* Posts by seven of five

896 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jan 2010

Valheim: How the heck has more 'indie shovelware with PS2 graphics' sold 4 million copies in a matter of weeks?

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Re: Steam? Deal-killer.

Might come to gog as soon as it is out of early access. If we are lucky.

GPUs for gaming, data-center servers continue to drive up Nvidia's revenues despite chip shortages everywhere

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>Huang added:[...] "We have enough supply to grow each quarter throughout the year."

Yeah, sure. That is why we have all the choice in the world which card is out of stock and can only be bought from a scalper at 300%+ surcharge. Since goddamn October.

Tell me another one. And unless they pull the additional chips for the mining cards out of thin air, this will do exactly zilch to remedy the shortage.

IBM teases new AIX release – the first since 2015

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Re: Last major AIX update

Well, TL05 SP00 and SP01 came out the same day, so that is IBM for you. :)

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Last major AIX update

Actually, the last major update to AIX was TL05, released in November 2020.

Planespotters’ weekends turn traumatic as engine pieces fall from the sky in the Netherlands and the US

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Quick turnaround for the 777?

Shouldn't the plane have dumped a few tons of fuel first? Or is this not the case with newer aircraft anymore?

Texas blacks out, freezes, and even stops sending juice to semiconductor plants. During a global silicon shortage

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Re: Doomsday Preppers

Oh, my girlfriend has a pair of these, look nice on her.

Ssorry. But not very much.

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Re: The Real Story from Texas

> The grid went down in 2011 and it went down harder this week.

So Texas DID learn from its mistake and improved on it. The grrreatest outage ev0r!

Can they do even more?

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"reach out" *barf*

Oh how I hate that word "We've been reaching out..." Bloody arseholes, they asked a fucking question, that is not "reaching out". Or at least, it didn't use to be.

Microsoft says it found 1,000-plus developers' fingerprints on the SolarWinds attack

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Probably only 50 guys/gals

They're just 20 times better than Micros~1 could imagine...

Personally, I'd go with Steve Davies 3 Idea of stackoverflows copy&paste.

IBM quietly announces Power-powered private cloud in a rack to 'evolve' your apps

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Re: Stop pissing about

Oh my...

What you describe are shared storage pools running on virtual i/o servers (which in turn are part of the much older PowerVM). Given you mention a web interface (go wash your mouth), this most probably were E880C model servers IBM desperately shopped around about that time. Which came with an open stack based web thingy called PowerVC. Was ok until you had one piece of non-IBM hardware (then it all crashed or fucked the entire infrastructure) or cared to ever administer your hardware ever again without it. This tool leaves scorced earth.

Also it lacks a lot of flexibilty concerning the setup of your lpar, so in the end you build your systems within its limited features or build by hand. You can not use PowerVC and the HMC in parallel.

"It was pretty cool to use if you were an old school unix admin."

In this case, I might be an older school unix admin.

edit: don't get me wrong, SSP on vios are great. It is just PVC which isn't.

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Re: roomer has it

> Apparently AIX admins like to be paid well

And not without good reason. Not many remain, and even the younger ones are quite experienced by now.

Rover, wanderer, nomad, vagabond: Oracle launches rugged edge-of-network box for hostile environments

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Re: 1.2m height but no more than 26 times

Well, makes a lot more sense. Sheeh, damn.

Where did a^2 come to play, drag?

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Re: 1.2m height but no more than 26 times

F=m*a^2, so certainly, yes.

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Re: For hostile environments

Not THAT hostile. Regular hostile, think "Australian fauna on a medicore morning"

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Re: Stuck on the side

With Oracle? Guess...

Obviously, you may bring your own pencil and paper IF you pay them a licence fee to do so.

CD Projekt Red 'EPICALLY pwned': Cyberpunk 2077 dev publishes ransom note after company systems encrypted

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Re: Go get 'em!

Eh, this is Poland, not Belaurus or Ukrania.

Nespresso smart cards hacked to provide infinite coffee after someone wasn't too perky about security

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Re: To be perfectly fair ...

Dangerous ground (Ha!) for someone from the US...

Yes, I know, just as with the beer - you can have decent in the States..

European Commission outlines appeal against Apple's €13bn tax ruling

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Re: Again

Demonstrated (here again, btw, but noticed since I started to memorize your username - Ugh, him again) ignorance. You consistently insist it is "the others" who are wrong, have a problem, are unreasonable, fail to see, etc.

Most of the time accompanied by personal attacks:

"Presumably because you"

"You seem to think"

"Are you saying"

EOT.

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Re: Again

> I do seem to have that effect on people who dont seem to have much by way of reason or thought

> through argument. But I appreciate the comment, normally I just get quiet downvotes

Yes, everybody else being unreasonable is exactly your problem.

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Re: Again

I would have explained, but then I saw it is you.

Have it your way: Yes, the EU is wrong and the root of all evil up to and including the crucifiction, probably made the dinosaurs extinct as well.

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Re: It's about state aids, not taxes

> EU should have asked an hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, though.... just to remind them patience has some limitations.

Have you been there, thirty years ago? No, obviously not, otherwise you would known damn well why the hard border has to be avoided. Just thinking about what our parents did to each other back then makes me shudder. Granted, I do like the convenience of crossing the border whenever I like, but most of all I love my children to be able to go to school without being torn apart by a bomb.

Just shut the fuck up.

[1] much more deleted, I need to calm down.

ThinkPad T14s AMD Gen 1: Workhorse that does the business – and dares you to push that red button

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Re: Finger bobs

And not without good reason: It is where the thumb part of the hand rests. So it moves the mouse. Don't move my mouse.

Europe considers making it law that your boss can’t bug you outside of office hours

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Re: "I wouldn't work somewhere where I needed a law to protect me from my boss."

Or have to react anyway as fixing it now will be much less agony than fixing it tomorrow.

Man arrested after UK school finds wiped hard drives on devices connected to network

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Yeah, but it is white magic (in a sea of black). Possibly green magic, or amber, if you are really old.

Tesla axes software engineer for allegedly pilfering secret Python scripts after just three days on the job

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Re: "Khatilov, also known as Sabhir Khatilov and Alex Tilov, "

Same goes for someone from Finland working in France, no need to go all the way to asia. Called him (on his request) Ari, until we saw him drive. From then on, he was "Sisu" :) Liked that even better.

BOFH: Are you a druid? Legally, you have to tell me if you're a druid

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> SYSTEM TIME 1-JAN-1970 00:00:04

Just lovely.

Engineers blame 'intentionally conservative' test parameters for premature end to Space Launch System hotfire

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Re: These burn H2 and LOX - the recipe for the best in-vacuum performance.

Two thirds possible payload is only good when your payload can be made that light, either through orbital assembly or outright design. If it can't be done, well, sometimes it just has to be the big 'un.

Dropbox basically decimates workforce, COO logs off: Cloud biz promises to be 'more efficient and nimble'

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Re: Decimation

"Close enough"? They use hand grenades for literal decimation? only in the US...

Kaspersky Lab autopsies evidence on SolarWinds hack

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Re: Let's instead look for underpaid CIA interns or drunk NSA contractors.

I am unconvinced about them being able to get drunk. They (unfair generalisation, I know) do stop drinking, usually when they are dead.

Otoh, sometime one falls over and sleeps a bit, but resumes drinking as soon as he wakes up.

I'm not sure either counts as "getting dunk".

Linux developers get ready to wield the secateurs against elderly microprocessors

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Re: Bad metric ?

Go see a doctor.

That's it. It's over. It's really over. From today, Adobe Flash Player no longer works. We're free. We can just leave

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Ok, aparently (at least for VSP arrays) the supported workaround is to use AIR from Harman:

https://knowledge.hitachivantara.com/Documents/Storage/VSP_G1X00_and_VSP_F1500/80-06-6x/Addendum%3A_Configuring_the_management_client_to_run_Device_Manager_-_Storage_Navigator_with_Adobe_AIR_from_HARMAN/Configuring_the_management_client_to_run_HDvM_-_SN_with_Adobe_AIR_from_HARMAN

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This would be useful within certain, well defined parameters. Like running the Hitach VSP management gui from a dedicated, isolated client.

Yes, I am well aware flash is dead for a reason.

Watt's next for batteries? It'll be more of the same, not longer life, because physics and chemistry are hard

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Re: So ...

Oh, personal attacks and the moral high ground, now that was quick. Maybe the car I use is a third hand kei car (not fun on the german motorway, but all I can afford working full time for the UNHCR). Or maybe I am employed by Academi and use a V12 Vantage. Just go ahead, judge me all you like. As before, YMMV.

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Re: How about fungus?

Fungus... wasn't this the uncle of Sid the Sloth?

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Re: So ...

80 minutes of charging time on a 6 hour trip. Lovely.

I will do Zurich-Cologne this afternoon (about 400 miles), return on Saturday (work on sunday). And I absolutely won't spend two and a half hours of my vacation time recharging the bloody car.

YMMV.

Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 Gen 8: No boundaries were pushed in the making of this laptop – and that's OK

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Unicomp sells them. With or witout buckling springs.

Cyberpunk 2077: There's a great game within screaming to get out, but sadly it was released 57 years too early

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Re: Disks?

Oh, look how the posh one had something to dig!

Roma, we've had un problema: When every flight's final destination is a date with Windows Boot Manager

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Re: "I started drinking"®

Ha, rookie. My weapons only take coordinates from a keyboard. Makes me a keyboard warrior, doesn't it?

Just let this sink in: Capita wins 12-year £1bn contract to provide training services to the Royal Navy and Marines

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Disarmament through the back door.

or rather, through the wallet. Peace sells :)

AMD's latest top-end RX 6900 XT GPUs vacuumed up in minutes... maybe even by some actual gamers

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Re: Nostalgia

Proton (since a few hours ago) supports CP2077[1]. So you effectively are "a target market".

[1] on AMD cards only. Unfortunetaly, everything quicker than a RX5700XT is sold out.

Cybersecurity giant FireEye says it was hacked by govt-backed spies who stole its crown-jewels hacking tools

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Good news. It was "us"

As there is no RUSSIA, IRAN! CHINA!1! shouting, it must have been one of the five eyes.

The Huawei Mate 40 Pro is so mired in strangely hardy glue that the display shattered during iFixit's teardown

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Plus points for Phillips screws?

Phillips heads are an advantage? Are we talking about the same all-slightly-different heads which are unable to transfer any torque and do slip out of you screwdriver unless you happen to have the very same make as the manufacturer OR some ridicously expensive "made in Germany" precision ones?

Give me Torx heads anytime. Good ones (not more expensive than PH ones) can even grip a screw downwards.

Where's the mysterious metal monolith today then? Oh look, it's atop a California mountain

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Or a lot harder ...

Internet Explorer fails to make the cut, banished from Microsoft Teams for good

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"customers using IE 11 with Teams can expect either degraded capabilities or the inability to connect at all"

How am I supposed to tell the fucking difference to its "regular operation"?

Mysterious Utah monolith mysteriously disappears without trace

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Re: Amazon Shipping Error?

Nah, if it were to be delivered by Amazon, it would be somewhere halfway across the lawn, dented.

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So it is a bit like my head feels on a Saturday morning?

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Re: Weighed in as scrap?

In a desert environment, disappearing metal could also be attributed to Jawa thie^H^H^Hraders. Were there tracks of a Czerka Mining Vehicle?

NASA building network cables that can survive supersonic flight - could this finally deliver unbreakable RJ45 latching tabs?

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Re: Noise meassurements from an F15

Unlike the 'hogs, which are scarily silent. Saw them much earlier than I heard them (caught the movement when they came over some trees) - ouf course I would have been deader than dead by then if I were a tank, but usually they do not prey on hikers...

They still were rather loud when they passed, though.

Mysterious metal monolith found in 'very remote' part of Utah

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Re: We're missing someone

Last time I saw him he was pretty annoyed, mumbling something about "Move my stuff, Utah" or something.

Israeli spyware maker NSO channels Hollywood spy thrillers in appeal for legal immunity in WhatsApp battle

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Yes, but they don't play music, so it is fine.