Posts by Korev

Exchange Online blocked from sending email to AOL and Yahoo

I still have mine, I should get around to doing this year's check...

Maybe they confused Hotmail for Hotmale and thought it was porn spam...

Rancher faces prison for trying to breed absolute unit of a sheep

> Someone ought to name a car after that monster sheep... We could call it a Dodgy Ram...

And fleece the owners?

Re: absolute unit

Well, Sheep is already taken

Re: Ovine Park

> I'm looking forward to the film inspired by this.

You could call it Silence of the Lambs...

Attacks on UK fiber networks mount: Operators beg govt to step in

Re: Death?

That and the people who speak on their phones whilst holding them horizontally...

Now you can compare your Chromium browser with that other Chromium browser using Speedometer 3.0

So does it also benchmark a zillion tracking cookies and tediously unselecting all ticks on GDPR dialogues?

Network Rail steps back from geofencing over safety fears

AI solution?

Surely all they need to do is train an AI solution...

Airbnb warns hosts who use indoor security cameras they may face eviction

Re: And ?

But, but the naughty hosts "could have their account removed."

BOFH: I get locked out, but I get in again

Re: Swopping Locks

Richard Dawkins used a bike combination lock as an example for something in one of his early books. It turns out that he'd used his real number as he got his bike pinched...

Great

A top drawer episode...

Job interview descended into sweary shouting match, candidate got the gig anyway

Re: I may have told this one before...

> HR: "So, I want you to pretend you are a bap in the baker's shop. Tell me why I should buy you"?

The correct response would be "I'd be great at this role"

> Or a certain other not-internet-standard mail server that I won’t sully this comment with by mentioning its name…

Let's not sully the Internet with an Exchange discussing its poor Outlook...

> If someone has the guts to say I am correct after such a disagreement, I can work for him.

It doesn't actually say the CTO admitted fault, let alone apologised for it

He was made an eximple of...

Not long after "interviewing" Colin, the CTO checked the code – and found changes. Lots of changes. Bad changes that were the reason for the server's many problems.

Which Colin then got on with fixing.

You mean he implemented the postfixes

I'm very confused why Tim would take a job after an interview like that!

Boffins propose fiber-optic network for the Moon

Re: Doesnt sound very realistic

> you could see/detect cars driving along a nearby road

CERN kept wondering why they got weird readings on some of their instruments, it turned out to be the TGVs going to Paris...

Class action claims Snowflake is an overhyped sales blizzard

Sounds like they're Piste off with Snowflake...

Juno fly-by detects lower levels of oxygen on Europa than expected

Re: ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS…

Didn't we vote for Brexit to get out of Europa?

Health system network turned out to be a house of cards – Cisco cards, that is

I had had one of those power supplies emit the classic blue spoke which then caused the circuit breaker to crap itself. We then saw what gear was correctly cabled and which wasn't...

My face when all my gear stayed up -->

I bet they have their data in Snowflake...

Re: Heading off after completion of a task

Unfortunately, encouraging techies to always stay for an hour or two to confirm there are no catastrophic issues after said task was completed, is ineffectual. Only experience seems to instill that behaviour.

Au contraire... As a techie going home triggers the fault, I'd send them for a beer as soon as the work is done so the issue is triggered before the great unwashed come into work again...

when the dual supervisor card was installed, it froze up harder than spit in a blizzard.

So snow one could do any work?

BOFH: In the event of a conference, the ninja clause always applies

Re: also: Rockstars

Things can only get better...

> A Klingon salesperson... Where is the honour in that?

All's fair in love and Worfare

Re: also: Rockstars

Or for Rockstar Games

Meta seeks ASIC designers for ML accelerators and datacenter SoCs

Sadly Graphcore appears to be in trouble, maybe they could come to some sort of arrangement with them

Trident missile test a damp squib after rocket goes 'plop,' fails to ignite

Re: Sorry but pedantry is a compulsion...

> If I'd said bomb #20 someone would have pointed out that Trident isn't a bomb but a missile :) I know just how pedantic El Reg commentards can be cos I'm one of them!

I'll prove your point by pointing out you forgot the icon -->

Microsoft Publisher books its retirement party for 2026

Re: Serif PagePlus...

Serif PagePlus...

Anyone remember that, I started off with version 3 I believe

Yeah, I think we had a cut down version of V2 on Windows 3.11.

I used it for many years and I've held on to the X2 CDRom in case I ever want/need to open the files again (assuming I could get it to install on "modern" Windows.

Self-taught-techie slept on the datacenter floor, survived communism, ended a marriage

You Castro be joking

Cuban Boy(s)

My god, I'd almost forgotten about the Cuban Boys' Hamster song and this article a just reminded me of it.

I'm not linking to a video as I'm less evil than the Vulture who penned this piece...

Yes, from orbit -->

Re: Daily!?! RFC begs to differ

I would urge you (and anyone else reading this) to arrange for powers of attorney for your parents and other loved ones BEFORE you end up in a situation

This 1000 times!

And not just for your parents, a friend in the UK was recently hospitalised as she was in no state to look after herself and the doctor was hopeless. Her parents tried to intervene, but no solicitor would help as there was no power of attorney setup.

Election security threats in 2024 range from AI to … anthrax?

Election security threats in 2024 range from AI to … anthrax?

Why are Metallica and Slayer OK?

Dave's not here, man. But this mind-blowingly huge server just, like, arrived

Re: Laundering

I did an Erasmus year at a campus quite far outside of the city and you needed to hop on a bus to get to the nearest shop. Some of the other students there smoked and I saw them go through the ash tray and getting the tobacco out from the stubs which they then rolled into a cigarette. Apparently it was as disgusting as it sounds.

Re: And there's me thinking...

Well, it's certainly a hash...

HP CEO pay for 2023 = 270,315 printer cartridges

> According to the Summary Compensation Table (SCT) contained in HP Ink's 2024 proxy shareholder statement

FTFY

Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all

Re: Why stainless?

> I mean armor rating.

No, you mean armour...

Re: It's 301 stainless apparently

Cars in Cornwall (SW England) tend to rust quickly because of the sea spray being blown inland...

(Pirates of Penzance icon)

QNAP vulnerability disclosure ends up an utter shambles

I'd like to replace my Synology and their hardware is looking really behind the times these days. I was eyeing up some QNAPs, but they seem to get hacked too often for my tastes...

Mon Dieu! Nearly half the French population have data nabbed in massive breach

Re: Made me order a Flipper Zero

It does look like a fun toy, I'm not sure what I'd actually use it for though

'Crash test dummy' smashed VIP demo by offering a helping hand

As it happened, the director of the program assured him that insurance would cover the cost and was more concerned for Major Tom's wellbeing. So there was a happy ending.

He's one of the Heroes of management...

As the cockpit rolled forward, the helmet had been ripped out of the tech's hands, smashed on a table, dragged over the table and smashed again on the floor of the lab.

Sounds like it was out of Ground Control...

Europe's deepest mine to become Europe's deepest battery

Re: BAH

Put an exercise bike into every household. Equip it with an inverter. Plug every one into a wall socket. BOOM, everybody is responsible for putting 1 kWhr into the wall, per person, per day.

The BBC did a show where they got a warehouse full of cyclists to power a house. IIRC it went well until they tried to use the oven

What they needed afterwards -->

CERN is training robot dogs to spot radiation hazards at Large Hadron Collider

Re: We're all going to die!

Does anyone have Gordon Freeman's number?

Apple Vision Pro is creating a new generation of glassholes

> It's a bit like judging all the Reg writers for the often moronic output of their headline author.

But the headlines are (well were) one of the best things about coming here

Oracle partner gets multimillion top-up after Edinburgh Uni disaster

Re: It’s a combination.

Not forgetting CAPSA...

Almost looks like a professor -->

CERN seeks €20B to build a bigger, faster, particle accelerator

Re: £17.1bn

You forgot the icon -->

Re: Black hole time!!!

> (Annecy, pictured on the far right, is a 40-minute drive from Geneva!!)

Not with the Geneva traffic it's not!

Attempts to demolish guardrails in AI image generators blamed for lewd Taylor Swift deepfakes

> AI deepfakes videos of celebs have also been circulating for many years, but hardly raised a blip in the media.

Taylor Swift is probably rich enough for the lawmakers to take notice. I'm sure deepfakes of someone less wealthy aren't considered worthy of attention...