Posts by Korev

This is no yolk. Newegg scrambles against rotten shell company claims

Pun for all the family

The puns in the title are eggcellent

'Screaming' man fined $149 for singing 'Everybody Dance Now'

I didn't realise that.

You're preaching the choir with that one....

I'd like "furious cycling"

Capacitor maker zapped with price-fixing charge

Nothing to worry about...

Keep calm and solder on...

What’s the real point of being a dev? It's saving management from themselves

Hadoop

Some bright Spark will mention Hadoop/bigdata soon...

DXC slashes meal allowances for travelling troops: Please sir, may I have some more?

Re: No health based exception to per-diem, well sorry no deal.

AC says that s/he is "a diagnosed celiac", so has a formal diagnosis and a strict diet. I have no idea why their post got such heavy downvoting.

HPE quits cloud servers, two weeks after telling El Reg it wouldn't do that

Re: Exciting new strategy

Sounds like IBM too...

Vaxen

Yep, it's a bit VAXing when vendors stop selling products that you want to buy

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update tackles IT's true menace: Cheating gamers

Re: open to abuse?

That was one of the examples that I had in mind when I posted; sadly there are many more

open to abuse?

Computer games companies and other media companies have record of doing bad things to your PC to "protect" their products. I wonder if (when) this will be abused?

MH 370 search to resume as Malaysia makes deal with US oceanographic company

Good luck

I hope they find the aeroplane so the families get some "closure" and also so the authorities can act to lower the chance of a similar thing happening again.

Boss visited the night shift and found a car in the data centre

Re: Bit risky...

The old HPC data centre at Cambridge had racks positioned over the beams in the floors and also had the air flow calculated so exactly that they could track people in the room from their monitoring systems. It was a very impressive use of a space that wasn't really suitable for its purpose. They now have an excellent new facility for their beasts.

Re: "Have you ever stumbled upon something that just doesn't belong in the data centre?"

We had a small computer room with a "server wash facility"; for some reason my colleagues only saw the negative side to this innovation...

MongoDB shoots for $220m in IPO, values NoSQL biz at $1.2bn

Re: Don't buy

Ta.

I've had a play with Spark and I like it a lot. I do have the problem that most data that we play with happily fits in RAM on a single machine* though!

* We're an HPC shop so we have more to play with than a lot of people

Re: Don't buy

Out of interest, which ones do you think are "much better" and why?

Re: "The relational database era is passing…"

You beat me to posting that!

IBM broke its cloud by letting three domain names expire

Re: domains may be registered up to 10 years

I had a similar idea, maybe we can Exchange some ideas and swap Notes.

Oh, Lenovo! 1,000 staff strapped to redundancy cannon

You mean "Resource Action" DSLR?

That phrase is awful, isn't it inherited from IBM?

Power: The ultimate web-based commodity

Not the chip then?

See title

Didn't install a safety-critical driverless car patch? Bye, insurance!

Re: Safety-critical updates?

Isn't the problem more that Android phone manufacturers don't bother pushing out the updates?

I can also see problems with car manufacturers getting bored supporting a model and not releasing updates for older cars (just like phones).

ARM chip OG Steve Furber: Turing missed the mark on human intelligence

Re: Marvellous

Me too

One for the author ->

An easy problem to solve

If only they used brain processors instead of ARM ones then they'd probably find it a lot easier...

I met a very well known figure in machine learning recently who'd only just got his first smart phone (and barely knew how to use it) on the basis that Google and Apple use his technology so he ought to see it in use.

Yes, British F-35 engines must be sent to Turkey for overhaul

Re: Nice plane

Yup, plane stupid if you ask me...

DNA as storage? Old and boring. Boffins now chaining monomers

Citation

Thanks for a proper title and link to the paper. ->

Any chance you could use the DOI too in future too please. That should mean that even if $JOURNAL rejig their website then there will still be a proper identifier.

Watch out for Microsoft Word DDE nasties: Now Freddie Mac menaced

Re: pivoting through Microsoft Excel

They should probably spend some time in a cell for it though...

Re: pivoting through Microsoft Excel

It's good that they can table these puns

Man prosecuted for posting a picture of his hobby on Facebook

Re: Nazi

Ta.

Re: Nazi

Didn't someone nearly get done in Oxford a few years ago for insulting a Police horse? I can't seem to find a link though.

WPA2 KRACK attack smacks Wi-Fi security: Fundamental crypto crapto

Re: 4 Years ago in a land far far away.

No idea why you were downvoted for that; I fear you're absolutely correct.

Choose your WEPon now...

Biochem boffins win the Nobel Prize for cryo-electron microscopy

Re: really?

"C'mon el Reg. we expect better of you!"

Especially as they have their own set of superior units...

Re: Boffin wars

Yep, I believe the lab at the LMB has a 2.5k core cluster dedicated to it. (This was a couple of years ago that I heard this, they may have expanded since.

Nvidia have ported some of the key codes to GPU, we stuck a load of GPUs in for our CryoEM scientists and a PB or so of Lustre for scratch.

European Commission refers Ireland to court over failure to collect €13bn in tax from Apple

Deficit

Ireland's deficit is about €1.3billion; this is the best part of a decade's deficit that they could eliminate - why is their government so against collecting the tax?

MH370 final report: Aussies still don’t know where it crashed or why

Re: planet is surrounded by spy satellites

I can't imagine that any of the governments running spy satellites would be very interested in a featureless bit of ocean. They'd much rather monitor the Barents Sea or the GIUK Gap etc.

The UK isn't ditching Boeing defence kit any time soon

Re: Good luck to Bombardier!

Since when have airlines cared about passenger comfort? They're probably more interested in running costs.

Silly idea

The tariff sounds like a plane stupid idea.

Yes, yes. I'm Boeing, I'll get my coat

Re: A curious note, thinking of the C17

Sadly I can only upvote you once

Re: War!

War has never been so much fun!

Microsoft downplays alarm over Windows Defender 'flaw'

Re: Security Researchers

Yep and then they make you Wannacry

MoD brainbox repo opens up IP treasure chest for world+dog

Range

Items of interest to IT-focused techies may include DSTL's miniature mobile antenna (PDF, 1 page). This little device is said to be capable of operating across the 2GHz-5GHz frequency range with an area of just 2cm2.

That's even worse than a home hub's range

Is this cough cancer, doc? No: it's a case of Playmobil on the lung

Re: @Anon Y. Mous

Did the penny drop?

Re: This is why

And they should play with them on their cone

Re: ...bronchogenic...

I guess the cone was his mane problem...

Playboy founder and dressing-gown wearer Hugh Hefner dead at 91

Writers

Back in the day, the magazine was also well known for its literary output, publishing fiction by such writers as Ray Bradbury, John Updike, Ian Fleming, Joseph Heller, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margaret Atwood, Jack Kerouac and Kurt Vonnegut.

And Roald Dahl!

Massive revenues from RAM, flash make Micron chief a happy chappy

The flipside...

I was in meeting earlier discussing getting some new HPC nodes; we've had to scale back massively on the large memory systems due to the large rise in the cost of RAM...

A disappointed boffin who can't assemble his genomes ->

Scared of that new-fangled 'cloud'? Office 2019 to the rescue!

Re: Small-minded men

Also let's just take a census of the people in this building who are actually excited for new Powerpoint animations and then write a policy forbidding them to ever give presentations or lectures.

You're being too gentle; nuke them from orbit, it's the only way to be sure ->

Re: And everything will ether have a GUI update or functions removed.

I'd like an intelligent signature function, ie if the email is being sent internally then I'd put my phone number and link to the SharePoint "mysite", external then I'd put my LinkedIn profile link instead.

So. Should I upgrade to macOS High Sierra?

Backup server?

You now nominate a Mac as a Time Machine backup server for other Macs on the LAN.

Good luck trying to buy a home Mac with enough storage* to do this for a reasonable number of devices

*ie without having discs and their cables hanging around all over the place.