Posts by Korev

No payrise for Oracle CEO Safra Catz, but at least there's $76.4m from trading company shares to fall back on

She could not be expected to live within her $950,000 salary alone.

Bless her, that's not many cores worth of Oracle database...

Bad news for automakers: That fire at the Renesas chip plant was worse than expected

Re: Timing is everything.

For bits of our industry yes, memory / disc / chip prices mysteriously seem to climb afterwards quickly before meandering back down at a more "leisurely" rate...

SUSE says tschüss to Ceph-based enterprise storage product – it's Rancher's Longhorn from here on out

Longevity

If SUSE will happily drop Ceph for its own internal reasons; this makes me wonder if they won't discontinue Longhorn if/when they see fit?

Storage migrations are painful, most people try hard to avoid them...

Longhorn

Wasn't Longhorn the development name for what eventually was Windows Vista? It doesn't trigger many positive notes in my mind...

SAP exec reminds the world that Microsoft is a customer

Nothing new

From 1999: HoTMaiL uses FreeBSD + Apache rather than WinNT...

The nearest thing we have to a grey beard icon -->

OVH writes off another data centre – SBG1 – and reveals new smoking battery incident

Re: OVH experience

> the server load was migrated to another provider 10 minutes after the server went down

> Considering the severity of the damage we got lucky.

This isn't luck, this is competence - you'd designed your infrastructure and the implemented it in a way you only had a few minutes downtime.

One for the sysadmins -->

What could be worse than killing a golden goose? Killing someone else's golden goose

Re: One place I workded...

In this case EA games might actually be appropriate...

Staff and students at Victoria University of Wellington learn the most important lesson of all: Keep your files backed up

Re: Bad move for an IT department

Maybe the University's sysadmins have been on a training course

What happens when your massive text-generating neural net starts spitting out people's phone numbers? If you're OpenAI, you create a filter

Re: What are the chances...

More to the point, what's the chance of 0118 999 88199 9119 725...3 turning up?

Australian police suggests app to record consent to sexual activity

Re: Facepalm

And as he's a Cryptobro you can assume that the answers always going to be no anyway...

Google fails to neutralize lawsuit that complains Chrome's incognito mode isn't very private at all

>Even your ISP can see your data like before just fine

Your ISP will always see where you're browsing; in the age of https (almost) everywhere they'd have no way of knowing which browser you're using without decrypting the traffic though

Re: when the win finally comes.....

You mean like what's in their "Legitimate Interest"?

Low-risk AND rapid? Brit vaccine centre seeks ERP to meet accelerated schedule, and needs it yesterday

It probably needs to be GxP compliant which is complicated and time-consuming

Gummy bears as a unit of measure? The Reg Standards Soviet will not stand for this sort of silliness

Re: Disappointing

I know, the bear cheek of it!

>Thank goodness nobody has tried to eat Wales.

Meghan? Is that you?

How Facebook uses public videos to train, deploy machine-learning models and harvest those eyeballs

Re: "videos of tractors"

Ewww, I think I'm going to bale out of this thread now...

Don't be a fool, cover your tool: How IBM's mighty XT keyboard was felled by toxic atmosphere of the '80s

Re: Sticky fans

>I've got a million of these, how log have you got?

I wooden know...

LinkedIn China pauses new member signups ‘to ensure compliance with local law’

Or maybe China is just over the endless recycling of homilies from TEDx talks, self-help memes, and infographics that permeate LinkedIn in the west.

Love it! A pint for the author as it's almost lunchtime -->

Microsoft settles £200,000+ claims against tech support scammers who ran global ripoff from cottage in Surrey

I'm pleased that the scammers have been walloped, but what about the true victims of their fraud, the "customers"? Will they get any form of compensation too?

Remember that day in 2020 when you were asked to get the business working from home – by tomorrow?

Those "difficult" ones could be the ones trying to look after kids or people struggling with their mental health...

Of course distinguishing the shirkers from those who were having a terrible time is hard

Re: Hats off

Or you could have telneted[0] onto the WS in the office and then a dialup modem would have been fine (assuming that you weren't modelling proteins or something though)

[0] I kind of miss how insecure we used to be able to be

Just when you thought it was safe to enjoy a beer: Beware the downloaded patch applied in haste

If it's a decent prod then the P45 won't be necessary. You could even come to a deal with the local undertaker...

Capgemini awarded towering £600m deal to run London cops' IT infrastructure

Pass the parcel

If you read the article, it just looks like the Met go from one outsourcing model and group of companies to another every few years. How does anyone get any work done when everything is in a state of continuous flux?

Hopefully these will still work despite the organisational turmoil -->

Re: Pig in a poke

It all leads to a lot of finger pointing and not much progress.

Yep, exactly what I was thinking when I was reading it.

It'll all just end in a lot of Blame Storming...

McAfee to offload enterprise business for $4bn, focus on consumer security

Well, his customer support continues continues (NSFW) to be excellent

GPS jamming around Cyprus gives our air traffic controllers a headache, says Eurocontrol

Re: Should not rely on GPS so damn much!

> We got along fine before GPS. People have gotten lazy.

Very true, we also got by for Millenia with no computers, so please shut your laptop down and get out your pencil and slate

Re: The blocker needs a present

If the middle hits then it’ll be toast...

Royal Navy and Air Force get low-code bridge in UK military recruitment saga

If they're "losing" so many candidates, why don't they see if they can use Dido Harding's Track and Trace system?

Telecoms shack in the middle of Scotland put up for auction at £7,500

Just two hours on a Pendelino from London's Euston station could bring you to a wonderland of cheap(er) beer, affable people unafraid to strike up conversation with strangers, and the undeniable benefit of cheap housing.

My British geography gets a bit hazy beyond the Tamar, but I'm pretty sure that it takes longer than two hours to get to Scotland on a train...

Perl.com theft blamed on social engineering attack: Registrar 'convinced' to alter DNS records by miscreants

Re: It could have been worse

You mean like PERL?

Netflix reveals massive migration to new mix of microservices, asynchronous workflows and serverless functions

At the scale of Netflix, I always wonder if it'd be cheaper to do it all on prem like Dropbox decided to do a few years ago. For this kind of bursty workload having a $CLOUD autoscale is nice, but for other workloads it's probably cheaper to run your own hardware. Also, most Clouds clobber you on data egress which is bag news for a media streaming platform.

I'd love to see their figures!

Rookie's code couldn't have been so terrible that it made a supermarket spontaneously combust... right?

What's your upvote/downvote ratio though?

~24

I just need to make a few pro-cycling comments and say how much I like Windows to lower it.

>regedit for short

I'm disappointed that they don't already use this

I dunno, it pushed me over a thousand downvotes...

One to help me celebrate after work -->

I'm not sure that is something we should be joking about really, so I'll downvote myself...

Sad to see that even back then burnout was common in IT...

Splunk junks 'hanging' processes, suggests you don't 'hit' a key: More peaceful words now preferred in docs

Re: No more middots

In German you often see them using both forms like "Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler" (=scientists); it seems very verbose even by German standards!

Re: Well you won't find me...

I'm hoping relations would Thor between you guys soon...

Google seeks to placate AI researchers complaining of Big Brother-like working conditions

Re: "watering down negative language in their academic papers"

And through whose browser and phone OS*?

* the majority of them at least

We need a 20MW 20,000-GPU-strong machine-learning supercomputer to build EU's planned digital twin of Earth

Heat?

The irony of building an energy-intensive system to tackle climate change was not lost on the researchers. They noted in their paper that the future super should be built at a location where its nodes can run on more renewable energy sources

It'd also be good if the ~20MW of heat could be used for heating or other purposes

Spotify to introduce lossless audio streaming: Better sound or inefficient gimmick?

Re: I think this is more important

My God!

Re: I think this is more important

This is one of the worst examples out there.

Linking to the above video in this thread is probably an act of war... -->

BOFH: 7 jars of Marmite, a laptop and a good time

Re: Where can I find a link

I want to half downvote for the Bovril comment and save the whole one in case someone comes in claiming the superiority of Vegemite...

But then you'd be toast

Tata Consultancy Services wins £4m deal to carry out Oracle 'reimplementation' for University of Manchester

freeing up staff time for value-added activities

I can imagine this statement upsetting some people who work hard carrying out these manual processes. Moreover, if they stopped doing them I suspect the University would come to a grinding halt...

Clop ransomware gang leaks online what looks like stolen Bombardier blueprints of GlobalEye radar snoop jet

>What on Earth is an Accellion and why would anyone use it or pay for it when there’s SFTP?

Most Commentards would be able to use SFTP with ease; however, I suspect many "normal" people would struggle with the command line. Most GUI wrappers seem pretty clunky TBH*

*feel free to suggest nice ones if I'm wrong

Microsoft spearheads a whole new genre with installation on the side of a Lyon tunnel

Was Windows Lyon down?

SD card slot, HDMI port could return to the MacBook Pro this year, says Apple analyst

Re: Magsafe

You could buy adaptors for the 1st generation Magsafe which meant you could reuse the power adaptor for a later MBP.

I bet you'd still need a driver for it

Re: I'll believe it when I see it

You can also wait until more models have Apple CPUs (and the beta testers early adopters have finished testing them)