Posts by exovert

Vodafone and Three permitted to tie the knot – if they promise to behave

How then could they hold a spectrum auction every few years and force telcos (&downstream customers) to pay for it

Who had Pat Gelsinger retires from Intel on their bingo card?

The predecessor (Swan) had a tough ride, not being his fault they had to reheat Sky-lake,lake lake lake lake, and similarly, though alder lake isn't attributable to Gelsinger it seemed they had the auspices of being on the right track. They have competitive core products (but have to use TSMC to get them). These are big changes to the model that I think I'd argue made intel's past success.

I have to wonder if anyone other than someone like Gelsinger could have pushed them to that - or if we're now back to pumping stock with buybacks, than expensive fabs & development like 10yr ago when they seemingly spent the investment on there instead, and they'd otherwise be inheriting now.

not a good sign for intel.

but at least they get a $8bn performance bonus from Sam (yeah i'm sure they're 'not allowed' to buy their own stock, or sell for magic beans, like anyone will be around to answer for that). I await to see if they now double down on financial rather than product engineering. I don't know that i'm hopeful, the only reason I can think of to kick Gelsinger is they didn't want to stay that course.

Sysadmins rage over Apple’s ‘nightmarish’ SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts plot

Re: OK, then let's focus on really strict security

Why so much as 5 minutes, why not every connection. And a public key in a DNS record. I guess it couldn't be because the charlatan CA's (i.e. functionally all of them, in case it needed clarification) couldn't middle man rent money in this approach. It is a detriment to everyone, that it just happens this mess was the mechanism available when (Snowden) suddenly it became fashionable to have a lock in an address bar (but not effect any actual security, on any non-updated CMS on the website, of course).

I'll admit I don't require attention to the whole set of problems SSL was purported to solve. But to paraphrase, at least I'm not paid to not understand a decentralised solution could facilitate encryption between two endpoints.

This unread post continues after I click through the self signed cert warnings with, fire and damnation, for any non-public facing service.

At least these days even the non-LE ones are automatic in the sense I log tickets for someone else to swap. just in time.

Epic lawsuit's latest claims: Google slipped tons of cash to game devs, Android makers to cement Play store dominance

Re: Epic bluster

It's still possible to wish for a conflagration that costs all three, and of those three, epic are the only one I don't have to care about.

After all, if they here are the minnow it's only because of the sheer obscenity in wealth and control the other two have been given, and i suspect it's the public trawling of their businesses they'll be most rueful over long term, after they inevitably settle for a clean cash backroom handout.

Microsoft drops 64-bit OneDrive into the pool: Windows on ARM fans need not apply. As usual

How long before the supported path lengths are at least a full 9 bits?

Das Keyboard 4C TKL: Plucky mechanical contender strikes happy medium between typing feel and clackety-clack joy

Re: My Cherry MX Board 1.0 still looks better

With the same conditions of UK layout, I also failed over some time to source a Sun Type 7 - I found instead a Type 5 to USB adapter - https://drakware.com/product/Sun2USB (this was available for shipping + exorbitant customs charge, via popular e-junk retailer).

I have already had the Type 5 (which works wonderfully). I rather suspect more Type 5 than 7 keyboards to have existed.

Though I've never used a Type 7, I suspect it to be more like the Type 6.

US government sues ex-IT guy for breaking his NDA (Yes, we mean Edward Snowden)

Re: I'll have to wait

I'd like to think there'd be a more reliable means than downloading it and posting cash.