Posts by EvaQ

Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on

Re: Quelle surprise

German, so not per se better but at least no Trump laws.

The last supported version of HP-UX is no more

Re: Makes me feel old...

"my first job out of university" ... me too.

At the university, in 1993, I used SUN workstations. Great stuff

Then, in 1994: military service. No computers, just filling out paper forms

In 1995, I started working: Windows 3.11 on the desktop. Brrrrrrrrrrrr: 1 - 3 OS lockups/crashes per day was usual. Luckily enough there was a HPUX system I could use for the real stuff that needed to be automatic and reliable. And HP support was serious and good.

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

“Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’”

... google hit: "There is approx. 50 Million lines of Code in Windows 10".

So hire 1 engineer, keep him/her working for 50 months, and ... done! Indeed in 2030.

Or: the pointy haired boss has a cunning plan, and he will hire 50 engineers, and expect it to be done in a month time.

Nice!

/s

Affection for Excel spans generations, from Boomers to Zoomers

Re: Excel is not bad

Excel (Netherlands) and IP addresses: Da Horror! But the fact that we use Excel to handle IP address is the proof there is nothing better ...

VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA

Re: Merger

> Around here, shedding a big chunk of their customer base to alternate providers, is the kind of merger that does get approved.

Are you sure?

Because EU merger & competition law: if a merger causes customers to go to alternate providers, it's proof there's competition, and it will be approved.

If a merger causes there is too little competion, and thus no / too little alternatives, the merger will be forbidden.

Re: Visions

> It is important for wise customers to focus on the quality, security, corporate strategy, and price of their vendors' offerings.

... and competitors' offerings.

Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators

First public routable Ipv6 addresses not starting with "2"

"reserve the 44::/16 bloc of IPv6 addresses"

... not starting with "2", so that might cause all kinds of "effects" in scripts and configs and routers.

So ... good to do it! Better now than later

VMware isn’t budging in its pursuit of Siemens for alleged unpaid licenses

"Siemens provided a list of the VMware software it used. That list, Broadcom alleged, mentioned many more products than Siemens had licensed."

Interesting! So VMware products don't phone home to tell the mother ship about their existence?

And I wonder if Siemens is happy they provided that list, because it seems to be the trigger of lawsuit?

Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver

OS/2 Warp was less than 40 floppy disks

... so 1000 USD per disk?

Quite expensive service?

Debian demands Rust or rust in peace for legacy ports

Re: Enlightenment

My question and assumption too.

So, as I understand it: This is something for distro builders and people self-compiling their debian OS. More specifically: people compiling the apt suite itself.

Correct?

Twist in Tesco vs. VMware case as Computacenter files claim against Broadcom, Dell

Lawyers will love this

What a mess. Lawyers will love this ... enough hours to bill.

Re: Broad con

LOL @ "Broad con". Nice!

Discord says 70,000 photo IDs compromised in customer service breach

Re: Wait until the politicians' details are leaked

There's a 'better' solution: an exception for politicians.

Just follow the EU Chat Control proposal: The scanning would apply to all EU citizens, except EU politicians.

The good news

"We take our responsibility to protect your personal data seriously " ... so then all's good!

/s

Microsoft agrees to 11th hour Win 10 end of life concessions

Re: What a fucking shitshow

'It was sold to me as "the last windows you will ever use"'

So follow that advice?

-- Sent from my Ubuntu.

Re: I wonder how they determine if you are in the EEA

"No doubt it will be verified by entering a credit card or presenting some form of official ID."

Credit card in the EU? Not often used. Also "just give us your creditcard for our free service" ... hopefully red flags for Joe user.

Official ID? I don't think that's allowed under EU law. Copying an ID is only allowed for certain organisation (here in the Netherlands): employers, banks, hospitals, government. Seeing an ID (and not copying) for some other.

So my guess is on geo-IP. And thus VPN to the rescue. But the amount of people using Windows10 and able to set up a VPN: a small percentage. But indeed useful if you're helping your (grand)parents.

Or ... KISS: Microsoft to also allow UK users.

Re: This explains a lot.

Happy wife, happy life!

OpenNvidia could become the AI generation's WinTel

Wintel ... good

Wintel brought standization. USB, UEFI, etc. Which was and is good. Also for running Linux on your X86.

Look at the mess in the ARM world, both mobile and laptop (Snapdragon, Apple Silicon). Everybody is doing something and something different. Ubuntu on Snapdragon is still not fully working.

Europe's largest city council delays fix to disastrous Oracle system once more

Re: £20m budget provision to support and run the system

> So at an assumed average loaded labour cost of £50k a year,

That's the cost for an IT person in the UK? Good for the employer!

It's the final countdown: Windows 10 hits end of support in less than 30 days

I'll probably get downvotes for this, but ... here we go:

"You can also pay $30 for a year of updates.": that's 10 cents per calendarday.

So ... is that bad? Extortion? Or a reasonable price?

I have no problem advising Windows 10 users (that need Windows) to pay that. I really hope their Windows setup has that value to them.

KPMG wrote 100-page prompt to build agentic TaxBot

Hire KPMG for your information security strategy!

ChatGPT finds "thousands of employees' credit card" => block ChatGPT

Good, good, good.

Much better then investigating why and how credit card numbers are on an accessible server.

Hire KPMG for your information security strategy!

Desktops and printers in coffee shops? Starbucks Korea tells customers to 그만 해

No desktops? Fair enough.

But how about typewriters? For the ultimate hipster?

Qualcomm working on datacenter CPU and in ‘advanced discussions’ with hyperscaler

Snapdragon X numbers

> over 100 laptops will use its PC processors by 2026,

I hope: 100 laptop _models_

> and added that the company has won around nine percent of the market for Windows laptops sold for $600 or more at US retailers.

Interesting. Is that the first time we see a number (percentage) on sales of Snapdragon X based laptops?

VMware prevents some perpetual license holders from downloading patches

Re: Arrest

because ... you think Rijkswaterstaat has no access?

VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out

But The Register consistently hears that many VMware customers plan to quit the vStack

> But The Register consistently hears that many VMware customers plan to quit the vStack

There is a difference between planning and doing.

Google Indonesia tangled up in $600 million Chromebook corruption probe

"a $600 million program that saw around a quarter of a million Chromebooks installed in schools."

... so that's $2400 per installed Chromebook?

If so, that smells fishy indeed

Telefónica Germany offloads VMware support to Spinnaker due to high renewal costs

Spinnaker *not* a recplament for VMware?

I don't know Spinnaker, so I asked google "is spinnaker a replacement for vmware?".

"No, Spinnaker is not a direct replacement for VMware. Spinnaker is a continuous delivery platform, while VMware is a virtualization platform. Spinnaker helps automate the deployment of applications across various environments, including those managed by VMware. Spinnaker can be used to deploy applications on VMware infrastructure, but it doesn't replace VMware's core functionality of virtualizing hardware. "

So ... can someone explain what Telefonica is doing?

Google slips built-in terminal, Debian Linux VM into Android 15 March feature drop

Chromebook with Debian Linux ... the GOAT

"On ChromeOS, we have found this to be a very handy feature. ... These days we use it to run the Debian edition of VLC for local music and video playback."

Me too!

I've got a Chromebook, which is rock stable and fast.

And I run a Linux Debian VM on it, for Linux command line stuff, and Linux programs like VLC.

Arm gives up on killing off Qualcomm's vital chip license

Re: Way to trash your brand!

Yes. Or ARM lawyers should do their work before signing contracts with starups and special non-transferable startup deals ... instead of complaining later on and then failing in court.

Windows 11 stages a comeback – still miles behind older sibling

what after October 14, 2025?

"Microsoft ends support for Windows 10 – October 14, 2025, is the end of support for most versions"

And then? With a billion computers on Windows 10, they can't just stop security updates? That would become the biggest bot network in the world.

So I expect that Microsoft will take care of import security updates on Windows 10

Fear of Foxconn reportedly driving possible Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi merger

Re: Not just Foxconn

Netherlands.

Nvidia upgrades tiny Jetson Orin Nano dev kits for the holidays

specs

From the specs:

NVIDIA Ampere architecture with 1024 CUDA cores and 32 tensor cores

8GB 128-bit LPDDR5 102GB/s

When I click on "Purchase Now" ... I get "This site can’t be reached"

Ingram Micro to 'stop doing business' with Broadcom, downgrade to 'limited engagement' on VMware

Re: Alternatives

With ... Proxmox? Nebula? ... ?

How are those migrations to alternatives going? I heard a lot of plans, but so far I only heard of Beeks' "Most of the VMs now run under OpenNebula". So are other companies migrating too, or just telling about plans, or just paying the Broadcam bill?

I can imagine technical people experienced in VMware want to stay on VMware as its their expertise.

Bold choice

"Resellers that don't have relationships with distributors other than Ingram will now need to make friends – fast."

Indeed. Bold choice of Ingram.

And now I'm going to listen to "Yah Mo B There".

Re: Alternatives

Keep us posted! I had a quick look at Proxmox, and it didn't look easy. So there might be a steep learning curve.

Alpine Linux 3.21: Lean, mean, and LoongArch-ready

Alpine Linux ... the mother of a lot of docker images

And yes, "docker run -it alpine:3.21 /bin/sh" ... works! And as it's extremely small, it's there within 1 or 2 seconds.

So very handy if you want to test a few things on a fresh Linux install.

China's homebrew Bluetooth alternative is on the march as Beijing pushes universal remotes

Re: Also A Good Argument For Feature Phones!

is that you with your spouse in the phone picture? Nice!

Gelsinger departs Intel with $9.7M handshake

I guess we should now shout it's disgustingly much ... but it seems OK-ish to me as it's based on his yearly salary + bonus.

In 2013, Mourinho received 20 Meuro when he was fired by Real Madrid. And in 2018 a nice 22 Meuro from Manchester United.

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

Arm isn’t more locked down. It's less standardized, and thus more open. There is no Wintel monopoly that defines how each device must work.

And that has pros and cons.

Fedora 41: A vast assortment, but there's something for everyone

no RISC-V? Yes, that too

... so that makes 58 varieties?

On my RISC-V SBC (running Bianbu OS):

~ sudo docker run -it fedorariscv/base /bin/bash

bash-5.2# cat /etc/fedora-release

Fedora release 41 (Rawhide)

bash-5.2# uname -m

riscv64

bash-5.2# uname -a

Linux 5233f20c2935 6.6.36 #2.0.2.2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 11 13:06:48 UTC 2024 riscv64 GNU/Linux

Windows 10 given an extra year of supported life, for $30

$30 ... how to be paid?

So how is my father/sister/neighbour going to pay that $30? To whom?

My father/sister/neighbour has no financial relationship with Microsoft. That Windows 10 was on the PC they bought 5+ years ago.

Cay they buy a license at online retailers?

Delta officially launches lawyers at $500M CrowdStrike problem

food for lawyers!

"its failure to modernize its antiquated IT infrastructure." ... interesting counter argument.

I think somewhere in the CrowdStrike EULA there is a clause their software is not fit for anything at all.

The lawyers are going to get rich.

Arm reportedly warns Qualcomm it will cancel its licenses

Re: Licence

"The problem I see is that if existing licenses aren't transferrable, then anybody who has such a license and has developed products or intellectual property with it cannot put any kind of a value on that IP or product design, as it would go away in any sale or merger."

Is that a problem? Not for ARM, I would say. It puts ARM in a very powerful position. A potential buyer then clearly knows he has to negotiate with two separate parties: the to be taken-over party, and ... nice & friendly & understanding ARM. And ARM can look into the pocket of the (big) buyer.

41-million-digit prime crunched by datacenter GPUs

GPU rental ... 2 million dollar

... Luke paid 2 million USD renting GPU's in the cloud to find this prime ...

IPv6 may already be irrelevant – but so is moving off IPv4, argues APNIC's chief scientist

Re: He should keep quiet and be thought a fool rather than open his mouth and prove it

"I wonder where those CDNs will get their IP addresses"

Assuming you mean legacy IP address, aka IPV4:

They buy them from ISPs moving their customers to CGNAT. And from parties (education) who suddenly find a few Block B's in a drawer now that the price is nice. But those sellers should hurry ... since 2023, the IPv4 price is dropping.

Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8 Elite with custom cores for Android phones

"flagship mobile SoC"

... so also usable for basic laptops? With Windows-on-ARM, but cheaper than the Snapdragon X?

If not: Why are that still separate families? I believe Apple has merged technologies

Western Digital releases firmware fix for SSDs blighted by Windows 11 24H2 BSODs

"BSOD" now an official word?

"... where the drive may cause a BSOD on Windows 11 24H2."

Funny: "BSOD" in official communication by a hardware vendor.

I checked, but Microsoft itself doesn't use it

Ubuntu turns 20: 'Oracular Oriole' shows this old bird's still got plenty of flight

On Ubuntu since 6.06

I'm on Ubuntu since 6.06. Before that Kubuntu ... but that didn't work on my Athlon64, so I switched to Ubuntu.

And before Kubuntu, I think I used Mandrake / Mandriva Linux, which was great too.

"the formidably hard-to-install Debian"

... oh, oh, I expect Debian lovers to comment!