Posts by Ken G

Heavy, man: Tuxedo puts out 2.2kg Stellaris AMD Gen 4

Re: Bavaria

I always thought that was the name of their operating system.

It's 2023, let's check in with the metaverse... Nope, still doesn't exist

Re: Gartner is right, everyone else is wrong

They've got a track record. Don't worry, by 2026 they'll have revised their forecast to demonstrate they never said that.

I'd do that once or twice. I'd pay to do it, like at a cinema, but wouldn't buy my own kit.

The commenter above who says it's like a 3D TV has it right, or at best like Skiing - something a minority of people will buy the equipment for but will use once a year at most. Unless someone comes up with a use case that isn't porn.

Ubuntu continues expanding RISC-V support – now, the $17 Sipeed LicheeRV

Re: Interesting

I've had Allwinner ARM devices act in non-standard ways, I think firmware related. It makes Linux or Chrome hard to manage on them.

Apple exec confirms iPhones will switch to USB-C because 'we have no choice'

No worries.

She'll be right.

IBM Consulting orders staff back to the office for at least three days a week

Re: Show us the metrics

Wrong question - they can easily pull in stats from when 100% of the Global Services were office based and IBM were more successful and correlate the two.

I left long ago but remember 20+ years ago when we were encouraged (to the point of IBM buying internet connections) to work from home so the offices could be sold off. Personally I think 3 days is two much, I generally try to get into an office (wherever I'm working) once a week to catch up with people and of course I'm with the client whenever the client wants me there.

Infosec still (mostly) a boys club

Re: Men and women are different. Get over it.

"To be great in a leading-edge engineering field like IT securiy, you need a level of monomania that is unhealthy in almost every other aspect of life."

I don't believe that's true. I think because some early home computer successes came from that kind of person (Jobs, Gates etc) that it because seen as a requirement. Being able to take in a wide range of diverse information and see how it fits with the situation, the people and the culture is also useful in infosec.

Re: Sometimes they're just not interested

I think it was the home computer era, celebration of the non social "geek" heroes in magazines, tv and films.

That made it seem like being a successful IT person meant having no personal hygiene or social skills.

Before then IT was something for complex organisations who analysed their markets. and made sure not to make costly mistakes. "Move fast and break things" wouldn't have been welcomed at NASA in the 60's.

I will say most women I've met who are successful in IT are better than the men working at the same level.

Just $10 to create an AI chatbot of a dead loved one

"Sometimes I can still hear their voice"

My first throught was Caprica and the resurrection programme.

Nice to see the Reg is kicking off the Halloween season early though.

India reportedly asks smartphone makers to add local satnav silicon

Re: "India's smartphone market is dominated by modestly priced devices."

Look online. You can see both local and global prices for the devices. You can usually order the same anywhere. The only difference is localisation software.

Boffins hunt and kill cockroaches with machine vision laser

Re: "more effective and environmental friendly approaches are needed"

Where's the fun in that?

UK politico proposes site for prototype nuclear fusion plant

Re: JRM and the EU

OK, I'll bite.

Somerset Capital Management LLP did not move. Somerset Capital Group set up a completely new and completely separate company in Dublin and the funds previously administered by Somerset Capital Management were moved to that new company.

I might say I'm moving house but what I really mean is that I'm buying a new house and moving my things to it. Sloppy phrasing.

Re: JRM and the EU

You're making an arbitrary distinction because it's the fund management company, not the funds, which are regulated. To operate an EU fund needs an EU company.

Brexit dividend? 'Newly independent' UK will be world's 'data hub', claims digital minister

Too soon

Business Minister Rees-Mogg says benefits won't be seen until 2066.

This is a local internet for local people, there's nothing for the likes of you here.

China may prove Arm wrong about RISC-V's role in the datacenter

Re: ARM

Agreed, especially since not everyone needs "high" performance, just a good performance/cost ratio. If it runs at half the speed of Intel but costs a quarter as much and takes out some supply chain risk, why wouldn't a lot of governments especially go for it?

I can see a two-tier architecture where government cloud uses RISC-V and commercial ARM/Intel. We also need to see where the cheap mobile phone providers go.

Re: A shot in the head is worth two in the feet

Yes. I was reading yesterday that China had licensed production of Russian Sukhoi jets, then decided to make their own instead. Russia cut off their supply of essential parts (mostly the engines) and China had to go elsewhere for those, namely Motor Sich in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.

India's Mars Orbiter Mission loses contact, burns all fuel, deemed 'non-recoverable'

Re: Still no ground penetrating radar?

The chances are a million to one.

China's single aisle passenger jet – the C919 – likely to be certified next week

Re: That's how Airbus started

No, William E. Boeing founded Aero Products Company in Seattle, Washington in 1916 and in 1917, renamed it Boeing Airplane Company.

Airbus was a government backed initiative from the beginning to avoid a strategic reliance on overseas suppliers. That's what I'm getting at when I say they started the same way.

That's how Airbus started

I don't think it'll make major inroads in Europe or North America but this or future models should pick up traction on other continents. Boeing are vulnerable since the launch of their 737 CrashMaster 3200 or whatever it's called now.

China can destroy US space assets, Space Force ops nominee warns

Re: Outsourced again

We own all your helmets, we own all your shoes.

We own all your generals - touch us and you'll lose.

Morporkia! Morporkia!

Microsoft Outlook sends users back to 1930 with (very) mini-Millennium-Bug glitch

Re: "they will land in the future to enjoy floating skateboards"

Thatcher!

Ex-Broadcom engineer asks for house arrest over IP theft

Re: Assuming he is not lying

Yes. He took confidential information with, if the US government aren't lying, potential vulnerabilities across all Broadcom devices. His reasons and what use he may or may not have made of it are irrelevant to whether it was a crime, though they should affect sentencing.

Blue Monday for Blue Origin as rocket bursts into flame

Re: It's going to hurt sales

AFAIK any ejection system is seriously painful - the straps crush your nadgers - so you only use it when the alternative is worse (in this case, joining in with an enormous kaboom).

Nadine Dorries promotes 'Brexit rewards' of proposed UK data protection law

Re: I'm calling it

They'll be punishing you. And you love it, don't you, you kinky English perves?

A refined Apple desktop debuts ahead of Wednesday’s big iThing launch

Start by growing smaller fingers.

California asks people not to charge EVs during heatwave

Re: Har Har

temperatures that would normally peak in the 80s are going well over 100F

Is that a lot? It sounds like a lot but then I can't cope with 32C which I think is your freezing point?

Woman forced to sell 4-bed house after crypto exchange wrongly refunded $7.2m

The whole thing sounds like these are basically honest people. A crook would have disappeared the money.

Decisions on health data sharing should not be taken by politicians, citizen juries find

To quote from Ministerio del Tiempo

There are things that must not be privatised: education, health care, time travel

More datacenters coming to Ireland, despite energy concerns

Brit humour on an article about Ireland is usually heavy handed.

Re: As a geologically stable country surrounded by ocean

Being Irish, I'd like to see some small safe reactors around the place to guarantee energy independence. I expect we'd buy from France rather than build from scratch.

If you look up RTE archives there was a small reactor at a science fair in the RDS back in the 60's, which the Americans had brought in as a demo.

Re: As a geologically stable country surrounded by ocean

Most nuclear plants are not in capital cities.

Re: Fingers Crossed

They need some more journalists who write about their tech interests without caring about the readers.

NASA's Space Launch System rocket is on track for August 29 liftoff

Re: And a UK astronaut

The Sheep?

Big Tech is building the metaverse of its own dreams. You don't want to go there

Not very far. If there's no competition, why innovate. If it works, why fix it?

Lenovo updates ThinkPad mobile workstations with AMD variants

Re: I would like to get one ....

Big screen = good

NetBSD 9.3: A 2022 OS that can run on late-1980s hardware

Re: OG

O.G. Original Gangster is the fourth studio album by American rapper Ice-T, released May 14, 1991

If you remember NetBSD 0.8 you may remember this.

IBM board probes claims of fudged sales figures that led to big bonuses for execs

Re: It is true

Red Hat was designated as "Cloud" not systems so it's sales contribute to the same cloud target as the mainframe sales (because clouds are virtualised, linux can run in a vm and mainframes can host them)

Russian ChessBot breaks child opponent's finger

Nobody worries about upsetting a droid. That’s cause a droid don’t pull people’s arms out of their sockets when they lose.

Now it's a fair game.

Scientists use dead spider as gripper for robot arm, label it a 'Necrobot'

Next step, Humans

Think of the advantages of a robot able to fit into the same spaces as a person and able to use the same tools

Battle of the retro Unix desktops: NsCDE versus CDE

Those monitors did keep a room warm though.

British intelligence recycles old argument for thwarting strong encryption: Think of the children!

Let's pilot this, see if it works

Start with UK government ministers* and run it for a few years, see if it reduces pornography and sexual assault before putting it to a vote on rolling out to the general public.

*including ministers of state, parliamentary undersecretaries of state, whips, leaders of the houses etc.

UK government refuses public review before launch of NHS data platform

Re: Trust is non-existent

It was sheer luck that there wasn't a huge outbreak that totally incapacitated the Government. The Prime Minister almost died!

Good luck or bad luck?

Demand for smartphones is drying up

They just work

Like washing machines or laptops. It mattered a while ago but any phone from 5 years ago (dependent on security patches, you might want to install a custom ROM) will run anything you need day to day, as will the cheapest android on the market.

IT departments often regret technology buying decisions

Re: The IT department is often the last to know

I've never seen anything that obvious. It's amazing how many executive sponsors go on to become software or services "industry specialists" or "customer advocates" with the vendor in 3-5 years time though.

People who regularly talk to AI chatbots often start to believe they're sentient, says CEO

I have begun to believe the people I talk to are sentient

But I'm still waiting for evidence.

You need to RTFM, but feel free to use your brain too

Re: Literally

I like to give my documents to someone like than and see what happens - as a quality check on me.

Re: Measure twice, cut once

As my engineering lecturer used to say "There are no stupid questions. Only stupid people."

AWS says it will cloudify your mainframe workloads

Uptime?

Has AWS done anything to improve their service uptimes? They've had several major outages, some lasting hours, over the past decade (not all in us-east-1). If I had a mainframe that had been ticking over nicely for a quarter century, I'd need some reassurance that I wouldn't lose data or service and that it would actually cost less in the longer term.

There is an issue with aging staff and skills gap for those running mainframes but I'm not sure cloud is the answer yet.

Lenovo reveals small but mighty desktop workstation

Review or press release?

I'm sure it's a perfectly functional desktop but what's special enough to pick it over a competitor or cause someone to upgrade from last year?

This reads like a Lenovo press release with no added value from the Vulture's expert.