Posts by darklord

So much for green Google ... Emissions up 48% since 2019

Please tell me we didnt see that train coming!!! oh Please Please Please Sir can have some More !!!!!!!!

Data center's aren't green and will be placed in places which already have a low carbon emission impact next as to offset all that nasty CO2 the power consumption required to emit as Solar ,wind and other renewables cant deliver.

Just like Ford has done and i suspect many other manufacturers rather than reduce the carbon emission's due to manufacturing processes, Data storage is a commodity whether you like it or not.

Resource burden of electric vehicles set to triple by 2050

So tell us something we didnt know

So the do gooders didnt think that one through did they!!!!!!!!! and what about the recycling of the batteries, and when your shiny 10 year old buggy no longer can be maintained as they dont make that battery anymore as obsolete rules state 5yrs after model obsolescence or a software update screws your battery.

Don't forget your car is now just a computer with an electric motor!

Julian Assange pleads guilty, leaves courtroom a free man

Re: Thank Fudge thats over

OF course he milk the gravy train for all its worth, bloke will be a millionaire within months, they'll be a book, film and then the talk show deals to follow, prob by ntflix. yet he is still a convicted traitor

T-Mobile US drags New Jersey borough to court over school cell tower permit denial

Maybe call there bluff

Maybe T mobile should petition for the return of the lease payments for the last 15 years from the authority or the school. see how fast it gets approved then.

IBM Japan and NTT think they can make datacenter aircon adjust to different workloads

0Nothing new here

Fujitsu was selling this tech about 10 years ag or so

Windows 10 users report app gremlins after Microsoft update

Re: @Alan Bourke - STRAW MAN ALERT

Ahh the old i can run Linux on XXXX argument yep you can but can you get business end support for the install that answer is a big no, next is linux user friendly in terms of build and of loading drivers and out the box availability which for the average home user would have no idea what to do so definitely not user friendly.

In terms of apple, i have a macbook air 2012 and has taken every update without issue so far so i dont get the update issue with apple.iwould sy my iphone is slightly different.

We live in a WINTEL world whether we like it or not. any thing else is for the bespoke builds and bored IT professionals who need something to do during down time. (i know im one of them)

Enterprising techie took the bumpy road to replacing vintage hardware

Surely breaking equipment which does not belong to you no matter how old it is is effectively vandalism and most employers would sack employees for that. equipment has a value until its written off as scrap and of no further use. and in todays sustainability and environmental impacts of scrap material everything has a value even as scrap.

Surprised the submitter wasnt canned for his actions and asked to explain why the equipment which was running is now toast.

Japan's lunar lander is dying before our eyes after setting down on Moon

i love the artists impression

So photo shopping a picture and puting it on a another pic is art and requires an artist NOT.

IBM Consulting is done playing around, orders immediate return to office

Re: I thing it is OK

As long as the desk your using has the facilities you need, commonly you lucky if you get anything more than a desk and chair, no monitor, keyboard, extended displays or even a single display monitor. many people (like me) moved there ahole desk IT equipment to home and have the original set up to enable me to do my job at home. i go into the office, all i can do is work on a laptop screen and keyboard. and speak small talk around the office with colleagues i havent seen in a while yet speak to daily on teams.

I don't have the amount of sick days i used to working in the office because im not seeing the die hards who think its ok to bring colds and flue into the workplace rather than stay at home with the kids all day.

And wait for Sick days to rise

Yep Covid is rife in the UK again at the moment (as we knew it would) and especially in the office. So no chance im heading anywhere near that breeding ground of disease thanks

X's 2024 plans include peer-to-peer payments in app push

I smell bull$hit bingo

Marketeers inventing concepts an buzz words to convince the world they're useful.

New cars bought in the UK must be zero emission by 2035 – it's the law

inbuilt obsolescence

The Government is clueless

So no mention of the road tax changes due in 2025 for EVS

The excessive road wear due to heavier cars and the batteries.

And worst of all the scrappage and recycling of EVS after 8 - 10 years due to excessive battery process being more than the car will be worth.

Yes you may have a 8 year warranty on the battery but that will only be complete failure in that time but will not to cover the reduced available range due to age related battery stress.

The damage being done by mining ,shipping raw materials , processing the materials then shipping the batteries to the manufacturing plants around the world.

And no mention of Electrical infrastructure. not seen many charging points halfway up a mountain or in the middle of a national park.

Tesla Cybertruck no-resale clause vanishes faster than a Model S in Ludicrous Mode

Gotta love offroad capabilities in an EV

What off road abilities the thing wieghs twice as much as an ICE version due to battery weight alone and last i saw there's no recharging points in the wilderness. so exactly what you gonna do when you get stuck in mud and sand , rev the nets deplete the battery and yep your toast.

Still spose brave to try it.

Oh and what use is 2.9S o-60 in real life. my last co car was 3.2 s 0-60. and completely useless as most other cars dont accelerate that fast unless your hell bent on giving the car in front an enema!

Cisco has a new problem: You take too long to implement its products and stop buying more kit

Actually Big organisations are jumping the Cisco ship

Our s and our customers preffered is no longer Cisco, despite being a platinum reseller. the main contender seems to Juniper. and a lot seems to be to do with the Cisco licensing model and the odd support packages.

Only time will tell if this continues but the trend has been there since pre covid. and the kit is as reliable so far.

Wanted: Driver for rocket-powered Bloodhound Land Speed Record car

Piloting a fighter jet or souped up corsa will do it

Theres a lad in the village said he'd give er a go as his Corsa with its big exhaust can hit 800mph on a straight. apparently the boom box in the back can slow it down a vit but the dodgy tinted windows and clapped out suspension more than make up for the deficit in power.

BOFH: Monitor mount moans end in Beancounter beatdown

Re: Sounds vaguely familiar...

Colour and type and size. this can end up being a completely new suspended ceiling. which adds silly mney. Especially when required in a meeting room when you want it to look professional to clients mismatched furniture and décor doesn't look good.

You would be surpised at some of the mess ive seen in meeting rooms over the years. And these companies want to do business with Blue chip companies. Appearance is everything.

Re: Sounds vaguely familiar...

An old trick i used to use when i worked at Motorola in the eightits and early nineties. If i needed any kit we had to supply three alternatives. some of the stuff i dreamt up to get budget for something cheap was works of art.

Needless to say i generally got the capital equipment i needed when i needed it.

Re: Cost centre round robin

Also now we have to show value for money, £500 loo seats and hammer handles are long gone, They need the toys at a fraction of the cost.

Want a well-paid job in tech? You just need to become a cloud-native god

Local cloud servers

This just cracks me up, a lot of our customers are migrating to local cloud servers . Ahem on site server and data storage. Well bugger me weve gone back 25 years when they had on site servers and storage and backup facilities except now they dont want on site support staff. which is great until stuff breaks (which it does) then the whole world is down as the link network is still a bit iffy in some parts of the world.

How is that cloud progress. so yes more cloud engineers are needed . (ahem server support staff) as its not really a cloud in anything but name.

It is 20 years since the last commercial flight of Concorde

Boscombe down

They flew concorde finally from Boscombe Down on circular flights after official retirement. I lived right next door to the base and had the chance to fly it, Sadly too skint for the 200 quid a ticket at the time.

The one in heathrow is now a storeroom for paper and old leaflets to keep it on the ground as apparently in high winds it decides to try and go airborne despite being tethered.

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

Re: No doubt

Actually now its cheaper to replace than repair, that's the issue. A lot of manufacturers make it difficult by not releasing parts to the public or repair community. Sony are especially renowned for that and always have been.

By the time you factor labour in at 100 pounds an hour it suddenly becomes cheaper to replace with new.

But i agree this obsolescence issue is getting out of hand as it feeds the component counterfeiters and grey markets. even right to repair is a thorny issue as even the IIOM recognise works if there's new parts available but not when its from the far east and eBay to keep 10 year old computer going fine if your home user but not if you rely on the beasty for your lively hood.

For years components were readily available for prolonged periods but i can t believe some core components are no longer available such as caps, resistors chips etc, but that is occuring.

Now IBM sued for age discrim by its own HR veterans

So the Decision makers get the shaft

So HR are the ones deciding on an employees longevity or shelf life (Runway) and also the most expensive employees to ditch. get ditched and they cry foul. Karma is a bitch !!!!!!

Schneider Electric warns that existing datacenters aren't buff enough for AI

Err no its not

The US is Fed 240 volts and the voltage is split at the inverter coil down to 120V so premises by default are supplied on the 240 volt grid and can operate at 240V. just consumer electronics are dropped to 115V/120V for safety reasons as you get less dead with 115V across the heart as opposed to 230V/240V. American logic there somewhere

Shocking

So more compute power needs more power to run it and the ancillaries like cooling. Tell us something i didnt know 20 years ago.

What is shocking is this is bringing real world figures to the table rather than theory. for essentially something we dont exactly need.

Lets be honest AI was born out of the need to answer customer service queries and calls. DOH for computer systems , Lets automate call handling !!!!!!!!!!!! and lets let computers start answering said calls.

Sonos secures a victory in audio patent fight against Google

Re: Cleary, more moeny than sense

Google dont need to pay ( unless SONOS gets costs awarded, Google sued Sonos for breach and damages not the other way round.

Still a stupid stunt to stay in the limelight by google (as if they need it).

Another pointless lawsuit like the Samsung /Apple round edges debacle.

Still I dont use either system, I hate the annoying Google/Amazon devices answering me tried one once said nope that'll be annoying and I like Hifi so that counts SONOS out.

International Criminal Court hit in cyber-attack amid Russia war crimes probe

So who does recognise the international Cricket council (ahem) ICC

So if the big guns don't recognize it that leaves oh guess what basically Europe and the southern hemisphere and its doubtful a lot of african and south American countries even know it even exists as they dont play cricket ;-) .

In reality the ICC issues warrants that no one upholds. just means should putin or whoever a warrant is issued for should set foot in a country where they do recognise it then they may be arrested, unless they are on a diplomatic mission of course and just try it and therell be a massive gun fight by the body guards i suspect which no country would want at an airport. So a bit pointless in reality.

Toshiba succeeds at selling itself, delisting set for September 27

Oh they are still around then

I didnt even know Tosh are still around!!!

Ello Tosh Got a Toshiba !

Microsoft’s AI investments skyrocketed in 2022 – and so did its water consumption

An environmental nightmare waiting to happen

Yep who didn't see this coming, Water and power consumption of datacenters and pollution issues (anything emitted outside the datacenter is technically pollution even water vapor) are always going to be a a problem whilst the world relies on social media and data creation and consumption.

how its fixed isnt clear with current technology apart from less consumption and data usage.

The old adage of knowledge is power spring to mind, and everyone wants knowledge though don't want to learn anything when a computer can supply it for free (except the cost to the environment).

Microsoft makes some certification exams open book

but are they still timed.

When I did my Certifications the exams where timed, so to get a high pass mark you needed to complete x amount of questions in a given time. you either knew the answers or didn't. and most wasn't even in the books/course material you learnt it from doing the job.

So making it open book are we to assume the time limits have gone or has the pass mark been lowered.

I know I've forgotten more than most newbies will even know as everything now is SW only nothing about software and hardware interactions and trouble shooting techniques. thats few and far between nowadays. still time marches on and retirement is getting closer thankfully!!!!!!!!

Ford, BMW, Honda to steer bidirectional EV charging standard

So you have money to buy or replace your car more regularly

So by charging and continuously dischaging your EV battery will shorten its live meaning it will need replacing a lot earlier. sort of like the domwits using thier cars as batteries to store thier free solar energy. yet an average car battery replacement is 12-15K. to save a few pence.

And who wants to by a used EV with a shagged battery. the vehicle will have little to no inherent value unlike an ICE where a replacement engine should it be needed is a fraction of the cost (may have a few miles on it) but it isn't in the tens of thousands (which is more than the cars worth used anyway).

what these cretins don't realize the software will report not only miles driven but also charge and discharge cycles so no getting away with conning a dealer.

"So sir your 5 year old tesla has oh 20k on it yes well buy it oh i see it has 15000 discharge cycles , hmm well give you a grand trade in as scrap as the batteries shagged!!!!!

Yes electric vehicles are the future but not with current tech, we all know this is a stepping stone to appease Europe and BO JO who implemented a false ceiling of 2030 when the rest of the world set 2050 to allow tech to catch up.

Lightning struck: Apple switches to USB-C for iPhone 15 lineup

Not so green

So what about the now to be defunct Lightning cables going to land fill when everyone starts buying new iphone 15s. just an excuse to control the market by europe.

And in the UK and USA and the rest of the non european market world, why do we need to change the Eu doesn't control those markets, yes i know its cheaper to make one model etc!

A very short sighted approach in the name on environmentalists. nope this fails on many levels.

Who really is controlling europe, the Far east whom we have trade agreements and the designers and manufacturers of all that shiny tech that uses USB C.

I wont be sad to see Lightning go as it does eat cables but switch cleaner sorts the blackened contacts and sockets, cant do that on usb C. so new cables etc needed, hence more new cables and more for the bin.

Washington left with chip on shoulder after Huawei exposes export loophole lapses

HAHA the USA protecting the world

The only reasons the USA want restrictions is to protect its own markets and businesses from outside Threats to its economy Hence why the UK have no hope of ever getting a true trade deal with the US. they don't want our products or tech as its a direct threat to there own manufacturers.

Still we live in hope

Newport Wafer Fab blames UK government over 100 redundancies plan

Its Ok in six months there will 100 new jobs all given to middle kingdom oriented workers, no different to any other middle kingdom owned company and I have worked for three so far and this has happened in them all.

UK rejoins the EU's €100B Horizon sci-tech funding program

Re: Indeed

Umm Pardon, I don't believe Sunak or Truss where democratically elected by the electorate, they where voted in by thier own parties, same as Bojo roiginally.

Why we need reform, a PM is ousted then a full GE should take place.

None of this party runs 4/5 years crud and they can put whomever is incompetent enough in charge as they want them out of the party anyway. so give what they want and let them screw up.

Old term promoted beyond incompetency springs to mind

Bad software destroyed my doctor's memory

that's ok if its one user or one specific group of users. but what happens when there are multiple branches of users all wanting different things from one system. what youve all described are simple silo databases and useful to that specific person or element.

When multiples all want different things and IT spend goes out the window cause billing need something in blue or red and clinicians want in green cause they dont like red, everything starts costing as work is rehashed and redone on the fly.

Medical and specifically the NHS system was destined to fail no matter how much money was thrown at it. as a single system that does appointments, Medical records, Stores, Billing, triage, Xray access, diagnosis and then prescribing and reporting as well as being user friendly to every user it will ever encounter (including the 80 year old receptionist whos been there since 1972 and only works on Tuesday mornings)and god knows what else the NHS do that i don't know about.

No matter how good you are postgresql or other freebee database wont do that any time soon without massive support programs.

It would be nice and simple to think thats what can be achieved on the cheap but not to run a hospital

On the record: Apple bags patent for iDevice to play LPs

Re: Had to have been filed 2021-04-01?

Having occasionally bought the odd "new vinyl" honestly they are awful as the source files are digital to begin with and the pressing plants basically have zero quality control. sure for those of us who like the tangibility of our music sources.

Its nice to see a tape turning or a record spinning plus the artwork itself. you don't get that with streaming!.

Im not big on buying streamed content as ive been bitten by streaming companies going under and you've lost your content especially after a Backup HDD failure. ahem thanks Sony music!!!!

Ive my original vinyl and turntable wiaiting to go back up in the attic as the inconvenience and space was just problematic plus ive far more CD's than vinyl anyway and much of the Vinyl i have now i have rebought on CD anyway.

Back to topic. so what some one decided to create an idea for a modular system with a turntable. , Wake up call audio has been modular since the 60s adding a connector or sound card makes no difference, i was doing that along with thousands of others in the mid 90s to record our vinyls and transfer them to CD.

Cumbrian Police accidentally publish all officers' details online

Re: How?

ahem isn't that the same excuse Rudolf Hoess used at Auschwitz. Just because you work for them the personnal data doesnt belong to them. that belongs to the individual it pertains too and if they give permission for it to be used it can only be used in which permission is sort. GDPR protects individuals nowadays.

That is no excuse. your job is to enlighten those above do they really need access and for what purpose do they need access and for how long. not blindly just handing it over.

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

Re: "some staff are resisting"

except who are you going to rent office space too. too many companies are getting rid of office space.

38 percent of tech job interviews offered exclusively to men: report

Re: HR

Schools and colleges need to teach IT not how to use microsoft packages and SQL databases. There's more to IT than that but that is sadly what the UK curriculum for IT is now. My daughters are the same. luckily neither has gone into IT, One into Law, and 2 into nursing. all are bright and computer literate. just it at school was pants.

'There has never been a realistic plan' for UK's £11B Emergency Services Network

may be go back to CD radio. no bugger using that now. problem sorted.

It astounds me saying kit will be obsolete in 5 years or so. 2 way rdio kit stays in production for donkeys years .so only issue is to take next iteration. frequencies dont change.

H-1B fraud consultancies grow, with application abuse openly discussed online

Re: Detective Colombo asks

a bit like the indian Driving test. drive 100 feet and stop the car. fail if you go to far as the examiner has further to walk back to the test centre. issued 1 international driving licence. I am always sceptical of overseas degrees from certain schools, generally correspondence type. Pay 10000 (insert currency ) get your degree, no prior education required ???????

Scientists claim >99 percent identification rate of ChatGPT content

Missing the point here

A growing number of university students are using ChatGPT to produce there university assessments thus doing no research etc. however citations give it away as how can you write a citatation into a chatGPT written document. sim,ple decide what citation you want and pose the correct question to the bot. answers then written to back up your argument.

Award first class honours degree or MA without writing or researching any thing.

This will help combat that approach being touted by university students.

Waymo robo-car slays dog in San Francisco

Re: In the UK, this would be criminal

whilst all the above is correct, what an autonomous vehicle cannot do is react to an incident which may or may not occur klike slowing down past built up areas, seeing a potential for an accident way ahead.

Not enough information to say who was at fault here. for example we see a parent with an awkward child on the pavement/sidewalk, or group of young children w are programmed to expect the unexpected and take action. same with a dog roaming free or deer crossing the road etc.

Round where i live we have lots of wandering livestock, ponies ,pigs and boar, Cattle, which all have right of way over vehicles. how would an autonomous vehicle deal with that.

Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster

Re: What value!

nice idea but the solution will still run on oracle or free sql database with no support. biggest evil idea was integrated database systems which the right and left hand cant decide whats more important.

Re: This ERP project is on time and on budget

OneERP, what ajoke. we have it and biggest mistake ever, doesnt really work at the best of times

not Quite. Many large companies outsource payroll now so HR arent even involved and neither does Payroll departments. HR just keep records of hire,Fire and disciplinary information. thats about it

UK watchdog won't block Openreach’s discount fiber pricing

No love for BT or Open reach

I've tried others and so far i am BT 1Gb and yes its dear but we all work from home here and it works, first class customer service in the remote times I've needed it, unlike the others where support plebs just read a script. I get an engineer to the door after I've explained I am an IT professional and know what to do and if i cant fix it here its a line problem.

The others just follow like sheep, as been stated before lots of places fibre doesn't exist so go and install it instead of using openreach lines.

The small companies only exist because BT/Open reach can no longer hold a monopoly, No other reason simples!!!!!! they should get there availability and customer service up to scratch and stop the cash cowing they see off the back of BT lines and start digging holes. of course they can offer cheap fibre because the holes have already been dug and tubes been laid so coming along later after contracts have been signed is not fashionably late but bloody arriving after it finished (without a bottle to boot)

BT is ditching workers faster than your internet connection with 55,000 for chop by 2030

Re: "AI to take over in customer services"

so just like Octopus's energy 90 percent of emails are replied to by AI. and amazingly there custmoer services satisfaction have sky rocketed. That i don't believe as who actually is resolving issues and AI bot cant make decisions on billing.

Will we recieve a reduction in costs !!!!!!

Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess

Re: With two-faced "friends" like Dyson, Britain doesn't need enemies

And those Emigrated /Living abroad knocking Britain, I do hope you naturalised. or have you kept you good old passport for when the shit happens and need us to bail you out with the law etc.