i hope the moons are dougal and zebedee
though it all seems rather roundabout
Posts by Harry the Bastard
243 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Feb 2008
Asteroid Florence buzzes Earth, brings two moons along for the ride
Quantum's scale-out storage revenues didn't scale out enough
Thursday 10th August 2017 10:39 GMT
"as part of this work,...
...we are in the process of engaging a top-tier consulting firm which we expect will help the company to identify and deliver improvements in the operating characteristics of the business over the next six to 12 months, including accretive contributions to non-GAAP earnings."
short version of top-end consulting firm's recommendations: cut expensive experienced people, hire cheaper inexperienced people, cut employee benefits (only for non-execs obvs), screw suppliers with longer payment terms, lots of flimflam to operationalize the hoohah
hey quantum, where shall i send my invoice for this top-end advice?
Cisco loses customer data in Meraki cloud muckup
Monday 7th August 2017 11:56 GMT
Re: That's a shame...
"I had one of their free trial AP units with 3 years licensing. Stopped working as soon as the 3 year ran out. £350+ to renew each year. "
£350??? who told you that?
even if you buy just one year, per-AP is $150 rack rate for license and hardware replacement service (LIC-ENT-1YR), it drops fast if you go multiyear... $300 for 3-year, i.e. $100/year
Monday 7th August 2017 08:42 GMT
Re: not happy at all
yep, they give no way to make our own backup, snapshot state, or, ideally, pull a complete copy of an instance offline to save
our policy is to keep records of everything practical, we manually document a lot even though it adds overhead, but as they claim to have our data replicated multiple times and to back it up nightly, it seemed like it really ought to be recoverable in the event of mistake!
yeah, it's not right for all situations, aside from the licensing model the configuration constraints sometimes rule it out, but if you're a corporate the overall tco is fine, and they are generally good at things like homologation and logistics requirements for global deployment - some of the alternatives are pure pain once you get outside usa/eu
Monday 7th August 2017 07:08 GMT
not happy at all
leaving aside the incident and clear inability to recover from backup, this isn't a trivial thing for some
we're a meraki managed service provider, every single managed organization (i.e. customer or demo instance) has lost data, some of these are global companies with many sites
the floor plans are gone, as are mounting photos, these aren't just eye candy, they are needed to help people find the correct device out of possibly hundreds
floor plans can be recovered and uploaded, that still leaves scaling and positioning every one of the buggers, that'll be many days of effort, multifloor sites are especially fiddly
but mounting photos are sent direct from the meraki app to the cloud, to replace them means someone going to every device at every site in every country and retaking them
this is the first incident on such a scale they've had, mistakes are made, that's life
but Cisco not having backup is not a mistake, especially as they give us no way to make our own
NASA whistles up electron noise from the Van Allen belt
Hey, remember that monkey selfie copyright drama a few years ago? Get this – It's just hit the US appeals courts
UK parliamentary email compromised after 'sustained and determined cyber attack'
DUP site crashes after UK general election
So despite all the cash ploughed into big data, no one knows how to make it profitable
Horror in space: Hot alien giant boiled alive by nasty radiation-belching star
Google to give 6 months' warning for 2018 Chrome adblockalypse – report
The Big Blue Chopper video that IBM might want to keep quiet
Seminal game 'Colossal Cave Adventure' released onto GitLab
'Tabby's Star' intrigues astro-boffins with brief 'dimming event'
Pong, anyone? How about Pong on a vintage oscilloscope?
Douglas Coupland: The average IQ is now 103 and the present is melting into the future
WikiLeaks promises to supply CIA's hacking tool code to vendors
Dyson backs Britain plc with $2.5bn AI and robotics investment
Wednesday 1st March 2017 18:53 GMT
i assume the issue is that the same device connected to feeble euro voltage will use less power than when connected to heroic uk voltage, given the situation of a simple load P = V*V / R
dyson are free to test at euro voltage, that's the point of eu wide standards, seems like a level playing field to me
if dyson chooses to make a device that consumes more power at euro voltage that's dyson's problem, can't blame the germans for it
Finally proof that Apple copies Samsung: iPhone 7 Plus halts, catches fire like a Galaxy Note 7
Friday 24th February 2017 19:58 GMT
Re: Water damage
apple claims the 7/7s phones are "splash, water and dust resistant, and were tested under controlled laboratory conditions with a rating of IP67 under IEC standard 60529"
the 7 in ip67 indicates ability to survive immersion to a depth unlikely to be found indoors in domestic circumstances, certainly far deeper than any normal household sink or bath
if your scenario were correct, it would mean apple lied and the phones explode when wet
it seems more likely that the phone had a fault resulting in catastrophic heating
Radioactive leak riddle: Now Team America sniffs Europe's skies for iodine isotope source
i saw this, and thought of el reg
Stop replying! pleads NetApp customer stuck in reply-allpocalypse
Meet the Internet of big, lethal Things
Friday 23rd December 2016 18:27 GMT
Re: Do you own it, or not?
you do, you are absolutely entitled to write your own software, if you can't manage it that's tough, deere is under no obligation to help you, and nor should it be
the eff's ludicrous position, apparently supported by some down-voting twats, is that if you buy a product x that should entitle you to the producer's source code and other proprietary info so you can make your own changes to it
by that logic eff should be demanding that buyers of iphone's have the right to apple's source and info so that they can make changes to their "purchased property", which is exactly what many government's would like
Friday 23rd December 2016 15:27 GMT
the eff is way out of line here
people are free to start from scratch and write their own tractor driver
there's no right to the source code of deere's software (aside from any bits covered by license requiring disclosure)
the eff is acting like any other another spoiled brat who's argument is essentially "waaaaaa, because i want, waaaaaa, look i'm being oppressed, waaaaaaa"
the interweb has a lot to answer for
Apple drops requirement for apps to use HTTPS by 2017
Latest loon for Trump's cabinet: Young-blood-loving, kidney-market advocate Jim O'Neill
Team Trump snubs Big Internet oligarchs
Plastic fiver: 28 years' work, saves acres of cotton... may have killed less than ONE cow*
Friday 2nd December 2016 12:32 GMT
presumably the outraged are aware that...
"The polymer in virtually all of the world’s plastic bills is made by a single Australian company, Innovia Security.
Innovia are the makers of Guardian, a substrate used to manufacture the polymer currency of 24 countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico and New Zealand.
Tallow does not appear to be a stand-alone or critical ingredient in Guardian, but the by-product got into the substrate because it is used in processing by Innovia’s resin suppliers.
“Polymer substrate used as a base for bank notes contains additives that help with the polymer manufacturing process, similar to many commercially available plastics,” wrote the Bank of Canada in a Wednesday statement after contacting Innovia.
“Our supplier of polymer substrate, Innovia Security, has confirmed to us that these additives may include extremely small amounts of tallow,” the statement added. "
...and...
"Indeed, small amounts of processed cow parts can be found in everything from [...] to brake fluid. In fact, almost all of the images ever featured on historic Canadian currency would have first been prepared by an artist using tallow as part of the engraving process."
...and until their demands are met will cease ride in any vehicle not certified animal free
Enterprise vendors offering big Black Friday discounts
Quantum traffic jam of atoms could unlock origin of dark energy, physicists claim
Mark Zuckerberg is dead – Facebook confirmed
Tesco Bank limits online transactions after fraud hits thousands
Hitler's wife's lovely lilac knickers fetch £2,900 at auction
UK prison reform report wants hard-coded no-fly zones in drones to keep them out of jail
Brexit may not mean Brexit at all: UK.gov loses Article 50 lawsuit
Dark matter? More like diet matter: Super-light axions may solve universe's mass riddle
Want to spy on the boss? Try this phone-mast-in-an-HP printer
KCL out(r)age continues: Two weeks TITSUP, two weeks to go
BT will HATE us for this one weird 5G trick
Thursday 13th October 2016 09:01 GMT
i see what you are saying, but...
...i expect the reality will be...
to trench and badly fill many more roads, then allow them to further degrade, increasing the misery of sunken, cracked, potholed roads ever further as rain, frost and traffic take their toll, in central london there are holes big/deep enough to damage cars let alone cyclists
add more poles because sharing with other public/private entities is too complicated or seen as a revenue stream by desperate local councils
or maybe we end up like much of the world where the streets are lined with dangly cables, and poor sods making a living up dodgy ladders maintaining them once we exit the eu and its pesky health and safety rules
A robot kitchen? Whatever. Are you stupid enough to fall for this?
Thursday 13th October 2016 08:22 GMT
Re: £100 a week for a year with Tesco's delivery service comes in at about £26,000 cheaper
welllllllll, bear in mind...
tesco's notorious reputation for screwing suppliers down to minuscule overall margins or even into loss, dairy farmers are quite outspoken on the subject
plus the supermarket industry's appetite for rebates//bungs/ransoms/whatever you call them, exacted from suppliers to place product in more favoured positions
...and it's possible that just a few % cost increase pushes unilever underwater
tesco is playing the pr game to paint itself as the defender of consumers, but without knowing the facts rather than the spin, i'd treat anything either side says with a heavy dose of scepticism
Burger barn put cloud on IT menu, burned out its developers
Cisco president: We've lost to AWS et al on the public cloud
Tuesday 11th October 2016 12:00 GMT
Re: Cisco just jumped the shop …
they're mounted above head height, so they get a full view of the punters
some systems piggyback on security cameras, others are self-contained
if you go into a branch of any mass-market retail chain, assume you're being counted and categorised at least on entry, possibly throughout the store, and maybe even correlated with your smartphone's wifi burbling
Biting the hand that feeds IT
