Posts by IceC0ld

Amazon’s Trainium3 is the latest to conform to Nvidia’s mold

is there any corollary to AI spending, along the lines of Moores Law at all ?

as in the spending on AI doubles every year ?

seems like there should be something out there, as the numbers involved now are getting to be a bit silly :o)

70-hour work weeks no longer enough for Infosys founder, who praises China’s 996 culture

Re: "after his family agreed to let him do so"

that there Dan Price paid ALL his workers at $70 000, there was laughter in the streets at his suicide mission, now, six years on, all is still thriving, people actually WANT to come into work, and get paid a proper wage for doing so - who knew :O <3

CEO who gave all his employees minimum $70,000 paycheck thriving six years later

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/lifestyle/ceo-who-gave-all-his-employees-minimum-70-000-paycheck-thriving-six-years-later-b2194735.html

Fired techie admits sabotaging ex-employer, causing $862K in damage

SO, has enough tech nous to set up a script to alter THOUSANDS of passwords

does NOT know how to clear logs - FFS

BofH would be SO disappointed in this creature :O)

Google's AI is eating your email by default. Here's how to shut its mouth

looking more and more like Google have accepted that a fine, will just be pocket change to their bottom line :o(

even if it EVER reaches BILLIONS of $$$

they make enough to absorb that in a week or so, this is getting what they want, at a price they can easily afford :o(

Dutch turbine engineer tried to turn wind into crypto, ends up generating community service

not sure, but Windmills

BIG Fan :o)

BOFH: Recover a database from five years ago? It's as easy as flicking a switch

[quote] I think the injury register would prove that the server room is a dangerous area [/quote]

short n simple sentence, brings them all back, and now I am howling LOL :o)

‘ERP down for emergency maintenance’ was code for ‘You deleted what?’

[quote] “You'd think at this point we would have learned our lesson,” Holden told Who, Me?

Of course they hadn’t. [/quote]

I DO believe that this phrase could be used in a LOT of the "Who, ME" if not almost everywhere TBH :o)

AWS admits more bits of its cloud broke as it recovered from DynamoDB debacle

Re: It just goes on and on...........

[quote] I wonder if any of the accountancy types who promised that "the cloud" would be a fantastic replacement for "on premises" data centres are available for comment?

....or Gartner? [/quote]

we can all wonder, but I will not be holding my breath :o)

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

From the BBC :o)

AWS is a US giant with a large global footprint, having positioned itself as the backbone of the internet.

It provides tools and computers which enable around a third of the internet to work, it offers storage space and database management, it saves firms from having to maintain their own costly set-ups, and it also connects traffic to those platforms.

That's how it sells its services: let us look after your business's computing needs for you.

But today something very mundane went very wrong: a common kind of outage known as a Domain Name System (DNS) error.

People who work in the tech industry will be rolling their eyes right now.

This common error can cause a lot of havoc.

"It's always DNS!" is something I hear a lot.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev1en9077ro

KuzuDB says so long and thanks for all the commits, marooning community

and, as always, there IS an XKCD just for this :o)

https://xkcd.com/2347/

Vodafone keels over, cutting off millions of mobile and broadband customers

VodaFone client for home, retired now, but work was also VodaFone

for me, lost interweb access

pull up CMD <3

ping to my router, all good

ping 8.8.8.8 fell over

tracert to 8.8.8.8 stopped at my router too, guessed there was an issue with VF themselves

did the classic, powered off router / fibre hub - restarted, waited

in their defence, it's the first time I have NOTICED they went off

Re: Oh my days

trying to work out how long 50p would last today :o)

and if you could actually get the coins in fast enough LOL

NASA bars Chinese citizens from its facilities, networks, even Zoom calls

see, simple answer to the question, not rocket science was it :o)

Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync

wanted to UP vote this SO bad, but its on 42 ffs, what's a geeky nerd supposed to do LOL

appears that SOMEONE isn't of the HHGttG attuned variety, and 42 just went over there heads:o(

McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes nuggets of rotten security

Re: Sigh

ambient IQ has now gone into the BURN BANK LOL

T - omorrows

I - ssue

T - he

S - same

U - ser

P - roblems

Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI?

Re: Blind spot

I got it to the ElReg special of TITSUP as :-

T - rying

I - ntentionally

T - o

S - eriously

U - pset

P - eople

DEF CON hackers plug security holes in US water systems amid tsunami of threats

Re: KISS principle as applied to municipal water systems

SCADA should never have been internet connected

but it made things SO easy :o(

and people, if they are anything, are lazy

given the option of checking on services from home, or having to drive in and check it

the WFH option will always win out

maybe one way to help save the services IS to disconnect the systems once again, and this time, let people know why it is being done, and announce real disciplinary reprisals for those who attempt to re-connect

might just work ?

Another massive security snafu hits Microsoft, but don't expect it to stick

[quote] Microsoft warned it was aware of active attacks targeting on-premises SharePoint Server customers [/quote]

oh good, they ARE aware - phew

for a minute there, I thought this one may have escaped their all seeing eyes :o)

but seriously, we all use Windows, even if it's just to take the Michael out of it, but I, like countless others have a job supporting the swine

and the number of bugs around, it seems like they are looking at it as just another day, whereas we, are getting a little tired of it all

now, I realise that it is too late to implement secure coding for a product that is SO out there, but really, could they not even TRY to fix bugs 'properly'

and NO, I don't have a clue on that level, wouldn't recognise a bug if I caught one

STILL, W11 up soon, surely they will have all this malarky sorted by then :oP

German team warns ChatGPT is changing how you talk

could be worse

long time Father Ted fan here

what if ARSE - FECK - Women's Fecking Knickers had taken off, as it were :o)

C-suite sours on AI despite rising investment, survey finds

and C level droids are certainly expensive

and the more AI involved, the less meat sacks are required

possibly they HAVE seen the long term forecast, and it doesn't include them :o)

'Trained monkey' from tech support saved know-it-all manager's mistake with a single keypress

Re: Monkey

isn't this the play for the Richard Branson, and training

but sir, if we train them, they will just leave to go elsewhere

to which, the beardy one is supposed to have replied :- Yes, but if we DON'T train them, they will stay here :o)

BOFH: Rerouting responsibility via firewall configs

Re: ... or some cosmetically waxed neanderthals

yea - The team leader informs us that each person has their own specialty, though it looks like the skills of bum scratching and asking stupid questions may be over-represented.

that one hit home, memories of actually watching some monkeys in shirt n tie trying to re arrange an office, and 'accidently' starting a broadcast storm :o)

oh what fun LOL

Ransomware scum leak patient data after disrupting chemo treatments at Kettering

Re: Small change in law required.

as sound as that advice is, the data taken was close to a TERRA BYTE, that was for 3/4 of a million patients, just how much paper do you want them to hold ?

for the hospital, as I have posted previously, it isn't just the patient / treatment that is needed, you need to have a bed, the cleaning rota needs to be updated, the nursing staff will need access to records and be updated of all the patients treatments as they occur

we're at the stage now where they can, just, cripple along without IT, but only as a temp measure, and yes, we DID manage once, without computers, but that was pre computers, and we had cottage hospitals, and a smaller population, and tech hadn't advanced to allow so many operations as 'basic' your standard hospital D/B will be many TB's in size, possibly needing PB's of associated storage, and the staff to maintain it, as well as access it to analyse the data

so maybe we should take off the gloves, find just ONE of the gangs, and eliminate them, let it be known that there IS a step that is too far, and once you cross it, you are no longer needed on this world

maybe a tad excessive, maybe it needs to be enhanced

but either way, we are now FIRMLY entrenched with IT with all the pros and cons that go with it

and yes, the data should have been better protected, full encryption and MFA to even look at the file structures, let alone access a file

but we live here and now, and possibly the quickest way to curtail this intrusive work IS to eliminate

don't come back with the case of FOREIGN agents, you breach these walls, ALL bets are off.

We can do better we need to do better, and if it costs some scum there ability to process oxygen, so be it

Three ways to run Windows apps on a Linux box

I do believe you may have given Linux their best ever advert header LOL

Windows 11 has a list of specifications it requires, but the list for Linux is "electricity."

AI agents don't care about your pretty website or tempting ads

I read this, and I recalled when Outlook was still a baby, and you had the option for text based, or FULL HTML Emails :o)

I can see this as AI just wants the text based version, whereas WE, NEED the pretty pictures and all the fluff that goes with it

I mean, how boring going looking for all the bits for a PC when it's all the boring bits, just the facts maam :o)

doubtful anyone will run TWO sites, one for each, and I will imagine text only to be a tad cheaper to produce, let alone show

so are we looking at the interwebs heading BACK 20 years ....................

From Russia with chokehold: Putin says foreign IT firms still in Russia should be 'strangled'

be glad he said strangle :o)

as this IS MS Windows, and defenestration is SO popular over there :o)

What would a Microsoft engineer do to Ubuntu? AnduinOS is the answer

Re: Doesn't need to be done

All those who've heard about the end of W10 and have a box that won't DOWNGRADE to 11 :o)

now there's a SLOWWWWW burn :o)

Trump wants to fire quarter of NASA budget into black hole – and not in a good way

One thing sticks out :o)

[quote] In their place, the space agency is expected to lean on commercial alternatives for future lunar ambitions. [/quote]

and by 'commercial' interests, they mean Phoney Stark ?

or others, ARE there others ?

IF it got built by private funds, they will want to get their money back

and more

so if private is the way forward, make it so that the investment is seen as just that, they put money in, nothing else happens, they get no preferential treatment, and zero returns on their costs

this way it would only be the truly magnanimous amongst them who will come forward, and IMHO the option to build privately will be dead in the water :o)

BOFH: The Prints of Darkness pays a visit

LOVE the BofH as always, and trying to get over the coughing that followed the howling with laughter

but for me, the bit that always gets to me is the title - The PRINTS of Darkness LOL

the sheer number of 'accidental' accidents that occur there, you would think that the suppliers, or, at the very least, the bean counters, would have twigged, and avoided annoying the IT Dept. not even talking about them, but that may be how he has managed to work his way through a goodly portion of, whatever city they reside in, that population LOL

DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs

Re: This just keeps getting worse

deride and mock

to remember that he is to be known as Muskolini or Phoney Stark

never forget just how much of a twat he is and keep on pushing him over the edge

Google begs owners of crippled Chromecasts not to hit factory reset

SO, Google :o)

[quote] deliberate attempts by Google to encourage upgrades, there is no evidence to support such claims [/quote]

not really sure how to continue, then re read the above, and realise it doesn't need anything :o)

Microsoft tells abandoned Publisher fans to just use Word and hope for the best

[quote] Anyone who has tried to position items in Word [\quote]

SO, by ANYONE, you mean EVERYONE :o)

Troubled French outsourcer Atos finds pot of gold at the end of UK state bank Rainbow

Re: Rainbow

ooh dear Zip it Zippy :o)

Windows 7 lives! How to keep your favorite fossil running

work is 'forcing' us over to W11

so it will happen, but I am not a fan, the intrusiveness just got worse as the numbers climbed :o(

so for ME, I CAN see Linux Mint being the way to go sooner rather than later

will still use Windows for work

may need to keep a W11 PC on a leash so I can still play the games I like, the way I like

I DO have a dual boot laptop - Mint with Cinnamon desktop / Kali, set up with auto updater to keep it easier for me :o)

I USED to play around with both, but not for a while, so it may be time for a refresher

I DO still yearn for / hanker for the earlier days, when things were simpler

but that is not the way of the world we live in now

for better or worse, we live in the times of changing for changes sake, and WAY more intrusive apps doing anything they want, whether we ask it to or not

as has been noted, here at El Reg, we do have one advantage, basic knowledge, and an apparent surplus of common sense too :o)

but yea, I can see my days as a MS Windows guy grinding to a close, and I should have retired last year, that's the only thing keeping me on MS kit TBH

still could be worse .............

BOFH: Engage Hollywood Protocol – because nonsense always looks legit

OH FFS, right till the very end, and even then it took a minute

absolutely brilliant

Microsoft vet laments a world where even toothbrushes need reboots

yes, the future may be here, but is is certainly an odd one :o)

example, before I take my motorbike out for a run, I have to ensure the HELMET is charged up ...........

so that the link to the phone [ NEVER used whilst riding]

link to the GPS

and the cameras are all up and running

gone are the days of just leaping aboard and feckin off LOL

is it a good thing ?

IMHO it has ups and downs associated to it

in the main it is better, there are the odd outliers that just look, sound, FEEL weird

but we can't push the genie back in the bottle - so best to just get on with it, enjoy the bits you Do like, and try to ignore the mess of stuff not needed, being used

Baguette bandits strike again with ransomware and a side of mockery

just enquiring as to what are the legal ramifications of them attacking a Govt account, and then, said Govt goes looking for, finds, and executes them ?

all under the "clear and present danger " use

and IF this would pass muster in legal terms, why haven't they bothered to do so ?

and yes, I am aware that 'OUR' govt 'probably' wouldn't, or at least wouldn't admit to it anyway

still, makes for pleasant thinking :o)

App stores unconvinced by Trump's TikTok ban pause, which may itself be on shaky legal ground

so they are looking for someone America can trust ? to run Tik Tok for them

paging Muskolini, attention please would Muskolini bring his Swasticar to the front desk please

Trump eyes up to 100% tariffs on foreign semiconductors, TSMC in crosshairs

[quote] The incentive is going to be they're not going to want to pay [/quote]

err, I thought that 'THEY' don't pay the tariffs, the US customer, in this instance, would

UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project

SAGE words indeed

but sadly, the council are SAP's

sorry, not sorry

bit of a dichotomy here - only just :o)

costs mushroom from £2.6 million to around £40 million ($50 million) / so we start HERE

to fund projects that result in ongoing revenue savings / and SOMEHOW they are still saying revenue reduction ........

China's DeepSeek just emitted a free challenger to OpenAI's o1 – here's how to use it on your PC

Re: I considered downloading. . .

well they DO say beware of GEEKS bearing GIF's :o)

Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog

nice try, but they won't be able to keep it up :o)

Amazon worker – struck and shot in New Orleans terror attack – initially denied time off

just heard from my mate Luigi, asking for the location of the CEO ........................

but seriously, this should NEVER happen, worker gets injured, worker get full PTO to recover, you do not need the aggravation of thinking your job is on the line when you are unable to do anything

personal to me, lost a leg in a crash, took govt benefits 6 months to figure out payments, got £400 a month, when mortgage was £1000

l spent a YEAR bedbound, contractor, so no work help, but yea, lost house, marriage, the works

benefits should cover your outgoings, to allow you to get better, take strain away from you, and help get you back into work ASAP

and other fairy tales ffs

How datacenters use water – and why kicking the habit is nearly impossible

just a thought

looks out of window

what do I see

I see the SEA :o)

and I know MS were trialling putting small scale servers into an underwater containment system

just wondering if there will come a time, as in NOW, when they seriously need to consider putting the next gen data barns, if not UNDER water, at the very least right next door

we had Trawsfynydd nuclear power, sat on a lake, it got the water warm enough that the 'local' population of goldfish was the thing on myth and legend :o)

but it was a self contained coolant system, surely there has to be a way to utilise the biggest heat sink on the planet ?

BOFH: Printer's festive bips herald a merry mystery for the Boss's budget

who says they haven't >bip<

I, for one, have been using the screened paper cases for my CC's for a few years now

and I test them regular, by trying to swipe the contactless whilst they are in the case

so far, so good

well, at least I haven't paid for the xmas party yet LOL

BOFH: Don't sell The Boss a firewall. Sell him The Dream

DAMN - right till the last line LOL

classic BofH

still the best <3

Epic coughs up the dirty V-Bucks: Fortnite's 'dark pattern' refunds hit accounts

so, the gaming Co is gaming the gamers playing the game .......................

Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI

I read about the strain put upon people who ARE volunteers, who are over run, and in dire need of something to help, but I fell back to XKCD instead

https://xkcd.com/2347/

it sort of says it all without words, we WILL have an instance of one crappy AI infused bug report that will keep people away from finding the real issues, and I would take a bet that the real bad guys will already be planning this as a two prong attack, to start utilising the vuln they have figured out, whilst also putting out the bug report to push those that can, away, so that they can 'enjoy' a little space to run their scheme :o(