Posts by Korev

Tetchy trainee turned the lights down low to teach turgid lecturer a lesson

> The instructor understood what had happened, and the atmosphere in the room was rather frosty for the remainder of the day.

Did they try to screen out who did it?

Digital Ocean won't let new customers create resources in four DCs, won't say why

With AWS it's the other way around :)

Fixing an upside-down USB plug: A case of supporting the insupportable

> When I was doing electronic systems in college - certainly with a few people that shouldn't have been allowed near anything electrical, we had one guy who produced entertainment.

So you're saying that he's a serial killer...

Re: Can't put my finger on it

Not to mention downgrading the English...

HDD Clicker gizmo makes flash sound like spinning rust

Re: Voyage (back to my childhood) home

A downvote from Team BBC

Soaring costs, inflation nurturing generation of 'quiet quitters' among under-30s

Re: Nothing new

> I wonder how many under-30 will get the reference.

Exactly what I was thinking.

A Blink-182 of their eye and Gen-Z will be thinking the same about today's music

Intel's 13th-gen CPUs are hot, hungry, loaded with cores

Re: i7... 253W TDP... nuts.

> It's the gamers' parents that are going to feel all the power demands that these new generation parts cause the most.

FTFY

You've heard of the cost-of-living crisis, now get ready for the cost-of-working crisis

Re: 4 Day Week

> - improved mental health from being able to spend more time with family/relaxing/admin

You’re underestimating the effects of loneliness

Re: The daily commute

> I bike one direction, take the train the other way, otherwise I'll have legs like Eddy Merx soon

And how is that a bad thing?

Emissions-slashing hybrid trains to hit tracks in Europe

Re: Wow thats new

“ runs on the 25Kv overhead, then switches to diesel when the wires run out south of Oxford (think the power gets diverted into the JET”

That must be one fast train…

Can reflections in eyeglasses actually leak info from Zoom calls? Here's a study into it

Re: Hmm, better stop using the 4k camera to stream...

“Excuse me, I didn’t catch that. Come again”

Arrest warrant issued for Do Kwon – the man blamed for 'crypto winter'

Re: I am looking forward to the crypto ice-age....

I think we need to run

terraform destroy -auto-approve

Software fees to make up 10% of John Deere's revenues by 2030

Re: Only tractors?

Brilliant!

Chemical plant taken offline by the best one of all: C₈H₁₀N₄O₂

Re: Ah, but what was the coffee?

Were the people no longer allowed in the room told to fucoffee?

Re: Better yet...

I haven't bean that (un)lucky

Re: Ah, but what was the coffee?

Did Martin go flat-white when it happened?

Hybrid work not working? Try building an 'intraverse' to fix it, says Gartner

Or providing Mindfullness and Yoga to "reduce stress" ignoring the original causes of the stress in the first place...

US warns cryptominers must cut power use to avoid busting US carbon goals

Re: Ban GPUs

At work we use GPUs for finding treatments for cancer, Parkinson's, Arthritis etc. If you banned them then we'd have to use a load more x86 cores instead which would consume more energy...

Re: Comparing wax apples with silk poppies

Other than Ponzi-scheme funding, what do cryptocurrencies deliver that others don't?

A "good" way for Ransomware payments to be made (good for the recipients anyway)

BOFH: It's Friday, it's time to RTFM

Re: IDK

Or Off The Bike and/or Over The Bars for cyclists

DuckDB, database wrangler used by Google, Facebook, and Airbnb, hits 0.5.0

I've been using it for a while now and rather like it. It generally performs better than SQLite and being able to query straight from Parquet is useful.

One major PITA is at least in the previous Python bindings indices are ignored if you use a parametrised query meaning you pretty much have a choice between performance and security[0]

I'm also not a fan of the breaking changes with each version <1 having breaking changes.

A pint to the team to celebrate their new release -->

[0] You can of course write your own function to sanitise your inputs, but you shouldn't have to.

Using the datacenter as a dining room destroyed the platters that matter

"But this is the cold aisle, not the shopping aisle"

Re: Smaller buddies

I thought everyone had moved off Ant onto Maven?

Regulators approve Citrix/Tibco merger

We're a life sciences customer so go through PerkkinElimer so who knows what will happen!

We've been TIBCO Spotfire customers for years and run it on Citrix, do we win some kind of award?

Microsoft warns of bugs after nation pushes back DST switchover

Re: Hard Coding Ahoy

> Android requires to reboot the phone when the time zone data are updated... isn't it just a data file for the Linux kernel has well?

You're making the assumption that the Android phone still gets updates...

Re: Hard Coding Ahoy

I hope they don't add Pacific/Christmas

Halfords slapped on wrist for breaching email marketing laws

Wikipedia says revenue was £1.1 billion in 2018, a £30k fine is a minor cost of doing business for them...

IBM adds ITaaS to System I, Power 10 server bundle

The machine will pack 64GB of memory, 2.8TB of NVMe storage, and both Ethernet and fiber[sic] channel connectivity, but just one core will be active.

One core? That's not a lot of Power...

Only half joking though :-)

Nadine Dorries promotes 'Brexit rewards' of proposed UK data protection law

Re: Small companies

I just noticed further down the page that someone has already posted this (see icon), doesn't stop it being tragic though...

Re: Small companies

The brewery flagged as a "Brexit export champion" has had its exports to the EU fall from £600k to £2, a mere 99.997% reduction.

Internet pranksters send hundreds of cabs to Moscow street, cause gridlock

Re: in other news

Well it worked, sadly I could only give you one*

* Excuse me, I seem to have gone a bit Flashheart

USB-C to hit 80Gbps under updated USB4 v. 2.0 spec

> Presumably it allows cheapskate laptop makers to continue to expose just one USB socket.

Like Apple?

How this Mars rover used its MOXIE to convert CO2 into precious oxygen

> Oxygen is needed for breathing

Thanks, I didn't know that...

Underwater datacenter will open for business this year

Hopefully one of the "well-known hyperscalers" is Digital Ocean

Here's how 5 mobile banking apps put 300,000 users' digital fingerprints at risk

Re: biometric HASHES

There's no way of converting them back, but you could easily use the purloined hashes to work out if a person is present in the dataset. You could also use the fingerprint equivalent of credential stuffing for a brute force attack...

Goodbye, humans: Call centers 'could save $80b' switching to AI

Success criterion

We'll know when AI is good enough for replacing call centres when they also use it for sales too

Japan to change laws that require use of floppy disks

Re: time to sell my floppy disk stock?

The 'Merkins used 8" floppy discs up until recently for their nuclear missies

> I'd sign in a second.

You mean in the BLINK of an eye?

Re: It's pervasive.

Isn't Steampunk dead?

AMD refreshes desktop CPUs with 5nm Ryzen 7000s that can reach 5.7GHz with 16 cores

Re: Not for the office.

Right up until they open a few tabs in Chrome...

You can never have too many backups. Also, you can never have too many backups

Re: Just remember...

Just run a cat on the files..

BOFH and the case of the disappearing teaspoons

Yeah, The Register is determined to kill what made it once great.

Yeah, it's always good to end the week with a bit of spooning...

Re: Missed a trick there.

That's what I'm going to call Ring doorbells from now on

Google says there's no Waze forward, carpool app axed

Re: Oh phew

For me, Google generally = "No thank you"; no way I'm using Waze, deleted the app ages ago and haven't looked back.

You meant "No thank you, no Waze I'm using that"?

Tesla owner gets key fob chip implanted in his hand

MRI?

Are the chips magnetic? If so that'd make getting an MRI entertaining to watch impossible

UK's largest water company investigates datacenters' use as drought hits

You'd have thought that Microsoft of all companies would have plenty of Windows to open to let some heat out

Intel's Gelsinger talks up 'systems foundry' era of trillion-transistor chips

Most people can't write vectorised code so Intel produces compilers which along with Math[sic] Kernel Library etc do exactly this.

Whether or not the Intel Compilers produce faster code than say GCC is always up for debate though.

Network congestion algorithms have design flaw, says MIT

Re: Congestion algorithm solution

To many people flushing their buffers?