Posts by Korev

O2 brings forth a Friday fail for some unlucky UK customers

Re: Emergency

U OK hun?

Not quite the Bake Off they were expecting: Canadian seniors served weed-infused brownies

Isn't that banned under the GDPR?

So spacecakes for OAPs, is this a form of joint replacement?

Falling NAND prices to drive NVMe SSD uptake, say industry watchers

Re: SATA SSDs

Very good point. In addition, it's much easier to do mirrors for data protection with SATA than NVMe at the moment.

Waiting

Am I only only one to expect a fire in a fab soon?

Altered carbon: Boffins automate DNA storage with decent density – but lousy latency

Re: I thought I was reasonably smart

DNA synthesis machines have been available for years

Let's spin Facebook's Wheel of Misfortune! Clack-clack-clack... clack... You've won '100s of millions of passwords stored in plaintext'

Re: Klarius also storing passwords in plaintext

Mailman does that too; to make things worse every month it emails you a copy of your password...

DRAM, bam, thank you Sam: Like a Flashbolt from the blue, Samsung flaunts its fastest RAM

Cheers Scott

Virtual pint for you -->

Good point.

Can someone with more clue than me explain why the RAM & CPU speeds originally diverged in the 90s?

Carolina coward fesses up: I was a tech support scambag, and I made millions out of defrauding the elderly

Re: Low, lower, lowest

I was made to do it at work once...

Re: Low, lower, lowest

Surely it's more a matter of personality: the gullible vs the cynical. Reg-dwelling INTJs tending towards the latter.

A true cynic wouldn't rely on Myers-Briggs...

Brit Parliament online orifice overwhelmed by Brexit bashers

I eventually got one after a couple of hours which then worked

McAfee – the completely sane guy, not the biz – told to fork out $25m over 'torture, murder' of his Belize neighbor

Re: What's in a Name

Or what about "Bath salts"

Re: Something about Antivirus software

He was a on the board of ZoneAlarm a few years ago. Wikipedia suggests he's had more recent ventures too.

Dead LAN's hand: IT staff 'locked out' of data center's core switch after the only bloke who could log into it dies

I've learned something. Thanks

Isn't this a level 8 issue? Although "Nick" may have now made it a level 0...

I guess rancid is a typo... I think I'll use it from now on as it sounds much better than radius :)

CLOUDERA gets all SHOUTY about rebrand: SMASHES capslock, but easy on the elephants

Sarcasm

A suitable scathing article, this is how marketing should be covered.

A pint for Ms Hill -->

Carphone Warehouse thwacked by UK Advertising watchdog for a Cyber Monday wobble

Re: Just another ASA farce

A few years ago someone wrote to PC Pro's consumer advice column about problems they were having with a ... PC Pro subscription. To the magazine's credit they a) fixed it and b) published it.

Google takes a page from Microsoft of old and revives browser ballot on Android

Apple too?

By default IOS users "go on Safari", shouldn't Apple be made to do the same thing?

Apple's revamped iPad beams a workhorse in from Planet Ludicrous

Pencil

Confusingly, Apple has added Pencil support to both new models, but only 2017's Pencil, the one that awkwardly charges by being inserted into the iPad's Lightning orifice.

I have one for my iPad Pro, when charging it I'm paranoid that if the iPad falls onto it then it'll trash the innards of the iPad and/or snap the end of the "pencil" off.

Ransomware drops the Lillehammer on Norsk Hydro: Aluminium giant forced into manual mode after systems scrambled

Origin

I almost hope it originated from North Korea, they we could have "Norks get Norsk"

Croydon school rolling in toilet roll after Brexit gift deemed unfit for the Queen's Anus Horribilis

Or the Daily Chainmail

Re: Unless you run out of swans..

Said the actress to the bishop

Re: Say what you like about the Germans

They also "look after" the Greeks...

Pint for bringing up Brass Eye.

"They don't need punishment, they need gunishment"!

PuTTY in your hands: SSH client gets patched after RSA key exchange memory vuln spotted

Why can't it do both?

From MySpace to MyFreeDiskSpace: 12 years of music – 50m songs – blackholed amid mystery server move

Re: BOFH at work?

Pretty much like the first ever BOFH, only Simon finished with "If you want more space then move to Texas".... and the luser asked for 4MB...

For some reason the BOFH archive isn't working properly...

Hey, US taxpayers. Filed your taxes? Good, good. $500m of it is going on an Intel-Cray exascale boffinry supercomputer

Re: Yeah, but ...

You've brought up an excellent point, will they run Linpack with or without the Spectre/Meltdown/whatever patches?

What made a super high-tech home in Victorian England? Hydroelectric witchery, for starters

Re: Archimedes

Why did they name it after an old British computer?

Re: It's a marvelous place

I loved the leg of salmon I had there...

Re: Interesting

A very cunning plan...

Near enough Baldrick -->

College student with 'visions of writing super-cool scripts' almost wipes out faculty's entire system

Re: I too have had that

And use set -u

Brit prisoners to be kept on the straight and narrow with JavaScript and CSS

Re: of the 70 offenders who had taken part in the programme, none had gone on to reoffend

I imagine that a suitable candidate for this course would be considerably brighter than the average prisoner too.

Who "put" them there in the first place -->

Re: JS and CSS

Depends how they react to it

Hackers cop a FILA thousands of UK card deets after slinking onto clothing brand's servers

Re: FILA?

I think you should tracksuit them down...

Re: JavaScript intercepts credit card data?

Out of interest, what would you suggest as a replacement?

Never thought we'd ever utter these words, but... can anyone recommend a spin doctor for NASA?

Two Princes

I've got this going through my head now...

Boeing... Boeing... Gone: Canada, America finally ground 737 Max jets as they await anti-death-crash software patches

Re: More than 300 dead is largely worth an abundance of caution

The A380 had problems when it was first introduced. Frozen sensors led to some Air France pilots to fly an Airbus into the ocean...

Airbus doesn't necessarily mean safer.

Re: More than 300 dead is largely worth an abundance of caution

Will they "solve" the problem or actually fix it though?

What today links Gmail, Google Drive, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram – apart from being run by monopolistic personal data harvesters?

Re: But is IS an Emeeeeeeeergency

Seriously?

My reaction -->

Re: On the upside

No, Slack is up

Holy sh*tsnacks! Danger zone! Edinburgh Uni's Archer 2 super 'puter will cost a cool £79m

Re: It might just run Crysis

Brexit is a huge gamble, maybe they should use a Monte Carlo method to look into it...

F5 Networks buys into open source, hands over $670m for Nginx! Double Nginx! Infinity Nginx!

Re: Oh Joy...

It's been a while but I had no problems Acopia-ing with F5 support

Re: Help!

How does one .htaccess such a system?

Larry

I don't think Oracle sell webservers any more

Big and Blue: IBM boss's wage package shrinks in 2018 on her own recommendation

Equality

Any idea what the Gini coefficient is for IBM?

Carphone Warehouse fined £29m for mis-selling mobile insurance to punters who didn't need it

That's why I use a domain:

$SHOP Droid: Can I have your email address

Korev: $SHOP@$DOMAIN.com

$SHOP Droid: You have a dedicated email address just for us

Korev: No, but it means I can see if you sell my address

$SHOP Droid: <Looks either confused or sheepish>

Swiss electronic voting system like... wait for it, wait for it... Swiss cheese: Hole found amid public source code audit

Re: Better than in the UK...

I almost did it accidentally as a student - I shared a house with a man and a woman and I just grabbed the slip and then was informed that "You don't look much like a Miss", had I taken the bloke's form instead then I'd have fraudulently voted.

Windows XP point-of-sale machine gets nasty sniffle. Luckily there's a pharmacy nearby

Re: Best OS Ever

I used to turn on the Win2k[0] on XP and got the best of both worlds :)

[0] I can't recall the proper name for this...