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Facebook building 'on-demand executable file format' that self-inflates using homebrew compression

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Re: I think you forgot to mention

Bravo both of you -->

Wipro wins $44.5m deal for data centres and managed services at UK's National Grid

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Joke

It said the company had begun its "Agile Transformation, establishing a core Agile capability and delivering products" and invested in data platforms "such as our data lake, that enables us to gather, manage and share our data more effectively."

All that and they forgot to mention Blockchain...

British naval food doesn't look half bad... so we're going to try it out for ourselves

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Re: Naval budgets mean the crew must eat three square meals a day for £3.61.

Does the £3.61 also apply to the Officers' food?

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Personally I'm disappointed they didn't have Severn Up on the menu...

Perl Foundation faces more departures after pausing Community Affairs Team

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Re: The CAT

I like do a cat on a file...

Branson sews cash parachute for Virgin Atlantic with $300m Virgin Galactic share sale

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Alien

I'm glad to see that he's not relying on State handouts.

He tried to though:

Branson sold Virgin Galactic shares back in May 2020 to keep the airline operating and in September 2020 the company received $1.6B loan from private-equity firm Davidson Kempner after the UK government refused to provide Virgin Atlantic with emergency support.

Scalpel! Superglue! This mouse won't fix its own ball

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Re: and me

> Took apart the mouse on the very expensive new family PC

I hope no one told a tail on you...

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Re: Ball crud

Or the muppets who (try to) use red mouse mats

UK's United Utilities water company to splash a possible £270m on analytics, control and monitoring platforms

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Re: Buzzword Diarrhoea

> Definitely sounds like something to be flushed away....

You mean pull the Blockchain?

BOFH: 'What's an NFT?' the Boss asks. In this case, 'not financially thoughtful'

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Re: I could see where this was going

> If you feel that's Justified.

And ancient too…

Alibaba to offer self-defense training in response to sexual assault allegation

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Re: Self-defense training against sexual harassment in a corporate environment? Really?

> So, in addition to dealing with the actual sexual assalt, let's throw in a physical counter-assault with all the repercussions etc.

This may get the victim of the harassment into trouble, the harasser’s broken nose would be obvious, but the victim being groped wouldn’t be.

Twitter uses HackerOne bounties to find biases in its image-cropping AI model

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Facepalm

Interestingly "Bounty" is sometimes used as a racist insult (ie black on the outside, white on the inside); perhaps not the best choice of terminology...

'$6 in every $10' spent on cloud infrastructure is with AWS, Microsoft, or Google

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Re: It’s horses for courses

Cloud is not a panacea, your applications need to be optimised to take advantage of their offerings.

Which is another way of saying vendor lock in :)

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Re: '$6 in every $10' spent on cloud infrastructure is with AWS, Microsoft, or Google

I was going to make exactly the same point.

What is more of a concern is that the world is relying on three companies and when (not if) stuff goes down it takes a huge chunk of the world with it.

Intel scoops out five flavours of Ice Lake Xeons for workstations

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Re: "faster then the previous model"

It just means that you chuck more data at the workstation or you can do what once took a workstation can now be done on a normal desktop PC. For example visualising drug molecules used to be done on staggeringly expensive SGI workstations by specialists and now our bench chemists can spin molecules to their hearts' content on a normal laptop.

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Re: 4TB of ram?

> One large environment I worked in recently still had an E880 with 192 cores and 4TB of RAM (upgradeable to 32TB I should add) as the main OLTP platform

But can it run Crysis?

Undebug my heart: Using Cisco's IOS to take down capitalism – accidentally

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So he issued undebug all.

All hell broke loose.

So what you're saying is that command was terminal...

What is your greatest weakness? The definitive list of the many kinds of interviewer you will meet in Hell

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Re: TLA's

I once in a meeting where IP was discussed thrice:

  • Internet protocol
  • Immunopreciptitation
  • Intellectual property

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Re: Dignity

> Try imagining any job in Slough.

Come lovely bombs...

Yes, from orbit -->

The Register just found 300-odd Itanium CPUs on eBay

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Re: Free Supercomputer!

And these days the GPU that is playing your cat videos has more power. I love living in the future...

With Alphabet's legendary commitment to products, we can't wait to see what its robotics biz Intrinsic achieves

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Re: "the AI can work out the best way to achieve its goal"

Intrinsic might be an interesting experiment in applied computing science, but I doubt companies will want their expensive equipment "finding out" how to do the one thing they were bought for.

I guess the vendor of the robots might be more interested though

Northern Train's ticketing system out to lunch as ransomware attack shuts down servers

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Re: witless overcomplication

Even some of the smaller lines here which are owned by small companies have integrated ticketing with the rest of the network (and other forms of public transport). Whenever I go back to the UK the lack of integration really irritates me.

In a complete non-surprise, Mozilla hammers final nail in FTP's coffin by removing it from Firefox

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> Be honest; did you actually use FTP in a web browser?

Yes, a lot of scientific datasets are available using FTP, and it was more convenient to look at the directories in a browser than firing up an FTP client. If downloading more than a couple of files then I'd usually find the path in a browser and then automate with LFTP though.

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Re: fond ftp memories

The funny thing is that Bittorrent is actually better as all the chunks are checksummed. Good luck trying to get the authorisation to actually do it though...

How to keep your enterprise up to date by deploying the very latest malware

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Childcatcher

> Maybe because some users keep shutting down their computer when they end their day

Maybe because they want to conserve power which saves the company money and is better for the planet

Restoring your privacy costs money, which makes it a marker of class

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Mushroom

Re: Why is this a "middle class thing" ?

We had them at Uni too:

Unwashed: I voted for change in 1997

Me trolling: Yeah, I voted LibDem

Unwashed: -->

BOFH: But soft! What light through yonder filing cabinet breaks?

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Pirate

> The BOFH is an expert . I'm sure he won't leave any detritus from his physical operations.

That's what quicklime is for...

United, Mesa airlines order 200 electric 19-seater planes for short-hop flights

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Re: Do electric aircraft have regenerative braking?

> It looks like we have another of those humourless perpetual motion deniers in our midst.

Nothing Newton there...

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Re: Why 19?

I've got that song going through my head now :)

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Re: 250 mile range/19 passengers

> 250 miles is basically my "might as well drive" range.

On the other hand, how long would London to Amsterdam take to drive?

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Re: I wonder

> Conventional aircraft only fuel up with enough for the trip plus some spare to save weight.

Well usually...

Boffins find an 'actionable clock' hiding in your blood, ticking away to your death

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Re: iAge

iSee

Revealed: Perfect timings for creation of exemplary full English breakfast

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Re: Inglish bacon...

Hello Your Majesty, may I borrow a couple of the Royal Navy's finest nukes?

America needs "warming up"...

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Re: abbreviated, with substitutes

One word for you....

Blutwurst

I just wish that getting hold of decent bacon in mainland Europe wasn't so hard...

Suck on this: El Reg forces dog hair, biscuit crumbs, and disconcertingly sticky stains down two mini vacuums

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Re: Why an app for the upright?

> user input on any app is universally poor.

Shiv you mean?

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Re: Robovac without an app

> Xiaomi on the other hand has been caught uploading 11.5 gigs of data in a month to the mothership.

Looks like Xiaomi are really vacuuming the data up...

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Re: Roidmi

Sounds like you'd need to use Mr Muscle detergents with it...

BOFH: Here in my car I feel safest of all. I can listen to you ... It keeps me stable for days

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Re: BOFH O'clock

Have your day's Onion Bhaji and associated drink to keep you going until the end of the day

Smuggler caught with 256 Intel Core processors wrapped around him in cling film

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One seller is peddling second-hand GeForce RTX 3060s, for example, for just 1,760 yuan or $270; that’s nearly 60 bucks off its retail price of $329

You mean they're cheap as chips?

IBM insiders say CEO Arvind Krishna downplayed impact of email troubles, asked for a week to sort things out

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> Is brand damage to IBM even possible anymore?

The Ginis already out of the bottle

Radioactive hybrid terror pigs break out of nuclear hellscape home and into people's hearts

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Re: Entertainment

They sound set the pigs Freeman

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> An Attack Of The Mutant Camels would be devastating.

Yeah those things are dangerous when they get the hump

The wheels come off Formula 1's notification service as fans plied with attacker's messages

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Re: Given the opportunity, what would you have said?

Foo-el perhaps?

Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline – unless it learns to migrate itself

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Re: not an IT company any more

Every so often I get to see some of the IBM Research team based at Zurich present; they seem very smart, on the ball and have interesting things to talk about. I always wonder what made them join (and then stay at) IBM though.

One good deed leads to a storm in an Exchange Server

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Re: Probably a bit silly but....

I'll POP3 by and sort it if you like...

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Re: Probably a bit silly but....

Yeah, that'd improve his Outlook...

New mystery AWS product 'Infinidash' goes viral — despite being entirely fictional

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Re: So lame

Any fule kno that you never run anything lower than version 3

IBM email fiasco complicates sales deals, is worse than biz is letting on – sources

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Re: The best email migration is…

>Keep the legacy system around for a period of time, read only, and migrate users to the new solution.

That's how my company got rid of Lotus Notes (and moved to O365)

Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima's exclusion zone

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Re: Three words:

Just wait until they boar some holes and wait underground for their prey...

You, robo-car maker, any serious accidents, I want to know about them, stat – US watchdog

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Re: automate reporting

They could have a "black box" like aeroplanes do

Maybe helicopters too? -->