Posts by NeilPost

Banks talk big cloud game but few have migrated over 30% of apps

I’d personally prefer for my Bank Info not to be with a Cloud Provider, even single tenant/private compute services.

Same for all manner of other GDPR areas. Health, Financial, Legal, Personal, Tax etc.

Google opens the pod doors on Bay View campus

Re: Air volume?

Like most vast open plan office spaces - agreed this one looks like an airport terminal which will make it even worse - the Smart Climate Control HVAC will never work on practice.

Seat #1 too hot, seat #2 too cold etc….

Lots of fun for property maintenance.

Re: Design

It looks like some weird African souk with canvas sunshades and just loads of standard work pods on the floor.

Uninspiring… though hat tipped to the eco-features.

The ‘substantial contributions’ Intel has promised to boost RISC-V adoption

Re: "vowed to do what it can to make the open-source RISC-V ISA worthy"

There is nothing noble about Intel’s actions. Fox in the hen-house territory.

1. Emulate Samsung/TSMC with being the supply chain to drive volume, expertise and revenue

2. Undermine ARM

15 years too late mea culpa from the Ideology driven sale of XScale business in 2006.

Only Microsoft can give open source the gift of NTFS. Only Microsoft needs to

Re: It's the same old story with Linux - it's just one more thing

As a point of clarification… very few people in Iraq (and Afghanistan) were killed by coalition forces. The majority of deaths were down to post initial invasion/victory Moslem on Moslem Shia/Sunni sectarian violence, fiefdom building and religious nut job Mullah’s with their own private militias and outside interference by Regional Powers (Iran/Saudi).

Sorry if that’s inconvenient to your agenda.

That being said the lack of any post inevitable victory nation building strategy will be Blair and Bush’s fault. The lack of putting Hussain down post Gulf-War #1 is also under scrutiny.

RISC-V needs more than an open architecture to compete

Intel Schadenfreude

The bitter irony left unsaid in the article is that Intel were the market leader in ARM processors with StrongARM and XScale which they flogged for a pittance to Marvell in 2006 to double down on ultimately fruitless x86 ‘low power’ aka Atom.

XScale running many a Dell Axim, Compaq IPaq, HP PocketPC Smartphones and other mobile devices in the very months before Apple bonded MP3, PDA and Phone together and the true Smartphone was born.

Lithium production needs investment to keep pace with battery demand

Re: Sod electric cars

Melting point of Lithium is 180.5°C. Boiling point of Lithium is 1342°C.

Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests

Re: Tricky technology

Yes… I can with great certainty predict they will cut the Roundabout against the flow of traffic and into my vehicles path outside the Hermes Parcel Depot in my town.

I can also predict about around 50% of them have no cycle lights at night in general too.

Your Vehicle Assist needs about another 25 years in development to bake this nonsense in.

(Our) hardware is still key in a multicloud world, Dell ISG chief insists

VMWare

“ (Our) hardware is still key in a multicloud world, Dell ISG chief insists”

… so why did you flog VMWare then ??

Financial giant Santander: 80% of our IT infrastructure in cloud

Cheque Scanning

You still can’t image cheque deposits on their app yet…. so off to Starling Bank I went.

Phishing operation hits NHS email accounts to harvest Microsoft credentials

Re: Yawn

Hey who isn’t tired and overworked.

As a NHSnet user, it’s completely against the AUP to share credentials … esp. as it’s a safe place to share healthcare, safeguarding and PREVENT information which has special consideration under GDPR.

Re: Let's move ALL medical people to the one email system...

Yes I would think like my GP surgery ….. bugger all chance of being able to send them an E-mail or communicate in any way via the Patient Access App that interfaces to their Patient Administration System (PAS).

Re: Correction

NHSMail .. provided by Accenture to the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBA) … a monolithic central unit providing core shared services to Trusts etc across the devolved Nations (and England) use.

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/

Microsoft, Apple, Google accelerate push to eliminate passwords

… or more rudimentary if your hands are wet…. Like say outside when raining.

But a Password Manager does all that heavy lifting for you. Indeed you don’t need to know the passwords, but have access to them if required. Microsoft Direct Access VPN - tied to an AS Integrated 2FA PIN works well too.

That being said I generally prefer (Phibe based) Two Factor Authentication (2FA) whether Google or Microsoft Authenticator, Okta Verify, Fortinet Token, Apple Sign in…. though the all your eggs in one cloudy basket hack at Okta irony is not lost on me.

Twitter buyout: Larry Ellison bursts into Elon's office, slaps $1b down on the desk

Re: Dickheads?

Point 1 is a bit off, as PayPal know-how was acquired and merged into another business creating what we know know it as. To say Musk Created PayPal is not entirely accurate.

That being said @elonmusk … you can count on me for £GBP25 in cash, £100 in Tesco Clubcard vouchers and a packet of Toffo’s to add to your war chest

BT signs deal with AWS with aim of speeding up digital transformation

Re: Supercharge BT and drive its return to growth

Having worked for BT … it’s truly does not. BT Privatisation was almost 40 Years ago.

It does have a large regulated business rump however operating within the constraints Ofcom Regulations, The Telecommunications Act law and Universal Service Obligations (no other competitor has) exert on it.

Re: Supercharge BT and drive its return to growth

Being fair it… it was analysts, deal grubbers and morons that twisted BT’s arm into disposing of Cellnet (now O2) many a moon just before the mobile market exploded in growth and … reversed that decision with the acquisition of EE.

BT were also denied sticking fibre everywhere by Thatch wanting to open the market to US cable … which turned out really well.with the ultimate bankruptcy of NTL-Telewest and creation of Virgin Media out of that mess.

BT Sport/TV - like Virgin’s push to compete with Sky on content with Virgin 1 etc - was always a half assed job. Ambition exceeded the pockets made available to fund sports rights deals and worry Sky Sports with a true competitor . BT Sport will ultimately be flogged - at the next cycle of growth/diversification followed by refocus on core activities - to Fox or ESPN Sports.

Google cancels bi-annual performance reviews, shifts to GRAD system

Re: Demoralising

They wouldn’t really have reflected all the extra work/info as it would have been irrelevant and not related to the goals you were being measured against.

UK's state-owned bank launches hunt for core systems worth close to $1b

Or like the one in my local Co-op open 6am-10pm, 7 Days a week. Same as the core store hours. Also an Amazon Collect Location so what’s not to like.

Datacenters in Ireland draw more power than all rural homes put together

Re: gotta be the crypto mining

Plus the Data Centre Hosting fees.

Although crypto-mining is not ecologically sound … spinning AWS or Google Cloud up to do your mining sounds like a straw-man/blame the boogy-man argument.

Far better to use malware and other peoples ‘free’ home CPU cycles.

Re: So 35% of elec is residential

It’s rather a meaningless broad-brush sound bite as in Southern Europe many-many more rural properties will run Air Conditioning than in Ireland, have outdoor pools than in Ireland, how much solar/wind generation is in the counties by comparison. How does far colder winters in Scandinavian counties or Mountainous regions in Europe affect the electricity use profile, what actually are the different home heating profiles - gas, oil, solid, electricity ?

This report is vaguehand-waving bollocks..

AWS a bright spot in subdued set of Q1 results for Amazon

Retail

Yes, Microsoft shuttered their struggling retail operation that never made a profit.

I don’t see why anyone would want to break AWS away??

Apple and Intel likely the first to use TSMC’s 2nm node in 2025

Sounds like Intel still have a truckload or catching up to do if they are at the head of the queue to use TSMC’s 2nm fab…. despite the flowery language coming from Gelsinger.

UK government preps tech suppliers for £8bn mega framework

Re: Have the pigs been fed?

Why is there not just 1 straightforward Govt purchasing framework ??

Why does the CCS need to take a back-hander/rebate on every purchase?? Just negotiate the deal and then simply fuck off and stop being like a self-serving corporate procurement division.

OneWeb inks deal to launch its LEO satellites from India

Flog OneWeb

Surprised BoJo hasn’t flogged OneWeb to Amazon so they can catch-up with their Starlink competitor… yet to get off the ground.

Racist Brexiteers won’t like that.

Anyway, the initial problem can be resolved with white Ukrainian refugees before opening the floodgates to mass Indian Visa free work.

Re: Performative Johnson in India

Can you imagine the Gammon Brexiteers faces when BoJo signs a deal for Visa free access to the U.K. for Indian Tech, Health and Social care, warehouse and farm workers.

That’s the prize India is holding out for despite your sound bites of JCB factories in Gujarat, British Apple Exports and ‘really good prices’ of Wind-Turbines.

Re: Inks Deal?

I’m guessing the Governments around the world are the only people still ‘signing’ deals - with the photo/rolling news opportunity- as everyone else will be using DocuSign (other eSignature solutions are available).

COVID-19 contact tracing apps were suggested as saviors. They sometimes delivered

Re: Time travel - missed opportunity

perhaps *living in NZ* is a good start on that, and the experience of how the app shaped life choices and descision making.

Elon Musk's latest launch: An unsolicited Twitter takeover

Re: Money can't buy maturity

Although I never did Latin, everything I have found says caveat emptor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveat_emptor

Perhaps you went to an inferior school with your prickly - but suspect - grammar correction.

Romani ite domum

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0lczHvB3Y9s&vl=en

Intel commits to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040

CO2 capture via trees and growing stuff - GOOD

Giga-scale Chemical Engineering Carbon Capture and Storage is mad-scientist SciFi Terraforming nonsense… where the efforts and investment would be better spent on home insulation, efficiency and reduction in carbon-based fuel and electricity consumption to gain the same effect.

For example buy everyone an ultra-efficient single cup water boiler/dispenser rather than suck up the CO2 from hundreds of millions of electric or hob kettles. (Self evidently recycling the old dirty kettles).

Funded home insulation programmes etc.

Re: It’s a Scam

Well these guys are. In the same El Reg mail. Perhaps you missed it.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/13/climate_mit_fortran/

Are you perhaps ignoring the model completely to the n’th degree as opposed to making reasonable assumptions based on prior data and modelling so their model works to a degree of certainty but with margins of error..

Science - when it come up short or is in error or models don’t work - self-corrects… unlike Republican’s, anti-vaxers, climate change deniers or Brexiteers.

Re: It’s a Scam

“ The climate is so vast it is impossible to model.”

Calling bullshit on this …on behalf of climate modellers and meteorologists around the globe … and their supercomputers.

Re: Why is this HOAX still being treated like it is RELEVANT?

Yes…. about 99% of combined Global Scientific Consensus.

I stand with them, rather than your scattergun Whataboutery.

Japan seeks to decentralize datacenters

U.K. should do the same

U.K. should do the same.

How much is crammed into (eye-wateringly) expensive Dockands. As reported by El Reg with Telehouse spaffing £1/4bn *just refurbing* to a DC a former Thomson Reuters building for their 5th Datacentre in London Docklands.

USA is the same with a disproportionate nimbler crammed into WV.

Dell trials 4-day workweek, massive UK pilot of shortened week begins

Re: There s no way to buy more time

Excludes you from doing generic Work in the US that could compete with US workers for the same generic employment.

It does not stop you doing your *existing* British domiciled work, - even for US clients - just from there.

Intel R&D campus key to comeback plan gets $3b boost

Level Playing Field

Aka realising your beancounters interfered with your R & D spend, and global supply chain foundries embarrassed your with being able to do - at reliable scale - what you can’t do for just yourself internally.

Any chance of an admission your 2006 sale of XScale/StrongARM was strategically as catastrophic at a board level as you can get. Esp. as it was driven by X86/X64 mobile hubris still trying to deliver.

HSBC taps IBM to explore quantum for financial applications

Digital Secure Key

Could they use the Quantum AI to diagnose and resolve their shite Digital Secure Key for Current Account customers to stop it locking out so often and involving a frustrating bank visit or tedious Helpdesk call where as your Digital Secure Key is locked out it’s painful to verify your identify and reset the Fucking thing. Esp’ painful on a phone migration.

Man arrested, accused of trying to track woman using Apple Watch attached to car

It sounds beyond credibility…. Over and above the battery will barely last a day or so or if you get it wet, Apple will weasel on the warranty.

Far better to superglue an AirTag somewhere innocuous…. Not that I ‘m trying to encourage it.

Telehouse adds fifth datacenter to Docklands campus in London, UK

London Financial Latency

I do not buy the Low Latency London Financial District connections either.

If that was the case, the smart people at Standard Life would have been agile (or just present and awake actually) and sold a number of questionable stocks on the run up to Covid lockdown and got out to Cash (or lock-down resistant stocks and bought again at the bottom of the market - for my pension management fee.

It was not miliseconds it was about the 4-6 weeks where anyone with any common sense could see where it was going … and a 20% spanking to my pension was the result. Took 18 months to just recover to parity.

Re: Is that wise?

As AWS illustrate, you don’t need to spaff money up the wall on massively expensive property in Docklands to have a ‘London Region’ Datacentre.

A £1/4bn refurb. Yikes !!!! That’s insane.

HP bets big on future of hybrid work with $3.3bn Poly buy

Laptop, large screen (possibly a very large TV on a wall), some AirPod’s or similar.

The rest is approaching free, or low cost if you want VOIP over it like Ring Central (conferencing built on Zoom Tech).

Or just buy a Facebook Portal.

TSMC, Samsung want slice of America's $52b chip subsidies

It will end up with more US plants or R & D for Samsung and TSMC… akin to you either fairly offer subsidies and incentives to Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Subaru, JLR, BMW or you technically stifle your market with barriers which are reciprocated elsewhere. Look at the US technically advanced car/SUV/pickup market v’s the very localised big trucks (though ironically much are now globally owned by Volvo or Scania anyway).

Last I was in the US it seems the consumer LOVE buying American made Jap (and growing South Korean) vehicles.

RIP: Creators of the GIF and TRS-80

Re: Even though I disagree on his pronounciation

Ginger with hard G’s is valid.

(British English) Pejorative, when describing Ed Sheeran or Prince Harry as ginger bastards.

Testing for COVID with the sound of a cough? There’s an app for that

Re: Are they only testing for fake coughs?

Quite. It’s not a guaranteed symptom.

As with LFT’s - fit for purpose and certification for SYMPTOMATIC patients - they can only capture people who they have been designed for.

Hooking up to Starlink might be pricier than you thought

Because they are very good at blowing rockets up?… whilst the technology evolved/beds into being ‘production’.

Whereas Soyuz/Ariane/Delta are proven reliable workhorses and - Ukrainian Invasion aside - something you can rely on.

Nvidia CEO: We're open to Intel making our chips

Live off the Supply Chain

As Samsung demonstrate year in, year out you can make a good living just ‘being the supply chain’… which is good baseload for your business, drives economies of scale, has some bitter irony for companies like Apple needing to use them. It’s also good if your own products have a lean year or an unforeseen hiccup - Note 7 debacle comes to mind.

I think it’s an impossible task for Intel however as they can barely fab the leading edge for themselves. Culturally and practicality.

Outsourcing firm Serco wins £212m UK Test and Trace deal

They would be better chucking the money at retooling Imperial College’s REACT surveillance, so you are for-warned about what’s landed on your shores.

If they want effective T & T… buy off the shelf from Taiwan Government.

What works is

Surveillance

Containment/Restrictions

Vaccination

Gradual and measured return to normal

Help the rest of the world deal with it to minimise variants being generated

.. as Taiwan demonstrated by few deaths, few hospitalisations and no real lockdowns.

OVHcloud datacenter 'lacked' automatic fire extinguishers, electrical cutoff

Have you visited an AWS, Google or Azure DC??

(A video on YouTube does not count).