"I am not sure why a drive that has spinning disks neets dual SATA3/6 GB data transfer connectivity when it is still not able to exceed SATA 1 data rates."
But if you employ SAS in your datacentre then you can take advantage of special forces
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Toshiba crams 14TB into another helium drive, this time with SAS boost
Russian volcanoes fingered for Earth's largest mass extinction
Wednesday 29th August 2018 15:34 GMT 
Re: Time for another one?
This is completely true; the "latest" supereruption left parts of New Zealand under 200m of igneous rock... There would have been a huge impact on the climate too.
ABBYY woes: Doc-reading software firm leaves thousands of scans blowing in wind
Detroit sh*t shifter's operating costs waste away with Oracle's cloud
Don't let Google dox me on Lumen Database, nameless man begs
Footie fans calling for a red card over West Ham United CC email blunder
Uni credential-swiping hack campaign linked to Iranian government
Tuesday 28th August 2018 14:12 GMT
Re: um...
What's the likelihood academics can receive phone calls to log in? At least in most uni labs I've worked in, reception is amazingly poor...
Much of the lab I used to work in was covered in a grid which acted as a Faraday Cage.... Sadly the areas behind this were where most of the shared instruments (microscopes, plate readers etc.) lived; when technicians came to fix them then they couldn't make any calls...
ZX Spectrum reboot scandal: Directors quit, new sack effort started
Tuesday 28th August 2018 12:40 GMT
RCL also published the source code for the FUSE open source ZX Spectrum emulation software port used in the Vega Plus, something required by the General Public Licence under which its author, Philip Kendall, released it to world+dog.
Philip has managed to get the Vega build kind of working.
In the same thread there is an intriguing statement from Philip, "I certainly suspect the speed of its release may have been influenced by RCL receiving a strongly worded letter".
Huawei elbows aside Apple to claim number-two phone maker spot
Windows 95 roars once more in the Microsoft round-up
Smut slinger dreams of AI software to create hardcore flicks with your face – plus other machine-learning news
Monday 27th August 2018 11:00 GMT
Re: Oh yes!
>> Taking fewer 2D slices, and using an AI to fill in the gaps, will reduce the time taken in an MRI machine.
>Giving my MRI scans to Facebook? I'm not even going there, but taking less real slices will most likely allow to replace that real tumor by some extrapolated healthy tissue. Who wouldn't want that. Less definition is always cheaper - I mean better.
One problem that medical science has is that we know a lot about disease, but not about what causes disease or what it looks like before it's detectable (obviously there are exceptions like smoking causing cancer etc).FB etc have a huge amount of data on 10-15 years of people's lives and it'd be illuminating if they could somehow link it with medical records.
That ignores that fact that no one in their right mind would want to give FB, Google etc. any more data to mine and sell. I wish there was some way that this kind of analysis could be done without destroying privacy.
As porn site pounds hard on piracy laws, Cox pulls out prematurely
Windows 10 July update. Surface Pro 4. Working fondleslab. Pick two
Monday 27th August 2018 09:35 GMT
Re: This is one of Microsofts biggest failures
>>"Windows 8 got a billion hours of testing"
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>But the most basic usability testing on existing laptops and desktops either wasn't done at all, or the results ignored.
I'm guessing that most of the billion hours were automated tests.
Although, as a manual tester you're supposed to just check that what's in front of you works in the way that it's supposed to and not test usability etc.
Experimental 'insult bot' gets out of hand during unsupervised weekend
£1 in every fiver that UK biz, public sector spent on software in 2017 went to *drumroll* Microsoft
Saturday 25th August 2018 07:55 GMT
Re: Impressive....
Realistically what's the alternative? Apple, Redhat, Postgres, Java etc. are American too.
As a thought exercise, I tried to see how British I could make the IT. I got as far as running a Raspberry Pi with Ubuntu for the desktops; but there's nothing really to run on them beyond that. That wouldn't get any servers* or storage either.
*I can't think of any UK server selling servers with ARM chips (happy to be corrected)
Friday 24th August 2018 13:43 GMT 
Not necessarily a bad thing
There are a few things here.
1) Are they paying the right market value for the software and not being ripped off. By which I mean for each SKU rather than if MS Software is a rip off :)
2) If MS software is the best choice, then why begrudge paying money for it. Obviously "best" is very subjective and will be some combination of "best software for the job", cost, "supportability" and what's supported by the vendors of the software that it runs on.
Waits for the flames -->
Abracadabra! Tales of unexpected sysadmagic and dabbling in dark arts
Southport: Come for a round of golf, stay for the flesh-eating STIs
Don't mean to alarm you – but NASA is about to pummel the planet with huge frikkin' space laser
A third of London boroughs 'fess to running unsupported server software
Heads up: Fujitsu tips its hand to reveal exascale Arm supercomputer processor – the A64FX
Use Debian? Want Intel's latest CPU patch? Small print sparks big problem
Thursday 23rd August 2018 07:56 GMT
Re: I'm fine with that
IBM's POWER9 chips are right here right now, no Spectre vulnerability and certainly no licensing agreements like the Intel one seeing as IBM releases everything for the POWER9 chips under a straight MIT / GPL license.
It appears that Power 9 is vulnerable too eg Redhat info on the bugs
Wednesday 22nd August 2018 13:08 GMT
Re: I'm fine with that
At the moment it is looking like you will be waiting for at least AMD Zen 2 then.
Which is slated for 2019 at the earliest.
That's kind of what I'm thinking. I think I'll just change the discs as they're getting on a bit. Hopefully the rumours are true about the forthcoming SSD price crash :)
Whoa, is it Patch Tuesday already? No, just an unexpected critical Photoshop fix
Thursday 23rd August 2018 07:51 GMT
Re: Just wondering...
Adobe's software means that you can do things like work on your photos in different places and the saves will synchronise between the devices etc. In time I've come to quite like this way of working. For example I can load pictures onto my ipad and then have a quick look when I'm on holiday, the photos and edits then synchronise onto my desktop when I get home.
I can't believe that I'm defending Adobe and their attempts to screw more money out of people -->
Apache's latest SNAFU – Struts normal, all fscked up: Web app framework needs urgent patching
SuperProf gets schooled after assigning weak passwords to tutors
Tuesday 21st August 2018 08:44 GMT
Re: Don't get it
I have an acquaintance whose job appears to be flying around the world tutoring kids of the obscenely rich to prepare them for Prep or Public* school. I believe he's seen the inside of a fair few private jets and super yachts. I'm pretty sure that he's not on the sites in the article :)
Kind of a teacher -->
*"Public schools" in the UK are the most expensive private ones
Dell EMC stumbles into composable systems late waving MX7000 box
.NET Core 2.1 – huh, yeah – what is it good for? Bing, apparently
Brit Railcard buyers face lengthy, unexplained delays. Sound familiar?
Tuesday 21st August 2018 14:17 GMT 
Britain's ticketing is antiquated
Here in Switzerland, you can buy tickets via their website or an app. You can then print it or just show them your phone. They even have the "halbtax" (half price) card linked so when the guard scans the ticket your photo appears on their phone so they know it's you. You can also buy an integrated bus/tram/train ticket.
I haven't travelled in France as much, but I've also happily bought tickets on my phone before.
I don't know why the British trains hold on to such old and nasty systems for most of the country.
Fix for July's Spectre-like bug is breaking some supers
Python wriggles onward without its head
London's Gatwick Airport flies back to the future as screens fail
Monday 20th August 2018 12:24 GMT
Gatwick Express recently got its knuckles rapped for misleading adverts as their service is frequently slower than advertised
Your Phone prematurely ejected, Skype texting on the way, and 900 more years of Windows
Amaze your colleagues, confound customers and perturb partners with your encyclopaedic storage news knowledge
The future of humanity: A Bluetooth ball hitting your face – forever
Beam me up, PM: Digital secretary expected to give Tory conference speech as hologram
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