Posts by Peshman

Windows 95 setup was three programs in a trench coat, Microsoft vet reveals

Meh!

I miss Gorillas.bas.

Those were simpler times when I was less of a grumpy old sod.

Chinese chipmaker Loongson now just three to five years off the pace on the desktop

Re: Déjà vu

At least you've acknowledged that the relevant part of my comment is still valid.

A year down the line and they're pissing off the Americans so much so that I've been down voted by three people for stating facts.

Déjà vu

I'm punting this out again, from what I said almost a year ago on another thread

"Ever since Trump started his nonsense the Chinese have been making huge leaps forward. They built their own space station, landed on the dark side of the moon and started fabbing 7nm chips. If I was the US I'd be fucking terrified of what happens in the next 5 - 10 years."

Boeing's Starliner finds yet another way to not reach space

As the great Micky Caine would say...

"You're only supposed to watch the bloody doors fall off!"

Huawei's woes really were just a flesh wound – profits just soared 564 percent

Re: No surprise

"Soon they will have developed equivalent technology to the US, not necessarily better."

That's a bit egotistical isn't it?

My Huawei P10 and subsequent P20 were leagues ahead of anything Apple were producing at the time.

The pace of China's technological progress since that idiot Trump started his nonsense, a very short few years ago, is astounding. China will have technologically surpassed the US within the next five years.

China creates $47B chiptech investment fund

I poseted this on another thread 4 months ago...

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Spotify will bend like a reed in the wind

If China decided that Gplay / Android / iOS are outlawed the do you really think that Spotify wouldn't redevelop a compatible app for the 'new' ecosystem? A slice of the pie of 2Bn potential consumers is still substantially larger than the whole of the US has to offer. If the CCP offered me exclusive rights to their market I'd do it in a heartbeat. Ever since Trump started his nonsense the Chinese have been making huge leaps forward. They built their own spacestation, landed on the dark side of the moon and started fabbing 7nm chips. If I was the US I'd be fucking terrified of what happens in the next 5 - 10 years."

'nuff said.

We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners

As I quoted previously, My Epson colour refills cost just shy of £31 for a conservative 6000 pages of colour output. As cost per page goes I'd argue that that's a damned sight cheaper than any colour laser printer and that's for branded refills. The compatibles are almost half the price. How much does a set of replacement colour toner cartridges cost for 6000 pages of colour output?

Re: This feels like an own goal...

I ditched HP for an Epson EcoTank model. Ok, so 300 quid is a bit steep for an inkjet MFD but it came with 6000 pages of ink (Colour and B/W) and a replacement set of refills costs a whopping £30.63 for Epson branded or £16.14 (Amazon prime pricing)...and a 3 year warranty.

HP can do one!

Year of Linux on the desktop creeps closer as market share rises a little

Re: Repeat after me:

Well, I see your hyperbole comment and direct you to Munich.

https://www.theregister.com/2017/11/13/munich_committee_says_all_windows_2020/

Huawei prepares to split from Android on consumer devices with HarmonyOS Next

Re: Spotify will bend like a reed in the wind

I agree completely if we're talking about outside of of China. Like you I was also only using Spotify as an example. However, I was also considering the bigger picture. Looking at their progression from the Trump era to now you have to admire their tenacity and determination to stick two fingers up at "The West" threatening to take their ball and go home. The Chinese keep making their own balls and carry on playing.

Spotify will bend like a reed in the wind

If China decided that Gplay / Android / iOS are outlawed the do you really think that Spotify wouldn't redevelop a compatible app for the 'new' ecosystem? A slice of the pie of 2Bn potential consumers is still substantially larger than the whole of the US has to offer. If the CCP offered me exclusive rights to their market I'd do it in a heartbeat. Ever since Trump started his nonsense the Chinese have been making huge leaps forward. They built their own spacestation, landed on the dark side of the moon and started fabbing 7nm chips. If I was the US I'd be fucking terrified of what happens in the next 5 - 10 years.

A tale of 2 casino ransomware attacks: One paid out, one did not

Re: All because of crypto

What's your point?

500 Euro notes ar regulated well enough that you can't use them in normal circulation. I had a 200 Euro note once. It was completely useless to me. I gave it to a friend in Dublin to see if she could take it to a branch of AIG and have it broken up. They wanted to provenance before they'd take it.

Forensic accounting is a thing as is KYC.

>Challenge: find a way to get £10M from someone who has it and is willing to pay it, into your hands without the police identifying you

1, Call Swiss bank

2, Deposit pile of gold teeth and some bars of god with a repurposed Hindu symbol on them

Find who took the 10M and 'sold' you the gold by following the electronic transaction. If the 10M is disseminated after buying the gold slowly because it's in cash form then that's a PITA for anyone to sit on without being questioned about paying for anything substantial. Sellers also have PnL to account for. Try buying a yacht with cash and see what the reaction would be.

FIAT currency is very tightly regulated these days. A prime example is when my bank called me to verify that my multiple lots of 2000GBP transfers from my mothers savings acc into my current acc (multiple because there's a 2000GBP limit on single online transfers and a max daily limit of 10k) to pay the DD for her care home fees were valid transactions. They saw it as unfamiliar activity and so it was flagged. I'm sure there are ways of getting around it illegally but that's why money laundering laws exist.

10M without someone getting their fingers dirty, from a legal perspective, would be really hard to shift quickly.

Windows 12: Savior of PC makers, or just an apology for Windows 11?

No S*it Sherlock!

"Despite a looming end of support for Windows 10 - although customers can pay for an extension - the OS remains dominant, and Windows 11 trails behind where its predecessor had been in terms of installations at the same point in its lifecycle."

Might that be because Win10 fixed the clusterfeck that was Win8? Win11 doesn't fix anything. I'm still trying to figure out what value added Win11 brings to me over my Win10 installation that worked perfectly well.

Meh!

Downfall fallout: Intel knew AVX chips were insecure and did nothing, lawsuit claims

Re: Pound that table, Demand those Results!

"6 * 9 = 42 ? Warning, Intel Inside...but Don't Panic!"

Would have been better.

Hardware hacker: Walling off China from RISC-V ain't such a great idea, Mr President

So is it 'open' or mot?

...or do we have to wait for the US of A to let us know?

I honestly don't think Chinese chip designers give a toss what the US has to say on the matter.

Spacewalk turns into spacework as cosmonauts grapple with ISS leak

Is it any surprise?

After all these years is it any wonder the radiator's sprung a leak?

If it was a car it would probably be regustered as a "Classic" by now.

Uncle Sam to tighten chip export chokehold on China... again

Still spouting crap? Just stop!

As much as you'd like to believe it, I don't hang on your every post and have better things to do with my time than read El Reg all day. Apologies if I've kept you waiting. So, now you've changed your bullshit story from "Here's a bunch if links from accusations made by the BBC by way of proving my lies" to "I can't give you proof of the evidence I have because I'm so important that I will just make shit up and you'll just have to believe that Dominion rigged the election?"

As for my anonymity, I registered my username with a valid email account, just like everyone else who has a valid username! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

So no, my posting as my pseudonym is nothing like your cowardly AC posting.

Finally, YOU STILL HAVEN'T POSTED ANY EVIDENCE OF YOUR LIES THAT HUAWEI HAVE ANY BACKDOORS IN THEIR KIT!

I'm still waiting. Strangely, there have been NO leaks on any media sources to prove or substantiate your claims in any way.

Re: What part of this...

FFS! "I cannot discuss information gathered by the industry but one of the sources you cannot discount is Huawei themselves."

That's up there with asking for proof that God exists! "I can't show you but I have evidence. I just can't show you because...You'll just have to take my word for it that there is."

Any more bullshit you want to make up?

Re: What part of this...

It seems you have learned nothing over the years! Whatever useless statement you just made. Why is this not the place to air whatever you learned? At least Ed Snowden had the balls to publicly announce what he knows. Are you now comparing your cowardly bullshit to Snowden now?

Again. If you have any evidence of your bullshit claims of Huawei being nafariuos then let's see it.

Do I really have to call you a liar so many times without you being able to refute my statement?

I think I'm being played by an Internet Troll.

Re: Resorting to whataboutism...

Still no links to prove your unfounded claims?

Carry on waffling and deflecting but not answering the question or admitting that your claims are bullshit.

I'm still waiting. You lying idiot!

Re: Resorting to whataboutism...

"Therefore, dear anonymous Peshman, please rest your case: irrespective of whether the accusations are founded or not, the current narrative is invalid."

Anonymous? I think you'll find that you can actually search for any post I've made. Peshman is actually my nickname that friends and colleagues have always known me as. You truly are an anonymous coward and are looking more and more of an idiot every time you post.

Now, where's your proof of any nefarious acts carried out by Huawei in answer to my last post.

Still no links or credible evidence for your claims? I only asked for one.

You are a liar and you think you can announce the !Big Steal!... but you, AC are not clever enough to be Trump.

Nobody believes your bullshit.

Re: Resorting to whataboutism...

Oh boy!

""""However the BBC's security correspondent Gordon Corera says the UK's Intelligence and Security Committee, chaired by former Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind, is currently looking at Huawei to try and understand what the risks might be and assess what measures have been taken to deal with them.

"The UK's relationship with Huawei has been a sensitive issue for a number of years," he said."""

That was already back in 2012. At that time, Huawei was not important enough to motivate "protectionist" measures.

I'm not even mentioning all the cyber espionage and hacker groups. Probably another figment of Trump's imagination. Right?

Rest your case, peshman. You're only making it worse."

Do you not see the idiocy of your statement?

Someone accused somebody of doing something. When the accused said that they are open to scrutiny to prove to you that they haven't done anything of the sort that you're accusing them of you still lie about them having done whatever you imagined they did.

Are you really so far down your rabbit hole that you're still willing to look like a fool and hide behind your AC status

I say you're a lying coward. Prove me wrong. Show me some EVIDENCE of Huawei being nefarious. I'll show you plenty of the US being an arse though.

Re: Resorting to whataboutism...

Try to focus on the Headline. Not your own thoughts;

!Uncle Sam to tighten chip export chokehold on China... again"

Where did that start? Now do you get why Trump was brought into this?

Re: Resorting to whataboutism...

I think the phrase "Pots and kettles" is what comes to mind.

You might prefer the one about "Stones and glasshouses" instead.

The US started this shit with Trump's protectionism so suck it up!

Re: Resorting to whataboutism...

...or it's just pointing out hypocrisy?

Lenovo to offer Android PCs, starting with an all-in-one that can pack a Core i9

Re: There are more brands of cars than Linux desktop envs.

"There are more brands of cars than Linux desktop envs."

That's a totally inadequate analogy.

There are more brands and models of PC's than OS's.

All cars are either Auto gear shift or manual gear shift with the gears in the same place on the gear stick and the pedals in the same place.

Windows for your average 'Joe' has a start button with apps and menu options that are standardised across all versions.

$17k solid gold Apple Watch goes from Beyoncé's wrist to the obsolete list

Re: No doubt

I bought a Cartier Pasha automatic in 1996 when I first started consulting.

I told my self that old "I'm going to get one of those one day" lines when it was just a pipedream.

Servicing costs aside it's the best 11k I've spent on the one and only luxury item I could justify buying since I know I'll hand it down eventually.

Huawei's UK tech eviction reportedly caused Sky to fall on mobile customers

Re: Don't keep repeating a lie

...but unlike CISCO there were no backdoors to be found. They even provided all of the firmware code to prove as much. However, you keep trying to persuade yourself of the lie that you're perpetuating to prove the original point.

I'm happy to be proved wrong if you can provide a link to ANY evidence for your claim.

I'll wait. I will probably die of old age first though.

Routers have been rooted by Chinese spies, US and Japan warn

Purile...but I don't care!

The Chinese are bashing in the NSA's back doors?

Micron revenue halved in FY23 as China ban bites

Re: I'm helping...

Did it cost you $4bn?

OAN "Cast your mind back to May, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced the chipmaker had failed a security review, and subsequently banned its products from being used by some government and security-sensitive organizations."..is a lot of words to say "National Security"

Sound familiar?

Intel CTO suggests using AI to port CUDA code to – surprise! – Intel chips

Re: TF support, anyone?

Isn't your problem with AMD a convergence issue? ATI used to be an indie GPU company. One merger later they're governed by their owners. NVidia are still steering their own ship and can be focussed.

So what if China has 7nm chips now, there's no Huawei it can make them 'at scale'

Tiangong space station?

Did nobody learn from that? Cut China out of the ISS so they just went and built their own.

Cut China out of Chip supplies...Well, you get the picture.

Move along. You've already seen this move.

Google launches $99 a night Hotel Mountain View for hybrid workers

Re: "some staff are resisting"

Business opportunity and one step away from WFH to WFAC (Work From Another Country).

Oh, yeah...IIRC that's called outsourcing. Why pay local salaries for people who never come into the office?

Prices of gallium and germanium rise as China export controls loom

Hmm.

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2023/07/10/yellen_china_us_decoupling/

US unhappy about China's tech pushback, rules out decoupling

Any evidence that Huawei had any open backdoors?

Is the US beginning to realise that what goes around comes around and potentially bites you in the arse?

Xiaomi could be 'adversely affected' by tax allegations in India

Re: Nice to see India

Do scam callers pay tax anywhere? Do pickpockets? Do people who use Pawn shops to fence stolen goods?

We can bend the laws of physics for your super-yacht, but we can't break them

Re: ""Don't you know who I am?"

Ronnie Pickering!

Who?

I know the name due to a viral clip but still have no idea who he is.

New Chinese exascale supercomputer runs 'brain-scale AI'

So, American Trade wars work?

The US started a trade war that seems to have given the Chinese the push they needed to become self sufficient. Trumpists must be so proud of their achievement.

India surpasses a billion active mobile subscriptions

What's wrong with 2G?

Week long battery life and it does what it says on the tin. "It's a phone and it makes, wait for it...telephone calls."

Suspected Chinese spies break into cloud accounts of News Corp journalists

What's the movie reference?

"Let the mayhem begin"

China's taikonauts return from heavenly palace after 92-day mission

Re: why aren't they going to the ISS?

Fair point, well made Sir.

Re: why aren't they going to the ISS?

...And thank you for proving my point!

After getting shafted by the US and Google by adopting Android and then having Google services removed by them in a faux trade war why would you trust anyone else to have your back?

Better to go it alone and prove that you can beat the competition at their own game.

In a couple of years even China's silicone processor prowess will be leaving Intel and AMD behind. MediaTek and Kirin are already causing shockwaves in that space right now.

Re: why aren't they going to the ISS?

Would you trust the US after what they did to Huawei? Arguably the best phone manufacturer on the planet until the good 'ol US of A decided to pull Google services and tell the rest of the world to rip out any Huawei 5G gear under the guise of National Security. No proof of any backdoors into their kit has ever been found, by the way...unlike CISCO.

The Chinese are sticking two fingers up at the US and even outclassing them in the space race. I love a good underdog story.

Dark side of the moon? Yeah, the Chinese are there.

Mars Rover? Yeah, they have one of those too.

Space station? Who needs the ISS? China has a nice shiny new one of those too.

Facebook pulls plug on mind-reading neural interface that restored a user's speech

Re: A company as rich as Facebook should be able to afford supporting some blue-sky research

Facebook would have to pay Tax to write something off against it.

You seem confused.

Epic vs. Apple Australian side quest allowed to resume

What's your point?

Lawyers charge whatever their clients are willing to pay for their services. Want a cheaper lawyer? Go somewhere else where a cheaper lawyer will take your case. Ask yourself though...Why are they cheaper? Do you want to take the risk of losing your case because they might not be as skilled as the more expensive option? Going cheap could turn out to be false economy.

There was a crooked man who bought a crooked M1 iMac, and we presume they lived together in a little crooked house

Buy an iSole and stop being an RSole!

Just buy an iSole and place it in your shoe on whichever side you need to make the screen level. Surely every fanboi has an electric standing desk by now?

/s

Man found dead inside model dinosaur after climbing in to retrieve phone

Man found dead inside Jurassic Chicken.

"Police suspect no foul play"

...Oh, really?

We didn't collude with Twitter to throw Parler off our servers, says AWS in court filing

Re: Small difference

I followed Trump on twitter. Better to know what he's saying than to live blind and be surprised by his asshattery.

UK competition watchdog calls for views on Nvidia's prospective $40bn acquisition of Brit chip designer Arm

Re: An ironic Austrian ?

...Except that intimately ICL died on its arse and got picked up by Fujitsu for peanuts. I was a fresh graduate watching its demise from the inside.