Posts by Korev

Silverlight extinguished while Angular wins fans among developers

Nominative determinism?

In this case, interest, according to data scientist Julia Silge

I think we know which data science language she prefers...

SciNet supercomputer's GPFS trick: We node what you did, burst buffer

Maybe true; although many of the target audience will be at Supercomputing this week

It would be interesting to compare the performance and cost of this NVMesh configuration with DDN's IME burst buffer.

Isn't this the kind of question that the IT media are supposed to investigate?

Mm, sacrilicious: Greggs advent calendar features sausage roll in a manger

Re: British Sausages.

Is that you Conchita?

Shiver me timbers! 67cm Playmobil pirate ship sets sail for Caribbean

Hopefully it won't sink...

Or else it'd be toytanic

'Sticky runway' closes Canadian airport

Re: ETOPS?

Ta.

ETOPS?

Does this closure impact airline routes due to the ETOPS rules as the aeroplanes would have to fly for longer with a faulty engine.

UK.gov: IT contracts should be no more than 7 years. (Not 18, Fujitsu)

A resource TUPE'd across should cost the same or LESS than they did when in house when supplied back under the contract...

You mean a human not a "resource" surely?

BOFH: But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

Great username Dr Freeman -->

Uni staffer's health info blabbed in email list snafu

Re: Sorry, is this El Reg or "Take a Break" ????

When I was there it was Pine on OSF1*, none of this mouse-drive nonsense!

I can still recall the hostnames, does that make me a bit sad?

Re: Sorry, is this El Reg or "Take a Break" ????

I think the recipients of the email were all students, so presumably they all use UEA's email system.

MongoDB update plugs security hole and sets sights on the enterprise

In case you're the only person on the planet to have not seen it...

MongoDB is webscale

Want to provision a new VM on Azure? Get in line

Have they thought about bursting into AWS?

Coinhive crypto-jacking increasingly pops up in top 3 million websites

Oh get stuffed (crust) with those puns guys

IBM's next turnaround tool is ... a new open-source font?

I feel dirty after writing that last comment...

But isn't blue a cold colour? They could switch to a brown or orange to show the warmth and caring of the IBM brand

More expensive, takes longer than usual, not particularly brilliant. Yes, it's your robot surgeon

The average cost of the hospital stay was about $2,678 more per patient when a robot was involved, costs the researchers attributed to operating room and supply charges.

Which in some places will be seen as an advantage by the hospital...

AWS adopts home-brewed KVM as new hypervisor

And that they have a great feeling of calm and Xen

Apache OpenOffice: We're OK with not being super cool... PS: Watch out for that Mac bug

Re: Math?

For you good Sir -->

That awkward moment when AWS charges you BEELLIONS for Lightsail

Re: They must have employed some new programmers ...

Tell Sid

Superdome X gets pumped on Skylake to become Superdome Flex

Re: Superdome in name only

Yep, we've got a long Tezroad ahead

Re: Superdome in name only

There's one of these for anyone who could accept the Challenge to squeeze a Tezro pun in -->

Re: Superdome in name only

I see you're trying to Fuel some high Octane rumours about their Origin...

Look out, Pepe: Martha Lane Fox has a plan

Re: This is a foxtastic idea!

A cookie badge for not tracking you with {Google,Facebook}?

Londoners: Ready to swap your GP for an NHS vid doc app?

Re: Can't come soon enough

I actually have an appointment to see my GP soon. He's almost certainly going to need to do a rectal examination. How, exactly, is that going to work over a video link?

Maybe they could use some kind of Android to do the procedure

ATM fees shake-up may push Britain towards cashless society

Re: Cash will be here long beyond when we all are

I woollen know, but I bet the banks fleece you

Re: Greetings cards?

That's the Hallmark of a great person

A similar one is when you give them slightly more to reduce the amount of change you get eg paying £11.75 instead of £10 for a £6.25 means they get to keep some change and your wallet doesn't get weighed down. This seems to confuse many people taking money.

Your future data-centre: servers immersed in box full of oil, in a field

Re: Been there, done that...

Yep, the first Cray was delayed due to problems with the Freon cooling system...

Those IT gadget freebies you picked up this year? They make AWFUL Christmas presents

Re: freebie USB sticks

Let's not forget how ungodly SLOOOOW the freebie flash drives are

I have some from storage vendors that are incredibly slow; it makes me wonder why they want their logo on the side of a snail disguised as a thumb drive.

Isilon-owning Dell OEMs Isilon rival Elastifile's flash 'n' trash NAS

English?

"While this is a great example of how the Dell EMC OEM program helps empower other solutions with our market-leading PowerEdge Server platform, from a go-to-market standpoint, this is purely fulfilment just like any other OEM customer we contract with.

Does anyone understand this?

Any chance of an icon for those who besmirch the Queen's English in this way?

Giza geezers' muon-geyser visor reveals Great Pyramid's hidden void surpriser

Re: Drilling for a cavity?

Ouch! Bad pun, I'm going to tell my mummy on you...

Apple hauls in $52.6bn in Q4, iPhone, iPad and Mac sales all up

Re: New stuff

An iMac with a reasonable size SSD and decent amount of RAM for a sensible amount of money would be great too.

Official Secrets Act alert went off after embassy hired local tech support

If they put some fibre into the monkey, then they'd be able to get the data out easily

SCO vs. IBM case over who owns Linux comes back to life. Again

IBM Vs SCO

Is it wrong to hope they both lose?

IBM or SCO?

Re: One definition of insanity ...

I'm going to mess with your theory and upvote you...

Hardware has never been better, but it isn't a licence for code bloat

There was a slide doing the rounds on Twitter of how many network calls Slack* made over a WAN whilst starting up from Australia to the US and totalling them up came to the best part of 10s.

I think it was Slack, please jump in if I misremembered the software.

Re: "The important thing is to have a way to measure"

You mean there's something wrong with print statements printing the contents of a variable to the terminal?

NASA reveals Curiosity 2020's 23-camera payload

Re: Noodliness

It would have costed too much dough...

Car insurers recoil in horror from paying auto autos' speeding fines

Re: Try a sensible design?

I'm afraid I'm going to have to Escort you off the premises, Leon...

Google Drive ate our homework! Doc block blamed on code blunder

Re: Modern day serfdom

This "Cloud" thing is just part of the rapidly growing trend of denying real property rights to the masses, as it gets hoovered up by corporate monopolists, then "rented" back to us.

Adobe have just done this to Lightroom and are getting absolutely slated for it. They even said in the past that it'd offer it "indefinitely" before changing their minds.

Kubernetes bug ate my banking app! How code flaw crashed Brit upstart

Re: I wonder...

Especially not for webscale databases...

Official: Perl the most hated programming language, say devs

There's no need to goto extremes...

Seagate's 'AI' disk drive: Just put slightly higher numbers on the specs

Have you tried backing up to /dev/null*? Your backups will complete in record time...

* Stolen from an ancient BOFH**

** I want more space so I'll move to Texas

MoD: Sci-tech strategy? Er, here's a bunch of words and diagrams

Pint

"As one wag remarked to us upon seeing it: "This is why we're not allowed Visio any more.""

A virtual pint for the "wag" ->

Full marks....

...for making it even more realistic by taking the diagram and making it nice and blurry just like when people use a projector with a lower resolution than their computer's screen.

"I'm sorry this slide doesn't project very well"

Don't be a turkey: Help Linus Torvalds finish Linux 4.14 before it ruins Thanksgiving

Internationalisation?

Please don't use Thanksgiving to refer to a particular time of year; to the rest of the world it doesn't mean anything. To a Canadian it even means a completely different date.

F-35s grounded by spares shortage

Is it "fighter or flight" time?

Oracle ZFS man calls for Big Red to let filesystem upstream into Linux

Re: time to buy shares in high grade memory fab then

In very poor taste... But I won't pretend I didn't laugh ->