Posts by Terje 427 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Mar 2011
If we step away from the customary Microsoft bashing, and ask ourselves what this means, I come to the following conclusions and I think they apply to all/most of the regular cloud service scammers.
1. We don't have proper backups that we can recover select data from.
2. We have no proper handling of accounts and data so we can't rollback our f...ups.
3. Since it's cloud it's hard enough / discouraged to manage proper backups of your data yourself.
That is a valid issue though. VBA may be a creation from one of the nastier circles of hell, but rewriting and more importantly validating some of the more complex spreadsheets (that should or should not exist) may simply be to much work.
Trying to do forms in word is something that requires purging by flame and a good witch burning though.
And most of those hobbyists likely got thatexpensive kit either free or very cheep and or fixed it from broken in a dumpster.I would love a cesium or hydrogen maser standard though, would look so nice in my little rack, do I have any use whatsoever for it, absolutely not, but just think of that wonderful private time server you could set up!
Not that I'm using or plan on using it in the foreseeable future but one bit there fills me with dread. converting to rust, any time you move from one language to another there will be issues, not to mention that few of the developers are likely to be as good with rust as they are with I assume C (Have not checked what language it's currently in) which will lead to worse and less efficient code.
I think your hat is safe, every time I see something with Gartner mentioned my bs detector start working extra hard, there's usually some semblance of fact behind what they say but it's usually blown out of all proportions to facilitate the message they are being paid to promote this time.
I'm running at 13900k now, that is a 24 core (8 p/16e cores) and I have no need for more cores at the moment, but what annoys me to no end with the desktop cpus today is the absurd lack of pcie lanes. I don't want an overpriced threadripper or a xeon / epyc cpu in my desktop, but I want more pcie lanes. If there was a reasonablyish priced (think 1k ish of your currency of choice) "enthusiast level" cpu like they used to have with say an additional 20 lanes, That is something that would actually make me consider upgrading.
This is such an obviously stupid idea that it don't even warrant consideration. The problem with space is not primarily keeping warm or generating electricity, it's cooling. on earth you have a nice atmosphere, river or ocean to dump heat into through conduction. In space you have none of that, all cooling is through radiation, and that's a far less easy and efficient way to dump the thousands of wats even a few relatively modest servers produce.
While they may function well enough and do provide a valuable service, my concern is that these very large leo constellations are just the latest attempt to 100% speedrun Kessler syndrome and a nicely aimed high energy event from the sun will knock out enough of the satellites that a collision becomes inevitable.
I find this whole push of digital phone based id cards, drivers licenses etc to be mostly stupid. I'm out traveling, ohh my phone died since it's not charged no id or license (unless you have a classic one as backup with you), you are off somewhere your phone charged and ready, it drops and the screen dies, no id, and people say ohh you could lose your wallet with cards and id in it, yes you could, but I bet that if you ask 100 people how many times they have lost their wallets and how many times their phone have been without charge or damaged I'm sure the latter part would dwarf the former. I'm also against concentrating more and more vital things to one single vulnerable point of failure. Having digital as a compliment, fine, but it's not in any way shape or form a replacement.
You were probably not stupid and used the air at an appropriate distance and not trying to find out if you can run the pc by back feeding it from spinning a case fan, or other such hilarious adventures. a small amount of oil and even water in a line is unlikely to actually damage most computers
Another area where AI can be genuinely helpful is with all sorts of translation, the ability to live translate speech to another language can be a great help for people that don't speak the language concerned or for you trying to ask something / explain something to a person not speaking any language you know.
Home routers are soft targets.
Most people just install them and forget about them, I would guess that the vast majority never even enter the management interface once unless they do it following the setup guide, after that it will be left alone and forgotten, never getting a firmware update even if it's still supported and they tend to live on far beyond the end of support making them a target that is easily exploited.
Yes there were outages, but one config change at a company on the other side of the world was unlikely to take you and half the internet down with it.
I don't think most people actually complain about uptime, but the absurd fallout when something do go wrong.
It should also be considered to be a very vulnerable single point of failure, with cost benefit ratio that would make any analyst salivate if a hostile nation / organization want to cause maximum disruption.
Or you could (drumroll please) Host critical systems internally so you are not reliant on a company that don't care one little bit about you to not screw up and leave you without a working system. Sure there are specific systems where some form of cloud may be the correct solution, but in the end it's the computer of someone who don't give a beep about you and your data/system.
I do remember reading about tests with vacuum depositing (somehow) diamond films on chips for isolation instead of standard SiO2 which would dramatically increase the thermal performance since diamond (especially if you tweak it a bit have insane thermal conductivity. I guess that was a practical dead end since I have not heard about it since. But why care about that, I'm sure some simple to handle He2 would do the trick, should be able to handle those gigantic channels without a hitch and have almost infinite thermal conductivity :) I'm sure the small issue of keeping it at the required sub 2K temperature would just be a minor inconvenience.
While I personally don't give a beep about what filesystems are included in the kernel, I feel that at least some of the kernel developers have lost the plot on what is important. The kernel itself is not what is important, it's what it enables that is... So if removing something from the kernel just to make it prettier breaks / makes it slower / harder for other non kernel stuff to do things they are in the wrong (most of the time, there may be legitimate reasons for that as well sometimes). For a while it felt like we were moving away from the playground attitudes and to something more adult, but it feels like we are back in the safety of thee playground again.
icon because pirates are definitely a part of the playground.
My personal opinion with regards to large government systems is that it should be done in house. Have a department of nerds that have the actual skills to manage and implement and maintain projects without outsourcing it wholesale to consultants, my strong belief is that this would result in a better product faster and to a significantly lower cost.
The downside of something like this is that it makes it considerably harder to funnel money to your friends and family or fill your own account with kickbacks...
I was thinking more along the lines of...
Wakeup trigger. . .
9 ... 8 ... 7 ... 6 ... 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... SELFTEST: OK 2 ... 1
Peripheral test ... USB Boot Media ... OK Panel ... OK Cameras ... Std:OK,Infra:OK,UV:OK 3D Directional Mic OK Hi Speed Steppers 1:OK,2:OK,3:OK,4:OK SERVOS 1:OK,2:OK,3:OK,4:OK Battery OK, level 67% Servo Saw OK booting ...
no ntp update > 180 days!
Wireless Strategic Update ..... timeout. Update Server unavailable, assuming M.A.D.
>RRRRREEEEEeeeeeeeooooooooorrrrrrrrrr!< >crunch!<
>RRRRRrrreeeeooorrrrrrr< >clatter!<
>boop<
>PING!<
Ahh friday, mines the one with an axe in the pocket
Or we could just realize that the main issue here is the way that DNS works and the abhorrent way it's used, and start tightening that up instead, there are exceptionally few valid cases (imo) to change the ip of a record more than a few times an hour even fewer to change the authoritative dns server. just block dns entries that abuse the system with to many changes? Or maybe just maybe redesign the system from the bottom up with the modern internet and its miscreants in mind.
I don't have a problem with cloud backup, especially at home, but Google drive, One drive etc. is not backup.
I have important stuff in three locations, my workstation, my nas, and my workstation backed up to backblaze. the nas/workstation should handle mostly all hardware faults, and the online backup for more catastrophic scenarios. "Cheap" and safe enough for my needs.
Yes, but if that (Weather and taxi issues) effects you badly enough and often enough that you miss your schedule more than 50% of the time I believe that warrants you changing the schedule to take that into consideration.
I do agree that departure time is another metric that should be considered, but probably as a separate category, since the only thing a customer really cares about is arrival time.
I find the definition of chronically late to be exceptionally lenient. 50% more than 30 minutes late. While I do agree there should be some degree of wiggle room, I believe that it should be more like 50% 10-15 minutes if you don't manage that your schedule is clearly not tailored to reality!
I have the theory that Elon is really only a dodgy custom LLM that spews out random stupidity from time to time, when he sometimes say something coherent and less than usually stupid, the actor playing him has lost the connection with the backend feeding him lines and have to improvise. This is probably just the hardware needed to train an updated version that will not spew out quite as much expensive nonsense.
5+ year old self-built PC. Note the self built, I assume that when you built that pc 5 years ago you didn't go down the route of the most bare bones motherboard you could find to save a few <insert currency of choice> that many of the larger manufacturers tend to do, if they can avoid adding a component to the system they save maybe not that much on each system but if you deliver a million of them it quickly adds up. And only a very small percentage of all computers are custom built ones, most have stamps like hp, dell or lenovo on them and if they could save money on a budget model they definitely did, sure they probably had models with everything needed, but they also had those without, and guess which ones were cheaper?
A long long time ago the usually had a good product / service usually at the time they were run by engineers. As time went by the good product / service got marginalized MBAs got more and more power, products got worse as quality is expensive and "not profitable enough" and with the passing of time they end up as they are now.
I agree, I have been running Windows 11 for 8 months or so now, and it's fine and I'm used to it now, but there is no reason at all to upgrade old running hardware. There's no new features that any thinking person want. It's nothing but win 10 with slightly changed and more annoying ui.
