* Posts by Korev

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BOFH: Good news, everyone – we're in the sausage business

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> But based on the prion knowledge on this company, who would eat those sausages? You might catch some novel prion brain disease.

FTFY

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Re: gigaspandrels

> I believe that it's volatile storage dedicated to cat videos (not to be confused with Moo-Ram, which is used for storage of corporate bulls**t)

Superb -->

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Re: The _real_ AI

You mean a best of breed technology?

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The Sausage Factory bit was a banger!

Boss put project on progress bar timeline: three months … four … actually NOW!

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> He’s lucky it’s wasn’t UPS

The power from UPS could give him a shock...

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Or you could even say he'd be removed from his post...

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I was half expecting that his card would be marked and he'd be marched out of the door...

Sysadmin and IT ops jobs to slump, says IDC

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"IT professionals in the most purely operational roles are facing a transition to a more technical or focused role that very often may involve some level of software development work," the firm asserts.

That reads as if they don't think that being a Sysadmin is technical!

Waymo robo-car slays dog in San Francisco

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>> ... and, unfortunately, contact was made

> With aliens?

What a Waymo to go...

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Re: Invasion

> Yes, they were eaten by the dog.

Fur dinner?

Election Excel blunder declared a 'low point' for Austrian social democracy

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Well that approach almost worked for Trump...

Dell down under dinged for dodgy display discounts

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Re: That excuse will be a hit in criminal circles

"Due to an unrectifed error on our part, our child was born"

Netherlands digital minister smacks down Big Tech over AI regs

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I misread this as

Netherlands digital minister smacks down Big Tech over EI Reg

and thought the Dutch were being rather harsh to this Esteemed Organ

M2 Ultra chip lands in 'cheese grater' Mac Pro to displace Apple's last Intel holdout

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In ancient history we were struggling to buy machines big enough for genome assembly, the work around was to buy a FusionIO card for swap which meant that even if it wasn't as quick as it could be it was at least possible. Maybe people will need to do the same for these new Mac Pros

The bonkers water-cooled shoe PC, hexagonal pink workstations, and IKEA-style cases of Computex 2023

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Does anyone else get SGI vibes off the XSLAB V-raptor SQ nano?

And that means I want one :-)

Fed up with slammed servers, IT replaced iTunes backups with a cow of a file

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Re: That's the way to do it

> He certainly deserves a iPat on the back.

FTFY

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Re: That's the way to do it

It's an old story, but he had to milk it...

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> That, my friends, is how you deal with these clowns who don't read the f**king memo.

They probably did, but thought it was a load of bull...

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Re: That's the way to do it

Did he find the decent music and mooove it to his own directory?

Google shows cloud customers it's happy to have an open relationship

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If they were really vendor neutral, then they'd reduce the data egress charges...

Vendor lockin icon -->

Brits and Yanks join forces to make fusion magnets cool again

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Re: Gamma Irradiation Facility (GIF)

That was a clean pun...

Airline puts international passengers on the scales pre-flight

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Re: optional?

I think that some airlines have worked out they can get another seat in each row in some widebody aircraft...

Australia fines tech companies for exploiting foreign tech workers

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Re: "the plethora of deadly creatures found in the one-time prison colony"

> That would have been the deadly flora

I thought it was supposed to be healthier than butter...

Broadcom says Nvidia Spectrum-X's 'lossless Ethernet' isn't new

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I'm pretty sure that this was part of Gnodal's selling pitch a few years ago too...

Rackspace datacenter infrastructure took 12-hour nap in London, Sydney, Hong Kong

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Re: CDT?

Just put the time in GMT and if they don't like then we'll send in the Royal Navy's finest gunboats

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A subsequent update identified the issue as related to Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (DWDM) in London

Has somebody been using the BOFH excuse generator?

Google Photos AI still can't label gorillas after racist errors

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> The stupidest being that the word master is now off limit.

You mean it's on the black list?

The future of digital healthcare could be a two-metre USB cable

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Re: The next frontier …

Surely

The next frontier: Proctology.

As there's a colon involved...

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Re: The smart solution

I was about to make the same point!

BOFH: Get me a new data file or your manager finds out exactly what you think of him

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Re: and the Bay City Rollers reforming

> Somehow my silver badge went away. I suppose that's life..

Have an upvote to help get it back

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"The issue is," I say, "your software is precariously balanced between the three points of: (1) it costs nothing; (2) it requires no intervention on my part; and (3) it's used by an idiot.

A harsh way to label someone...

Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail

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Re: Never used!

I've also been using Postbox for a while am quite happy with it. Ironically, the reason I started using it was because Thunderbird kept crashing and I couldn't fix it!

Windows XP activation algorithm cracked, keygen now works on Linux

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I used to have one of these, it gave many years of dutiful service until and international move somehow killed it (despite the travel lock being enabled)

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Re: Back When I Was Younger*

As someone who has supported specialised lab equipment in the past, your approach seems pretty sensible

AI menaces superbug by identifying potent antibiotic

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And the IT angle is that VMWare now occupy the site where this molecule was originally synthesised.

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The problem is, against any antibiotic we come up with, nature can develop a countermeasure. Such is the capability of limitless structural diversity of proteins.

In the paper they managed to promote and then characterise some strains with resistance to Abaucin, so they know exactly what to look for if this enters the clinic.

That old box of tech junk you should probably throw out saves a warehouse

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He sounds like Sun guy...

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What? It's not Sunday...

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These puns are on Sun Fire today...

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Which means we can make an esoteric pun by observing that a Sun workstation "sparced" the warehouse back to life. Because Sun used Sparc processors – geddit?

Nice one Sun!

Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster

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Re: Top Work

Have you thought about taking the senior councillors out for dinner?

Microsoft enables booting physical PCs directly into cloud PCs

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Re: The problem with anything requiring a network

My Samsung "Smart" TV has a very secure firewall rule for this reason - I never plugged it into my switch...

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Re: The problem with anything requiring a network

All good points, but to add one:

- Streaming service stops providing a film/show

Streaming provider icon -->

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Re: Microsoft....

You had to shoe that one in didn't you?

Facial recog system used by Met Police shows racial bias at low thresholds

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Re: going to be some issues I reckon

I have a colleague who's half Indian-British, half white American; early in the Covid pandemic Teams couldn't tell the difference between her skin and the wooden bookshelves behind her...

Billionaire BT stalker Patrick Drahi increases stake to 24.5%

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Re: Uh-oh

Something's come along and it's burst our bubble, yeah yeah

Thanks for the earworm!

Microsoft finally gets around to supporting rar, gz and tar files in Windows

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Re: Making files smaller therefore helped to shrink download times…

To this day, if you're reading/writing large amounts of data compression can make the whole thing a lot faster as discs are still slow and CPU cycles are cheap

Nearly 1 in 5 academics admit close encounters of the anomalous kind

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Re: UAPs, previously known as UFOs

WAP? Didn't we move to 3G years ago?

And have now moved to 5G to activate Bill Gates' vaccines...

Apria Healthcare says potentially 2M people caught up in IT security breach

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In the UK/EU yes, but the fines tend to be microscopic...

Intel abandons XPU plan to cram CPU, GPU, memory into one package

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Re: Don't forget Apple

> They're not in the data centre game but have shown what's possible.

When you operate something the scale of iCloud, it's possible they might even be able to design and run their own servers