Posts by Zibob

'Quad' nations launch plan to stop China making critical minerals into Unobtanium

In X years time

"The quad" is threatening world economic freedom by restricting rare earth's.

It's always the same, the saviour appears and then turns into the same evil they were set up to protect against.

Intel totals automotive group

"As we have said previously, we are refocusing on our core client and data center portfolio to strengthen our product offerings and meet the needs of our customers," Intel said in a statement to The Register on Wednesday.

This is very close to what I and others suggested that should be doing more than a year ago.

It was pretty plain the see they had expanded far beyond processors and were getting into all maner of other markets while the money was flowing with no real aim for what any of it would do beyond expand portfolio.

It was a whatever then, sure expand. But the moment Ryzen showed and ate their lunch, they shrugged instead of doing anything meaningful. Now they are in trouble and suddenly doing the things hat were obvious to the outsider.

I am sure the person in the position to make these decisions has a lot more to deal woth too, but if this is what the Clevels get headlines for, I could have told them their business plan from bed, half asleep.

All this to say yeah it's silly I am annoyed with a multi billion dollar company that does not even know I exist for having the foresight of a toddler.

Linux Foundation tries to play peacemaker in ongoing WordPress scuffle

Two outcomes

1. See XKCD - Standards,

2. Linux foundation will somehow be pulled into the/a lawsuit with WordPress

Datacenters have a public image problem, industry confesses to The Reg

"But AI can also decrease greenhouse gas emissions or lower overall emissions at a company level,"

Excise me, what?

It goes on to say racks went from 10kw, to 150kw and soon to 600kw, each.

How exactly is increasing the power used year after years, (non linearly?) reducing green house emissions.

Nationwide power outages knock Spain, Portugal offline

Different countries are different sizes. It was estimated that both events effected about 50 million people, so yes comparable.

A part of the north east America, and all of Spain and Portugal, the area and people there in are pretty similar.

Re: Anybody know?

ÉlRon?

A similar size power out event happened in the USA and Canada in 2003. While it is complex and there are many ultimate reasons, a degree of it was put down to a section of line being poorly maintained and failed during a particularly high use period. This caused other parts of the grid and stations to try and fix it with force and get around the problem area, but since they were already maxed out it caused a cascade failure when asked to push just that bit more.

So yeah stuff like this is known and was on a list of 'to get to' but it wasn't. And it failed. I imagine a similar outcome will come to light in time here

https://practical.engineering/blog/2022/2/9/what-really-happened-during-the-2003-blackout

Artist formerly known as Indian Business Machines pledges $150B for US ops, R&D

Math ain't matching for me

"In its announcement, IBM said it intends to spend $30 billion on R&D over the next five years - an average of $6 billion a year"

"By way of comparison, the tech giant spent and $7.48 billion on R&D last year, and $6.78 billion the year prior, according to the IT giant's 2024 annual report [PDF]."

Am I reading that correctly? Their big Investment push would be less money than previous years?

Microsoft pitches pay-to-patch reboot reduction subscription for Windows Server 2025

Move fast and break things

Really taking the modern culture to heart. No need to waste time with reboots to wreck your system, now you can watch the system crumble in real time, while you try to save your work.

The sound of Windows 95 about to disappoint you added to Library of Congress significant sound archive

Re: Does the library feature

While it likely should, I would agree, I don't know and doubt it really, it being Finnish in origin, even if the original piece is a much older musical composition, and the library of Congress will favour American pieces.

System builders say server prices set to spike as Trump plays customs cowboy

Re: In other news

I understand that, but is it actually news to anyone?

Like we all knew at the start of this tarrif nonsense that the price of everything will go up.

Sure trying to cancel the CHIPS act is news, but once you already know tarrifs and price hikes are coming and very notably for PC components (which has been actual news for the past few years) what part of this is new or surprising.

If the article actually had hard numbers or was able to tell you anything you would not already know, that's news, but putting up something to the effect of 'what they said they would do, they are now doing' is not news.

Do we need an article telling us tomorrow will be Friday?

In other news

Water: wet

Grass: green

Sky: blue

Is this actually worthy of an article. This is just basic not so common sense no? Tariffs were on the table and of course it will make IT costs rise.

Amazon, Google asked to explain why they were serving ads on sites hosting CSAM

Re: Reported to the FBI?

There is a not small, some would say large, difference is knowing it happening and commuting the crime yourself.

Reported to the FBI?

Surely they won't care, after all they did take over a CSAM site, AND THEN RAN IT THEMSELVES FOR A YEAR!

Of course it was for reasons of catching more people, but that doesn't change the fact that they ran the site distributing and accepting new CSAM for that year... Real standup guys, very trustworthy.

Quantum? No solace: Nvidia CEO sinks QC stocks with '20 years off' forecast

Re: "your path probably leads through Jensen and his chip shop,"

Would that make Jensen the "clappy happy chippie chappie"?

Intel sued again over struggling foundry business

Re: "sued yet again by shareholders"

Voters should not have the right to change the government

You don't like what the country is doing ?

Move country.

Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software

Sooo...

...the findings are not valid?

TSMC halts advanced chip shipments to Chinese AI companies

*Team America World Police theme getting louder and closer*

UK government's bank data sharing plan slammed as 'financial snoopers' charter'

Return on investment

1.6billion over 5 years breaks down to 320million a year

considering, oh just pick one at this stage, the state of government finances and reckless spending on myriad other "projects" and "plans" that cost many many millions just to think about and put on paper, not even implementation if they even get that far, I am sure the finger could be readily pointed back at the governemtn for their own "Benefit frauds" upon their own people.

For sure, actual benefit fraud should be tracked and tackeled as a mattoer of course too.

So you paid a ransom demand … and now the decryptor doesn't work

Hahaha haha hahahaha

Sorry that was rude of me.

*clears throat*

HAHAHAHAHAHA Oh stop it hurts my sides and face, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Online media outstrips TV as source of news for the first time in the UK

TV remains more trusted news source

You mean the thing that had pictures of bojo in front of a big red bus with 350million on the side.. yeah there was a lot of truth in that. Where that money for the NHS now?

Intel Arrow Lake to be made elsewhere as 20A process node canned

Re: had been powered up and operating systems booted

Sure it does, win 3.11 is very stable

Telegram CEO was 'too free' on content moderation, says Russian minister

Sooo....

...Whatsapp and Signal are next?

How about PGP encrypted email.

Intel's Software Guard Extensions broken? Don't panic

I would imagine a lot of it came down the the old adage: "You will never be fired for buying X"

X here being Intel. They were, were but not currently, seen as the safe bet. They would do what they say they will and not need attention and if they did it was a painless swap.

In the building world it would similar to paying way over the odds for DeWalt or Hilti. Sure there's cheaper just as capable stuff available, but its the support network and assumed ease of warranty that you pay for. You *could* save a lot buying a pile of Aldi grinders or drills, but when they break the support won't be there the same as it would if you just spent more on the big name.

NASA will fly Boeing Starliner crew home with SpaceX, Calamity Capsule deemed too risky

Re: Boeing can't complete the contract

The problem being, if they can't trust it for crew flights its not a backup at all.

And at best its a 6 time thing, more likely 5 or 4 by the time Boeing are done testing live.

They are already on borrowed time, so realistically, its not much of a backup if you have less than a handful of chances at it and currently none of them look very safe or promising.

Or possibly, "Boing, off the atmosphere, out into space, panicked warnings of an uncontrollable capsule passing unguided through commercial space, then silence"

Sure they didn't kill anyone.

They just burned through billions, for a defective product that is too dangerous to use.

Considering investors want a return on their investment, it would seem odd to reward them for a near complete, multi year, multi billion dollar failure that is likely to result in a scrapped project now, with nothing to gain from it ultimately.

"Maybe they anticipated a crash of Starliner."

There's still time.

Re: Reputation

A tattoo then. Painful enough to be forced to remember it, but also technically reversible when they cease to be CEO, for whatever reason that might be.

Intel enlists Morgan Stanley to defend against activist investors

Would not be surprised to see that there is a deal on the backside to make intel the default supplier again as a result of this partnership.

Like when they were paying dell and others to exclude AMD as an option.

Re: Intel shares have lost nearly 60 percent of their value since the beginning of 2024. ....

Some asset stripping might be good for them at the moment.

They way over stretched themselves and kept it all under the one name and finances. They even noted this themselves, Optate a perfect example. Intel have no business being in Storage, but it was a growing market... Shame intel got into it after everyone else had optimised their production and they just beat intel over the head for trying to get in on their game.

Intel are a CPU designer and maker, that's what they are good at... Were the best at, but now its falling behind and making mistakes as it takes the focus off CPUs and onto all sorts of misguided side projects just because they had money to burn.

Then the 10nm nation attacked.

They have been in a spin since then. They didn't focus on their core and it hit them hard. Since then its just been Band-Aids on their CPUs to keep them competitive. Pushing clocks with power. But that's very clearly not working anymore. And they noticed, they have been shedding various side companies that they blew cash on while they were riding high rather than investing it in the next generation of CPU production.

Skylake 14nm+++++++ for years. While others were actually advancing.

Should have stuck with the "Tick-Tock" plan and pace.

The Windows Control Panel joins the ranks of the undead

Re: Microsoft all over

Because there are UI Devs and art majors that need jobs. Can't just get it right the first time and put yourself out of the lucrative job.

Make a functional but annoying UI and you will have a job forever fixing it. Drag in your art friends to make concepts and you can spin a good sliver of gold for yourself.

"the CP wont go anywhere untill Micro$haft have fully working alterntives and atm, that isnt happening anytime soon."

I would not be so sure about that.

Remember the start menu win8 brought. That was not a fully functional alternaticlve to what we had and they did it any way.

Had to release a whole new is to fix that one, but try to cover it up by calling it 8.1 like it was not a complete overhaul.

I would not for one second put it past them to try removing it at least, before having a month or two of outrage and eventually having to walk it back but not in an easy fashion.

Re: Meh?

Seeing s they have reversed it already... No I don't think so.

Meh?

At this stage, what ever Microsoft decide to do, I will reverse with a ddofferent piece of software.

Screw the start menu, screw you, I'll get a program to bring it back.

This is no different. As with all MS OSs, the old version is still in there if you dig deep enough. I remember there still being 3.11 dialogue boxes in 10 if you went far enough. So the options will just be gathered up an repackaged into a control panel again by someone else.

Nuts to the and their ideas about how I should work.

Boom Supersonic takes baby steps toward breaking the sound barrier

Re: rose tinted glasses

Yeah, this one is being developed by the 'Murikans, who couldn't give a toss for fuel cost or usage.

Lego's Concorde is the only supersonic jet you can build for the price of a fancy dinner

Maybe you lost your imagination, but Lego is still everything you have said.

Just because you have instructions does not mean you have to follow them. And indeed the sets you use as example have set instructions

https://letsbuilditagain.com/instructions/0744/

So it was still a thing you could build and leave as is then, just as it is now.

But just as you could take them apart then, you can now.

And for all the talk of custom pieces, those are still fully compatible with all others sets. You can still use any piece you want to make whatever you want.

So none of your rant made any sense. Unless its self referential that *you* no longer play with Lego. But plenty still do. So this is a you problem.

All that's changed is we have far more choice and can make far more things in far more styles. Nothing has been lost.

Re: Fastest champagne cart ever

I wonder if the altitude and pressurisation had any effects on the bubblys, bubblyness.

Thanks for that, and interesting read, and a very sad end to the entire project. The only flying example was shot at and used to asses shrapnel damage on modern aircraft... Shame.

The only 2 surviving ones are museum pieces that never fully functioned.

Apparently there were around 100 in various states of building planning and ordering, many of which were in assembly and then all destroyed along with the tooling just months after the project was canceled.

Re: What is the max skin temperature?

That's the story I heard. What looked like a small storage area, was an expansion gap, at cruising speed and altitude he took off his hat and put it in the "storage space" but when they landed the storage space was a closed gap with a hat squished in it.

I understand why, the company that was the French side of it was absorbed into Airbus, but it is a little galling not to feature both companies names considering it was a joint venture.

Its funny they mention that it does not come with Air France and British Airways stickers though. I saw this set built about a week before this article and asked that exact question to the person showing it too, if it did come with them. Sad it didn't as they were the look.

And further, if they are going to go with the prototype livery, then it really should have the era appropriate company names on the prominent side of the box (Sud Aviation / British Aircraft Corporation), sure put the modern owners in the fine print on the back (Airbus / BAE)

Bargain-hunting boss saw his bonus go up in a puff of self-inflicted smoke

It is a little... Maybe more than a little, on them for not checking the machines over before set up.

I mean just put of curiosity I would have a look inside even if jist to see if that they say it is, it actually is.

Telegram founder and CEO arrested in France

Re: I hope Musk travels to France

I understand what you are saying but it is a dangerous line to walk.

"Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

Sure its a simple line but with just a little thought behind it, it becomes a very scary potential reality, one history has proven many times over.

To crew, or not to crew – that is the question facing Boeing's stricken Starliner

Re: Starliner .. sinking without trace

If the thrusters fail and it can reenter, do they get renamed to Boing?

Linux Deepin 23: A polished distro from China that Western desktops could learn from

Re: How Quickly We All Forget....

Yup, been having a good chuckle at the people doing a rain dance around the fire and chanting about how bad China could be while ignoring the very real and proven snooping and delving into every corner your your life and data that is happening for sure from the US and less talked about but also happening in Europe, FOR DECADES!

Re: Looks good but

"I'd certainly be far more concerned about what the NSA and all the other TLAs *are 100% confirmed to be doing* do to me *AND* with my data"

Fixed that for you.

For all the jumping up and down, stomping around and pearl clutching about what China *could* be doing, the facts are we have hard evidence that the NSA and many other state sanctioned administrations are absolutely doing right now and have been for a VERY long time.

Always makes me laugh. No it does not absolve China completely, but this madness over them and inherent trust of the USA/Europe is just mind boggling.

HMD Skyline: The repairable Android that lets you go dumb in a smart way

Re: No headphone socket

Yes it is the buying new things that do the same job and also that the new this have a built in shelf life with batteries that may not be replaceable that I really don't like.

There are headphones from the 40s that can still be used just fine today.

I have both kinds and far more often its easier to use wired ones most of the time.

Re: No headphone socket

I would prefer to keep using my nice wired ones. I do have Bluetooth too, but they are for different situations.

China AI devs use cloud services to game US chip sanctions

Prize tickets

Where's the booth to trade these things in, there will be thousands in waiting after the US set the high score in Whack-A-Mole, I'm sure they will show up soon.

And hey they can get a novelty mustache comb for their efforts too.

Gamers who find Ryzen 9000s disappointingly slow are testing it wrong, says AMD

Re: Gimme Linux/Compute

And like many others with this launch.

... I'll be back for Christmas.