Posts by Vikingforties

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Re: Sounds like a minor chuckle at best

Don't downvote this unless you checked the reference. It's at least as likely to be referring to the slightly dubious novel and Clint Eastwood film of the same name.

UK names Barnsley as first Tech Town to see whether AI can fix... well, anything

More of the same

Microsoft and Cisco, just them getting out of bed and making a visit has gone through the £500k right there.

Unless they're involved as a loss leader for getting more punters hooked.

Sony no longer home of the Bravia as it plans TV biz spin-out to China’s TCL

CERN, hold my beer.

I held onto my (Sony) CRT telly for years into the flat panel age, if only for the fact I could say that we owned a domestic particle accelerator in the corner of the room.

Microsoft CEO: AI sovereignty isn't where it runs, it's who controls it

Re: How are those investments in Trump working out for you Nadella?

Unfortunately, if you're shelling out for propping up the US economy by NVIDIA 's magic beans then European cloud income and outgoings are probably more like a rounding error.

DARPA making low-hanging satellites that use air to move

Warp factor 4 Mr Sulu!

Please tell me it has Bussard Collectors!

Struggling to heat your home? How about 500 Raspberry Pi units?

Re: It's going to have to be a slot in replacement for a boiler.

"oily Pi cemetery"

Just for the pedantry, surely it would be a Pi mausoleum, since it's above ground?

Re: Less cynical than an older offering[1]

Not USA but this has been done in France for a while by a company called Qarnot: https://qarnot.com/en

They use 4kW "boilers" out at various sites with heat exchangers.

They're more in the business of directly selling their cloud compute / HPC now.

Colt gets greenlight for £2.5bn London datacenter splurge

Hot air on offer you say?

Given the fairly close locations, channel the waste hot air to the Houses or Parliament and give our hard working representatives some time off.

More widely (and seriously) I think DC heat recovery is a good idea let down by the lack of a planned economy to properly make use of it. Some downsides of planned economies, of course.

Is there any merit in DC builders becoming dual businesses? e.g. build a DC with a leisure centre next to it or a greenhouse complex.

From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world

Dammit Gelsinger!

So, he wants to improve the life of everyone on Earth. Fine, but that's motherhood and apple pie.

He also wants to hasten Christ's return. Selfish bar steward! I happen to be vaguely enjoying life and the last thing I want is some guy trying to bring tribulation, judgement and an eternity of pain or boredom on me and the family.

Re: Hold your horses there, Pat

Be careful what you wish for there. The apostles were commanded to go out and be fishers of Men.

SpaceX shows off progress on its lunar Starship

Time for a song

"Vonce ze rockets go up, who cares where ze come down?

Und I'm learning Chinese, sings Wernher von Braun."

Seriously, all this faffing about and marketing renders these days makes me seriously impressed with what was put together by quite a few nations back in the early space days.

Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe

Re: A good idea.

Or snake oil for that matter, if we're talking about foodstuffs.

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

Re: Took your time

More of a Hotpot's fan myself. C'mon Mek us a Brew!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aM1jQ8cIFuU&pp=ygUWTGFuY2FzaGlyZSBob3Rwb3RzIHRlYQ%3D%3D

Mind the gap – in mobile coverage: UK train signal to stay patchy till 2030

Re: Well here's a fine pickle

OneWeb Eutelsat.

They look to have been on quite a ride the last few years.

Well here's a fine pickle

Given that the UK has a spying and national security debacle running on at the moment, should we really be tendering out to the one LEO Comms company who's owner, by the evidence of his Xeets, seems not to have the UK's national interest at heart?

Maybe by the time the meetings and lunches are had there'll be others up there. What ever happened to that British / Indian satellite GPS company that Cummings was involved with whilst he was causing trouble?

British govt agents demand action after UK mega-cyberattacks surge 50%

Re: Short version

Yes but look on the bright side, we're toasty but with a tasty smear of marmite on top.

Vodafone keels over, cutting off millions of mobile and broadband customers

Seems to be back now. They've obviously found 50p for the meter.

SpaceX limbers up for Starship flight 11 as launch pad faces retirement

You'd think..

..that there's some corner of the payload bay that they could give over to micro gravity liquid transfer testing. Time's a ticking for all this talk of Moon and Mars.

My own liquid transfer trials --->

Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project'

But.....

You have the choice to install any app you want, says Google

(FROM OUR STORE)

Je suis Clippy!

The first rule of liquid cooling is 'Don't wet the chip.' Microsoft disagrees

FABulous

Make the chips in the Fab..... Then leave them in there. It's the only place clean enough to cool them now.

Intel talent bleed continues as Xeon chip architect heads for the escape hatch

Re: Chipchicken? Chickenzilla?

Fellow north of Englander here. I don't know about bits, they're called scraps around us.

... Scrapzilla?

VMware finally porting Cloud Foundation to Arm – in baby steps

Chicken and Egg.

That's a curious ambition, as Arm servers for mainstream enterprise users remain scarce.

A vast swathe of enterprise won't adopt Arm on prem if it doesn't have VMware and Broadcom won't hurry up porting it or putting carrots in front of sales if there's no estate out there to land on.

The UK Online Safety Act is about censorship, not safety

Re: Not for the children

The nuking's from orbit / space lasers continued*... Sodom and Gomorah.

And will continue*... the second coming, although you get to disappear mid activity in the rapture if you're "in the club".

* may not contain actual theology.

Brit watchdog pushes to rein in Microsoft and AWS with 'strategic market status'

Let's count the metaphors

1, Stable door, horse bolted.

2, Day late and a dollar short.

3, .....

Blocking stolen phones from the cloud can be done, should be done, won't be done

Re: Nice idea

Archibald Buttle/Tuttle anyone?

American science put on starvation diet

Re: Thicker than thick

"und I'm learning Chinese,

says Werner Von Braun."

The late, great Tom Lehrer.

Victoria's Secret website laid bare for three days after 'security incident'

No doubt their knickers will be in a twist.

Stargate to land its first offshore datacenters in the United Arab Emirates

Re: Since when is AI coverage based on distance?

Since it started sucking in everyone's power from the surroundings like some Star Trek 4 V'Ger for Whales.

What did they call that thing anyway?

Re: Ahh...

Could I suggest a modification of your Farage scale?....

0.01 Farages is pretty sound but 1 Farage is mad.

British govt agents step in as Harrods becomes third mega retailer under cyberattack

"Harrods, a globally recognized purveyor of all things luxury,"

I'll bet it's more globally recognised for other things these days.

The Telegraph jumps the gun on World War III

Re: “By mistake…?”

I know... and picking on such easy prey as the Torygraph. Shame on you El Reg, pick on someone your own competence next time ;-)

Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

...And for their next trick

Prepare for GPS part of GNSS to be switched off. After all we're all freeloading on their sat signals.

Laser-cooled chips: Maybe coming soon-ish to a datacenter near you

Balderdash & Piffle!

"that lasers often bring the heat when used in applications like welding, engraving, and blowing up Alderaan"

Everyone knows it was a plasma weapon that vapourised Alderaan.

China’s chip champ Loongson teases trio of new processors for lappies, factories, maybe servers too

Re: Good for the whole world

"Europeans should really consider making our own processor design"

We are and it's not going quickly - SiPearl is supposed to sampling Rhea 1 this year.

Newport Wafer Fab rebooted with £250M silicon carbide investment

Hmm

From one ultimate owner within a jurisdiction of honor and trust to another. I like the investment but let's see how this turns out.

VMware sues Siemens for allegedly using unlicensed software

You smell!

No! You smell!

No! You smell, with brass knobs on!

....

Seen it all before. I'll await the outcome with little interest.

On the 72 core minimum thing; Broadcom planning a 72 core chip any time soon?

Tesla Cybertruck recall #8: Exterior trim peels itself off, again

Waddaya mean!

"the adhesive joint may weaken over time" - the things hardly been out and it's dropping to bits.

Capita's Northern Ireland school IT deal swells to over half a billion after Fujitsu exit

Re: Here's a suggestion

... and hire some of those school leavers into small delivery companies and apprentice them into the DevOps, NOC, delivery, fixit, planning & admin jobs.

Frack to the future? Geothermal energy pitched as datacenter savior

Easy...

All Data Centres to move to Iceland. Copious geothermal energy being renewed below, plenty of cold air to keep the NVIDIA deep fat fryers temperate and expanding land area for a good 100 million years or so. Maybe even some privacy.

Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you

Re: Mmmm, pi.....

Thanks, have a beer. Good for Raspberry Pi 1 buster.

Do you DARE? Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing sovereignty

EU Spreading it's bets?

Early articles from the likes of the Next Platform had EPI funded SiPearl producing the HPC oriented Arm Neoverse V core Rhea chip by 2022, to be followed by Chronos. It's been put back to release this year... maybe. All very well having lots of projects but somebody somewhere needs to tape out and ship something. Happy to be enlightened as I don't follow this area terribly closely.

Watchdog fails to stop big vendor lock-in, say UK cloud market's smaller players

Re: The CMAS and AWS largesse

That's a Private Eye story right there, that is.

If true about the CMA being in receipt of AWS largess, should they not have recused themselves from the process?

I think the average person on the Clapham Omnibus can see there's a racket going on here.

Brit government contractor CloudKubed enters administration

Assets

Their marketing first word salad IP would have been a saleable asset a few years back but, sadly, AI has degraded it's value recently.

Aliens, spy balloons, or drones? SUV-sized mystery objects spotted in US skies

Re: Aliens...

You've got a little list?

They will none of them be missed!

(Up to date memes, direct from the nineteenth century.)

Fission impossible? Meta wants up to 4GW of American atomic power for AI

Re: Geothermal anyone ???

No joke icon needed. James Lovelock was asking for exactly that so he could go off grid.

Re: There''s SMRs, and then there's SMRs

Talk to France about reactors going rusty.

Broadcom loses another big VMware customer: UK fintech cloud Beeks Group, and most of its 20,000 VMs

Re: Trading pedigree?

Yes, he ended up with a "surprise" in a Gorilla suit.

A year after Broadcom took control of VMware, it's in the box seat

Hmm, as cloud repatriation is now very much a thing since the big hyperscalers decided (like Broadcom) to milk customers who can't easily move*.

* I know hybrid / multi cloud / multi vendor strategy... but people don't do that enough to curb the pricing.

With Granite Rapids, Intel is back to trading blows with AMD

"We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents."

That's it! Intel is painting a Bob Ross landscape in roadmap form.