Posts by ortunk

Ayar Labs taps Wiwynn to cram 1,024 GPUs into a photonic rack system

It's plan9 all over again

Once upon a time, saving your bits meant punching holes in floppies

Re: Also used to drill a hole in 3.5" floppy disk

Lets say reliable as any floppy, depending on manufacturer and manufacture quality

Some fared better then others

I still have a few working, last I booted and played a few games after writing amiga 500 images on them

Back to being FOSS, Redis delivers a new, faster version

Re: RHEL using Valkey...

/s

Keycloak is when you cloak your keys so if someone uses your open source software you still.hold.the keys

/s

Back to my 2 o'clock beer I guess

Cybercrooks attached Raspberry Pi to bank network and drained ATM cash

Re: Banks have zero security

Its called ANSI X12 Electronic Data Intercjamge standart

Microsoft's next Windows 11 update is more 'enablement' than upgrade

Re: Forced into it on work laptop

Next time try debian-live read/write cycles will chew through your usb like butter

Huawei chair says the future of comms is fiber-to-the-room, which China has and the rest of us don’t

Re: Going beyond 10Gb/s requires fiber for now

POF power over fiber also called hybrid cables transmit power over copper wires coupled with fiber for data

Need for speed? CityFibre punts 5.5 Gbps symmetrical broadband at ISPs

Re: I would be happy...

usually business has guaranteed bw while residential.is best effort

Jilted AWS reckons VMware is now crusty like a mainframe

Re: Wall Street push AWS to raise price significantly

15 years on linode as a iaas provider no major or minor outages

BOFH: HR tries to think appy thoughts

Start an AI training project

get graphics cards with lots of ram

lots of them

Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months

If a kid is reading these swearing is least of your worries

Musk's DOGE muzzled on X over tape storage baloney

Re: Nothing to beat it on $/Gb basis.

Most cheap ones fail after 5 years

Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust

Re: HACL* PACL* me some EverClear champagne or else, Parse

They cut back his thorazine again

BOFH: The devil's in the contract details

Feels like oracle

I'll take my coat

Combustion engines grind Linus Torvalds' gears

Re: Ah, an electric car

Total them in a small accident & sell them to 3rd world countries

Release the hounds! Securing datacenters may soon need sniffer dogs

Came to /s praise /s the article, saw you people made all my points,so have one on me

Oracle pays $23 million to SEC to settle bribery charges

Re: Small fines = getting away with corruption

Yeah seema they avoided SEC coming out with the names of people/government bodies/companies receiving the bribes.

Also link has changed https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-173

That time a techie accidentally improved an airline's productivity

Re: Everybody knows...

7 years and I can just manage to read yes and no only

Re: Everybody knows...

FYI code *06# resets phone to SIM Default Language

Did you know Twitter has an open-source arm? This is what it's been up to

Re: email address as ID

We have a catch-all [e-mail] everyone uses it when they register somewhere, probably tied to multiple handles by now

Akamai buys Linode for $900m

Re: Oh Dear!

I've been very happy so ling I don't want to move...

Sigh, off to searching aternaties (as per the coat suggests)

Wi-Fi not working? It's time to consult the lovely people on those fine Linux forums

Re: And the silly thing is...

FYI linux repirts it as wifi killswitch in dmesg

Swooping in to claim the glory while the On Call engineer stands baffled

he is imaginary you know

Amazon aims to launch prototype broadband internet satellites by Q4 2022 – without Bezos' Blue Origin

Re: Is it actually worth it?

Sorry after a stern refusal by a local sheriff in some hilltop, earth is no longer part of Hyperspace Council

EasyJet flight loadsheet snafu caused by software 'code errors' says UK safety agency

Re: Not a trolling comment

Once debugged a problem like that, ayatems concerned were taking 15 minutes however truck did it in 13-14 and had to wait for data at the door.

Solution all syatems start triggering every 3 seconds :))

Batch Interaction Layer

So cron jobs and fetch scripts as usual, a BOFH was there handling the auditor it seems

'Quantum computer algorithms are linear algebra, probabilities. This is not something that we do a good job of teaching our kids'

Re: How fast does a force propagate?

Also photon pairs or electron/positron pairs communicate faster then light

As Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow

I wear tin-foil underwear

when browsing...

Parking is expensive. It can cost an arm, a leg, and a Windows licence

Re: Buy petrol as normal, says government minister

Penis bonus pax in domus

Electron-to-joule conversion formulae? Cute. Welcome to the school of hard knocks

Re: Passing the buck?

Let's negotiate on the terrace with a nice view of your car, if you could just lean on the railing where we cut it all will be resolved.

Not too bright, are you? Your laptop, I mean... Not you

Re: Floppy solution

But you could always Ctrl-Break the autoexec.bat

Semiconductor veterans gather to design customizable, chiplet-based RISC-V server processors

My 386DX had a math co-processor on the motherboard (guess it wasn't very good at math :)

So we are back to that essentially, just mobos are a bit smaller

See that last line in the access list? Yeah, that means you don't have an access list

No issues with mine, without firewall and properly configured debian, 15 years and counting

Rocky Linux release attracts 80,000 downloads as ex-CentOS users mull choices

Ubuntu also sits on Debian Core ;)

Russia spoofed AIS data to fake British warship's course days before Crimea guns showdown

Re: Shipping channel

I don't think US was ever able to take out the Russian submarine base of Black Sea, (which is under where?) :)

Open standard but not open access: Schematron author complains about ISO paywall

Re: Put it this way

I had to read through 27k and prepare a plan for certification, the amount of reference loops and gobbydygook was impressive.

A hotline to His Billness? Or a guard having a bit of a giggle?

Re: Right across the Pond

We used to do that in tech services department when we didn't want to work and prefered to go off for a pint

We don't know why it's there, we don't know what it does – all we know is that the button makes everything OK again

We once sold a fully loaded Pentium II (weird slot thing) with all 4 ram slots full, it never booted up the first time, after few reboots it was managing.

So I showed the customer how to reset 3 times after ram was initialised (or counted for no apparent reason) and voila!

With 3 rams it worked fine but the insisted.

ALPACA gnaws through TLS protection to snarf cookies and steal data

Looks like general solution is don't use iexplore.exe

Huawei names first tablets, phones to run its Android-in-disguise HarmonyOS 2

I have the AppGallery as well as PlayStore on mine (as it was a before sanctions model) , before used F-Droid and Uptodown on special firmware to mange apps on other phones, now checking AppGallery but foe me it comes down to Google Maps.

Unfortunately where I am no other map software is accurate enough, and locals have a way of not being able to explain addresses even in their own language.

Stack Overflow acquired for $1.8bn by Prosus (no, me neither)

there is an upside

Without SO developer numbers will dwindle while quality of code may go very high

Firefox 89: Can this redesign stem browser's decline?

Re: Privacy is an acquired taste it would seem

"People misunderstand at a fundamental level."

FTFY

Re: New tab design

You mean Shift -Tab?

AMD teases '3D V-Cache' tech that stacks cores and SRAM, delivers 15% boost to today's Ryzen CPUs

Re: rDNA in yer arm

"The righteous armor of Nvidia graphics cards is traditionally worn by paladins to deflect girlfriends"

that drew a laughter and puzzled looks from bystanders

British bank TSB says it will fix days-long transaction troubles tonight

is it short for?

the $hite bank

Signal app's Moxie says it's possible to sabotage Cellebrite's phone-probing tools with booby-trapped file

That's an old mailbomb technique by the way. So funny they fell for it.

Best security practice seems to be favorite old: security by obscurity

Update on PHP source code compromise: User database leak suspected

Re: Legacy is always a problem

don't bother and switch to Wife 1.0

Yep, the 'Who owns Linux?' case is back from the dead

Re: Follow the money

trilateral commission?

Tin Foil Hat Anyone?

Micron chief warns 'severe shortage' of DRAM expected to continue this year

Last time it was a flood and I made $$$ as had a flight attendant friend flying back and forth.

32 MB EDO Rams for time stamp

Turns out humans are leading AI systems astray because we can't agree on labeling

I try to sneak in two wrong amswers to every challenge

Yep, you're totally unique: That one very special user and their very special problem

Re: easily done

Also now they deliver your keystrokes to Micro$