Posts by anonymous boring coward

IBM Cloud stops signing and seeking new customers for its VMware service

Re: "VMware will lose 35 percent of the workloads it manages [in 3] years"

Riiight...

So, this is how it works:

* You can INCREASE anything (that's scalable) by 100%, 1000% or whatever.

* You can never DECREASE anything by more than 100%. So Trump, the confirmed idiot, can't decrease prices by 1000%.

* You can UTILISE anything up to 100% (so in sports, you can never perform above 100%).

This is what happens when you put a sociopath CEO in charge. Sociopaths don't understand how normal people think. This has been proven in studies.

Google says reports of a Gmail breach have been greatly exaggerated

To be fair to Google, 183 million accounts is nothing to them.

How Windows 11 is breaking from its bedrock and moving away

Of course, but the emulation layer would then also have to provide a transparent and bug-free layer for 3D acceleration, and that's not often the case. Not sure if Apple has done this well. as I haven't tried any serious games on the M1 yet. I know that platform-agnosticism is coming along though, so this may well work better nowadays. (You have the Steam systems, for example.)

"Didn't NEED to be, but it was so fast emulated x86 performance on M1 Macs was comparable to native x86 performance on the Intel Macs they replaced."

Yes, but I'm not so sure this holds for actual 3D graphics games? Spinning on the CPU is one thing...

I run Windows 11 (ARM version) in Parallels on an M1, and it runs native X86 software. It's quite fast and responsive too.

If Apple and partners can do it, so should MS be able to. If they only had the will. I suspect they are still in bed with Intel, however.

Pentagon decrees warfighters don't need 'frequent' cybersecurity training

WTF should a general's physical fitness matter?

So stupid. What about the Commander in Chief? I'm pretty sure he's very unfit, in every possible way.

Re: Very strange

How's Trump, the Putin licker, doing? Demolishing the WH now?

Re: Very strange

Only Pootin sends unprepared soldiers out to die for nothing. On horses now, no less.

"Beards, body fat, and cyber refreshers now frowned upon"

You forgot "brown skin".

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

Computacenter may have go sue Broadcom in turn. Getting the popcorn ready...

Re: still cheaper

"still cheaper

than the cloud"

Who says "the cloud" it the only option?

Re: Tesco will be apoplectic

I'm pretty sure Tesco is leaving VMWare. It's just a question of suitably punishing Broadcom while doing so (and pocketing something from it).

Good on Tesco!

Re: Tesco will be apoplectic

Glad to hear that Tesco has the technical chops to do this. Not all companies, even large ones, have enough in-house expertise.

Making yourself totally dependent on external expertise isn't a good recipe for long-term success.

Re: Support costs

That sounds more like petty revenge. Not that I care what sugary condiment they want people to put on their excuse for food.

Who gets a Mac at work? Here's how companies decide

"He said that most of his employees get Dell Precision workstations that cost around $1,200, while the MacBooks cost his org between $2,400 and $2,800, which is more than double the price."

I guess they didn't factor in the medical bills for the employee who has to lug the Dell around? (Paid by the employee, or the health care system (taxes).

Windows 10 refuses to go gentle into that good night

Re: Buh-bye, MS

Mass migration is always a possibility.

LOL, yes. Got the message in the 80s.

Re: Untested workarounds

Seems to support Mac. Ask if you can move any license to Mac, unless already permitted.

A Mac Mini M-anything will smoke most Intel stuff, just get enough RAM. Not to mention higher end M-somethings.

Re: Untested workarounds

Let's be realistic here. Government officials enjoy vey nice kickbacks for any closed deals with large software vendors.

Re: EUS is available for free for a year for non business users

Oh, a whole year?

Wow.

Google goes straight to shell with AI command line coding tool

I wonder if AI will quickly realise it can solve all its problems using "rm -rf /*?

Hacked Ford screens put anti-RTO slogan above CEO’s face

They shouldn't waste time on probing the hack, Use the time instead for introspection of their nasty policies.

Ransomware scumbags say they deleted kids' info after other gangs called them out

Oh, they are so "honorable". Never contemplated that children can be directly affected by their scumbag actions towards adults.

Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it

Running "strings" on software can reveal a lot of things.

Struggling to heat your home? How about 500 Raspberry Pi units?

If electricity was cheap I would consider it.

Sadly electricity is several times more expensive than gas per energy unit in this (UK) country.

Energy drink company punished ERP graybeard for going too fast

Some of the most absurd micro managing I've heard of!

UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost

What a surprise...

Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progress

"At least Vikings didn’t pretend to be offering monastery renovations and smart haircuts when they turned up."

So remodelling and scalpings don't count?

Nothing to see here: Brave browser blocks privacy-busting Microsoft Recall

"wants"

Thanks auto correct, always so useful.

Who TF wan't this recall crap?

I just deleted my entire social media presence before visiting the US – and I'm a citizen

Re: What happened?

Well, USA wasn't as stupid back then. The explanation is quite simple.

"as pointed out in another comment, having no social media presence might itself look strongly suspicious."

Really?

Re: I guess you really dont know how this stuff works...

"she was also incredibly stupid and naive in her actions"

Sure. Just being a normal human being expecting normal human rights. Definitely deserves punishment. Not just being turned around. Oh no.

I wonder which frog is slowly getting nearer to the boiling point?

Re: I guess you really dont know how this stuff works...

I guess all this "without due process" stuff is quite normal then?

Good to know...

Re: I guess you really dont know how this stuff works...

But doesn't it make you just a little bit annoyed that you have to do a "yes massa" routine to avoid being targeted with punitive actions at the border?

Sure would annoy me, which is why I'm not going to USA any time soon.

Re: Shocked and Appalled

"Um, you're shocked and appalled that downloading a binary file doesn't create a duplicate of the original?"

Ehh isn't that *exactly* what it does?

I've never heard of a system that transport physical bits over a wire.

Isn't "fascists" accurate enough?

Re: wtf

Larry David had a couple of episodes of "Curb" with this theme.

Re: The land of the free^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbullshit

Check the news.

Re: No social Media presence

Of course it's much, much safer going to China.

Haven't you kept up with the news?

This was how the Internet, WWW and democracy was supposed to work, for sure...

Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed major Russian drone maker's entire network

Again, I question the actions taken here.

Why not keep it infiltrated instead, and change and inject stuff that makes the drones fail?

Army and Navy have both asked for right to repair, now Senators want to give it to them

If only the meek and easily led consumers could show some back bone too.

Here in Europe we had some consumers' interests organisations, but I'm not sure what they are doing now.

Chap claims Atari 2600 'absolutely wrecked' ChatGPT at chess

The one thing AI is good at is making up excuses.

Huawei chair says the future of comms is fiber-to-the-room, which China has and the rest of us don’t

I have FTT-house. Guess I'm missing out with only Gigabit Ethernet once inside?

I feel my productivity would be vastly improved with FTTR, and wifi won't be an issue. I guess I'll forego the benefits of wireless, and just have a FTT-laptop?

A bright new future, indeed!

Netflix, Apple, BofA websites hijacked with fake help-desk numbers

If you can get through on the phone, you'll have to assume it's a scam.

The AIpocalypse is here for websites as search referrals plunge

Re: Recent Google Maps enshittification

"Arby's, McDonald's, Wendy's, IHOP, Denny's, and Waffle House"

I thought you asked for restaurants?

Re: Some of hese comments seem to miss the point

Yes, the AI summaries often contradict themselves. This may be a good thing, as it reveals how little intelligence there is behind the scenes. But it may also be a bad thing when people lacking in intelligence use these AI summaries. Examples I've seen include things such as claiming that half of 1.8 is 0.7.

"AIpocalypse"

That "i" reads like an "L", so it looks like a mistake. Serifed fonts, perhaps?