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"Try ignoring the politics and the on again/off again relationships with Trump & Musk, and the guy actually seems like a genuinely good fit to try to ensure that NASA gets back to the top of its game, which I suspect (hope!) is exactly where most of us actually want to see it"
^ I absolutely and fully agree with every word of yours. In Jared Isaacman, we have someone who is quite clearly intelligent and, like Bill Nelson before him, he has direct and relevant experience unlike the current incumbent Sean Duffy.
"Ubuntu event we weren't expecting to see a slide showing that Rocky Linux had some 80 percent of the Linux market in visual effects. Packer said that Moonray "was only designed to build and run on Rocky"."
That kind of doesn't surprise me as the industry standard for Linux in the visual effects sector used to be CentOS but that changed when Red Hat was taken over and stable CentOS was turned into CentOS Stream (I think that was a rather cynical, underhand and snaky thing to do by IBM-controlled Red Hat). For example, the Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve software's approved Linux distribution is also now Rocky Linux.
"People's Postcode Lottery (PPL) subscribers briefly saw other players' personal information when logging into the site on Monday. The exposed data included names, addresses, email addresses, and dates of birth"
As Mr C of The Shamen said on the Ebeneezer Goode track, "Naughty, naughty, very naughty".
Seriously though, that could have allowed for screenshotting of someone else's full details that could then be used for assorted nefarious purposes. It's not a good look and they ought to now start taking data security seriously.
As with any lottery, it's the lottery company that is the real winner and in the case of the Postcode Lottery, they do pay out quite a few miserly prizes like £10 to £1,000 prizes. Also, you can tell it's a second rate lottery because it's only B and C grade celebrities who are seen advertising it.
It is somewhat ironical that IBM Red Hat deprecated the old CentOS because they wanted to monetise CentOS users and all that happened was that even more RHEL clones were generated, one of which is now offering support for support for an additional file system.
I do sometimes think that the bosses at Oracle, IBM and Red Hat have Gordon Gekko as their prime role model.
"Despite technological and regulatory hurdles, Amazon remains convinced that small modular reactors (SMRs) are the answer to the cloud titan's power woes"
In this instance, what Amazon is proposing to do is much better than the coal and oil options that are still being proposed elsewhere as power sources for data centres.
I fully agree with you and the other week NASA administrator Sean Duffy told the International Aeronautical Congress (IAC) in Sydney that the USA was intent on putting a nuclear powered base on the Moon. That's all very well saying that but I cannot see how that can actually happen with all the NASA and related current swingeing budget cuts.
All Duffy and others are doing is helping the Chinese space programme and crippling American space innovation (and jobs).
Yes, these equipment entertainment companies have form in introducing shiny new pieces of kit only to abandon the products and their customers a few years later. If you're lucky there's some residual function but a lot of the time the products end up as landfill which is not exactly environmentally benign.
For music, videos, etc, I think the thing to do is have your own custom system at home that is not dependent upon these vagary companies.
"Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education, says data watchdog"
As Mr C of The Shamen said on the Ebeneezer Goode track, "Naughty, naughty, very naughty".
Seriously though, Microsoft is one of the worst offenders when it comes to data slurping and it ought now to step back from that in terms of less data collection and less detailed data collection and then it wouldn't fall foul of national data regulators.
To the contrary, the US should be powering its data centres with new nuclear reactors and green energy. Even in Texas, there's been surge in profitable new private sector solar farms that don't even require public subsidies.
I remember that - it was back in 2015 at the Microsoft Ignite conference. Microsoft employee Jerry Nixon said the following:
”Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10.” and that the future is “Windows as a service.”
If those statements were incorrect then Microsoft should have issued a correction notice.
"Hundreds of millions of business PCs are still on Windows 10 as D-Day near"
This is 100% the fault of Microsoft for breaking their promise that Windows 10 would be the last ever version of Windows. In addition to Microsoft's own scheme, anti- virus and malware companies will still be offering support to Windows 10 users for a few years yet. It is also possible to convert some theoretically unsuitable computers to Windows 11, eg with the help of computer specialists. It would also be possible to convert one of the Linux varieties or Chrome OS Flex.
From an environmental perspective, I think what Microsoft is doing is deeply irresponsible.
I really think that really Microsoft lost the plot when they reversed their promise to users to make Windows 10 the last ever Windows edition which would become a rolling update release operating system. Very many Windows users would have probably been highly satisfied with that option.
Here we have Adobe Corporation, king of the price gougers. All this latest move will will do produce more sales for Serif Europe's Affinity range of products. Gimp 3 has also seen a useful improvement, particularly when combined with PhotoGimp 3 patch so they might also get more users.
They have even made Photoshop Elements into a 3 year perma-rental product as well and that really is unacceptable.
"Maybe Intuitive Machines should stop designing "intuitively" and hire some mechanical engineers and physicists who understand about the center of mass, moments of inertia, aspect ratios, and can calculate that kind of stuff".
^ Exactly this. The lander ought to be shaped more like an ice hockey puck and less like a tin can and with extended landing legs so that it has a lower centre of gravity and so is less likely to tip over.
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