Posts by Ken Shabby

Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP

Re: The more you spend

Look at this great deal on a DC I got, saved you millions.

UK justice system unplugs from ancient datacenters after five-year slog

Re: Exclusive Pictures of ...

Wasn’t the old joke “1900 when it was designed, 2900 when it will be delivered”

X marks the raid: French cops swoop on Musk's Paris ops

Re: Sigh..

Please forgive my schoolboy French (I think I got a C at O level), but maybe that should be

“se rouler par terre de rire”

Microsoft engineer speedruns Raspberry Pi magic smoke in five minutes

HEK Halt and electrify keyboard

UK names Barnsley as first Tech Town to see whether AI can fix... well, anything

Re: The council conversation in Barnsley...

Why are calls to Heaven so cheap in Yorkshire?

It’s a local call.

Patch Tuesday meets Groundhog Day as Windows hibernation bug returns

Whenever I do this with my Lenovo Laptop, it boots up with the fan sounding like a 747 taking off. So I have to software restart, go to the bios and reset it, one bitch of a bug feeding another.

In-house techies fixed faults before outsourced help even noticed they'd happened

Re: Analog mobile phones

Surely, the on call allowance would allow you to buy expensive perfume.

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

Re: Makes you wonder ...

Top Tip

“Always travel in the back seat; if the bus goes over a cliff, you live a bit longer."

BOFH: Eight pints of a lager and a management breakthrough

Re: Ah yes, 6-Sigma.

Anyone remember the square doughnuts? Surely a competent doughnut machine operator would have spotted this in seconds. If you think hiring one is too expensive, the cost of a consultant with an smart suit who has never seen one before, probably cheaper to buy a new machine.

Paranoid WhatsApp users rejoice: Encrypted app gets one-click privacy toggle

At least then change your handle to JohnnyNoMates

Oracle AI sailed the world on Royal Navy flagship via cloud-at-the-edge kit

Re: That's a witch!

Ok, it’s a fair cop.

Microsoft 365 outage drags on for nearly 10 hours during bad night for North American infra

And I won’t…

Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check

Re: "more than a bit Benny Hill"

Bugger, I now have that Benny Hill music going on in my head, need another one of these to stop it

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Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

Re: Suggestions?

Apparently a shotgun is more effective

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Re: SNORKEL

Jethro Tull, of course, being the other guy

Zuck forms Meta Compute to pave the planet with 'hundreds of gigawatts' of AI datacenters

Re: building proprietary models under the codenames Avocado and Mango.

Cobblers

AI's $3T infrastructure binge continues despite lack of clear profits

Re: Lunacy

Gentlemen, we can’t think in here, this is the AI boardroom

Stop dragging feet on AI nudification ban, UK government told

Re: Twatter

Titter ye not, please yourselves

Ofcom officially investigating X as Grok's nudify button stays switched on

Yeah well, he was doing it for Priests who allegedly like this sort of thing and sort of defined the law. I read they defended this right to a tortuous extent.

Very tough microbes may help us cement our future on Mars

Re: I can't help but remember.

Cane toads came to Oz via Hawaiian, must be for the mutual love of golf.

Nothing to declare at border control except a Windows 7 certificate error

Re: "best to stand in Schrodinger's queue"

Wouldn’t happen to Schrodinger’s seafood “Cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh"

Claude is his copilot: Rust veteran designs new Rue programming language with help from AI bot

Re: No worries

What’s that Skippy? A dangling pointer? Down behind the sheep shed?

Re: Oh, not Roux, then

Nuke it from orbit and it might be edible

The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked

ELEVATE! ELEVATE!

Starlink to lower orbits of thousands of satellites over safety concerns

Re: strange idea

This is ground control to Major Tom…Major Tom?…Tom?.. Tom?… Anyone?…

The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere

Re: Open Source

As have the Catholic Church, a business model that has survived centuries

DOE recruits cloud, chip, and AI giants for Trump's Genesis Mission

Re: But not Phil Collins, sadly

He's a supersonic scientist!

BOFH: All through the house, not a creature was stirring except the homicidal vacuum cleaner

Re: Robots, the gifts that keep giving

Cats best Roomba

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4XB2wZqF4

UK surveillance law still full of holes, watchdog warns

“What is it, Skippy? Has someone fallen down the well or is it a bushfire?”

BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI

Re: Methinks

102 uses for a Dead Cat

(If my cat reads El Reg he’ll speed up his plot to kill me)

X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill

Mate, this bird wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through it! 'E's bleedin' demised

MI6 chief: We'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian

Re: Thank goodness she said Python

Do you expect me to code?

No I expect you to die!

JLR: Payroll data stolen in cybercrime that shook UK economy

Re: What are executives for?

Kick ‘em in the Plonker

Roomba maker iRobot gets cleaned out in Chapter 11

Sucks so badly

AI superintelligence is a Silicon Valley fantasy, Ai2 researcher says

Re: Quickly enough?

I think therefore I’m DRAM.

Re: don't know how to build an AGI.

Lightbulb moment

Space-power startup claims it can beam energy to solar farms

Re: "There are problems with Overview's design"

And never, ever cross the beams.

User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't

Re: screen messages

Sorry, it’s never happened before, honest.

Re: Go, Look, See

Try telling them to source a file with. ./file you might as well ask them to type Llanfairpwllgwyngyll and not being able to convey frustration as they repeatedly type in seemingly random characters.

` Backtick is another

As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs

Re: RedNovember

Baffle them with a Crazy Ivan

Vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software

Genius you’re hired.

Now write some control software for that Nuclear power plant we are building.

Electric cars no more likely to flatten you than the noisy ones, study finds

Re: They really ought to tack "Technology" onto "Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System".

Or if in reverse

AVAST BEHIND!

Google says Chrome's new AI creates risks only more AI can fix

I think she’ll die.

Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work

The scheduler on the PRIME would run, say x from the high priority queue, maybe x/2 from medium priority, x/4 from low priority queue (not exact details, the tought is with a baseball analogy, backstop etc, it’s been 40 years). So if there are more than 4 times jobs on the high priority queue than the low priority queue, quids in. Generally the high priority queue was always chock a block and low priority empty.

And the winner of the Microsoft Christmas sweater is...

Re: Playing with the future

A special prize for anyone wearing it during conception.

Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books

Hunt, Lunt and Cunningham.

Poop-peeping toilet attachment has a different definition of 'end-to-end' encryption

Re: I expect an imminent tie up with a bunch of UK utilities

“Sam, Sam, the lavatory man, Chief inspector of the out-house can, Toilet paper, toilet paper, paper towels, Listen to the rhythm of the human bowels"

NASA nominee 'committed' to uprooting Shuttle Discovery for Houston trophy piece

Yes, don’t Stonewall him

Aviation delays ease as airlines complete Airbus software rollback

Re: Details, Aerospace Software

Ok there are cpus without ECC, but this is a safety critical system and not a gaming machine

Re: Good luck

I hope it didn’t bite you before it croaked

It looks like a radioactive spider ====>