Posts by Korev 6375 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2016
Until John's supervisor took a perturbed phone call: "Why does the website say 'Stinky Mac' at the top of the view?" the supervisor was asked.While the boss tried to think of any good reason the website should proffer such a message to a user, the phone call got worse: "How does it even know everybody calls me Mac?"
So he wasn't the Apple of the boss' eye?
If it was the UK would we still be waiting for Openreach (if physical line fault) ?Could this company have paid for 9 more phone line installations (as a one off ) and then had 10 separate consumer grade connections (from different providers) and 10x the speed and resiliance?
I guess in this case they'd all go through the same exchange and/or roadside cabinet so would be vulnerable to the lot going down at once
Maybe the future would *want* us to keep putting PCs and NAS drives into (designated) landfill, just so that they know which techno-middens to dig in once they have perfected the datamatic trowel and measuring stick.
My computers and NAS have encrypted discs and the keys are in a password manager with the password only known to myself. If I've done my job correctly then bringing the data back would be impossible for a thief but also relatives or archeologists...
> The only thing that is running spinning rust is my IBM pSeries (because SAS SSDs are still expensive), and my NAS box.
The same here for the NAS, although it's getting to the point that I could afford to run SSDs now. If Synology made a NAS I wanted to buy (ie one that can do both 10Gb/s and video transcoding) then I'd probably take the plunge.
The size of the award indicates the service will underpin the Home Office's digital operations, and it comes at an interesting time for AWS. The cloud giant and arch-rival Microsoft are under increasing scrutiny in the UK as the competition regulator examines just how level the playing field is.
Both businesses have won huge contracts in the British public sector in recent years. As an example, AWS was tapped to provide storage for secret government files, and a four-year hyperscale cloud deal was inked with the UK tax office – HMRC – in 2021.
It'd be very interesting to see how much tax AWS pay HMRC on the ~half billion
President and CEO Jensen Huang shared a vision in which copilots and AI assistants proliferate and generative AI brings us "text-to-text, text-to-image, text-to-video, text-to-3D, text-to-protein, text-to-chemicals."The last two look like early candidates for 2024's Words Of The Year. Or maybe the Ig Nobel prize?
I work in the field of drug discovery and if those last two become reality then they'd be truly transformative
> Seems like a very invasive procedure to undergo in order to save on having an infusor needle taped to your arm for 10 days.
On the other hand, having an implant like this could be very good for when you target a specific area of the body (think cell-killing drugs for a tumour)
So what does it say to to the "lady from Wales who asked if there is going to be a hurricane"?
"We had never tested fully taking the entire PDX-04 facility offline. As a result, we had missed the importance of some of these dependencies," wrote Prince, and we appreciate the honesty.
Absolutely.
Obviously the single dependency on PDX-04 wasn't good; but this gives you confidence that it'll probably be fixed in the near future...
A pint for the Cloudfare people who probably need one -->
> We'd make some kind of Sun sets joke here but it's too early in the morning
Interestingly, Paul Calleja, who was quoted in the article, will proudly tell you about how he he ditched a load Sun E25K boxen and replaced them with a load of Dell servers and shot into the Top500 for the first time.
