Monthly Archives: June 2020

IBM to power down Power-powered virtual private cloud, GPU-accelerated options

Posted on 2020-06-03 by pappp

Source: The Register

Article note: Huh. The POWER+GPU arrangement made me think those were spinoff tech from the POWER9 NVLink fancy from the HPC market, I'm curious if it's a "No one who wanted to run Linux wanted to deal with POWER quirks" or "Nvidia is making this a pain in the ass." because both are trends in the industry.

Customers given 80 days before instance deletion and the suggested replacement doesn't yet support Linux

IBM has given users of its IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC on Power 80 days to find a new home.…

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Lawsuit: UK should’ve refunded some tuition, fees after COVID-19 closed campus

Posted on 2020-06-03 by pappp

Source: Kentucky.com -- Education

Article note: Well, that was entirely expected. That money is spent within a couple weeks of the beginning of the semester, so it'll be a bad time if they get anywhere at scale.

The University of Kentucky should have reduced and refunded mandatory fees and tuition when it switched to online-only classes because of the COVID-19 pandemic, a student’s lawsuit argues. The lawsuit … Click to Continue »

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Those Win9x Crashes on Fast Machines

Posted on 2020-06-02 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: That is a really cool bit of forensics. AMD K6-2s did much more sophisticated uop decomposition and scheduling for complicated instructions (specifically LOOP) and worse with handling programmer/compiler generated simple instruction sequence, while contemporary Intel parts were the opposite; their errata suggested using the simpler instructions like building your loop on JCXZ instead of using LOOP. So code that did limited precision timer comparisons on either end of fixed-length LOOPs failed with a divide by 0 on AMD parts at lower clocks than on Intel parts.
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I was emailed after abandoning a registration form. I did not click Submit

Posted on 2020-06-01 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: A new low in "Turning the web into a runtime was a terrible, terrible mistake."
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AppGet ‘really helped us,’ Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager

Posted on 2020-06-01 by pappp

Source: The Register

Article note: As I was musing with a friend the other day, the "court a dev who make something cool on your platform, pump them for information, then squash them with a first-party clone" maneuver might as well be called "Pulling an Apple," but here is Microsoft doing it. OTOH, in this case "Windows gets a package manager" would have been welcome news any time since 1994 (and this is only marginally a real package manager since it doesn't do dependency management and the install actions execute arbitrary binaries that may do things it can't roll back), so it is perhaps not surprising that Microsoft finally acted.

Windows bod acknowledges project's influence on WinGet

Microsoft's Andrew Clinick, a group program manager in the Windows team who is involved with the development of the WinGet package manager, has tried to make good with the open-source community by publishing an acknowledgement of what was borrowed from the existing AppGet project.…

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