Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Linus Torvalds to kernel devs: Grow up and stop pulling all-nighters just before deadline

Re: Success!!!

For bonus points decide to 'effectively utilise' that spare 10mins during a compile cycle at 4:00am to do some maintenance on the raid config on main file server......

Phishing works so well crims won't bother with deepfakes, says Sophos chap

Re: Trust me, I'm a ...

We're safe, we have an official password inspector - they just emailed me to check mine.

If you have a hi-vis vest and a clipboard you can probably just take the servers

Oil company Castrol slips and slides into immersion cooling

Re: OVHcloud

That's the trick for immersion cooling fluids: Corrosive, Flammable, Bad for environment = pick 2

Scottish space upstart's rocket crashes into the drink

Re: Pleased

Given current politics do we really want Scotland to have 'revenge weapons' ?

Re: "...its hardware had not been tested at low temperature"

By some measure yes. the cooling effect of -20C at sea level pressure with humidity is much greater than in near vacuum at -80C

Re: Also Fire the P.R. Man

>they were overly aggressive instead of systematic and complete ground testing.

Prior to Apollo 8, the first manned mission, there hadn't been a successful Saturn V launch.

They had planned for 2 complete successful test flights before the first manned flight but some political party chief decided that it had to be done before the next round number of years

Re: "...its hardware had not been tested at low temperature"

They are planning to move to tropical Greenland for their next attempt

In a milk bottle

Re: No such thing as failure

The rocket is not designed to reach orbit and it didn't, by a large margin, success

Loathsome eighties ladder-climber levelled by a custom DOS prompt

Re: point of order

One supervisor had written an emacs macro that compiled the FORTRAN every time you saved, for a particularly 'special' PhD student

For some reason the macro stopped working and she spent a year changing a complex hydrodynamics code without ever compiling it. Since she always tested with different data she never noticed.

She's probably science minister now.

US Veterans Affairs hits brakes on $10b Oracle Cerner health record system

How many veterans?

$50 Bn seems rather a lot divided by a few million veterans.

Has anyone told them that you don't need an Oracle license per record (or do you ?)

The Metaverse is the internet no one wants

Re: Call me old fashioned

Apparently it was 5loaves, and 2 fishes (he obviously didn't do English at school, just woodwork)

Re: Call me old fashioned

> Did you mean the 5,000 or the 4,000

Inflation, although I thought it was 5000 in the original comic?

Re: Is there a problem with VR?

>- porn (mainstream but not sensible)

Tricky unless it's CGI

If you are filming a live actor you can only VR to the view recorded by the camera.

I can't see the value in being able to experience the 'performers' POV and have them turn round and see the crew (although rule 34) but to do this you would need another crew recording the first crew....

Re: Call me old fashioned

> have a bible from this era, printed in Wisconsin, with ads (and recipes)

Take 4 loaves and fishes....

Feeds 5000

Re: Call me old fashioned

>the fatal flaw with books is they can't stuff adverts down your throat

Oh you poor innocent child, The time Terry Pratchett’s German publisher inserted a soup ad into his novel.

Re: Call me old fashioned

But suppose you had the opportunity to pay $20/month for a cooler bookmark (non-transferable and only valid for one book naturally)

And silicon valley would be so much better if all the tech companies were run by an MBA from their owners at Vanguard or Blackrock or Goldman ?

BOFH: The Boss has a new watch – move readiness to DEFCON 2

Re: traffic light Problems in search of solutions

Go to red alert!

Are you sure sir? It does mean changing the bulb !

Re: Savages, savages I say!

Our lights go on when you gently stroke the touch sensitive pad up and dim down when you stroke down.

Don't know what the do when you go in circles but I know they don't work in winter when you're wearing gloves

Re: Problems in search of solutions

We got smart plugs for our monitors.

Our remote desktop software requires the displays to be on or it can't use the GPU (don't ask) but somebody decided it wasn't green to have a dozen LCDs on overnight, so we got a bucket load of landfill Amazon smart plugs and everyone spent a day trying to pair them with their phones

Financial watchdogs want to know what traders are talking about on WhatsApp

Re: Disappearing messages

>But in reality, every message is stored in an easily searchable indexed database.

No that would be illegal. They merely store "metadata", like the frequency and order of words in your message

Re: Off channel comms

Terribly inefficient in the sub-ms world of high frequency trading.

Unless you played golf on the PC, but then there would be a competition for who could have the golf computer closest to the golf server

Re: Disappearing messages

Assuming every message and its key isn't copied to the mothership and stored decrypted there.

If you didn't build whatsapp from source - you don't know what it does (and sometimes not even then)

Re: Question - how?

It doesn't have to - it just has to tell the banks to do it.

If the law says, traders can't swap inside information - then the banks can't turn around and say "sorry they use Whatsapp, there is nothing we can do"

Broker-dealers can stop burning records to CD, but they don’t have to, says SEC

Writeble DVDs don't last as long, or by the time writeable DVDs became popular we were more worried about the lifetime of all writeble disks

canadian-conservation-institute-notes/longevity-recordable-cds-dvds

Cost saving?

Hey Mr rich banker.

You know those records that you uploaded to us and legally have to keep for years?

Well the bill just went up to $1Bn, or there is a $100bn charge to download them.

See you next year....

It's official: UK telcos legally obligated to remove Huawei kit

Re: It's official

You will be obligatorized to use it

Re: China or the US?

>Untrustworthy telecoms equipment from Johnny Foreigner will have a red triangle sticker on it. That'll learn 'em.

We can have out BT approved 300baud modems again !

Re: It's official

And then after they have been invented they can then be inventorized by a process of re-inventorization

Re: It's official

Will there be 'learnings' ?

Re: Slave nation

Not sure we can call it imperial anymore with a straight face.

Perhaps we need spanners marked 'metric' or 'failed-state'

Re: Slave nation

Haven't they heard, Britain is now a rule maker not a rule taker

>whie gchq and security agencies may have been able to verify the source code for backdoors in the original kit,

That doesn't mean the backdoors weren't there.

I mean GCHQ and MMB weren't able to find WMDs in Iraq either

Re: China or the US?

Neither, Global Britain will use proper British telecoms equipment made from Bakelite at Dollis Hill.

Laugh all you want. There will be a year of the Linux desktop

Re: Not sOutlook, on the other hand, is impossible to fucking kill. ure I agree about that...

We just got orders from corporate IT not to use Outlook locally and to delete any PST files.

I'm assuming somebody got caught with saved evidence of something that the Office365 version could have deleted.

All the Office365/Teams/sharepoint stuff works perfectly from Edge under Linux.

Ironically it's mostly hardware that need to keep a Windows dual-boot, there are no good CAD / FPGA / PCB tools under Linux

NIST thinks US public should weigh in on CHIPS Act programs

Referendum

Do you invest in cutting edge EUV or rely on existing light sources along with multiple overpattening?

Do we need chiplets with different fab technologies within the same package?

The only way to decide is to ask the electorate

Sony, Honda collaborate on 'premium' electric vehicles that are born in the USA

Honda only offers a single EV currently, and it's not for sale in North America.

So obviously Honda are marketing toward Real American (tm) Men who buy pickup trucks and don't want any of those emasculating EVs from overly woke marques like Ford or GM

America, use Bitcoin instead of old-school money? Not likely, says Fed

Re: Trash talk

Problem is that if there was a government approved $ stablecoin then why would I need a high st bank?

Effectively I'm banking on the Fed's blockchain - so why do I put up with Wells Fargo or BoA 'customer service'?

Presumably the Fed are the only group in America who wouldn't cheer the total destruction of all retail banks

Hospital giant's IT still poorly a week after suspected ransomware infection

Usually a hospital system's going down and leaving patient data inaccessible is because they installed legitimate software

Re: DR/BC-Plans-and-Continuing-Training MIA

Nurse - Forceps

Swab

Oh shit I made a mistake

Nurse - tippex

Re: Given that this is based on the Catholic faith, perhaps someone higher up can help?

Launched original with over-complicated rules and a tablet based text mode system

1000 years later had to relaunch an update with more user friendly human interface

Then promised they would send the service guy back to fix everything, but 2000 years later the users are still waiting

So YHWH is in enterprise IT ?

Microsoft leaves the Office, rebrands everything as 365

365

Cue Microsoft cloud going down next leap year - with a statement about how this was a 1 in 1424 even which couldn't have been predicted

Westinghouse sale signals arrival of a new nuclear age

Re: Nuclear power is neither clean nor safe

This message sponsored by the National Coal Board

Cost of living crisis less of problem for tech pro retirees than others

I never wanted to be in IT

I wanted to be .... a .... lumberjack

" so those coming out of retirement will have to spend some time swotting up"

Yes if you want to come out of retirement and compete with all the other 19 year olds to be a $VERB$.js developer

If you want to fight off all the recruiters desperate for COBOL, FPGAs, MFC and even C++ experience - or just any developer that can do maths beyond reaching for a calculator

Re: The 41k sweet spot

>trying to earn £70k by spending countless hours "upping my skills",

The bad (or good?) part is that you don't - you get £70k by moving to London and working in finance

Delta Air Lines throws $60m at flying taxi startup Joby Aviation

Re: Just a quite helicopter

Yes like jet airlines are just a flying ocean liner that lets the rich get to America quicker

Chinese city of Shenzhen offers free money to boost chip industry

Government grants to industry

Why that's practically communism