Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

UK health secretary confirms end for NHS Digital, architect of the GP data grab debacle

Re: Another Tory Coverup.

And the problem is that having done it once nobody is ever going to trust them again.

Re: Brands

Nothing compared to US defense industry mergers.

Went to a talk by one of the old-guard in the infrared sensor business.

Each slide had a different corporate logo in the corner, he pointed out that he had worked for all of them - while remaining in the same lab.

Re: Here we go again

Plus a new overall management agency and 2**5 liason departments between the 5 "stakeholders"

Re: New Post, Great Opportunity

And remove "people", people think they deserve some sort of rights and even respect.

Replace with "stakeholders"

Re: Here we go again

On the blockchain

Re: Here we go again

Cyber Metaverse Brexit Security Agency for Saving Puppies and Stopping Immigrants

Re: New Post, Great Opportunity

You can't hire a deckchair positioning officer until all the logo designers and marketing people and supporting HR roles are filled.

Unfortunately after paying the recruitment consultants and non-exec directors there won't be any budget left for actual deckchair movement - but there will be a mission statement about it.

Re: Here we go again

In a real government agency they would have just kept the old group running with the same people but no actual work to do and then created a new dept from scratch to do the work.

Re: Here we go again

10 fsck up

20 rename organisation

30 got 10

In this case I expect NHSx to be called Windscale by the end of the year

UK Ministry of Justice secures HVAC systems 'protected' by passwordless Wi-Fi after Register tipoff

Re: CommitStrip

Bonus points if the "create a new passwd to continue" page is done by different group to the login page and used different JS to validate valid passwd

Yes looking at your <$Bn network company> who sanitises username/passwd so they can't start with a $ but does allow that at the initial setup prompt

Munich mk2? Germany's Schleswig-Holstein plans to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice

Re: For historians

Yes in the same way that they had MS Windows entirely re-written from scratch to be a particularly Bavarian experience.

Re: For historians

Worth pointing out that Munich did do it in a particularly dumb way. IIRC they ignored just getting SUSE and insisted on doing their own rollout from scratch

Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should: Install Linux on NTFS – on the same partition as Windows

Back in the murky days of NT there wasn't a way of asking you for an admin passwd to do something.

So you couldn't open a dialog if changing the dialog would need admin rights.

So you needed to be administrator to find your own network settings.

The result was that every dev desktop ran as admin all the time

But when you boot into Windows(tm) your Windows Virus(tm) can insert an extra account or extra service in c:\linux\etc\.... ready for when you restart Linux

A lightbulb moment comes too late to save a mainframe engineer's blushes

It's actually an OSHA requirement that the emergency stop button (if not adequately disabled) is hidden behind a pile of cardboard boxes with a stack of forklift pallets in front of them and preferably surrounded by a crocodile infested moat

Re: Error 47

Two types of bikers.

1, Those who have set off with the kickstand slightly down and had the bike switch off followed by them slowly falling over

2, Those who haven't yet set off with the kickstand .......

Re: Wish my

I believe Mr PATT tester is your tool of choice here

Re: Warning Lights

>but on looking out of the window the true nature was revealed: the pipeline had burst

A good lesson from Apollo13. Not much mentioned in the films and 'failure is not an option' accounts. But they wasted 20mins checking for computer errors AFTER the crew said they felt an explosion because an explosion would be bad so it couldn't be real

Web trust dies in darkness: Hidden Certificate Authorities undermine public crypto infrastructure

Re: Was web trust ever really alive in the first place?

But I assume I can trust Microsoft or Apple not to steal my credit card (cos they have more money than me) I need to trust that the link is to microsoft.com and not to m(unicode i)crosoft.com with https signed by Honest Achmed's discount camel store and root CA in North Cyprus

(note does not apply to Oracle, they have more money than me but would steal my lunch money out of general principles)

Robo-Shinkansen rolls slowly – for now – across 5km of Japan

Running trains closer together is one of those problems that get progressively harder then are suddenly trivial once you reach maximum capacity. With enough trains it becomes one train.

It's like how traffic accidents increase in congestion until everything is perfectly gridlocked - when they cease

Re: Wilford Industries

errm

Re: Wilford Industries

Unless you have the wrong kind of snow

Re: A train, any train, not just the Shinkansen

Especially since at bullet train speeds the driver can't see a signal in time to stop so has to be told to press the brake by the same computer that is controlling the brake

Do not try this at home: Man spends $5,000 on a 48TB Raspberry Pi storage server

Re: Not too bad

That's the challenge. Get AvE recognised as a national treasure and give him a Canadian Arts Council grant, (he will need to do half the video swearing in French - Tabac !)

Re: A real engineer..

It's not just the hardware it's the software.

You can play with this at home and run ZFS and K8s and Docker and other cool free stuff that is cutting edge in the corporate world. It means you can high high-school BOFHs that have years of experience in the stuff you need to setup a quick CI server.

Back in my day I was unemployable as an undergrad because I only knew SunOS and the rest of the world was MVS or CICS or Netware or something that you couldn't play with if you didn't have access to $$$$ hardware and licenses.

Re: Not too bad

Keep yer dick in a vice stick on the ice

Skookum

Re: Cloud storage is being upgraded

1, Buy Synology box and stick 4x8tb spinning rust drives in it, go to pub

2, Buy HP microserver tower, install open source build of synology DSM, stick 4x8tb spinning rust drives in it, go to pub an hour later than 1

Re: The engineering gospel

Is there any field of engineering that hasn't dreamed of building a Trebuchet?

It might even make control systems bearable

Re: Speed compensation

Alternatively he could return the drives to Amazon for a refund while earning $$$ through YT ads and referable links while getting lots of free publicity from el'reg

Re: Such opportunity. The like of which you've never seen...

Your sailboat reno video needs to include lots of pictures of you in a bikini (recommending you shave your back)

New study demonstrates iodine as satellite propellant... in space

Re: Density!

and if you graze your knee you can dab some on ....

Re: Needs more thrust

Easier to add extra propellant mass than engineering to increase the velocity - unless you have a very long voyage planned where the amount of the stuff you chuck overboard matters.

Efficiency is just electrical power in vs kinetic energy out - more complex systems to create higher velocities would generally be less efficient.

Re: little was known about its fundamental properties

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is.

The number of Iodine atoms/m^3 this adds ......

Re: Nice

Wouldn't you just pick the heaviest material that is a liquid at room temperature and easily vaporized?

Something silvery and quick ?

Cisco thinks you're happy to wait ages for new kit, then pay premium prices

Re: This was a problem before the lockdowns

My impression is that CISCO is now Oracle levels of Evil.

But it has become the "Nobody ever got fired for buying X" of networking with Cyber being the next threat.

CISCO switches have a bunch of features which we never use, but nobody wants to take the risk of buying some "lesser" system

UK Telecommunications Act – aka 'power to strip out Huawei' – makes it to the statute book

IIRC there was definitely a 'strategic' investment in ASML

I believe the thinking was, Intel/HP/other US semi-conductor manufacturers wouldn't play nicely together, you couldn't trust the wiley orientals, Korea and Taiwan were for cheap plastic toys and China probably didn't have electricity in the 80s

So a nice safe, powerless Nato ally with a stable government appealed to everyone when it came to not making waves with technology transfer.

Back when I wor a lad and dinosaurs roamed the Earth - Japan was the devilishly cunning evil empire that was going to destroy all our industry and make us eat raw fish and chips.

So we banned Japanese companies like Toshiba importing components like LCD screens, forcing them to try and make laptops.

We were troubled that Nikon and Canon made lithography machines which could threaten America's lead in semi-conductors. So the USA funded Philips spinning out its lithography division into a little outfit called ASML - and that's why all semi-conductors today are made in America Holland Taiwan not Japan and security is assured.

Re: Communism bad

> the privatisation has lead to companies being more interested in .... investors, than the customers.

That is literally the directors legal duty

Communism bad

Instead the government mandates that you buy from state approved vendors and suggests that ideally people build their own telecoms equipment rather than from commercial outfits that may have ulterior motives.

This comes after the nationalise the railways

Perhaps we could revitalise the British Steel industry with backyard furnaces?

Come, Join Chairman Boris' great leap forward(*) !

(* actual direction of leap not guaranteed)

Everything but the catch: '90s pop act or a successful mission for Rocket Lab?

Re: Simples

So why don't they just use the Eagles to take the payload to Mt doom orbit in the first place?

Raises hand from back of room

I'm sure their boffins have thought it all out - but .....

Catching a parachute with a helicopter ?

I'm picturing like when you run over a headphone cable with the Dyson's spinning brush head

Wondering what to do with those empty offices? How about a data centre?

Re: Always silly

There are community heating schemes. the problem is that in the summer people want the plant to keep running but don't want the heat. So you need to build an extra cooling system which you need to maintain all winter when you aren't using it - sometimes you even need to heat it to stop stuff freezing !

UK government publishes guidance on security rules for tech takeovers

Re: So, basically..

No Land Rover the: Critical Suppliers to Government, Defence, Military and Dual-Use, Transport company - no way they would allow that to be bought by Asiatics

Re: 18. Political Party Donations From Foreign Interests.

You can still buy power and water suppliers and newspapers

Re: So, basically..

Yes but it would stop foreigners taking over LandRover (clause 7,11,12,15,17)

A 'national security' issue: UK.gov blocks Nvidia's Arm deal for now, inserts deeper probe

Re: Hmmmmm

> Ironically most of those British Brilliants now want to maximize their stock options which will may conflict with the best interests of ARM future growth.

ARM is now wholly owned by Softbank (and therefore by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund) any stock options would either have been paid out or cancelled when it was bought

Re: "The CMA will now report to me and provide advice on the next steps"

>all Ministers, from all governments, all of the time, take advice from their expert advisory bodies

Except presumably the Slithy Gove ?

Re: "The CMA will now report to me and provide advice on the next steps"

I assume the ministerial summary is just smiley face / frowny face emoji ?

Northrop Grumman throws hat in the ring to design NASA's next-gen Lunar Terrain Vehicle

Re: Navigators? You mean back-seat drivers...

In the USA I think they are rear-gunners

Re: recreated in Lego form

Or they could send up the LEGO sets instead - it would be much cheaper

These are very small but those are a long way away.......