Posts by Freddellmeister

In-house techies fixed faults before outsourced help even noticed they'd happened

Re: Dual CPU card Sun servers

No there are much earlier examples, think Enterprise 3000, 4000, 6000 around 1997

Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips

Why did you think about destruction rather than the original cobalt cube?

https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/sec/1111/Cobalt/

No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms

Re: Quite possibly

You didnt read the article uk govmt put out saying deleting emails is a good way to save water yet? :)

IBM boasts new Power11 chips are stingy on power usage

Power 11 is architecturally identical to Power 10, manufactured in the same process as Power 10, is Power 10 with a new firmware.

It has the same AI acceleration as Power10 and the new feature touted is a collaboration to port software to Power.

The Spyre PCI card is the mainframe derived accelerator. lets see if ISV will leverage that capability.

Unfortunately the max BW per PCI port is 8 lane PCIe G5, same as P10.

You could be forgiven to believe it is a marketing stunt. :)

Critics blast Microsoft's limited reprieve for those stuck on Windows 10

Re: Quite whining

RHEL 10 needs 4 gen or better, so Linux is not particularily great on backwards compatibility.

On windows 11 you can run older Nvidia drivers for now unsupported cards, with newer Linux kernels you can't either.

Re: save yourselves thehassle

Why not Windows Server 2025 that I successfully run on Ivy Bridge Servers already?

Google goes cold on Europe: Stops making smart thermostats for continental conditions

Re: Bollocks

Norway has a screwed up electricirty standard.

Instead of having Phases of 230V + Zero They have 230V between 2 phases and no Zero, the Zero is the guy plugging the cord.

AmigaOS updated in 2025 for some reason

NXP T2080 kits could be a cool target for PPC AmigaOS, and HOMBRE, PA-RISC amiga? Wow that would have been cool! (or hot).

Microsoft quietly erases Windows 11 TPM 2.0 bypass workaround from help page

Re: MS doing their best to slow down the adoption of Windows 11

"I can not think of any reasons for requiring a TPM 2.0 module that would actually benefit the users of Win 11 - can you ?"

Especially since Windows 2025 built upon the Windows 11 24H2 code base runs perfectly without it.

Oracle extends 19c database support to 2032, making it 'longest strategic release'

it is strange that Oracle 23ai capabilities such as OLLAMA requires GPU for speed, but neither exadata, nor ODA comes with GPU.

The preview packaged version Oracle 23ai virtual box image also does not support GPU forwarding making it very cumbersome to use AI with 23ai without an official on prem release.

Ubuntu upgrade had our old Nvidia GPU begging for a downgrade

Why does Liniux devs activly preventing Nvidia 390 running on newer kernels?

Poor.

Windows 10's demise nears, but Linux is forever

Re: Not always forever

1. Most "desktops" are laptops these days, and Linux can struggle with graphics drivers, wifi, sleep as well as deprecation.

2. If you need only a web browser, yes Linux can be an option for "desktop" usage.

3. It is still tinkarooland and finicky hunt for packages depending specific needs outside "firefox".

OpenZFS 2.3 is here, with RAID expansion and faster dedup

Re: Give ZFS another try

Most LVM:s can do it.

Spectrum Scale can do it..

Very handy for moving underlying storage while the application is up and running.

I remember being so frustrated when Sun announced ZFS, I felt they already had a much better FS in the form of SAM-QFS.

ZFS might be great for NAS boxes, but at the time we used Sun machines for active/active enterprise applications stored on SAN.

Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'

It is fascinating that Windows Server 2025 Desktop experience, built on Windows 11 24H2, does not require TPM nor 8-gen CPU, it runs happily on my Sandy Bridge (2nd Gen) Super Micro Servers.

Maybe we have to switch to Windows Server instead of Windows 11?

Microsoft confirms there will be no U-turn on Windows 11 hardware requirements

Many Intel 6 and 7 Gen Laptops support TPM 2.0 but remain unsupported to this day, for example Lenovo P50 and P51.

They run W11 perfectly well without this support today.

So I would read this as Microsoft is ready to support 6 and 7 gen systems with TPM 2. that is good new if true.

Who had Pat Gelsinger retires from Intel on their bingo card?

Re: Another one bites the dust

You really sat this one out...

Re: replaced ... by ... CFO

Again!?

Intel did so great last time? Bob Swan?

Microsoft flashes Win10 users with more full-screen ads for Windows 11

You may consider ZoninOS

Fujitsu claims 634-gram 14-inch Core i7 laptop is world's lightest

Funny Lenovo can't even fit RJ45 ethernet on their current workstation laptops, P1, P16 because the "connector is too large", and Fujitsu is launching the thinnest and lightest laptop with RJ45 included. What a joke on Lenovo.

Apple AirPods Pro 2 can be sold as hearing aids, says FDA

The Socialist Governments only give you a hearing aid for ONE ear, as stereo listening is not "essential". Then they might be old and bulky etc.

Hence the AirPods can serve to democratize stereo hearing.

Nvidia CEO brushes off Big Tech's attacks on NVLink network tech

I thought computex was a consumer conference, and speaking 2 hours without mentioning gaming seems wierd for an Nvidia CEO.

Microsoft catches the Wi-Fi 7 wave with Windows 11

Re: does anyone

You need to upgrade your AX210 to BE200 to enjoy Wifi 7. AS210 is only Wifi 6E.

Intel makes the BE200 an E-keyed card while many older laptops use A-keyed socket.

AX210 uses an A+E card which has broad compatibility with both A and E keyed laptops.

Many modern devices, that use AX210, unfortunately have soldered them down, hence making upgrades impossible.

This leaves a narrow band of machines that can make use of BE200. On the thinkpad line we have:

P1 Gen 1, X1 Extreme Gen 1 (Not Gen 2 onwards)

P52, P53

(Not the P15/17 Gen 1, CNvIO only)

P15/P17 Gen 2

P16 and newer are soldered.

Some other thinkpad lines like certain L-series might also be new enough to use E-sockets without soldering.

Chromebooks are problematic for profits and planet, says Lenovo exec

Lenovo Chromebooks sucks, I had a decent Thinkpad 13 chromebook, but later models are simply too simple or convoluted compared to the competition. Step up and put some effort into your offering.

Intel to rebrand client chips once Meteor Lake splashes down

Re: Need to get away from these names

In Sun terminology it started with SPARC, then SuperSPARC, microSPARC, TurboSPARC, HyperSPARC and UltraSPARC.

After Ultra they smarted smoking "Rock" and when Terminator 2 could not save them, despite a M rebranding, it headed south. Lets hope the historry does not repeat for Intel.

It is fascinating that Intel Decides to do an Ultra 5, 20 years after Sun Microsystems. maybe Oracle can sue Intel over trademark infringement?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01lp3vQ2VLs

FBI boss says COVID-19 'most likely' escaped from lab

If it were a lab leak, why didn't China offer an effective vaccine to profit on it?

There's no place like... KDE: Plasma 5.27 is out and GNOME 44 hits beta

One thing that instantly ticks me off, after 5.27 versions of KDE, they still can't get the number of processor right in the about page (first screenshot).

I would love to have a machine with 2x-i7-2640M CPU:s. That be something of a franken-machine.

Somehow I don't think QT 6.0 will fix the buggy KDE codebase.

How TSMC killed 450mm wafers for fear of Intel, Samsung

Re: Math, the tricky bit

But then it is not economical to waste 2.25x area for 2x yield. Anti-scaling.

GitLab plans to delete dormant projects in free accounts

Re: Desperate measures

Maybe the GitLab can agree with Web Archive/Wayback Machine to donate a frontend to off-load dormant code over there?

Win/Win..

I also fail to understand why "dormant" source code data would be expensive to maintan for GitLab. How do you attract project when there is a doubt about the longevity.

Lenovo halves its ThinkPad workstation range

Re: Can the new one use ECC RAM?

Intel have not released any 12:gen mobile HX chips yet, but i9-proessors from Alder Lake supports ECC!

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/codename/147470/products-formerly-alder-lake.html#@Mobile

Re: Intel Graphics

The reviewer compared the wrong Lenovo model, P16 comes with Nvidia GPU

If you need maximum cool, get an i5- P15 gen 1 or 2. It will not fail over nor overheat.

Article SPECS all wrong, you have copied P16s

Lenovo has a rather confusing lineup of machines, although for some time, there has been a slim variant of the workstation line denoted with an "s" which basically is a T-series with Quadro graphics.

Inadvertently, you have shared the specification of the P16s, not the upcoming P16, which will have up to Nvidia A5500 16GB dedicated GPU, NOT Intel Xe as standard, with an optional T550. Of course the P16 will also feature a 4k+ display option, not to mention the OLED Touch option with pen support shared in the press release.

If you write an article based on a press release, why not read it first?

Intel puts ‘desktop-caliber’ CPUs in laptops with 12th-gen Core HX

The power consumption numbers are absurd for a mobile device, it seems Intel are unaware of "efficiency" core meaning.

It just proves, given enough rope...

Red Hat gets RHEL 8.2 certified for high level US government security

Re: Common Criteria

RHEL 8.2 goes out of support 30 April, thanks good they got it certified before it was EOL:ed.

Dell creates portable workstation that meets Evo consumer laptop spec

Dell Precision 5470 looks to have some very interesting treats. I hope Lenovo can mash up something similar and not just "p14s".

Canon: Chip supplies are so bad that our ink cartridges will look as though they're fakes

Re: I guess a firmware update to remove the DRM functionality is out of the question?

Wow this is a very clear-sighted comment. I logged in just to provide a +1

SAP: Come to the cloud with us, we promise there's total accountability and lower TCO with lift-and-shift ERP package

"CFO Luka Mucic said at the time that the cloud model would increase customer lifetime revenue. "We are effectively expanding our share of the wallet," he told investors."

....

Saueressig (Product Engineering) meanwhile "committed to the total cost of ownership being lower in the cloud than comparable current payments."

CFO claims this will make SAP more money, Engineering, what wait a minute..

game over.

ZFS co-creator boots 'slave' out of OpenZFS codebase, says 'casual use' of term is 'unnecessary reference to a painful experience'

Master and Servants

Depeche Mode abolished slavery in 1984, so ZFS could have changed into Master and Servant, Domination's the name of the game.

Famed Apple analyst chances his Arm-based Macs that Apple kit will land next year

I thought most/all software you download is 100% CPU specific? (ie binary?)

Apple has a pretty poor track record of backwards compatibility, even dropping 32 bit intel support in the latest macOS, cost saving blunder. they could also have kept rosetta alive still. Maybe isolating those apps in container like technology to minimize security risks.

Most macOS specific software runs slower than under windows.

MacOS only supports AMD GPU:s.

Hence in this light moving to Arm might not matter much, because performance sensitive customer workloads would have used Windows anyway.

Re: Where are the benchmarks?

Geekbench is like bogo-mips, not sufficient to base any comparison on.

We all know if you want performance you need watts, so citing multi day battery life and passive cooling we all know what kind of performance to expect.

Going Dutch: The Bakker Elkhuizen UltraBoard 950 Wireless... because looks aren't everything

Am I having a flu or is there something weird about "A comfortable, pleasant non-mechanical keyboard"?

Time to burst out graphing: Get the Windows Insider experience... by taping a calculator to your monitor

The graphing portion of the calculator IS NOT open source, quite hilarious when you think about it.

"To that end, the UI from the official in-box Windows Calculator is currently part of this repository, although the proprietary Microsoft-built graphing engine, which also drives graphing in Microsoft Mathematics and OneNote, is not. Community members can still be involved in the creation of the UI, however developer builds will not have graphing functionality due to the use of a mock implementation of the engine built on top of a common graphing API."

Well the graphing portion of the calculator is NOT open source.. :)

T-Mobile US hacked, Monero wallet app infected, public info records on 1.2bn people leak from database...

The intel CVE is not just " a number of its more recent processors".. It looks to be everything manufactured for the past 12 years or so? Why so modest?

MacOS wakes to a bright Catalina sunrise – and broken Adobe apps

MacOS started pretty fresh with x86 back in 2006, hence it is a relatively new OS to begin with. Dropping 32 bit application support is really only a cost saving measure which should not be tolerated by Mac users. I would complain..

Stop using that MacBook Pro RIGHT NOW, says Uncle Sam: Loyalists suffer burns, smoke inhalation and worse – those crappy keyboards

Re: Customer service?

"With my 9month pregnant wife in our car breaking down in the boondocks I was able to determine we needed a new starter motor."

Presumably the engine was running at the time hence I fail to see how the starter could be the reason for the break down unless it doubled as a generator?

Stallman's final interview as FSF president: Last week we quizzed him over Microsoft visit. Now he quits top roles amid rape remarks outcry

Without emacs and RMS the world would be a boring.

Lights, camera, camera, camera, action: iPhone, iPad, Watch, chip biz in new iPhone, iPad, Watch, chip shocker

I watched the keynote.

Arcade with boring games at 4.99 and TV+ at 4.99, enough to cause a stir, unlikely cheap for apple offerings.

iPhone 11, Chinese looking lady talking excitedly, I liked her, she was likable somehow and demoing a new Chinese game that uses the GPU that you will be able to pre-order next month. A clear push to get iphone 11 into Chinese market.

iPhone 11 pro, American fella talking how PRO it is.. A clear hint that a true American should buy iPhone 11 pro.

Since all these offerings use the EXACT same dimensions and tooling as Xr, Xs, XS max I can see why Johnny Ives resigned. Absolutely NO update on the design front compared to last year. Only a new camera module and CPU.

The Xr got up to iPhone 8+ standard as it should have been from the start. Xr and 8 retained in the lineup but with a new gimped 128GB memory capacity as maximum size.

For me the standout is the wath always on display, (another given for a wathc you might think) and iphone 11. The pro model is just not for me as I am not into gaming. Unlike TheRegister, the ability to use both/all cameras at the same time, back and front will be a massive hit, is that also available on iPhone 8?!

Technology updates was fine, but ZERO deign updates. The Xr/Iphone 11 is still to thick/fat, then new iPad also looks too fat. The pro models are heavy.