignores the fact that it has already been underway for years - it is just being done by a team the author disapproves of now.

UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order

It's rather sad that the UK government sees the CCP as a role model to copy.

Intel knocked off global chip revenue top spot after rotten 2024

Short term profits, long term decline

Intel and Boeing, two examples are what happens when MBA's run the company, killing RnD and simply focussing on next quarter's results.

I do not think it is possible to run a big company when your time window is 90 days.

Tiny Linux kernel tweak could cut datacenter power use by 30%, boffins say

This research smells of academic theoretical BS to me.

The typical interrupt service routine and kernel context-switch overhead is tiny. Parsing a few lines of json strings in user-space probably has more instructions.

Besides, this, all network hardware in the last 15 years has had buffer coalescing, so interrupts come through at variable rates depending on the load.

Windows 10's demise nears, but Linux is forever

Will Windows 12 have a Linux kernel

Just like Microsoft gave up with Internet Explorer and started using Chromium as their web browser, I think there is a chance they'll give up on Windows and start using Linux.

40 years ago, classified Shuttle mission foreshadowed Challenger's fatal flaw

Re: Truth, Lies and O-Rings..

Richard Feynman's appendix to the Challenger explosion report has a probably the best summary of this:

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public

relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

F-35 is also designed by politicians

If you think the solid rocket boosters are bad then spare a thought for the $1 Trillion F-35 fighter jet programme.

Components are made by lobbying companies in all 50 states.

Microsoft admits January's Windows Update broke USB Digital to Audio Convertor

Testing is an expense. Microsoft's MBA's fired 70% of their testers/QA team in 2015.

End users now do the testing.

US AI shares battered, bruised, and holding after yesterday's DeepSeek beating

Sanctions have a long history of failure, from South Africa developing a first world armaments industry in the 1980's to Iran and North Korea now supplying war supplies to Russia in the Ukraine war.

The inference (not the training) for Deepseek's models is apparently done on Huawei GPU chips.

Sanctions are worse than just failures, they backfire.

WINE 10 is still not an emulator, but Windows apps won't know the difference

90% compatible is a pain

No Office. the last version of Office it can run is from 20 years ago.

Apart from some games, my experience with Wine is that many Windows apps can "sort of run" under it. But not very well, lots of little things don't work, even if you play with bottles etc

The commercial side of Wine (CrossOver) claims to run Office 2010

https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/microsoft-office-2010

Trump nukes 60 years of anti-discrimination rules for federal contractors

Re: only matters if companies change policies

At least you know the judge's alliances up front in the US.

You're naive is you think EU judges don't have biases.

Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change

Re: Intel x86_64 is part of the problem

Yes, but some MBA at Microsoft fired most of their human testers almost a decade ago to save money.

Now their end users who do the testing, every patch Tuesday.

Microsoft tests 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific to see how much you enjoy AI

Re: upgrades

Thunderbird is a good Outlook alternative.

Re: "Live, Laugh, Love"

Better than "Delay, deny, depose" on bullet casings, I guess?

The ultimate Pi 5 arrives carrying 16GB ... and a price to match

Re: Cost is a thing...

For the cost of this Pi5 you can get a much faster Intel N100 NUC type mini PC with 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD in a proper case with a power switch. Power consumption is about the same.

The only thing the Pi has that the N100's don't is GPIO.

Microsoft trims jobs as new year begins

Windows is now a sideshow for MS

Windows revenues are now only 11% of Microsoft's total revenue. Windows is around the same size as LinkedIn and XBox. Azure is huge now.

Long-term, I expect MS to slowly drop operating systems and move to a Linux Kernel with a UI that looks like Windows/KDE but showing Ads everywhere.

After all, they did this with Internet Explorer being replaced by Chromium based Edge.

Breaking simple things like that requires many committees.

Report claims FAA ignores most whistleblower complaints

Suicide squad?

Complaints handled by Boeing's hitman team?