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* Posts by Korev

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iPhone 12 deemed too hot to handle for France's radiation standards

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> While the iPhone 12 had no problems with the "trunk" limit, it exceeded the "limb" limit.

That's the elephant in the room...

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"Apple unsurprisingly rejected the ANFR's claims. It told The Register that ..."

Apple actually responded to The Register?

This isn't the same The Register of old...

Watt's the worst thing you can do to a datacenter? Failing to RTFM, electrically

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Re: Check the power supply

> Our other actions on that day got us mentioned in an article in PCW.

I miss PCW...

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Re: Check the power supply

In front of me and the boss (ie double the witnesses.)

He didn't get fired.

And didn't do it again either I bet

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Re: But surely

I'm currently feeling wired...

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Re: But surely

Watt the hell are you on about?

Okay, SMART ePANTS, you tell us how to create network-connected textiles

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Re: singular micro yarn textile routing platform with unmatched low-power electronics

What does the network fabric look like?

Apple races to patch the latest zero-day iPhone exploit

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Re: This was patched yesterday

The article also states "Even running the latest version of iOS (16.6) is no defence against the exploit," which is misleading

PEBCAK problem transformed young techie into grizzled cynical sysadmin

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Something to take note of...

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They never change...

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Manny thinks not. “The moral of the story is that no matter how bad your hardware or software, always check for PEBCAK – Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard."

You can always bank on the users to mess things up...

d-Matrix bets on in-memory compute to undercut Nvidia in smaller AI models

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Re: Fairly short window of opportunity

Quite, I'm involved in a project building chemical models, we only normally need to train on a single GPU...

UK rejoins the EU's €100B Horizon sci-tech funding program

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Fantastic news, hopefully Erasmus will be restored soon too.

Newport Wafer Fab blames UK government over 100 redundancies plan

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Re: Future

Apart from Brexit made it harder for the skilled workers to escape

I'm very pleased I got out before the vote...

IT needs more brains, so why is it being such a zombie about getting them?

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Re: Hacking tests and CTFs to get to the interview stage

I have a friend who's a computational chemist, he got called for interview with a company who gave him a task to do. It was obvious that they were just after ideas to pinch, moreover, doing the test effectively meant he was breaking his contract with his then employer as he'd be working for a competitor...

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> I remember learning about simultaneous quadratic equations about 30 years ago, and kind-of understood them at the time.

I remember doing quadratic equations in maths lessons and thinking they were pointless. A year or so later I started Chemistry A-level and in the textbook were quadratic equations, interestingly because higher level maths at GCSE wasn't a requirement, half of the class didn't have a clue how to deal with them.

Kind of a teacher icon -->

IBM Cloud to 'uplift' prices by up to 29 percent

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It suggested that some providers will be passing on inflation, but some rises will happen simply because hyperscalers know that it's hard to migrate workloads and customers will probably wear the pain.

Ah the vendor lockin[0] that we've been warning the cloud zealots about for ages!

Slightly less snarkily, have the competition authorities looked at the exorbitant egress charges that make it very expensive to move your data out of a $CLOUD to a competitor and/or on-prem?

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Attackers accessed UK military data through high-security fencing firm's Windows 7 rig

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> So they make good fences to segment areas of land, but lacked a firewall to segment areas of the internal network?

Nope, it was a fence post error...

What happens when What3Words gets lost in translation?

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Ta, that looks like a nice device. It's a bit pricy (at least here in Switzerland)

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> I don't have a dog in this race. I'm not a user or provider of emergency services.

It only takes a careless driver or just your heart getting bored to need to be an "Emergency services user"

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Which device did you buy?

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> Lets not even go near the Scon/Scoane debate :-)

Well that one's simple - Jam on first...

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This isn't only for people who recently learned English. For example, some Irish accents have a different pronunciation of th which is quite distinctive from t, most of the time, but close enough that I've seen a misunderstanding between an Irish person and a British person even though both were native English speakers.

I work with in a non-English speaking country with an Irish bioinformatician, when she first joined the Company and started talking about R she got nothing but blank looks because of her accent!

Almost a Guinness -->

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The latest iPhones can talk to satellites for emergencies. As someone who spends a lot of time outdoors, this is pretty much the only recent new feature on a mobile phone that interests me!

2023 World Solar Challenge entrant welcomes clouds – not the fluffy white ones

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The starter's flag for this year's edition of the race drops on October 22, and The Register last week learned that University of New South Wales's (UNSW) team in the race has become very fond of clouds.

Well, if they used Azure then there wouldn't be any clouds...

X may train its AI models on your social media posts

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Large language model maker AI21 Labs has raised $155 million

That should buy them as many as five whole GPUs!!!

Out with Tech Services 3 and in with Tech Services 4 – UK govt's £12B shopping spree

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Among the changes include a "debarment register," which is set to list suppliers who have previously under-performed.

If this actually happens then it'll be great news.

Sure, give the new kid and his MCSE power over the AS/400. What could possibly go wrong?

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Re: Learning experience

> 1. There was an issue with his training, including chain of command and authorized operations

Yeah, it was wrong of the boss to Mainframe the newbie...

Twitter says it may harvest biometric, employment data from its addicts

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> He didn't xeet, he tweeted a tweet

Or Xcreted?

Demand for datacenter capacity in Europe sees busiest Q2 ever

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Re: Build your bit barns in Scotland

And good security because of all the Lochs...

Intel shows off 8-core, 528-thread processor with 1TB/s of co-packaged optics

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Re: Will they be cooking bacon on the heatsink?

Oh do keep up... The Reg of old covered bacon years ago...

One for Lester Haines -->

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Cray-zee?

The old Cray XMTs had a huge number or threads and a tonne of memory in a single image and were designed for graph analytics. Even before the HPE takeover they were canned, I wonder if Intel will find the market for these isn't really there.

I'll see your data loss and raise you a security policy violation

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Re: Do you know any storage jokes?

That joke was a bit SCSI

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Re: Do you know any storage jokes?

Seagate Barracuda - they were a bit fishy...

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Re: BTDT

> Posting anonymously because, well....

Because you were using Solaris?

Intel promises next year's Xeons will challenge AMD on memory, IO channels

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Most HPC shops disable hyperthreading for this reason. I wonder if there will be some chips with a load of P cores and a couple of E for looking after the OS etc.

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So, while both chips will be fabbed using the chipmaker's long-delayed 7nm process — now called Intel 3 — the two will have different feature sets tuned to their target workloads. For example, Intel's P-cores feature its Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) while this functionality appears to be absent on the E-cores.

This should make HPC scheduling fun as you'll almost certainly want your code to hit the cores with vector maths units :)

Silicon Valley billionaires secretly buy up land for new California city

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Re: Flannery Row.

You can have your daily needs shrunk by a high court judge: The 15 minute city concept is just a garden prison.

I traded in the "freedom" of sitting in traffic for 40 minutes for a 12 minute commute on my bike and I don't miss it at all. Shopping is a 5 minute walk to a supermarket and I go to a weekly market. I wouldn't want to go back to a car-dominated lifestyle.

I've also dropped a couple of clothing sizes since moving over here.

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US Air Force wants $6B to build 2,000 AI-powered drones

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Re: They are getting part of a clue

After reading "It could take between five and ten years to build an AI drone capable of real air combat, officials estimated." in the article, I was about to make the same point about Ukraine!

Aerial cable tangles are still being strung up, but carriers are slowly burying the problem

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Re: Swings and roundabouts

> Many trunk outages caused by (what the fault reports said were) squirrels.

That's nuts!

Polishing off a printer with a flourish revealed not to be best practice

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Re: Stories from Grandad

> ...containing "20 odd women" though tragically he did not specify in his email exactly how odd they were.

Gorgeous twist!

Unless maths has changed since I was at school, then I'm pretty sure that 20 is an even number...

Windows screensaver left broadcast techie all at sea

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> Master Bates would never have allowed such buffoonery to happen on his watch

Yeah, he'd have been to busy cleaning up after Seaman Stains...

Intel seems to think Wi-Fi 7 is too cool for old-school Windows 10

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Re: No WiFi 7 on Win 10?

Wire you so negative about it?

SmartNICs haven't soared so VMware will allow retrofits in old servers

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Re: Is CXL pricing really as keen as claimed here?

And if the dedicated software and/or hardware has holes then it'll be hackable

Controversial Chinese drone maker DJI debuts a cargo carrier

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The drone incorporates two batteries for resilience, but removing one allows it to carry 40kg of weight and hit a top speed of 20 meters per second. That's quite quick, even compared to an unladen African swallow.

Come on El Reg, a quick trip the Reg Standards Bureau will tell you that the official unit for speed is the velocity of a sheep in a vacuum. The handy converter will tell you that it's 0.0007%. Please update the article forthwith.

Lesson 1: Keep your mind on the ... why aren't the servers making any noise?

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Did the WAP phones support Hans-free?

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Re: Been there done that

I hope you didn't feel to under the weather after the shock...

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Re: Been there done that

Sounds shocking...

Intel's Tower bid has shuffled off this mortal coil – so what about foundry plans?

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"You don't want to invest into something, do all the due diligence, wait for 18–24 months, and then have the deal not go through," Gupta said. Intel's $353 million payout to end the takeover must have been a bitter pill for Gelsinger to swallow.

So come the end of year performance reviews, will the Intel staff say "Look at this screw up" and say at least I'm not as bad as that?