FAT32 did indeed work, but the UEFI refers to it as plain old FAT.
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Windows Format dialog waited decades for UI revamp that never came
Pragmatic Semiconductor opens UK's first 300mm wafer fab in Durham
DBA made ten years of data disappear with one misplaced parameter
Re: "Thankfully [..] there were backups"
"If you can't restore from a backup, then your data isn't backed up", so by testing their restore procedures, Larry was actually helping.
(Tongue partially in cheek, because in my last job, if I had to restore from a backup for someone, I'd also tick off my "tested restores" task for the month)
Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server
Intel's $699 Core i9-14900KS turbos to 6.2GHz – assuming you can keep it cool
Re: 6 gigs
It's the highest frequency (out of the box) CPU ever sold, so by definition everything else must be currently running on 'slower' CPUs.
It's irrelevant though, because AI stuff typically uses GPUs or other dedicated silicon, and cloud servers get their speed from running many (slower) CPUs across many, many, servers. It's like comparing a Bugatti Veyron to a fleet of trucks.
Re: "...the x86 giant now has a...processor...that it says will do 6.2GHz right out of the box..."
To put it in perspective, a 14900K (6.0GHz) could compress a bunch of files in WinRar in 14.95s, the previous 13900K (5.8GHz) could do it in 15.21 (based on this review). So the 14900KS is probably a similar increase (or decrease I suppose, depending on how you look at it).
I'm not sure I'd could even notice a quarter of a second speed-up. I would probably notice the difference in my electricity bill though.
Font security 'still a Helvetica of a problem' says Australian graphics outfit Canva
Copilot pane as annoying as Clippy may pop up in Windows 11
Updates are plenty but fans are few in Windows 11 land
HDMI Forum 'blocks AMD open sourcing its 2.1 drivers'
Health system network turned out to be a house of cards – Cisco cards, that is
I had a similar "this should be fine, ohshit" moment, moving power connections on an HP blade enclosure. It could hold up to eight hot-swappable power supplies, this one had six, but IIRC could operate on as few as two with the small number of blades in this particular unit. I'd already moved the power lead of one PSU to a different UPS, so I wasn't expecting anything different when I pulled the kettle lead out of the next one down. Instead there was a click, and the entire blade enclosure powered down, taking with it several important servers. Cue my boss charging into the server room asking what I'd done.
After some testing, it turned out that one of the PSUs seemed ok, right up until it had to draw any significant load, whereupon it would completely fail. If the enclosure had chosen to spread the load onto a different PSU we'd never had noticed, it was just sheer chance it picked the bad one.
Microsoft catches the Wi-Fi 7 wave with Windows 11
Re: "Applications that struggle with latency [..] will also benefit"
Latency and bandwidth are two different things. The simplistic explanation is that bandwidth is how much data you can transmit/receive at once, latency is the time it takes between you sending a packet, and it reaching it's destination.
Latency is mostly noticeable in online games, or VoIP/video calls. eg when you talk, but it takes a noticeable amount of time before the other person hears you.
(Of course, if you don't have enough bandwidth, your latency is going to go way up, so they are somewhat linked)
If we plug this in without telling anyone, nobody will know we caused the outage
Re: Oh and the smoke
I've seen someone get a DIMM in the wrong way around, but not deterred by the notch being in the wrong place, they managed to jam it in hard enough to engage the latch on both ends.
Kind of impressive in it's own way. IIRC it worked fine once the DIMM had been re-inserted correctly.
Microsoft veteran on how to blue screen your way to better testing
Re: "PS/2 keyboard support turned up in Windows 2000, USB keyboards were added with Vista in 2007"
Clarification
When I first read the article, it wasn't clear that it was the crash-inducing key combination that was introduced in Win2k (etc.). I used the corrections form, and got a reply from the author, Richard Speed* promising to make it clearer, and then another email from elReg staff also confirming the clarification. The amended article makes it much clearer, always use the Corrections form folks, the take their jobs seriously :)
Sorry for accusing you of being Ai, elReg :(
*name checks out ;)
Re: "PS/2 keyboard support turned up in Windows 2000, USB keyboards were added with Vista in 2007"
Yep that sounds, well, wrong.
PS/2 keyboards were the norm when Windows 1.0 came out, and definitely worked out of the box with Windows 3. They're still supported on Windows 11, if you happen to have a motherboard that has a PS/2 port.
Win95 could just about handle USB keyboards with additional drivers etc. Win98 was the first version with USB support out of the box. (Although you'd still encounter motherboards which required a PS/2 keyboard to access the BIOS).
Oh, and Hyper-V was first added to Server 2008 and Win8.
Have elReg been letting an AI write articles?
London's famous BT Tower will become a hotel after £275M sale
Re: Running internal applications and services in the cloud
Most data centres have multiple network and power connections, specifically picked to run nowhere near each other to reduce the chances of one JCB taking out multiple connections.
Of course, you can run applications internally, but most offices don't have redundant power or networking, so all it takes is one JCB to bring everything scratching to a halt.
Trident missile test a damp squib after rocket goes 'plop,' fails to ignite
According to The Sun, had this been a real mission rather than a test, the launch would have been successful. The MoD is, unsurprisingly, remaining tightlipped about such matters.
So reading between the lines, they're claiming that when they removed the nuke and replaced it with ballast/telemetry, someone broke the rocket?
LockBit ransomware gang disrupted by global operation
Intuitive Machines IM-1 heading for Moon on SpaceX rocket
Dave's not here, man. But this mind-blowingly huge server just, like, arrived
Re: It's a shame
Infosys enjoyed a boom in UK government invoices in 2023
Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor
Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all
Re: Musk? Who trusts this guy?
SpaceX won't be the single point of failure for Artemis, NASA has also contracted Blue Origin to develop a lander.
It's a more conventional design, but it's from a company that so far has only launched sub-orbital rockets (and is also owned by a potentially volatile billionaire).
Still, I'm not a US citizen, so it's not my taxes being wasted :)
PiStorm turbocharges vintage Amigas with the Raspberry Pi
Re: a totally non-Unix-like system
The Amiga had my favourite case sensitivity in it's shell, which was, 'some'.
If you wanted to, you could have FILE
and file
in the same directory (or any combination of cases)*, but assuming that just File
existed, then you could use any combination of case to refer to it and the command line would just interpret what you meant.
* I've yet to find a case when I'd want to have both FILE
and file
as separate files, but apparently it's important to *nix.
Closure of Windows 10 upgrade path still catching users by surprise
Re: In my misbegotten youth....
I'm still technically using the same license I bought for Vista, which got upgraded (in place) to 7, then 8>8.1>10>11. I think I did a fresh install on Win 10, but otherwise it was the same install, upgraded several times, and cloned to a newer SSD at least twice.
And yes, I too spent many hours on the phone to MS activation back in the XP days :(
You're not imagining things – USB memory sticks are getting worse
Please install that patch – but don't you dare actually run it
Developer's default setting created turbulence in the flight simulator
ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain to do the same job as 192.168.x.x
You know how every bit of Microsoft documentation about setting up AD has always said to use a specific domain which is not your web address?
Well whoever set up the AD at my last job never read it. Nope, they'd set it up as companyname.co.uk, which was already causing problems when I started there, let alone during my job :(
One person's shortcut was another's long road to panic
Re: Oops!
How many times per day do you run backups on your systems?
At my last job I was creating a new snapshot every hour during business hours on the file server, keeping (I think) the last 12 hourly snapshots. (And then daily/weekly/monthly rotations, backing up to tape etc.). That was for normal user files (spreadsheets and the like) and worked well, and give me very quick restores for the "oops I just overwrote a file I need in five minutes" type requests.
The literal Rolls-Royce of EVs is recalled over fire risk
Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission
BOFH: Looks like you're writing an email. Fancy telling your colleague to #$%^ off?
Users now keep cellphones for 40+ months and it's hurting the secondhand market
YouTube video lag wrongly blamed on its ad-blocking animus
Why does Firefox need to rethink it's UI, when it's already basically the same as Chrome?
Both have tabs along the top, under that you have Back, Forward, and Reload, then an address bar (that's also a search bar). Then the icons for whatever addons you have installed.
There some differences when you go into the menus, but that's 99% of most people's interactions with their browser.
WTF? Potty-mouthed intern's obscene error message mostly amused manager
The 'nothing-happened' Y2K bug – how the IT industry worked overtime to save world's computers
Need to make some 3D models but lack the skill and talent? Say, have you tried... AI?
NASA's Artemis Moon missions take a rain check until 2025 and beyond
Re: You don't have a clue
The number of refuels required depends on the efficiency of the Raptor engines, not how much thrust they produce. I'm sure the efficiency has been increasing, but probably not linearly in-line with the thrust produced. And it doesn't just depend on the engines. If the design of Starship has to change to add (eg) one kilo of extra self-destruct equipment, that's a kilo of fuel they won't be able to carry (on every single trip). Currently the design of Starship is very much in flux, let alone the currently non-existent lunar variant.
It's just too early to say how many refuelling trips will be necessary right now.
Former Post Office boss returns CBE to sender over computer system scandal
Re: A scandal of epic proportions
el Reg have been following the story for over a decade now, which is how I first heard about it.
America's first private lunar lander suffers 'critical' fuel leak en route to Moon
UK PM promises faster justice for Post Office Horizon victims
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