* Posts by Korev

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Spotify to introduce lossless audio streaming: Better sound or inefficient gimmick?

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Re: I think this is more important

This is one of the worst examples out there.

Linking to the above video in this thread is probably an act of war... -->

Tata Consultancy Services wins £4m deal to carry out Oracle 'reimplementation' for University of Manchester

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Stop

freeing up staff time for value-added activities

I can imagine this statement upsetting some people who work hard carrying out these manual processes. Moreover, if they stopped doing them I suspect the University would come to a grinding halt...

Clop ransomware gang leaks online what looks like stolen Bombardier blueprints of GlobalEye radar snoop jet

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>What on Earth is an Accellion and why would anyone use it or pay for it when there’s SFTP?

Most Commentards would be able to use SFTP with ease; however, I suspect many "normal" people would struggle with the command line. Most GUI wrappers seem pretty clunky TBH*

*feel free to suggest nice ones if I'm wrong

Microsoft spearheads a whole new genre with installation on the side of a Lyon tunnel

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Joke

Was Windows Lyon down?

SD card slot, HDMI port could return to the MacBook Pro this year, says Apple analyst

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Re: Magsafe

You could buy adaptors for the 1st generation Magsafe which meant you could reuse the power adaptor for a later MBP.

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I bet you'd still need a driver for it

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Re: I'll believe it when I see it

You can also wait until more models have Apple CPUs (and the beta testers early adopters have finished testing them)

Groupware is not dead! HCL drops second beta of Notes/Domino version 12 and goes all low-code and cloudy

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Re: Notes

I remember trying to get the email client to refresh by using F5 (which is refresh in most places) and it sodding locking Notes

Yes, from orbit -->

Machine-learning software scours database of already available drugs that could treat COVID-19 infections

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Re: "repurpose existing drugs"

Sure, proper clinical trials are needed to establish facts with scientific rigor, but apparently millions have been treated with it and they're still alive to talk about it.

Deaths in COVID-19 patients actually rose in one trial compared to the control.

No egrets: Ardent twitchers fined for breaking lockdown after bloke spots northern mockingbird in his garden

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Re: And here I was..

>Getting chuffed over seeing a lovely male Wren in the garden (it seems to be favouring my cherry tree at the moment in the morning).

I saw it too, I was well choughed...

What the heck is FinOps? It's controlling cloud spend – and new report says it ain't easy

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That depends if you already have the datacentre or not.

UK college courses show decade-long surging interest in computer science – just as new intake was locked down

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Boffin

Back in Uni I went round to visit my victim at the time after I'd finished in the lab; she was still in bed after 5!!!

Intel sues former staffer for allegedly stealing Xeon cloud secrets in USB drives and exploiting info at Microsoft

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By this time Intel had asked Microsoft for help. The Windows giant, we're told, discovered the first drive had been used within its walls, including on Gupta’s Microsoft-issued PC.

Is anyone else surprised that MS didn't block USB drives? I'm assuming there's someone in the company who knows how to do it...

Brit IBM veteran wins unfair dismissal case after 2018's Global Technology Services redundancy bloodbath

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Re: HR evaluations everywhere...

Microsoft teams (allegedly) used to hire a couple of idiots every year to fire as cannon-fodder to protect their people from stack-ranking

<<Opens Microsoft's career site>>

SAP's lift-and-shift-to-the-cloud plan will need more than CGI to convince users it has a clear vision for ERP

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Klein took issue with the idea the market is being slow in adopting S/4HANA, which has been available for nearly six years.

Doesn't this come up in every story involving SAP?

SAP: Come to the cloud with us, we promise there's total accountability and lower TCO with lift-and-shift ERP package

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“Our data suggests that there is a very large level of inertia amongst SAP customers, far more than many other ERP products. They are happier, and satisfied with the current system,” he said.

You mean they're scared about what will break with the upgrade or how much it'll cost?

Tab minimalists look away: Vivaldi introduces two-level tab stacks

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From the article:

The functionality has been in experimental preview since last year, but has been enabled by default in Vivaldi 3.6. The compact mode for tab stacks remains in place for anyone that prefers things a little more minimalist.

Workflow biz ServiceNow ServiceWows itself by beating Q4 guidance and posting hefty top line growth of 31% for FY2020

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WTF?

"The secular tailwinds of digital transformation, cloud computing and business model innovations have all intersected at the perfect moment in time, a paradigm here is happening worldwide."

He's speaking a lot, but not saying anything....

What happens when the internet realizes the stock market is basically a casino? They go shopping at the Mall

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Re: Reading the Runes in Between the Lines ... Karma Sucks Big Time

Whilst I have no love for the Traders and wouldn't be that upset to see them hit by this; you have to remember when share prices go pop that impacts our pensions and may even make our employers reach for the P45s/"Pink slips"/etc

AMD's Lisa Su: Our processor sales are Ryzen faster than the PC market is growing

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Maybe it was an Athlon time ago...

Apple emits emergency iOS security updates while warning holes may have been exploited in wild by hackers

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Re: Birdwatching

Oh do stop, you’re just making a tit out of yourself...

Get off my lawn: UK.Gov looks to reform land access laws for network operators weeks after PAC savages full-fibre gigabit targets for 2025

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after PAC savages 2025 gigabit targets

Wow a couple of Terrabits for each house in the UK - that's impressive

Europe considers making it law that your boss can’t bug you outside of office hours

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This still sends the message that in order to be promoted you have to work stupid hours...

Man arrested after UK school finds wiped hard drives on devices connected to network

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A 28-year-old has been arrested after allegedly carrying out what police have labelled a "sophisticated cyber attack" on a school.

I'm looking forward to an organisation admitting it was a "simple cyber attack"

ADT techie admits he peeked into women's home security cams thousands of times to watch them undress, have sex

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Re: Cassandra

There's absolutely no need for the camera images to be accessible outside the house, live or otherwise. Being able to watch the burglars live isn't going to be of any help. The images can be used later for evidence.

I kind of disagree, an offsite backup* of these data would be very sensible, A burglar could well pinch your PC or NAS recording the images; or even pinch the camera if it records to an SD card.

* Of course I mean a system with decent security, not one that lets a pervy employee watch.

We're gonna bounce back, says Intel's Gelsinger: Don't worry, most of our chips will be made by us... in 2023

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Re: Why would you buy Intel?

Agreed, for many a 3xxx would be great too. As a geek I'm holding out for a 12 or 16 core 5xxx series though.

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Things were a little cheerier for its PC arm, the Client Computing Group. Here, Q4 revenues reached $10.9bn, an increase of nine per cent year-on-year, and brought in $40.1bn in sales for the year, up eight per cent.

I understand that the pandemic has increased sales of laptop/desktop CPUs; but I'm curious why anyone would go for Intel over AMD at the moment.

And just like that, Amazon Web Services forked Elasticsearch, Kibana. Was that part of the plan, Elastic?

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Re: Knickers!

That joke was pants...

UK Prime Minister Johnson knows not when 400k+ deleted records from police DB will be back

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Re: oops...

The article suggests that the problem has been there since November, I guess this means that they'd have to restore to that point in time, then replay the transactions until now and finally delete the records that shouldn't be there.

I guess that's why it's taking so long to sort.

Scottish Environment Protection Agency refuses to pay ransomware crooks over 1.2GB of stolen data

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Re: How much ?

But it got Harding a number of good jobs afterwards; it shouldn't be difficult to Track and Trace what she's been up to...

Ubiquiti iniquity: Wi-Fi box slinger warns hackers may have peeked at customers' personal information

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Thank you all for your suggestions, a virtual pint for the suggestions -->

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Alternatives

I've been using Ubiquiti gear for a while and I'm getting increasingly pissed off with it. In recent times I also had a switch crap itself when I changed the setting on a port, a nightmare trying to sort my Sonos gear and the "Cloud Key" is notorious for dying when it loses power).

What alternatives are people using, I'm thinking of going for PFSense for the firewall/router. I'm a home user with three switches and a couple of APs and I use things like VLANs and various firewall rules.

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Re: Changing password

I guess the risks are that people tend to reuse passwords and also many people use their cloud-based solution to run their networks.

It took me quite a bit of hunting on their website to change mine (even though the old one was randomised in a password manager and I never used the cloud stuff for this reason)

The Novell NetWare box keeps rebooting over and over again yet no one has touched it? We're going on a stakeout

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Re: Staking out the culprit

At a place I used to work Security were instructed to turn off lights out of hours and we had lab robots monitored by CCTV - you can probably guess the problem!

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Re: Staking out the culprit

I'm wondering the same

Two clichés, one headline: 'No good deed goes unpunished' and 'It's always DNS'

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This time they did. It took 10 minutes for the local boss to turn up at Sam's desk and say: "You will not hear another word about this."

The local PHB sounds like a good person to have around, shame it took so long for them to get involved.

Apple reportedly planning to revive the MagSafe charging standard with the next lot of MacBook Pros

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Re: SD card reader? Really?

Lots of "Pros" use Macbooks for work, their screen is gorgeous for photo work and also you can't really take an iMac with you on a plane...

Four women seek release from forced arbitration to sue Infosys for widespread gender discrimination

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Re: Unfair contracts

This has been the case for both back in the UK and here in Switzerland for every professional job I've had.

We didn't collude with Twitter to throw Parler off our servers, says AWS in court filing

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Re: Trump's you-tube account has been suspended as well

Pornhub too...

Dropbox basically decimates workforce, COO logs off: Cloud biz promises to be 'more efficient and nimble'

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In recent years, Dropbox has tried to move itself from a biz that simply provides cloud storage for companies to one that they use for online collaboration.

I don't want all this bollocks, I just want to synchronise, backup and sometimes share some files. If Dropbox continue to lose this focus then people will just move away.

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Re: Literally decimates?

Good pedantry AC, have cold one -->

What's that you got there, AMD? More Ryzen chips? Yeah, OK, we could do with some of those

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Availability?

Almost everyone I know who's tried to buy a 5000 series chip hasn't been able to get one. It'd be great if AMD could make enough chips so we could actually buy one!

Decades-old UK government papers show that they tried to roll out a 'Cab-E-Net' system in the '90s. It was crap

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Re: When "lessons will be learned" are never learned, vulnerabilities to constantly exploit remain

Heaven forbid that one should feel compelled to share anything of any significant importance with the current No 10 tenant/squatter via its internet provided providing portal

It's fair to say that America trumps Britain here...

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Re: Joined up thinking

It looks like they were inching forward with metrification...

International Space Station scores powerup with solar panels that 'roll out like a tape measure'

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What are you whining about?

Pop quiz: You've got a roomful of electrical equipment. How do you put out a fire?

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Doubtless for more responsibility and a higher pay grade by the time his cost cutting had resulted in what was very much a short, sharp shock.

From when the water and electrickery mixed?

Brit registrar 123-Reg begins 2021 in much the same way it ended 2020 – with DNS issues

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DNS, such a bind...

Storage on AWS: What's new, is it too complicated? Can it help defend against ransomware?

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Re: WORM - Write Once Read Maybe?

I guess from the client-side it's WORM; if AWS (or Azure etc.) got hacked then the volumes would probably still be trashable...

If you're a WhatsApp user, you'll have to share your personal data with Facebook's empire from next month – or stop using the chat app

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Re: Account deleted

The same here, I have Threema and Signal but WhatsApp has over an order of magnitude of my friends and family on there and it's what they use... :(

JetBrains' build automation software eyed as possible enabler of SolarWinds hack

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Re: Bond Villain

Well, he's good at fixing Spectre bugs