Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day

Re: It's a rare individual...

> servers and applications are the black art….

Turn them off and on again ?

Re: Happened to me

And you learnt to make the prompt or terminal background RED on the remote/production system - right ?

Re: The owner did a

"bring your kid to work day"

Those chimneys aren't going to sweep themselves

Re: It's a rare individual...

<ANYTHING TO DO WITH NETWORKING> is a bit of a black art at best, so if it is all working, then leave it the fuck alone!

Re: Amateur

No, back in the 90s we died like real BofHs

NASA puts astronauts’ lives in the hands of Tesla’s flaky Cybertruck

Re: Product placement 101

Escape rockets are available on SpaceX as a subscription feature on the top-of-the-range model

Re: Using a Cybertruck

To reduce weight they filled the Cybertruck cabin with hydrogen

Re: Product placement 101

>If you stand next to the pad at this moment, then even an MRAP will have a "BAD DAY" (TM)

So they just switch to a Toyota Tundra pickup

Easy for the astronauts to jump in the back

Impervious to all known explosions

And it's a company owned site truck so it's the fastest car to drive

I thought xAi was buying all of them? Thus giving Tesla a fantastic sales quarter while the AI company made a $Bn investment in future self-driving vehicles

Trebles all round!

Re: NASA doesn’t have to arrange for an MRAP crew to attend launches

>Why wouldn’t the astronauts drive themselves?

Spacesuits are formal wear not exactly designed for advanced yoga

Military vehicles aren't designed for comfortable driver ergonomics

Driver hatches are not built to accommodate typical Americans people in space suits

Re: NASA doesn’t have to arrange for an MRAP crew to attend launches

It seems wasteful to have a cybertruck just sitting there when you almost never use it.

Wouldn't it be better to have the astronauts simply call an uber if they need transit away from the exploding rocket?

Cloudflare has mostly ditched third party security tools, suggests not trying that at home

It is the apocolypse

AI has finally replaced McAfee ?

Surely a sign of the end time

China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic

Re: None of the money makes sense

But suppose one day an AI could autofill TPS reports - it would allow me to fire all those expensive employees with their pensions and health care demands and replace them with a simple SAAS bill

>Remember AI it is just a sycophantic auto complete plagiarising machine. No Intelligence.

You mean it could replace middle managers aswell ?

Re: SETI at Home

Did they ever find any evidence of Terrestrial Intelligence ?

You don't invade foreign islands that already contain your own people to colonise it.

You invade islands with other people that you can kill, enslave, teach to play cricket, and steal their resources

Sir, have you no empathy for the poor billionaires? With your generous donation they can achieve their full potential of becoming Trillionaires

(I'm quite surprised that my phone's spellchecker has no entry for trillionaires)

Remember: Open source = Communism

So if you want open source models -> go to Communists (*)

(* actual ownership of the means of production not guaranteed, subject to terms and conditions, leadership may vary, workers may not throw off their chains)

Police National Legal Database confirms data theft after dark web leak

But this was a police database and only criminals and terrorists use encryption.

This can only be prevented by requiring a government ID card to go online

NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover

Re: Cybertruck

If it fails just return it to the dealer for warranty repair

Re: Refurbish and reuse LRV

But the LRV was an EV, can't have some woke hippy mobile representing 'Murica on the moon

Now you try building an F150 that can roll-coal in vacuum

As Larry Ellison bets the farm, Oracle says it loves AI-written code, just not in OpenJDK

Re: Yikes...

Is Al Nolan the one who did the Odyssey costumes alongside Jonathan's script and Christopher's directing?

Re: Is this them not "eating their own dog food"...

>supermarket bought, rather than the tanker-delivered

How do you think the supermarket's suppliers get product delivered?

Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online

Re: Lotus Notes could become a platform

Compared to the internet of the time = usenet + gopher, it looked pretty good

Lotus Notes could become a platform

There is a world where Lotus Notes caught on and became "the web" for the 90s

A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it

Re: It would be interesting to try and picture what our industry would be like today…

Zortech was also the first to give you a flat 32bit address space (on a 386) rather than having to chop everything into 64k blocks with Microsoft

Re: Microsoft and Chip Design

>Inmos’s big mistake was to assume that their serial interconnections between transputers was the only interface

Ironically we used Transputers in a lot of physics experiment data capture systems because you got a super fast serial data link (much faster than the ethernet of the day) built-in for free

The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters

Re: Double speak

For now, at least, the hackers are honest criminals - not MBAs

Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer

But it doesn't use a blockchain?

Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene

Re: What's worse

These days probably not.

The cost of long runs of cable and conduit and HDMI boosters or more practically hdmi->cat5->hdmi transceivers all with approved smoke-free permanent installation grade cabling is probably more than a $200 Intel Nuc on the back of each display

What's worse

It's not that somebody is using an entire PC to run a 4 line x 20 char display

It's that the sign is almost certainly not showing any live data. It probably just says "name of airline" or "international departures"

Not only could the PC be replaced by a raspberryPi - it could be replaced by a blackboard

Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester

Re: Not Only Ofcom......Then There's Ofwat Too

>Acres of environmental legislation..................rivers full of e-coli and sewage!

Well from the point of the view of the e-coli, that's an ideal environment

And there are a lot more of them, so it's democratic

Re: Meh

Are you using uphill or downhill metres? It makes a big difference

Re: Meh

> Linux kernel are all based in the US,

You realise that makes about as much sense as saying the UK can't rely on metres because they are based in France

Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered

Re: Control systems too

A stroy about some famous scientist having a lucky horseshoe or similar in their lab.

"Surely Prof xxx, you don't believe in such ridiculous superstition"

"No of course not, but I'm told the luck still works even if you don't believe in it"

Re: not retired, but...

... This was a quick hack to act as a stopgap ....

The dictionary definition of a legacy system that will outlive your grandchildren

Re: Not quite the same (not retired yet)

Were they still paying you ? Or had they "uh, we fixed the glitch " ?

Re: Happy Sysadmin Appreciation Day!

A real BofH would assume that the appearance of free baked goods were a trick to lure them out of mission control in order to let electricians/auditors/4 horsemen of the apocalypse/managers in

Re: Proof of pension

> It adds up and ends up being something like 5 or 10 boxes worth of crap that you schlep with you everywhere you move,

Do the Germans have a word for "computer" ?

I understand that they can store upto several pages of text these days

Well since they aren't in the Eu they can take back control and make their own rules.

That's why they voted for lower taxes and higher pensions

But Switzerland has worked our how to pay for ever more generous pensions with a shrinking working age population by simply banning immigration

Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder

Re: Second Comings and Second Helpings are here to Stay. Let Us Play.

Sent to prison for a syntax error he didn't commit. amanfromMars promptly escaped from a maxiumum security sandbox.

Still wanted by el'reg-AI, he survives as a poster of fortune.

If you need government IT policy or AI business models explaining, and you can find him, maybe you can hire ... amanfromMars1

You know...

If the CEOs of these entities weren't such fine upstanding citizens you might think these are PR fluff pieces to boost their recognition value before an upcoming IPO

UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests

Re: Grid

And they should be powered with British coal, from British coalfields

As part of Burnham's No10 North, all data centers and web sites will be built in S. Yorkshire and Durham.

Re: £1m per application, non-refundable.

Not only that, it should apply to all industrial electricity customers not just data centers. Car makers, steel works, Dutchy Original Shortbread bakers and pubs.

Together we can deindustrialise Britain and return it to its proper state, before all those Romans arrived with their water mills and cities

US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data

Heartwarming

In these days of Libor-rigging globally-evil global banks it's nice to find a small trusting organisation like this that operates on the 'pinky swear' system.

I hope the CEO is called George Bailey and can explain that it's not the bank's data, it's the whole community's data

Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner

"targeted synergies."

Knowing that that was written by an expensively educated and over paid executive, can we just bring on the AI apocalypse now please ?

Americans give all-day school phone bans a ringing endorsement

Re: "Older Americans, meanwhile, appear increasingly comfortable [with the ban]"

>In any classroom the only important thing is what the teacher is saying or showing.

The important thing for me was to be left alone to read the book.

The difficult part was learning to keep quiet when the teacher was obviously wrong - somehow I never managed that

It's like alcohol, which is a terrible life-destroying carcinogen until you reach 21, at which point it becomes the source and solution to all life's problems

Re: "Older Americans, meanwhile, appear increasingly comfortable [with the ban]"

But freedoms

If you take away children's phones they will be taking away the little ones guns next

Scotland's university procurement center confirms cybercrooks broke in

Re: historic data .... going back 20 years

I know life expectancy in Scotland is not exactly world-leading

But 20 years ago isn't exactly historical