Posts by EvaQ

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!

Linus Torvalds declares war on the passive voice

Linus himself: "nothing was learnt"

Linus on bcachefs PR: "That was just last week, and I'm getting the strong feeling that absolutely nothing was learnt from the experience."

... "nothing was learnt"?! As passive as possible.

Linus should eat his own dogfood!

CIQ takes Rocky Linux corporate with $25K price tag

Re: $25,000 for an annual subscription?!

I work at a multi-million dollar company, a lot is based on OSS, and I can tell we won't pay 25.000 USD for a Linux instance.

$25,000 for an annual subscription?!

$25,000 for an annual subscription?! For one Linux instance?

Wow! Which target group is willing to pay that? Banks?

Premimum Red Hat Enterprise Linux is US$1,428.90, so just 6% of that CIQ price?

Intel: Trouble draws private investors like vultures to a wounded giant

5 versus 95 billion?

Intel market cap is about 95 billion.

So what would Apollo get for 5 billion USD? A seat on the board?

Python script saw students booted off the mainframe for sending one insult too many

Python script in the early 1980's?!

... oh, Monty Python, not Python the language.

Data watchdog fines Clearview AI $33M for 'illegal' data collection

Maybe the Chief Legal Officer at Clearview AI should get some legal advice about GDPR.

Article: "Jack Mulcaire, Chief Legal Officer at Clearview AI, said in a statement sent to The Register: "Clearview AI does not have a place of business in the Netherlands or the EU, it does not have any customers in the Netherlands or the EU, and does not undertake any activities that would otherwise mean it is subject to the GDPR. This decision is unlawful, devoid of due process, and is unenforceable.""

Dutch DPA: "Among other things, Clearview has built an illegal database with billions of photos of faces, including of Dutch people." ... Dutch people, and thus subject to GDPR.

Maybe the Chief Legal Officer at Clearview AI should get some legal advice about GDPR.

Or not, but then indeed avoid visiting the EU. And watch out for an extradition request

EU officials say X’s paid-for blue check deceives users and breaks law

Re: Big Tech companies can be fined up to six percent of global turnover

I'm not sure if I understand you, but Meta did get an impressive fine in May 2023: "1.2 billion euro fine for Facebook as a result of EDPB binding decision"

Antitrust cops cry foul over Meta's pay-or-consent ultimatum to Europeans

who is "our"

'... Clegg wrote. "Our companies ...'

Who is "our"? It's written by a British person, working for a US company, about EU laws ... so I'm confused.

Record labels gang up to sue AI music generator duo into utter oblivion

business idea for the RIAA

If the music industry just acquires music generating AI companies ... they don't need those expensive artists anymore. Katsjing!

Meta won't train AI on Euro posts after all, as watchdogs put their paws down

"Meta won't train AI on Euro posts"

... so how about Pound posts?

Raspberry Pi stock surges after London IPO

"our mission to make high-performance, low-cost computing accessible to everyone."

Nope. A N100 NUC performances better, with the same cost as a Raspi including SD (brr) let alone SSD, power, case.

Chinese offer lower cost, with the performance

See Jeff Geerling's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjzvh-bfV-E " Is it possible to buy brand a brand new Intel N100 mini PC for less than a Pi 5? Yes! But is it better? Watch the video and we'll see..."

The niche markets for Raspi:

* industrial / embedded

* hacking where you IO ports

Arm CEO aims to conquer half the Windows world in 5 years

The bottomline is: is it in his targets?

If not, it's just wishful talking

Re: I don't get it

"I don't think anyone is going to trade compatibility headaches for a twenty percent discount on the hardware alone."

I don't expect compatibility headaches with mainstream software that is not (yet) ARM compatible ... thanks to emulation.

I do expect compatibility headaches with hardware drivers etcetera.

If there were a discount, it would be on the CPU alone. RAM and SSD and screen ... no discount.

But the focus of Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite seems to be on fast & longer battery ... for a high price. "Faster than and same price as <some expensive Mac>". Apple can sell and charge fanboys anything, but that is not how it works in the Windows world, IMHO

nice market = *niche market. Sorry!

Do you have a source for that 25%?

Article: "Today, around 8-10 percent of quarterly PC shipments are Arm-based, which is almost entirely Apple Silicon." So where do you get the remaining 15-17% from?

If your "Google" means Chromebook: A few years back, a lot of Chromebooks were ARM, but nowadays it's mostly Intel. So Intel has tackled that threat, probably by offering a price you can't refuse.

Note: Article is about Windows; see title. So the 50% is a bold claim. Even if you replace "Windows" with "PC/laptop", so including Apple and Chromebook. I like bold claims!

Whose problem are they trying to solve? AFAIK the Snapdragon X Elite laptops are well above 1000 euro. IMHO that is a nice market, and thus you won't achieve 50% overall market share that way.

Gamers do buy expensive laptops, but they still stick to Intel and Nvidia

I'm willing to buy an ARM laptop, as long as it runs Ubuntu, but with a pricepoint of 400-450 euro.

And NUCs are around 120 euro, including SSD and RAM and VAT. So good luck penetrating that market.

It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer

Re: 24,000 VMs

I expected "Computershare" would rent out ... shared computers, but wikipedia says "Computershare primarily provides stock registration and transfer services to companies listed on stock markets, but also offers technology services for stock exchanges, investor services for shareholders and employee share plan management."

So it's a financial services company? Then the number of VMs is indeed quite high.

CIO who dropped VMware 18 months ago now feeling thoroughly chuffed

non-native here

The meaning of CHUFFED is quite pleased : delighted

Linux 6.9 arrives, plus Torvalds indicates Arm64 will get a bit more love

Re: Ampere machine

Ah, just $3250, for 80 cores? Nice. Thank you.

Ampere machine

"I now have a more powerful arm64 machine (thanks to Ampere)":

1) why only now? Why not 1 or 2 years ago when they were released? If I were the Ampere product manager, I would have given Linus such a machine ASAP

2) any guesses what kind of box? A rack machine (2U, 4U), or a desktop?

Prof asks court to protect his Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension from Facebook's ire

so ... Zuckerman vs Zuckerberg.

Sounds like a Hollowood script.

EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy

well done, Register

"EU tells Meta" ... hurrah ... the Register is able to write "EU" in title when "EU" is meant.

Well done. Keep it up.

Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app

Re: Finally Euorpe united

So now writers comply with that and enforce the confusion?

"EU" is even shorter than "Europe", so I don't get it. Is it ignorance or laziness or a joke ... ?

Finally Euorpe united

including England, GB, UK, and Belarus .. one Europe

At least that is what the title suggests "Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain"

But seriously: how hard is it to write "EU gives TikTok 24 hours to explain"