123456.. Who is more of an idiot?
The idiot who uses 123456?... or the idiot companies who have not worked out their customers are idiots and allow them to use it?!
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Have 1 up vote for the useful info, and second theoretical one for the moron who downvoted you!
Have to agree on the UI in most open-source software, though its not the projects own fault, open-source projects rarely have enough resources and contributors to keep the UI with the "times". I've often pestered my employer(s) to contribute back with time or contributions, we are profiting, so its right to give something in return to help the cycle.
Hence why the IoT is another marketing hypergasm, thats going end in a premature nut bust!
3 years ago I replaced all the lightbulbs in my house with LED ones, so that I could save money, they have a life expectancy of 9-10 years and I expect to get full usage out of them!
@LosD - Hosting companies should not even be offering this, it encourages a viscious circle - Customers pay to have a script developed/installed for them and fail to keep it maintained, never being updated or patched.
How can this be a good thing? All if does is help maintain the cycle is security issues, obsolete scripts and outdated versions of PHP.
They're systems for parsing logs and other data, it normalises and indexes this so that it can quickly be search and aggregated, with the results visualised or alerts set up for them. For example, it could suck in all the logs from your Firewalls, you can then aggregate this data to see what the top 10 threats are, or search where those threats came from and display them on a map.
Splunk has enjoyed a monopoly on this for the past several years and their pricing model reflects this, charging by the GB of data is processes. For example, if your collecting 10GB of data per-day, cost if about £7500 per annum - Lets face it, who knows how much log data their servers and firewalls are going to generate on a day-2-day basis.
Personally I hope Rocana wins this one, as I think the per-GB model is a relic.. its actually one of the reason ELK is being so successful... Also for anybody looking for another alternative, I highly recommend checking out Logscape, licensing is based upon number of indexers, and since 1 indexer (which costs less that a 10GB Splunk licence) can parse 75-100GB per day, its not bad value for money.
Give it away free, customer don't even know its there and don't use it.
1 year later, they invoice the customers Finance team which is located in another country, doesn't have a clue about it, just sees "Oracle" and assumes its a utilised service and proceeds to make payment.
Agreed,,, I'd also add like all this type of systems, they're too expensive for the functionality they deliver.
Recently we had a need for a FS (not block) level system that could offer a local cache, but store to S3 and then archive to Glacier or Nearline, the price of these systems was jaw dropping.
In the end I just brought another SAN with a couple of dozen NLSAS drives for local storage, then purchased Cloudberry to run on top of it.. works pretty well, cost me a fraction of the money!
let alone a barge pole.
I brought vRanger about 3 years ago, then quickly got told there would be no major updates for a few months as Dell would be merging AppSure and vRanger! 6 months later I switched to Unitrends, and never looked back.
The fact this integration has taken 3 years says it all, Dell are crap at software...
Don't even get me started on Foglight, cause thats even worse.
Doesn't mean you can trust the compiled code, as it would be incredibly easy to sneak an exploit or backdoor in at compile time. The only way to avoid this is to also have complete control over the whole build process.
So as usual, another government wasting time and money!
To compare it to a Fiesta ST and Clio RS rather than a Focus ST etc.
On a cost front I paid < £20k for my Focus ST3 with most of the trimmings (trick is to find a garage who had one the exact spec your looking for either on display or a demonstrator, and you will instantly save 20%).
I was one of the Windows 8 doom sayers, and I'm a Linux Sys Admin in my everyday role.. so I've got enough anti-microsoft street-cred..
But I just don't see it with Windows 10, the privacy issues is a cluster fuck.. but as a OS, I would say Windows 10 supersedes Windows 7 in every way.
I block ads absolutely everywhere these days, I'm shamed to admit, but I even do it here on my favourite site.
When a page has 3 or 4 targeted and quiet ads on it, thats fine, when a page has 10-20 that takes the piss, then when I read a multi-page articles, which has 10-15 ads on each page, then also have the audacity to have a huge ad between pages, my browser could have downloaded 50-60 different ads. By the time you tie in all the pictures, cookies, JavaScript, tracking pixels, ajax callbacks.. actually ads now constitute 60-70% of the payload and page loading time.
Its just to much.
Rather than trying to squeeze revenue from your visitors, reduce the number of ads and hike your advertising fee.
"However when you factor in the cost of our time, the HP solution starts to look not so cheap"
So your earning capacity is > £200 per hour?..
These type of boxes are nothing more than crippled mini-itx. With the HP units you get far more expandability, flexibility and even more important, you get reuse. My HP MicroServer went from NAS to ESXi Host.
I swear June or July was el-reg's Cloud Sponsorship month... what gives? Saying that, the way this reads, you'd think it was April fools day!
I would never move our Exchange to the Office 365, or any of our business critical applications to the cloud a hosted-service for 1 simple reason, responsibility - Keeping it up is my girlfriends responsibility, any kind of outage and the business demands instant answers.. Its not because I hate cloud hosted-services, I them a great deal of non-critical services
Also given the way Microsoft's legal battle is going, I'm placing good odds that Office 365 will lose a lot of customers!
Not a single thing in that list which warrants a gagging order, let alone a heavy handed one.. this was the FBI being underhanded and trying to hide their activity from joe-public - So they were obviously worried about backlash if this became public-knowledge.
Then James Comey along with every law enforcement and politician wonder why nobody trusts them or has faith in the secret "oversight", provided courtesy of their fellow cronies.
I hope Nicholas Merrill gets the recognition and compensation he deserves for having this shoved down his throat for over a decade!
@Steve Roper - Please share your source of this information?
Sounds like codswallop to me, it would be fairly stupid of Microsoft to allow this stuff to be controlled via GPO, then try to override it via some local security check.
Likewise, it would be even more stupid for Microsoft to force this stuff, when they're trying to get everybody on it, and Enterprise would simply not stand for it, and even if they did, huge markets would be prevented from adopting it by almost every global regulatory body (PCI, ISO, SAN, SOX, FISMA, HIPAA).
Also let me ask, do you use a Android-phone or iPhone? Because if you really are this paranoid, please do not use an of the Google or Apple services.
@Steve Crook - That is hyperbole. Framework size is everything, especially when it makes up 90%+ of the execution stack and response time. Memory and CPU may be in excess supply, but they still cost money, also the extra resources the OTT framework is utilising could be put to other use.
Also, who said not to use a Framework? Just choose the right one for the job at hand. Often developers resort to a position of comfort such as using Zend and Doctrine for that 3 pages website, rather than practicality and using something like Slim.
As a side note, developers who do choose right tool for the job, find they'll get the implementation done quicker, with less bugs and the project is more easily expanded.
Christian Berger, 100% agree.
I was a Java developer in 2000-05 and saw this start happening, the simplest applications, about 500kb compiled were using 200Mb worth of external jars, it was crazy. So I moved onto PHP, and in recent years, I've seen the same thing happening here.
Lazy ass developers using the Zend Framework for 2-3 pages websites, or inappropriately using Doctrine to run a query which borks a server with 6GB RAM, but if done in raw SQL code would work on a machine with 256MB.
What those developers don't seem to understand is, there is a time and place for a Framework, but choose the right tool for the job!
Caveman invented wheel.... OMG Ford, VW, Audi saw it as a threat and were forced to chase the innovation AGAIN.
With that brain-dead pattern of thinking, we'd never end up with any kind of standardization. In which case, the internet would not exist, computers would still be based upon 8 bit processors, and we'd probably be living in the world of "Fallout" style technology - with you reading this on a green CRT display.
Linux is no different, do you think things like KVM and Docker were original? Get real.. Containers have been around for decades, just because they are suddenly "cool" doesn't make them innovative.
I see some really good uses for Containers, they won't replace Virtualisation - but we might just be looking at the next generation of software installation and deployment systems (Note I've only recently started playing with Docker, but installation of Docker containers is painless!)
Warez are the last thing on most peoples minds when they root/jailbreak/custom room a phone, lets face it, Phone apps are very well priced compared to their PC/Mac cousins, and anybody who can't spare £2-£5 for something, should not a have £700 phone or a £30-£40 per month contract!
Most people jail-break phones for the choice it gives, for me personally its about
1) Block the f*cking ads - In-program ads are not acceptable on my desktop, why would I allows them on my phone.
2) Remove the junk - bloatware that the networks deem to be "added value"
3) Customisation - I like my phone to reflect what I want, not how its deemed it should look
I've been doing it for years and fully understand the risks and accept liability - my personal advise to friends is "don't try this as home".