Posts by Lon24 511 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jul 2020
Your definition - not mine. And I don;t actually own it but I do control it.
My definition is data storage up in the [internet] sky accessible anywhere, anytime on any device with authorised credentials. Other can choose or make up their own. The test is 'your cloud' an effective alternative/plugin to the majors - AWS, Google ...??
I love my cloud. It's a RaspberryPi Nextcloud & NFS server with a big ssd stuck in the back. When that runs out I'll stick another one on. Negligable power consumption. Total control.
MS-free now but I have a soft spot for the days I carried my .pst file round on a USB stick till it got too big. Cloudy with even less consumption.
Planet survived.
Nominet is just the first of n - where n+1 might be nearer the number of targets.
Nominet should and probably has one of the strongest security layered system structure of any company. Compromising a Domain Registry is getting close to a zero day for the internet (or at least the UK section of it).
Reading between the lines of Nominet's letter and touching wood - those layers appear to have held and the threat detected - and presumably reported back to the vendor rather than the other way round. Others may not be so lucky - yet only one public report to the NCSC? If you are using the product the NCSC protocols pretty much make that mandatory if the exploiter could access production system through possible compromised credentials or similar.
Making a packet out of the VMWare base is Broadcom's plan.
Maybe an opportunity for Anexia to do likewise and transition from being a cloud company to a migration specialist. Why waste that skill hard won under pressure as a 'once in a lifetime experience'.
There must be thousands of Broadcom prisoners looking for help in cutting their chains.
Surely much more fun and lucrative? Only issue is if Broadcom kill their base too quickly. What to do next?
Anexia admit themselves they were in a fortunate position to make the migration before committing to a 2 year contract. Most won't so the 25/26 accounts should show a huge revenue increase. Of course a 2 year window may be good to design and execute their more difficult migrations.
You probably need to look 4/5 years out to see Broadcomm made a packet out of the aquisition, execs and stockholders rewarded. The operation was successful but the patient died.
VMWare RIP.
Might have been the plan all the time. Good news is this will move minds from dependence on proprietary products to open source. Not a perfect solution as we have seen in the IBM/Red Hat aquisition
IMHO the guy has gone bonkers. He is the Gregg Wallace of open source. Just read through his supposedly Christmas Holiday announcement and watch as his eyes begin to glaze and losing site of his keyboard fingers letting rip in a manner that his crisis managers and lawyers are covering their eyes in despair.
This guy needs help. Not that he is going to listen to any. Great article by the way.
Yes, the relief of escaping one last dependency means I now live in a Windows free world which had necessitated two dual boot laptops.
Gone is whether my Rufus workaround on the Win 11 would upgrade to 24H2 - I'll never know or care. Getting the other Win10 to Win11 when support ends is also in the same bin.
Now I can devote all that time watching Windows Updates to reclaimng the partition space and running up a few non-snap KDE distro VMs to see if I can find a better one.
A very Happy Christmas!
Nor me. But if I ever replace my EV one function I will not be willing to forgo is Android Auto compatibility or its equivalent. I didn't know I needed it until I got it.
However powerful the on-board computer is - it will not be a match for a mid-range smartphone with all its lovely goodies which will be upgraded several times within the lifetime of the car. More ram, more cores. Cars can update software but not the on-board hardware its runs on - and software tends to bloat too.
Qualcomm & Arm are probably more important to each other than any other company. They have built their empires largely on the back of each other. It's in each company's interest to look after each other. Litigating doesn't build trust. Trying to screw each other is very odd. I'm clearly out of touch on how to conduct mutually beneficial partnerships.
Dunno - have you tried getting KDE Dolphin running under WinXP?
Bottom line is for web/email on a the easiest/fastest setup is ChromeOS followed by windows orientated Linux distros followed at some distance by Windows 11. I know, I'm a Linux geek who needs more than Windows could ever offer which is (ironically) why some people come to me to set their Win11 computers up!
But if you buy a PC with Windows then it still easiest to go with Windows then discover and have confidence with the alternatives and overcome the common perceptions described here.
The end of Microsoft at home here is imminent. The only reason left for having a couple of laptops dual boot was my partner used Teams to an organisation that is a complete MS shop. Then, this week, we tried it from my Kubuntu crapbook (aka HP Stream 11) via browser. She couldn't tell the difference. I could - the crapbook cost me £40 because it was not man enough to run the OEM installed Windows but is quite sweet replaced with Linux's arguably 'heaviest' GUI.
So a final goodbye to MS after 40 years and those tiresome, long and uncontrollable updates. Notable in the same year I dumped using another control-freak organisation and wondered why it took so long. Oh, and on to discover my latest phone actually allows me to delete the offending/offensive Twitter/X app. Now social media is run via my own instance on a RaspberryPi.
Freedom from the IT oligarchy and back to real personal computing is possible - except maybe Google is too hard.
I've built a brilliant better-than-chrome browser. Heard of it, downloaded it? Bet you haven't.
OK it's a figment of my imagination - but do you really think I could get funding for development and marketing? Thought not. No sane investor would dream of breaking the Google monopoly. without being considerably richer than Google. Ask Mozilla. But point me to any insane investors who haven't already bought the AI kool-aid and I'll split the proceeds between our holiday funds ;-)
Well - at least he didn't call it the Department of Administrative Affairs which had more or less the same remit on the BBC TV spoof of government. Indeed BBC America shouls be broadcasting rolling 24/7 repeats of 'Yes, Minister'.
I'm sure bureaucracy isn't so different t'other side of the pond.
New features spawn new bugs. One of my RPi updated to 7 today. Rendered useless. Resizing the start page left the icons struggling to re-arrange themselves for 30 secs instead of less than 1 on 6.9 and ramming the cpu at 90+% leading to the inevitable freeze.
Reverted to 6.9 to be informed the updated database couldn't be accessed and I should update to 7. Doh!
I really don't need this drama to use the most basic and essential desktop function. This joins Nextcloud in their relentess monthly upgrades which re-introduce the same old bug in htaccess that has to be fixed every time. Bug fix releases are essential. That's where the priority should lie. Regression for little gain is not
We have Carnegie libraries over here in the UK. Still serving the community in splendid buildings. Outlasting many miserable modern ones. I'm sure Carnegie was a bit of a b*stard but I wonder what concrete legacy of Elon's will be serving the community a century hence (on this planet or the next)?
National Rail, for one when there is an 'incident'. That's pretty often and folks along the line need to know - now.
The problem with most organisations is that updating news and incidents is a lot easier on there chosen SM account then trying to get it on their own IT controlled/protected websites. It would be good to change that - so what is published elsewhere is also published on their website with an RSS feed. Then any other platform can pick up the feed and re-publish on Mastodon, Bluesky etc. Everbody wins (except possibly a guy called Elon).
If this is truly a trademark dispute then presumably the lawyers see 'WP' as a possible infringement in implying it is Wordpress. Should that be proven in US jurisdictions then surely rather than suffer an 8% reduction on margin the company could rename to PW Engine and be rid of the lawsuit.
I really have problems getting my head round this or having sympathy for anyone but Wordpress users.
I think you are supposing how forecasting models work. Not unreasonable but not entirely accurate either. They don't provide an answer but many. The stochastic trail is complex with significant feedback. The interpretation of the computational arrays is complex with copious judgements both human and what may be described as AI today.
Being wrong is what forecasts almost always are. But less wrong than any other consistent method is what they are designed to do and hence essential to warn of possible death and destruction. Their ability to cope with starting conditions never seen before doesn't necessarily invalidate the results if the model is robust enough.
Why go to all that bother of forgery, conning a uniform and forking out to the Ladybird Book on Piloting to get to a jump seat? And all that before airport security was supposed to be taken seriously.
I presume Ian and Sam have been signed up to 'Catch Me If You Can 2 - Frank Bytes Back'
It does work in the UK and I can even read selected (US) Threads accounts from a Mastodon/Fediverse server. Threads plan to extend Federation so you, theoretically, won't have to have a Meta account to read and later comment on Threads postings. Which is about as 'open' as we are likely to get in this area. Certainly more than Twitter/X & Bluesky.
But Federating with Threads debate is like cycle helmet discussion. Neither side takes prisoners.
Sucking reservoirs dry, draining the grid. The amount of new kit going in is eye-watering. Trillions?
It's probably mostly model training - we haven't yet really moved to delivering AI at scale. Which implies revenues are small and will not match costs for years/decades. A lot of upfront cost but where from? The people investing are investing other peoples money with promises of high returns or equity stakes. Will those Pension Funds that fell for the Thames Watter scam be doing the same? That's people's future income and if those Pension Funds fail then the taxpayer will have to step in.
All dandy if AI turns out well (and doesn't turn the planet into a dry, hot hell). But if it doesn't the gamblers aren't the guys who will pick up the bill. And the rest of us don't get a vote.
One may also ask why the judges and defence lawyers in multiple cases didn't determine whether he was expert or not in the legal sense. But I agree it is POL's responsibility to ensure their expert witness is that and knows that. They should carry the can of putting an incompetent (certainly in the legal sense and possibly in the occupational sense). I'm sure if I was called as an expert I would expect the court to provide a checklist and briefing on what I can be expert about and what not.
BTW doesn't the weight of the error log have some correlation with stability? Oh and I've seen errors as portrayed in the TV programme with my piss-poor attempts with Visual Basic. Also in a certain (non-ICL) leading accountancy VB package at the time.
Back in those days with so little ram and the occasional dodgy bit location one good programmer could picture the whole address space in their head which was useful 'cos there was no space in hardware for comments or even redundant space or tabs. Poking routines into memory - a lost art now being re-discovered?
Congrats to the team. Give 'em a ZX-80 and a Z-80 assembler book for Christmas with a dodgy psu to relax with ;-)
Llama, on my desktop, can produce better bash scripts then I can. OK, that's a low bar. They even (gasp) include useful documented comments so hacking them into something useful. gets me a better result faster. Maybe I should have memorised the Linux toolbox but I don't want to be mistaken for a bot ;-)
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