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HashiCorp unveils 'Terraform 2.0' while tiptoeing around Big Blue elephant in the room

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Re: Oh, they're being bought by IBM ?

Mine only goes up to 11

Yes, your network is down – you annoyed us so much we crashed it

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Re: "Sounds like they didn't like Iain's tone of invoice..."

Thinking about this one, The Regomiser should have called the chap Bill

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Iain was not happy about that. "I felt it was unfair he had no faith in my acting skills," he told On Call.

Sounds like they didn't like Iain's tone of invoice...

Compression? What's that? And why is the network congested and the PCs frozen?

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Did the colours in the photos POP3 out?

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Did they send out an IMAP of the locations as well as just photos?

INC ransomware rebrands to Lynx – same code, new name, still up to no good

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Re: These guys will probably be receiving unwanted attention now . . .

> Also https://www.lynxformen.com/uk/home.html

I was about to make a joke about this being popular in Africa...

RAC duo busted for stealing and selling crash victims' data

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Well done RAC, it sounds like they pretty much did everything correctly (apart from maybe employ them in the first place).

BOFH: Boss's quest for AI-generated program ends where it should've begun

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I once caught my brother with an Excel sheet open, adding numbers up with his calculator...

Techie took five minutes to fix problem Adobe and Microsoft couldn't solve in two weeks

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Sorry, I had to get the Premiere Adobe pun in...

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So he fixed the Adobe problem in a Flash...

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Re: Regomized as "Clark"?

Superman, that joke was bad

AMD pumps Epyc core count to 192, clocks up to 5 GHz with Turin debut

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Re: Or in practical terms.....

It's Crayzy when you think about it...

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Maybe because they're Turin complete...

Fore-get about privacy, golf tech biz leaves 32M data records on the fairway

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Join the club!

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So a security hole in one?

Severe solar storm could disrupt power, communications

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Re: watch your ECC memory

Someone's a bright Sparc...

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Re: What time do you mean

His Majesty's Greenwich Mean Time or we'll send the gunboats in...

UK Regulatory Innovation Office vows to slash red tape – but we've heard it all before

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Re: AI Red Tape

An upvote for Shatner's Bassoon

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Re: subsequent events

My old lab in Cambridge was stacked full of people from the EU, back then it was trivial for them to come to the UK and harder to go to the US etc. Another thing that Brexit has ruined!

Missing Thunderbirds footage found in British garden shed

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F.A.B.

A year after taking on Intel's NUC mini-PCs, Asus says it's ready to improve them

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Re: More is less

I see El Reg's PERL-based CMS hates Python and stripped the spaces!

Looks like the start of PERL's fightback...

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Re: More is less

It can't be that hard a programming problem:

if(degree=="humanities"):

print("Do you want fries with that?")

Embattled users worn down by privacy options? Let them eat code

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The user gets to configure their own default responses in the browser's privacy settings, and the cookie law option box disappears. Sites and services can ask to have their special cookies opted in, but the price to the users for not thinking about such options is zero.

I already have "Do not track" enabled on every device I own/use, it's a shame that honouring this is not mandated by law.

After we fix that, how about we also accidentally break something important?

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Re: No good deed …

I guess Spencer left his Marks on the datacentre

A working Turing Machine hits Lego Ideas

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Re: Cannot wait...

Yeah, but can it run Crysis?

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Re: I can see quickly getting a repetitive stress disorder turning that tiny crank

I thought Steampunk was dead?

Office 2024 unveiled for Microsoft 365 refuseniks

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Re: And of course..Publisher's gone

You'd be surprised (or maybe not) at the number of scientific conference posters "designed" in Powerpoint.

MongoDB rebuts claims it's not ready for business critical workloads

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Re: Just a humble BI developer

Some colleagues used it with success for storing data from microscopes, where every experiment recorded different types and amounts of data. Doing it in a relational database would need a vast number of joins and pivots.

Mega supermarket spots stock discrepancy of tens of millions amid ERP system migration

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Re: So-poor-markets

> I find the iron a bit tough to chew.

You'd probably have more luck using it on your clothes...

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Re: So-poor-markets

Maybe just cycle or walk to them?

Revenge for being fired is best served profitably

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Re: RDRAM

> they weren't particularly useful for scientific computing and were quickly shunned

Not to mention the dreadful memory bandwidth of the Netburst systems

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I'm pleased he made Sam money out of it...

Brits hate how big tech handles their data, but can't be bothered to do much about it

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Re: Time to mention Consent-o-Matic again

I can't remember who it was on here who I picked up the recommendation from, but thank you

As it's almost Friday -->

Average North American CISO pay now $565K, mainly thanks to one weird trick

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Re: CISO?

> French for scissors.

Cutting...

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Re: CISO?

Chief Information Security Officer

(I guess)

Fujitsu teams up with Supermicro on Arm-based server CPU

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Always good to see that Fujitsu have stuff on the Horizon...

BOFH: AI consultant rapidly transitioned to new role as automotive surface consultant

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Holmes

It's only "murder" if the BOFH gets caught

Crack coder wasn't allowed to meet clients due to his other talent: Blisteringly inappropriate insults

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Re: Boat?

She's already got the Rippling Sven standing to attention

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Re: Boat?

> You’re doing great! A quick sail up the Thames, a stop at Canary Wharf… Mornington Crescent in three moves.

Sorry, as there are ships involved we have to play using the East Tooting variation and that's not allowed.

Don't blame me, I don't make the rules!

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Re: Archimedes

Acorny joke...

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Re: Boat?

That's very HMS Astute of you...

Lebanon now hit with deadly walkie-talkie blasts as Israel declares ‘new phase’ of war

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Re: Long Game

The BAOR were seriously considering nuclear landmines heated by chickens not long ago…

On Call’s Greatest Hits, as voted for by you, the readers

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Re: Someone didn’t check their numbers!

A pint for you Good Sir

The future of software? Imagine a bot, stamping on a human face – forever

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A top drawer joke

'Hyperscale customer' to take massive datacenter site near London

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Re: out of support

That sucks...

BOFH: The Boss is right, the applications of AI are truly staggering

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I’m surprised the kill bots in the basement haven’t put in an AI-related appearance recently…

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Re: the 'sheep' entrance...

I wonder what wool happen there…

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"And ours," I repeat. "We've both got the same settings. No one's going to suffocate."

"Then you won't mind spending half an hour in my office while I spend half an hour in yours?" the Boss asks, "AFTER you disconnect the automatic control of the damper in this room??"

This boss was smarter than the rest, no wonder he “jumped” from a tall window….

Muppet broke the datacenter every day, in its own weighty way

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Muppets

So was the current stopped by a circuit Beaker?