Posts by Uh, Mike

Boeing's Starliner future uncertain as NASA weighs next steps

Mission Accomplished

The reason to have two independent designs,

is that if one fails,

you can fall back on the other.

Mission Accomplished!

The IT world moves fast, so why are admins slow to upgrade?

How to tell if you're a juicy target

If you aren't going through some amount of inconvenience to keep updated and manage access,

then you're not doing it right.

It's really easy to skip patches and use stupid passwords or none at all.

If that floats your boat, you're going to sink.

HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'

Say, "Moo."

HP Customers are livestock.

There is no long term commitment to them.

Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US

Re: Next Trump executive orders

Mar-a-lago -> House-arresto.

25 years on from Y2K, let's all be glad it happened way back then

No one ever learns

Yeah, we're using two-digit dates again.

Have fun in your golden years, millenials!

Stranded in space: Starliner crew to remain in orbit even longer as SpaceX faces delays

Re: "We'll be in and out within 20 minutes."

Well, it did arrive intact.

Then Boeing hid it as fast as they could.

Re: "We'll be in and out within 20 minutes."

It's all fine, the Starliner is safe, and space is easy.

I always wondered where their supplies were coming from.

Cryptocurrency policy under Trump: Lots of promises, few concrete plans

Happens all the time.

Trump == Crypto

When he has his own national currency, the grift is complete.

Put his head on the coin. Don't wait for him to croak.

Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog: It's not a soup you want to drink at any price

The sky is not the limit

If it tries really hard, AI could achieve the quality of television broadcasting.

Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it

"Government Supported," has limited compatibility with,"Free."

Just ask Bitcoin.

How deliciously binary: AI has yet to pay off – or is transforming business

AI, quantum computing, and fusion power.

One of them embarrasses itself more loudly than the others.

Patch management still seemingly abysmal because no one wants the job

Quiet Heroes

I used to love going to SANS,

but then returning home was disappointing,

to spend all my time pushing patches,

instead of chasing intrusions.

Still, we had the luxury of an integration lab

where we could certify the patches.

Eventually we got the authority

to audit and enforce patch application.

The places that didn't go down

are where the heroic work took place

before the disaster.

Oracle Java license teams set to begin targeting Oracle users who don't think they use Oracle

Resistance is not futile

What if Oracle had trouble telling the difference between a bot and a real company with money?