* Posts by Richard Chirgwin

97 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Feb 2011

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nbn™ chair Ziggy Switkowski says HFC remediation mess is business as usual

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

It will be fixed, thanks!

Department of Human Services says citizens, not systems, to blame

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: The clue is in the name

Guilty as charged. Thanks for bringing that to my attention - RC

Googlers reveal code they use for mass Windows deployments

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Does Glazier use PuTTY?

Oh, very good! - Chirgwin

Happy 20th birthday to the RADIUS RFC

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: 20 years?

Thanks; I've made a suitable change to the headline. RC

SHA3-256 is quantum-proof, should last billions of years

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: s/cipher/hash/

Headline fixed!

Optus' HFC problems were never a secret, so why did nbn™ need the network?

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Consider me burned! Wonder how aluminium is on the scrap market...

That Public Health study? No, it didn't say 'don't do chemo'

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: UK Big Data boffins not up to the task?

Hi Wupspups - actually, the answer is simple: I work in The Register's Australian bureau, and Dr Saunders' work was already known to me. So I picked up the phone and called him!

Richard Chirgwin

The Register

Now the Olympics is over, Theranos is withdrawing its Zika test application

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Thank you, and the corrected paragraph reads:

As with its previous MiniLab claims, the pitch centred on finger-prick blood samples and a device that doesn't need the infrastructure of a pathology lab.

Fifty bills for new Oz parliament, nothing much for tech

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Thanks, RFL, I'll take another look at the Hansard list tomorrow and amend if it's changed.

Richard Chirgwin

Microsoft drops OMI for Linux to GitHub

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: ohhh...

Oh, thanks! - Old telco dude here, fingers went to a default. Will fix now!

Richard Chirgwin

POS malware stings 20 US hotels

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: How could you and Reuters not mention the guy who broke the story and has a lot more

We had already linked to Krebs in the previous story on MICROS, linked in this story.

Richard Chirgwin

The Register

Pass the hash for peace, love and security in the quantum computing age

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Factoring large prime ... oops

Thanks for the correction; I have amended the sentence in question.

Cheers,

Richard Chirgwin

The Register

Oz boffins cook quantum computing out of mothballs

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Naphthalene

Thanks!

Boffins map Netflix's Open Connect CDN

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Thanks; an error on my part. There were two examples given, and I didn't notice that they weren't identical, so I'll make the relevant edit.

Richard Chirgwin

Astroboffins' discovery gives search for early life a left hand. Or right

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: As Science notes, propylene oxide isn't an organic molecule;

Well, thank you. I'll make a suitable edit immediately!

(Knew I should have paid attention that day)

Richard C

Telstra's horror run continues with TITSUPs on three networks

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Yes, and the "some twat" was me. To quote Harold Macmillan, when asked what he feared: "Events, dear boy, events" (possibly apocryphal, but it suits the purpose here).

Richard Chirgwin

The Register

How to get root on a Linux box, step 1: Make four billion system calls

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: FUD...doesn't work 2 cases...

Interesting, thanks. - Richard Chirgwin

BoMed: Oz weather bureau network struggles to its feed

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Thanks, noted.

Apple had more CVEs than any single MS product in 2015, but it doesn't really matter

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: A little journalistic help?

Thanks for pointing this out. I have edited the article, since I should have included the expansion of CVE.

Richard Chirgwin

The Register

Badware in the firmware all over the place

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

A New Zealand Weta, to represent very big bugs!

Big Bang left us with a perfect random number generator

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

A treat to see Stanislaw cited as first comment!

RC

Feeble Phobos flaking as it falls to Mars

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Blah, thank you, I'll take care of that now.

Ice volcanoes just part of Plutonic pandemonium

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Pluto .... Pandemonium ....

Oh, you're good.

Google's new squeeze: Brotli compression open-sourced

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Deflate predates 1996 by about 6 years...

Thank you for the extra detail,

Richard Chirgwin

The Register

NBN cable rules spark electricity network push-back

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Am I missing something....

The cables on poles are mostly fibre - that's the "F" of HFC. The thicker cables are to accommodate more fibres to lower the contention, ahead of new standards like DOCSIS 3.1.

Richard Chirgwin

Regulator okays Optus exit from HFC network

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: What's going to happen?

Since this is often a question I get asked, it's worth an answer here: You can keep your current ISP relationship if you want - the NBN is a change of wholesaler.

Richard Chirgwin

Vulture South

Australian dark matter hunter wins AU$1.75 million funding

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Re: A new low

Thanks all for drawing my attention to the typo. It's been fixed.

OpenFlow busts out of the data centre with 15,000-route Pacific test

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: what?

I will change that to "architectural or design changes to their network", to make it clear.

Tesla Powerwall: Not much cheaper and also a bit wimpier than existing batteries

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Inverter?

Pro-logic -

The inverter you'd need is a function of how much power you want to draw. If you want (say) 6 kW continuous, that would be (for eg) two 3 kW inverters.

I didn't price these up, because you'd need the inverter capacity whatever battery you're using, it remains the same.

Richard Chirgwin

The Register

Boffins twist light to carry 2.05 bits in one photon

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: For those of you wondering, 2.05 = 7 ^ exp(-1)

Thank you so much for clarifying that!

Richard Chirgwin

Vulture South

Boffin finds formula for four-year-five-nines disk arrays

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Oops...

Oops indeed - thanks, I have fixed this.

RC

NBN Co adds apartments to FTTP rollout

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Thanks - I have removed the extraneous "the". You're right, I'm from Sydney!

Dodgy installer drops Trojan in Japanese Buffalo update

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Catch the Trojan...

Those who had already downloaded and installed need to patch. The offending files have been removed from the site.

Tech sector still loves its slaves: study

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Baptist World Aid gets a D for transparency

veti - There was a bug with the site earlier, which they've now fixed.

Richard Chirgwin

'Wind power causes climate change' shown to be so much hot air

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Surprised by RC's statement!

MondoMan,

The phrase was merely a shorthand for the impact of wind farms being less than natural variability, (the latter I included verbatim in the report), and was not intended to convey any political or scientific commentary.

Goodbye 37signals, hello Basecamp

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Jason Friend?

Regrettably, I can't blame spellcheck, but eyesight. Even with my glasses on, I honestly read it as "Friend".

Thank you for correcting me, friend commentard.

Richard Chirgwin

The Register

Amateurs find the 'HOLY GRAIL' supernova – right on our doorstep

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Sub-heading?

Thanks - missed a million there! Fixed.

Hand over the goodies, Brazil tells Chocolate Factory

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

As far as we are able to tell at this point, the relevant wording of the decree is this:

"O armazenamento e a recuperação de dados a que se refere o caput deverá ser realizada em centro de processamento de dados fornecido por órgãos e entidades da administração pública federal"

Roughly: the storage and retrieval of data referred to [in this legislation] should be held in data processing [facilities] provided by entities of the federal public administration.

In MASSIVE surprise, world+dog discovers Nokia checked out Android

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Why, thank you! This will be noted in the article.

Tesla cars 'hackable' says Dell engineer

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Enough is enough

[Posted by the author on behalf of someone who's run into a Bad Internets Day]

Why would you cancel an order for the most technically advanced and awesome device on the planet at the moment? Because one headline-grabbing techie identified a flaw that could be fixed in minutes by any-old-coder?

I suspect it will be fixed quickly.

Oh, and apparently I'm a "coward" for not wrangling with the authentication things here. Meh.

Boffins chill out with new temperature measurement

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Marks deducted...

Typo corrected, thanks.

Richard Chirgwin

FRBs and variable forces: a big week for astronomy

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: sounds right to me

Chris - thanks for the catch! I have corrected it to "universe".

Richard Chirgwin

Space miners reach funding goal for telescope

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Facts and figures

Tom_

The 200mm aperture came from the source:

http://www.planetaryresources.com/products/

(Scroll down to "standard specifications")

"200 mm aperture, f/4 primary optic"

Richard Chirgwin

The Register

The Register's NBN study: a good start, let's ramp it up

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Linky link

Thank you for drawing this to my attention. I've added the link to the article, and here it is: http://www.pozible.com/project/26539/

CSIRO seeks seagoing sysadmin

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Amended and chastened.

Redmond probes new IE 8 vulnerability

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Re: Eh?

Thanks, all. I have corrected Microsoft's grammar now.

BT unleashes SIP licensing troll army

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Maybe I missed it...

Dr Mouse -

The list of patents is on the BT page linked in the story.

Richard Chirgwin

The Register

Boffins strap turbocharger to BitTorrent

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: WTF?

Note that they're not talking about distance as in "metres of copper / fibre whatever". Distance in the context of the paper is the topology - how many nodes between you and I, for example.

Sony joins iWear face-off

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Eye strain

A study, no. I asked Australia's ophthalmologists' professional body about this. Their answer was that since the "glasses" project their images "at infinite distance" there shouldn't be a problem.

Since optometry and ophthalmology instruments employ the same trick for some testing instruments, I decided to accept that answer.

Richard Chirgwin

The Register

Voyager goes off a (helio) cliff

Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

Re: 18 billion km thats like saying

Or 708.66 billion cubits.

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