Posts by Korev

Admin needed server fast, skipped factory config … then bricked it

Well, the name's a fruit so maybe they got a bit confused about currants?

Mine's the Macintosh-->

The US has to contend with Ohm's law just like the rest of us but haven't figured out how to get it on their side.

Maybe us Europeans can offer some advice on the current best practice - they may resist though...

Zombie Cambridge Analytica told 'death' can't save it from the law

>the company's decision to close down and re-emerge under another name won't give it an out

Ouch! That's terrible English...

MacBook Pro petition begs Apple for total recall of krap keyboards

Re: I have an effective and elegant solution.

Such basic boo-boos would have never happened under Steve Jobs

Do you remember the "antennagate"? Steve Jobs himself emailed a user to say that he was holding it incorrectly rather than there being a poor design...

Whoa, Gartner drops a truth bomb: Blockchain is overhyped and top IT bods don't want it

Re: "Blockchain" uses concepts that have been around for decades

>almost the entire population of the world has below average intelligence

That's a mean thing to say

Nvidia quickly kills its AMD-screwing GeForce 'partner program' amid monopoly probe threat

Re: Not as slow to learn as Intel

>It's expensive to fight the law because the lawyers always win

Fixed that for you...

Apple somehow plucks iPad sales out from 13-quarter death spiral

Re: iPad user here

>OK so with the iPad Pro, keyboard and pencil I dropped as much as I did on my Pro but it’s much faster (yes really) editing photos using LightRoom mobile

If the photos are in Adobe's cloud then I think you just edit the preview, it's noticeably slower to use RAW files that you've loaded onto the iPad.

I agree the Lightroom on a iPad is a good example showing how you can do real work on a tablet though.

Mystery crapper comes a cropper

Pooing on an athletics track you say?

I guess he got the runs....

Virgin Media to chop 800 jobs in Wales call centre

Re: Cost of living?

You're correct. I must do some basic geography lessons. -->

Most of the offices are in expensive areas though.

Cost of living?

The locations that they're retaining are mostly in expensive places like Surrey. For lower paid staff answering the phone wouldn't it be better to keep them working in places with lower living costs?

Twitter: No big deal, but everyone needs to change their password

Re: (as a best practice you shouldn't be reusing passwords anyway)

>For El Reg, move the ! to the front of the password.

Yahoo! That's! good!

BOFH: But I did log in to the portal, Dave

>Done and here's your coat with a spray bottle of untraceable nerve agent

That made me Novichuckle

You can download the files using Limewire

High-Optane thrills for 3D XPoint wanna-haves: Intel fattens gaming SSDs

Mine too, the only blinking light is for the hard disc... I even play the odd game on it and everything.

Apple's latest financials are still pretty decent even though iPhone sales are slowing

Re: Fruit vs Itsy Bitsy Morons

I guess it depends on which country you're in; America seems to have no problem putting together "Class Action Lawsuits".

Re: Hey Tim...

A cynic would suggest that the toothbrushes are kind of an advert for Apple in the same way that the original white "buds" were.

I guess that making expensive headphone so easy to lose doesn't harm Apple's bottom line either.

No top-ups, please, I'm a millennial: Lightweight yoof shunning booze like never before

Selfies?

A lot of "millennials" are into sports and looking good for Social Media etc. Alcohol has a load of calories in which won't help you in the quest to "look good". Is that another contributing factor?

What they don't know they're missing -->

Re: I don't 'Binge ' drink.

I'm a cereal drinker..

It requires some preprocessing first before it metamorphosises into something wonderful -->

if dev == woman then dont_be(asshole): Stack Overflow tries again to be more friendly to non-male non-pasty coders

Re: As if men aren't condescended to as well

Isn’t that just what a “normal” management consultant does too?

Windows 10 April 2018 Update lands today... ish

Re: "Peer-to-peer patch distribution over the LAN"

Is this feature too late? A Windows ISO is about the same size as a couple of hours of Netflix watching. I understand that for a few people on the end of crappy satellite or aluminium ADSL connections it’ll be a lifesaver; but for most of us it’ll just use up disc space.

NetHack to drop support for floppy disks, Amiga, 16-bit DOS and OS/2

Re: Start the kids on Wumpus.

Out of interest, what is it that you’re trying to resurrect?

Apple grounds AirPort once and for all. It has departed. Not gonna fly any more. The baggage is dropped off...

Re: ubiquiti

I’ve been running their gear for a couple of months and am very pleased with it so far. I did need to tweak the access point to equal my old Netgear’s throughout though (if you’re looking at buying ubiquiti then you’re probably open to tweaking a bit!).

Russians poised to fire intercontinental ballistic missile... into space with Sentinel-3 sat on board

Re: 2,140kg

Wouldn’t kilotonne be a better unit though for a nuke?

Re: Launch partner?

When I was a lab rat, we had a Russian PhD student. When he arrived he couldn’t get his head around Ethanol being freely available in the labs. It turns out that in Russia, Ethanol etc. was locked up by the PI to stop people drinking it. He also claimed that the 95% pure stuff is “better for you” than the ultra pure Ethanol as it contains fewer impurities - strangely we never tested his claim!

Re: Launch partner?

Looks like a very interesting book, but twenty quid is more than I want to pay for for a paperback. Once the price drops to something more sensible I’ll take the plunge. Thanks for the tip.

Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn? Doesn't matter – they may need to update their room key software

Re: Let's face it, all locks are cr*p

A bit of superglue will make that lock much more secure

TSB outage, day 5: What do you mean you can't log in? Our systems are up and running. Up and running, we say!

Hopefully the "exceptions" who wrote it will be punished suitably...

The tech you're reading these words on – you have two Dundee uni boffins to thank for that

Another British invention making money for elsewhere

It's such a shame that Britain is so good at inventing things and terrible at making money from them. See also Monoclonal antibodies, Graphene, television, Next Generation Sequencing, digital programmable computer etc.

Audiophiles have really taken to the warm digital tone of streaming music

What about the artists?

What about the artists that make the music that's streamed? There were a few reports from a few years ago saying that the streaming site paid almost nothing to artists, especially on the free tiers.

Medic! Orangeworm malware targets hospitals worldwide

I have no idea why you're both getting downvotes for bringing up the regulatory requirements that make supporting these kinds of systems somewhat more difficult...

UK 'meltdown' bank TSB's owner: Our IT migration was a 'success'

Re: "what comes out of a cow's arse"

You need horses for organic growth.

Apart from the Black Horse bank hoofed them out...

Cash-sprinkler Softbank and Alphabet hand over $1.9bn to Manbang

Sniggers

My other favourite name, Uparse

UK.gov demands urgent answers as TSB IT meltdown continues

Is "IT meltdown" an officially designated term now? How is it quantified?

Meltdown now has quite a specific meaning for IT security; hopefully politicians and the "mainstream" media* will stop using it in this sense.

*By mainstream media I mean the non-technical press, not that lot -->

Re: Whose idea was this?

Or they want to do the change shortly after the end of the UK tax year.

Maybe all three reasons?

In not terrifying news at all, Google just keeps on growing: Revenue, profit, headcount up

And the rest...

Pichai did, however, respond to a question about GDPR by saying: "Most of our ad business is Search, where we rely on very limited information, essentially what is in the keywords to show a relevant ad or product."

He "forgot" to mention the data from the users which Alphabet use to match the keywords to the punters.

Brit bank TSB TITSUP* after long-planned transfer of customer records from Lloyds

Re: so... tell me...

I'm struggling to think of a UK bank that hasn't gone TITSUP in recent times. I suspect they're all as bad as each other.

Community Fibre wins £18m from UK.gov infrastructure fund

Re: Fibre to the Press Release

Here in Switzerland UPC (same company as UPC) currently offer up to 500/50Mbs. Some of the FTTP products are now offering up to 10Gbs(!)*; it's going to be interesting to see how they respond.

I guess if BT pull their finger out in the UK, Virgin might have to start raising speeds to compete.

*I can't see how any home user would require or be able to use this at the moment. For a business doing something like graphic design it could be very handy though.

Bungling cops try to use dead chap's fingers to unlock his smartmobe

Cops

So the organisation who have been accused of killing him have tried to unlock his phone to "gather evidence". Isn't this the kind of thing that would cause a judge to throw it out of court?

Your AI pet project is only as smart as its garbage training set

Re: So what we are saying is

Unless that 7 is a one written by someone in Continental Europe...

Yahoo! dismemberment! begins! as! Oath! offloads! Flickr!

"The service has remained popular with photographers, but trails the likes of Facebook and Google trail it in terms of sheer quality of images stored."

Fixed it for you....

How much do AI gurus really get paid? And is NIPS such a great name for a conference?

Renaming NIPS

Well, if AI was any good then wouldn't it "think" of a good name for the conference?

Twenty years ago today: Windows 98 crashed live on stage with Bill Gates. Let's watch it again...

Re: It's always great entertainment

In case you haven't seen maybe the sweatiest man on the planet get overexcited...

BOFH: We know where the bodies are buried

Re: Metaphorical chicken

It all went downhill after Walkers stopped selling the Cajun Squirrel flavour crisps...

Creaky NHS digital infrastructure risks holding back gene boffinry, say MPs

Re: With that much Genetic Code on file...

Or convert gene names to dates or stock symbols like Excel does

Re: 200GB to store a genome? Surely not!

I'm guessing they're store the .fastq files. Hopefully if they're obliged to keep them then hopefully they archive them off onto something cheap. Unless they want to do some huge realignment etc. I doubt anyone would notice.

On saying that though, due to various rules we have a lot of gzipped .fastq files sitting around which are not allowed to be converted to something like CRAM.

Qual-gone: 1,200+ axed from Snapdragon, Centriq giant Qualcomm

Put a stake in it

We first evaluated non-headcount expense reductions, but we concluded that a workforce reduction is needed to support long-term growth and success, which will ultimately benefit all our stakeholders."

Including the "Stakeholders" who are losing their jobs?

Bloke fruit flies enjoy ejaculating, turn to booze when starved of sexy times

Cheapdate

There's a fly mutant with enhanced sensitivity to ethanol called.... cheapdate.

Beware! Medical AI systems are easy targets for fraud and error

Re: It's an outrage in my opinion!

There's also the huge matter of regulatory approval which is very complicated and expensive. A lot of companies shy away from this market because of it. Have you noticed how all the fitness trackers and smartphones have huge disclaimers and/or don't claim to do medical things?

PCI Council releases vastly expanded cards-in-clouds guidance

Was I the only one to open this expecting the article to be about server expansion cards?

Blonde moment -->

Cray snuggles up with AMD: Clustered super CS500 lets in Epyc chip

Re: So Plebian

I believe these are Cray's "cheaper" products aimed at the low/mid HPC market hence IB/OP interconnects, not Dragonfly etc.