Posts by Korev

Shocks from a hairy jumper crashed a PC, but the boss wouldn't believe it

So "Monty" performed static analysis...

Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows code in memory-safe Rust

Re: How long before the embrace, extend, and extinguish model sets in?

If I'm not mistaken the majority of servers in Azure are Linux, MS seem quite unbotherered about this. In my mind it shows that thing have begun to have changed

Dropbox drops 16% of staff, points finger at hard-up customers and AI

God yeah.

I want Dropbox to do two things:

* Synchronise my files between my computers and NAS

* Provide an offsite copy of my data in case something bad happens to Korev Towers

I don't give a crap about the other stuff they're trying to do!

Google Cloud slips over in Europe amid water leak, fire

So OVH in Strasboug had a "Thermal Event" and now the Google datacentre in Paris too. I think the conclusion is don't run your DCs in France or else they'll go up in flames...

Techies all GUI-eyed as Xerox says goodbye to Palo Alto Research Center

Re: Not for profit

A very good point

Re: Not for profit

I think BT Martlesham could also be added to the list...

A quick look at BT Research's Wikipedia page, shows some massive innovations and then nothing for almost two decades...

Don't get in a semiconductor 'doom spiral' – sector will be back with a bang in 2024

"semiconductor companies are also sitting on inventory waiting for it to go out the door, and it can take six to nine months for inventory to flush out,

So you're saying they're chipping away at the inventory...

Microsoft makes Windows Server 2022 licenses a little less cynical

Re: If you're running Server 2022

For generic servers maybe, but if the software you use only runs on Windows server then you have very little choice (see icon)

You can cross 'Quantum computers to smash crypto' off your list of existential fears for 30 years

Re: Encryption is not the only answer. The biggest problem is the human

Obligatory XKCD

These days pirates use spanners, not cutlasses though -->

Oracle's examplar win over SAP for Birmingham City Council is 3 years late

Re: Just add Crapita and they'll be successful!

But these are different monkeys...

And they might have better typewriters

Building your own private 5G is as easy as Wi-Fi

Thank you

As we're almost over hump day -->

"ivory tower architects"

Whilst a finely carved base station tower would be an improvement on the normal run of things you, quite rightly, can't get the ivory these days.

Well, that's the elephant in the room...

IBM pauses counting its billions to trim Red Hat staff

Re: Can't believe people still go take jobs at IBM

When I see some of the Boffinery coming out of IBM research, it does look kind of fun.

I am on the other hand, getting quite near Dinobaby age...

Re: The circle of skulduggery closes.

Wasn't this also done by pre-IBM Redhat? I could be wrong though.

Big Blue's software revenue reached $5.9 billion for the quarter, an increase of 2.6 percent. Growth at Red Hat was higher, at eight percent

Well done Redhat folks for growing over thrice as fast as the rest of your division, here's your reward...

American private equity can't wait to gobble up Euro stalwart Software AG

Re: Sounds like the

It depends if the redundancy packages are good. It could be worth people being brave and hanging on.

UK monopoly watchdog gives Broadcom-VMware probe a tight timetable

It looks like things are about to leap into vMotion...

Microsoft suggests businesses buy fewer PCs. No, really

There's always Linux ...

[ducks]

Nope, it's a Penguin -->

(I'll get my coat...)

Just below this article's headline:

Where are we now - Microsoft 363? Cloud suite hit with yet another outage

Support chap put PC into 'drying mode' and users believed it was real

Re: Not his first rodeo

That day he happened to be carrying a floppy containing software that mimicked a washing machine?

I’m guessing it wasn’t his first call out to the audit department.

Maybe he wanted a clean audit

Musicians threaten to make Oasis 'Live Forever' with AI

I always preferred that Popscene too...

Re: For the record

Well, some might say...

Google Brain, protein-folding DeepMind fold into one

Reorganisation

"Combining all this talent into one focused team, backed by the computational resources of Google, will significantly accelerate our progress in AI."

So, the next year or two will be spent with people arguing who will get the best jobs etc, that's really not going to "accelerate" AI...

4chan and other web sewers scraped up into Google's mega-library for training ML

Re: Is Mumsnet in the library?

I dread to think what it'd recommend you do with a glass of water...

UK pensions dept hands Softcat £250M for Microsoft subscriptions

I thought that UK Gov was supposed to be big on open formats and the like these days,

But, but the Office files are an ISO standard

Meta virtual reality interrupted by financial reality as thousands lose their jobs

Meta's Year of Efficiency was preceded by 2022, a year of revenue decline (-4 percent) and rising costs (+22 percent), partly attributable to Apple's iOS privacy changes in 2021 that reduced Meta's ad targeting revenue by about $10 billion.

The social ad biz last year lost $13.7 billion in 2022 due to its Reality Labs group, which proved efficient in its extravagant spending.

I think there's a fairly obvious way forward here...

Child-devouring pothole will never hurt a BMW driver again

Re: Tedious WARNING!

That'd be a time sink...

Presumably the indicators used to show the car is avoiding the pot hole will be another extra...

"It's certainly one of the worst potholes I've ever come across," said worker Paul Morris.

Could you get a car in it Mr Morris Minor?

Fujitsu bags £142M UK government work since Horizon probe announced

Re: Thank you

PCPro also did some good work on the false paedophila allegations a few years ago, I don't know if they still do this kind of investigative journalism or not.*

* I used to subscribe to both magazines when I lived in the UK, but stopped after international postage costs started to get stupid

Thank you

Thank you for publishing this.

Stories like these are the reason why we need UK IT media and why it's so sad that El Reg is now essentially American.

European datacenters worried they can't get cheap, reliable juice

Re: Smells like bullshit

> An interesting point to note is that US businesses are much more likely to install their own generation capabilities to mitigate the low network reliability

My American colleagues all seem to have generators at home to protect against power cuts. I've never met anyone in Europe who's done this.

Re: Standalone vs Integrated

I was on a tour of a Swiss university's new datacentre. One of the other visitors asked why they were doing with the heat, the host geek said that they wanted to do that, but the architects asked if they could say for sure that the systems in there would be similar in 20-30 years or so and of course the answer was no and the city is a bit less cold in winter...

Capita IT breach gets worse as Black Basta claims it's now selling off stolen data

Re: "There is no suggestion of wrongdoing by Capita"

It'd be very interesting to see if there were any techies in Capita who spotted the problem and were then either ignored and/or not allowed to fix it. If that is the case then I'd say it would definitely be wrongdoing.

Intel axes Blockscale mining ASICs it brought out just in time for crypto winter

Intel axes Blockscale mining ASICs

Intel makes running shoes? When did that happen?

Could they sell the assets and put the money into Silicon Valley Bank?

FerretDB 1.0 offers fresh approach to open source document databases

But is it webscale?

Sorry, but someone had to post it...

BOFH: We send a user to visit Kelvin – Keeper of the Batteries

Re: we had

spend it at the overpriced outlets on offer

Ours is like that too. Anyone with any sense "buys" vouchers from there and then spends them in "normal" shops

OVH punts hybrid water and immersion cooling for high performance systems

For this reason, OVH looked at capturing the heat at its source, putting a water block on top of the CPU (and later GPU), through which water circulates to absorb the heat, then it is extracted outside of the rack and ultimately outside of the building.

Especially for the AMD FirePro cards I guess...

America ain't exactly outlawing gas cars but it's steering hard into EVs

Re: Distances

600 mile journey

Petrol car - driving time + 5 minutes refill time

Isn't taking only a five minute break on a ~ten hour journey rather dangerous?

If you make a more realistic comparison with your rapid recharge time, then twelve hours isn't much more than ten plus breaks...

Tupperware looking less airtight than you'd think

Re: wait till they rot

Yeah, isn't the BOFH Way™ carpet and quicklime?

40% of IT security pros say they've been told not to report a data leak

Re: Now I know why fast food is no longer fast

So you're saying they run on a wing and a prayer?

Take a 14-mile trip on an autonomous Scottish bus starting next month

Re: Hope all algorithms are covered

I had something similar, for some reason the seats for elderly and disabled people aren't nearest the bus doors. I was attempting to move on the bus and the driver moved it suddenly meaning I ended up on a woman's lap who luckily was unharmed

Or they do like the rest of the world seem to manage and have the passengers either buy a ticket from a machine at the bus stop or just use an app...

Turns out people don't like it when they suspect a machine's talking to them

Re: Bing Knows

> Sent message. Does microsoft understand english?

The default on much of their software is "US English" so I guess not...

Pager hack faxed things up properly, again, and again, and again

Whatever happened to Wang?

To take your question rather more literally than perhaps you meant, DDG just found a website with this beautiful phrase:

OK, gang — here it is, without apologies: A place to give and get information on the unkillable Wang® VS™, a line of computers that has persisted for over 32 years in this confused world of unix and client/server experiments.

Child hit by car among videos 'captured by Tesla vehicles, shared among staff'

Re: We need stronger laws

The parents trauma from knowing that a video of their child getting hit was shared is the stuff of lawsuits that can override any EULA, certainly if a jury is involved.

The EULA was OKed by the owner of the Tesla, not the child's family.

Royal Mail wins worst April Fools' joke 2023

Either way, perhaps they shouldn't be in that post any longer...

I bet the staff are so pissed off that s/he needs chain mail armour

I wasn't sure if it was a mail or femail manager...

Cisco Moscow trashed offices as it quit Putin's putrid pariah state

Re: Letting off steam.

I'm pretty sure everyone in the network business has wanted to put a hammer through a bit of Cisco kit in their time.

A hammer and sickle in Putin's case...