Posts by Simon Sharwood, Reg APAC Editor

No, my theory is not that these announcements are connected to decreasing sales. I raise the possibility that Cisco, which is on the record in an earnings call and to me personally as saying its converged systems sales are not good enough, might have felt that poorly-integrated data protection could help things along. I put that to Cisco, they deny it, so I am not sure how that comes out as Cisco-bashing.

Reference architectures are pretty dull. The "edge" in the story is an attempt to make them a teensy bit less so.

No it is a typo. Should be "again" fixing now.

Re: Surely Hog-zilla would have been a better moniker?

Well played. Why didn't I think of that? Don't tell the boss: I have a punning KPI and I don't think I'm going to hit it.

Re: Facebook's 1,871 billion active users.

One wrong piece of punctuation and this is what I - deservedly - get. Fixed it now.

Re: Why do think they think the copper will be need to be replaced in 10-15 years?

I asked IA this and was told I just wanted to fight, was being difficult and should just accept what its board says.

Re: CAPS LOCK

Which is why we use it SPARINGLY, rather than for every word.

Re: Or just tell the Amazon Billionaire Jeff Bezos to pay tax

Amazon only has AWS and a Kindle store in Australia. Physical goods coming later this year.

Re: why would you believe a government "statement"

Why believe it? Because when a government is confident enough to put out a statement like that, it quadruples the ridicule it invites if proven incorrect. I assume the Indian government has little interest in blowing itself up!

Re: Virtual reality

And using those weird carts with monitors on top that roll around offices to enhance their presence in the office.

Re: Re: That's not a brontosaurus

Oh c'mon, we're not allowed to have a bit of fun with the headline? Here's how my brain worked on this one. I learned about the fact Sapho was doing its thing for Domino, which just isn't news. But the fact a company still thinks there's an opportunity to be had targeting Domino was news, so I found a fun way to present it.

That's not attitude. It's a gentle and amusing way of introducing the story.

Oh and I despise the Daily Mail.

Re: "We'll know more in March, when the PwC report into the incident emerges"

The sales team are in town and we went to ... erm ... dinner last night. That's a better excuse than 'alt.right trolls hacked my Twitter', I hope.

Accent? It's the rest of you doing it wrong ...

Re: Please stop this ill informed and click bait 'journalism'

A few of things to address here.

The Reg is not targeting Xen. But when we see nasty bugs in anything we think readers are likely to use, we report them. When a stream of nasty bugs appears in the same code, we report the ongoing issues. Look at our reporting on Google Cloud outages.

I missed the comments about the media because I based this report on George Dunlap's blog post and posts to xen-devel in recent days. I glanced at the Jan 5 thread that contains the comments about media, but realised this month's thread was more recent and therefore directed readers to it.

If Xen thinks we're going overboard with our coverage of its bugs, the folks there know where to find us. Indeed, George Dunlap has posted here a few times on this story alone!

On the charge of clickbait, I've never seen a project, commercial or open source, make a suggestion like this. That makes it newsworthy. And believe me there's about a zillion ways to headline this story to make it really scary and negative. I can imagine others going with "Amazon's core open source cloud engine wants to hide security problems". THAT's clickbait. IMHO this story quite soberly reports the blog post, quotes liberally from it, shows readers where they can learn more, tries to tell a story about the debate

I mean I made a tyop. They order was announced in Oct 2016. I typed 2017. Because stooipd

Re: surprised ...

Nah. Figured y'all knew about BOFH already. And besides, who says it is fiction?

Re: Cheeky Amanda Palmer reference?

I think you'll find Ms Palmer was not the first to refer to the Map of Tasmania in this way. Which is a way of saying probably

Re: Incorrect

Just reporting what nbn™ told me yesterday, when they updated the address finder.

I take the point that there are some premises where satellite or fixed wireless connections have been promised, but plans are not yet firm and will tweak the story to reflect that.

Thanks Dwarf. You can stay and comment again :-)

LInkedIn says Russia's letter came to its US office, but LinkedIn Ireland has responsibility for Europe. Pretty thin, yeah

Re: What I find aggravating...

A tree? What connection medium do you have? there we were thinking that FTTP and FTTN are underground. Which leaves one of the few HFC connections as possibility. What am I missing?

Re: Pressurisation Cycles

Dunno. But the landing gear surely accrue cycles too?

Re: Interesting article spoiled by SJW journo

I save my SJW activities, such as they are, for my private time. the Brexit bit was meant to be a bit of a wry gag.

Re: Feeling here

It's always the accountants who feel nervous after a merger ...

Re: Re: What's "Cricket?"

I attended the Australia vs Scotland match at Worcester in the 1999 World Cup. Australia won without getting into third gear, but Scotland comprehensively out-sang the Australians in the crowd. Scorecard: http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/65196.html

Re: Gigabit not needed, what a load of crap!

nbn says Gigabit is not needed in homes. Yes, plenty of businesses need it. And they can go buy it today from carriers other than NBN. Why don't they? Price, probably. But at least nbn will eventually have a universal service.

Re: What other phones are modular and would need Greybus?

The Moto Z has interchangeable hardware add-ons. Not quite the full modular experience. But at least some flexibility

Hello |FNAME|, let me assure you I am not a bot.

Re: So...

I wondered that myself. No word on that AFAIK

Re: I Know!

The NSA wants to know when you have three monitors. So the ABS has to hide the fact they want to know. Or something. Look - Someone rigged my election. Those people. YOU KNOW WHO. Lock them up. And also lock up people with three monitors.

Re: This comment echos the sentiment of a large majority of readers of this article.

The cauliflower was quite nice. IMHO it is better when cut, roasted until quite brown, the pureed with salt, butter and a splash of milk. Like mash, only nuttier and better

Re: Re: Donald Trump is a plonker

Hard not to pity US voters - a campaign in which Trump offers flimsy policy based on his alleged ability as a negotiator and Clinton offers policy that won't change much. And little prospect of politics getting classier or more substantive any time soon

Re: S7 != Note 7

The author has been slapped. Ouch!

Re: Ppshaw

Stored value ≠ digital cash.

I sat next to a Mondex chap on a long flight once. I told him I was a tech journo. He was quite pleased. Over the next hour he tried to explain why Mondex mattered. I just didn't get it. The rest of the flight was frosty.

Re: "US$150m - a decent chunk of India's budget"

$US150m for a nation that is still trying to get clean water and electricity to several thousand villages is more than a rounding error.

Re: Thought for the day

I knew someone would go for the gussets.

Pretty sure metadata retention was a Brandis, not a Conroy. Although the ALP waved it through

AFAIK the idea is that by making things like creating temporary WLANs something more people can do, NetAdmins can get to know every packet by name and convince them to do amazing things that really matter.

Ewwwwww

Re: Got me

FWIW I joined when I got my first job in journalism 20-odd years ago. Sent in a cheque for a week's wages. Huge sum of money to me at the time.

And then I heard nothing. For 6 months. Until a new bill for another week's wages arrived.

I asked why I was being asked to pay again when I never heard back on my membership application. I was told told that there was no way to pay half a year's fees and that the membership card printing machine was broken and had been for six months.

I do hope the MEAA has improved since.