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Posts by Korev
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Spectre/Meltdown fixes in HPC: Want the bad news or the bad news? It's slower, say boffins
Prof claims Lyft did a hit-and-run on his ride-sharing tech patent
BBC websites down tools and head outside into the sun for a while
Oracle Database 18: Now in downloadable Linux flavour
Thursday 26th July 2018 09:31 GMT 
Re: Long live Windows production servers
And in all reality, in the last 20+ years I've never met a situation where a combination of BSD and Linux can't get the job done in big multi-national enterprises. The only major problem has been convincing MoneyBags that FOSS really, really can be just as good (and is in many cases better) than PaidForUnix[tm] or Redmond or Cupertino.
Are there really many industries left where there is still a lot of Unix "big iron"*? I though that most places had moved over to Linux.
* I realise there are still a few usecases where x86 can't scale far enough; but over time they're growing small.
Wednesday 25th July 2018 16:35 GMT 
Thinks: "Oracle 18, how the hell I have missed so many versions"
Reads further one:
As we reported last year, Oracle changed its release numbering from version number increments to year-based increments. Hence Oracle Database 18 was previously known as Oracle Database 12.2.0.2.
Marketing people, why do you insist on doing crap like this? Maybe Bill Hicks had the right idea
HPE supercomputer is still crunching numbers in space after 340 days
400GbE party. Loud knock at the door. Music stops. In jumps Juniper
If you're serious about securing IoT gadgets, may as well start here
All that dust on Mars is coming from one weird giant alien structure
Mega medical tester pester: It smacked a big one, that malware scam, if indeed it was SamSam
Wednesday 25th July 2018 16:53 GMT
Re: "defenders don't have minutes to mitigate, they have seconds"
There's a directory on this computer that's sitting there waiting to be encrypted and then flag an alarm in case this kind of malware gets on. You can't imagine how tempted I am to rename the directory to see what happens...
2FA? We've heard of it: White hats weirded out by lack of account security in enterprise
Wednesday 25th July 2018 16:48 GMT 
iPhone
I had some Fun and Games™ recently after my iphone decided to uninstall the RSA app that does 2FA for our "secret" server. Of course when I next needed to get into God Mode on the server during a support call I was unable to which made me look rather stupid in front of a vendor.
Of course I then reinstalled the app and then had to get the Hell Desk to reinitialise the token which of course took a couple of goes as for some reason it never works first time...
Once I had that sorted the secret server had to have its browser plugin reinitialised yet again and then I was finally able to do the software install needed. All in all it took several hours of faffing before I did the install that took less than five minutes.
Rant over, time to go home and sob a bit...
You can take off the shades, squinting Outlook.com users. It has gone dark. Very dark
ReactOS 0.4.9 release metes out stability and self-hosting, still looks like a '90s fever dream
How much do you think Cisco's paying erstwhile Brit PM David Cameron?
Monday 23rd July 2018 11:35 GMT
Re: BFH
>> "No, calling it because he was terrified of UKIP's growing support as the only party which was representing the majority of the UK population's views on the EU."
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> At it's peak it had 2 MPs. Nigel Fromage couldn't even hold on to his own seat.
What was hitting the Conservatives more was that losing a few percent of the vote in a marginal constituency to UKIP would mean that Labour or the LibDems would sneak in ahead.
Engineers, coders – it's down to you to prevent AI being weaponised
Sysadmin sank IBM mainframe by going one VM too deep
Monday 23rd July 2018 09:24 GMT
Yep. I once did a test upgrade onto a VM of some software and told some of our scientists to give it a quick test to make sure the upgrade didn't break anything before I upgraded the productive server. As it was only a test I'd created an iSCSI LUN for the user files (obviously I didn't setup backups as it was a test). Once we'd shown that the new version didn't break anything, I upgraded the system and then blew away the VM and associated LUN. I then got an email from a scientist who'd ignored the fact that it was only a test system for an upgrade and had done real work on it and now didn't have any of the data. I did try to get it back, but even the storage vendor couldn't help.
Scientists, not as good at following instructions as you think -->
Architects? Power-hungry GPU fiends? HP has something for you
Accounting software biz Intuit flogging bit barn to throw its lot in with AWS
Friday 20th July 2018 14:19 GMT 
Bursy workload
This probably makes a lot more sense than many other on-prem to cloud migration that we see. As people normally need to file accounts / taxes once a year the workload is very variable and it saves on having lots of hardware just waiting for the busy periods.
We probably need a better cloud icon -->
Boss helped sysadmin take down horrible client with swift kick to the nether regions
Friday 20th July 2018 13:29 GMT
Re: Reminds me of an old engineer's story
Sadly this wouldn't happen these days. Engineering would have been outsourced along with the rest of the facilities. The Engineer onsite would be parachuted onto site for a bit and then moved off ensuring the "institutional knowledge" is never accumulated.
Boffins mix AI and chemicals to create super-fast lab assistant
Friday 20th July 2018 13:15 GMT
Re: Things I wont Work With
It's very easy and quick to compare chemical similarity, they could set filters for known toxic chemicals, explosives, illegal chemical classes etc. In drug discovery we're also looking for new chemicals so we'd also filter out our own or competitor molecules.
What the "fun filter" would hopefully prevent -->
Taps running dry for Capita? Southern Water pens 5-year managed service
Elon Musk, his arch nemesis DeepMind swear off AI weapons
Will this biz be poutine up the cash? Hackers demand dosh to not leak stolen patient records
Brits whinging less? About ISPs, networks and TV? It's gotta be a glitch in the Matrix
Wearable hybrids prove the bloated smartwatch is one of Silly Valley's biggest mistakes
Code of conduct claims new Texas Instruments CEO after just six weeks
Sub-Prime: Amazon's big day marred by server crashes, staff strikes
Google to build private trans-Atlantic cable from US to France
Shouting lager, lager... Carlsberg's beer AI can now tell pilsners apart
You wanna be an alpha... tester of The Register's redesign? Step this way
Crooks swipe plutonium, cesium from US govt nuke wranglers' car. And yes, it's still missing
Submarine cables at risk from sea water, boffins warn. Wait, what?
'Fibre broadband' should mean glass wires poking into your router, reckons Brit survey
Monday 16th July 2018 11:28 GMT
Re: Is it important?
you can get 1GB or possibly 10GB symmetric speeds
You can get 10Gb connections in Switzerland now. I have no idea how the typical household would be able to consume that bandwidth though.
Tech team trapped in data centre as hypoxic gas flooded in. Again
Monday 16th July 2018 09:08 GMT
Re: Hasn't halon been banned or something in the '90s?
Banned for new installations, not to the point where it has to be ripped out of existing....
So I imagine a fair bit lying around!
Aren't they the BOFH's former colleagues "lying" around? You know, sales reps, beancounters, this week's boss?
Notes/Domino is alive! Second beta of version 10 is imminent
AI threatens yet more jobs – now, lab rats: Animal testing could be on the way out, thanks to machine learning
Monday 16th July 2018 08:23 GMT
Re: Only 57%?
Our company did some work for an animal testing lab - and I'd argue they're not terribly logical people. The experiments which used cows were performed on the first floor, requiring a rather large lift - whereas I'd put the rats up there, and just use the stairs.
You're assuming the scientists had choice in the matter. We've all heard of datacentres being built in the basement of buildings next to a river, this is the same.
Python creator Guido van Rossum sys.exit()s as language overlord
Es are good, Es are good. Xeon Es are good, says Intel: Entry-level workstation CPUs touted
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