Posts by Korev

Google: We had to shut down a datacenter to save it during London’s heatwave

Re: Heat island

But what happens if the friendly bombs finally fall?

Apple plays the supply-chain card to explain Mac, iPad revenue shrink

“Bank of America is providing iPhones to all of its financial advisers so they can instantly access client information and provide timely wealth management advice from anywhere.

Although Wealth Management is a problem I‘d love to have, I can see that you‘d like the expensive person to put more thought into something that may cost you zillions than just a half arsed response on their phone…

It's on: Twitter vs Elon Musk trial to start October 17

Re: I don’t have a dog in this fight

Yeah, it'll be a tweet to watch...

BOFH: Selling the boss on a crypto startup

I was going to upvote and then saw you enjoyed the peanut butter one...

We'll find out how non-fungible they are...

"You're not proposing to murder someone just to stop spell-check defaulting to US English are you?!?!" the Boss splutters.

Seems a bit lenient...

Psst … Want to buy a used IBM Selectric? No questions asked

Re: Sarah? Is the Moderatrix back again?

Or fear...

Re: Sarah? Is the Moderatrix back again?

That article just reminded me how good The Register used to be

Didn't Sarah try to paper over where the typewriters came from?

Re: Hot stuff

> Touched a hot laptop once, never again.

Was the fan broken?

Surprise! The metaverse is going to suck for privacy

Re: Cognitive Acuity ?

They could very easily work out how you respond to a product (pupil dilation, heart changes) and it's easy to see how they could monetise that

Why Intel killed its Optane memory business

Thank you Mr Mann for a nice in-depth and well-researched article.

As it's Friday -->

Nearly all protein structures known to science predicted by AlphaFold AI

Re: DeepMind (aka Google) Hard At Work!

I'm 99.9999% certain that the records from the Royal Free Trust would not have been useful to this project. There's a huge difference between "patient X visited and we diagnosed Y" records from the RFT and the protein sequences and structures that you'd use to make models like these.

I'm not defending the slurping BTW just pointing out the difference.

Re: AI

But this is what AI does superbly. While big pharma may gripe that DeepMind and AlphaFold AI didn't spit out a list of drugs that they could exploit, the value to researchers seems immense, on the order of the full sequencing of the human genome.

If these public models "spat out molecules" in public then we* couldn't patent them and therefore sell them! This in turn means that they wouldn't get developed as why would any company spend millions on trials and getting approvals for drugs that they couldn't sell.

* I work for a big pharma

UK immigration systems delayed by extra Ukraine visa work

Re: began in 2013 and was expected to be completed in 2017

I still find it very funny that Kent was one of the highest regions voting* for "taking back control of our borders" and now they've got it they're finding it completely sucks for them.

* Apologies to the 41% of Kent voters who saw this coming....

Re: began in 2013 and was expected to be completed in 2017

Ukraine and Corona can cover up all kinds of Brexit related delays. In the case the project was going badly already, but suddenly throwing Brexit with no immigration decisions made until the last minute can only have made things worse.

This credit card-sized PC board can use an Intel Core i7

Re: Conversion

We can come to a compromise; we'll El Reg's Vultures go to the pub as long as they don't stop working. The articles will probably be hilarious :-)

British intelligence recycles old argument for thwarting strong encryption: Think of the children!

Re: Who are they trying to con ?

I mean, stealing national secrets with a usb drive smuggled out in a short (coffee cup, lip balm, pack of smokes) who would ever imagine that that could happen to secure government, tempested and air gapped devices ?!?!

Any competent organisation would have blocked USB discs by now...

Java SE 6 and 7 devs weigh their options as support ends

A kind of coffee

Security flaws in GPS trackers can be abused to cut off fuel to vehicles, CISA warns

I’m still wondering how they managed to guess the root password on all my servers…

Just because you failed doesn't mean you weren't right

Re: A miss is pretty obvious, no matter the apparatus

Well, the system certainly bombed…

IBM expands Power10 line-up with four new systems

Re: Power vs x86/64

I saw the sentence "plus the single-socket S1014, described as an entry-level option for SMBs and remote office branches." and wondered why a SMB would run Power and not x86.

In my head, Power is only for large organisations with monster databases, HPC etc.

Re: Power vs x86/64

Yeah, but would it run Crysis?

Meta asks line managers to identify poorly performing staff for firing

In some places it's easier than others. For example in the UK it's quite hard to fire someone for being crap, but you can eliminate their role and then make them redundant. Of course, if you employee someone else to do the same thing then the Organisation gets in lots of trouble.

NYC issues super upbeat PSA for surviving the nuclear apocalypse

Re: "NYC issues super upbeat PSA"

Sadly ElReg has downgraded to American English as a policy making it read the same as every other generic IT news site out there...

Re: Threads

Well, the improvements would have been massive and no British government has done half as much for the city

FYI: BMW puts heated seats, other features behind paywall

Re: I don't really see the problem

A friend got a car though Motability too, a combination of Brexit and labour shortages in the port (the two are related) meant that the ship sailed between the Continent and the UK a few times with the car, but couldn't unload...

Re: Money for nothing

Exactly why I don't own a car. I live with in cycling distance to work and a railway station. The rare times when I need a car I just rent one. This saves me thousands every yet.

Re: re. value of much older vehicles with limited electronics

I have a mate who lives in France and had a van which was on its last legs. He was about to scrap it, but for some reason he thought he'd pop it on an auction site to see if someone wanted it for parts. Apparently the bidding went mental as it was the last generation of Citroen(?) vans which didn't have all the electronics.

It turns out that the vans get exported to Africa, repaired and then get used pretty much for ever.

Twitter claims Elon Musk bailed from sale with 'invalid and wrongful' reasons

If you follow the right people then Twitter can be useful. I mostly follow scientists and HPC folks and learn a lot.

Oracle 12.1 users warned as mainstream support ends in July

Re: Is this to force EBS customers to migrate to the cloud?

Or many could reconsider their RDMS vendor and move to something else?

Watch a RAID rebuild or go to a Christmas party? Tough choice

It sounds like the Police RAID didn't go to plan

Eventually it transpired that a disk in one of the servers had failed the day previously.

So the disc copped it?

Is a lack of standards holding immersion cooling back?

Re: Heat death of (Intel's) universe

I got a tour of a new university datacentre not long ago and asked about recycling the heat. Apparently the techies wanted to do this; but the architects asked if they could guarantee that the DC would still be in use and similar in a couple of decades time. Sadly the heat now just dumped outside in the city...

Getting that syncing feeling after an Exchange restore

"Except the sync settings in the Palm software said 'take the most recent'."

"What's newer than Friday's full mailbox? Today's empty one"

Looks like a poor Outlook for John...

The Raspberry Pi Pico goes wireless with the $6 W

Pounds?

This is a product from a British company on a British website, how much do they cost in real money?

Altair pays off $79m owed to SAS in software license spat, will sell rival product

SAS has good reason to be concerned. Companies have invested huge sums in its platform over the years, and we can well imagine the consternation caused by the thought of those same customers being able to leverage decades of experience in its language in work with trendier open-source languages. All without filling SAS's coffers.

Isn't R the bigger threat to SAS?

Carnival Cruises torpedoed by US states, agrees to pay $6m after wave of cyberattacks

Was it a phishing boat to blame?

You need to RTFM, but feel free to use your brain too

Re: Write Idiot Guides if you want to hire idiots

Wasn't there huge resistance from surgeons to introduce checklists? The doctors regarded it as an affront because "who on earth would forget to take a swab out of a patient?", but since they were introduced medical errors have fallen

Re: Some even start with "remove equipment from box"

I also remember how much people struggled to coordinate the Shift - Break key combination to load a programme from a floppy disc on the BBCs

Broadcom sketches out VMware ambitions that stretch from mainframe to cloud

Re: Reputation...

What about MS Defender?

BOFH: HR's gold mine gambit – they get the gold and we get the shaft

Re: Brilliant...

Well, he was hoping to take a step forward in his career....

Amazon fears it could run out of US warehouse workers by 2024

> It frustrates me because working from home is lower cost for most workers anyway.

Including the room you work in? A dedicated space isn't free.

Amazon shows off robot warehouse workers that won't complain, quit, unionize...

Re: Delicate balancing act

Then they'll loo roll over...

Halfords suffers a puncture in the customer details department

Re: A disclosure like this in the US would have landed a prosecution under CFAA

Organisations in the UK are obliged to report themselves to the ICO within 72 hours; if this wasn't done (as the article suggests) then Halfords could well end up getting slapped too.

Re: A spokesperson told us: "Halfords takes the security of our customer data very seriously."

Not short sighted at all, that manager will have moved onto their next job before the yet-to-be found vulnerability becomes an issue...

Looks like they'll have to write some postcode to address these problems...

In January, Hatton responsibly contacted Halfords to warn the company of the vulnerability. Sadly, his efforts were rewarded mostly by a stony silence until The Register got in touch.

A spokesperson told us: "Halfords takes the security of our customer data very seriously.

I'm not sure those two statements agree!

PCIe 7.0 pegged to arrive in 2025 with speeds of 512 GBps

Re: And, as with anything, faster means hotter

Watt?