* Posts by Korev

4942 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2016

BOFH: Lies, damned lies, and standards

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Re: Almost lost my coffee here

You could say it's their staple diet...

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Re: This boss...

We'll see how the "traffic sprints" go...

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The boss seemed a bit annoyed, he didn't like the BOFH's toner voice...

Red Hat's open source rot took root when IBM walked in

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> People are going to disagree but I always think of HP/HPE and IBM as modern-day "IP trolls"

Which is odd because the IBM of old did sterling work fending off SCO

Amazon's robo vacuum power grab sucks EU attention

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Re: It sucks

That'd suck...

Startup that charged $1.20 a day for coworking space in nightclubs folds

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Re: Back in the late '80s to mid '90s ...

Employer -1 was originally founded by three guys. The joke there was that one guy had the idea, another the money and the CEO had the front room...

Nobody does DR tests to survive lightning striking twice

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I guess computers have moved on and many now have a dedicated lightning port...

HSBC banks on quantum to lock down comms network

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Re: "a pilot quantum-secured metro network"

You mean Notwork surely..

No open door for India's tech workers in any UK trade deal

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Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

Thank you Sir!

That didn't look right as I typed it and that's why :-)

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Re: Nothing economically beneficial will happen until the Tories get kicked out.

I think I'd prefer a return to the Danelaw. Slaughtering Lancastrians would be a possibility but the priority would be keeping Wessex and Mercia out.

Come to think of it, it's been a few years since the Cornish marched on London

Kernow Bys Viken!

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Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

Well, Rajesh is a lovely chap

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Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

I just proves that they are both bloody foreigners!

A proper Brit will always stand by his word.

I know dualling has been banned, I think the anonymous cowards need to meet at dawn to satisfy their honour!

Yahoo! comeback! continues! as! fresh! listing! planned!

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But it never had a cool name whilst capitalised - HoTMaiL!

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Re: Not the worst idea

I agree, I do try to use DDG, but often I just get frustrated, give up and just use Google. The same is true with their maps service (compared to the Apple ones).

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Re: Do they need a micro-blogging service?

Musk we ask which one?

Oh, great. Yet another tech billionaire thinks he can get microblogging right

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Re: If it were anyone else

> There are many reason why Threads might fail; privacy is not one of them -- unfortunately.

I remember a huge amount of fuss about the WhatsApp privacy changes. The end result is that I have a few friends who use Threema, Signal etc (hence having the apps on my phone) and most people still use WhatsApp.

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Re: Funny

> For those of us who use Twitter for work, it has been a decent way to discover a pretty good community

Yeah, it used to be great. You'd see loads of interesting stuff posted by the leaders in the field. In my line of work, the majority of the big players are academics, so when Trump & Brexit happened, the platform turned into frustrated ranting. It kind of recovered from that, but now when I log on I see almost no posts at all.

Ariane 5 to take final flight, leaving Europe without its own heavy-lift rocket

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Re: Oops

> But how hard can it be to design a new rocket? It's not rocket science ... oh wait ... it IS rocket science.

It's not exactly brain surgery is it?

H-1B fraud consultancies grow, with application abuse openly discussed online

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Re: Simple Fix

It depends how much leeway universities have to raise the salaries

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Re: Simple Fix

A lot of science roles are surprisingly badly paid

IBM kills its Education Cloud after just two-and-a-bit years

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So does it run Rocky Linux then?

Twitter rate-limits itself into a weekend of chaos

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Re: AI training must be stopped from scraping Twitter - pretty please?

I literally kill people who misuse English...

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Re: CEO of Twitter ... Linda Yaccarino

> In the future, everyone will be Twiter CEO for 15 minutes.

I thought that was Prime Minister of the UK...

(BTW isn't it time we had a new one?)

The number’s up for 999. And 911. And 000. And 111

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Re: 112

Remembering 112 meant I could get medical help for the victim of an accident in France a few years ago. I got put through to the cops initially, but we soon got him an ambulance sorted.

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Re: Satellite is the right answer

GPS location plus an estimate of accuracy would be good. If the GPS says it's accurate to ~ five metres then just send a single vehicle, if it's 5km then get the cavalry ready for a search

Space technology icon -->

Uncle Sam cracks down on faked reviews and bad influencers

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Re: I give the Reg five stars. The posts are informative and honest. Much better than mumsnet.

My previous employer had a fixed line from the business arm of an ISP mostly known for its home provision. The ISP didn't really filter port 25 so many places blocked its entire IP range. This meant the company's customers often filtered out our emails!

Hacking a Foosball table scored an own goal for naughty engineers

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Re: Always cleanup after you are done

If might have turned out completly differently if they would had moved their tools away.

Yeah, that was quite an own goal

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At Uni someone worked out how to push the coin tray thing in far enough to release the balls, but swallow the money. They then just stuck ten quid on the table so no one suspected when they spent the whole afternoon playing...

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Then, naturally enough, the hotel owner arrived. Edgar asked the we call him Basil, so we shall.

It sounds like the table football table was Fawlty...

Microsoft signs 1.5 million seat contract for Office 365 and more

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Headline?

"Microsoft signs 1.5 million seat contract for Office 365 and more"

Why didn't you just name the NHS in the headline?

Mystery Intel bug halts shipments of some Sapphire Rapids Xeons

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"Pentium inside, Can't divide"

The old jokes are the best -->

Chinese balloon that US shot down was 'crammed' with American hardware

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Re: Red Spy Balloon Phoning Home

What a shame Lester's not here any more to do this

Fujitsu admits it fluffed the fix for Japan’s flaky ID card scheme

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Re: Hmmm...Fujitsu

Yeah, I can see a screwup on the Horizon...

Quirky QWERTY killed a password in Paris

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I used to work as a tester when Oracle was really hard to install in an automated manner. I used to be able to do them in languages like Japanese and Korean by remembering which buttons to press...

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Re: Faux AZERTY

> Can we have a Béret & Baguette icon ?

Well, as we're not allowed Paris any more this should happen...

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Re: Paris...

I had a trip to Brussels a few years ago, again a nice city to visit. We basically spent all the time in a grotty business park near the airport...

The hotel only had a poor selection of the good stuff :-( -->

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Re: All your QWERTY belong to us...

"All servers shall have only one keyboard layout and it shall be US International"

The problem with that is the enter key is horrible and also with US English locales you also get dates the wrong way around, temperatures in Farenheit etc. Using British or Irish settings would make much more sense in Europe...

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Looks like language was key to the story...

Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office

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Re: Thanks but no

"three in four (75 percent)" this isn't the Mail Online. We don't need numbers explaining.

The site's aimed at Americans these days, so they definitely do...

First pushback against EU's Digital Services Act and it's not Google

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Today there were four parcels, so she must ordered even more!

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I only know it because my neighbour is responsible for most of those €10billion of sales...

Mummy and Daddy Musk think Elon's cage fight against Zuck is a terrible idea

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Re: it would break all pay-per-view records

Not forgetting the sharks with frickin' laser beams...

Google uses India to test ‘deliver to the house near the post office’ feature

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Re: Directions

Pre-Satnav my parents used have this conversation whilst giving directions:

"Go up the hill and then turn right at the crazy roundabout"

"How do which know which is the crazy roundabout?"

"Don't worry, you'll know when you get there"

After guest had arrived:

"Yeah, we see what you mean about that roundabout"

Metaverses are flopping – hard – says Gartner

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An interesting article in the Grauniad about what's become of Second Life and some people who still "live" there.

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Re: Noooo! Reeeally? Who would've seen that coming.

Are we colleagues?

AWS to expand Ohio bit barns to the tune of $7.8B

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'Cos poor people don't make rockets?

AMD says its FPGA is ready to emulate your biggest chips

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Re: Sometimes necessary

> Kinda funny that the supercomputer was 'merely' the host for the FPGAs.

Exactly like they are for GPUs today too

'Joan Is Awful' Black Mirror episode rebounds on Netflix

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Re: Black mirror: it's either genuine over-the-top woke-ness or parody

Yeah, I miss the 1970s when disaster movies limited the non-mainstream characters to the occasional nun, pregnant woman, or alcoholic priest.

That would be an ecumenical matter!

Security? Working servers? Who needs those when you can have a shiny floor?

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We'll never tile of making these jokes

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This week's raconteur, who we'll Regomize as "Murph," brings us a tale tying together two of our recent themes: security tech that doesn't behave as it should, and power points being used in ways they were not meant to be.

I think today's raconteur should have been "called" Jim for obvious reasons...