What the hell does "Talking smack" mean?
I thought they were talking about drugs...
Posts by Korev
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Talking smack about a doctor got him access to private medical files
Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again
US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns
Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'
Monday 20th July 2026 07:29 GMT 
I had something the other way round. Someone had been given the task of making a database dump available and had done so - the problem was that it hadn't occurred to him to make it usable!
I wrote some frankenmonster code to parse this monstrosity data into a format that a data scientist could use that took hours and hours to run on HPC. I dreaded the next team meeting as what I'd written was so horrid. My colleague just looked at the problem I'd solved and just said "I'm sorry you had to write this".
Eventually, the team behind the data started providing sane dumps and my work of the devil is still living in Bitbucket somewhere...
Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates
Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem
Friday 17th July 2026 08:55 GMT
Re: "when many phones still had removable batteries"
About this time I was first on scene at a car accident, I had two phones with me, a work iPhone and a personal Android. I couldn't get reception on either phone, a pensioner handed me her Nokia brick which of course had reception so I could get the poor driver some help...
Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap
Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year
Friday 10th July 2026 20:18 GMT
Re: Close call
in less than four minutes, with the windy conditions, the fire had engulfed the whole stand. In the panic that ensued, fleeing crowds escaped on to the pitch but others at the back of the stand tried to break down locked exit doors to escape. Many were burnt to death at the turnstile gates, which had been locked after the match had begun
I once did a mandatory fire training course where the presenter showed the Bradford fire in real time to show us how we should get the hell out if there's a fire. He was a bit too enthusiastic about it though to the point that more than one person wondered if he was enjoying himself.
BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand
Tech divorce from Walmart cost Brit retail giant Asda £1.22B
AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but at $4K, easy doesn't come cheap
Moody Bible Institute breach leaves 2.3M accounts needing salvation, says cyber expert
Pacemaker manufacturer Medtronic warns patients cybercrooks may have swiped health data
Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer
Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI
End of era as the BBC switches off Radio 4 Long Wave service
Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess
Security boss thought MFA would be too much security
Ordering a trip back to 2009, with a side of nostalgia
21,000 Oracle jobs vanish amid Big Red's big bets on AI
Germany went off the rails as wireless outage saw all trains cancelled
Datacenters dip a toe back into waterborne computing despite obvious challenges
Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage
Health board apologizes for phishing staff with with bogus vacation day
How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!
Monday 22nd June 2026 09:08 GMT
Re: Clocking In and Out
I used to work somewhere where they implemented "one over one" approvals for travel and it had to be done by 16.00 UK time or else the travel company would cancel it (charging fees of course...).
At that point my manager's boss was in America, so often wouldn't see the email until after the travel had already been cancelled and the Company had been charged...
Users claimed they'd never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles
This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken
Friday 12th June 2026 16:29 GMT
Re: False economy?
I remember at uni we had some DEC Alpha boxen that got slower after a network upgrade as they couldn't handle doing stuff at gigabit very well. Some of the students were trying to get the IT dept to overclock the servers - it was pointed out that having slow servers was better than them crashing. IIRC some DEC consultants worked some magic until they couldn't handle doing buy some more powerful machines.
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Friday 12th June 2026 16:23 GMT
Re: Lucky the text didn't default to Chinese
When I tested software, having it in Asian locales wasn't too much of a problem, but customers trying to load CSV files with semi-colons for separators broke pretty much everything. In the end I just switched the locale to French and caught the bugs early.
I assume (hope!) they've now got unit tests etc to pick this up
Apple version of Office 2019 becomes useless in a month
BOFH: For one ambitious security type, chaos is a ladder
Anthropic recruits army to sell Claude to nonprofits
Friday 12th June 2026 13:39 GMT
Re: The "King" is in the altogether
My local supermarket now has about twice the number of manned checkouts to the self-service ones (the latter being supervised by a single very bored person). It's funny how many people think this is AI, when in reality it needs to be just simple programming ie database work and a bit of primary school maths.
Plymouth council exposes hundreds in latest local government email gaffe
Graviton 5 impresses, but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop calling them 'AI chips'
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