* Posts by upsidedown

4 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2019

A visa to fill Australia's empty tech jobs is getting more expensive, but maybe better value

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Re: A bit torn

Yeah, they are an irrelevant organization who's been taken over by those who think Australian's can't do IT and that everything needs to be offshore-ed - some call this conflict of interest I believe....

AWS is running a 96-core, 192-thread, custom Xeon server

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Re: Really??????

Apparently so can SPARC T series, but I wouldn't call them real cores either.

upsidedown

Really??????

Is that all?? IBM Power10 240 cores, 1920 threads. Intel are a long way behind here.

Sod 3G, that can go, but don't rush to turn off 2G, UK still needs it – report

upsidedown

Australia has already switched off 2G services with the largest telco (Telstra - formally government owned) having announced the future switch-off date for their 3G services, they have given about 5 years notice and no longer sell any phone that don't support 4G. They followed a similar process for the 2G switch-off. Vodafone and Optus then followed Telstra's lead to switch-off 2G. I wouldn't be surprised if they also followed in a similar timeframe for the 3G switch-off.