* Posts by Korev

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PCIe 7.0 pegged to arrive in 2025 with speeds of 512 GBps

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Re: And, as with anything, faster means hotter

Watt?

Yodel becomes the latest victim of a cyber 'incident'

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Re: "a reminder of the importance of both robust defences and a robust recovery plan"

A very good point.

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Yodel has gained popularity and, perhaps, a bit of notoriety in recent years as consumers turned to courier companies rather than venture into physical stores.

Aren't the consumers the companies selling the tat rather than the people (hopefully) getting the goods?

Icon because end-consumers have little choice -->

Lenovo, Barcelona Supercomputing Center sign joint research deal

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Re: That data center

It’s probably the best-looking data centre on the planet!

Telegram adds paid tier as it cracks 700 million users

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I'm curious

> The Premium tier distinguishes itself from the freebie plebeian tier with the ability to upload 4GB files

I'm curious what people are doing to need to send 4GB files from their phone.

Password recovery from beyond the grave

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Re: R.I.P.

> @Korev, I hope you are better now.

Better, but I'll never be the same again.

Thank you for your kind wishes

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Re: R.I.P.

A few years ago I went off for a long Bank Holiday weekend, had an argument with gravity and then didn't reappear at work until the summer. Since that day I've always been very careful to make sure the bus factor is >1

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Re: dundancy

I was in a DR situation a few years ago and we got the procedures out of the safe in the archive. The poorly DB server was running Linux and the documentation described a Windows restore....

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Hopefully Mark checked the envelope to make sure no one had doctored it...

Plot to defeat crypto meltdown: Solend votes to seize, liquidate whale account

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And don't forget we can keep everyone warm in winter too

Know the difference between a bin and /bin unless you want a new doorstop

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Re: Indy Gone

> They are very hardy machines, it may well work. The biggest concerns would be the HDD and the PSU.

Last time I touched an SGI, the PSU blew up treating our office to the Magic Smoke...

It was a Tezro too, the last generation of their MIPS workstations...

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Bin? The Mac had a bin on the desktop that needed to be emptied. This must be the Indy equivalent, right? Full of stuff that just needed to be cleared. One swift tappity-tap later and /bin was a distant memory.

So what you're saying is that it was a has /bin

Airbus flies new passenger airplane aimed at 'long, thin' routes

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Re: Must do better ...

> Special assistance almost feels like cheating.

I did feel sort of guilty, but I wouldn’t have liked to have done the whole distance on crutches.

I’ve seen some recent horror stories about people waiting hours on aeroplanes because the airports to support people needing special assistance.

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Re: Must do better ...

I got "special assistance" through Manchester Airport a few years ago. I was wheeled in a pretty much straight line through the airport whereas the building made everyone else snake around in quite an indirect route.

I guess having a nice chap wheel me costs money, whereas the passengers are just supposed to spend as much money as possible before they fly.

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Re: 515 orders

Speaking of pilots, they'll need more than one pair for a journey this long. Where will their rest cabin be? And the same goes for the cabin crew.

The result of cabin crew with no rest -->

BOFH: Tech helps HR investigate the Boss's devices

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Re: A thing of beauty

Nah, they'd be too bitter...

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Re: Inspirational!

Yeah, it's scary how many people think HR are there to protect them and not protect the organisation from its employees

Nothing says 2022 quite like this remote-controlled machine gun drone

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Re: Fortunately Useless

> While there are ethical conundrums over the use of drones for killing, there are less conundrums when it comes to kneecaps.

If you shoot a soldier’s kneecaps then they’ll need four or more people to get them off the battlefield removing five people, if you shoot the head then you “only” remove one.

Somewhat grim maths…

Heineken says there’s no free beer, warns of phishing scam

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Re: In Victor Borge voice

Given a choice between being scammed and a case of Heineken, I think I'll take having my bank emptied...

512 disk drives later, Floppotron computer hardware orchestra hits v3.0

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Re: Love it.

> If that's a small project, what's a big one...?

Should the small project be called Compact Disc in this case?

Who's growing faster than Nvidia and AMD? Rising datacenter star Marvell

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Re: They'll probably get bought up Broadcom

They should don their ASICs trainers and run away

Teeth marks yield clue to widespread internet outage in Canada

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Dam that beaver!

Europe's most powerful supercomputer is an all-AMD beast

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That depends on the country. Here in Switzerland the majority of power is from hydroelectic.

IBM ordered to hand over ex-CEO emails plotting cuts in older workers

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Re: The dog ate it

That's my employer's email policy, anything over 60 days old goes to /dev/null unless you actually save a copy

MongoDB wants to grab work from other databases

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It looks like it might finally be web scale...

UK competition watchdog seeks to make mobile browsers, cloud gaming and payments more competitive

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WTF?

"As good as many of their services and products are, their strong grip on mobile ecosystems allows them to shut out competitors, holding back the British tech sector and limiting choice."

How does being forced to say use Safari or the Play store hold back the British tech sector?

How one techie ended up paying the tab on an Apple Macintosh Plus

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Re: No convert

But we had one user, who insisted on using spaces instead of tabs, even though we had switched to proportional fonts.

So a future Python programmer then?

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Yeah, he needs to be conCERNed...

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So Mark did what any good support engineer would do. No, not go for a long liquid lunch.

It sounds like Mark should have gone for a nice lunch pint on the user's tab....

Warning: Colleagues are unusually likely to 'break' their monitors soon

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Re: How long is it supported for? Does it Phone Home?

A very good point. My previous Samsung smart TV became less and less smart over time as vendors got bored of making the apps. I dread to think what security holes were left unpatched in its firmware too...

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Re: So

I do the same, I steam to Apple TV and Chromecast - oddly I trust these companies a bit more than Samsung...

Salesforce faces diversity audit from activist investors

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In 2015, Hispanic people represented 4 percent of the total workforce and Black people represented 2 percent. By 2021, the figures had nudged to 5.1 percent Hispanic and 4.3 percent Black. In the United States, Hispanic people make up around 18.5 percent of the population, while Black people comprise around 13.4 percent, according to official estimates from 2021.

Wouldn't a better comparison be against university graduates? Companies like Salesforce tend to mostly employ people with a degree and it'd be unfair to castigate them for not fixing America's educational hurdles.

Intel freezes hiring for PC chip team, cites 'macroeconomic uncertainty'

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Re: There's a rumor about

You mean "You've got intel"?

AWS says it will cloudify your mainframe workloads

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Aren't one of the reasons that mainframes are still used is that they're very reliable and AWS has less than five 9s...

Google calculates Pi to 100 trillion digits

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Re: 100 trillion digits

Pi-pe down you!

Microsoft trumpets updated HR-friendly policies (that comply with recently changed laws)

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Re: "we do not endorse the use of such provisions as a retention tool“

What company official in a large organization is going to put their head above the parapet and suggest a unilateral change that might increase the company's costs - especially relative to their competitors?

This is why meaningful employment rights have to come from legislation.

My employer recently equalised parental for men and women (including same sex couples).

Google's Dallas datacenter opens up new cloud region

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I guess they've moved there for the excellent Texan power supply...

All-AMD US Frontier supercomputer ousts Japan's Fugaku as No. 1 in Top500

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I've just searched for Haida Gwaii supercomputer and it only seems to bring back references to your posts in these forums; do you have more information?

IBM ends funding for employee retirement clubs

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The clubs are regionally split. In the UK, for example, there are 28 local organizations that have run short trips or national tournaments including corporate games or group runs.

You probably meant 28 local organisations

Keeping your head as an entire database goes pear-shaped

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Re: In-Shop Backups

My family actually did this... to floppy disc! There must have been about 50 discs...

Do I get one of these as a reward -->

When management went nuclear on an innocent software engineer

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Re: Goodbye Basingstoke

No, in this case, it was a nuclear reactor, and if the control power was lost, it could be "Goodbye Basingstoke".

But you make that sound like a bad thing...

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> Nothing like having radioactive 'stuff' washing up on the beaches around Dounreay... ;-)

The surf is very good around there, just don't forget to shut your mouth when you go under the water...

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Re: Next time

The Yank should be happy that Ellen didn't DEC the s*** out of him

BOFH: Where do you think you are going with that toner cartridge?

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Re: Vengeance

Maybe the BOFH didn't like his toner voice...

UK opens national security probe into 2021 sale of local wafer fab to Chinese company

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Re: Is it too late?

Or perhaps they just wanted to do the same as when Rover was taken over, ie take the kit and axe the factory

AI-designed COVID-19 drug nominated for preclinical trial

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Re: Re. IND

It's hard to know as the company would want to keep their technology secret, but my slightly educated guess* is that they didn't. I imagine that they used structures of the protease which were probably obtained by public sources.

* I work in research for another pharma company

Microsoft veteran on how he forged a badge to sneak into a Ballmer presentation

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Re: IBM Catering

> I do remember multiple real ales in the sports and social club at lunchtime in the UK

If you remember then you're not doing it right ;)

381,000-plus Kubernetes API servers 'exposed to internet'

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Open-source systems are an increasingly popular target for threat actors. In the era of cloud computing, the attack surface around Linux is only expanding.

But, but, but I though you don't get security problems if you move off Micros~1 Window$

Beware the fury of a database developer torn from tables and SQL

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Re: Just a quick question.

And they can always be "introduced" to the club

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Re: Seems to have ended well in this case

He won't be asked to Rome outside of his area of competence again