* Posts by Korev

4878 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2016

Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes

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Re: RE: Simple question: if knowledge is so completely lost...

"...before you could extract any data cat videos or porn."

Would that be lunatik toc?

Meta to squeeze money from WhatsApp with Cloud API for businesses

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Re: In all seriousness, people still use WhatsAPP?

When the T&Cs changed a while ago a lot of people said they'd stop using it. The end result for me is that ~90% of messages still go through WhatsApp and I have a load of other messaging apps of which each is used by a tiny number of people....

Microsoft-backed robovans to deliver grub in London

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Re: Free PC with every delivery

But how would you boot it?

Seriously, you do not want to make that cable your earth

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I'm wired about this...

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Re: Rainbow - Nostalgia

It was there I got quite familiar with RS232

Well most Brits eat serial for breakfast...

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Re: Bee-sting ?

I was thinking the same

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Maybe they'll work on something more current soon...

Intel plans immersion lab to chill its power-hungry chips

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Re: Mineral oil?

Why not use lard then you can make chips at the same time ?

Xeon or Epyc?

Venezuelan cardiologist charged with 'designing and selling ransomware'

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Re: "The self-taught coder and qualified cardiologist"

True, you beat me to the comment though...

We can bend the laws of physics for your super-yacht, but we can't break them

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Re: Sat Comm

Show your fellow oligarchs that yours is bigger?

And has a helicopter -->

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I know a chap whose job it is to work out if an Oligarch/Middle Eastern prince's demands are feasible for a private jet. Some of the things people want are crazy, one guy liked goats' milk for breakfast* and wanted space onboard for the animals.

* No I'm not kidding

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We had complaints from a Very Important Person that his minions couldn't analyse their data at home. Their data consisted of files of up to Gigabyte or so and the ADSL lines at that point were about 2Mb/s. I popped their software onto Citrix and the monster server chewed through the data faster than when they had their laptops in the office. The staff were "happy" they could now waste their evening processing their data to hit his arbitrary deadlines...

AMD approaches '30%' x86 CPU market share, thanks to servers 'n' laptops

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The only segment where AMD didn't gain market share from Intel in the first quarter was the desktop PC space

Intel has just brought a new generation of chips out; AMD's next big move will happen later this year. I for one will probably pick up a new AMD chip from the next generation (or if the performance isn't much better pick up a x59*0 for a good price)

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AMD approaches '30%' x86 CPU market share, thanks to servers 'n' laptops

So AMD are chipping away at Intel's market share?

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Guess you could call this Mercury Ryzen

A pint for Mr Martin

BMW looks to quantum computers to speed R&D

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Re: Cloud-based... quantum processors...

AI don't know where it is

Big Tech shrank the internet while growing its own power

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Re: The i in iPhone stands for "internet"

iDunno

Can AI transformer models help design drugs and treat incurable diseases?

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The alternative would be for all the risks to be assumed by governments of this planet. Could you imagine the headlines in the Daily Mail if a government invested a billion in a drug candidate that failed its last clinical trial?

Disclosure: I work for a drug company so I have a job due to the current setup

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Re: Big Pharma

You do know that the word "biosimilar" actually means a biologic drug that's off patent and is considered similar enough to be equivalent?

(I know this because my employer makes some of them)

Half of developers still at screens even during breaks

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Re: Not a dev...

As long as there's no magic smoke in the datacentre

At last, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 slips out

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Re: How do you like them apples?

Our model is that what you write on your workstation you can then run on on-prem HPC, servers and the cloud. To do this the packages etc. are synchronised over the platforms.

Germany makes new move to attract chip manufacturers

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Re: And if the predictions are

Sounds fab...

Amazon to spend $12b on five more datacenters in Oregon

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WTF?

The outlet reports that over the past five years Amazon has secured tax breaks in Morrow County worth $161 million, including $47 million last year.

The sprawling online bazaar is the single-largest taxpayer in the county having paid more than $25 million in taxes and fees in 2021, albeit according to Amazon.

Looks like Morrow County is onto a winner there...

Watchdog rubber-stamps cavity-detecting neural network for dentists

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Re: Should not the headline ...

No problem, you're just filling in the details for us...

Thinnet cables are no match for director's morning workout

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Re: Full names please.......

One of them was a lad who rejoiced in the name of Warren Peace.

Any relation to the chap in the latter half of this video?

Legacy IT to blame for UK's inflexible benefits system

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The UK's chief finance minister, Rishi Sunak,

He's the Chancellor, most readers (even Leftpondians) should be able to understand that...

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Re: Remind Me...

Yes, Sir Humphrey

BT signs deal with AWS with aim of speeding up digital transformation

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Re: AWS?

it has 38 components now, each with names which are mostly unrelated to their function

...

Meanwhile AWS is complex, but at least you can get started without too much difficulty.

Things like Route53, EC2 or S3 don't exactly describe what they do either

Outlook bombards Safari users with endless downloads

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I Pine for Linux console email programmes

Microsoft Edge's 'Secure Network' sounds a lot like a built-in VPN

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Re: If only home routers could offer a VPN too....

Anyone who knows why/how to run an OpenWRT router isn’t the target audience for this.,,

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Didn't Opera do this a few years ago? IIRC this was the proper Opera, not the Chromium reskin...

BOFH: Something's consuming 40% of UPS capacity – and it's coming from the beancounters' office

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Re: A possible solution

Every so often a cleaner would unplug the server in order to plug in their vacuum cleaner after hours. Such a round earth pin socket would have eliminated this problem.

Although, the cleaner probably would only see the special socket once they'd unplugged the server...

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Re: I love the smell of burning beancounter kit in the morning

Sorry, we're currently playing Queen Victoria rules, so only a quick half-shuffle to Baker Street is acceptable

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Re: Beancounter central would not be happy on Monday

Or connected to the UPS for when some "Bright spark" picks up the electrified phone on Monday...

Timetable for industrial action ballot against BT imminent

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Childcatcher

Maybe drop the expensive football rights, pay the staff enough to live and keep the rest as profit?

In IT, no good deed ever goes unpunished

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A reader Regomised as "Will"

Wouldn't Mike be a better name for someone involved with telephones?

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It looks like everything went to POTS in that company...

British motorists will be allowed to watch TV in self-driving vehicles

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Re: Will it be allowed to drive me back from the pub ?

You mean where it was Glasgowing?

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Re: Too early.

Have you seen the cycle lane on the A3 near Guildford and Godalming? Basically they painted some bikes on the side of the road and popped some signs up and they expect the cyclists to cross each slip road where the vehicles will be doing 50-70MPH.

I guess it's to game the cycle stats, there's no way that anyone sane would ride on them!

Not to dis your diskette, but there are some unexpected sector holes

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Re: Such memories...

I remember how amazingly fast discs seemed compared to loading from tape on the BBC Micros at school.

Greybeard -->

Kraft Heinz signs up Microsoft to lift it into the cloud

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Mushroom

I was also expecting a secret sauce reference too...

What I'd like to do sales droids who use this phrase -->

Insteon's vanishing act explained: Smart home biz insolvent, sells off assets

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Big Brother

At least if there's a subscription the chances are the infrastructure will be funded and remain up. The "we sell tat and each new customer helps to pay for the old ones' infrastructure" ponzi scheme model is pretty obviously not going to last for ever...

ASML CEO: Industrial conglomerate buying washing machines to rip out semiconductors

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Re: Ba dum tish

Give it a rest!

Cloud spending to scrape $500 billion this year – Gartner

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Re: A lot of cash to spend

Apart from in many scenarios it's far more expensive. If you have a very bursty workload then it's ideal, if you run 24/7 it's pricey. Specialist services like GPUs are especially pricey.

'IBM is now a very different company' says CEO as Q1 2022 beats expectations

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Re: He's right about that

I saw some presentations from their Zürich research group a few years ago and was very surprised that IBM have smart people there doing interesting work.

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I'm not sure that without a cash cow monopoly (Office - MS, DB - Oracle, Ink - HP, Advertising - Google)

I'd count the mainframes as one for IBM here. Vendor lockin -->

Netflix to crack down on account sharing, offer ad-laden cheaper options

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Re: Price gouging is their biggest issue

This is also my situation. I have a 4K TV and live by myself, so will only ever use one device.

Infosys noncompete clause sparks complaint from labor rights org

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Indians can spell properly

It's Labour, not "labor"...

An early crack at network management with an unfortunate logfile

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Never quite done that - networking tends to not have that many comments in it. Closest I got was to one difficult link which happened to use clan 666 to refer to the supplier…

In a previous I had the less competent of our network team create a new VLAN for me which for some reason was rather hard as it involved some weird switch configuration. It turns out he numbered it 666...