Posts by T J

Microsoft aims at VMware with System Center 2012

This actually made me laugh out loud

I'm still chuckling and giggling as I type this.

Poor MS, they *still* cling desperately to the belief that with their awful amateur programming and complete lack of understanding of anything surrounding performance and security, they can enter and hold onto something in the Server market.

No they can't, and they never will before they disappear and become a gadget company (by the end of this year) and then split up (by the end of next year).

HyperV and....actually I dont care. All their server stuff is just an utter waste of anyone's time and money getting involved in. HyperV was extremely embarassing to use and ditching it was about the only smart thing the company in question (that I was consulting to) did.

There are only 3 virtualization competitors.

VMWare - who jumped the shark and just priced themselves out of the market.

Citrix Xen - the Novell one is a complete mess but it may catch up. Citrix's Xen offering is probably going to take over the world actually. Xen is cheap, has a very stable and scrutinizable codebase, does all the virtualization basics that everyone else pretends are features (in case you hadnt noticed yet, Dumb PHB Management is NOT trendy anymore....), and has some great tools. Plus its API is very good so for Xen there will be more tools in the future. Citrix seem to be doing quite a good job of getting behind and around Xen without compromising its FOSS components.

IBM's KVM - this is up in the air at the moment. The deep nerds involved swear that it is the most 'hardcore' virtualization solution around. Given IBM's long track record with virtualization, KVM being supported by them does promise some interesting futurism, so let's see.

This article is unintentional comedy, it really is :D

Pollution-gobbling molecules in global warming SMACKDOWN

Yes it is man made. You are all idiots.

Microsoft carves up Wi-Fi into White Spaces

How Quaint

How quaint

Look, we don't actually *care* what M$ do or think or say from now on, because they wont exist in 2 years time. Its so galling how they see themselves as some kind of Institution, rather than the fast-food outlet they equivalently are.

US killer spy drone controls switch to Linux

Where does Windows come in?

The space probes all run QNX, and all the military fighters run VXWorks. Some hardened hardware runs BSD variants. None of these things would ever run a domestic or desktop OS.

Linux is a full blown UNIX, thats why its going through the final phases of taking over the world now.

Did they just do this as an experiment so they could finally sack the idiots who keep accepting m$'s coke and hookers??

Republican pol rips online piracy bill, defends Google

There are smart Republicans ?????

OMG, a Republican with a Brain that Works !!!!! Is he just an extremely rare abberation .... or a genetic experiment?????

Bomb threat lobbed at Finnish anti-piracy squad

I support the bombers

Even though the threatening note's text pretty clearly indicates this is just a bunch of mindless teenagers trying to play tough guy, I still support them. I cannot begin to get under how unacceptable this attempt by governments - elected and more often NOT elected - and dying corporations to control our 1s and 0s online really is. Its beyond class warfare, its almost into Them vs Humans territory. For that reason - I support the bombers.

Oz skeptic offers prize if Rossi’s E-cat works

Oh not AGAIN

Oh ffs. We forgave Brocky (Peter Brock) when he temporarily went insane and started peddling this snake oil. He came back to the fold of sanity and had the good grace to say the project had been all rubbish. The trouble is, there are always hippies (which these days stands for Hipster Ignoramus) who think there is merit in this crap.

How not to steer a business

Psychopaths

The problem is psychopaths. Pure and simple. And yes despite the ad-monkeys jumping on the spin wagon here in the forum - yes its a mess. The US Economy collapsed, but nobody wants to use those frightful words..... since it happened to the USSR only 2 decades or less before. Massive regulation and a proper psych profiling approach is the only thing that can save this, frankly, rather primitive part of our 'civilised' society.

Solicitors from hell website unplugged by libel judge

Cuts both ways

Interesting when it cuts both ways, huh.

Realistically, there needs to be a very wide crackdown on the ridiculousness of lawyers fees, in all western countries.

The party of the last 300 years is now firmly over, its time somebody enforced that.

In the meantime, I will take any means available of crushing the legal fraternity underboot and grinding them into the dust.

This site - I like it.

Playboy model's complaints against HP chief Hurd laid bare by court

A big chorus of Oh My Heart Doth BLEED For Thee

Shall I lead the chorus then?

You are a playboy model and already have everything. Piss off and die! We dont CARE and never will!

X-Men Origins: Wolverine pirate caged

No, no, it was quite good

You are wrong sorry. I can't educate you though, thats something others will have to make up.

Was quite good actually

This film was quite good actually, I've not understood the criticisms of it, but most people are morons so there you go.

Margaret Morrow needs to have something badly inversely career oriented happen to her, to hold her up as an example of what will happen to government apparatchiks that try to oppress people over online electronic issues in the future.

The public is self-centered and stupid, yes, but it wont put up with this for much longer. And then there is the backlash.......

Doctor Who girl Amy Pond axed in 'heartbreaking' exit

Steven....

This is going to be crap like everything else isn't it Steven?

Give up - see if one of the 70s writers is still alive and hire him.

Swiss insist file-sharers don't hurt copyright holders

Civilization!

Civilization! It exists!

TV writer quells rumours of Doctor Who movie

Oh god NO

Oh god NO, DONT LET THEM DO IT. Its always a complete disaster.

Oz ISPs propose copyright enforcement trial

Balance??

Balance?? Who's the idiot who ordered 'Balance' here??

Just keep telling AFACT to f**** offff and that's all there is to it.

The new touchy-feely Doctor Who trend: Worrying

Ace sucked

And not in any useful way. She was cute, as was Peri - and they were both godawful and in a godawful pantomime version of the series. I was very glad that when RTD rebooted the series everything from Colin Baker onwards was consigned to a Dynasty Dream Didnt Happen status, good riddance.

Sorry, no, it was crap

Midnight was an abomination of writing so bad it nearly made me stop watching the series, as though '42' wasnt bad enough. Oh god you just made me remember the atrociously bad 'The Family Of Blood' now I just want everyone involved SHOT!!

Time Tunnel

Made 1966

Is it really that simple?

Rhetorical question. No its not that simple. The writing. The writing is paramount. The writing has been, for the most part, very very BAD in the new series. This is a problem.

Yup, agree

Yup, don't agree with all your points but by and large - you've nailed it.

My gods, you fell asleep during Talons Of Weng Chiang?? Whats WRONG WITH YOU?? That was the last good Who, EVER! (Yeah yeah until The Empty Child and all the other Moffat stories.....oh and Dalek which wasn't Moffat but was poignantly beautiful. RTD should have let that be the last Dalek story ever rather than bringing the goddamn things back again and again and again).

Btw FYI - the Peter Davison series was NOT good, it was BAD. Just thought I'd clarify that for ye!

THE ENDDDDINGSZZZZ

I'm just really sick of the intolerably dumb, stupid endings where everything is solved by a loud interdiction from the Wankton Orchestra and .... nothing much actually happens yet somehow the foe is vanquished.

HIRE A WRITER NEXT TIME.

Chris did rock though

Chris did rock though. I wish it had just gone straight from him to Matt and skipped that irritating little mumbling scots git in the middle, couldnt stand him!

Torchspew

Yes Torchwood really was appallingly, appallingly bad wasn't it.

Yes its a mess

Yes its a mess and it needs fixing.

RTD handing over to Moffat was a good start but then Moffat came up with that xmas special that was so bad it made me want to ram unborn dolphins up his ass repeatedly.

For me, Who ended with The Talons Of Weng Chiang. That was the last consistently good Doctor story before JNT utterly destroyed the series.

Since then, its been episodic, literally. Little high points here and there with sea of rubbish in between.

The series is very confused right now, it doesnt know where it wants to be. But it has an excellent cast and excellent directors and designers. But these are NOT ENOUGH.

It needs story - it has to start with the stories.

In the old days we really didnt care about the special effects (and guys, they weren't that bad - its become trendy to bash them but .... its actually factually incorrect, go take a proper look with your actual eyes). We didnt care about them because they were facilitating the telling of the story, not trying to cover it up.

Blink (and I have to say Time Of The Angels even with its space opera bits, but I did like the Bishop!) came damn close. Pity it was that little scotts git and not Chris or Matt, but still, damn fine stuff.

Will we ever see another story of the grandiose magnitude of Genesis of the Daleks? Spearhead From Space? Death To The Daleks? The Talons Of Weng Chiang?

I'm beginning to think No, we wont. It'll happen on youtube before it happens on the beeb.

No, no no no no no

Smith is channeling a mixture of Troughton and Baker and doing it VERY WELL. He is easily my favourite doc since Baker (the real one, not the one in the clown suit).

Assange takes extradition fight to Supreme Court

So this is the best the 'mighty' USA can do?

Years ago I proposed something along the lines of what Wikileaks has done.

The only way, I said, to stop action in Iraq would be to publish the home addresses of the families of every single serviceman.

Immediately various friends (some in the armed forces) jumped up and swore that anyone who attempted that would 'disappear before it hit the public!'. I expressed doubt on that, for various reasons including the massive incompetence of....pretty much any government on earth that you care to name.

And here we are and..... this is the best the 'might(y)' USA can do?

We are living in a farce (that is getting warmer, don't forget whats actually important out there folks).

Apple applies to patent a SIM you can't remove

Apple Patents Ass You Cant Extract Head From

Its called iSAnyoneStillThere ?

Fingerprint scanner can detect drugs in sweat

Yeah but the UK is doomed anyway

Why dont you all migrate? Why HAVENT you migrated yet??

Anyway - it is now imperative to defeat all biometric mechanisms before the end of 2012. This will of course happen.

Oh the poor little tech journalists, they can't get a single thing right now, how are they going to cope with a fan and a hypervelocity turd of these dimensions.....

Go back to the future with Red Dwarf

SERIES SEVEN NOT TEN

The last Red Dwarf series, as anyone knows, was Series 6.

I heard rumours there were some kind of silly spinoff series after that involving fart jokes and tits, but The Boys From The Dwarf definitely ended with Rimmer blowing the time drive to smithereens.

So this is Series Seven, not Series Ten.

Just thought I'd clear that up.

Aus radio industry wants content quotas punted

Graft & Corruption

This is becoming a semi regular thing. Does CRA realize how pathetic it sounds?

Feds win access to WikiLeakers Twitter account data

So, they're not even pretending anymore

The only good thing I can hope for from this is that it pushes human rights in hegemonised western societies right up the scale of importance.

Hackers can spring Death Row crims from cells

Use Linux or QNX

Or even VXWorks. This isnt a job for shit.

Ten... Blu-ray disc players

I remember Blu-Ray

I remember Blu-Ray. It was some nutty physical media project that jusssst barely got to market before solid state and online killed all physmedia dead deady dead.

Ah, nostalgia!

Cops should help us slay trolls, says Facebook wonk

The peerage really should just STFU

Given Monkton, I really dont think any of the peers should be opening their big traps right now.

Details of all internet traffic should be logged – MEP

They make it SO EASY

They stick their heads up and say "DONT VOTE FOR ME OR MY PARTY. WE WEAR TINFOIL FASHION AND WE ARE A JOKE. AVOID! AVOID!"

The process of attrition will eventually wipe these idiots from the board. Good riddance.

Oh and parting shot - the technology soon wont let you do any logging whether you want to or not Mr Big Brother moron sir.

Opscode makes Chef do Windows

Anyone ever heard of it - ever?

Anyone ever heard of this Chef thing? Ever?

Anonymous shuts down hidden child abuse hub

Yes I have a Problem with this

Thought about it at length and decided YES, I have a PROBLEM with them doing this.

While its something obvious, corporate, stupid and the law is an ass, yes HACK, that is the holy role of the Hacker, to mete out justice (and have a huuuge wank) where it otherwise cannot occur.

But once you get into moral arguments, and where the law DOES apply....ooooh man you are in a messy place. What's next guys? You're going to take on the Russian Mafia? Good luck with that, the Colombian cartels already track down and kill bloggers that displease them.

And in the end - you'd just get co-opted, in other words they are compromising their own integrity by doing this. And in an ad-hoc environment, Integrity or the appearance of Integrity - is all you've got!!

Jobs: 'I'll spend my dying breath destroying Android'

TOO FUNNY!

And we can't hang it on him now - because that just wouldn't be PC!!

Chinese giant halts rare earth shipments to hike prices

Er, Sarcasm?

Or did you change your medication recently?

Hope this Backfires

Hope this Backfires on them and stimulates recycling of rare earths to boom.

Massive study concludes: 'Global warming is real'

Well DERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

How many of these have to come out before we can just start publically tying up the doubters in front of steamrollers and slowly crushing them for putting us and our children at risk?

Man 'drinks 2 pizzas' before skidding off road

Call Saul!!

Paging Mr. Goodman. Mind you he covered his ass quite well with all the denials (he shouldnt have opened his mouth at all of course); his lawyer should be able to defend him.

Facebook flashplodders lose appeal against 4-yr jail stint

Facebook is not safe, use only with caveats

If you use your real details on Suckerbook you get what you ask for. And as a citizen of the UK Descent Into The Orwellian Nightmare you should really know better!

Another piece of analytics puzzle snaps home

Microsoft is a major vendor?

"Microsoft is a major vendor"?

Isn't that a bit of a quaint statement now?

Swedish court confirms jail for Pirate Bay cofounder

Its War

Its War.

It's official: Microsoft, Skype marriage consummated

RIP Skype

Well thats 2 significant funerals this week - Ritchie and Skype. (I heard some IT tycoon died too but didn't catch his name, but he wasn't a major player).

There are a heap of alternatives out there but which is best I wonder?

If the name’s not on the whitelist it can’t come in

Use Ubuntu?

How about using a real OS instead of an extended Desktop with some OS abilities?

ie. Something properly designed so viruses are out of the picture?

Eg. Use Ubuntu 11 - it runs on everything and has fantastic hardware support.

Oh yeah, and its a Unix with a proper security model so it doesn't get viruses.

Unlike that Desktop with OS bits I hear that some people use (US forces drone pilots for example - the next sept.11 wont be terrorists it will be a drone trying to sell someone something).

'A prime example of our complete failure'

Ritchie Essential, Jobs Optional

I couldnt care less when a marketing exec dies. Really, truly, DONT care.

But a true computer scientist like Ritchie passes..... its sobering. Its like when we lost Stevens.

Kernighan is still with us.

Those 3 guys built the modern world, but morons do not know such things. They only know how to OOH! SHINY!!

Hadoop: A Linux even Microsoft likes

Shouldn't it be.....

A Linux that tolerates the continuing (tenuous) existence of MS?........for now........?