Posts by Mark 110 825 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Sep 2009
I'd side wiith anyone except Teradata having worked with them. Have you tried to work with them? It seems to involve you paying £1/2 million quid for hardware, support, services that you have no idea what to do with and then £5 million on top to learrn what to do wiith the "solution" they sold you.
Utter fuck wit con artists that I never want to deal with again!!!!
"Despite all the self-puffery, HSCN merely replaces a previous BT system, N3, which closed to new business at the end of March 2017. According to NHS Digital, "well over 50 per cent" of N3 users have now dropped dosh on an HSCN provider, though the contract is not a BT monopoly."
So we are reporting a contract renewal? Are we? Hard to tell.
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"What was therefore teased was an Arm64 device running four Arm-compatible guest operating systems and applications on a port of VMware's bare-metal hypervisor with fault tolerance"
You do realise that Fault Tolerance means something very specific in VMWare world. Its about running a live synchronised version of the VM on an alternate host in case of host failure (I've yet to run into this in the wiild). The article seems to imply a demo on a single host which wouldn't allow for that. It also doesn't allow for the lower level of fault tolerance, High Availability, which will move a VM to another available host in the event of host failure.
What was demo'd was a single host running 4 VMs, not anything at all either 'Fault Tolerant' or 'High Availablity'.
I'm not sure they've ever been overly secret about their business model. But hen I've been reading the Register pretty much since its inception. The average user is much less aware.
We really should stop whining about it and get together in our spare time to design and build an alternative to Android. Theres probably enough skills and experience on here to at least get a working proto up to go get some funding with . . .
Hardwares a different problem.
I just think that there's many IT shops that were born and bred on Windows and a migration to something else is to onerous to complicate. Where I'm working now the fact that Marketing insist on having a few Macs on the network causes no end of headaches.
Windows works in most cases (for a small organization with low transactions and vendor supplied apps that need Windows). Wheres the motivation to start a multi-million pound "migrate to Linux" project that will ultimately fail (see Cologne) when the status quo is working just fine.
There's probably a line they could cross with licensing but they are nowhere near it (unlike Oracle who are shedding customers hand over fist apparently).
"if you could, get Windows to do it's update thing while you sleep, not while you game (although I think, like most option on Windows, that's pretty much out of your hands now)."
Err no - to quote the Windows update settings page . . .
"Set active hours to let us know when you typically use this device. We won't automatically restart it during active hours and we won't restart without checking if you're using it."
I agree that there's use cases for not having it auto restarted at all which would be my preference but its not entirely out of your hands.
@BlinkytheMagicPaperClip
"You do realise this is almost Windows' entire software ecosystem, and a large proportion of non Windows apps?
Unless you really do want all software to be signed, vetted, subjected to (possibly arbitrary standards), plus a 30% margin, then dumped in Windows Store?"
Why are you picking on Windows? Not that I'm a fanboi (user yeah) but when I install something on Ubuntu I have as much clue what I am installing as I do on Windows, or Android or Mac. What are you trying to say? x86 CPU flaws are only going to affect Windows users?
Good call. Additionally "Zebrafish are omnivorous, primarily eating zooplankton, phytoplankton, insects and insect larvae, although they can eat a variety of other foods, such as worms and small crustaceans, if their preferred food sources are not readily available."
They don't eat fish.
"Platform rivals to the Apple’s WatchOS have been stagnating for years, with no new silicon from Qualcomm with which to take on the (now) all-conquering Apple smartwatch since 2016."
Please stop ignoring Garmin as a thing El Reg. It is a thing. It makes the best bits of tech that are dedicated to exercise. OK so it used to be dedicated to cycling, running, walking and specialist device swimming but now they wrap all that up in a nice package with all the other health stuff. And you get phone notifications on your wrist. And they are starting to add payment services.
Theres more tech companies in the world than Apple/Samsung/Google!!!!!!
"Just try to visit UK daily newspaper The Independent without an ad-blocker (remembering to disable media autoplay as you go) and you'll find yourself mired in a swirling nightmare of digital ad manure that keeps jumping around but never completes loading. "
On the rare occasion I mistakenly hyperlink into https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/ I just spend my time fighting the thing to stop throwing awfulness at me before I manage to close the tab in disgust. The things in unreadable and blocks your adblocker.
I couldn't really give a shit about whether the EU or the UK are more democratic (I do think - check my old posts - that the UK system is horribly undemocratic though).
What worries me most is that the EU makes much better decisions and better laws for the good of all of us than the UK ever has. Our worlds a better place for it. In new world we have to be like (or in slavery to his hedge fund) Jacob Rees Mogg . . . Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucccccccccccccccc........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Once this makes its way onto lower end devices then isn't there a place for it in a world where people can't afford a phone and a PC? Might be a viable like that in corporate environments as well. Just give everyone a smartphone and set some hot desks up with these docks.
Vast numbers of users just need telecoms, a browser (for their business apps), email and office. Could knock a significant percentage off corporate IT budgets.
On desktop: Feels like there's way too much whitespace - alot of downward scrolling needed. If you have gone full responsive design, why isn't the site filling my browser width? I can only see 9 articles before I have to scroll. On classic I can see 10 even though you've wasted a 3rd of the space with a picture of some chips. You don't really need all that space for those background adds do you?
On mobile: I can't really tell the difference.
My tuppence.
Not sure its true. I was working at one of the biggest SAP shops in the world (Unilever) when HANA was launched and there was no rough stuff. Actually, more a "this looks like an advance, bring it on" attitude from the business & techies.
I sense Teradata clutching at straws before they go under here.
"I don't mind downvotes, but I'm honestly curious here -- why is this comment getting them? Can someone give me the counterargument?
I believe what I said is true because I have yet to see "anonymized" data collection that can't be de-anonymized whenever the entity holding the data wants to do it."
They aren't collecting any PII data. Theres nothing they have they could de-anonymouse.
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