Posts by Korev

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

Re: Lucky I guess

Here in this bit of Swtizerland you can get up to 25Gbs for ~65CHFs/month...

I could get every device in my network and dedicate 1Gbps to it :-)

Re: I'd say more like 50/10 is realistic

There is currently no use case for any home user to need a gigabit.

Some ideas of home users need lots of bandwidth:

* Youtuber/Tiktoker

* Graphic designer, video producer working from home

* Amateur photographer backing up their photos (this is me!)

* Gamer downloading 100GB games

Re: I'd say more like 50/10 is realistic

I'd say more like 50/10 is realistic... Fast enough for multiple streams, and a couple of Zoom sessions with outgoing traffic.

I had a quick look at the stats in the last Zoom meeting I was on, it consumed about 1MB/s in both directions which is already 8 out of your 10Mbs....

Intel adds fresh x86 and vector instructions for future chips

Re: Great...

It's not difficult to create binaries that are clever enough to work out what chip they're on and run the right bit of code accordingly.

I guess it's a case of willingness...

Re: Marketing strikes again

Next you'll be saying that Windows 11 is newer than Windows 98 - you're crazy man...

One problem with America's chip ambitions: Not quite enough staff

Re: Better career choices

* CEO of Twitter

X-CEO of Twitter surely...

Google fails to get AI engineer lawsuit claiming wrongful termination thrown out

Nor the American "spelling"...

The Moderatrix would never have stood for that...

Too many bytes and not enough bricks for datacenters

Re: I've got an idea

Call it Edge Computing and you're onto a winner

AMD Zenbleed chip bug leaks secrets fast and easy

Re: Also, I just noticed...

How many people actually do this though? I imagine many commentards here don't bother and for non-technical people I imagine the number would be even lower...

Linux lover consumed a quarter of the network

I should have mentioned that was in 24 hours

Re: Rule one...

When I did more of a system role, we had to do DR practice. I remember walking to the truck with all the tapes thinking that I had the entire output of a five hundred person research site for twenty years in nothing more that a tatty cardboard box[0]

[0] This backup wasn't the latest so if we did screw it up we'd still be covered

I remember in about 2003 someone in Cambridge managed to shift half a terrabyte via file sharing. Twenty years later that's still quite a lot of data to upload...

Re: Charlie Says

That costs a packet though...

Re: Positively Glacial

> [Edit: Bloody hell Korev! In before! I was snowed under!]

Maybe the network's being a bit flakey today...

Yeah, he was a bit naughty...

Re: Charlie Says

Maybe pop out for a byte to eat whilst you're waiting...

Re: Yep.

Icy what you did there...

He's very lucky he didn't get himself a WAN from using the network...

Looks like Charlie was visiting some CD sites...

BT and OneWeb deliver internet to rock in Bristol Channel – population 28

> I spent 6 days on Lundy last year. 4G coverage was spotty, and only really reliable if you stood in the same place just near the pub

Well, that was your excuse anyway ;)

Cheers -->

BOFH: You can be replaced by a robot or get your carbon footprint below Big Dave's

Re: Careful...

But think of that extra 30KG worth of potential energy and what you could do with it...

Opportunity NUCs for Asus to continue Intel's mini PC line

I expect the ex-Intel Nuc and Asus' "own" teams are about to go to war to survive as a division...

Russia's tiny quantum computer is (probably) nothing to worry about

Re: "sift through a mountain of junk to find a gem"

"sift through a mountain of junk to find a gem"

Oh, so like using the Internet, then ?

Or these boards...

Euro monopoly cops to probe Microsoft for slipping Teams into Office

Re: Not sure about this one

> Teams isn't amazing, but it isn't as terrible as everyone makes out.

As a former user of Skype for Business, I can only agree

Stockholm Syndrome icon -->

Bizarre backup taught techie to dumb things down for the boss

Re: "you have to wonder how they get home each night

Be fair[0], they've upgraded those trains and they're now (just0 under half a century old!

[0] Pun very much intended

Re: Deja vu

The explanation was "it's easy just to click delete to move it out of the Inbox".

I think you've hit the nail on the head there

Today's story was rubbish...

Sounds like a lot of trash talk

And also meant the exec's name was trashed as the entire IT department chortled at the "I need my Trash" line.

Well, we've all bin there...

Sega COO backs away from blockchain

Re: It's very strange...

You sound wired...

Re: It's very strange...

Just read up on how electricity became the fad for everything in the 18th and 19th centuries.

How about a more current example?

Intel patches buggy Sapphire Rapids Xeons, resumes shipments

Unfortunately, Intel didn't address our questions on the cause of the issue or under what conditions it first arose.

Maybe because naughty people could do all sorts fun things to multi-user clouds like AWS, Azure etc

Turning a computer off, then on again, never goes wrong. Right?

Re: The web server that wasn't

> That was Jurassic Park, Shirley?

It's a UNIX system! I know this!

Re: The web server that wasn't

No doubt one of those Dinobabies....

Network problem

I was expecting a network problem for Arnie because it hadn't been terminated properly...

BOFH: Lies, damned lies, and standards

Re: Almost lost my coffee here

You could say it's their staple diet...

Re: This boss...

We'll see how the "traffic sprints" go...

The boss seemed a bit annoyed, he didn't like the BOFH's toner voice...

Red Hat's open source rot took root when IBM walked in

> People are going to disagree but I always think of HP/HPE and IBM as modern-day "IP trolls"

Which is odd because the IBM of old did sterling work fending off SCO

Amazon's robo vacuum power grab sucks EU attention

Re: It sucks

That'd suck...

Startup that charged $1.20 a day for coworking space in nightclubs folds

Re: Back in the late '80s to mid '90s ...

Employer -1 was originally founded by three guys. The joke there was that one guy had the idea, another the money and the CEO had the front room...

Nobody does DR tests to survive lightning striking twice

I guess computers have moved on and many now have a dedicated lightning port...

HSBC banks on quantum to lock down comms network

Re: "a pilot quantum-secured metro network"

You mean Notwork surely..

No open door for India's tech workers in any UK trade deal

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

Thank you Sir!

That didn't look right as I typed it and that's why :-)

Re: Nothing economically beneficial will happen until the Tories get kicked out.

I think I'd prefer a return to the Danelaw. Slaughtering Lancastrians would be a possibility but the priority would be keeping Wessex and Mercia out.

Come to think of it, it's been a few years since the Cornish marched on London

Kernow Bys Viken!

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

Well, Rajesh is a lovely chap

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

I just proves that they are both bloody foreigners!

A proper Brit will always stand by his word.

I know dualling has been banned, I think the anonymous cowards need to meet at dawn to satisfy their honour!

Yahoo! comeback! continues! as! fresh! listing! planned!

But it never had a cool name whilst capitalised - HoTMaiL!

Re: Not the worst idea

I agree, I do try to use DDG, but often I just get frustrated, give up and just use Google. The same is true with their maps service (compared to the Apple ones).