* Posts by Paul Greavy

13 publicly visible posts • joined 9 May 2009

That's how we roll: OWC savagely undercuts Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels with bargain $199 alternative

Paul Greavy

Re: Those b4st4rds

How times have changed. Forty-odd years ago I was weaned on Greene King bitter. The town was full of their pubs and the majors could barely manage a token presence in the same of such quality competition.

Oracle staff say Larry Ellison's fundraiser for Trump is against 'company ethics' – Oracle, ethics... what dimension have we fallen into?

Paul Greavy

According to the hourly news reports it certainly is.

We must never, ever upset markets.

Whoooooa, this node is on fire! Forget Ceph, try the forgotten OpenStack storage release 'Crispy'

Paul Greavy

Thanks for checking into that for us.

I think you took one for the team there.

BBC tells Conservative Party to remove edited Facebook ad featuring its reporters

Paul Greavy

Clip 'could damage perceptions of our impartiality',

That ship sailed long ago.

Let's talk about April Fools' Day jokes. Are they ever really harmless?

Paul Greavy

Re: Error Messages

There is nothing in the article linked that supports your claim. If anything he sounds sensitive to the issue, has thought about it, and has contributed to the discussion. Nothing bigoted there at all.

French internet cops issue terrorist takedown for… Grateful Dead recordings?

Paul Greavy

Re: Sacre bleu!

I've lived in France these last twenty years and usually each time I see an example of French govt. stupidity it is usually matched in due course by British govt. stupidity. No sooner do I think 'no-one could do any worse!' than, yep, they match it in spades. However, I think Britain is currently winning the race to the bottom. I'm not sure that even the French political elite really come up to something to match Brexit.

YouTube's pedo problem is so bad, it just switched off comments on millions of vids of small kids to stem the tide of vileness

Paul Greavy

Re: One of the YouTube channels I watched got its comments deleted in this manner

I think I know exactly the channel you are talking about. I must admit it is a bizarre decision.

I know another channel (often showing up in the same recommendations as that channel) where the guy uses his two children in many of the vids. Yet comments have not been disabled on his channel. Yet.

But neither channel features their children 'inappropriately' - they just do travelogs. And both have fairly healthy subscription and viewing figures, considering they are not doing mainstream pap.

Meltdown, Spectre bug patch slowdown gets real – and what you can do about it

Paul Greavy
Unhappy

Re: Windows 7 may not use PCID capability.

"That's right, it's only supported on Windows 8.1+. The only Linux distro I know of that supports it is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed..."

Hmmm... I installed the patched kernel, rebooted and the workstation crashed while loading the desktop. Repeated three times with the same results, before rolling back to the previous kernel. So I'm not sure that Tumbleweed supports this, yet.

Meltdown, Spectre: The password theft bugs at the heart of Intel CPUs

Paul Greavy

Re: Obligataory brexit link

Yeah, but seriously, what has the EU ever done for us.

Fujitsu-Siemens pulls a Sony with Windows 7 virtual switch off

Paul Greavy
FAIL

Intel and virtualization

@Gavin Clarke

"Virtualization is a standard feature in Intel's chips"

You're kidding right? Finding out which intel chips support virtualization is a frakkin' nightmare.

Citrix: Novell's only option for virtualization marriage

Paul Greavy
Linux

KVM is the only credible way to go

Xen does suffer from that tiny problem that it is not linux. They managed to keep it quite for a long time but now that there is an alternative I'd say the game is up.

KVM is rapidly reaching the point where xen is no longer relevant on a linux distro. So Novell have to provide full support for it, otherwise users and customers will abandon (open)SUSE.

RedHat, of course, have two strategies - developing KVM while simultaneously enhancing libvirt to work with all known hypervisors. And suse are starting to suffer, afaict, because they do not _seem_ to involved in the development of either. Which makes it an unnecessary hassle for anyone who wants to use the latest libvirt code on a suse distro.

Microsoft, Asus launch anti-Linuxbook campaign

Paul Greavy

Asus obviously don't need customers

Well, that's the last time I buy or recommend asus motherboards. Obviously they are not suitable for Linux.

Intel playing virtual silly buggers

Paul Greavy

Intel are more to blame here than MS

I think the article and a lot of the comments miss the point. Intel have basically disabled VT on a lot of chips that otherwise are capable of it. The policy is not at all transparent and seems to exist for no other reason than to make punters who need the feature part with more money.

I've been a happy AMD customer for years and they are much more straightforward about this. The rule there is that VT is enabled on pretty much all chips, except maybe single core semprons.

I've been stung by this Intel policy once and it will be a long time before I buy another Intel processor.