* Posts by Korev

5179 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2016

To patch this server, we need to get someone drunk

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Smoke from the firewall?

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The boss sounded alarming...

AI-pushing Adobe says AI-shy office workers will love AI if it saves them time

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A bit like recipes on American blogs. They start off with some preamble about their aunt, shoehorn some stuff about their kids, maybe reminisce about their time at university, dump a load of photos in before finally getting to the actual recipe...

...And then you close the tab because it's all in pounds and ounces...

GenAI spending bubble? Definitely 'maybe' says ServiceNow

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Re: A "real" GenAI response

Are we colleagues?

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Can it automate Please close this incident and raise this as a request?

Techie made a biblical boo-boo when trying to spread the word

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Re: Lord!

> That would be an ecumenical matter!

Yes!

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Looks like Gabriel wasn't an angel after all...

Bargain-hunting boss saw his bonus go up in a puff of self-inflicted smoke

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which needed help setting up swanky new digs in London, UK.

I think most people reading This Esteemed Organ have the intelligence to know where London is...

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Re: Not the cause I expected...

I once made the magic blue smoke come from an SGI Tezro, not a cheap machine!

I never found out what happened, but it had been fed some of the UK's finest electricity before so I doubt the PSU was set incorrectly.

Tech support chap solved knotty disk failure problem by staring at the floor

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If he's called Emmett does that mean he was a tourist visiting Cornwall?

Today's breakfast pint is a Betty Stogg's -->

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It sounds like there was a floor in that room's design...

Atlassian CEO's idea to build 4,000-kilometer extension cord plugged in

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Re: AAPowerLink

Do you know who cells them?

Russia tells citizens to switch off home surveillance because the Ukrainians are coming

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Re: Good to see we collect Russian bots here too...

It might be a real person, these forums are custom coded so they'd need to make a bot specifically.

Nvidia's latest AI climate model takes aim at severe weather

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Google shared its work with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) to not only enhance physics-based climate models with machine learning, but port them to TPUs and GPUs, making it far less costly to run than CPU-based compute clusters.

Not exactly the same thing, but Meteoswiss & CSCS ported COSMO to GPUs a few years ago too. Since then, Swiss short range forecasts have been made on a pair of surprisingly small GPU clusters.

Brit tech mogul Mike Lynch missing after yacht sinks off Sicily amid storms

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Re: Coincidence or what !!!

If you're going to bring up conspiracy theories then you Orca use the right icon -->

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Re: Inference?

The RNLI[0] now tell people to float on their back and stay calm rather than try to swim

[0] The mostly volunteer-based lifeboat service in the UK & Ireland

Developer tried to dress for success, but ended up attired for an expensive outage

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It sounded like he had a ship day in the office...

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He was lucky that he didn't find himself bobbing up and down in the sea...

Cisco slashes thousands of staff, 7% of entire workforce, pivots into AI

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Cisco currently estimates that it will recognize pre-tax charges to its GAAP financial results of up to $1 billion

And then a load more money as it hires many of them back as contractors?

Good luck to all those affected

Palo Alto Networks execs apologize for 'hostesses' dressed as lamps at Black Hat booth

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> Nothing to see here, move along.

If everyone just ignored it then the companies would realise they're wasting money and then find some other way to draw in the punters.

The fact this has worldwide attention means that having "Booth babes" actually worked...

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> On the other end, if the lamps were impersonated by 2 men wearing a suite nobody would have said a word.

Well, you wouldn't be able to see them under the sofa...

Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS

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>"We tested the system with eight million concurrent listeners earlier today," Musk Xcreted ahead of the event.

FTFY

CrowdStrike president cheered after accepting 'Epic Fail' Pwnie award

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I'd be curious to know if the employee(s?) who made the mistake is still in the Company.

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I used to work in a QA team in a medium size software house, by chance we sat next to the Service Desk and you could hear the things we missed coming in...

We liked a beer though...

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> I've found English-language pedantry to be a lonely, unappreciated endeavor. Not recommended.

Nope, it's spelt endeavour...

BOFH: The true gravity of the Boss and the 3-coffee problem

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Re: My body objects to coffee!

"spent on beer"?

You mean invested surely...

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And that was the last thing the Boss ever chainsaw...

Techie told 'Bill Gates' Excel is rubbish – and the Microsoft boss had it fixed in 48 hours

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> You do realize that Gates&Co. had nothing to do with the 640K "limit", right?

Yes, maybe I should have used the joke icon instead of the bad pun icon...

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But 640 should be enough for anyone...

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Icons

I think we need the Bill Gates angel and devil icons back for this one

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Was this for free or did they send a Bill Gates?

Japan stops measuring train crowding by ease of newspaper readership

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As this is Japan, should the new paper be The (Land of the Rising) Sun?

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Sounds like Helles on earth...

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Re: Fishy

I'll raise you one Pilchard.

You Kernow it makes sense.

Proper Job...

A pint of Betty Stoggs naturally -->

UK axes plans for Edinburgh-based exascale computer

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Re: Of Course The UK Has No Need At All For Infrastructure.......

(and as an aside... HS2? Seriously? I was on the fence about it previously, but since the pandemic passenger numbers are way down. It's just not needed right now. Enough people have realised they don't need to travel as often to get stuff done.)

The big problem that HS2 will solve is the lack of rail capacity north of London, sadly this is hard to communicate so they focused more on getting out of London/Birmingham (delete according to prejudice) a bit quicker...

Punkt MC02: As private, and pricey, as a Swiss bank account

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Error Found

We are sorry but an unrecoverable error has happened

Our developers have been notified about the error and will make every effort needed to solve it.

If you prefer you can contact them directly by writing to the following address(es): XXXXXX

Looks like their website isn't work at this Punkt in time...

Has this article Slashdotted ElReged them?

Hello? Emergency services? I'd like to report a wrong number

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Re: Accidentally calling Emergency, yep I've done that...

We did that once in France as kids. In the UK there used to be a number which immediately rang the line back (IIRC 171) and as kids we thought this was hilarious. We tried it in a French phone box and it went straight through to the cops (17) which required some explanation...

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Re: Really?

Some people blindly follow processes without thinking as they can't do strategic thought. for some jobs like in a regulated industry this is great; but in others it is less good.

I used to work in a research IT office where the science moves fast and the IT struggles to keep up. We took on a guy with lots of experience on the regulated side of the industry and he struggled because he needed the guidance of a well-defined rigid process...

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I'm going to cop out of answering that

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My old work use the European emergency number (112) for their emergency number on the landlines. Although at first it seems like a dumb idea at first it makes sense as they have their own Fire Brigade (including ambulance) onsite who are a lot nearer than the public ones. Moreover, the fire(wo)men are specially trained and equipped for chemical incidents.

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William should have sent a Bill to his underling...

Meta to boost training infra for Llama 4 tenfold, maybe deliver it next year

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Meta's content ranking and recommendation tools already use what Meta calls "Core AI," which Zuckerberg told investors is improving user engagement by pushing more stuff users want into their Facebook and Instagram feeds.

What a shame they couldn't do something useful like fix the climate, cure Dementia...

The secret to better weather forecasts may be a dash of AI

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Re: 2.8°C

> What's the el'reg standard for temperature ?

It's the Hilton

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Isn't the ECMWF like the EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute) and can bring whatever staff they like into the UK bypassing the normal immigration rules?

I'm not saying that Brexit wasn't a disaster for British science, but this is one of the rare cases where Brexit isn't to blame.

Never put off until tomorrow what someone could erase today

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Maybe he's had time to take stock of the situation

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Had Christopher got around to copying the data from it to the new server? You know the answer.

Sounds like Christopher shares a lot of the blame here...

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DLT? Why on all earth was a radio DJ doing backups?

Happy Sysadmin Day, the Bitlocker keys are in a bowl on top of the fridge

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Yeah quite, buying your own cattleprod is bull...

Customer bricked a phone – and threatened to brick techie's face with it

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It's a fair cop...

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Henry never did try to discover why, or what happened. And didn't give it another thought other than as a story to share.

I guess there must have been a concrete reason for it...