Re: Not being a noisy neighbour
It's a noisy party.They're having a whale of a time.
Yes, we Orca join.
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Big data at sea: How the Royal Navy charts the world's oceans
What the #!/%* is that rogue Raspberry Pi doing plugged into my company's server room, sysadmin despairs
Wednesday 21st November 2018 08:42 GMT 
Re: Infosec staff quality
>I have some tragic familiarity with a major British airline whose infosec team seems to have no clue about risk, prioritisation, mitigation etc
Just wondering if it is the same lot who had some "improvements" made to the javascript on their page recently meaning some customers' credit cards got "borrowed"...
Microsoft sysadmin hired for fake NetWare skills keeps job despite twitchy trigger finger
Linux kernel Spectre V2 defense fingered for massively slowing down unlucky apps on Intel Hyper-Thread CPUs
Tuesday 20th November 2018 09:39 GMT
Re: Hyper-threading itself may be bad for performance.
Ever since hyper-threading was introduced it's been pointed out that it may be bad for performance for many (most?) workloads because the two hardware threads would be fighting each other for the (single) cache.
This is standard practice in HPC land; in addition to the cache, the tight loops that typically get run in this scenario mean that there is competition for the same registers.
iPhone XS: Just another £300 for a better cam- Wait, come back!
Microsoft Surface kicks dust in face of Apple iPad Pro in Q3
Saturday 17th November 2018 09:58 GMT
Re: Like a Ferrari than only runs on 20 Octane gas
>Windows 10 has been an absolute disaster, recently in update/upgrade fiasco , myriad problems with Edge breakage and many other severe issues over the past year, even past two to three years.
This is a shame, it looked like they were getting back on track after Win8
> Therefore no matter what great features the article writer may attribute to Microsoft Surface (hardware) as compared to Apple iPad, the Microsoft brand remains unworthy of praise as superior to any competition.
Apple upgrades aren't perfect either, a quick look around the Internet in the days after an upgrade make that very clear. I had to do a restore on my work iPhone when going to 12.0 (why I upgrade using my MBP and not just "over the air").
Bright spark dev irons out light interference
Friday 16th November 2018 08:14 GMT
For a while after I graduated I had an old (even at the time) 486 DX2. The SIMM slots on the motherboard were always fragile and at some point I'd broken one. As programmes got more and more RAM hungry eventually I had to populate the other slots, but the SIMM wouldn't remain upright, one elastic band later I had a stable system. The elastic band remained in place until I bought a new PC and gave the old one away.
Japanese cyber security minister 'doesn't know what a USB stick is'
SAP can claim to change its culture, but can it convince customers?
Wednesday 14th November 2018 10:22 GMT 
Indirect, or "digital", access: charges based on the documents created when software is accessed by a third party, IoT, bots or other automated systems, or humans using the Digital Core through non-SAP software.
I can't get my head around having to pay to access the data that your organisation has created; it's your company's data not SAP's....
Just a little heads up: Google is still trying to convince everyone that web apps don't suck
OK Google, why was your web traffic hijacked and routed through China, Russia today?
Junior dev decides to clear space for brewing boss, doesn't know what 'LDF' is, sooo...
Brit boffins build 'quantum compass'... say goodbye to those old GPS gizmos, possibly
UK rail lines blocked by unexpected Windows dialog box
British fixed broadband is cheap … and, er, fairly nasty – global survey
Wednesday 7th November 2018 10:46 GMT
Re: Downloads
Although not a 5GB file; my photography habit can quite require an order of magnitude more data to be backed up. Sports and nature photography mean lots of raw files; although I cull the vast majority I'm paranoid enough to back all the files up initially.
As I have a good connection, I also host torrents for Linux distros.
'Blockchain SAVED my Quango'
Cisco swings the axe on permanent staff – hundreds laid off worldwide this week
Stairway to edam: Swiss bloke blasts roquefort his cheese, thinks Led Zep might make it tastier
Chuck this on expenses: £2k iPad paints Apple as the premium fondleslab specialist – as planned
Thursday 1st November 2018 09:51 GMT
Re: Crippled I/O? Won't support external hard drives?
Just what consumers need on a 2000 quid portable device with 1TB of storage for convenience of adding lots of media files to consume!
The only use case I can think of is a photographer who uses loads RAW files into Adobe Lightroom on the iPad where they then load into the "Creative Cloud".
Annoyingly Lightroom doesn't sync with "Photos" so you have to do a cull manually.
Apple's launch confirms one thing: It's determined to kill off the laptop for iPads
Unsure why you can't log into Office 365? So is Microsoft
Apple breathes new life into MacBook Air with overhauled 2018 model
Tuesday 30th October 2018 18:12 GMT
Re: What's 2.7 lbs in real money?
>so what's 2.7 lbs in real money…
> (or even fractions of PHBs wrapped in carpet)
I like this -->
AI can predict the structure of chemical compounds thousands of times faster than quantum chemistry
Tuesday 30th October 2018 10:04 GMT
Re: "AI" = Fake News daily
generally useless research does not merit a press release.
If this works then this is huge for the field. When you make and develop drugs you need to ensure that the "Polymorph" that patients get is the same as the one that was in Clinical Trials. There have been cases where this has not been the case; there was even a case where an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritonavir>HIV drug had to be temporarily withdrawn</a> because the active ingredient's molecules were changing structure on the pharmacies' shelves. Moreover, it could also make drugs that scientists know works into a form that a patient can actually take.
If drug companies and regulators can carry out this kind of simulation quicker then this could save lives as well as save lots of money. The increase in throughput that this is claimed to offer would mean that many more drug candidates can be virtually screened for this kind of activity.
Britain's rail ticket-booking systems go TITSUP*
Techie was bigged up by boss… only to cause mass Microsoft Exchange outage
The end (of the flash boom) is nigh! But not before SK Hynix tallies up its record revenues
Monday 29th October 2018 13:33 GMT
Re: SK Hynix has over half of their semiconductor plants in S.Korea
>Seems they ALSO see the future NOT being '100% located in China'. Just worth pointing out.
Even assuming the Supermicro hacking story turns out to be utter bollocks; I imagine that it will have worried enough people who will start caring about where their servers and other computer gear come from.
Manchester man fined £1,440 after neighbours couldn't open windows for stench of dog toffee
Californian chap sets his folks' home on fire by successfully taking out spiders with blowtorch
Top AI conference NIPS won't change its name amid growing protest over 'bad taste' acronym
Microsoft to staff: We remain locked and loaded with US military – and will keep adding voice to AI ethics debate
Our brave El Reg vulture sat through four days of Oracle OpenWorld to write this cracking summary just for you
Bitbucket wobbles but it won't fall. Oh, snap...
Friday 26th October 2018 12:19 GMT
Also anyone who refers to their internet connection as "my internet" shouldn't be allowed to work in IT.
I once worked at a place where the head of IT was the boss' brother, his knowledge of computers was shall we say PHB-like. He once emailed the company saying that he'd "fixed the Internet" implying he'd sorted the while thing :)
Have you ever, ever felt like this? Have strange things happened? Is high-speed data going round the twist?
Thursday 25th October 2018 09:36 GMT
Re: A (potentially) astonishing step change in FO bandwidth.
So you as a customer would rather pay 10x what you do now so they can completely rebuild their networks every 18 months?
If the ISPs put in FTTP then a change in technology would probably just mean swapping the devices at each end of the fibre.
Uncool: Google won't be setting up shop in disused Berlin electrical substation
Thursday 25th October 2018 10:00 GMT
I'm not sure what to think here; on the one hand it avoids some people being priced out of where they live. On the other hand, according to the story in the Local, Google no longer have plans to put a centre in Berlin which means the money will go elsewhere on the planet and possibly the new businesses won't be formed.
AMD's shares get in a plane, take off and soar to 12,000 ft – then throw open the door, and fall into the cool rushing air
HP says: Like, comment and subscribe to our beastly workstations
DXC axes Americas boss amid latest deck chair musical
It only took Oz govt transformation bods 6 months and $700k to report that blockchain ain't worth the effort
Wednesday 24th October 2018 13:55 GMT 
An Australian government agency given AU$700,000 (just shy of US$500,000 or £380,000) to research applications of the blockchain has delivered its answer: don't bother. Anything you want to do with blockchain, you can already do better with existing technology.
On the face of it, it sounds expensive... However, that 700kAUD is money well spent if it means that their techies can swiftly eliminate blockchain from various proposals by pointing at the report instead of letting the PHBs get fooled and waste a load of money in the process.
Erm... what did you say again, dear reader?
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