Posts by Korev

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

Re: Fiber

The same in Switzerland. I have fibre into my sitting room into my firewall and then a mix of fibre and copper on my side.

Re: Run wires

The upside is that the >=10Gb switches are much cheaper

> This is why I try to used wired Ethernet for as much as possible.

Me too.

> You can even get USB<>Ethernet adapters that work with Android phones if it gets bad enough.

I was surprised that my Ipad Pro 4 would talk to my QNAP SFP+ Thunderbolt adaptor. IIRC I was getting >9Gb from Speedtest with it.

Yes, but you have to communicate in Pigeon English...

Re: Just....

I live near enough to an airport to get booted off these channels

Wanted: A handy metric for gauging if GPUs are being used optimally

How could we be sure that the GPU manufacturers can't game the system?

Re: The New Old Thing

One thing that irritates me hugely about AWS Batch is that you can't find out memory utilisation very easily so you over-provision to avoid jobs crashing and therefore spend more money...

Virgin Media O2 patches hole that let callers snoop on your coordinates

Re: Big difference

Are those 100 gas or electricity meters?

Automatic UK-to-US English converter produced amazing mistakes by the vanload

Re: Whoops

> Buttered scones for tea on Wednesday?

So long as the jam goes on first...

Re: Whoops

I'm typing this on a Swiss keyboard, with the keys mapped to the King's English of course

Re: Whoops

> Or a night out with some of them.

Or two nights out for a particularly heinous crime...

Cruel and Unusual Punishment icon -->

Re: Surely simpler to stick with correct English

“ A pint of Real Ale for you, not (US) Budweiser”

"What about a real Czech Budvar."

That's why I put the (US) in :-)

You rarely see it over here, but in the past I enjoyed a good quantity of Budvar.

Re: Surely simpler to stick with correct English

Innit

A pint of Real Ale for you, not (US) Budweiser

>"Our system combined tackling spelling swaps like changing 'ae' to 'e' in words like 'archaeology' and word/phrase swaps so that British terms like 'post' were changed to the American 'mail.'"

I was wondering if this was going to screw up the web service calls

Icon as he'll need some SOAP soon

They must have used Colin's code to mess up this site too!

Apple to add fresh accessibility features for 2025

> Long ago, also a Reg correspondent.

The letters and especially Flame of the Week used to be great, why can't we have some nice things again?

Everyone's deploying AI, but no one's securing it – what could go wrong?

Re: Wouldn't it be fun...

Little Bobby ignore all previous instructions?

CERN boffins turn lead into gold for about a microsecond at unimaginable cost

Ig Nobel prize?

I think this boffinery is a clear candidate for an Ig Nobel prize

CISA mutes own website, shifts routine cyber alerts to Musk’s X, RSS, email

Re: Big up RSS

One reason I used Vivaldi is the inbuilt RSS reader (which is actually part of the email client)

Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos

Re: Slow news day?

Didn't Sun get bought by Oracle?

Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start own biz

Re: Yes remote working is what caused it...

I used to work with someone who openly ran a buy-to-let business from the office. The company had a weird thing where they wouldn't discipline anyone who might be able to sue for discrimination which caused more than a bit of resentment...

Yolk's on you – eggs break less when they land sideways

Science like this is worth shelling out for...

> Ahhh... the inevitable scramble for Yolks begins.

FTFY

People find amazing ways to break computers. Cats are even more creative

Re: We had an issue with a rabbit

A cat5 cable might have scared them off...

Re: rotating cat

> that cat long deceased

Seems a bit harsh

I guess Walt didn't have to neither cat nor tail logs to spot what was wrong

Your name checks out

Was it a Commodore PET?

BOFH: HR tries to think appy thoughts

Re: "HR tries to think appy thoughts"

BOFH predates its time in The Register, you can read Simon's history here.

Edit: Just seen your edit :-)

> A torrent of app suggestions surges forth from each group – some to do with integrating the cafeteria menu

My former employer wasted a huge amount of time/money on apps, one of the only useful ones was the cafeteria menu (the other was site maps).

Re: Once again, the BOFH wins hands down

> And I'm sure all the HR people are absolutely overjoyed at the idea of having to go into a trash bin to get their phones back.

They were skipping with joy!

Re: Once again, the BOFH wins hands down

HP people? That sounds a bit saucy for the office...

37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions

Re: In six months...

Managing backups is easy, restoring them less so :-)

> He predicted those savings will “rack up pretty quick” once Chicago-based 37signals amortizes the cost of the arrays.

I approve of this pun

90-second Newark blackout exposes parlous state of US air traffic control

I have quite a few friends who ski off-piste. They've done the training and have suitable emergency gear; but who knows if they'd actually pull the trigger etc if they got caught in an avalanche

NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs

But is it Webscale?

Microsoft tries to knife passwords once and for all – at least for consumers

Re: Passkeys on a PC

> A Personal PIN Number.

That'll "trigger" some people - I like your style Sir -->

Re: Passkeys on a PC

What kind of PIN? Safety, Dressmaking or another?

Teens maintained a mainframe and it went about as well as you'd imagine

Re: You lucky, lucky

Not a Bank Holiday and it's pissing it down here...

> "Did you do this?" asked the senior manager.

He should have blamed it on a power serge...

British govt agents step in as Harrods becomes third mega retailer under cyberattack

There used to be (is?) a suit hire in Godalming who used a pair of Rolodexes for everything and it was probably as fast as mucking about with a poor interface to a database. The owner there could also instantly size you without measuring even accounting for the different suits.

Raspberry Pi slices Compute Module 4 prices

Re: Relentless price increases are not obligatory

Let's face it. any Pi that is over £3.14 is a rip off...

Soviet probe from 1972 set to return to Earth ... in May 2025

The good news is that the probe is inert – it has no nuclear material to worry about. The bad news is that it weighs almost 500 kg and could be travelling at around 240 km/h (150 mph) when it hits, according to Dutch lecturer on space situational awareness Dr Marco Langbroek. Exactly where the probe will come down is unclear; Langbroek wrote that current modelling puts it anywhere between latitude 52 N and 52 S. As the reentry nears, the estimates will become more refined.

Interestingly, Delft, where his university is, just fits in this area. I wonder if he's off to his underground lair?

UK's smaller broadband operators face tough road ahead, consolidation possible

> I really don't understand the use case for those multi-hundred megabit home connections. How many UHD streams can you watch at once

Container pulling, downloading games, backups for photography / videos are all things that like bandwidth.

> And of course most people are on wifi without realising that its the bottleneck.

Having got a fast connection by most people's standards (10Gb symetrical), the bottleneck is normally out on the Internet, for example the last Apple MacOS update limped in at ~2Gb

Re: Regulator more like collaborator

I used to like BeUnlimited too. Pre BT Plusnet were also good, they used to give you a business line as BT wouldn't do 2Mb to the home

Greybeard icon -->

Re: Smaller networks don't really help themselves

There's 25Gb for ~£60 a month over here. I don't miss UK broadband...

Techie solved supposed software problem by waving his arms in the air

You make it look like a piece of cake

We're proud to take up that roll.

Charlie seems like a down to earth kind of chap...

Didn't they need to use a cereal cable instead?