Posts by Korev

Seagate joins the HDD price hike party, blames AI for spike in demand

Re: TrendForce is wrong

Interesting, I guess that makes sense

The rising demand comes from AI training requiring huge volumes of data: OpenAI's GPT-3 model is said to have been trained using 45TB of data, which may have been surpassed for newer models. And while flash-based SSDs boast high-speed and low-latency, storing everything in flash would still be costly. Seagate launched a 30TB hard drive line last year.

If you can afford the GPUs for building models then you can afford a NAS/whatever with 100TB or so of SSD

Using its own sums, AMD claims it's helping save Earth with Epyc server chiplets

"House of Zen"

Love it!

Graph databases speaking the same language after ISO gives GQL the nod

Maybe this will finally let graph databases SPARQL

Silicon Valley roundabout has drivers in a spin

Re: No requirements to drive

> There's an obvious solution to all of this mess that involves simply enforcing traffic rules

The obvious solution is fewer cars!

Re: Design goals

Here in Pennsylvania, the Department of Transportation has been installing roundabouts in the last few years. In every case that I know of, the locals complained after a few months

To be fair to them, them new-fangled horseless carriages are pretty new...

Re: Turbo Roundabouts

It's probably worth mentioning in the UK the general rule isn't just to stop as our roads are often quite narrow. I believe in the US, as roads tend to be larger, then the accepted approach is just to stop dead.

Watch a few videos from the Chris Martin[0] Youtube channel, he's a response paramedic in the UK and it's good to see from his point of view what is good and bad driving.

[0] Not Coldplay - I'm evil, but not that nasty...

The United States are widely free from roundabout tyranny with only one for every 33,330 people. A good thing too because people passing by Hollister, just south of Silicon Valley, can't seem to grok their new one.

Maybe they were too busy looking at the clothes?

UnitedHealth admits IT security breach could 'cover substantial proportion of people in America'

The cost of the saga to the org is currently pegged at $870 million for calendar Q1 and could stretch to $1.6 billion for the year, UnitedHealth confirmed last week. ®

I'd love to know if Change Healthcare's geeks had tried to get and were turned down for money to bring the company's infrastructure up to date. If that is the case, then I'd like to know even more if the sum requested was less than $870M

Misconfigured cloud server leaked clues of North Korean animation scam

Google-owned cyber security outfit Mandiant had a look at the access logs and found most logins to the server were done over a virtual private network (VPN)

NorkVPN?

Fedora 40 is just around the corner with more spins and flavors than ever

Re: please send in your ideas on a postcard

Isn't this what they invented NFTs for?

Lawsuit accuses Grindr of illegally sharing users' HIV status

HIV status and sexuality are as personal data as you can get; hopefully they'll get done for the full four percent of turnover as p[er GDPR (but probably deserve an even bigger fine)

Re: 'Top Priority '

Well it was either going to be top or bottom priority I guess...

Rarest, strangest, form of Windows saved techie from moment of security madness

> Where do you think the email with the attachment came from? Carrier pigeon? ;-)

Yes, via RFC 1149?

Re: What A Waste Of A DEC Alpha ...

Rewind a few years and history struck again. The Intel chips of the time had an external memory controller which became a bottleneck so most scientific computing folks used Opterons (ie with an integrated memory controller) instead; Intel then borrowed AMD's idea and released the Nehalem chips and ate AMD's lunch...

Declan is a fantastic bit of Regonimisation for a story involving an Alpha

See icon as it's almost time

Re: Security through incompetence

I guess Declan could be considered an Alpha male...

Re: What A Waste Of A DEC Alpha ...

My first Unix was OSF1 on DEC Alphas at university, first out of curiosity and then because you could always get on them (unlike the Windows 3.11 / NT4 machines).

Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash

Re: So much for the resilience of Stainless Steel - Re; 40% TAXES

Britain has now somehow managed to simultaneously have a record tax take at the same time that everything seems to be falling apart. If I still lived in Britain I'd be asking where the f^&* the money is all going...

Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed

Re: newer != better

> I can't afford a gun. All I've got is a six-inch nail sellotaped to the end of a stick, which I use to keep political candidates away from my door.

You sound hard as nails...

A knotty problem: Boffins working on fuel-efficient trajectories for space travel

Top Boffinery

The kind of Boffinery that I struggle to understand, yet admire greatly

Meta lets Llama 3 LLM out to graze, claims it can give Google and Anthropic a kicking

Media players for the WinAmp!

Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color, squishes ancient bug

> but half of it disappears against some other background.

Yep, for example the blue for directories on black you get whilst using PuTTY's defaults is extremely hard to read

Snowmobile, Amazon's truck-powered migration service, reaches the end of the road

Re: It’ll be back

Snow joke...

Global IT spending forecast to reach $5.0T this year

> Global IT spending forecast to reach $5.0T this year

That'd get a GPU in the cloud for as much as three hours!

AlmaLinux 9.4 beta prepares to tread where RHEL dares not

Re: What a mess?

It's a bit scary when you start to consider Oracle Linux as you feel they'll play fewer silly games...

The nearest icon to Nurse, fetch me my meds...

Broadcom throws VMware customers on perpetual licenses a lifeline

Yeah, it'll set those customers migration in vMotion...

Tired techie 'fixed' a server, blamed Microsoft, and got away with it

Did you see what happened when they switched to the American attempt at English?

Re: Registry bomb

We want to know the whole story, please submit it to here :)

Speaking of the registry, why isn't the editor of this fine organ known as the "Regedit"?

Re: Interesting

That's the HKEY to their success...

Feline firewall woke developer to declaw DDoS disaster

Fur sure...

Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more

First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason

"So we can make even more money" is a valid reason (at least from MS' point of view)

MIT breakthrough means there's no material too weird for 3D printing

Thanks to sensors and maths, machines can 'learn' to adapt to new media

FTFY

Hyundai picks Palantir to help it build automated navy ships

> Does this imply shooting at anything that the robot calculates might be a threat? Such as a passing fishing boat?

But what if it's a phishing boat?

Australian operation of web host BlueVPS laid low by storage failure

I was about to make exactly the same point!

I was wondering if it was a NAS or SAN[0] that had gone TITSUP, but a single server going down shouldn't take the whole thing out.

[0] This kind of setup really should have had redundancy too had it existed

Microsoft gives Hyper-V ceilings a Herculean hike

Maybe a dumb question... If you're so concerned about performance that you need two thousand CPUs and a couple of hundred TB of RAM wouldn't you be running on bare metal anyway, why is this necessary?

Support contract required techie to lounge around in a $5,000/night hotel room

Yep, a friend and I just split a lunch bill over the border in Germany and the waitress didn't bat an eyelid. I don't know why British waiting staff get so annoyed by such a simple request.

Re: Virgin on the Ridiculous

I used to work for a company in the UK whose travel policy said that anything over five hours could be in business, but it had to be the cheapest the travel system suggested. Some bright spark worked out that if you searched for flights in a fifteen minute window the you could get Virgin Upper Class. Sadly this meant enduring free, unlimited champagne and a jacuzzi.

As we don't have a free cocktails icon -->

UK county council misses deadline for £7.3M RISE with SAP system launch

> This week, the council admitted it had missed its second deadline for going live

Did they think about using Gordon the Gopher protocol?

SAP transformation program a 'euphemism' for job cuts, claims European Works Council

Re: Prediction coming true!

I suspect their attempts to force customers to the cloud might also have something to do with it

vendor lockin icon -->

Solar eclipse darkened skies, dampened internet traffic

Re: "Plenty of whom went offline to gawk at the celestial dance"

Down in Cornwall we got totality, the seagulls started circling like they do at dusk. It was actually cloudy, so it was almost like someone turned the lights down with a dimmer switch.

San Francisco's light rail to upgrade from floppy disks

Re: "best in the US"

I made a similar calculation back in the UK (>2hrs vs 40 minutes). The dumb thing is that there was a railway line that Beaching butchered running the same route (see icon).

Ironically, the railway line meant cycling took half the time that getting the now convoluted train route to work....

Japan may join UK/US/Australia defense-oriented AI and quantum alliance

Re: Cold War Phase II

> Already started. For example, mentioning nuclear submarines in the context of "defence" is a dead giveaway.

One of the most important jobs of the submarines that this article is about is to track down and kill the submarines with nuclear missiles - isn't that very much a defensive job?

Puppies, kittens, data at risk after 'cyber incident' at veterinary giant

They made a dog's dinner of it...

The incident has forced CVS to engage its incident response plan, which involved pulling systems offline to isolate the incident. The consequences of the temporary IT shutdown "caused considerable operational disruption over the past week," the company stated, and disruption is expected to continue for further weeks still.

It also engaged outside security experts to help investigate the extent of the damage and support CVS's response. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) – the UK's data protection regulator – was also notified "due to the risk of malicious access to personal information."

Obviously we can't see all the details, but this seems like a lot better response than the "Lessons will be learnt" PR bollocks and "Have some credit rating tracking" responses that we usually see.

A pint for the CVS techies who probably really need one -->

> The incident has forced CVS to engage its incident response plan, which involved pulling systems offline to isolate the incident.

Did it involve cvs diff to see what they changed and cvs update to roll back?

Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources

Re: Did you ever hear about...

The main reason those companies are there are the tax breaks. The Irish people get to lose out twice, firstly their taxes are higher to subsidise the multinationals and second their electricity bills are higher.

Re: Irony

> If Ireland don't want AWS, I'm sure England might.

A likely "benefit" of Brexit will be Britain removing its GDPR rules which will then lead to EU countries not wanting to host data in Britain. I assume the risk of this is already putting companies off investing in the UK...

Engine cover flies from Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 during takeoff

Re: I must admit, it's got me checking what I'm actually going to fly on

If it's Boeing then I'm not going...