* Posts by Dr.Sommer

6 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Dec 2017

Seagate's Barracuda SSD bares its teeth at PC, laptop upgraders

Dr.Sommer

NVMe is the new SATA

6Gbit/s SATA is a dead end and maybe just bridge-technology.

NVMe is the way to go.

I want see Gbit/s as default for new products and NVMe gives that

SATA is just to upgrade old systems.

Fresh fright of data-spilling Spectre CPU design flaws haunt Intel

Dr.Sommer
Big Brother

Re: My Dad was right

"We wouldn't be" ... "if" ... "technology" ...

In my view ...

...this is not a point of technology.

We need a culture change in the way we design.

And CPUs or IT are just one sector to look at.

"secure by design" is a good first step.

There is no one guarantee us its the only step we need to do. But every journey starts with the first step. There is definitively no simple solution. If one proclaim one its a lie.

Sysadmin’s worst client was … his mother! Until his sister called for help

Dr.Sommer

Re: All these years later

In such cases it really help to use a permanent marker to correct one of the CRTL keys as such :-)

Dr.Sommer

its a folder named "C:"

So evil ;-)

He really could give her the hint that

ls -la ~

would have showed her the documents. :-)

'WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?' Linus Torvalds explodes at Intel spinning Spectre fix as a security feature

Dr.Sommer

Re: higher than expected reboots

maybe the idea behind this "higher than .." is the observation that 'higher' is usual seen as better.

So some alternative formulations?

And first things first please.

Here is mine:

"crash-rate increased"

FREE zero-day for every reader: AT&T's DirecTV kit has a root hole – and no one wants to patch it

Dr.Sommer

sure!

only ... their zero-days are not jet discovered.