* Posts by Korev

4929 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2016

Server won't boot? Forgot to make that backup? Have no fear, just blame Microsoft

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Re: Massive Synology Raid failure

Mine used to get a process that used to consume 100% CPU for days at a time... I'm not sure it's the same issue, I "fixed" it by disabling the regular scans.

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Joke

Re: Baffleing 'em with BS

Sounds like a career in cybersecurity beckons...

Come, chant with us over a sacrificial goat and predict 2021's biggest tech stories to a high degree of accuracy

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Pint

Love it!

A pint for Rupert -->

Singapore changes the rules and will now use COVID-19 contact-tracing app data in criminal cases

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Joke

Re: And here we go

I don't see this as a problem at all; since my COVID vaccination I've been able to access the Internet without my phone or laptop and for some reason keep on buying Microsoft products

Watt's next for batteries? It'll be more of the same, not longer life, because physics and chemistry are hard

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Joke

Re: If life serves you lemons, make... power?

If we're talking about food batteries shouldn't we talking about what currant you can get?

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Re: Why terrifying?

Mobility has been running here in Switzerland since the 90s, most of those problems have already been solved. Basically if the car is late or trashed then you have to pay.

The one time there was a problem with the car I'd booked; they rang me very apologetically and had already arranged a less-crashed substitute.

NHS awards £23m two-year deal to controversial Peter Thiel AI firm Palantir

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Pirate

Re: "maintaining high standards of public trust"

It seems a common problem and not limited to the current lot (who admittedly are pretty bad), think about the Qinetq privatisation under Labour where <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinetiq#NAO_inquiry>the senior managers made over 100 million whilst getting poor value for money for the tax payer...</a>

UK on track to miss even its slashed full-fibre gigabit coverage goals, warn MPs

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Joke

Roughly 9 per cent of the UK's landmass is a "not-spot" lacking 4G service from any operator. In Scotland, that percentage jumps to 20 per cent.

Shouldn't we be trying to get them the wheel first?

You can be my wingbot any time – US military successfully runs AI system on spy plane

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Flame

Re: If you go down to the woods today

BFG or go home...

Windows might have frozen – but at least my feet are toasty

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Coat

That's one way to fry your chips...

AWS Location Service aims to rescue devs from lock-in with 'business and programming models of a single provider'

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Gimp

Re: "Rescue from lock-in"

At least AWS' lock-in is cheaper than Google's lock-in...

About $15m in advertising booked to appear on millions of smart TVs was never seen by anyone, says Oracle

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It's almost impossible to buy a TV that is not "smart" these days; as I'm smart[0] I blocked mine on my firewall

[0] Well hello Messers Dunning and Kruger

Cats: Not a fan favourite when the critters are draped around an office packed with tech

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Joke

Re: Keep the hoover handy

Less appreciated is the 6am 'Feed me Human' shenanigans...!

You feed your cat human?

World+dog share in collective panic attack as Google slides off the face of the internet

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Windows

Re: “So there was no need to resort to something like Bing”

Yes!

Raven geniuses: Four-month-old corvids have similar cognitive abilities to great apes at same age, study finds

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Thumb Up

Re: Octopi are

That looks like an interesting book, thanks for the recommendation

Top tip from the original Task Manager taskmaster: Don't put your phone number on that debug message box

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Pint

The pre-borg Sysinternals wrote the excellent Process Explorer, does any one know what that uses?

A virtual pint for the Sysinternals Tools developers -->

Breaking up big tech can make smartphones interesting again

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Nexus 7s were almost killed by an OS update which the tablet just wasn't powerful enough to run; I'm guessing you didn't update :)

UK union pens letter to data watchdog on icky workplace monitoring systems like Microsoft's Productivity Score

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Paris Hilton

Re: Doing a deal with the devil, or maybe Jesus?

It's a nice place in the spring...

AWS is fed up with tech that wasn’t built for clouds because it has a big 'blast radius' when things go awry

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Coat

Re: Strange terminology

> Well how do *you* level the output of your hamsters if not with gears?

I guess wheel never know...

India to spend up big on submarine cable to sparsely-populated but strategically-placed remote island group

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Pint

Re: Gratifyingly sensible

Trebles all round!

BOFH: Switch off the building? Great idea, Boss

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Childcatcher

Cattle prod?

Was anyone else waiting for the glorious noise of a cattle prod warming the boss' sides? Or perhaps a live electricity cable tragically falling into a pudding the boss had accidentally stepped in?

Google Cloud (over)Run: How a free trial experiment ended with a $72,000 bill overnight

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Pint

Because it's Friday I'm giving you an upvote and a pint... Next week I'll find your post about puppies and downvote :)

EU Medicines Agency hacked, BioNTech-Pfizer coronavirus vaccine paperwork stolen, probe launched

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Boffin

Re: Submissions to regulators must be public domain

Forgotten is that most of the research underlying development takes place in universities and other public institutions; it is funded by the state, by philanthropic institutions, and charitable donations; in so far as the concept of 'intellectual property' has any meaning ownership rests with the public. Much of what is written off as development is, particularly in the USA, aggressive marketing.

Many, but not all targets are found by public institutions; but the molecules that target them are usually invented by pharma/biotech (Academic labs do license molecules and then receive royalties eg Abiraterone). The real work is finding if the said molecules work in the test tube, then animals and finally in humans. The vast bulk of cost is incurred later in the process and I can't see many government wanting to pay a billion or so for developing a drug that the laws of probability say will fail...

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Boffin

How else do you propose finding if medication actually works? Computer models are nowhere near there yet (and may never get there).

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Re: Don't patent COVID-19 vaccines

I work for a Big Pharma that makes the bulk of its money from branded on-patent drugs - when I buy Ibuprofen or whatever "over the counter" I make sure it's the generic version :-)

Oracle Database 21c bridges NoSQL gap with native JSON support, plays catch-up with relational rivals

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Joke

As well as native JSON support, Oracle's 21c release also introduced blockchain tables, which it said help in building applications that can support the distributed ledger. ®

We're saved!!! Can we declare world hunger, COVID and Piers Morgan things of the past?

CentOS project changes focus, no more rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux – you'll have to flow with the Stream

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Linux

Re: Anyone who thinks this is a good opportunity to migrate to Ubuntu...

I have a feeling that Redhat would have been better off under today's Microsoft than today's IBM...

And yes it feels odd to have written that!

FOSS developer survey: Mostly male, employed... and many don't care about 'soul-withering chore' of security

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FAIL

Re: Why is lack of security a surprise?

Even as an IT Pro security can annoy me - for example my work are introducing 2FA for the VPN, which is much less convenient than just typing my password. I understand fully why they're doing this, but it does seem like a ball ache.

Me -->

Uni revealed it killed off its PhD-applicant screening AI – just as its inventors gave a lecture about the tech

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Terminator

Completion

Unless I missed it, they also didn't include completion of their PhD in the model, which sounds like an obvious thing to have.

(Although I do wonder if certain groups drop out more often and then feeding that in would be counted as discrimination)

How'd they do that? It's classified: Microsoft's Azure cloud goes Top Secret

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Childcatcher

it won't arrive before 25 December. In fact, it will only be available to ship by 29 January, handily missing the season when amusing knitted sweaters are all the rage.

They also missed Halloween where they'd fit in nicely...

IBM bet the company on hybrid cloud. Analysts just rated it a mere 'contender' for hybrid management

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Coat

Yeah, things aren't Boeing well for them...

Chuck Yeager, sound barrier pioneer pilot, dies at 97

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Pint

Re: Old and bold

Father Ted beat me to it, the pint still stands

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Re: Old and bold

I'd add Eric Brown, but they were both amazing.

Pint for them both -->

IT workers join elite sports stars, fat cat biz execs, celebs and posties for special treatment under England's COVID-19 travel isolation rules

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Coat

Re: Omission

We'll keep a lookout for odd Cummings and goings...

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Unhappy

Re: Republican health care

I really hope you're wrong AC, but I fear you're right

Japan sticks the landing: Asteroid sample recovered from Hayabusa2 probe

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Joke

Re: Protective gear?

> There's someone who does not get out much.

To be fair, I live in Switzerland so the biggest threat to me is cheese overdose

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Boffin

Protective gear?

What hazards were the protective gear for? Was it just extreme heat after re-entry or something more than that?

You're going to need to unwrap and rewrap those Pi-400 holiday gifts. There's a new Raspberry Pi OS Update

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Windows

Re: Never too young....

I think it'll be more character building for my seven year old daughter to open the Pi400 on Christmas day and learn the hard reality of life / software updates.

And when she's older she can joke about her first computer in the way we talk about floppy disks and punchcards now.

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UK coronavirus tier postcode-searching tool yanked offline as desperate Britons hunt for latest lockdown details

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Childcatcher

It wasn't, I'm just surprised that someone didn't get in with "Tiers" first

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Coat

Yes, it ended in tiers...

US Air Force deploys robot security dogs to guard base

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Coat

Re: Be afraid! Be very afraid!!

It'll be a dogfight...

Intel chief pens congratulatory letter to President-elect Biden urging work on immigration and domestic manufacturing

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Joke

Intel CEO Bob Swan has penned an open letter to President-elect Joe Biden congratulating him on his win, and urging his incoming administration to continue investment in domestic semiconductor manufacturing.

"Preferably at 7nm as we can't seem to do it ourselves..."

Panic in the mailroom: The perils of an operating system too smart for its own good

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Boffin

Re: Computerized billing ...

There was a wonderful Geek's guide on Dinorwig a few years back.

BOFH: You might want to sit down for this. Oh, right, you can't. Listen carefully: THIS IS NOT AN IT PROBLEM!

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Joke

Re: Only a 4 lb lump hammer?

You have to be a bit careful though, there's a very thin line between them being sorry and their head making a mess of the floor...

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Re: Older gear is always an option

I'd happily use a 4:3 monitor again, almost everything I do is long, not wide...

Solving a big, yellow IT problem: If it's not wearing hi-vis, I don't trust it

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Re: Was it Diggerland?

"primary school fate"

What did the school die of?

Microsoft unveils a Universal version of Office for Apple silicon

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Re: Office Menus

A Cold One for you, to be drunk in the Toolbar of course...

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Re: This puzzled me a bit

>None of the Office apps should be stressing modern hardware enough to be substantially degraded by a Rosetta process.

Have you seen some of the monster spreadsheets that people use?

(I'm not suggesting for a second that Excel is the best tool for the job!)

Apple drops macOS Big Sur on the world – and it arrives with a thud, sound of breaking glass, sirens in the distance...

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Re: But if only...

To be fair to Apple, those Xserves are probably getting a bit old and slow by now...

More evidence your work/life balance has gone to $%£*: Atlassian says user-interface interactions show hours tacked on to workday

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Re: Commutes

I miss my commute and heading into the office every day. I can't wait for things to return somewhere near normal again.