Posts by Korev

Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules

It looks like a tax on them

BOFH: Rerouting responsibility via firewall configs

Re: "web interface ... a back-rev browser that doesn't complain about certificate errors."

But the Sun server looks much nicer than modern boxen...

UK reheats Edinburgh supercomputer plan sans exascale chops

Re: Delusion

> We don't design the chips.

ARM would like a word

Other than that I agree with your post

Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage

It is just not possible to conceive of DNA storage achieving an 80 million times write speed improvement in, what, ten years? Twenty years? It's a scientific daydream for the foreseeable future.

Sounds like a hard cell

US Navy backs right to repair after $13B carrier crew left half-fed by contractor-locked ovens

Surely, as this is the US navy, they should be forcefully chaperoning the field service engineer(s) to wherever the vessel is in the world (*), its not like the engineer is at risk: remember all the performers who entertained the troops in Vietnam…

(*) Delivery of said engineer can include Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning style of submarine link up.

Sod that, Ride of the Valkyries and helicopters would be much better

Re: Simple

One slight flaw with your plan, you can't feed them bread as the ovens have broken...

Apple-Intel divorce to be final next year

If you needed serious memory, then even now you can't buy ARM Macs with that much

As AI gallops through the federal workforce, lawmakers once again call for expanded training

Re: "expanded training"

I bet the Sarah Connors of this world are rapidly changing their names...

Field support chap got married – which took down a mainframe

I bet that ring cost a packet

Not don't be Nazgul about it

Was it a Token Ring network?

Techie traced cables from basement to maternity ward and onto a roof, before a car crash revealed the problem

Re: vlans & other segregation config might have hidden the issue

> i'd be uneasy about running unrelated stuff through a switch in a maternity ward

You mean you'd want to break the network up into C sections?

> Installing new bridges with unique SSIDs and connecting the right cable to the right box soon sorted things out.

You mean nursed it back to life?

I'm pleased Geoffrey didn't Bungle it...

Japan's latest Moon landing written off as a failure after ispace probe goes dark

> Or, in tech-bro speak, a resounding success.

"Move fast, break things"

Always a good motto for aviation

CEO Tekeshi Hakamada offered his apologies to those involved and the companies supporting ispace, saying he felt very sorry about it and took responsibility.

He appears to be taking responsibility, are you sure he's a real CEO?

‘Deliberate attack’ deletes shopping app’s AWS and GitHub resources

On Twitter the CEO has Named and shamed" someone and it looked like it was an ex-employee's account.

That curried my favour

> The CEO of Indian grocery ordering app KiranaPro has claimed an attacker deleted its GitHub and AWS resources in a targeted and deliberate attack

Was this due to Lakhs security?

> KiranaPro lets users shop at “Kiranas,” the Indian equivalent of convenience stores

I'm pretty sure a convenience store is the same thing the world over...

HPE working on Plan B if DoJ nixes the Juniper deal it rates as shareholders' rocket to riches

If the DoJ messes up HPE's network plans would that be throwing them a Procurve ball?

Need for speed? CityFibre punts 5.5 Gbps symmetrical broadband at ISPs

> They don't. But you just know some people will want the bragging rights.

I couldn't imagine anyone doing that...

speedtest -s 42840

Speedtest by Ookla

Server: joelmueller.ch - Bern (id: 42840)

ISP: Init7

Idle Latency: 3.04 ms (jitter: 0.03ms, low: 3.01ms, high: 3.08ms)

Download: 9400.20 Mbps (data used: 9.6 GB)

3.41 ms (jitter: 0.49ms, low: 3.02ms, high: 28.29ms)

Upload: 9205.55 Mbps (data used: 9.8 GB)

4.46 ms (jitter: 0.57ms, low: 2.79ms, high: 4.95ms)

Packet Loss: 0.0%

I'm curious why it's 5.5Gbs and not just 5.0 or even 10.

Schneider Electric says US grid will be less stable by 2030 as datacenter demand rises

One example of the latter outside the US is a Brit startup which is putting AI datacenter infrastructure inside enclosures similar to shipping containers

I recall Sun doing this in the Noughties...

More layoffs at Microsoft as axe falls in Washington

Re: Stack Ranking

They're being told to "Think outside of the Xbox"

Bling slinger Cartier tells customers to be wary of phishing attacks after intrusion

Did they hack a Token Ring network?

VodafoneThree's a crowd – now comes the hard bit

Re: Quality of service

> by "Down South" I think you mean "London" (Nowhere else matters).

Have you ever tried using a mobile phone in Cranleigh High Street?

Wanted: IT manager for UK government agency – £60k

Re: Ideal VET candidate

You're barking!

Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter

Re: And the lesson we learn today is:

Der Hammer ist der Hammer as the Germans are wont to say

"Slim" should have been called "Chuck" in this one...

Did you lose yourself?

How many drill bits make a byte?

They should have used an HP bulletproof array

(19 years ago. **** I'm old. Hence greybeard icon)

If so then it'd be Drill Music

Did he listen to Slim Shady?

Re: And the lesson we learn today is:

Well, depends if it's the boss' kneecaps or not...

Techie fixed a ‘brown monitor’ by closing a door for a doctor

> “A very embarrassed doctor disappeared quite quickly,” Neville told On Call.

You mean ran out of the room screening?

Thunderbird is go: 139 follows closely on Firefox's heels

Re: "reply in plain text with bottom-posting very quickly sorts marketroids from techies"

Reminds me of

Top posting

> What's the most annoying thing on the Internet?

HP Inc. hastens China exit as tariffs kick a hole in its profits

HP ink. surely

Re: pardon me?

Oh come on

German court parks four Volkswagen execs in jail over Dieselgate scandal

Thames Water next? Although the fine was massive, the people who ran the company and made those decisions will just move on.

Techies thought outside the box. Then the boss decided to take the box away

Re: Aquarium offices....

The Aquarium office sounds a bit fishy to me...

Re: Shredder

When working from home was barely tolerated, a colleague's [gay] partner needed to travel once a week so he wanted to have it written into his contract that he could work remotely once a week to care for their dogs. His justification was that as gay guys their dogs were the equivalent of children.

I also know straight couples who think the same thing.

BOFH: The Boss meets the unbearable weight of innovation

Well Onion Bhajis were alway the PFI's favourite and in the quantities he eats them, at least ten of his five a day

User unboxed a PC so badly it 'broke' and only a nail file could fix it

It could be key.

Re: In denial

> My Dad, who has the TV so loud it hurts. Still, he is better off than my Mum who finds it very hard to hold a conversation these days (even with hearing aids).

I wonder if the two things are linked

"I turned off the suffering machine, took a nail file out of my handbag, and pried the ENTER key out of the keyboard frame"

Looks like Harriet nailed it

Sergey Brin promises next generation of Glassholes will be much less conspicuous

Re: Point

> At this point I am surprised that we are not yet seeing AI powered condoms that can register consent in the blockchain.

You'd only get pricks wearing them though...

Apartment living to get worse in 5 years as 6 GHz Wi-Fi nears ‘exhaustion’

Re: Just....

A good point, I automatically assumed you were talking about DFS channels

In this bit of Europe those channels are banned though.

Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics

Re: Point it at the stock exchange data

I've been trying to predict mountain bike races recently with a similar level of success...