Posts by penguin42

Raspberry Pi 3 to sport Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE – first photos emerge

CPC listing it

CPC's March 'computer world' edition landed today (not on their website yet) but it lists the Pi3B as '1.2GHz 64 bit quadcore ARM 7' (which seems inconsistent).

The detail says quad core 1.2GHz Broadcom BCM2837 CPU, 1GB RAM, BCM 43143 wifi&bluetooth le, 4xUSB2.....

All yours for £26.38+VAT; order code SC1401241

Firms must ensure shared service suppliers have 'sufficient financial resources'

That's interesting; I asked the PRA about this after I spotted that a lot of the small banks all use the same small building society to do all their IT (look at the mail headers you receive from them and the format of user IDs etc) and they told me (in July) that it wasn't a PRA issue, it was an issue for the FCA (who didn't really seem to get it).

El Reg Redesign - leave your comment here.

Switched to the mobile site

This is horrible; I've switched to the mobile site - on my desktop - http://m.theregister.co.uk/ - it still only uses 1/3 the width of my screen but at least I can see a sequence of headlines clearly.

Virgin Media customers suffer YET MORE YouTube buffering blues

Hmm yes, seen that here (Manchester/ on VM cable); it seemed to go for me if I flipped back to flash rather than html5; is this really VMs fault? I'm not sure they can be caching it, it's https

Virgin Media struck dumb by NATIONWIDE packet loss balls-up

I've had bill reductions for outages on Virgin; they're only at approximately the number of days a problem has carried on (or maybe one extra days worth); but in my experience if you ask after a particularly nastylong screwup they'll give you something.

The Lambda that ROARED: Amazon unveils event-driven AWS compute service

Cascades?

Ooh this sounds like it'll generate wonderuflly unintended cascades, of things triggering things that'll trigger things that'll trigger things that'll who knows what.

ICO decides against probe of Santander email spam scammers

Not just Santander

I had the same thing happen yesterday with a small building society; I'd never sent mail with that address, and the mail goes no further than a mutt on the mail server that receives it.

Personally I suspect spammers are getting addresses from sniffing backbones/major mail servers or AV scanning services.

But remember, generally email isn't encrypted over the wire - so gathering email in transit would be easy.

Micron takes on Intel with 'breakthrough' processor for streaming data

Neat but hardly general?

OK, I've read through their full paper - and it's interesting, I don't think it's going to do that much for general computing, but regexp stuff, hmm very neat - I mean ideal for trawling through intercepts at high speed,

or Layer 7 switch stuff perhaps, and I'm sure people will come up with funkier uses for it - but it doesn't sound a useful way to do really general stuff, and while there is a lot of talk about 'automata' this is more normal finite state stuff than anything too funky.

And since I really couldn't see any links in the Register's article, here are the two I found:

http://www.micron.com/~/media/Documents/Products/Other%20Documents/automata_processing_technical_paper.pdf

linked from http://www.micron.com/about/innovations/automata-processing