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Tesla Cybertruck recall #8: Exterior trim peels itself off, again

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Re: Cybertruckin’

I've got that song in my head now...

SystemRescue 12 lands with added bcachefs support

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I thought I'd download a copy "before I need it" and went to Sourceforge - I'd forgotten how annoying their download page was. I had to wade through tonnes of adverts (despite a Pihole), have a pointless wait and it started limping in at 3MB/s.

I killed that download and the Fastly download peaked at 850MB/s

'Once in a lifetime' IT outage at city council hit datacenter, but no files lost

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Re: Did they try turning it off and on again?

We had a similar thing in a DR practice in an old job. The lorry turned up and we entered with the backup tapes. We'd always assumed that the rest of the Company would be up so stuff like AD would be available. The problem here was that we couldn't connect to the real network as the test recovered systems would likely clash with the real ones. In the end we managed to lay our hands on a DC backup and we were in business.

Vivaldi 7.2 browser wants to topple tech's feudal lords

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Re: Vivaldi uses Chromium

Another happy Vivaldi user here (I'm typing this in it). I'm liking the integrated RSS reader[0].

[0] When Twitter got enshitified, I went back to using RSS to see what news from people and things I care about

Dell discloses monster 20-petaFLOPS desktop built on Nvidia's GB300 Superchip

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Re: Gaming Benchmarks

If it doesn't get faster then it'll be a Crysis....

Developer wrote a critical app and forgot where it ran – until it stopped running

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I guess it should now be called a Lapstop after that...

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Re: Similar thing, but zombie user not laptop

I worked somewhere where the hosted Git repo went down for days because it automatically charged someone's credit card which was fine until he left...

France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke

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This comment will get lost in the culture war :(

One of the best years of my life was doing an Erasmus exchange to Marseille working in the faculty of science in Luminy. I can't speak about what it's like to setup a group there etc but you should definitely look into it.

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Re: Trump's Tomás de Torquemada

An under-appreciated pun. Have a glass of the nearest thing we have to Côtes du Rhône -->

Need cash? Your IPv4 stash can now be collateral for $100M loans

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Default?

If an organisation did this and defaulted on the loan, I assume they'd lose their range which could well catastrophically break their IT (in addition to the financial problems they were undergoing).

User complained his mouse wasn’t working. But he wasn’t using a mouse

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> From the box of old adapters in the comms room I found a DB25 to DB9, which I connected to a DB9 to PS/2, which I connected to a PS/2 to USB.

Ahhh a serial killer

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Re: Sounds like...

There are some Short Cummings to that plan...

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Re: Glasses case != Mouse

> I was half expecting the cause of the non-working mouse to be sabotage by co-workers for being a trouble-maker ((involuntary or otherwise)!

That's the glasses half-empty answer...

ESA cuts the ribbon on 34,000-core Space HPC center tailored for space workloads

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Re: Theory then practice

At its simplest you can just run a bit of Python/whatever by submitting a shell script to the scheduler (eg Slurm).

What gets more complicated is when you need to spread your code over more than one node. For this, most people use something like MPI to pass "messages" about. At its simplest you could use MPI to do something like "read file X and send back the results"; what's more complicated is doing things like simulating different bits of a protein on separate nodes and then coordinating the calculations.

India wants backdoors into clouds, email, SaaS, for tax inspectors

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Re: NTT Communications hemorrhOIDS

I bet they make piles of money...

Google begs owners of crippled Chromecasts not to hit factory reset

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Re: Don't do themselves any favours

These clearly have a finate life based on Google's whim, I forget what home thermostat stopped, Sonos with their screwed updates

At least with smart TV's you can buy a cheap product to give smart features

Ironically, this is why I bought a Chromecast...

$16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet. It hasn’t gone well

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Re: If it aint broke

> High availability

Just make five copies of the file...

Troubled French outsourcer Atos finds pot of gold at the end of UK state bank Rainbow

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Re: Rainbow

> Now that one's not going to mean anything to anyone not from the UK, or of a certain age range.

You've made a Rod for your own back there

Glitchy taxi tech blew cover on steamy dispatch dalliance

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Re: Hilarious

Someone with a faulty disc in her computer once messaged me about the "hard dick" and she was mortified so never I mentioned it again.

She left the lab to become a doctor, I hope she's got better at typing...

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Re: Not so much over a dispatch system, but....

I used to work as a bench scientist in a new building, there was a competition amongst the couples in the building to "christen" the bed in the 1st aid room. I think victory was declared by more than one of the couple leading to discussions...

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Re: Not so much over a dispatch system, but....

Well, protection is important...

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At least he wasn't the rm -RF guy

'Cybertruck ownership comes with ... interesting fan mail'

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Re: spoon-fed by media nonsense designed to make them hate Elon Musk and EVERY technology

> El Reg does moderate, and rightly so.

Compared to the <hushed voice>Moderatrix's reign of terror</hushedvoice>, I think we get off easily these days....

Cloudflare's bot bouncer blocks weirdo browsers

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Re: Screenreader and other assistive technologies

Thanks for the clarification AC

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Screenreader and other assistive technologies

Does this affect Screenreaders etc? If so then it's probably against the law in a number of countries under disability equality legislation.

Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal

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Re: Completely agreed

> No one will touch him with a barge pole for employment for a few years

I fear you're wrong, but hope you're right

Altnets told to stop digging and start stuffing fiber through abandoned pipes

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Re: Unused because ... ?

Bravo for the floating point pun

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Re: move to France

25Gb for less than 60 quid a month in Switzerland.

Routing and using that bandwidth is actually a challenge :)

One stupid keystroke exposed sysadmin to inappropriate information he could not unsee

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Re: Quite the opposite experience

> I won't say which one needed a catheter.

Yes, that'd take the piss

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Re: Not computer related NSFS

It'd be a waist otherwise...

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Re: Quite the opposite experience

After uni I temped in a "Health Records Library" taking folders of medical records off shelves and putting some back. There was a computerised index and from time to time you by chance came across the files of someone you knew.

At uni there was a guy in a sports team I was in who had persistent rumours about having STDs. You have no idea how tempted I was when I came across his file whilst looking for a misplaced file. In the end I was good and didn't take a peak.

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Re: FORMATS

> German military uses zwoo for two on radio because zwei / drei are too similar

They need to upgrade to the Swiss German pronunciation of drei which sounds similar to "Drew" in English

Pirates of the Rhine icon -->

Southern Water takes the fifth over alleged $750K Black Basta ransom offer

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Re: So they did then

It'll take us a while to get the crap jokes out of our cistern

Are you cooler than ex-Apple design guru Sir Jony Ive?

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Re: No Hawkwind?

> No Hawkwind

Well, he designs his own Silver Machines...

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Re: Do I have to have an opinion of U2?

> It was a sad day when Scroobious Pip stopped making new music, it's true.

Very true. There would be a lot of very happy people if he chose to restart.

His companion, Dan le Sac, is still making music - most recently he did the music for one of the Tron games.

Untrained techie botched a big hardware sale by breaking client's ERP

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Re: "Unbeknown to Kane, the GUI was buggy."

> Young Kane must have led a sheltered existence if he was sufficiently naive to believe any GUI was free of serious bugs.

Maybe he was Kaned at the time...

As Amazon takes over the Bond franchise, we submit our scripts for the next flick

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Re: Wrong meglomaniacal squillionaire but

> Octopussy - featuring a bad guy who goes around grabbing moggies

Eight times?

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Re: Amazon Prime

Do you expect me to unsubscribe?

No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!

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On Her Majesty's Simple Storage Service: an evil American Cabal encourages people to put all their data into a place that appears cheap and then holds it ransom with exorbitant egress charges.

I couldn't imagine anyone falling for it though....

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Re: Quantum of Bollocks

> Bond's latest mission is thwarted when Q is made redundant in the name of cost savings

Maybe they replaced him with a bot called the Simple Q Service

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Great to see The Register of old putting in an appearance again, more please -->

Binned off staff, slashed stock options. What's next? Ah yes, bigger C-suite bonuses

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Re: Nobody

If I had got the pay/shares described in the article then I'd just retire and have fun with my life. You could even follow Bill Gates' approach and move into charity

The nearest thing we have to a yacht icon -->

BOFH: The USB stick always comes back – until it doesn't

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"Found" USB stick

Was anyone else waiting for the Boss' "found" USB stick to kick off some Stuxnet fun?

It'd really mess with his centrifuges... -->

DIMM techies weren’t allowed to leave the building until proven to not be pilferers

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Some people RDIMM

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It looks like theft at Harry's work was RAMpant

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I used to work somewhere where they always seemed short of laptops; however, there were none missing in the system. One of the guys on the team seemed to have some very similar laptops available on his ebay account, they suspect (but never proved) that he was pinching them before the computers' details were entered into the CMDB.

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Did the technicians look a bit Sheepish when asked about the RAM?

Medusa ransomware gang demands $2M from UK private health services provider

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The people ransoming hospitals are scum and should be made to use Windows Vista for ever. If we wanted to be lenient then we could let them off with merely hanging, drawing and quartering them...

Check out this free automated tool that hunts for exposed AWS secrets in public repos

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> Github Dorking

Isn't that a town in the Surrey Hills?

Type-safe C-killer Delphi hits 30, but a replacement has risen

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Re: Compared to Delphi, FPC and Lazarus are a joke

> Swiss keyboards needs a lot of accented characters from different languages (remeber Switzerland has four official languages).

This Swiss laptop's keyboard is set to the Queen's English, Brenda would be proud!

The nearest thing we have to Gin and Dubonnet -->