Posts by Korev

CERN boffins see strange ... oh, wait, that's just New Zealand moving 2m north

They also found that the strange regular signals from their sensors turned out to be the local TGV railway line!

CIOs: VDI? Maybe, just maybe, it really will be different this time...

Re: Awful Citrix

It has its uses though. A few years ago I had someone very senior complain that the scientists working for him couldn't process their data at home. It turns out that they were trying to open and save the files (up to about a Gig) over domestic ADSL; I put the software on a server and they logged on from home and were very happy and some of them even found it was quicker in the office too.

The users?

I'd love to know the customer satisfaction rates before and after the implementation. One or two of the CIOs kind alluded to it, but no one was quoted as giving figures.

Red squirrels! Adorable, right? Wrong – they're riddled with leprosy

Puns?

I can't believe we'd made it this far without a pun! Has someone got one squirrelled away somewhere?

Trump's plan: Tariffs on electronics, ban on skilled tech migrants, turn off the internet

Re: And we thought BREXIT was bad

I lived through the cold war and always felt optimistic about the future, Nixon was a crook but he was not going to do anything really stupid

Apart from drunkenly order nuclear strikes!

The Reg seeks online community manager

Ms Bee

Is the Moderatrix available?

The last Commentard who crossed her ->

Weka.IO – a stealthy startup swimming against the tide

Wikipedia says it's a flightless bird from New Zealand, but that seems to be the wrong kind of idea. or the name of a widely-used machine learning toolkit.

World-leading heart hospital 'very, very lucky' to dodge ransomware hit

Re: Bleedin' obvious

It's been a few weeks since we've had a new BOFH

The bigger problem tends to be access to personal e-mail, required by students and typically it's attachments from those which cause the problem.

Would blocking gmail, hotmail etc. whilst whitelisting *.ac.uk, *.edu and other universities'* email servers work in this scenario?

* I know this gets a bit complicated in places like France or Switzerland, but should be doable.

Re: OMFG

I'll get downvoted for this but the simple answer is that clinicians wouldn't stand for it.

You're (depressingly) both right and wrong! 0 down so far and I've just added the 17th upvote.

James Dyson's new startup: A university for engineers that doesn't suck

Re: Dyson is a bit of an IPR zealot

the R&D staff made it very clear that their personal notebooks had to be checked in and out of locked storage at the opposite ends of the working day

This is what the big pharma that I worked for operated when we used to use paper lab notebooks. The only surprise is that they're still using paper notebooks.

Facebook chokes off car insurance slurp because – get this – it has privacy concerns

Re: Dreadful idea anyway...

I was about to post that!

Uber, Lyft drivers shamed for 'racial bias' by uni eggheads

Pickup location

One way that might help to distinguish racism from "self-preservation" would be to normalise for pickup/dropoff location, eg pickups from an airport would be safer for the driver than a sink estate. Any idea of they looked at that in the study?

LaCie flings out super-glam desktop Bolter drive

Redundancy?

"Six-bay 6big with up to 60TB" I wish ElReg would stop quoting storage figures like with with no redundancy.

KCL out(r)age continues: Two weeks TITSUP, two weeks to go

HI know of a university (outside the UK) recovering hundreds of TB after HSM corrupted some of their files whilst migrating from an old system to a new one. As far as I know they did everything correctly, just their storage ****ed up. I'm told $VENDOR is being very proactive in helping them get their data back from tape!

Appointments on hold as (computer) virus wreaks havoc with NHS trust systems

Re: Let me guess...

In the hospital (not in the UK) physiotherapists where I'm currently being treated there's a PC which is never locked and they only use one account between them. On the upside it's Windows 7.

I work in a big pharma and "clinical data" is incredibly tightly controlled and audited - when I think of how slack this hospital is I almost wonder why we bother!

Hell desk thought PC fire report was a first-day-on-the-job prank

Re: Can I turn it on? It's under 6 inches of water....

We used to have a crappy computer room which would leak sometimes; I tried to persuade my colleagues that we should "sell" the feature as a place to wash servers. Sadly my colleagues weren't up for the "rebrand".

It all worked out nicely for me in the end though as the power & cooling capacity was transferred to our main room which meant I could massively expand "my" HPC cluster.

Getting your tongue around foreign tech-talk is easier than you think

Re: Destination

And the salaries are massive compared to the UK... Easy access to Lake Geneva and the Alps are also big bonuses.

New MacBook Pro beckons fanbois to become strip pokers

Esc

I expect the escape key removal will be attacked with Vim

Possible reprieve for the venerable A-10 Warthog

Pint due.

“Uglier things have been spotted in the sky, but not by reliable witnesses”

This for whoever came up with that quote -->

And so we enter day seven of King's College London major IT outage

Bioinformatics is an ideal workload as each programme almost always runs on on a single node with no MPI.

My work's backup VM farm runs test/dev servers normally. If a $BADTHING happens then the backed up prod servers would be spun up instead.

Red Hat eye from the Ubuntu guy: Fedora – how you doin'?

Re: Why oh why would you use Ubuntu

RH only took over CentOS in 2014, possibly because, after trying obfuscation in RHEL 7 as a deterrent to CentOS, they decided it was easier to take it over.

Wasn't that trying to fight off Oracle's Linux? I was under the impression that RH didn't object to CentOS before they took it over as people were basically training themselves at their own expense on a RHELish distro.

Microsoft: We're hiking UK cloud prices 22%. Stop whining – it's the Brexit

Cloud costs

So if you move all your services to the cloud then $VENDOR can up the price whenever they feel like and you have no choice to pay. If you're running on-prem then you've paid for the hardware and it's not going anywhere, you may have even negotiated support for three or more years on the gear and the OS/hypervisor/whatever to run on it. I wonder how many PHBs will rethink the blind move to the Cloud that many organisations seem to be going for.

Meet the slimeballs who are openly sabotaging Virgin Media

Oh dear, that was shellish

Despite best efforts, fewer and fewer women are working in tech

Couldn't you just buy her a Dilbert book?

'Doubly unacceptable' Swiss vegan forces his way into the army

He;s under 30. Is his income going to be high enough that a 3% add-on is going to be noticable? Or even applicable? I didn't have a high enough income to pay income tax until I was 29.

Swiss income tax is a lot lower than in places like the UK; that 3% could mean that his tax has gone up by a third or quarter. The scales are much more graduated too, so the chance are he'd be paying at least some tax.

Phew: ISS re-supply mission launches without destroying Wallops launch-pad

Weight a minute

"5,000 pounds of supplies"

Isn't this supposed to be a science article?

Mysterious algorithms, black-box AI recruiters are binning our résumés

A colleague once received a CV with something like "Whilst I have no experience of technology X and Y, I'd very much appreciate the chance to learn". This meant it got past the HR droid's keyword searching. My colleague actually seriously considered getting the guy in for interview because he'd demonstrated good initiative.

Re: First, the Gross Edit

2) Photocopied photo of applicant on cover page - GONE!

That's normal in many countries, you could be binning a very good Swiss, German etc. candidate.

RRS Sir David Attenborough construction goes full-steam ahead

Re: and after the sea

I'd like to see that joke sea flat

Netflix reminds password re-users to run a reset

How would Netflix know what the password is, Wouldn't the password be stored as a one way hash?

They can take a list of passwords and then hash them; if the hash is the same as the one on their systems then they can alert the user.

FYI you can see if an account with your email address has been hacked in a number of major breaches here.

Dell to reveal 'micro data centres' for outdoor use

Remote boffinery?

It looks useful for remote collection and processing of data from remote sites; where the data volume is too large to transmit so it needs to be crunched and only the processed data transmitted.

BT will HATE us for this one weird 5G trick

Re: Well come to Norwich then...

Over here (Basel, Switzerland) there are lots of one way streets that are open in both directions to cyclists. They work pretty well, no idea why they don't try it in the UK.

VMS will be ready to run on x86 in 2019!

Potentially dumb question: as CPUs are so much more powerful now than when VMS was in its prime; is there any reason why they couldn't just virtualise the chips it used to run on and then run OpenVMS as it is?

Desktop budget wrangles: Whose device is it anyway?

Re: In research...

Also Important Faculty Member's postdocs said to go to Newegg to save money on storage.

Roll over Beethoven: HPE Synergy compositions oughta get Meg singing for joy

Re: Concerns with Synergy

One of HPE's rivals sales engineers has told us that the forthcoming Intel chips will require an entire rebuild of their blades too. I expect HPE have this in mind.

Today in stalking British AI startups: The Chinese are coming

Re: Meh

Develop a system with a few recursive algorithms; Describe said box of tricks as cutting edge artificial intelligence; Issue a series of breathy press releases; Sell to deep pocketed foreign investors.

British companies should have the Autonomy to do this...

Inside the Box thinking: People want software for the public cloud

Re: Advertorial

El Reg even reported on vbloggers having to mark their videos as adverts a few years ago (story here)

Maybe they need to read guidelines on labeling "advertisment features" clearly.

Leap second scheduled for New Year's Eve 2016

Annual Jools

Does this mean Jools Holland's annual smugfest will drag on for longer :o It already feels like an eternity

Edinburgh University to flog its supercomputer for £0.0369 per core hour

Information security etc?

Have they got people prepared to work with Industry regarding information security, lifecycle etc. We [big pharma] have a lot of rules* that we have to follow and the academic institutions I've worked with usually are surprised by this.

*Some are sensible eg patient confidentiality

UK will build new nuclear bomb subs, says Defence Secretary

Re: Oops

You Ada make that pun didn't you...

Criticize Donald Trump, get your site smashed offline from Russia

Re: We need longer presidential terms

a monarch for 20-25 years

You'd be very welcome to borrow Prince Charles.

How to steal the mind of an AI: Machine-learning models vulnerable to reverse engineering

Re: Epic Failure

forgot about differences in Englishes

Or mistakes as we call them in Britain.

BOFH: There are no wrong answers, just wrong questions. Mmm, really wrong ones

Re: BOFH old stuff

Any idea what happened to the old archive at bofh.ntk.net?

IBM hopes its tailored Swift will lure you onto BlueMix cloud

Swift?

Not a single snarky mention of Apple "borrowing" the name from err Swift? Unlike El Reg to miss a swipe at Apple.

Approve dot-gay, ICANN told

I think El Reg should come out in favour of this....

Patch AGAIN: OpenSSL security fixes now need their own security fixes

Re: And LibreSSL isn't even an option on 32-bit Linux

Maybe on the desktop and server space, but what about on tiny embedded systems?

Cisco preps the P45s for 500 unlucky UK staffers

Far too many jobs lost

Is anyone keeping tally on the number of jobs going at the big tech firms in the UK at the moment? Off the top of my head we've had HPE, IBM, Microsoft/Skype and now Cisco swinging the axe. It feels like how things were in pharma research a few years ago. In both cases the mainstream media doesn't seem to care, but for some reason factories and mines shutting is news.

Sysadmin gets 5 years for slurping contractor payments to employer

Re: And this is why...

Isn't this why Oracle have the sysoper privileges?

Moron is late for flight, calls in bomb threat

This is a real fine

Someone who caused a bomb threat at Geneva airport was fined 90,000CHFs (GBP71k, USD92k) to stop her husband running away with his mistress. That level of fins seems much more of a deterrent.