Posts by Tim Kemp

Datacenters near Heathrow seemingly stay up as substation fire closes airport

Re: How?

All ofthem I expect. There's no reason for an airport to need power backup for all its systems, and they rely on a lot of third party and off site services to work as well. For example air traffic control and coordination, parking, road networks, communications etc.

As a regional outage will affect all of that there's no cost-benefit to keeping anything other than emergency lighting and evacuation, and critical systems, operational as people won't be able to get to the airport, get away from the airport, or fly anywhere anyway.

How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern software

Re: Thanks for a trip down memory lane

Planars, DASDs and AMDs. I miss the days of IBM calling stuff by names no one else used.

Fujitsu does not trust Post Office in use of Horizon data in future third-party prosecutions

They were paid for a system to handle data, and produce information. They were not paid for data.

Microsoft's results are in, but the E7 subscription remains mythical. For now

The dilemma is often that the Microsoft platform now encompasses so much of what 75 percent of business users use, want and need, that IT providers are focussing directly on it and deskilling in everything else.

Management will buy Microsoft because it's quite cheap and all works together. Single vendor removes interoperability issues, near universal acceptance of Microsoft as the desktop platform of choice means development and compatibility are good. Conversely it's also the largest attack surface and massively disruptive when it goes down.

We have backed ourselves into this corner, and need to ensure we protect ourselves and our data. The clever ones can still operate their businesses when Microsoft, Google or AWS are down.

Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience

Re: Disk encryption on servers?

Sometimes policy requires disk encryption when using equipment you don't own such as public cloud.

Yet another reason for keeping a copy of data on site.

Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance

Re: A quick question

I believe a major reputable organisation was still running some code myself and a colleague wrote in a hurry one night on a server room floor right up to 2019, we wrote the code in 1995. It was interfacing a data stream from RS485 and sending it to an AS400. I think we revised it once in that time when the data stream was moved from the RS485 network to ethernet.

During its lifecycle it was P-V and continued to run, in windows 2000 in its last incarnation, 24/7/52.

It was I think mostly VB6...

I'll see your data loss and raise you a security policy violation

Re: Outlook...

You mean Reverse Chronological Desktop Heap Sorting?

Huawei wins big intellectual property case in Europe – against fashion house Chanel

"But fashion house Chanel found it offensive because it resembles its own logo, depicted below on a tub of moisturiser that inexplicably costs around $100."

At 25 quid for an 8ml ink cartridge from many printer manufacturers, I wonder where they learned that from?

Splunk junks 'hanging' processes, suggests you don't 'hit' a key: More peaceful words now preferred in docs

Re: Primary...

"'Dominant' and 'Subservient' - now where's the 'GIMP' when it's needed?"

Replacing Photoshop for those who don't like paying for subscriptions.

Dev creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure, was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep

Am I the only person that thinks that whether or not you consider this acceptable is irrelevant, you should either (a) read all the damned terms and conditions before clicking Accept (along with all the related terms and conditions) or (b) assume that the contract is biased solely in the vendor's favour and they will do what they like with the data and then find something in the 4,000,000 page agreement that covers their behaviour?

If you don't want to be stalked don't have an online presense. If you care about privacy so much then stop using t'internet.

Samsung slings the skinny on its 12GB GötterDRAMmerung for next-gen smartmobes

Didn't Sir Clive

intimate that you could run a power station on a 1k ZX80?

Total Inability To Support User Phones: O2 fries, burning data for 32 million Brits

Using a multi-net SIM here. Feeling smug today.

I wonder how many people finding voice calls affected are trying to use VoLTE?

UK 'meltdown' bank TSB's owner: Our IT migration was a 'success'

Saw Pester on the news last nigjht, when asked when the systems would be up he replied "I've been told 4 PM but we can't always believe what IT people say".

That's disgraceful. He is CEO, buck stops there. If he can't trust his IT department and leadership then why did he allow the transfer to proceed?

How life started on Earth: Sulfur dioxide builds up, volcanoes blow, job done – boffins

Punctuation...

... congratulations on hiding "blow job" in the headline!

Sysadmin told to spend 20+ hours changing user names, for no reason

Not difficult.

1. Document and inform of the risk

2. Create a transformation project, engage a consultant

3. Create a process, and a test, then re-assess risk

4. Request budget for change.

5. Create methods and scripts for PFYs to follow an implement

6. Await sign off from 2IC to approve the potential downfall of anything AD linked for the whim of a change, then either sit back knowing you've been vindicated because he backs out, or plough on and kick off the change project, knowing that the overtime is coming, and the "I told you so" moment will be glorious.

Freeparking hit by DDoS, vexed customers scream into abyss

The joys of hosting.

I've worked for a small hosting company, DDOS on the servers is a nightmare, hard to mitigate, slow to fix and when you're in it it's like being drowned with screaming customers who do not understand that no matter what they do there's nothing that can be done that isn't being done.

I've used FP for years, and they're no worse than the other small providers I use, I'm in no hurry to move my domains away from them based on a DDOS and a few migration issues, those customers of mine who have complained I've explained the situation to and offered to move them to other provision but with the explanation that such action is not a mitigation against re-occurrence.

Hopefully FP will put better plans for communication in place and better mitigation against future attack and maybe spread the DNS around a little more, and publish a statement showing their diligence and what they have improved, and it won't hurt them too much, as it stands today I'm not moving my domains away, about 60% of mine are with them.

Photo finesse: Eyefi Mobi Pro Wi-Fi SD card

Indeed the older cards do support pro. I've had mine ages and for me the best thing is that you can have a mifi running, and with a couple of photographers covering one event the images are backed up as they are shot. I seldom sent RAW that way but to know that if your camera was stolen that the images were safe was a big bonus.

Sony Bravia KDL-37S5500

couldn't get a power saving indication?

Why not invest on http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270326836162 - made me realise that all these claims for low power by LCD TV manufacturers are pretty much rubbish, and that my Plasma isn't that bad after all.

El Reg obtains snap of OGC logo reveal

the funny thing about monday

was them publicising the web address "www.introducingmonday.com" and neglecting to get the .co.uk

http://www.b3ta.com/newsletter/issue44/

3Com - a company built on ether

USR modems

I bought a new courier a few months ago for use on a fax server, still brillian and was used for a couple of weeks while BT got the DSL sorted at that site.

Still expensive, still big, still black with a slide volume control, still connect first time and as fast as the line will go.