Posts by Korev

Engineer turned a vape into a web server

I think the British (ie correct word) is Dummy which seems even more appropriate

After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'

Re: Rights problem

> Possibly a student-run webserver, a thing that I don't think really exists anymore in that form.

The SRCF would beg to differ

You're such a good localhost

Re: Never delete the old web site, only rename it

And then there will be

website.old

website.older

website.old_v2

website.old_v4

website.old_v4_new

The location of website.old_v3 is a mystery to this day

She had to Yabba Dabba Do it

"After that I developed the habit of double checking what I'm about to do on the Linux command line before pressing Enter," Wilma wrote. "Because as I learned, Linux will do what you said to do and it WON'T ask if you are sure."

Where there's a Wilma there's a way

1,200 undergrads hung out to dry after jailbreak attack on laundry machines

It'll come out in the wash...

‘IT manager’ needed tech support because they had never heard of a command line

Re: Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Yeah, it's a piece of Shiv

BOFH: These office thefts really take the biscuit

Re: Tarred, feathered

Yeah, those bean counters sound like a bunch of Hobnobs

Re: Tarred, feathered

That takes the biscuit

Walmart's bet on AI depends on getting employees to use it

If against all expectations that doesn't happen in the next 3-6 months, our employees obviously didn't rattle them hard enough and need more GenAI training."

No, they need firing ASAP - gotta keep those share options looking good

OpenAI reportedly on the hook for $300B Oracle Cloud bill

When the AI boom goes TITSUP (Total Inability To Support Underdelivered Promises), will Larry still be the richest man in the world? If not then I think that even this violin would be too big

Just because you can render a Doom-like in SQL doesn't mean you should

Vogel used CedarDB for database services, but said: "To be honest, the database nerd in me just wanted to turn all knobs up to 11 and see what breaks."

A Virtual Pint for Herr Vogel

Home Office delays £816M English test contract despite market engagement

Re: Why Procure When Options Already Exist?

Here in Switzerland, the commonly used minimum is B2, with some places wanting C1.

UK schools give system supplier Bromcom an F for Azure uptime

Re: The 'need' for a computer register

> Meanwhile a book with a list of names and ticks on the relevant dates works 100% of the time.

What? The Register? That's an IT website dontcha know...

(Wishes we we were still allowed the "Death of journalism" icon)

Apple's 'Awe Droppings' fall close to the tree

Re: Titanium

> a phone made out of wrought iron.

Do you programme it in Rust?

Everyone needs an AI phone. No, don't hang up, it's true

Re: So....

Have you tried Googling that?

Red Hat back-office team to be Big and Blue whether they like it or not

Re: Legal, Finance and HR

Looks like I should have used this icon instead...

Re: Legal, Finance and HR

No wonder Oracle make their own version of Redhat...

AI Darwin Awards launch to celebrate spectacularly bad deployments

Will the deployments coming first (last?) be called the Darwinners?

Oracle’s layoff train rolls on: 101 in WA, 250+ in CA - with more cuts looming

Re: If Your Job Does't Have A Physical Element...

I'm waiting for that moment further down the line, and hopefully it will be in the The Register, when an big system goes down and ai tries to fix it but can't - because the knowledge was 'let go' years before.

We already see that with outsourcing / offshoring...

Tesla Model Ys recalled Down Under for overly enthusiastic electric windows

Re: Why is it s a software issue...

ROLF

I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA

Re: Seen it done at a hardware level

Did you DEC him for that?

swift mirroring of any changes made in either location

Well there's the problem, Taylor isn't known for her DBA skills

Yes, Derek should have RTFM. Has failing to do so led you into trouble?

Well were the Maltese Cross?

Wastewater monitoring project could catch next pandemic early, says health agency

Re: You find what you search for

Exactly, this is the metagenomic sequencing they mention in the article

Cloud computing has become so normal, it's invisible

This is not the value of the infrastructure as it is rented by end users, but the value of the infrastructure as it is being acquired by companies, be they using it for their own purposes or setting it up for rental by others.

Once the AI boom turns to bust then I guess we'll see an equally rapid decline.

Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync

I had a similar one. I once worked somewhere there was an Acopia ARX virtualising various Windows shares. The Acopia was setup to use the PKI infrastructure for time, the Windows clients Active Directory. I came in one Monday morning to find that the PKI clock had drifted sufficiently far from AD time (actually the correct one) that the clients would no longer talk to it.

It was a very quick fix, but took a while to figure out what's wrong as you kind of assume PKI would be correct...

It's time to take a second to congratulate Kim

(it's early enough for a beer somewhere, including Vulture Towers)

Good morning, Brit Xbox fans – ready to prove your age?

Re: Well now...

>>"... linked to a Microsoft Outlook account which goes back to the late 90s"

>>

> ITYM Hotmail, surely?

If you're that old then HoTMaiL surely

Greybeard icon -->

Docker Desktop bug let containers hop the fence with barely a nudge

> Docker has patched a critical hole in Docker Desktop that let a container break out

Looks like the container ship has already sailed

Two wrongs don’t make a copyright

Re: Charles Dickens, a pungent critic of the law

A very interesting post, abend0c4. I've leant something.

There's an interesting parallel between the above and today's LLM model building.

Basic projector repair job turns into armed encounter at secret bunker

Re: Lower ranking officers

Or Private Baldrick's cunning plan

I used to work at a place with storage in the attic. The storage was about a metre higher than the exit of the lift, so there was a scissor lift for the remaining height. We had probably the world's most over the top Health and Safety person who insisted that it was dangerous and we'd all need to be trained on using it. Obviously this was hugely annoying, so a guy from one of the other IT groups did the training, got the key from security in the late morning and got a new key cut over lunch...

Re: Lower ranking officers

Is Corporal Punishment any relation to Major Bollocking?

McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes nuggets of rotten security

Re: What a bunch of clowns

> ...to start off the long-procession of burger-based puns.

Burger off you!

Re: What a bunch of clowns

> No secret sauce was used in the creation of their web site.

We'll have to wait for some McNuggets of information to come out

Re: What a bunch of clowns

Which Big Mac address did they use?

Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results

He didn't need to seek new employment

Re: Something I know, but apparently have never taken on board.

WD40 and heat at the same time?

The supermarkets in Switzerland will mark down stuff by ~50% a couple of hours before it shuts. People have realised this and shop accordingly

Maybe he's not suited for the sector and should look elsewhere for work

I'm surprised Kerry didn't head for the exit...

Did the disc crash when it hit the table?

Every question you ask, every comment you make, I'll be recording you

Someone should call the Police

That headline had a bit of a sting in it

Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable

Re: More than once

Sounds like a terminal problem

He's angry and someone will have to DICOM

Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL

Re: Excellent

Actually as we're talking legacy systems: this X11

Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline

So are they now closing the stable door now the Colt has bolted?