* Posts by Korev

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Windows XP activation algorithm cracked, keygen now works on Linux

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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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IT Angle

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!

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

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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...

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

Python Package Index had one person on-call to hold back weekend malware rush

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Re: And I bet

> I tip my hat to the dedicated people in the open source world who maintain this stuff. They are often nameless (until the sh** hits the fan).

Exactly!

See icon for what they deserve

US supers maintain grip on Top500 list as China seemingly hides its powers

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UK?

I know this list is to some extent willy waving, but why is the UK so under-represented in the list?

Microsoft and Helion's fusion deal has an alternative energy

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Missed opportunity

If Microsoft really wanted fusion then they should have bought Sun years ago...

Rigorous dev courageously lied about exec's NSFW printouts – and survived long enough to quit with dignity

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Upstairs, in the penthouse, the executives and sales people had their own printers

I this story's context, Penthouse seems appropriate

Cheapest, oldest, slowest part fixed very modern Mac

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It's lucky he got it working or else he'd have had to face the music...

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Ringo said the system "worked flawlessly after the 'upgrade'

Sounds like he tuned the system well...

Up to £895M up for grabs in UK Emergency Services procurement

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It's time to Airwave goodbye

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Re: What a shower!

This is another procurement shambles worthy of a public inquiry.

We all know the chances of that are somewhere between "Not a chance in hell" and "Heat death of the universe"

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In October last year, the CMA put forward plans to cap Motorola's fees on the existing Airwave network, which, together with the Home Office's negotiations with Motorola, led the US tech supplier to walk away from its £400 million ($498 million) contract for ESN.

So Motorola copped out...

SAP gets cloudy with a chance of AI in bid to woo on-prem brigade

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"The big help here is generative AI which technically and commercially needs to live in the cloud."

I'd love to know why this couldn't run on-prem. I suspect this is yet another attempt to get SAP users onto expensive cloud subscriptions...

Another security calamity for Capita: An unsecured AWS bucket

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They used to call them that here too

Qlik's got Talend as visualization vendors merge

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So what chances are there of both products surviving in the long term? Has one been bought to be killed? Why would anyone license either product until after the future is clear?

Modest Apple talks up these 'incredible' advances in iOS

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I do appreciate the Register's snark (which has started to put in a welcome return), but these updates will be huge (maybe even incredible) for the people who need them. Maybe save the sarcasm for some other blockAIchain bollocks.

A lone Nvidia GPU speeds past the physics-straining might of a quantum computer – in these apps at least

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Boffin

Re: Weather forecasting

Protein folding is a way off too. This preprint suggests that what takes a few days on a "conventional computer" would take decades or millennia on today's quantum computers.

Academics have 'no confidence' in Edinburgh University's response to its Oracle disaster

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Re: Easy fix

In The Cloud with an AI Blockchain?

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Re: Echoes of Cambridge University's CAPSA fiasco

And Cambridge have just started projects to replace both their HR & finance systems. Maybe we're in line for a hat-trick of IT cock-ups.

As you're talking about Cambridge, shouldn't it be Trinity of IT cock-ups"?

Unlike your iPhone, Apple's batterygate controversy refuses to die

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sparked a $2 billion (£1.6 billion) UK class-action suit against the iGiant last year.

So you could say Apple are being charged...

Streaming apps – and maybe even Cloud PCs – coming to electric cars

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Re: "subscriptions that enhance the EV experience"

Funnily enough, having some petrol to hand would mean you can avoid the BMW rent for the seat.The only downside is that some people would consider the seat a touch on the warm side...

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Well, until we have Star Trek-style teleporting some method of transport will be necessary

CERN celebrates 30 years since releasing the web to the public domain

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Re: The only reason that WWW ...

... beat out Gopher was because the University of Minnesota decided on more restrictive licensing than the toy out of CERN.

Or that Philip Schofield wouldn't let him out of the Broom Cupboard[0]

[0] May not mean much if you're not from the UK[1]

[1] And are of a certain age...

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Re: Mirage of democracy

There's also This paper: "On most measures, expert LaTeX users performed even worse than novice Word users."

BOFH takes a visit to retro computing land

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Re: NMOC

And for those in/near Switzerland, Musée Bolo. It includes some rather tasty bits of old supercomputers.

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"If this manager gets all excited about a Soundblaster and CDROM then he has (had) much more clue than the typical manager."

Why? What does this prove other than that the manager knows what good 1990s computer parts entail? It doesn't necessarily indicate that the manager is good at using them, even if we assume that the manager has an intended use for them because they're not so unique nowadays.

When I made the comment I was thinking back to the days of mscdex.exe, autoexec.bat etc. In order to use a computer in those days for gaming you had to be more tech-savvy than just clicking buttons in Steam like you do today.

God I'm old -->

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Re: Apple Lisa

Maybe he'll take the cash and then use some of it on carpet and quicklime...

We used to have a BOFH icon, as we're now Paris-deprived could we have it back -->

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If this manager gets all excited about a Soundblaster and CDROM then he has (had) much more clue than the typical manager.

This can't end well, I hope he's avoiding stairwells and windows...

Boffins claim to create the world's first wooden transistor

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Security?

I wonder how easy it is to root?

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Re: Woodworm

But can it have SAP software?

Shocks from a hairy jumper crashed a PC, but the boss wouldn't believe it

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Re: Pneumatic computer

Sounds like he couldn't handle the pressure...

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Re: Static

For a moment I thought you were suggesting the secretary was average.

That was mean!

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Re: capital of BC

Capital of Canada? Washington DC surely...

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Re: "Hairy jumper"

Jumper spider surely

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Re: No Goat related metaphor?

Don't try and milk it...