* Posts by Daniel von Asmuth

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HPE loses its cloud and storage heads: No Goel, Vrij packs up, Fink runs

Daniel von Asmuth
Paris Hilton

So long, General Motors, s'il vous platt

HPE, GM, EVP, EVP, CTO? makes you wonder how many TLAs messieurs Hewlett & Packard have left.

By 2040, computers will need more electricity than the world can generate

Daniel von Asmuth
Boffin

Re: Good thing world electricity production won't flatline until 2040

To bad nuclear fusion won't be productuon-ready until2050.

As IBM told us in 1945, the world has a need for 5 computers. According to the graph the world produces 3 TW of electricity, which will be sufficient for the GW class of computers expected in 2020, but if a 2030 supercomputer (1000 Exaflops) draws 1 TW, that will power only three computers.

Stack Overflow takes on technical documentation

Daniel von Asmuth
Windows

Re: It's all rather depressing really

Have you tried to find any documentation on the NT Kernel Internals?

Shocker: Computer science graduate wins a top UK political job

Daniel von Asmuth
Boffin

What about his policitcal views?

Which party does he support? Microsoft, Google, IBM, Apple or Unix? For which programming language did he voite?

Blighty will have a whopping 24 F-35B jets by 2023 – MoD minister

Daniel von Asmuth

JSF falls

The proud isle-dwellers thought they could leave the doomed Euro currency, but forgot they're still in NATO.

UN council: Seriously, nations, stop switching off the damn internet

Daniel von Asmuth
Thumb Up

Surprise!

A pro-human-rights motion that was actually passed by a majority of nations.

Permabit offers deduplication to Linux masses – almost

Daniel von Asmuth

Sure sounds nice

Is this Open Source software or does it come with an enterprise-class price tag? How well does it perform in practice?

'2nd referendum' topples site

Daniel von Asmuth

Re: 2nd Referendum

Now we need a referendum about whether the UK will remain in the Eurovision Song Contest

If the EU succeeds, then the European football competition will see the UK defeat les blues (the EU team, instead of all these 'sovereign' countries).

You must realise that (unless the UK breaks the, eht EU will have few native English speakers, so in a decade or so, continental kids will learn Polish instead of English in school.

Dutch court says BREIN should get e-book uploaders' names

Daniel von Asmuth
Terminator

Re: BREIN

Brein are a kind of private lobby group, but they act like they are the police and judge.

Why you should Vote Remain: Bananas, bathwater and babies

Daniel von Asmuth
Mushroom

Make bananas, not bombs

Maybe the UK can have bananas (economic growth) by leaving the EU, but the war will never end as long as NATO exits.

Workers rejoice! Marx’s vision will become reality, argues SAP veep

Daniel von Asmuth
Headmaster

Some revolting phrases in there

'Revolting' means 'disgusting' or 'very unpleasant' - nothing like the revolutionary workers that Marx talked about; 'revolving' means 'tending to recur' - which does reflect his ideas either.

Brexit threatens Cornish pasty's racial purity

Daniel von Asmuth
Mushroom

Re: FFS STOP!!!

Hear, hear! Remember that Corrnish pasties are protected by Britain's Nuclear Deterrent, while the Pain Saucisse has la Force de Frappe behind it, but Brabantse Worstenbroordjes must wait for Uncle Obama's nuclear umbrella, which is busy serving hot dogs.

We'll work out to treaty to save our food.

Sophos U-turns on lack of .bat file blocking after El Reg intervenes

Daniel von Asmuth

Re: ren virus.csv virus.exe

What's wrong with uudecode?

Daniel von Asmuth
FAIL

Re: Hang on a second

I have noticed that many Windoze boxen are infested with malware that will block e-mail messages with attached program files (with suffixes like '.exe' or '.com'. A major nuisance if you want to send your latest program to a friend.

Startup Knupath offers world a new CPU architecture

Daniel von Asmuth

A giant leap for mankind

A new path for Donald Knuth?

Latin-quoting Linus Torvalds plays God by not abusing mortals

Daniel von Asmuth
Angel

Iupiter salva reginam

Britannia, proud province of the Imperium Romanum since XVIII Anno Domini.

Software snafu let EU citizens get referendum vote, says Electoral Commission

Daniel von Asmuth
Holmes

Re: damn

"I do wonder that if EU nations were given a referendum on whether or not to kick UK out..."

Why not? Of all of the nations of our blue planet, the Dutch people alone were given the vote in a referendum on future EU membership of the Eukraine (excet for the free Crimea and New Russia territories:-).

US computer-science classes churn out cut-n-paste slackers – and yes, that's a bad thing

Daniel von Asmuth
Unhappy

Re: Not everybody needs to or should learn how to program

Electronics is about building computers (hardware), CS is about software.

Not everybody needs to use computers, but programming is a valueble skill for CS students.

"As a result, the ITIF says, many universities are failing to produce the diverse, well-trained graduates that companies seek to hire."

The real problem is that so many CS graduates abandon their discipline for a job in industry. Some people even think that universities exist to train the youth for careers in commerce or goverment.

US nuke arsenal runs on 1970s IBM 'puter waving 8-inch floppies

Daniel von Asmuth
Devil

Re: Damn yanks!

C£? Unless C€ certified, you're headed for the BRexit.

http://www.ce-marking.org/images/cem_red.gif

Daniel von Asmuth
Mushroom

Everybody knows COBOL and FORTRAN

Have a look at the Wikipedia page. There may not be many engineers familiar with the Series/1 hardware, but even fewer programmers that know the assembly language this machine used, nor are many familiar with the EDX or RPS Operating Systems.

"Systems using EDX were primarily programmed using Event Driven Language (EDL)," I suppose there are not so many programmers left who know that one, compared to the mongiolian hordes of FORTRAN or COBOL coders. But then, learining a new programming language should be a routine occurrence for any experienced code jockey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Series/1

Microsoft bods tell El Reg: We've re-pivoted open-source .NET Core

Daniel von Asmuth
Facepalm

Re: Re-pivoted

Who wants object-oriented software when you can have re-pivoted code?

The 'new' Microsoft? I still wouldn't touch them with a barge pole

Daniel von Asmuth
Paris Hilton

What are technologies? Which ones does MS make?

There was a time the people could trust Microsoft. Alas, then they put and end to Trustworthy Computing, which cost 2100 jobs, when rival Cupertino lost only 1 Jobs.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/19/ms_shutters_twc/

Hold on a sec. When did HDDs get SSD-style workload rate limits?

Daniel von Asmuth
Devil

SATAN disc

The joke is on you: these drives were designed for Windows '95: enough capacity for Joe's porn videos, just fast enough to play video and the reliability of a politician. Enterprise disc drives don't come with rate limits, are fast and the failure rate is ten times lower.

http://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/enterprise-performance-savvio-fam/enterprise-performance-15k-hdd/ent-perf-15k-5/en-us/docs/100748152b.pdf

Come to think of it: if discs are made with SSD-like lifetime limitations, that must mean the manufacturer put an SSD into the box as cache.

Old, complex code could cause another UK banking TITSUP – study

Daniel von Asmuth
Pint

Re: "Even if something has been written in Java in 90s that is still 20 years ago."

Indeed. What would happen if the banks start replacing old complex code with fashionable ultra-complex code? The one thing you can be sure of is that the performance will decline (espciallty with Java code).

Storage with the speed of memory? XPoint, XPoint, that's our plan

Daniel von Asmuth
Facepalm

Re: Paradoxically, storage media that doesn’t move is faster ...

As Xeno pointed out, motion is paradoxical, so most computers run zero meters per second.

For sequential access, magnetic tape can be faster than disc, but for random access it's the other way around. The author forgot optical discs, which have lousy seek times.

This is why copy'n'paste should be banned from developers' IDEs

Daniel von Asmuth
WTF?

Re: Code Review

Bash is the name of the language I currently develop in:-(

Learn you Func Prog on five minute quick!

Daniel von Asmuth
Alien

Exhuming McCarthy

The ultimate functional programming language is Lisp and it is the new wave since John McCharthy invented it in 1958.

Periodic table enjoys elemental engorgement

Daniel von Asmuth
Holmes

Asimovum?

Hawkingum (physicist), Merkelium (politician). Laudanum (drug), Belgicum (country), Democratium (mythical concept). Frankensteinum (ficitional scientist), Tellerium (scientist).

China wants encryption cracked on demand because ... er, terrorism

Daniel von Asmuth
Big Brother

Terrorism in China

That would be the Dalai Lama, the Falun Gong sect and the artist Ai Weiwei.

Windows' authentication 'flaw' exposed in detail

Daniel von Asmuth
Linux

Kerberos

Does this flaw extend to other implementations of Kerberos, such as the ones used by Unix and Linux?

Windows 10 market share growth rate flattens again

Daniel von Asmuth
Linux

Re: 2016!

2016 will be the 25-th year of Linux on the desktop! Just image, a market share of 1 % is not thousands, but more than ten million "computers".

Daniel von Asmuth
Windows

Popularity

There may be a load of folks who have no choice but to 'use' Windows, but that doesn't make any more popular than the Tax service. Popular Operating Systems are of course Mac OS, BeOS, OS/2, Atari TOS, AmigaOS, the Commodore 64 Kernal, Unix and Multics.

Remember Windows 1.0? It's been 30 years (and you're officially old)

Daniel von Asmuth
Windows

WOW!

This Windows sported colors (when the MacIntosh was just black & white). By version 3.0 iit even supported overlapping windows and the cooperative multi-tasking and virtual management beat Apple's. How many of you are still using Windows 3.2?

Kids' tech skills go backwards thanks to tablets and smartmobes

Daniel von Asmuth
Windows

Re: we approach the post-literacy world

I wonder about the digital literacy of my great-grandmother. Would she use coal to fuel her search engine? Surf spider webs? Does social media mean gossiping while waiting for her turn at the village well?

Space fans eye launch of Lego Saturn V

Daniel von Asmuth
Boffin

Educational!

At last, a toy for math geeks that comes with plenty of pounds (not Sterling), feet and gallons for our kids to convert into metric units.

UK's internet spy law: £250m in costs could balloon to £2 BILLION

Daniel von Asmuth
Trollface

Re: "Terrorists / IS / bigtime criminals" already do use encryption, they have done for years."

Never mind. That still leave a big amount of unencrypted information.

The consequence of all this intelligence gathering is that foreign groups who dislike Britons need only break into the government's big data warehouse and download all in bulk. Thus you become more vulnerable.

Old, not obsolete: IBM takes Linux mainframes back to the future

Daniel von Asmuth
Meh

Re: I'll root for anything not Intel

It appears that this Rockhopper mainframe comes with up to 10 TB of RAM - the same as a current high-end Intel PC.

That great sucking sound? It's data going into the public cloud

Daniel von Asmuth

Re: ORT (Overall Response Time)

Don't you wonder how much faster those response times would have been if the data had been stored on an SSD inside the client PC? Does this system achieve huge speeds by caching all of the data locally?

Oracle Java 'no longer the greatest risk' to US Windows PC users

Daniel von Asmuth
Facepalm

The way software is installed and updated in Windows is an absolute disgrace!

The disgrace is in the idea that software should be patched regularly. If software is good, keep using it indefinitely. If several bugs have been patched recently, your best guess is that some unpatched ones remain, so you should refrain from using unsafe software like Windows, OS/X or Linux.

Bacon as deadly as cigarettes and asbestos

Daniel von Asmuth
Facepalm

What? Me worry!

Will our warmongering government now decide to put pictures of bacon on packs of fags to illustrate the danger of smoking?

So just what is the third Great Invention of all time?

Daniel von Asmuth

Liability

Maybe the limited liability companies was the worst invention in all of economics.

Daniel von Asmuth
Angel

Money makes the world go square.

Take money, then add theft and slavery: the answer is business or economy. The other two are war or politics and religion. Or maybe those are three names for the same thing.

Terror in the Chernobyl dead zone: Life - of a wild kind - burgeons

Daniel von Asmuth
Mushroom

Re: Despite me being pro-nuclear...

Less than a hundred years after nuclear war makes Homo Sapiens go extinct, planet Earth could be teeming with wildlife.

Microsoft Office 2016 for Windows: The spirit of Clippy lives on

Daniel von Asmuth
Gimp

Re: A few things are needed to make Office great again

Do you mean some version of Word was usable?

A krayshee sexy Dutch post-pub nosh neckfiller: Stamppot

Daniel von Asmuth
Facepalm

In case you ever need to flee your native land

...remember this is what they feed to refugees in Holland and never pause to think that many Syrians are muslims or jews whose faith forbids them to eat treif.

Should you ever get down and out in the Low Countries, you could buy a 'rookworst' at a HEMA shop.

Stamppot is a generic term for a number of dishes which mash spuds with various vegetables and some meaty substance like lard, and they generally pour gravy over it because farmers need calories. The most famous variety is hutspot (not to be confused with Flemish hutsepot).

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutspot

The last post: Building your own mail server, part 2

Daniel von Asmuth

Why Postfix?

BSD and Linux may be similar, but there are significant differences between Postfix and Sendmail configuration.

Microsoft has developed its own Linux. Repeat. Microsoft has developed its own Linux

Daniel von Asmuth

Re: RedmondHat Inside

"focuses on feature development based on Microsoft priorities"

What will that get us? Switches to make sure that Windows 10 Desktops will never loose their route to Redmond HQ so they can phone home?

Windows RT gets new Start menu – but no Cortana or Win 10 apps

Daniel von Asmuth
Alien

Circular Frames

Windows that are round instead of oblong? Must be the biggest hype since Doug Engelbart invented the 'mouse'!

PRIMITIVE TOOLS found near MICROSOFT headquarters

Daniel von Asmuth
Windows

Caves don't come with windows

But when was the oldest Graphical User Interface (sometimes called cave paintings) created in the Americas?

TCP is a wire-centric protocol being forced to cut the cord, painfully

Daniel von Asmuth
Holmes

Why TCP over POTS? The Royal Mail handles packets

The Telephone networks have their suites of age-honoured protocols like SONET, so why on earth did they adopt TCP/IP. How about ax.25?

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