Posts by spireite

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop

Re: 1998

Frankly Windows installs have given me more issues.

Just this last week, it couldn't detect the capabiliyies of the card, and I had to force the res and refresh rate.

Mint, no such issue.

Re: Bloatware Linux

You clearly haven't looked for sometime, otherwise you'd realise you are an idiot.

Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade

Adobe, the Oracle of the creative world.

My wife was looking for some Adobe products - mostly Photoshop, and some InDesign -- because of the industry she works in just before one of the previous price hikes / gouge.

Ended up using a lower cost alternatives - Serif is a good shout....

Adobe tryung to stay relevant on name/reputation but losing both....

No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon

No Sonic Boom? That shows some Guile.

Re: American leadership in aviation ?

Boeing is leading, just not a positive sense.

Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation

Is streamlining even a thing if the vast majority of your staff are French?

Anthropic’s law firm throws Claude under the bus over citation errors in court filing

and they say 'trust AI for writing code'

The death of the developer is very much overestimated.

It can't be trusted with simple tasks frankly.

OpenStack delivers ‘Epoxy’ release, which it hopes will unglue more VMware customers

Re: Thank you Broadcom

Despite it being a poxy platform

Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers

Hard to escape if....

1. You've prepaid for x years... Hard to justify pissing away your upfront reserved instance to management

2. You used a tech unique to the platform. Used Glue?

There is a reason I try to use agnostic tech where possible.

VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor in an utterly obscure way

Bonfire, meet piss

They've flooded the fire, so no go from me.

The speed as which they alienated people takes some beating, and now it is definitely in a death spiral.

Bridges have been burnt, and it wasn't as if they didn't know there were very good alternatives out there.

If thev had no competition, you'd say fair enough - what choice do we have? Unfortunately, there is and we'll use the competition.

China ups tariffs on US goods to 125%, calls Trump's war a 'joke'

Tariffs and the cloud.....

If you're a Chinese business/national, are you now paying 145% extra on your Azure/AWS infra ?

Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft. Readers say it's all been downhill since Clippy

For me....

Server: Windows 2000 Server

Client: Windows 7 was pretty damned good I felt.

More recently? I've never liked the new Windows Server editions, they just feel slow....

Windows 10 has proven pretty good I think, after a bit of a false start or two. Windows 11, cack.

Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud

Not convinced that spending that much money on this is Wyse,

Asda's tech separation from Walmart nears £1B as delays mount

No doubt they'll switch off from Walmart full and find the new systems fail and try to do a Rollback *ahem*

LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite

I am convinced that Gartners predictions have the accuracy of tea-leaves.

That said, we all know that the AI LLM bubble will go pop for many providers.

Meanwhile, in Japan, train stations are being 3D-printed in an afternoon

Well, it's probably best done through a command shell.

Print commands issued by a work station... and the goo comes through a Tube. Now they've proven it is possible, the world is their Oyster.

Vivaldi bakes Proton VPN into browser to boost privacy

Re: Righteous indignation is fine, IF one understands hard words like "option".

You miss my actual point, which I didn't make clear.

Like a previous commenter said, this is functionality that nobody needs. Jo Bloggs wouldn't care. The techies that do care will happily pay for their VPN subs.

I and many others would rather the browser devs improve the browser in every other way except that.

I could tell my Dad what it helps do, but I can guarantee that he'll listen but never understand what it does, and he'll never switch it on.

Integrated VPN?

I'm paying for a VPN myself - Surfshark - but that is not the point.

I want flexibility, I don't want to be tied, and it's so goddamn cheap generally for a VPN,. Nobody should dictate what I should use.

VMware distributor Arrow says minimum software subs set to jump from 16 to 72 cores

Wow....

Broadcom have become the Donald Trump of IT.

It is a perfect example of self-immolation.

2 in 5 techies quit over inflexible workplace policies

Years ago 40 of us had full WFH contracts when we joined (UK based)

Out of nowhere the mandate to work from your nearest office came through.

We all said - not happening - then we were invited to find another employer by our Canadian employer.

Given some of us were 80 miles from the nearest office, we took the opportunity to look elsewhere.

How many of us took that offer/opportunity to find elsewhere? All of us!! In 6 weeks, they'd lost their entire team of techies, and desperately hired contractors to fill the void.

Where were these contractors? Bangalore!! How much knowledge of the business did they have, or the industry the business was in? Absolutely none at all.

London's poor 5G blamed on spectrum, investment, and timing of Huawei ban

Re: UK seems like a backwater for mobility

The network operators are run by tits...

Call of Duty studio co-founder pleads guilty to crashing drone into firefighting aircraft

Canada tariffs....

Can you imagine if Trump tarriffed them during the California wildfires, and they withheld their aircraft ?

Trump’s tariffs, cuts may well put tech in a chokehold, say analysts

Re: Not thought through.

Could be dead in less.

Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands return-to-office despite remote work pledge

Not improved the bottom line after RTO??

Well, colour me surprised.

Everyone I know who has been forced to RTO, had switched into a quiet quitting mode.

Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'

Really?

I have it on my work laptop. I don't like it.

There is no reason for me to have it on my home kit.

I take solace in the fact my home kit is not deemed worthy enough for it.

Nothing wrong with Win10, payed with mattress scanners and decent anti virus, and common sense.

Christmas 1984: The last hurrah for 8-bit home computers

History....

When i went to the affectionally named 'Nobby Green' school (S41 Newbold area of Chesterfeild), I cut my teeth on BBC Bs and Commodore PETS. BBC used rimarily for Chuckie Egg and copious minutes of Revs and Elite.

My first homer was a C64, andf then I graduated to mudslinging to ST owners at college when I had an Amiga 500.

Happy days of linking by cable with friends for Stunt Car Racer, Populous et al...

Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic

All that money.....

..... and it still can't count the numbers of Rs in strawberry (and other similar words)

SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system

They fucked up the web browser?

Please tell me I am not alone in first reading it as being named Dildo.

Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work

It's an Easter Egg..

... Which nearly became a Nest Egg

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

Needs a spullchicker too.

Are your Prometheus servers and exporters secure? Probably not

Netscaler and MFA

I find it unbelievable that a company wouldn't use MFA if it's avalable.

As a previous user of Prometheus in several places, we've always endeavoured to ensure that the endpoints are secured.

Ingenuity helicopter's flying days cut short by featureless Martian terrain

Excellent....

Upside - they had a small helicopter flying on Mars for far more than they ever hoped

Downside - they can't get a non-SpaceX rocketry systems to be reliable.

Broadcom says VMware is a better money-making machine than it hoped

Pending attrition......

Completely overlooking the fact that customers are currently pinned in because they can't get off the driverless bus towards a cliff in the short term.

Rest assured those same customers are probably all bringing migration away to the top of the to-do list.

When that time comes to pass, Broadcom will see VMWare revenue drop off the proverbial cliff with the bus, but the passengers will be safely off it.

Microsoft says premature patch could make Windows Recall forget how to work

Needs Arnie

He managed ok, so he can lead Windows to it.

Elementary OS 8 'Circe' conjures Wayland magic

The lack of an in-place updating mechanism between major versions is a stopper for many people I suggest, despite how pretty it looks.

Broadcom loses another big VMware customer: UK fintech cloud Beeks Group, and most of its 20,000 VMs

Re: Silent majority

Yes, but isn't it the case that these are multi-year contracts?

If that is the case, then you've just received a few windy days, before the hurricane really rolls in.

No amount of storm chasers will save you when the bulk come in for renewal later.

Some will renew, simply because they haven't yet got a plan to migrate in the short term.

They will have one long term for sure, unless your product has no competitors.

Techie left 'For support, contact me' sign on a server. Twenty years later, someone did

Re: Well...

Let's be honest, Insert Floppy isn't gonna be helpful.

SpaceX closing in on approval for 25 Starship launches in 2025

Head of FAA

January - Trump announces installment of Musk as Head of FAA.

AI Jesus is ready to dispense advice from a booth in historic Swiss church

Artificial Intelligence? Irony alert!

Some will (are?) treat it as a priest no matter what, and listen to its ramblings.. much like a regular service then!

Many would argue, and I will poke the bear (not the kids), that it has more intelligence than those who go to Church regularly and then think it does them good.

I'm now going to hide in a corner and see the results of stirring the Jesus Hornets.

Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive

Re: re: AI is a good tool when used in the appropriate hands

On Star Trek, it would cause a glass of Champers to appear on your desk.

Cloud repatriation officially a trend... for specific workloads

Re: Cloud lock-in

I keep arguing this.

Conversation runs like...

Moving on-prem SQL to Azure- we'll save money.... ha, yea right

Want to get data in it? Use ADF - while the rest of us want to be agnostic - Aitflow/Prefect/Mage etc... to avoid that lockin

Of course, after a few years, moving from Azure (or any other cloud) back to on-prem - or to a competing cloud is damn night impossible, or very costly.

Clock's ticking on PostgreSQL 12, but not everyone is ready to say goodbye

Re: Upgrade barriers

This - you are not wrong.

My background in MSSQL highlighted this..

In MSSQL, (for those that didn't know).generally you could detach the DB, then attach it to the newer version and stuff would just run pretty painlessly. It would default to the 'compatibility' of what it came from, and you might want to update statistics etc.

When I was lumbered with Postgres and needed to upgrade, it felt like I was pulled back 20 years.

Chinese chipmaker Loongson now just three to five years off the pace on the desktop

5 years behind?

My initial thought is that they are miles behind, but the latest processors of the usual suspects really don't bring anything to the table for normal Joe Public.

AMD and Intel could find themselves Deepin trouble.

Fore-get about privacy, golf tech biz leaves 32M data records on the fairway

Will the final report begin with a fourwood?

OpenStack Dalmatian debuts with a new dashboard, better security and GPU-wrangling

I haven't seen it in use anywhere I've worked.....

.... or maybe it's just difficult to spot...

Microsoft hits go on Windows 11 24H2: Fresh features, bugs, and a whole lotta AI

Re: plastic can melt

My current has Copilot/GPT disabled too, so even though you get an AI related element in results of a net Search, clicking on it results in a 'Computer Says No.

Now Dell salespeople must be onsite five days a week

Anonymous.. Hah

Many an internal questionnaire has been sent where one entry asked for department of even job title.

Out of duty of care, I usually fill these with....... 'HR'

Bring the joy of train delays home with your very own departure board

Re: Cool.

Mind the gap...

That's a great one, just for when you you arrive in your bedroom with the one night stand.....

Icon because....

Google sued for using trademarked Gemini name for AI service

Is that the AI of Monty Python?

Gemi+nii