I thought that UK Gov was supposed to be big on open formats and the like these days,
But, but the Office files are an ISO standard
Posts by Korev
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UK pensions dept hands Softcat £250M for Microsoft subscriptions
Thursday 20th April 2023 07:21 GMT 
Meta virtual reality interrupted by financial reality as thousands lose their jobs
Wednesday 19th April 2023 19:50 GMT 
Meta's Year of Efficiency was preceded by 2022, a year of revenue decline (-4 percent) and rising costs (+22 percent), partly attributable to Apple's iOS privacy changes in 2021 that reduced Meta's ad targeting revenue by about $10 billion.The social ad biz last year lost $13.7 billion in 2022 due to its Reality Labs group, which proved efficient in its extravagant spending.
I think there's a fairly obvious way forward here...
Child-devouring pothole will never hurt a BMW driver again
Fujitsu bags £142M UK government work since Horizon probe announced
Wednesday 19th April 2023 12:39 GMT
Re: Thank you
PCPro also did some good work on the false paedophila allegations a few years ago, I don't know if they still do this kind of investigative journalism or not.*
* I used to subscribe to both magazines when I lived in the UK, but stopped after international postage costs started to get stupid
European datacenters worried they can't get cheap, reliable juice
Wednesday 19th April 2023 07:22 GMT
Re: Smells like bullshit
> An interesting point to note is that US businesses are much more likely to install their own generation capabilities to mitigate the low network reliability
My American colleagues all seem to have generators at home to protect against power cuts. I've never met anyone in Europe who's done this.
Wednesday 19th April 2023 07:20 GMT
Re: Standalone vs Integrated
I was on a tour of a Swiss university's new datacentre. One of the other visitors asked why they were doing with the heat, the host geek said that they wanted to do that, but the architects asked if they could say for sure that the systems in there would be similar in 20-30 years or so and of course the answer was no and the city is a bit less cold in winter...
Capita IT breach gets worse as Black Basta claims it's now selling off stolen data
Intel axes Blockscale mining ASICs it brought out just in time for crypto winter
FerretDB 1.0 offers fresh approach to open source document databases
BOFH: We send a user to visit Kelvin – Keeper of the Batteries
OVH punts hybrid water and immersion cooling for high performance systems
Thursday 13th April 2023 09:52 GMT 
For this reason, OVH looked at capturing the heat at its source, putting a water block on top of the CPU (and later GPU), through which water circulates to absorb the heat, then it is extracted outside of the rack and ultimately outside of the building.
Especially for the AMD FirePro cards I guess...
America ain't exactly outlawing gas cars but it's steering hard into EVs
Tupperware looking less airtight than you'd think
40% of IT security pros say they've been told not to report a data leak
Take a 14-mile trip on an autonomous Scottish bus starting next month
Turns out people don't like it when they suspect a machine's talking to them
Pager hack faxed things up properly, again, and again, and again
Monday 10th April 2023 14:00 GMT
Whatever happened to Wang?
To take your question rather more literally than perhaps you meant, DDG just found a website with this beautiful phrase:
OK, gang — here it is, without apologies: A place to give and get information on the unkillable Wang® VS™, a line of computers that has persisted for over 32 years in this confused world of unix and client/server experiments.
Child hit by car among videos 'captured by Tesla vehicles, shared among staff'
Royal Mail wins worst April Fools' joke 2023
Cisco Moscow trashed offices as it quit Putin's putrid pariah state
Criminal records office yanks web portal offline amid 'cyber security incident'
Thursday 6th April 2023 09:42 GMT 
We're not sure ACRO should be handing out security advice right now but in any case, it urged users to make sure they use "strong and unique passwords"
Even with a 1000 character-long random password, this wouldn't have helped if the miscreants had compromised the system and have access to some very sensitive data.
Having a unique password is always sensible though.
Benchmark a cloud PC? No way. Just trust us, they work, says Microsoft
Thursday 6th April 2023 09:35 GMT
Re: Benchmarks are important sometimes..
I mostly agree, but not so much with The only use cases for Cloud are small firms with no in house IT Talent
Running stuff in the Cloud still requires skills, albeit it different ones. You obviously don't need the hardware people, but you still need people who know how to spin up VMs etc. The risks of getting things wrong are debatably higher too, as the number of "hacks" on S3 buckets shows.
Thursday 6th April 2023 07:52 GMT
Re: Benchmarks are important sometimes..
A friend had a business who self-built some consumer-level PCs for running their tests. They got taken over by a company who'd standardised on Azure, apparently to match the speed of the PCs they built for a three figure sum, their new corporate overlords had to spend a five sum in Azure!
IBM, Kyndryl cut jobs even after cutting ties
IBM shrinks z16 and LinuxONE systems into standard rack configs
Bank rewrote ads for infosec jobs to stop scaring away women
Capita: Cyber-attack broke some of our IT systems
AI software helps astronomers deblur galaxies snapped by Earth telescopes
Defunct comms link connected to nothing at a fire station – for 15 years
Ex-politico turned Meta hype man brands Metaverse 'new heart of computing'
Uptime guarantees don't apply when you turn a machine off, then on again, to 'fix' it
Virgin Orbit lays off 85% of staff as funding deal falters
Friday 31st March 2023 14:02 GMT 
Cornwall Council "invested" £10 million into the Spaceport at the same time as cutting the Duchy's museum grants meaning it almost had to close and still faces an uncertain future. Hopefully the Cornish taxpayers will start asking some hard questions!
Looks Cornwall will have to go back to Wrecking at this rate -->
Psst! Infosec bigwigs: Wanna be head of security at HM Treasury for £50k?
Friday 31st March 2023 13:11 GMT
Re: Only reason to take the job
Like Crapita? That being the Crapita who only this morning had what could well be a cyberattack
One of the sad things about The Americanised Register these days is that you now have to read about stories like this in the mainstream press...
Scientists speak their brains: Please don’t call us boffins
Thursday 30th March 2023 13:02 GMT
Re: Hmmm
I'm related to a psychiatric nurse who does cross fit and is rather big and strong. The cops dropped off one of their patients who'd "gone for a walk", took the handcuffs off, left as soon as they could and the patient saw the nurse as another figure of authority and floored him! I believe Vitamin H was served shortly afterwards...
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