Sounds like Max-Q
happening as a higher speed and lower altitude than expected (or built for).
Posts by Sparkus
435 publicly visible posts • joined 20 May 2020
FAA gives SpaceX the nod for Starship Flight 9 but doubles the danger zone
FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart
Google tries to greenwash massive AI energy consumption with another vague nuclear deal
Soviet probe from 1972 set to return to Earth ... in May 2025
AI infrastructure investment may be $8T shot in the dark
Intel's latest CEO Lip Bu Tan: 'You deserve better'
IBM scores perfect 10 ... vulnerability in mission-critical OS AIX
The NHS security culture problem is a crisis years in the making
Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list
Tuesday 25th February 2025 17:15 GMT
The only thing keeping my last two personal machines on Win10
are two incalcitrant graphics/imaging/video programs that do not have a Linux analogue.
Yet anyway. Both companies have made recent public statements about shifting their development to Rocky Linux and using that as a base for their Mac and Windows desktop version.
Until then, my personal machines boot into Rocky Linux, then VirtualBox fires off a Windows instance.
Any regular ElReg user (grey-beard appearance not required) will be using this, or similar to manage their home Windows systems. It's not hard but it is beyond Great-Uncle Bob and Grandma Florence.
Why SAP may be mulling 2030 end of maintenance for legacy ERP
Early mornings, late evenings, weekends. Useless users always demand support
Saturday 8th February 2025 14:46 GMT
I once returned a pager
to a group manager after their third-shift operators called me in on a "printer problem" that simply required a fresh box of fan-fold.
The pager was frozen in a block of ice and being a 1980s vintage Motorola, worked fine after being defrosted. That, and a billing for multiple hours of time at double standard rates (after-hours, weekend, etc) I never had this problem again.
When it comes to AI ROI, IT decision-makers not convinced
UK biz dept overspent by £208M prepping to pay workers hurt in Post Office IT scandal
China's DeepSeek just emitted a free challenger to OpenAI's o1 – here's how to use it on your PC
Monday 27th January 2025 16:30 GMT
well, well, that was quick...
Absent and real or imagined 'national security implications' as long as the thing is 90% of Copilot/OpenAI at 10% of the price, I can't see why any organization would not use it. The implications for all those many MANY billions of $$$ spent and the people who spent them are left as an exercise for the reader.......
Seriously, last years LLM stars and the spending behind them were pretty much matched and in some scenarios obsoleted by the inevitable challenger. Only surprise here is that the challenger went public in early 2025 when I was thinking late 2025.
What happens when we can’t just build bigger AI datacenters anymore?
Sunday 26th January 2025 21:03 GMT
Power *and* cooling
are the limiting factors.
The greed of local councils to fill unused industrial estates and 'idle' farmland will never be satisfied. Some other limiting factor, such as moral outrage over the unproductive consumption of energy resources and adverse impact on the reliability of energy grids will have to come into play......
GPU constraints? There are some arguments that a 256 bit enhancement to AltiVec has the potential to outperform Nvidia silicon on far cheaper and less energy hungry hardware. if that come to fruition (Power 11/12 anyone?) all real-estate and GWatt calculations are off.
And remember, at the end of The Forbin Project the Colossus / Guardian symbiote demanded that the island of Malta be evacuated and hollowed out as an AI fortress / core.
Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?
Friday 24th January 2025 20:53 GMT
Easy
.......and I've been part of discussions on this very topic over the past six months...
If the people who have spent hundreds of Billions of Dollars on 'AI' can't begin to show positive usage trends, regardless of real-world usefulness of those said-same AI applications, people will start to lose their jobs and bankers / investors will start to call in their notes.....
SpaceX and Blue Origin both face FAA mishap probes
Tech support fill-in given no budget, no help, no training, and no empathy for his plight
Friday 17th January 2025 17:09 GMT
stealth-upgrade of multiple server OSs....
Notoriously lazy SAP Basis team who refused to update their SAP documentation and had the company stuck on AIX 3.2.55 (!!!) for a year after IBM pulled support. They were satisfied with the 92% uptime of the overall SAP installation because it was 'better' than the 85% reliability of the old SAP on System 1.
Leaned heavily on the (then very new) AIX transparent/no reboot OS upgrade and patch capabilities. Took over three weeks to upgrade a good-sized farm of servers one at a time. Took another 6 months before the Basis team noticed both the upgrade and the suddenly improved uptime numbers to 4 nines.
This particular story goes on for 3-4 more years and (IMHO) deserves both it's own article on El Reg as well as an SAP whitepaper and IBM Redbook.
Apple solves broken news alerts by turning off the AI
Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI
Intel debuts laptop silicon that doesn't qualify for Microsoft's 'Copilot+ PC' badge
Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did
A New Year's gift from Microsoft: Surprise, your scanners don't work
Even Netflix struggles to identify and understand the cost of its AWS estate
US airspace closures, lack of answers deepen East Coast drone mystery
Altman to Musk: Don't go full supervillain – that's so un-American
Day after nuclear power vow, Meta announces largest-ever datacenter powered by fossil fuels
Friday 6th December 2024 17:57 GMT
Data centers are not capital investments for teh local economy
After construction and build out completes, the only taxes paid are those via payroll tax.
Massive data centers are often attracted to tax-exempt property and 'value' agreements with local authorities. Over the 10-15 year life of a data center, this can save more money that low cost land, construction, and utilities.
Asda hits the brakes on tech tweaks to avoid festive fiasco
Tuesday 3rd December 2024 16:12 GMT
How is this news?
One of the banks I consult for has their end-of-year freeze running from 01 Dec to 15 Jan every year.
Retailers in general freeze the state of their systems, excepting critical system-outage kind of work, during similar time frames.
This practice has been a known 'feature' of IT work for decades.
Kyndryl insiders say there's little new business
Friday 22nd November 2024 20:22 GMT
It Gets Worse...
Kyndryl is spending large $$$ on 'pundits' and PR-focused 'executives' to keep clients happy and fed. K knows deep down that their client base is no longer beholden or loyal to an ex-IBM structure; as soon as the winds or tides change, clients will be off looking for pricing and performance guarantees from other players.
SpaceX Dragon gives ISS a helping hand with altitude
Satya Nadella asked for 50% cut in his incentive payout over security failures
Vulcan Centaur avoids FAA scrutiny after losing solid rocket booster nozzle
A year after taking on Intel's NUC mini-PCs, Asus says it's ready to improve them
Post-CrowdStrike catastrophe, Microsoft figures moving antivirus out of Windows kernel mode is a good idea
Admins wonder if the cloud was such a good idea after all
Intel's 120 TOPS Lunar Lake AI PC chips have landed
Microsoft PC accessories rise from the grave just in time for Christmas
France charges Telegram CEO with multiple crimes
Tech support chap solved knotty disk failure problem by staring at the floor
Equinix pilots use of fuel cell in 'shipping container' outside datacenter
Microsoft tweaks fine print to warn everyone not to take its AI seriously
Gas pipeline players in talks to fuel AI datacenter demand
Icelandic group demos private cloud powered by renewables
NASA mulls using SpaceX in 2025 to rescue Starliner pilots stuck on space station
WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, is re-released for free
Another law firm piles on Intel for Raptor Lake CPU failures as complaints grow louder
Delta Air Lines dials up Microsoft's legal nemesis over CrowdStrike losses
Tuesday 30th July 2024 21:16 GMT
The CS event was....
.....enabled by a combination of bad build and testing on the part of CS **and** (don't forget) deliberate design decision by msft to hide a set of API calls that set their own internal AV solution (Defender) at a significant performance advantage compared to third-party tools.
When msft was caught with their design pants down, the decision was made to open those APIs up to everyone and anyone when the rational/good design decision should have been to kill off the calls.
And that's how we got here.
The court case that needs to be settled is if msft and their managers/executives are liable for global user damages caused by poor design and implementation of their products.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
