Posts by Korev

Wait! Before you fire up that HP lappy, check the battery

I Seagate what you did there...

Microsoft patches Windows to cool off Intel's Meltdown – wait, antivirus? Slow your roll

Re: Has anyone checked if existing malware is compatible with the meltdown update?

Love it! -->

Amazon: Intel Meltdown patch will slow down your AWS EC2 server

This is one of the reasons that HPC types like HDF5; it's quicker to read data from disc and decompress it than read the uncompressed data from disc.

Re: BBC news headline "Meltdown and Spectre: All Mac devices affected says Apple"

If only they had the Power to move to another chip

Jocks in shock as Irn-Bru set to slash sugar and girder content

Re: Fighting talk...

Yep, loch them up and throw away the key

Re: Is nothing sacred?

If someone says that to you then you should batter them

Apple macOS so secure some apps can't be easily deleted

Re: Broken OS

I normally resist OS major version updates on Apple until the .1 release

I have some good news for you, OSX10.1 was released in 2001 so you've been OK for 17 years

Cool disk drive actuator pillar, Seagate – how about two of them?

Re: I'm Praying to the Aliens..

Yes Sir - performs a "Rimmer salute"

Brazil says it has bagged Royal Navy flagship HMS Ocean for £84m

I think we also used it to help out with the Ebola epidemic 2 years ago - ferrying people to hospital ships and medical staff around the affected countries.

Wasn't that RFA Argus?

Re: Whats in a name

We ought to have called one of the S class submarines HMS Surprise as well.

A pint for the late Mr O'Brian -->

Re: Whats in a name

We'd have to have loads of identical ships named Badger though...

Good plan, we're all sett now

Nvidia: Using cheap GeForce, Titan GPUs in servers? Haha, nope!

Re: "OK for research"

I work in R&D in drug discovery in a for profit company; who knows if Nvidia think what we do is "research" or not...

Storage Christmas cracker: My band is called 1023MB. We haven't had a gig yet

Re: Heavens Delight

Surely that’d be “Xen mystics”

A million UK homes still get crappy broadband speeds, groans Ofcom

I mostly agree with you, but...

new build buyers can expect their heating to be provided by a "district heating network", putting their comfort in the hands of a bunch of charlatans who have an absolute monopoly, and can charge extortionate prices for shit service.

I live in a flat with communal heating, there are thermostats on each radiator so I can easily get the temperature I want (which most people would find uncomfortably cold).

anthonyhegedus: Good pedantry Sir -->

Brit film board proposed as overlord of online pr0nz age checks

You made a boob of yourself there...

Engineer named Jason told to re-write the calendar

"Damn. That kills my idea for a Java Advanced Script Object Notation."

Give it a REST...

Rewrite the calendar?

I bet that task has a poor Outlook

Google boffins tease custom AI math-chip TPU2 stats: 45 TFLOPS, 16GB HBM, benchmarks

On the market?

Will Google ever sell these or are they worried that they'd e a FLOP

Developers, developers, developers: How 'serverless' crowd dropped ops like it's hot

Re: Cloud, REST, HTTP, PHP, trendy NoSQL DB de-jour, blah blah, whatever...

Out of interest what would you use? Not trolling, I'm just a bit out of touch with the field and am curious.

The eagle has been grounded: Dutch anti-drone squadron retired

Re: Good, but must try harder

"you missed the obvious opportunity to refer to them as legal eagles"

Who would get called up in front of The Beak

You'd have thought that they carrion until they know

Shazam! Apple chucks £300m at Brit what's-that-song app – report

Last.fm?

Last.fm used to be great and then it got bought out and is a shadow of its former self. I hope that Shazam will avoid the same fate.

Shady US sigint base upgrade marred by stolen photograph

Re: Par for the course

Join the club...

Blighty flogs Qatar a bunch of missiles and Typhoon fighter jets

The Typhoon was never designed as a carrier-based aircraft.

AI researcher pulls best Blue Steel in Yves Saint Laurent fragrance ad

Re: Y...

Surely a Magnum of champagne would be more appropriate

Shingled out: 14TB helium-filled Toshiba drive floats to market

RAID rebuild times?

Anyone any idea how long a RAID rebuild would take on one of these?

Meet the woman with a supernatural affinity for stiff lovers

Or anything by Stiff Little Fingers

YouTuber cements head inside microwave oven

"With a name like SkippyBing I'd have expected you to self-identify as a Kangaroo"

That's a bit roo'd

Disk drive fired 'Frisbees of death' across data centre after storage admin crossed his wires

Re: Somehow most of us kept our fingers

"but thankfully I am not called Stumpy."

But your name suggests there was blood all over the place...

Toucan play that game: Talking toy bird hacked

Re: What about the BOOBIES

Yep, it's starling to get a bit silly

Re: In a barbed remark to manufacturers....

Nah, they were just trying to wing it

Yes sir, no sir, 3 bags NoSQL sir: It's a whizz-bang benchmark ... but WTF does it signify?

Sharding to /dev/null is quicker...

In case you haven't seen it

Samsung starts cranking out 512GB eUFS storage

Also, does the car stop running? If so do you have any control over where it stops?

Viagra's Irish plant STILL giving local men and dogs stiffies (not really)

Drink

Maybe they just need a stiff drink...

You're SAP-ing my will to live: Licensing debate lumbers on as ERP giant tries to rebuild trust

Re: Are SAP unique in this?

I know of one niche scientific software house with possibly a worse reputation. Every year the annual licence negotiations lasted until after the end of the previous period. Every so often a new "product manager" would come along and say that things would be different this time around (as the staff had changed) and of course come the next licence renegotiation it was the same again... Oddly enough we got rid of as much of their software as we could and I know many of our competitors have done the same.

The frustrating thing is that their product was very good and the technical staff were excellent and it was purely the sales tactics that ruined it for them.

Re: You'd have to be...

That sapped my will to live...

Apple sprays down bug-ridden iOS 11 with more fixes

Re: Calculator workaround

For more complex calculations we recommend using Kumquats.

Now that's just sour grapes...

US credit repair biz damages own security: 111GB of personal info exposed in S3 blunder

Re: All your leak are belong to us

Quite, what kind of a vegetable leeks data all over the place

WW2 Enigma machine to be seized from shamed pharma bro Shkreli

Auction

I have a feeling the auction will bombe...

Is Oomi the all-in-one smart home system we've been waiting for?

Good question, I was wondering the same.

Royal Bank of Scotland culls 1 in 4 branches, blames the interwebz

last bank visit

My initial reaction (other than feeling sorry for those losing their jobs) was to think that this is terrible as you'll have to travel longer to go to the bank. I then tried to think when the last time that I went to the bank was; it was when I opened the account in 2012. I guess if most people are like me then more branch closures will happen in the future.

Aviva dumps DXC, shoves data centre support at Atos

Re: How many customers do they have left

I guess the bigger question is if they are replacing the customers or not*. This kind of "churn" is to be expected when contracts go out to tender.

*someone please chip in if they know the answer

HPE ES intended to close the bit barns but Aviva disagreed with this and was a source of tension between supplier and customer, several people familiar with the matter told us.

If this was so important to the company, then shouldn't they have kept this in house?

What do Tensor Flow, Caffe and Torch have in common? Open CVEs

OpenCV

Maybe the developer should get updating their openCVs...

Night before Xmas and all through American Airlines, not a pilot was flying, thanks to this bug

NYE

I'm sure it'll all New Year's Even itself out in the end...

Want a new HDMI cable? No? Bad luck. You'll need one for HDMI 2.1

Re: Desire...

If the availability of 4K content is anything to go by, you'd be waiting a long time to find anything to watch on it... The majority of content available via my cabe connection is in SD even now.

From DevOps to No-Ops: El Reg chats serverless computing with NYT's CTO

Re: "I will gladly lock myself into the best platform"

Not to mention the potential for price gouging once enough people are "hooked" on the system.

Russian rocket snafu may have just violently dismantled 19 satellites

Re: Don't read this. It's too cringeworthy.

Why are you Russian away so fast?

Soon enough, Toshiba drives will stash vid footage of all of us

Five eyes

Don't all GCHQ at once for one...