Posts by Korev

‘I nearly died after flying thousands of miles to install a power cord for the NSA’

> He supplied a cord with that prong, and the machine started working again.

Looks like Kent became Superman

Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production

Presumably using the MyISAM engine

Was the second story a SQL?

I like how "Sam" becomes "mike" in the second story

Security company hired a used car salesman to build a website, and it didn't end well

Re: Log

> I was once accused of leaving a log where it could be easily seen.

So who saw it?

"Weeks passed. Door access logs were reviewed, and suddenly our Head of Legal was fired," Boris told On Call. "Turns out, the company had hired an ex-convict for the role, and he'd helped himself to the iPads."

Well, I guess he was familiar with the law...

Another investigation ensued, during which it was discovered the HR person hired a friend – an actual used car salesman – to develop the background check website.

In most companies this would go against HR policy; I wonder if the HR Droid got the boot for this?

BOFH: The auditor is asking too many questions. We have just the laptop for that

> My porn light is on. How do I disable it?

With an Angle Grindr

Lovestruck US Air Force worker admits leaking secrets on dating app

That didn’t stop Slater from sharing classified information with a woman who identified as a foreigner on an online dating platform.

Did he tell her about his other ranks or just his privates?

IBM moves scientists out of Almaden Research Center

Re: Just move

> moving a long way would probably entail a lot of staff leakage.

That could well be seen as an advantage these days...

Perplexity rips another page from the Google playbook with its own browser, Comet

Yes, when I read "Among commercial browser vendors, only Vivaldi seems willing to hold off on integrating AI with the browser.", I decided to stick with this browser.

Microsoft says regulations and environmental issues are cramping its Euro expansion

Re: Environmental red tape

> I have just spotted a news story about water contamination caused by the location of a huge data centre in the US

You mean this one?

How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up

> The key difference

I see what you did there

Britain's 5G experience 'among the worst in Europe' says MedUX

Re: Some of our data are missing

That decision came back to byte us...

CoreWeave's $9B Core Scientific acquisition is a bid for more power

Re: a company that has never built an ai DC

Can we send them Dido Harding too?

TUPE or not TUPE? How AI and cloud are rewriting the rules of supplier transitions

This is the UK, so solicitors surely...

Ordnance Survey digs deep to prevent costly cable strikes

They're wasting money, there's already an OS library in Python...

Re: Only issue...

> I live in a corner terrace house, I came home to find planned maintenance on the feeder in the road to the side, and my house's power dead with no warning.

You should have thanked them for making your computers more secure

Airbus okays use of ‘Taxibot’ to tow planes to the runway

> the plane burns kerosene and I assume the taxi burns diesel. which is cleaner?

As everything it outsourced at Airports these days, this lowers CO2 emissions from the airline so they can claim a reduction even though it's just shifted the output to someone else.

Is that too cynical?

I was going to say the say about Virgin, I didn't know that was why they stopped it though

Re: HERON?

Should they be bird from naming more things?

Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time

Somewhere I used to work justified WAN expansion after the big boss found out it was much quicker to scan microscope slides and send them across the Atlantic via courier and scan them again than just copy the files.

A shame the protagonist is female, or else they could have been Regomised as Bill...

'Trained monkey' from tech support saved know-it-all manager's mistake with a single keypress

Re: Monkey

Did you ask for a payrise?

US Air Force holds hypersonic resupply site review amid seabird concerns

Re: It is actually the other way around...

> As for the birds on the runway, I'd suggest cats.

Fur real?

Trump's budget bill bankrolls $85M Space Shuttle shuffle

Re: Is it that difficult?

I'm sure it'd be possible to land a Concorde at London City, it'd even get a wash at the end.

UK charity bank CAF branded a 'disaster' after platform migration goes wrong

Looks like they needed to be more CAFul

MethaneSAT 'likely not recoverable' after losing contact with Earth

Re: Someone's glad

That old fart?

Re: The can visually pinpoint manmade sources

Utter Bull!

HPE finally closes Juniper deal, but offers no details on what happens next

Re: Maybe this time?

> And don't forget Autonomy.

You'll get Lynched for saying that

Norwegian lotto mistakenly told thousands they were filthy rich after math error

Re: Staging?

Well, sorting permissions is hard and this sidesteps all those pesky errors

Deutsche Bahn train hits 405 km/h without falling to bits

We should support the local fauna and flora, I am 4-Wood

The can opener would probably punish the passengers more than the bus driver. Passengers arriving looking like a boiled egg with the top removed wouldn't do wonders to get drivers out of their cars...

Upvoted, sadly only once

This is pretty much the Swiss model, where trains are run slowly with slack in the timetable to make up time.

They also ban late-running German trains from their network to avoid knock-on effects!

Linus Torvalds hints Bcachefs may get dropped from the Linux kernel

Well, I'm with the Judean People's Front, so down with the People's Front of Judea!

Junior sysadmin’s first lines of code set off alarms. His next lot crashed the company

So Logan's run turned out ok in the end?

Fresh UK postcode tool points out best mobile network in your area

I used to work in a building which had two labs down each side with a section between the labs that was covered externally by a grill. You couldn't get any phone signal inside which was always fun when the technicians had to come and fix stuff.

UK to buy nuclear-capable F-35As that can't be refueled from RAF tankers

> I suspect you'd not get as far as removing the panel before some terribly nice people with guns and dogs ask you to kindly step away ...

Nah, you can just Brize Norton up and do what you like in RAF Air Stations these days...

Don't shoot me, I'm only the system administrator!

It's lucky they didn't need to troubleshoot the problem

Microsoft dangles extended Windows 10 support in exchange for Reward Points

I view mine with Vivaldi

Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown

They're hard to metre

I hope no one got confused or else it'd be expensive to foot the bill...

One Friday, he accidentally tweaked a setting so the freezers monitored temperatures measured in Fahrenheit instead of Celsius – but didn't change alarm thresholds accordingly.

Surely there should be a code freeze on a Friday

Techie traveled 4 hours to fix software that worked perfectly until a new hire used it

He didn't need an X-Ray to diagnose this one

Microsoft brings 365 suite on-prem as part of sovereign cloud push

Re: More importantly

Hello, hello. What's going on? What's all this shouting? We'll have no trouble here.

Penn State boffins create silicon-free two-dimensional computer

Gaze into the temporal distance and you might spot the end of the age of silicon looming somewhere out there

Into the distance? We're in the era of Megawatt racks.

> Clock speed of 25 kHz means 2D CMOS system won't run Doom quite yet

Yeah, but can't it run Crysis?

BT chief says AI could deliver more job cuts, hints at Openreach sell-off

Ahhh the great BT Cellnet

Spy school dropout: GCHQ intern jailed for swiping classified data

Re: Imagine if he'd hoovered up millions for useless PPE, or....

Or sent it to a Signal group