Posts by Korev

BOFH: Zen and the art of battery replacement

And so perpetuates the cycle...

I suppose a more senior investigator might have been told he needed to inspect the halves of the screws that were still in the window frame.

Just before meeting a tragic accident?

Resilience is overrated when it's not advertised

Re: Fallback fault-tolerant

The FACS machines in the lab at my previous site were named after Thomas the tank engine characters

Good point, not so good for puns though...

Re: Failover backup redlining

Someone should beat them...

"A couple of years later we moved to Sun servers

Did they use Solaris Jails?

Re: Failover backup redlining

Yeah, the person who designed this is criminal...

Google reportedly designing chatbots to do all sorts of jobs – including life coach

Re: Countdown until

Or kill their product as soon as people actually start using it...

Red Hat redeploys one of its main desktop developers

The big enterprise vendors long ago decided there's little to no money to be made from Linux on the desktop, which is why it's left up to free distros and non-profit organizations

This really isn't good for us. Our Linux workstations are setup with the same libraries are present on HPC and scientific servers[0] to enable developers & data scientists to deploy and/or scale out their code.

[0] as opposed to database or other webservers which have many fewer libraries for obvious reasons

Western Digital sued over claims of data-trashing SanDisk, My Passport SSDs

Re: I lost 3 years worth of music and photography

Assuming you're not a bot account and run a data recovery business as you say; why do you only have one copy of your data?

Re: I lost 3 years worth of music and photography

Bot account?

Bank of Ireland outage sees customers queue for 'free' cash – or maybe any cash

Re: Monopoly money

I'm pleased you were able to get that off your Community Chest

AVX10: The benefits of AVX-512 without all the baggage

I'm very confused, I work in HPC and I'm supposed to know this stuff!

The price of freedom turned out to be an afternoon of tech panic

Re: D'oh

Well, neither did they teach elementary change management principles...

He didn't need them to Excel at this job...

Re: I'll assume this was America

Many moons ago, I used to work in a restaurant in England that would (illegally) dock the pay of the waiter/resses for things like broken glasses or customers doing a runner.

In the end one of the waitresses had a dad who owned a company, pointed out to her that it was illegal and he also kicked up a fuss...

Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit

Re: I ditched HP printers

Me too. I used to love my HP inkjet, but a combination of them not supporting modern OSs on it and the ink games they played meant I bought elsewhere.

My story would be better if I hadn't have bought a Canon (although choice was limited in 2020 for some reason...)

FTX crypto-clown Sam Bankman-Fried couldn't even do house arrest. Now he's in jail

Not forgetting the Zuck Vs Musk cage fight!

Dear Ms El Reg editor, please could we have a popcorn icon. We promise we'll play nicely with the other commentards and you won't have to recall the Moderatrix

Electoral Commission had internet-facing server with unpatched vuln

Does this mean you can get a ProxyNotShell vote?

Lock-in to legacy code is a thing. Being locked in by legacy code is another thing entirely

> He was told Police don't do that sort of thing, so he should find somewhere to sleep. And then emergency services hung up on him.

So they copped out?

Larry Ellison a major contributor to Blair Institute vaccine database plan

Ellison's cash is set to contribute to a joint partnership the pair established in 2020 which aims to offer African countries a database of vaccination records to help monitor and combat diseases. The Institute hopes to increase the scope of the system across Africa. It aims to create a digital database of patient records that will be free for at least 10 years.

I think the exact terms need to be clarified by any country's health system; otherwise they may get a very large bill in the 2030s.

Vendor lockin icon -->

IBM gives z/OS an AI infusion in major upgrade aimed in part at easing admin chores

Re: HAL 9000?

Doesn't the BOFH having a good day mean that the body count is in double figures?

Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world

Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world

Why not Half of all Arm server CPUs now live in the Amazon?

Techie's quick cure for a curious conflict caused a huge headache

No need, corporate management was already busy spewing venom accusing everybody else than themselves of fuck-ups.

You mean they stab you in the Redback?

As this is Australian, I'm just pleased the webserver didn't turn out to be some big nasty venomous spider...

One weekend's TwitX chaos brings threats from Japan; indemnity promises for users; prominent account seizures

I'd like them both to lose!

BOFH: WELCOME TO COLOSSAL SERVER ROOM ADVENTURE!!

Re: Shall We Play a Game?

If anybody is getting nostalgic for a text adventure, feel free to try this (don't worry, it's only a little one):

https://earthshod.co.uk/~julie/jsbeeb/?disc1=birthday_adv.ssd&autoboot

I was going to upvote you but then I stumbled in the dark and broke my neck...

She once had a go at me because I couldn't produce a health and safety datasheet for the oil for the shredder

That's why the BOFH like programming in Python...

In ancient history we had a H&S droid want us to shut a Sun Fire server off as it was too noisy. Turns out to get the reading she'd shoved her meter right up to the fan on the back...

Yippee-ki-yay

Beyond the hype, AI promises leg up for scientific research

Re: Shhh!

If AI and other computational techniques work as well as the hype then eventually we won't need mice any more

Playing instruments, musical talent? Psh, this is the 2020s – Meta has models for that now

Re: My first thought was ...

> ... that it can't be any worse than autotune.

God yeah, the sad thing is that as everything is over-autotuned these days then that's what the model will have been trained upon...

> Has anybody ever used the phrase "popular music winter"?

No, but they should!

Meta says it'll ask Euro peeps nicely before hitting them with personalized ads

Re: "Personalized" ads

My PiHole gets them before they even hit the browser :)

What would sustainable security even look like?

Re: What would sustainable security look like?

We'll have to try to bear it...

Socket moves beyond JavaScript and Python and gets into Go

Socket's Dependency Search

I'm actually disappointed that it's not called Socket and see

Voyager 2 found! Deep Space Network hears it chattering in space

A pint in the Space Bar for all the Boffins -->

NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2

Re: Variation

You had a can? All we had were sea shells.

C shell surely...

Re: Off topic

My school had one on a BBC Model B too, some kids in my year got themselves in a lot of trouble for setting up a gambling syndicate based on the horse racing results on it!

Satnav for the Moon could benefit from Fibonacci’s expertise

Re: I think you'll find it's more complicated than that.

Clangers too

Nobody would ever work on the live server, right? Not intentionally, anyway

Han worked for a company that supplied Unix systems to a firm that processed photographs from film.

It's a Unix system I know this

Re: Don't let that guy work without supervision

Let's see what develops...

Younger readers may not believe it, but before smartphones came along cameras used "film" - thin plastic ribbons coated in light-sensitive substances.

I know this is a joke, but it does make me feel rather old...

Grey beard icon -->

Re: Don't let that guy work without supervision

Looks like it's time for some film puns...

Global Slack messaging outage cuts world off from colleagues

Re: Cough... maybe we'll use letters and stamps next time.

No, he's just stating the fax....

What does Twitter's new logo really represent?

Re: Missed opportunity

Bravo -->

Re: an arbitrary metric space

Where's Lord Flashheart when you need him?

Re: Let's hope it stops the hate comments

That'd be an ecumenical matter...

A room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor? Take a closer look

Re: Apatite

> According to their ArXiV preprint, "A material called LK-99, a modified-lead apatite crystal structure with the composition Pb$_{10-x}$Cu$_x$(PO$_4$)$_{6O}$ ($0.9<x<1.1$), has been synthesized..."

Are you sure that's not a regular expression?

Intel adds fresh x86 and vector instructions for future chips

Re: Great...

I didn't!

Do you have a link with some info?

FCC boss says 25Mbps isn't cutting it, Americans deserve 100Mbps now, gigabit later

Re: My home cable modem...

Here's an educational exercise for you: look up the word 'patronising'.

Trust me, it's worth it.