Re: To brew American beer.....
Whatever you say bud...
Posts by Korev
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LG's beer-making bot singlehandedly sucks all fun, boffinry from home brewing
Doom at 25: The FPS that wowed players, gummed up servers, and enraged admins
Remember Misco? Staff win protective award at employment tribunal
Boffins build blazing battery bonfire
Saturday 8th December 2018 21:15 GMT 
Re: Lots of choices
El Reg did a rather nice Geek's Guide to Dinorwig Power Station
. A great read if you haven't seen it.
HCL picks up Notes, spanks total of $1.8bn at Honest John's IBM software sale
Total Inability To Support User Phones: O2 fries, burning data for 32 million Brits
Thursday 6th December 2018 12:09 GMT 
Re: Not just O2
>If you want a laugh though there's a chap on there claiming to be "Nigel from O2" who is doing some expert trolling of the outraged masses...
I liked
"Hi Matt, This is Nigel from O2.
How does the gift of christmas cheer sound! This is the season for forgiveness and we at O2 would like nothing more! :)"
One for Nigel -->
How the mighty have fallen: Anglian Water knocks Google off perch as UK's best workplace
OM5G... Qualcomm teases next Snapdragon chip for phones: The 855 with a fingerprint Sonic Screwdriver, er, Sensor
If you ever felt like you needed to carry 4TB of data around, Toshiba's got you covered
Naked women cleaning biz smashes patriarchy by introducing naked bloke gardening service
US Department of Defense to sling an estimated $3.17bn at Microsoft resellers
Intel eggheads put bits in a spin to try to revive Moore's law
Customers baffled as Citrix forces password changes for document-slinging Sharefile outfit
Q: If Pesky Pepper had a peek at patient papers, at how many patient papers did Pesky Pepper peek? A: 231
Tuesday 4th December 2018 10:41 GMT 
Re: Norfolk
Fortunately for the commentards here Norfolk residents do not constitute a racial group as otherwise I think we'd have a potential hate crime on out hands
Interestingly, a former MP for Norwich got in a lot of trouble for suggesting inbreeding caused a lot of health problems. He was actually a former professional biologist so arguably knew what he was talking about!
I was once one of you, F1 star Lewis Hamilton tells delighted IT bods
Blockchain study finds 0.00% success rate and vendors don't call back when asked for evidence
What now, Larry? AWS boss insists Amazon will have dumped Oracle database by end of 2019
Tape vendors feel the cold, clammy hand of AWS on their shoulders. Behind them grins the Glacier Deep Archive
Friday 30th November 2018 09:14 GMT
Re: Retrieval time
Expedited retrievals cost $0.03 per GB and $0.01 per request.Standard retrievals cost $0.01 per GB and $0.05 per 1,000 requests.
Bulk retrievals cost $0.0025 per GB and $0.025 per 1,000 requests.
Looks like ~256USD to bring back 100TB; however what counts as a "request"? Is each file one request?
Oh my chord! Sennheiser hits bum note with major HTTPS certificate cock-up
AI snaps business titan jaywalking
Tuesday 27th November 2018 13:19 GMT
Re: Jaywalking
>I'm always been a bit bemused by the fact that zebra crossing markings on roads seem to be universally ignored by drivers.
That depends on the country. Here in Switzerland they stop for you; in France drivers are supposed to stop but often don't. Living in a border area I'm always wary of French drivers for that reason.
Openreach names 81 lucky locations to be plugged into its super-zippy Gfast pipe
Tuesday 27th November 2018 13:13 GMT 
Re: G.fail - Try getting that on Alu
Anyway, all Liberty Virign Media need to do is firmware upgrade to DOCSIS 3.1 and 250Mbps becomes 2Gbps and no body wants to pay OpenBreach for G.not so fast
This suggests that Liberty Global should be nearly complete with rolling out Docsis 3.1 by the end of the year. No sign of it here in Switzerland yet though.
A rumble in Amazon's jungle: AWS now rents out homegrown 64-bit Arm server processors
Great Scott! Is nothing sacred? US movie-goers vote Back To The Future as most-wanted reboot
Tuesday 27th November 2018 07:39 GMT
Also in the UK
'Old favourites such as Mrs Brown's Boys, Call the Midwife and Strictly Come Dancing return to our screens.' [over Christmas]...
I'm going to be "stocking up" -->
Office 365 Exchange enjoys a less than manic Monday. Users? Not so much
Everyone's all like 'stick it in the cloud!' What of the mad lads pushing data closer to compute?
'Cuddly' German chat app slacking on hashing given a good whacking under GDPR: €20k fine
Friday 23rd November 2018 15:25 GMT 
As well as acknowledging Knuddels' cooperation, the authority's State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Stefan Brink, said it was avoiding the temptation to enter a "competition for the highest possible fines".The watchdog also wanted to avoid bankrupting the company. "The overall financial burden on the company was taken into account in addition to other circumstances," the authority noted. ®
Shame, a colossal fine that threatens a company's existence is exactly the thing that would make organisations take security seriously.
Lush scrubs its card-processing servers squeaky clean
Shocker: UK smart meter rollout is crap, late and £500m over budget
Friday 23rd November 2018 14:18 GMT
Re: Smart meters do not save energy
The only thing smart meters do is make it more visible to the consumer how much energy they are using
There is a depressing number of people in the UK who have to chose between food and heating in the winter; some people have even died of cold because of this. I can see how having a readout quickly available to them may make things worse.
Friday 23rd November 2018 14:07 GMT 
Re: smart meter != reduction in energy consumption
A Dutch system was found to give incorrect high readings for devices with dimmer controls.
The EWB (Basel utilities) company had to change a load of electricity meters a few years ago because all meters fitted in a certain time period were faulty.
Pasta-covered cat leads to kid night operator taking apart the mainframe
Well now you node: They're not known for speed, but Ceph storage systems can fly
Western Digital bought Upthere, and just sent its software out there
1,700 lucky Brit kids to visit Apple Stores for 'Year of Engineering'
Analogue radio is the tech that just won't die
Thursday 22nd November 2018 14:30 GMT
Poorer households in the DE socioeconomic groups are keener to go online with their smartphones rather than PCs, possibly indicating lack of broadband penetration (as Ofcom speculates) or a simpler user experience (as your reporter speculates).
Or maybe because mobile phones appear "free" to people who take out contracts; as opposed to computers which "cost money (ie you pay upfront).
Also, the number of people who don't realise that it's cheaper to buy a mobile phone upfront and then go "contract free" is astounding.
Malware scum want to build a Linux botnet using Mirai
Thursday 22nd November 2018 10:42 GMT
The "VPNFilter" variant "still tries to brute-force factory default usernames and passwords via telnet",
if a Hadoop system has a publicly exposed YARN service, "it is not a matter of IF but a matter of WHEN your service will be compromised and abused".
Why would any even partially competent sysadmin still do these things?
In Space, Still: 20 years since Russia hurled first bit of floating astronaut hostel into orbit
Black Friday? Yes, tech vendors might be feeling a bit glum looking at numbers for the UK
LastPass? More like lost pass. Or where the fsck has it gone pass. Five-hour outage drives netizens bonkers
Thursday 22nd November 2018 10:00 GMT 
Re: Keepass + Dropbox
This was the reason I created a Dropbox account (many years ago). Keep the updated keepass file on Dropbox for convenient access. For those moments without internet, you'll have the last local copy on your device.
I have a similar setup. I have a pair of KeepassX databases; one for work, t'other for home stuff. The work one (keepassx is the approved standard) gets backed up to OneDrive for Business (again approved). The home stuff lives on a NAS and also gets backed up to a cloud.
The only downsides are the potential for $CLOUD to get hacked and then the encryption cracked; the other is manually entering >20 character random passwords onto an IOS device manually soon gets old...
