Posts by Korev

Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024

Re: POP3. IMAP ?

You should use a more environment friendly container, like a coconut for example.

You may need then however to change your carrier to a more sturdy avian...

There's a Bounty if you can do it...

No, no, no! Disco joke hit bum note in the rehab center

That Matron be an excellent joke...

Re: So the system didn't cut the ringtone when the phone was picked up

I'm surprised the nurses didn't hit the phone with their Sister Sledgehammer...

Eventually he got the system to download a smaller and somewhat more professional-sounding ringtone file and – hallelujah – it stopped raining men.

You mean he nursed it back to normal?

BOFH: A security issue, you say? Activate code tangerine

That'd be a dick move...

Airport chaos as eGates down for the count across UK

Do they run Windows? If so then they'd be Bill Gates...

How is this problem mine, techie asked, while cleaning underground computer

Re: server in a bog

I kind of miss the nice old Sun gear; NTL not so much

Re: "......the mine had closed."

There's been talk of South Crofty reopening for decades, so far nothing has really happened...

Re: Ah.. the joy...

We call them Emmets in Cornwall, Grockles is D*von speak...

Microsoft worker accidentally exposes 38TB of sensitive data in GitHub blunder

Re: "Sharing the learnings"

BRING BACK THE MODERATRIX!

No one would have dared to have even thought of this whilst she ruled the boards...

I don't know what is worse, losing 38TB of sensitive data or the use of the phrase "sharing the learnings"...

Yes, from orbit -->

Techie labelled 'disgusting filth merchant' by disgusting hypocrite

Yes!

> "Oh yes I know," the customer responded. "I have some of them on my coffee table."

Oh PLayboy, that seems a bit un-Mayfair...

If anyone finds an $80M F-35 stealth fighter, please call the Pentagon

Hopefully his throat wasn't too horse...

According to ABC News, the pilot parachuted safely into a North Charleston neighborhood at about 2pm local time and was then taken to hospital, but he is said to be in a stable condition.

So he landed in a farm then...

Oracle at Europe's largest council didn't foresee bankruptcy

Re: Failure found

Rman, you're right

Chap blew up critical equipment on his first day – but it wasn't his volt

Re: It doesn't always smoke though

You mean they re-fused to give him a new one?

Oracle cloud hardware to reside in Azure datacenters – and Microsoft's good with that

But this offer two vendors' lock-in for the price of one!

Airbus takes its long, thin, plane on a ten-day test campaign

Re: I guess someone had to...

i've done a lot of 8hr flights on wide body planes and get cranky after that but a few drinks helps to sooth the nerves, unless of course i need to drive at the the other end like when arriving back in uk.

After a red-eye flight is it actually safe enough to drive (even with no booze)?

iPhone 12 deemed too hot to handle for France's radiation standards

Re: So it took them three full years to determine this?

> Oh no, I hear France just banned the 9600 bps Zyxel modem I bought 30 years ago!

I'd have thought you'd have got baud of it years ago...

Re: I need to look at how the test is done

>> It sounds strange to me that the testing was done 3 years after product release.

> Yes, that does seem rather quick by French bureaucracy standards.

Yeah, it can take that long to prove you're not dead...

> While the iPhone 12 had no problems with the "trunk" limit, it exceeded the "limb" limit.

That's the elephant in the room...

"Apple unsurprisingly rejected the ANFR's claims. It told The Register that ..."

Apple actually responded to The Register?

This isn't the same The Register of old...

Watt's the worst thing you can do to a datacenter? Failing to RTFM, electrically

Re: Check the power supply

> Our other actions on that day got us mentioned in an article in PCW.

I miss PCW...

Re: Check the power supply

In front of me and the boss (ie double the witnesses.)

He didn't get fired.

And didn't do it again either I bet

Re: But surely

I'm currently feeling wired...

Re: But surely

Watt the hell are you on about?

Okay, SMART ePANTS, you tell us how to create network-connected textiles

Re: singular micro yarn textile routing platform with unmatched low-power electronics

What does the network fabric look like?

Apple races to patch the latest zero-day iPhone exploit

Re: This was patched yesterday

The article also states "Even running the latest version of iOS (16.6) is no defence against the exploit," which is misleading

PEBCAK problem transformed young techie into grizzled cynical sysadmin

Something to take note of...

They never change...

Manny thinks not. “The moral of the story is that no matter how bad your hardware or software, always check for PEBCAK – Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard."

You can always bank on the users to mess things up...

d-Matrix bets on in-memory compute to undercut Nvidia in smaller AI models

Re: Fairly short window of opportunity

Quite, I'm involved in a project building chemical models, we only normally need to train on a single GPU...

UK rejoins the EU's €100B Horizon sci-tech funding program

Fantastic news, hopefully Erasmus will be restored soon too.

Newport Wafer Fab blames UK government over 100 redundancies plan

Re: Future

Apart from Brexit made it harder for the skilled workers to escape

I'm very pleased I got out before the vote...

IT needs more brains, so why is it being such a zombie about getting them?

Re: Hacking tests and CTFs to get to the interview stage

I have a friend who's a computational chemist, he got called for interview with a company who gave him a task to do. It was obvious that they were just after ideas to pinch, moreover, doing the test effectively meant he was breaking his contract with his then employer as he'd be working for a competitor...

> I remember learning about simultaneous quadratic equations about 30 years ago, and kind-of understood them at the time.

I remember doing quadratic equations in maths lessons and thinking they were pointless. A year or so later I started Chemistry A-level and in the textbook were quadratic equations, interestingly because higher level maths at GCSE wasn't a requirement, half of the class didn't have a clue how to deal with them.

Kind of a teacher icon -->

IBM Cloud to 'uplift' prices by up to 29 percent

It suggested that some providers will be passing on inflation, but some rises will happen simply because hyperscalers know that it's hard to migrate workloads and customers will probably wear the pain.

Ah the vendor lockin[0] that we've been warning the cloud zealots about for ages!

Slightly less snarkily, have the competition authorities looked at the exorbitant egress charges that make it very expensive to move your data out of a $CLOUD to a competitor and/or on-prem?

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Attackers accessed UK military data through high-security fencing firm's Windows 7 rig

Re: "the UK's Ministry of Defence [..] does not comment on security matters"

We had someone do exactly that years ago, his replacement was quite surprised to find this and not hugely happy that her first job was to literally clean up the code.

> So they make good fences to segment areas of land, but lacked a firewall to segment areas of the internal network?

Nope, it was a fence post error...

What happens when What3Words gets lost in translation?

Ta, that looks like a nice device. It's a bit pricy (at least here in Switzerland)

> I don't have a dog in this race. I'm not a user or provider of emergency services.

It only takes a careless driver or just your heart getting bored to need to be an "Emergency services user"

Which device did you buy?

> Lets not even go near the Scon/Scoane debate :-)

Well that one's simple - Jam on first...

This isn't only for people who recently learned English. For example, some Irish accents have a different pronunciation of th which is quite distinctive from t, most of the time, but close enough that I've seen a misunderstanding between an Irish person and a British person even though both were native English speakers.

I work with in a non-English speaking country with an Irish bioinformatician, when she first joined the Company and started talking about R she got nothing but blank looks because of her accent!

Almost a Guinness -->

The latest iPhones can talk to satellites for emergencies. As someone who spends a lot of time outdoors, this is pretty much the only recent new feature on a mobile phone that interests me!

2023 World Solar Challenge entrant welcomes clouds – not the fluffy white ones

The starter's flag for this year's edition of the race drops on October 22, and The Register last week learned that University of New South Wales's (UNSW) team in the race has become very fond of clouds.

Well, if they used Azure then there wouldn't be any clouds...

X may train its AI models on your social media posts

Large language model maker AI21 Labs has raised $155 million

That should buy them as many as five whole GPUs!!!

Out with Tech Services 3 and in with Tech Services 4 – UK govt's £12B shopping spree

Among the changes include a "debarment register," which is set to list suppliers who have previously under-performed.

If this actually happens then it'll be great news.

Sure, give the new kid and his MCSE power over the AS/400. What could possibly go wrong?

Re: Learning experience

> 1. There was an issue with his training, including chain of command and authorized operations

Yeah, it was wrong of the boss to Mainframe the newbie...