Put up on 3rd May 2022

Problems with computing technology - silicon (silly con), hardware, software and storage.

Silicon has 4 electrons in its outer shell. It engages in convalescent bonding (connects) with other silicon atoms to have eight electrons in the outer shell, this is the silicon crystal, this is "pure love".

This is how the Aboriginal people lived their lives, all connected, in touch with each other, their spirits and nature.

To make a semiconductor, we dope what is pure (the silicon) with aluminium (light metal, 3 electrons in the outer shell) amd boron (heavy gas, 5 electrons in outer shell) to make N (negative) and P (positive) junctions. We then apply a potential difference (voltage) to either make it allow current (electron flow) to pass through it, or to block electron flow.

A transistor is NPN junctions, or PNP junctions. The centre one has a wire attached to it, this is where you apply a voltage. It could be on, off, or variable.

The original 386 microprocessor released in 1985 had 275,000 transistors in it. It was also multi-threaded, which means you can start another process before the previous one has finished.

They have changed from using transistors to MOSFETS, which do the same thing, but are voltage sensitive rather than current sensitive.

A microprocessor now has billions of MOSFETS, runs at GHz's (1,000 million cycles per second), uses Gigabytes of RAM (1,000 million x 8 0's or 1's) and stores Terabytes (that's another 1000 fold on the "Giga") of space. They have multiple cores (processors), parallel channels of RAM and increased internal memory.

But we haven't really moved on from the 386. A 486 is a 386 with a maths co- processor and internal memory. A Pentium is two 486's in parallel, dual core is really four 486's in a series/parallel combination. As is the i3, i5 and i7 processors.

Then there's Apple, and Samsung, and other mobile devices. That's just the processor.

Then we delve into the world of the Graphics card (or chip), camera's and screens, which have become touch and photo sensitive with mobile phones, also detecting sound and movement; being "part of you".

In a computer, the Graphics card was still quite innocent as we progressed from the 386 to Pentiums. We progressed from ISA (industry standard architecture) slots to PCI (peripheral component interface) slots, which were fine, but when we moved to AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port), the engineering changed, it become 2 way with phenomenal capacity, multiple channels and ever increasing graphics chip speed, capacity and memory.

Then there is the data transfer, USB, Wi-Fi and now 5G.

Do we really know what we are doing and the side effects? In electronics, there is also "reverse current" occurring, this is very interesting (and not understood or considered). Energy fields are being generated, and they are radiating. They continue to evolve. From inside the PC or phone itself, to "in the air" around you.

Everything you see on a screen is an illusion, it is not real. Life and the universe is analogue, not digital. All that is transmitted, rides on anologue waves (frequency). Human emotions have different frequencies. Then there is the ability of the Human Being to be able to 'project" themselves, whether you realise it or not. This is where it all becomes a bit more sinister, and the plot thickens.

Then we integrate components further and further.

From my observations, we won't be making a "cyborg" one day, what's actually happening is the technology is turning us into the cyborgs. Radiating and permeating in.

When I was a Computer Based Training (CBT) Author in the Navy in the early 90's, I had to make the CBT package for the Seahawk Automatic Flight Control System (AFCS). The Navy had to decide whether to get Computer Programmers in, and teach them how the AFCS worked, or get subject matter experts in, such as myself, and teach them how to program. The Navy went with the latter.

To best educate and train, it is about stimulating the senses, and getting the right balance, then doing the re-inforcement. Different people can learn different ways, but we needed to cover all bases. We learnt what colours work together to best "get through", what the right balance of sound, text, video and animation is. Screen design and layout, what is "natural" for the human to interact with, and not "miss". The students used a DOS based system (the pre- cursor and underlying sub-system to Windows) originally on 386 computers. It was comprehensive and complete. Traditional Analysis and Design had to accommodate "Story-Boarding". There were checks and balances in place. Each exam question was linked to one of the Enabling Objectives, which ultimately make up the Training Objective. If students showed a low response to a particular Enabling Objective, then maybe the training needed to be improved.

Later on, at TOWER Software, making and implementing TRIM, the idea was to make the software intuitive, and context sensitive regarding what you could do, and make it as idiot proof as possible. It was a tool, tools can be used well, or poorly.

Then come Windows 2000, where everything changed to be "permissions" based in the Microsoft world. At the Server level (Windows 2000 Server), it is still the same today, Microsoft just keep moving things around all the time, and puts in more interface layers with each new version of Windows Server. When you actually get to where you want to be to do what you need to do, the dialogue box (functional interface) is the same as it was in Windows 2000.

Windows Server 2012 was a joke, the same as Windows version 8. With the interface, you had to know what everything was and what it was called before you could use it. No intuitiveness, more and more layers of security, and just when you get to master it all, it all changes again. So off you go again, re- learning everything you already knew for no real or genuine benefit. Microsoft doesn't sack it's engineers after it makes a new version.

With Software, the innocence was lost with XML (Extensible Markup Language). It is along the lines of HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), what Web Pages were/are written in, except it is "self-describing". It can be interrogated to share information, and is the industry standard used to do that (in the internet).

When Microsoft changed formats from .doc to docx and .xls to .xlsx etc., these formats use XML components to assemble a document, or spreadsheet or whatever. We also changed from convential menus and toolbars to a ribbon toolbar. So if you knew how to do stuff and where to go and what to do, well that all changed and you had to start again. Then you have to familiarise yourself with what icons and pictures mean, rather than words, and you have less control to set up the toolbar the way that you would like it to be. We simply become more compliant. Change is now apparently normal.

There are other players in the market doing the same thing, such as Google, Apple and Adobe, to name a few. They want your information, they want to interrogate it, then analyse it, and change things, or be in your face to suck you in further, so as you become further dependant, until it is the norm.

Within the industry, it was known that if you host the data, you own the data, and with the software, you need to establish "feeds". Long term, that equates to: you own less, and pay more.

Storage (read "ownership") becomes another factor in the technology equation. One of Microsoft's latest long term storage solutions, which has uncomprehensible storage capacity, takes a day and a half to be retrieved and the data has to be rehydrated first (Microsoft's words). Crikeys, What are they doing? Data travels at the speed of light. Firstly, they won't tell you anything because it's their IP (intellectual Property), so they don't have to. But, and so as you know, Microsoft technologies have "holes" in it, to the "other side", oooh, spooky. What is the "other side" you may ask. That's another story, that I may tell another day. But I will pose something for you to ponder, who, or what, is using all those other "channels", speed, processors and capacity the technology enables. You, the user, gets no benefit from it all.

Hewlett Packard (HP) touted their achievements a few years ago, storing amazing amounts of data in satellites out in space. I know real bad how HP can't be trusted, and how they are violators of integrity.

Microsoft technologies are Object Centric. This is not necessarily a good thing. There are other models, such as Meta-data centric, which is far more capable and practical. In a Meta-data centric model, you can have one or many objects, or there may be none. It is not all about the object.

So what does all this mean?

There are different affects (and effects). In the 90's, I can't remember if it was Windows 3.1 or Windows 95, but I noticed when I was using the computer, every time the Windows swap file wrote to the hard disk (that's where computers needed more RAM than what was available, so space on the hard drive was used to swap in and out the actual memory required), my stomach would do a little rumble a moment after the hard drive light went off. I found it amusing at the time, but not now.

In the 70's, we were looking at the future and had to prepare for our leisure time, this was the big thing, because technology was going to do the work for us. Today, politicians and decision makers can't make a common sense decision, they need to analyse (anal eyes) the data, which is just playing games with you, to ultimately become more and more immersed, dependent and compliant.

Computers are good at Maths, and creating the illusion. They are simply a tool that also enables communication. They are good for information and storage. They don't have common sense though, and do not have emotional intelligence (amongst many things). Humans are intelligent, and can have wisdom for example. Analysing the data will only ever show you what happened, not what will happen.

It is like poker machines, the pictures, noises and colours, all designed to suck you in - while they take your money. There is no sign that says "Welcome to Donkey Island".

Today's house is becoming sterile of books, magazines, newspapers, movie, software and music collections. We immerse ourselves on-line instead. Computers and sensory components are replacing our humanity, interfering with our human connections, and convalescent bonding, It distracts us from what is really going on and what really is important.

In many different ways. We are becoming less human. It is like silicon's revenge, for abusing it. It now has us running around in circles, becoming immersed and dependent. We are no longer controlling it, it is controlling us, and sucking the essences and energies of life out of us. There is "transfer" occurring. We need "freedom" from technology, it shouldn't monitor us, try to manage us and seek our gratification.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot, some businesses make money from computing and the constant change, some others might go broke. Computing companies want you hooked.

As far as value for money goes, a nice, new, good microwave oven was bought last week for $58. You own it, it doesn't change and you don't have to keep re-learning how to use it.

So where to from here?

Firstly, we have to know and understand our humanity. Understand that we are emotionally based creatures, not rules based creatures, and we have to know what is at stake here. It is humanity itself that is at stake here. The universe and the environment has come together to create us, we are life. We do not violate the universe and earth that gives us this life (see home page and links). We need to be able to live in communal harmony. Emotionally, love is opposite to fear, so we have to stop fear based control (with enforcement and punishment) for the love and magic of humanity to flourish and physically connect. We don't need to be infected with what and how to think and behave by technology companies, and what we need to buy. We can do that for ourselves, by observing and feeling what's going on around us/you, interacting (physically), having a chat, messages and technology used as it suits. All private, shared your way. Being in control of your own life.

The technology has us interacting with it more and more, and working harder than ever, leaving some time to eat and sleep, having enough to pay the rent/mortgage, negating the "living life" bit.

We need to be able to get together more, have some fun, be free of the technology, stop being farmed and becoming "robots". Technology should support humanity, and we use it as we choose to better ourselves. Not to be controlled by it, owned and fed off. There is "transfer" occurring with it all, and it needs to stop.

I put this up recently, it is the current situation with the Whole of Government Information Management Solution. We can start by getting this right. To get it right though, we need to regress the technology.

HP bought TOWER Software in 2008, so we need to regress to TRIM Context 6R2 Service Pack 5. The last released version by TOWER Software in 2008, HP cannot be trusted, and have deliberately violated integrity. They have removed Web Content Management (WCM), Document Assembly, the VMBX email format (it future proofed the emails), crippled Meeting Manager, dropped IBM DB2 database support, made it hard to try and "Browse via the Classification", all in the name of violating Source Authorities and assisting "Information Chaos", which we now have.

Use IBM's DB2 as the database and keep the Object store local. The Document Content Index (DCI) will be ISYS again, which worked. IDOL (Intelligent Data Operating Layer), which HP bought for 11.1 Billion dollars, doesn't work.

We can't do much about the rest of the world, we have our own country to look after. We can't do much about what business does, because it's their business. We can though, get it right for Government, and stabilise basic function. Part of having our freedom and privacy.

That's a start. We need to be able to trust our Government.

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