Posts by Korev

Bombastic boss gave insane instructions to sensible sysadmin, with client on speakerphone

Staff?

he'd previously fixed their jammed printers, added new users to the company domain and lots of other mundane staff.

So he was a recruiter too? And if he was surely he wants to bring in better than "mundane" people ;)

Node.js forks again – this time it's a war of words over anti-sex-pest codes of conduct

Re: Normal differences, nothing to see here.

All are actually acceptable as long as you stick to 37-space tab indents (ignore those idiots who advocate 41).

But 42 is the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything"....

Fewer than half GCSE computing students got a B or higher this year

Re: I recommended my son not to do it

VB or VB.net?

Re: "technical and digitally skilled"

Unfashionable? The protagonists should be made to walk the plank ->

Mozilla ponders making telemetry opt-out, 'cos hardly anyone opted in

Re: Only problem is what browser to move to.

Vivaldi or Opera?

Fancy talking to SAP about your indirect licensing concerns? Straw poll says no

Overlicensing?

I wonder if SAP find an organisation who have too many licences if they will refund the difference...

ASUS smoking hashes with 19-GPU, 24,000-core motherboard

Re: Those scientists...

Which DNA analysis problems? I ask because I support scientists doing this stuff (and bioinformatics is a bit of a hobby*) and almost everything bioinformaticians do is running on x86. We do use GPUs but for other tasks.

*I think this is quite geeky even by the standards of the commentards!

Bad data and new IT system bugs help knock 66% off Provident Financial share price

Re: Nondeterministic polynomial time algorithms? In Bradford?

Love it! Roland6 there's a bill for a new keyboard on its way

Virgin Media customers complain of outages across UK

Sadly I can't imagine the Bearded One ever making a video as good as the how to uninstall McAfee one...

Scottrade admits server snafu blabbed 20,000 customer files to world

Re: I start a four day weekend in two hours.

More salt in that than there was in their passwords...

Open AWS S3 bucket leaked hotel booking credit card authorizations

Re: Anything about RDS?

Wow, that's seriously unprofessional. Does his manager know?

Australian Bureau of Statistics flip-flops over marriage equality survey

Simplification?

They could do the survey a simpler way... Legalise it and then If you don't like gay marriages then don't have one.

Voyager antenna operator: 'I was the first human to see images from Neptune'

Re: "...uses a Solaris workstation running version 8 of the OS"

Well, it's what happened!

Re: "...uses a Solaris workstation running version 8 of the OS"

I know of one scientific software vendor who once posted "faulty" CDs to a customer as they were late finishing the software for a strict deadline, I believe it bought them another week to finish.

IT reseller Misco UK shutters warehouse and distie centre

"Release"

"releasing staff"

What a horrible phrase...

Qualcomm moved its Snapdragon designers to its ARM server chip. We peek at the results

Good spot

Pint ->

US DoD, Brit ISP BT reverse proxies can be abused to frisk internal systems – researcher

Or maybe it's mandated by non-tech savvy politicians or executives because "Something must be done"

Who wants multiple virtual workstations on a GPU in a blade server?

I'd heard that they can take as much a gigabit which sounds rather high (hence me asking).

Do the Teradici systems still take up a lot of bandwidth?

Atari shoots sueball at KitKat maker over use of 'Breakout' in ad

Some of their sub brands like Callier are pretty good, ie the ones that they don't put a prominent logo on...

Q: How many drones are we bombing ISIS with? A: That's secret, mmkay

Re: Wrong comparison

So, am I to understand that ISIS has an Air Force that can down drones if they know how many there are ?

Future wars may be against a more technologically advanced enemy who may well find that information very useful.

I think you've drone their cover there....

Lenovo expects data centre profits in two years, if it can fix China

Execution?

"execution shows progress”

One way of lowering costs I guess

Linux-loving lecturer 'lost' email, was actually confused by Outlook

Linux mail client

Did he start to Pine for his old Linux system?

New BOFH?

ON-CALL Friday means a few things at El Reg: a new BOFH.

You got me all excited there for a second and I was a bit sad to see no new BOFHage since July...

Re: Client support, we've heard about it

Any substantial change of the UI will confuse the end users, no matter how intelligent or knowledgeable they are. It is the job the IT department to make sure end users understand the changes, and to walk the users through the changes if they don't.

When we migrated from Notes to Outlook we had loads of IT guys run around in red T shirts for this very reason. Some of the server guys even actually liked talking to humans for a bit :)

What weighs 800kg and runs Windows XP? How to buy an ATM for fun and profit

Re: Second picture?

It's a cat scan, like an X-ray, but cheaper

British Airways waves Bing dong: At least it's not a tech cockup

I've heard he's a bit of a dick...

UK.gov is hiring IT bods with skills in ... Windows Vista?!

Instrument controllers?

Assuming this is for the boffinery at Hanslope Park then they may still have a lot of very specialist instrumentation which is driven by PCs running an older OS whose software breaks when the underlying OS is upgraded.

We have a number of PCs like this at $EMPLOYER which are firewalled off etc from the rest of the network.

Raising minimum wage will raise something else: An army of robots taking away folks' jobs

Car washes

If this is to believed then wages in the UK are so low that it's cheaper to use humans rather than automatic car washes, resulting in a halving of the number of carwashes.

GoDaddy gives white supremacist site its marching orders after Charlottesville slur

Netcraft (unusually) isn't helpful and just says that the hosting company is unknown and there's no history. The netblock (as others have said) is owned by Cloudflare.

There are load of other domains listed too, I wonder if they're about to go too.

Ancient IETF 'teapot' gag preserved for posterity as a standard

Re: more important than ever

You do know that The Internet of Teapots will become Skynet?

We may not have to wait Oolong to find out

Place your bets: How long will 1TFLOPS HPE box last in space without proper rad hardening

Re: A few notes on chips and radiation.

What about using systems like these to process data on satellites or spaceships which could mean only the processed and probably much smaller data would need to be transmitted.

Nosey ex-NHS staffer slapped with fine for illegally peeking at medical records

Re: How many more ...

If I'm ever brought into A&E in a "mostly dead" state; then I'd really hope that the medics aren't "applying for an exception" to get access to my records.

Seriously, I can imagine that governing this kind of access would become a huge overhead in terms of time to implement and maintain the systems and fast become a huge PITA when HCPs can't access the records they need to ("Sorry Mr John Smith we have three people with that name and the clerk got the wrong one").

'Adversarial DNA' breeds buffer overflow bugs in PCs

Re: Storage admins - abandon all hope

Actually... Make that 1.44GB/s!

Storage admins - abandon all hope

But is it possible that natural human DNA could also accidentally take down a biological research computer system someday?

I've been told that a PromethION sequencer will output 500MB/s*, so that'd probably take down many networks and storage systems.

*yes that capitalisation is correct

Horsemen of the disk-drive apocalypse will ride upon 256TB SSDs

Re: So for personal backup...

You should look at getting your data offsite to protect from fire/flood or just simple theft.

IMHO whatever you go for, you should make sure that it's fully automated. Sods law says that when you forget/don't have time your discs will crash.

Re: "Just" a 2.2x price premium by 2021?

I'd appreciate my home Synology NAS being a bit quieter, the WD Red discs are noticeable when they spin up and seek. I could replace them with SSDs, but I can think of things I'd rather spend 2.5k CHFs for a pair on.

Re: SSD is fine - while it works

The only place that worries me is exactly what this article states - high-end servers and write-heavy tasks, where SSDs are not well suited and everything has to be send over a Gbit connection anyway (so why rush?).

What about things like databases where although the traffic isn't high, latency is critically important?

Uber bros kill car leasing program after losing nine grand per vehicle

Re: There was am interesting program on TV a few days ago

Why were you downvoted for this?

I was wondering the same too. Maybe the downvoter forgot that they were voting on the post and not what the post describes.

It's August 2017 and your Android gear can be pwned by, oh look, just patch the things

Which would mean that there are many fewer vulnerable devices in Europe. I suspect that a few hundred million relatively wealthy people would be a too big market to ignore.

Re: Shameful!

Wouldn't it be a better idea to start the clock once the device has stopped being sold?

Samsung drops 128TB SSD and kinetic-type flash drive bombshells

Rebuild times?

Even though Flash is much quicker than traditional discs, surely the rebuild time on an array of drives this size would be massive and maybe never complete.

No, Apple. A 4G Watch is a really bad idea

Calls whilst running

When you’re swimming or jogging you don’t want to take calls,

I find that breathing heavily whilst running quickly dissuades people from calling...

You had ONE job: Italian firefighters suspected of starting blazes for cash

You're going to get flamed for that...

According to the Vulture Central Standards Bureau shouldn't this be 21.2778 Hiltons? BTW does anyone know the history of this criminally-overlooked unit?

Paris for obvious reasons ->

Smart streetlight bods Telensa nearly double full-year revenues

Light colour?

Blue light from mobile phones and tablets is supposed to be terrible for sleeping; will the bluer light from the LEDs have the same effect?

Toshiba fires off trifecta of SSDs with 30TB range-topping whopper

Picture

A pint for Mr Mellor for his excellent choice of picture ->

Re: All this talk of Fabrics

I don't think I lycra this thread very much...

Grabs coat and joins the back of a long queue to leave

Foot-long £1 sausage roll arrives

Re: Whilst we're on the subject of food stuff from Morrisons.

which is a shame because baked lamb's heart is delicious.

Absolutely! Post upvoted in agreement.

When I lived in the UK, I used to get mine from a game merchant rather than a butcher, maybe it'd be the same up North.