Posts by Korev

False negative stretched routine software installation into four days of frustration

To start this tale, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Dieter" who was once a Linux admin at one of the US's three big carmakers.

Wheel have to guess which one...

"Managers were less than impressed with the effort, and the response to the vendor from up the chain was something to the effect of 'Thanks for stopping by, no sale'."

You mean they were given the boot?

Recipient of Europe's largest ever seed round doesn't even have a product

Re: paying high prices to get a foot in the door of the latest tech gold rush

I always remember that few prospectors made any money and only a tiny minority got rich, but the people who seriously cashed in were selling prospecting gear, food or sex.

Nvidia's share price has risen by ten times in the last few years :-)

NASA to tear the wings off plane in the name of sustainability

I've been well and truly out-punned, as it's almost the weekend -->

Re: Another carcass for Mojave desert?

Having worked at Edwards and Mojave, there's loads of aircraft carcass' scattered around the desert &/or permantly scorched earth from X planes.

X-planes or ex-planes?

I hope this Truss manages to last longer than a lettuce...

Decision to hold women-in-cyber events in abortion-banning states sparks outcry

Re: Church of the Subgenius could fix that

And then the Pastafarians will come for you!

UK telco watchdog Ofcom, Minnesota Dept of Ed named as latest MOVEit victims

Information therein contained about "95,000 names of students placed in foster care throughout the state, 124 students in the Perham School District who qualified for Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer (P-EBT), 29 students who were taking PSEO classes at Hennepin Technical College in Minneapolis, and five students who took a particular Minneapolis Public Schools bus route."

Why on all earth were these data just left lying around on a server? And also, there is no mention of encryption...

Clippy designer was too embarrassed to include him in his portfolio

In case you miss him

You can add Clippy and friends to the webpage of your choice.

Salmon Days

Once upon El Reg of old tried to start up a video series called Salmon Days and I think the first one involved Clippy getting his comeuppance...

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Hold it – another vulnerability found in MOVEit file transfer software

Re: RFQ

Yep, compare that to Britain's non-functional track'n'trace system that cost billions...

Study recommends mandatory 3-year vacation so astronauts' brains can recover

Re: Reduced gravity

They'd become Lunartics

Singapore's government writes a standard for datacenter ops in the tropics

Yes, but it's called Edge Computing now...

HCL proves Lotus Notes will never die by showing off beta of lucky Domino 14.0

Re: And integration...

Do the TCO calculations count the time of the victims endusers who use the software too?

IBM offloaded Domino to HCL in 2017. That the India company is still bothering to create updates bespeaks the stickiness of custom apps built on the platform, although HCL always says it manages to score the occasional new client

Is the database acid-compliant?

Microsoft’s Azure mishap betrays an industry blind to a big problem

I believe the over-reliance on a small set of cloud vendors is a massive threat to our way of life. If stuff goes down harder than what we've seen so far then a substantial part of the planets' infrastructure will just go down.

Icon for a similar-size outage

A toast to being in the right place at the right time

So Nellie found the elephant in the room....

File Explorer gets facelift in latest Windows 11 build

In case you haven't already Jim'll Paint It can do with MS Paint

BOFH: Good news, everyone – we're in the sausage business

> But based on the prion knowledge on this company, who would eat those sausages? You might catch some novel prion brain disease.

FTFY

Re: gigaspandrels

> I believe that it's volatile storage dedicated to cat videos (not to be confused with Moo-Ram, which is used for storage of corporate bulls**t)

Superb -->

Re: The _real_ AI

You mean a best of breed technology?

The Sausage Factory bit was a banger!

Boss put project on progress bar timeline: three months … four … actually NOW!

> He’s lucky it’s wasn’t UPS

The power from UPS could give him a shock...

Or you could even say he'd be removed from his post...

I was half expecting that his card would be marked and he'd be marched out of the door...

Sysadmin and IT ops jobs to slump, says IDC

"IT professionals in the most purely operational roles are facing a transition to a more technical or focused role that very often may involve some level of software development work," the firm asserts.

That reads as if they don't think that being a Sysadmin is technical!

Waymo robo-car slays dog in San Francisco

>> ... and, unfortunately, contact was made

> With aliens?

What a Waymo to go...

Re: Invasion

> Yes, they were eaten by the dog.

Fur dinner?

Election Excel blunder declared a 'low point' for Austrian social democracy

Well that approach almost worked for Trump...

Dell down under dinged for dodgy display discounts

Re: That excuse will be a hit in criminal circles

"Due to an unrectifed error on our part, our child was born"

Netherlands digital minister smacks down Big Tech over AI regs

I misread this as

Netherlands digital minister smacks down Big Tech over EI Reg

and thought the Dutch were being rather harsh to this Esteemed Organ

M2 Ultra chip lands in 'cheese grater' Mac Pro to displace Apple's last Intel holdout

In ancient history we were struggling to buy machines big enough for genome assembly, the work around was to buy a FusionIO card for swap which meant that even if it wasn't as quick as it could be it was at least possible. Maybe people will need to do the same for these new Mac Pros

The bonkers water-cooled shoe PC, hexagonal pink workstations, and IKEA-style cases of Computex 2023

Does anyone else get SGI vibes off the XSLAB V-raptor SQ nano?

And that means I want one :-)

Fed up with slammed servers, IT replaced iTunes backups with a cow of a file

Re: That's the way to do it

> He certainly deserves a iPat on the back.

FTFY

Re: That's the way to do it

It's an old story, but he had to milk it...

> That, my friends, is how you deal with these clowns who don't read the f**king memo.

They probably did, but thought it was a load of bull...

Re: That's the way to do it

Did he find the decent music and mooove it to his own directory?

Google shows cloud customers it's happy to have an open relationship

If they were really vendor neutral, then they'd reduce the data egress charges...

Vendor lockin icon -->

Brits and Yanks join forces to make fusion magnets cool again

Re: Gamma Irradiation Facility (GIF)

That was a clean pun...

Airline puts international passengers on the scales pre-flight

Re: optional?

I think that some airlines have worked out they can get another seat in each row in some widebody aircraft...

Australia fines tech companies for exploiting foreign tech workers

Re: "the plethora of deadly creatures found in the one-time prison colony"

> That would have been the deadly flora

I thought it was supposed to be healthier than butter...

Broadcom says Nvidia Spectrum-X's 'lossless Ethernet' isn't new

I'm pretty sure that this was part of Gnodal's selling pitch a few years ago too...

Rackspace datacenter infrastructure took 12-hour nap in London, Sydney, Hong Kong

Re: CDT?

Just put the time in GMT and if they don't like then we'll send in the Royal Navy's finest gunboats

A subsequent update identified the issue as related to Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (DWDM) in London

Has somebody been using the BOFH excuse generator?

Google Photos AI still can't label gorillas after racist errors

> The stupidest being that the word master is now off limit.

You mean it's on the black list?

The future of digital healthcare could be a two-metre USB cable

Re: The next frontier …

Surely

The next frontier: Proctology.

As there's a colon involved...

Re: The smart solution

I was about to make the same point!

BOFH: Get me a new data file or your manager finds out exactly what you think of him

Re: and the Bay City Rollers reforming

> Somehow my silver badge went away. I suppose that's life..

Have an upvote to help get it back

Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail

Re: Never used!

I've also been using Postbox for a while am quite happy with it. Ironically, the reason I started using it was because Thunderbird kept crashing and I couldn't fix it!

Windows XP activation algorithm cracked, keygen now works on Linux

I used to have one of these, it gave many years of dutiful service until and international move somehow killed it (despite the travel lock being enabled)