Posts by Mikel

Meanwhile...

Blog hits and comment counts are down across the interwebs as various reputation management programs undergo thorough review.

Not Microsoft's fault

The modern computing workstation is just too horribly complex to secure. Anybody with Windows, IE and Office is going to be vulnerable to a targeted exploit from time to time. The company and its staff can hardly be held liable for this inherent complexity in integrated enterprise IT solutions.

Er... Wait a minute...

No Windows 9 this year

What else is there to do?

Hm

Bluehost could use some cheap goodwill. Backblaze too. Can think of a few others.

That sweet goodbye

He takes away over $100 million for his year on the job. That's nice work if you can get it. That will buy a lot of salve for the burn.

Everything

I would like for every wall and lamp socket, every appliance and entertainment device in my home to be part of my personal thingerweb.

Fiber Internet

At that price Charter could just offer gigabit fiber and run TWC out of town the old fashioned competitive product way.

Let us not forget

After Windows 9 will come 10 and 11 to be lauded and then scorned by their maker, each in their turns on the endless wheel of making you buy the same stuff over and again.

Ballmer dissing iPhone and Android comes to mind

You can already install full Ubuntu or Fedora on a number of ARM platforms, including mobile. There are server ports for most common sevices, and most of the business logic for these things is in scripting languages anyway, which generally don't care what the architecture is.

ARM on servers has what it needs to take off. So now it's time for Microsoft to announce they fear it, in their own unique way.

MaCaulay on Copyright

Read the prophetic speeches on copyright given by Baron Macaulay, author of such works as "The History of England", before the House of Commons over a century ago :

http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/opposingcopyrightextension/commentary/MacaulaySpeeches.html

The article

The article could use a mention of the man's prior work experience, as it is relevant to the subject.

China is holding things up

China has to let the Nokia deal close before they can announce their selection. :-)

Headless Beast

Just how I like it. Blind and helpless, without direction. They can't delay the selection long enough to suit me.

Nice tab for $150

That is enough hardware for a decent Linux PC. I might have to get one just for that

Never happened before

Wonder how many spy sats are already up there doing double duty. Kind of a pain to pull them down to check.

Keep up the good work Lewis

Love the reportage as it is. Let the AGW Inquisition stifle somebody else.

Beginning to dislike Blackberry stories

The first couple years were interesting. But lately it just seems morbid. Here we have the zombie of what was once a friend, chained to a stump. It is still moaning weakly for brains as we watch it slowly decompose. Really, turn away. We know the story ends with it transforming into an incorporeal patent troll eventually. We don't have to watch the sad stages of decomposition.

Profitless Android

In 2013 nearly 1 billion Android devices were sold. Not 1 billion so far for all years - 1 billion for one year. Roughly 800 million phones and 200 million tablets. One device for every seven living humans. Made of a billion lithium batteries, a billion circuit boards and touchscreens, over a billion tiny cameras. Made in hundreds of factories and sold in hundreds of thousands of retail establishments all over the world. Designed in dozens of high-rise office buildings by busy engineers.

Pick an average selling price: $100, $150, $200? That is a lot of money.

And you would have us believe that nobody but Samsung managed to skim a profit off of all this activity? Where did the money to hire the engineers, build the factories, stock the shelves, hire the sales and delivery men come from? More importantly, why? Why would hundreds of competing business interests all over the world conspire to create the greatest technology shift the world has ever known - and exactly break even? Altruism?

It makes no sense. A more likely explanation is that profit is being made and you aren't being told about it.

Want quick updates?

Just get a Nexus. Problem solved.

Had to be a rough day for these guys

In the annals of PR flackery for security firms, the day coming out with the declaration "we were had" was the least bad choice must be quite memorable.

I came for the article

Stayed for all the whining and crying in the comments about how dare they do this, fail, etc. Pass the popcorn.

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(*) Offer not valid on leap day.

OK look

You start with 8 core 64bit ARM silicon with a nice GPGPU, and layer into the SOC 32GB or 64GB of LPDDR4. Lead length for the RAM is 0.2mm so go ahead and use a wide low latency memory bus and reduce the cache. Use the BGA for power and FDR infiniband only. Put 4 of these and an infiniband mesh ASIC on each side of a high profile DIMM sized fin. Six fins and more network ASIC on each side of a daughter card, 20 daughter cards in a 2U chassis. Mix in some Magic clustering software, and it's all sorted. 7680 cores per RU, 307,200 per rack, same power and cooling.

Just got free of Sprint for T-mo

This prospect does not appeal.

Volume

At the volume these guys buy chips, rolling your own starts to make sense. Especially since they own their whole software stack as well. Figure in power and cooling, compute density, and it's a slam dunk.

LTSP, kvm

Thank goodness I never took the trouble to become addicted to this nonsense. If I want to run one VM or a million and access them from anything anywhere the price is $0 and there will be no audit. As if I would let some stranger poke about on my computer. What nonsense is this?

Completely unrelated: is IIS still licensed per user? I always found that hilarious.