Posts by Cliffwilliams44

Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11

Re: They're joking, right?

Yes, but it's not always just Microsoft, especially in a corporate environment. Tag on your corporate XDR, Internet security agent, etc, etc!

Copilot is a co-Pile!

Maybe people might be interested in buying an AI capable PC Copilot wasn't a complete CopileOfShit! Maybe it's that OpenAI is just sabotaging copilot so as not to undermine their own product but compared to ChatHPT and Claude, Copilot is horrible! It almost always gives the wrong answer to the simplest requests!

Hims & Hers accused of sharing health secrets and hiding the cancel button

The fact that so many younger people are so socially retarded that they cannot just find a local doctor, pick up the phone, make an appointment, get checked out, and get you damn meds say so much about the state of society! God forbit you might have to speak with someone in person!

Jailed Flock vandal wipes out three cameras, racks up thousands in damages

Re: "public safety infrastructure"

Wait, you are against a camera taking pictures of vehicles as they drive down the highway, which nothing is done with until a specific vehicle is being searched for in conjunction with a crime.

But I'm guessing (and I'm sure I am right), they you would be perfectly fine with armed goons going to ever house in the US and confiscating their firearms!

As far as those employed to use the systems using it for personal benefit, if you hired ethical and professional people instead of using race and gender as your hiring criteria maybe these incidences would drastically decrease. ^

^ And yes, if you look at the evidence of these occurrences of these types of events the majority of the time it IS them!

After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres

Re: Freshened up

You missed the 'need' in the article, Postgres; 'one process per connection; that is not only expensive computationally in a cloud environment it is expensive is money!

If they can solve this, it's a real advantage.

This isn't a rewrite of Postgres to replace Postgres; it's a Postgres compatibility layer on top of the Turso engine. Their goal is to have more of these, MySQL, MSSQL, etc. Your prejudice, like so many in this forum blinds you to this.

Hyperscale, hypersensitive: US teacher cuffed for applauding datacenter critics

Re: Agent Orange

And replace us with who? The actual NAZIs in the Democrat Party?

We are not the ones who trampled on people rights, falsely prosecuted our political enemies, ran a shadow government behind the back of a demented old fool!

The Labor Party in the UK is crushing the freedoms of the people, and you cry about Trump.

Stupidity is the most abundant substance in the universe

For a technology forum it amazes me just how utterly stupid the people who post here are! (Especially the Europeans).

1. Public hearings have specific rules for decorum, if you violate those rules, you will be asked to leave, resist and you will be removed, resist the removal and you will be arrested.

2. The person detained will very likely not be charged, or the charges dismissed. The court will look at this as a "lesson learned" experience.

3. Re: Data Centers, this whole controversy is a psyop run primarily by the far Left/EnviroNazis. It is unfortunate that many on the right are falling for it! Yes, there are power concerns but those can be addressed with rate payer protection and self-generation for the Data Centers. Consumable water usage for these Data Centers is around 0.5% of available supply. The majority use surface water for cooling, not ground water.

4. If the majority of the world had not fallen victim to the massive hoax of Climate Change and slashed their power generation capacity we would not in having this discussion!

Law firm insisted on one password to rule them all

Re: "In the end, the boss will have the final word"

Won't work. No matter what they tell you, if something goes wrong and they get infiltrated, they will blame you! The Boox is never going to blame themselves, not matter how much documentation you have.

Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop ‘theft’ of content

What kind of energy?

Will they authorize the construction of nuclear power generators? Most likely no! Wind & solar won't cut it!

While solar ion the roofs is probably a good idea to augment power, it will never be a net positive!

AWS sustainability claims don't hold water, lawsuit alleges

Re: known as the world's "datacenter capital."

Because we are the only nation that plays that game!

Canadian football is played under (rather stupid) different rules.

Re: But why water?

Because this is all scare mongering from the same people who don't want you to haver nice things and live like a surf while they become the "new nobility"

Water based AC units have to types, open and closed. Open systems run the heated water over cooling clades exposed to the air, these lose a significant amount of water to evaporation (it's not lost, it's state has just changes). Closed system run the heated water through copper pipes cooled by fans. Yes, closed systems lose water but far less.

These same people keep telling us the world has a water crisis, which is complete nonsense. 2/3 of thw world is covered by water, we can desalinate sea water efficiently and cheaply. The Arab guld states do this and they have no shortage of water.

Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains

Re: Oh but just you wait

You are clueless!

Have you ever seen a ballast machine in operation? It digs out the old ballast from the sides and between the ties and replaces it with new, the panels would have to be removed, quite labor intensive. When these machines are operating on a line that line cannot be used. So, the time to completion is very important. Rail Roads are not going to accept those delays!

Re: 300 an hour?

Correct, my employer used to operate these machines here is the US (we had to buy them from Europe, no one over here even makes them) and they are not gentle. The panels would HAVE to be removed and that is going to cause unacceptable delays! Our machines were tracked by the hour, and any delays were a very big deal, as traffic cannot be run over that line to the RRs needed to know when they would be done and you had better hit that target.

Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling

Re: Office Alternatives

I have found Libre Calc doesn't so data tables well, it's a thing the devs seem to not care about! Along with a lot of things, they have no interest in doing! It's why I don't use it and prefer OnlyOffice.

The problem is that it IS a mess!

Microsoft cannot even get out of its own mess.

One of the most annoying things about Active Directory is that it is so hopelessly bound to the Windows API. While you can query AD using LDAP not everything can be done. So, there is not command line or PowerShell interaction with AD from a Linux PC. MS have even admitted that the task of separating this is just too overwhelming, so much of the bowels of Windows was built by people no longer at MS and must are no longer on this planet!

Why was there never a Windows 9? Because the number 9 is hard coded somewhere in those bowels of the OS (95) and fixing that was way too much effort!

The cost in tokens would be astronomical!

Interesting, but likely will never happen!

While the denizens of the El Reg forum will cry and knash their teeth against Microsoft, subscriptions, and AI, the masses will not!

For consumers it's a simple choice, drop $200 for a perpetual license for just Office for one PC or $9.99/mo for Office 365 for the whole family with all the added benefits that gets you! None of the wailing and whining of the lurkers in this forum will change that!

For Corporations, it is the difference between CAPEX and OPEX! (Capital expenditure vs operational expenditure). For the SMB it's a no brainer, no need to use credit to buy 100 licenses of office, no need to buy a server and install and license Exchange, it all becomes an operational expense payable out of the monthly revenue. The same holds true for large corporations. Especially where companies operate departments or projects as individual cost centers. The age-old adage holds, it's easier to get an operation expenditure approves than a capital expenditure!

Now Windows, the majority of windows license are bought with the PC and hardware refresh for the most part covers any upgrades. Then when internet speeds make VDI (virtual desktop interface) viable from any connection and remote gaming rivals speeds now seen on desktops, then the high-powered local PC becomes a thing of the past and we (well you, I won't be here) will all be using some form of terminal connected to remote servers.

So, while cloning office (well, it's already been done to a major degree, Libre, OnlyOffice) may be a cool project, or cloning Windows might be a hobby for someone, I just don't see it happening!

As far as licensing, what exactly are they reselling? Most businesses run their licenses to the very last minute! I could see if a company just bought a bunch of licenses and then went belly up! That is about the only thing that makes any sense. As I said, Windows is mostly tied to the PC, MS doesn't care if you sell a PC and sell the license with it. Are they selling SQL server 2016 licenses which goes out of support, oh look, TODAY!

This isn't the win everyone thinks it is. It certainly doesn't portend the demise of Microsoft!

Orbital datacenter gold rush needs an environmental review, FCC told

Re: Will China do an environmental review?

And that is the point of all these enviro-law suits! Hamstring progress in the west all while China moves forward!

Because the Fascist Chinese system is what all the Marxists in the west want! They are just too stupid to realize that the Chinese are no longer Communists, they are National Socialist Fascists!

Fascism: The close cooperation of government and business, with government as the supreme authority.

LisaFPGA brings Apple's magnificent misfire back in programmable logic

Re: Lisas were expensive AF

I remember that day, at an Advertising Firm, that was one of our best customers, was talking into replacing all the IBM compatible PCs int he company with Macs by the art director. He convinced them that productivity would massively increase with the GUI interface and WYSIWYG. It didn't go well.

All the secretaries (that's what we called them, back then) who were all Wordstar jockeys, revolted over the mouse! (This thing just slows me down!)

Suspected Chinese snoops caught breaking into universities' Roundcube mailservers

Re: A second ingedient is required: M$ Outlook!

Sorry, that is incorrect! https://roundcube.net/

Bug in top AI coding agents shows that Unix-era security headaches never really die

Re: Nothing to do with UNIX

All of this long-standing Unix plumbing aside (Windows does symlinks as well, though they are different), why would you allow incoming SSH to any system running an AI agent! Principally, why would you allow this from the greater internet! If you do need internal ssh access for administrative purposes it should be restricted to a few authorized hosts.

You can keep playing whack-a-mole with all these newfound threats but that's not going to help you if you are just being stupid!

Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses spat

Microsoft's position is perfectly legal, as is ValueLicense. What I cannot grasp si what are ValueLicense selling? Licenses for old versions of Windows? Office? Who is buying licenses for products that will go end of line is a short time? SQL Server? NO one is selling 2019 or 2022 licenses at this point so what are they selling? 2016? That has a week left before it is fully unsupported!

From my perspective ValueLicense is selling the proverbial pig in a poke!

Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams

It may be, they have released newer revisions of the X/S series, but I believe people are getting tired of the upgrade churn with all the major consoles (XBox/Playstation).

The biggest selling point of consoles was the "plug it into the TV", With newer TVs this isn't an issue any longer. Even MS knows the future of consoles is over. The next gen VBox will by a hybrid Console/PC.

The only 1 who has consistent sales for consoles is Nintendo, they have a nitch audience and exclusive titles.

Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that...

Re: If AI were truly conscious . . .

Why should AI be any different that the Marxists!

UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse

Re: "Governance"? Why? How?

"Any attempt of governments, to control the application of AI via enforced governance and limitations will only hurt law-abiding defenders."

And yet, you would not apply the same logic to the right of citizens to keep and bear arms!

Governments preventing you from protecting yourself with the pitiful excuse of "we will protect you" when we all know that their "protection" is wowfully inaquacatge.

NASA tests AI medic for astronauts too far from Earth to call a doctor

Because you're thinking is limited!

Why package everything in one giant ship and go from earth to Mars? I better approach would be to build a large enough space station on earth orbit to stage equipment, also build (in space at this station) a quite large ship that will never re-enter the atmosphere. Then make several trips to mars with the equipment and personal (robots also) to build an equivalent station in orbit around Mars. Each station would have transport ship for planetary transport.

This is the only way long term settlement of Mars is practical.

Why Amazon hates 'human-in-the-loop' AI governance

Re: Believing in the powers of magic

Regulation that is meant to keep people alive only works when everyone believes int he system. While punitive measures are required, if that is the only measure of enforcement it becomes self-defeating because then the minion's primary goal becomes "not getting caught"!

One of the most effective tools in training people when we rolled out our plan to reduce injuries and deaths on our construction sites was to make everyone watch a video of all those people (young men with families and children) who were horribly injured or killed on our sites because someone wasn't following proper safety measures.

This is a more drastic example, but you need people to understand the consequences of not following procedure.

His example of the emergency room brings up another point I see a lot in IT. My friend works for a major bank. He told me their monitoring system sends out 1000's of alerts every day, the majority of which can safely be ignored. That's not a functional system and as you might guess, these alerts are ignored, even the critical ones.

Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher

Re: Alchemy.

Yes, that democracy, self-rule, the will of the (masses) people, will eventually collapse into am authoritarian, feudal society! The majority of the world's population (including you) will bend the knee and welcome it with open arms. It will be preceded by war, crime, rampant corruption (we see that now), poverty and famine. So, the people will gleefully welcome their new overlords who promise "a safe and secure, society!"

The only reason they are on the 'shit list' is they happily sought DOD contracts, then told the DOD "You cannot use out product for the primary purpose of your existence, warfare!". It's like someone selling you a chainsaw and then telling you, you cannot cut down trees!"

As long as they put those kinds of restrictions in place, they are no useful!

Sorry, sodding off any government administration is probably not a good business strategy!

Re: Although Trump's lot have taken 'thick as poop' to new levels...

Oh, for Christ's sake, FUCK OFF!

Biden has men with fake boobs running around on the White House lawn half naked! You morons didn't say a word!

Amazon owns up to using 2.5bn gallons of H₂O in its bit barns last year

Re: Oh just stop with the bullshit unscientific scare-numbers.

"can you explain why more and more parts of the country experience drought conditions?"

Yes, I can, they don't! There is no overall increase in drought conditions. If you take the measurements over a large enough time scale you will see this level's out over time. Case in point California! We were told for years that the California drought would "never end" then, guess what, it ended! (But the end of the drought only made the scare mongers even more hysterical!).

Then you site a laundry list of "climate scare sites" to back up your BS!

Re: Drop in the ocean

That's pretty much everywhere in the US. You can legally collect some of the water for personal usage. You don't even own the water under your property. Some municipalities will even charge you for using the water in your well. (Mostly the Stalinist states in the US).

Re: Water consumption

The thing you want is weather stability! A thing the desert has.

The thing is the evaporation cooling can be captured and re-used. The technology just needs to be deployed.

The problem with putting them in places like the far north is the cold can cause problems with electricity transmission. Just because it is cold outside doesn't mean that's an effective way to cool a data center.

Then there is the fact someone needs to get there if something happens in the dead of winter. Are you going to live there?

History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system

Why? Because Alma is basically an LTS version of CentOS Stream, not a bit-for-bit clone of REHL. Rocky plays cloak-n-dagger games to get the code to build their distro and I won't be surprised if IBM/RedHat eventually drop the legal hammer on them. That would probably be a bad move by IBM but then we all know the amount of stupidity there.

Remote work – not AI – is killing job prospects for the youth

Re: Time to Sack Managers

No, what often happens is, someone gets promotes because A) they are very good at the job they are doing, and management thinks that's a good reason to promote them, or they are the longest serving employee on the team. None of which has any bearing on whether they would be a good manager or not!

It's like the highly successful salesperson who is promoted to sales manager because of their performance and turns out to be a failure as a manager, because salesmanship has little to do with managing people.

There is a name for this, The Peter Principal.

I'm not buying what they are selling

And yes, the sage old geezer is going to provide you with his wisdom!

Whether the "young" employee is working at home or in the office isn't IMO the factor here. The factor is character! Most people under 40 were educated in an environment where they were told they are entitled! Entitled to many things they are not required to earn, be that a job, a salary, respect, etc. The quality, and quantity of their work is lacking, but that's not the real issue, what is the REAL issue is their attitude. The article talks about mentoring, but from my experience the majority of them do not want mentoring. Mentoring means providing constructive criticism, but that criticism will more likely land you in an encounter with HR than improve the "young workers" performance. Performance reviews are worthless! 35 years in this business and never was a performance review tied to an employee annual salary increase or job retention. So now you have a young worker who is not productive, with the usual bad attitude, you want to replace him? Good luck with that! You can do everything right and then let them go and they will sue you for wrongful termination, or racial/sexual discrimination, etc. They will get a jury trial and win! (Or in some Euro countries it's just illegal to fire the little shits!)

So no, this has far less to do with remote work that it has to do with shit parents and the shit education system these little "shits" were brought up in.

Anthropic co-founder hallucinates ghost in the machine

Regulations?

"We must avoid the misconception of equating this type of 'intelligence' with that of human beings," he declared. "These systems merely imitate certain functions of human intelligence."

Yet,

We know the law that should be written, it was given to us many years ago, but the fool thought it was mere fiction!

"Thou shalt not create a machine in the image of the human mind!"

-- The Orange Catholic Bible

Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't

Re: The bill itself

Clause 3 is literally unenforceable, as the web site operator would have no idea if the client were using a VPN or not! It's like passing a law that states "After taking a dump, people shall not wipe with their right hand!" Unless they propose to force the installation of monitoring software on every device there is no way to prove or disprove this.

Even if Clause 4 passes muster, why would any site actually do that! Why would they care?

Sounds like the Streisand effect! They make a spectacle that porn sites need age verification, so now everyone is visiting porn sites to see what all the hubbub us about!

Re: The usual snide jab

In a free nation, you are not entitled to for other people to pay for you use of someone else labor!

That's not freedom, that's tyranny Because if you refuse to participate, they will drag you off at the point of a gun!

Freedom means you are free! Free to make and pay for your own live!

But I would not expect a "subject" to understand what it means to be a free citizen!

Re: The state of Utah may be surprised to discover

Unfortunately, you are talking about people that believe in a "cartoon" religion! Facts and common-sense mean nothing to them!

Mozilla warns UK: Breaking VPNs will not magically fix Britain's age-check mess

Can you hear the jack boots!?

Europe is descending into a fascist state every day! The morons who live there can't even see it because their Fascist governments keep them focused on the "Bad Orange Man!"

We are not coming to save you this time, dumbasses!

BOFH: Nothing says 'business continuity' like a dry wooden broom

Wow, how clueless can you be!

Interesting story written by someone who has no clue how electricity actually works!

The only reason a main breaker would be tripped, and all the downs stream breakers are not, is the fault occurred behind the downstream breakers!

And a broom handle! Pfft! Electricity deserves your respect, not your fear! Most often it's the fear of electricity that gets people killed!

Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner

Re: Many boxes have always been more necessity than goal

Cloud costs get out of hand because of a lack of control. Dev teams are allowed to spin up resources without approval. No one is watching the bill until feces hits the fan.

It's no different than uncontrolled OpEx in any other department. It's just that IT doesn't have the experience to control OpEx costs. It's a new skill that needs to be learned!

Re: Good lunch?

And paid for companionship!

It's Garner, so you know the payoff was a real!

SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question

Soverignty my ass!

You fear the US all the while your nations descend onto Fascist states!

You are all too demoralized to even realize it's happening!

Re: Pan-nationalisation

Great idea, comrade!

Trump's Golden Dome gets $3.2B of contractors and an AI sprinkle

Re: value for money

If the Europeans spent what they agreed to, we would not have to spend what we spend!

Re: Golden Dome is already obsolete

The difference is, the SDI wasn't a boondoggle, because it never really existed. It was a project on paper only! The entire purpose was to get the Russians to spend obscene amounts of money they didn't have. It worked.

Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT's expense

I suppose of you told them they could spend $1000.00 on a computer to install Windows Server and configure a domain controller they would say "no, that's too expensive", but they are more than happy to pay your cost for a support visit! When I supported SMBs I saw this so often! It's easier to pay 100 small invoices than to get a moderately large purchase approved!

Sometimes the bean counters are the worst virus!

Microsoft beefs up Remote Desktop security with ... hard-to-read messages

Why bother

So, another "poorly" implemented security warning that the most vulnerable will just accept and move on!