Posts by razorfishsl

Open Compute Project testing is a 'complete and total joke'

Re: I don't think these guys understand...

I think you are confused........

This crap is being speced for use in cloud systems, it is hardly gamers and porn addicts using such cloud systems.

These cloud systems are being offered to big business by sales staff who do not give a toss about how it is implemented.

Software checks data integrity does it ?

At what level?

You going to check every byte that comes over the wire with software are you?

Are you even aware of how difficult 'de-dupe' is in software, your proposing running all the checksums and data integrality in software are you?

what happens when your program gets corrupted, you going to correct bit errors in ram the same way ?

There is a reason you PAY for a certain level of hardware, bit like the difference between an Intel network chip and one of those cheap offerings from some far eastern supplier.

You only have to read the specs for the hardware and the system design material to realize at a hardware level it sucks cock.....

and let's not even get into EMC & RFI testing.....

Infact I'm surprised they did not throw a few FPGA's in the design to show how hip and up-todate they were.

We tried using Windows 10 for real work and ... oh, the horror

Re: Move on there - nothing to see

you can say that........

but linux sucks ass in a business environment where you have customers using windows word & excel.

Azure Australia went TITSUP for about seven hours

Re: Yet again

They keep their 'up ' figures indefinitely, but service outages 'disappear' from their tracking after 30 days......

UH OH: Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi key with your friends' friends

There goes office security for customers, where you have your own corporate WIFI network and a guest WIFI for them.

Seriously who the fuck do these ass clowns think they are...

Having to add "_optout" to our SSID , why not having to add "_optin"?

It's like....... well... if you don't play our game we are going to fuck you and your infrastructure about as much as we can.

SEX-starved worm can GIVE HEAD to ITSELF to reproduce

One of the few animals that can realize its fantasy......

Boffins set networking record with marathon 12,000 km fiber data run

Re: 12,000 km at, for example, 0.4 dB per km

Learn the difference between logarithmic scales.

4800dB would possibly vaporize the planet...

Whoops, there goes my data! Hold onto your privates in the Dropbox era

Re: TLDR - Urgent

That is the funniest shit i've seen in a long time...... which why I like 'theregister'

Facebook SSD failure study pinpoints mid-life burnout rate trough

For every 10 Deg c you run cooler you basically double the life of a component....

This has been knows for over 40 years.....

Let us also be aware that no manufacturer is going to ship crap drives to a big outfit,.... they save that crap for the general public, so we can surmise this data is weighted badly.

Next up:

"Non-contiguously-allocated data leads to higher SSD failure rates"

how would they know that?

Unless they take the chips off the SSd and look at the actual data storage in the chip rather than thru the controller....

Just because you ASK the controller where it stuck the data in NO indication of WHERE it actually is on the chip surface or device, there is a mapping relationship.

So whilst the controller mapping may say :

"I stuck the data in blocks , 5 ,200, 70000"

the data on the chip may be at physical location 1,2,3

Also there is SIGNIFICANT research in read/write disturbance, which has shown that if data is written in contiguous blocks next to each on the chip surface, it seriously stresses the silicon and causes corruption of data in the surrounding areas.

Basically the reading /writing causes parts of the chip die to become electrically offset from the read/write amplifiers , resulting in the bit pair boundaries being incorrectly recognized.....

or to put it another way the playing field in no longer level due to charge buildup in a concentrated area, which incorrectly sets the 'floor' for the boundary recovery of bit pairs... compared to other areas of the silicon. like playing football up hill.

Blackhats exploiting MacKeeper hole to foist dangerous trojan

and so why does the regasster keep allowing mackeeper ads in the bars on the site if it is such a problem?

and from thier site:

"According to our internal investigation, nearly all of our total user base has received the security update."

Hmmmmm. how would they know that?

Disk is dead, screeches Violin – and here's how it might happen

Re: Genius

Also repeated reads.

The difference is that the failure model is very difficult to analyze, with disks you get a strange sound or other odd behaviour.

Loosing a sector in a disk is usually a warning sign, with flash loosing a 'sector' is 'norma'l behavior

making a catastrophic failure very difficult to track.

If you could get your hands on the shit that these chip manufacturers DON'T allow access to and require an NDA to see, you would get a VERY different picture.

Flash is NOT durable.... data loss potential is far higher than disk.

One point that is not mentioned... is than not only does writing decrease the life.... so does reading.

It also self erases faster and if the read amps go out of sync you loose everything.

Not to mention destructive 'cascading' issues, when you erase 512 bytes, you have to erase a full 'block', the contents need to be moved to another block, if that block fails then you find another.

This process can cascade and then you have no place to put the data you are trying to save, it is compounded by the fact that you CANNOT just overwrite a 'page' as in a normal spinning rust setup.

4 new twists that push the hacker attack on millions of US govt workers into WTF land

So... The NSA is spying on everyone and all data feeds?

Why did they not detect this, do they not have data analysts?

If they cannot spot one of the biggest hacks in the history of the US , it really says everything about their ability to target terrorists.....

How much info did hackers steal on US spies? Try all of it

The Real WTF here... is that it was stored unencrypted... despite the US supposedly harboring some of the smartest people in IT

Nobel bro-ffin: 'Girls in the lab fall in love with me ... then start crying'

This proves that boffins are socially inept.......

What sort of tit builds non-bird bird boxes? Vodafone

Re: improving cell coverage

Finally a direct line to Jesus....

This is fantastic news.......

No longer do I need to carry a lunch picnic box...

Vodaphone are installing pre-stocked microwave ovens...

Pheasant anyone?

Hey kids, who wants to pwn a million BIOSes?

Re: O RLY?

Yep that is complete bolox,

You will find that they have clearly defined "failure" in their updating procedure.

Possibly along the lines of " failure is when the device under update explodes"

In which case I have also NEVER failed in updating firmware.

For a fun afternoon, take a look at the Chinese abortion of h3c, they make updating as absolutely criptic as the possibly can.

They won't give a step by step procedure, incase you mess it up and sue them.

Facebook: Your code sucks, and we don't even have to run it to tell

Face book corrects thousands of bugs a month.........

Due to not getting to the root of the problem:

int name1 =0

String name2

Input "input your name", name2

If name2 = "bob"

name1 =1

endif

if name2="dave"

name1=232323

endif

# repeat as needed

....................

Anything coded in Filemaker

Config file wipe blunder caused deadly Airbus A400M crash – claim

You would think that the first thing any critical system would do is validate any config files with a checksum, BEFORE allowing the software to continue booting....

Apple to tailor Swift into fully open-source language – for Linux, too

Re: #available

Microsoft is gonna love THAT feature.....

The ability to include the code base of every product since the 8080

What's broken in this week's build of Windows 10? Installing it, for one

Re: This is what's known as a show stopper

So If there are 500 million installs of W10......., what's 20% other than the complete population of a number of countries....

and if it only costs each one $5.00 USD to correct the problem... how much has M$ just set mankind back......

Actually it's "stupid user syndrome".

some idiot invents some software and then some users install it.... later the OS maker decides on a buy out and incorporates it directly.... and the software..... some sort of photo utility that let's you take clearer pictures of your private parts to upload for the world to look at...

This is why no one would EVER leave the holo deck on the Enterprise.....

Your servers are underwater? Chill out – liquid's cool

Re: hard drives?

yes they do.....

Take a raid 5 array, run a rebuild.... and see just how much cooling they need.

Re: hard drives?

Since most drive heads require a layer of air to float, adding a viscus liquid is really going to mess things up.

not to mention the torque on the motor of grinding a disk surface against a liquid

Ricoh rolls out electrifyingly exciting RUBBER!

Rubber underwear, the new sheek.....

Script tool a Docker shocker blocker

whow and there we have it......

"The tool requires Docker 1.6.2 or later runs as a container with high privileges in order to ascertain the security integrity of other Docker containers."

an inbuilt portal to attack the systems in other containers.

Tossed all your snaps into the new Google Photos? You read the terms, right? ... RIGHT?

Re: Translation

Yep unlike 'real' medical practitioners, they wont be using the 'bottom bot'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3103115/The-robotic-BUTT-revolutionise-medicine-Patrick-lets-doctors-hone-skills-delicate-procedures.html

The rare metals debate: Only trace elements of sanity found

Ultimately when the sun expands it will all be recycled, including those stupid DODO remains and the pandas everyone keeps whining on about.

Chip chef Avago gobbles up Broadcom for $37 BEEEELLLION

Less diversity means serious problems ahead.

Large conglomerates start by cutting thins they deem not so important.

Heroic German rozzers rescue innocent lamb from sordid brothel

Childrens version -= Shawn the sheep

Adult version = Shag the sheep

Now Smartflash wants $1.6bn for its iTunes patents. Apple: You'll get nothing and like it!

The US brought this upon themselves.

PEAK PC: 'Most' Google web searches 'come from mobiles' in US

This has more to do with the invasive systems in the mobiles than with human based searches.

Zuck'ed up: Facebook opens up free internet in India – but bans HTTPS

let us rape your data feed.......

Shields up! Shields up! ASTRONAUTS flying to MARS will arrive BRAIN DAMAGED, boffins claim

So put all the shielding around the head during the journey.......

Three very small head units are going to have less of an impact that trying to do the whole craft....

Rearrange the craft design to radial, so all the heads point towards a central core with the controls, instead of trying to build classic 'airplane' designs and for god sake get rid of all the windows....

Major London rail station reveals system passwords during TV documentary

Re: Remote Access?

Or maybe... if you are in the station near the control room you can pickup a suitable WIFI network...

I know of at least one major ISP that propagates 172.16-31.x.x data packets both in and out of their customers equipment...... and I have seen where a DNS server on 172.18.33.x in another customers equipment is used to service DNS requests on 172.18.66.x in a secondary installation.

Yes it won't work once the IP address is allocated (depending on the subnet mask), but you target this stuff a bit at a time and there are 'loop holes' in the most unexpected of places.

Ahhh yes.....

Anyone remember the BBC micro fiasco, where the presenter could not get his username and password correct.

Ended in typing in in so slowly that every viewer watching the episode knew his password...

Then some started to exploit it.....

Intellectual property laws in China, India are flawed, claims US govt without irony

The real issue is the Dumbass Yanks allow all the students from foreign countries to study at US universities and have work placement in IT companies.

Then they cry about their IP being ripped off.....

Microsoft: Profit DECIMATED because you people aren't buying PCs

Yes.. and that is why we are getting analised over 365 & one drive

Intel has ambitions to turn modems into virtual servers and reinvent broadband

What could possibly go wrong!!!

Google guru: Android doesn't have malware, it has Potentially Harmful Applications™ instead

It is like 'Porn' we all know it when we see it, and there are many subcategories.

But pornographers like to have it classified differently so that can use legal loopholes, a bit like google.

We all know they are upto the same shit, but now they can re-classify their shenanigans as something else.

Bigfoot now visible in commercial satellite images

Terrorists can also use technology

Strange radio telescope signals came from microwave ovens

Re: Aliens, Microwaves?

Have you found the 'secret' blue light that sits by the drip tray yet?

London man arrested over $40 MILLION HFT flash crash allegations

Re: meh

That is not correct.

There are a number of things you can do to with HFT, including looking at the raw binary data as it passes thru your custom logic , whilst others have to pass it up thru layers of network cards, software and operating systems.

Thereby giving you the edge on a trade THEY are about to execute, so that you can out trade them.

Then there is the ability to deliberately spoof the market , all under the 'guise' of test orders and all perfectly legal, specifically because the markets have specific binary data to allow such things.

Just to the poor scum plebs it looks like real orders because you don't pay for the tagging information.

go check this out:

High Frequency Trading Acceleration using FPGAs :'Christian Leber, Benjamin Geib, Heiner Litz'

or

http://www.hoti.org/hoti20/slides/Lockwood_AlgoLogic.pdf

plus certainly read "flash boys" By Michael Lewis

Purple strain? Purple gain: WD doubles cam count for spy drives

WD = overpriced reconditioned crap....

Buy 'server quality' drives, guaranteed for 5 years .... watch them die in two, then spend the next 3 years with someone else's reconditioned tat.

Plus have to wait 4 weeks for the privilege of having a unknown drive shoved into your company raid system.

So far out of 10 drives , I have Dec-Mar one a month failures, March was a bit late but i'm expecting April & May together.

PHYSICS APPLECART UPSET as dark energy disappears, Universe slams on brakes

notice that there is only an absolute minimum temperature, not an absolute maximum

Therefore entropy is infinite... without an upper boundary or maximum.

Finally.....Proof thew universe is only 6,000 years old.

Queue massive revival in bible bashing minions

Eyes on the prize: Ten 23-24-inch monitors for under £150

Please don't make me laugh with the AOC 'quality' stand....

That is why I only pay 80 quid for them.......