Posts by Korev

Honey, hive had it with this drone: Couple lived for years with thousands of bees in bedroom wall

Re: bees in the wall

That has to bee scary...

Boeing admits 737 Max sims didn't accurately reproduce what flying without MCAS was like

Re: You know who ought to be on the checkout flights?

John Gummer can provide the burgers

Re: Can we have a specially big Boeing FAIL icon please?

Mine too. I stopped wanting to use them after they tried to introduce (illegal) charges for wheelchairs

There's an excellent article here on this.

Exclusive: Windows for Workgroups terror the Tartan Bandit confesses all to The Register

Re: Stock Control System

Sometimes our scientists buy software that has to be used with a dongle (and don't bother getting the licence server[0]); this leads to people running around shouting who's got the X dongle...

0) Licence servers are the work of the devil, I understand why companies want to use them, but they seem incredibly unreliable. -->

Re: I'm boring

Does that mean you'd have to use Pine as an email client?

Re: Changing Wallpaper can have career enhancing effects

At $EMPLOYER-1 I once left my computer unlocked, this meant IT popped the Sysinterals BSOD screensaver went on and I learnt not to do it again...

Re: TCP/IP?

Put a Winsock in it....

Oracle AI's Eurovision horror show: How bad can it be? Yep. Badder

Re: It will be a slam-dunk for anarchy

Good Lordi

True, electricity Hertz

Cray's found a super scooper, $1.3bn's gonna buy you. HPE's the one

Re: Why ?

Cray make their own interconnect, their hardware is also a way from normal x86 blades and pizza boxes too.

OK, Google, please do a half-hearted U-turn: Stay of execution for smart home APIs after Big G goes cuckoo in the Nest

It's one of their Pluses

Silence of the vans: Uber adds 'Plz STFU, driver' button to app for posh passengers using Black

Re: Sigh.. if that floats your goat...

If you're like them to shut up do you make a "give it a REST call"

If you're ever lost on the Moon, Ordnance Survey now has you covered for Apollo 11 anniversary

Well, if you will buy a Rover...

Do Xpect Custard Creams? DXC buys cosy New Jersey data centre, moves in with Credit Suisse

The speed of light

RIP Hyper-Threading? ChromeOS axes key Intel CPU feature over data-leak flaws – Microsoft, Apple suggest snub

Re: Not good in server land

In HPC Land we tune for hypterthreading by turning it off in the BIOS :)

Buffer the Intel flayer: Chipzilla, Microsoft, Linux world, etc emit fixes for yet more data-leaking processor flaws

It shouldn't be a problem, they can just use their 10nm process

Re: Ya gotta think...

I've seen Intel benchmarks that are much more honest, we are under NDA though...

California court sentences ex-Autonomy CFO Sushovan Hussain to five years in clink for fraud

So no Autonomy for Hussain for five years

Apple won't be appy: US Supremes give green light to massive lawsuit over App Store prices

Microsoft seems completely benign by comparison but their Windows 10 Store seems to be moving in that direction.

On Windows you at least have Steam and a few other similar stores. I suspect the anti-trust hammer would start being applied if they tried to prevent the rival stores from operating.

Re: Ultimate result ? A US-only app store ?

We have that today on IOS, you're tied to the AppStore in the country where your credit card is from.

It's 2019 and a WhatsApp call can hack a phone: Zero-day exploit infects mobes with spyware

Re: Changelog for the update

I had to do a manual refresh before it appeared in the updates.

Both my work and personal phones have updated WhatApp; when I checked the App/Play Store it said that WhatsApp had been updated but there was no mention about the vulnerability.

Re: Theres a big difference here

The stream of IOS & Android updates suggests that the core phone OS is enough to potentially expose you.

Talk about a ticket to ride... London rail passengers hear pr0n grunts over PA system

Re: TFL drivers

It'd be interesting to see if the lovely Samantha/rippling Sven* make some points about this

*select according to preference

Ex-Arm execs' upstart Agile Analog palmed $5m to sink into AI-driven chip design

It's a shame they can't spell analogue...

UK Home Office: If we want Ofcom to break the law, that should be perfectly legal

Re: Ofcom declined to comment, while the Home Office had not responded by the time of publication

Sir Humphrey, is that you?

Let's rack and roll: Sanmina's hulk can bench press 4,500lbs

Re: Ever too Big?

The old supercomputing team in Cambridge Uni had to line up their racks over the beams in the floor in their old datacentre. Baring in mind the room wasn't really suitable for a Top500 class supercomputer the team there did an amazing job of optimising their setup.

It woz ransomware wot did it: ConnectWise spills beans on cause for day-long outage

Re: What a shame

I'm more impressed by an organisation that admits it has screwed up and is taking active steps to fix things than somewhere that just denies there's a problem.

Essex named sexiest British accent followed closely by, um, Glaswegian

Re: Sponsored survey?

Harlow things have got...

Re: Sponsored survey?

Well, they clearly didn't use their Braintree whilst answering

Zavvi tells customers: You've won VIP tickets to Champions League final! And you've won tickets, and you've won tickets, and you, and...

Re: O'dear yet another one.

That was Virgin Megastore on awful...

Holy high street, Sainsbury's! Have you forgotten Bezos' bunch are the competition?

In total, the company migrated more than 7TB of data into the cloud.

Is that all?

It does keep the Riffraff out of Waitrose...

Eggheads confirm: Rampant Android bloatware a privacy and security hellscape

Barrier to updates

Not to mention that the cost/effort of updating the Bloat makes it harder to update the OS on the phones too.

I'm assuming that the manufacturers actually give a **** about this of course...

5G willikers, did AI do that? HPC botherer DDN buys Nexenta

Re: Giving IT the Full Monty ..... Who Dares Win Win Wins ... I Kid U Not

WOS is the name of DDN's object store magic ;)

Re: Giving IT the Full Monty ..... Who Dares Win Win Wins ... I Kid U Not

What WOS that?

Key to success: Tenants finally get physical keys after suing landlords for fitting Bluetooth smart-lock to front door

If residents can't use the elevators, they have to walk up several flights of stairs, which is a pain.

Assuming several = three then that is rather lazy! Obviously lifts are essential for people using wheelchairs etc, but the vast majority of people can walk up a flight of stairs or two.

I speak as someone who used to get shopping up three flights of stairs using crutches...

Re: Key? No thank you.

My place has a key which lets us all enter the main and rear entrance, cycle room etc but then lets us in to our individual flats. The only complication is if you lose a key and then you have to pay for the lot to be replaced.

Can I get a RHEL yeah? Version 8 arrives at last as IBM given go-ahead to wolf down Red Hat

Re: Red + Blue

Yes, that's the kernel of it

'Lightweight' UPS-style flywheels to power naval laser zappers

Re: All this talk about flywheels

I always thought flies had wings

Re: My questions are...

So Roger the Cabin Boy told me....

Apple iPhone sales down by double digits, Mac sales knifed by Intel CPU 'constraints'

Re: Nobody wants to acknowledge

Have a look at the CPU hierarchy at Tom’s hardware, you may find there would be no noticeable change to your PC’s speed with the new CPU. Even after six years, my 3570k is still in pretty much the top bin. The only reason I can see for an upgrade is NVMe and/or more PCI-E slots.

Russian-trained spy whale spooks Norwegian fishermen

Especially as the gear is clearly from Wales

Yes, you Orca

Brit events and info biz Incisive Media admits open server port may have left readers deets exposed

Joshua

If you like a bit of WarGames -->

Out-of-office email ping-pong fills server after server over festive break

Re: Sexing up the good old CV

I was interviewing someone in a situation like that a few years ago. He'd been unemployed for a while and was desperate for a job, the recruiter had added all sorts of things to his CV. The "additions" to his skills and experience had worked as I wouldn't have interviewed him otherwise. It was a bloody awful experience for him as I tried to tease out how he got that experience when it wasn't obvious from his CV, I could feel the awkwardness down the phone... Once we realised what had happened he calmed down a bit.

I was livid (see icon!) and wanted to see if I could get the recruiter blacklisted; but the candidate asked me not to take it further so I respected his wishes.

Re: Sexing up the good old CV

Depends on the job. One of my friends in the UK was very surprised to have beaten a disabled transwoman to a job in the charity sector as she "only" has mental health issues.

And in current affairs... Apple recalls three-prong AC adapters after some shocking behavior

That in itself is a shock...

Defense against the Darknet, or how to accessorize to defeat video surveillance

Re: security concerns

Well, Stop_forth always was a bit of a fighter