* Posts by Korev

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Google shuts off IoT Core services shortly after announcing API stability commitments

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Re: They may not have had many customers...

You could even say the IoT birds are coming home to Nest...

In a time before calculators, going the extra mile at work sometimes didn't add up

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Re: And don't work too fast either!

I'm trying to work out, how you went from someone being beaten up to that.

I'm not judging though...

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Re: Honesty kills

In this case you could say you need to calculate how honest to be...

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Re: And don't work too fast either!

A friend's brother got a summer job whilst a student doing some kind of boring data manipulation. He realised that it was easily automatable and spent a day or so writing a programme to do it. The end was result was that he and all the other temps got rapidly given the boot...

LibreOffice improves Microsoft compatibility with version 7.4

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Re: Sharing documents

> Designing on one and presenting on the other (either way) often breaks layouts, particularly if animation is used.

You make it sound like breaking animations is a bad thing...

Scientists use supercritical carbon dioxide to power the grid

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Re: Comments section

> (Not the Nine O'Clock News, IIRC?)

Well remembered.

A pint of Brains for you -->

Google promises to adjust search algorithm to favor 'people-first content'

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Big Brother

Their users are the people buying the adverts - not the people searching (who as we all know are the product)

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Re: A good start….

That search was a lemon

Australian wasps threaten another passenger plane, with help from COVID-19

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Re: Incredibly delicate technology

> Would it be possible to have attached a little chute that would pull the cover off in a slipstream?

You really don't want big hunks of plastic being ingested into aeroplane engines...

Mouse hiding in cable tray cheesed off its bemused user

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Re: "Out of Cheese" Error

Someone should have put a claws in his contract...

Janet Jackson music video declared a cybersecurity exploit

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Re: Some mileage in this...

Feeder Crash

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Re: Am I safe?

> Not everything about the past was good.

Including Janet Jackson's music?

NASA wants a hundredfold upgrade for space computers

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Re: Didnt AstroPi already do this?

What's wrong with my moons?

My self-portrait -->

Excel @ mentions approach general availability on the desktop

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You joke, but a power user can create something useful that is much easier to port to a "grown up" database later.

The only problem comes when the DB dies and it then becomes IT's problem to be fixed.

Apple to compel workers to spend '3 days a week' in the office

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They're probably laughing as they've managed to shift a major cost onto their employees without the plebs realising it

Airbnb turns its anti-partying tech on American lodgers

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Headmaster

Maybe try looking for one with fewer than five bedrooms and you might find it easier

Microsoft Azure cloud region settles over desert in Doha, Qatar

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Khalaf said the datacenter would create 24,000 new jobs and that Microsoft would train 50,000 people over the next five years.

Aren't most jobs in datacentres like these doing tasks like racking the servers, replacing discs etc? I'm pretty sure that 24k is an overestimate...

Apple tells suppliers to use 'Taiwan, China' or 'Chinese Taipei' to appease Beijing

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Re: Subhead: That's the way the Cook he crumbles

It certainly is, upvoted

More datacenters coming to Ireland, despite energy concerns

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FAIL

with a gross floor area of approximately 12,875 and 1,455 square meters respectively

I'm pretty sure the Irish can spell metre properly. Please could we have proper spelling back.

Keep your cables tidy. You never know when someone might need some wine

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Re: Russia

Isn't that Point Break?

'I wonder what this cable does': How to tell thicknet from a thickhead

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We once had someone decide that they wanted to connect their phone to a network and plugged in a D-Link router. This muppet didn't realise they plugged in the wrong port and the router's DHCP tried spraying out IP addresses; QIP then crapped itself and gave up meaning the whole subnet went down...

Icon 'cos scientists are supposed to know better...

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They were considered quite Compaqt at the time...

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Sounds like the Loose Cannon was a bit too thicknet to be allowed a computer

BOFH: Who us? Sysadmins? Spend time with other departments?

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In a matter of moments the complainers have woken from their slumber and several hands are raised in unison.

I may not need that pillow after all.

Looks like the other attendees did though...

General Motors charges mandatory $1,500 fee for three years of optional car features

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Re: milk the cow

You forgot the icon

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Re: Microtransactions?

>For people who can afford the haberdashery known as "a brand new BMW", 18 bucks per month is probably so low as to be off the radar

But in ten years time when the car is on its third owner, that $216 will be a lot more money.

That's assuming BMW haven't turned off the infrastructure to support the subscriptions on that model....

Facebook hands over chats to cops in abortion case

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Re: Anything you do say may be given in evidence.

No, the users are the customers, ie the ones who pay to have their adverts thrust in front of the people the social networks have worked out are most likely to respond

Rescuezilla 2.4 is here: Grab it before you need it

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Re: It's now based on Ubuntu rather than Debian

That's what THEY want you to think...

Microsoft's fix for 'data damage' risk hits PC performance

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Re: Bite the bullet

> What an apt expression.

Well, I'm more of an RPM distro man myself...

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Re: Data damage come again ?????

> in Asia (where English, if available, is British English)

Sounds like quite a civilised place

Mine's a warm, flat one -->

DoE digs up molten salt nuclear reactor tech, taps Los Alamos to lead the way back

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Re: REstart?

True, but the question was about Molten Salt reactors

Polaris supercomputer boots up, paves way for Aurora exascale system

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Re: Naturally?

I dunno, but it'll be Cray-zy fast...

Burger King just sent spam receipts to customers

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Our team has grilled Burger King about the situation to learn how the spam came to be served and, critically, if a security compromise was the cause.

A Whopper of a pun Mr Sharwood

Slack leaked hashed passwords from its servers for years

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Slack lays claim to over 169,000 paid customers and says "millions of people around the world use Slack to connect their teams."

No Teams, is Microsoft's rival...

UK wants criminal migrants to scan their faces up to five times a day using a watch

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Re: Collapse

> The perception at the time was that he had utterly failed at the first test of holding Tories to account.

Brexit wouldn't have happened with the LibDems in the government.

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Re: What has immigration status got to do with criminal punishment?

CAKE is a made up drug

Yeah, we'll just take that first network handshake. What could possibly go wrong?

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Re: The guiding principle

> Send the customer the bill!

In this case they sent Bill and the AS/400s fell over

Remember the humanoid Tesla robot? It's ready for September reveal, says Musk

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Re: Optimus can replace the Russians ....

They'll be robots in disguise, so who knows what they'll look like...

Scientist shares spicy pic of 'James Webb' discovery

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Re: Chorizo

You took all the puns, you swine

Intel close to deal for semiconductor plant in Italy

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Will they make AMD's Milan chips too?

Post-quantum crypto cracked in an hour with one core of an ancient Xeon

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Some of the stuff coming out of Microsoft Research looks pretty fun

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Re: Cheaters!

Bring back the.... ....Moderatrix....

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Re: Ancient?

> Now imagine how quick this would be on an Alder Lake, or even an A14.

Single thread performance hasn't really increased that much in recent times on x86. The Arm chip could be more interesting to see though.

Fights, floods, and fortunes when cloud giants roll into town

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Eggs in one basket

Why on all earth do we[0] allow these cross-cloud single points of failure to happen? It's not hard to imagine a disaster (see icon) or even "just" a hurricane or flood that would take out a lot of civilisation's compute and everything that relies on it.

[0] Trying to work out who's responsible here is quite an effort. Maybe the UN should compel governments to ensure large spaces between the companies' bitbarns.

Lockheed Martin wins $213m contract to update F-35 datacenter

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The UK Ministry of Defence has also confirmed plans to replace a British F-35B that fell into the Mediterranean following a failed take-off from the deck of aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth last year, according to the UK Defence Journal.

The fast that it's newsworthy for the UK to replace a single aeroplane says a lot about how under-resourced the UK forces have become....

Google asks workers for ideas on being 'more focused and efficient' in internal survey

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Re: They don't even know how to support their products

I still miss Picassa. It was fast and did just enough of what you wanted. Sadly it couldn't cope with Fuji raw files so I had to stop using it.

Boffins put supercomputer on the scent of a perfect landfill deodorizer

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Re: Waste to energy

In Switzerland they incinerate waste and claim it's recycling... A lot of the stuff I chuck away here would have been properly recycled back in the UK...

Apple ends corporate COVID mask mandate

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Re: Can't they just tweak one of the employee phone apps...

There's a gap missing in the table, maybe we can have a competition to work out what to fill it with

We'll get you that Wi-Fi 7 laptop by 2024, Intel says

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Re: Make Ethernet obsolete.

I was going to say, can the newfangled WFi get through the deadspot in Korev Towers caused by my bathroom and a radiator?

Why the end of Optane is bad news for all IT

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Childcatcher

Not to mention every single application known to man deciding to fire up a daemon/process and then update itself and/or spam you with alerts...