Posts by Morten Bjoernsvik 326 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Mar 2008
I test and automate windows desktop apps. And the windows desktop testing scene is in a sorry state. I long used the now dead project https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver.
We now have to rely on commercial expensive software with licensing hazzle, inferior to webs puppeter, playwright, selenium.
So hopefully someone can then write a proper xpath like driver or fork the above project.
>Its sad because exploring different software as a kid *is* a good learning experience. Running on a lobotomised machine much be so uninspiring.
Cheap 2nd hand laptops, with linux mint. I know it is a mess to support different hardware.
When they come with their oracle audit and scan an find oracle jvms running, then just go to https://adoptium.net/temurin/ and replace them on the fly. and show them the middle finger.
I know it may not work for pre java8, but those apps should be security-patched and upgraded or decommissioned.
Workstation and Fusion are free: https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2024/11/11/vmware-fusion-and-workstation-are-now-free-for-all-users/
Just navigate down the tree:
https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/
Thanks Broadcom (never believed I would say that)
> This will affect "approximately 0.4 percent of the applicable domain validations we have in effect,
> " the certificate authority said in a July 29 advisory. The Register has asked exactly how many
> domains this represents, and we'll let you know if DigiCert can come up with a number.
https://crt.sh/cert-populations -> 19,895,486 * .004 = around 80K
When it comes to documentation and IBM it is the rebook that counts
https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248527.html
I had a DB2 luw(e) story when I did a port from mysql to DB2 on a linux centos7/redhat app. Terrible performance on dynamic sql, but excellent on prepared statement optimized with db2look.
Next I did an oracle port trying to use the same tricks, but had to be assisted by a experienced Oracle dba to manage near the same performance.
>24k seats that are not profitable is business Broadcom is happy to see leave and be a burden on their competition. Frankly it frees up resources to better serve the remaining profitable customers.
We are talking software only. The profit is enormous, it is just the support, telemetry, reccuring licencing and distribution cost that adds and they are tiny. Unless they give the software away they make a profit on any customer.
They need to train it and SO has lots of metrics to value if an answer is good or bad.
But they have a major problem with old outdated answers with massive score that always pop up first. I think both parties will benefit. SO can probably get a much better match and some much needed money infusion.
Put up your own repo server like nexus3oss (https://help.sonatype.com/en/download.html) it is completely free in its basic version, you can proxy the original repos, and
run tests and if they tests ok, You can push to verified repos you use in your production. No more downloading directly from the internjet.
I only proxy used packages, so all you do not use it do not care about.
I have a tiny Intel NUC with an image of this running: https://github.com/sonatype/docker-nexus3/blob/main/Dockerfile
serving Docker,Pypi,Maven and Nuget repos for all my needs.
Along with a gogs git repo server and Jenkins CI I have all I need so I do not have to push my stupid bad code out on gitlab.com or github.
Since pip can install directly from any private git server, maybe a private repo is the easies way to start if you only use python.
The recent https://www.cerebras.net/product-system/ clocks in at 15U @23KW. They claim 2xPerformance for the same Watts, so maybe we should just wait.
Sould be a extra taxation on top of nice to have features, or only allowed to use surplus energy, or when price/KW is below a certain pricepoint.
Friend do not underestimate what desperate people can do with a large stockpile of nuclear weapons.
Russia is no longer a superpower, they can't produce modern weapons except for lots of cannon shells.
For US there is a no-brainer to support Ukraine. It is all weapons produced and developed in the US. Excellent for the economy and the military lobbyists. The get an other nation to tear down the iron curtain power, so the US can concentrate on China and Asia.
THIS Germany that imports electricity from aged and decrepit nuclear plants placed conveniently far outside the borders as to be immune from the anti-Atomkraft lobby in the Bundestag, yet close enough to annihilate quite a damn lot of it, should they go boom as the misguided fears of the past foretold – the same fears that were over-played by, yes, the Greens, in fighting against Atomkraft and achieving a massive win for Big Coal, back in the day?
Iit is going to be powered by greenish hydro electric imported via underwarer cables across skagerak from Norway.
Our uttelry incompetent politicians used billions to lay cables to UK and Germany so we can sell electricity cheaply depleeting the water deposits and lay off all power intensive industry.
Endorsing the horribleness that Firefox has become is not good.
Compared to years ago, it is now quite good. and It gives me a nice feeiling I'm not pumping metrics to google or microsoft, except for the
search. I prefer duck duck go, but then Mozilla do not get any revenues. And I have a bad concious since I've not donated the last two years .
I cleaned the wrong database and wiped a 40 person department entire days work.
Luckily the DB-admin could do a rollback to last backup and then rollforward to exact at my delete operation.
But we lost 40 persons * 20 minutes of productivity because it was no cases in the queues coming from the mainframe.
In this case it was IBMs DB2 and a very nice DB-admin that saved my career.
(He actually got a cake from management for fast problem solving)
The new name is what irritates me most. The X is way to ambiguous. When someone refers to it they always say "X formerly known as Twitter" or "X/Twitter". Nobody other than the Musk himself will ever associate X with a centralized social micro message platform popular in the early 2000s.
US can just print more money, they have the benefit of being the worlds default currency. and All the major lenders have all the interest in keeping the Dollar stable.
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny
march 2023 = $31,459,291,842,710.78 total debt / 334,721,373 population = $93986.50 per capita,
Poor lenders that will never see their money:
https://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt
What happens if China just stop to lend US more money? if the Yuan becomes the world currency?
Ramping up US inland production with Chinese financing that seem to be the answer. More Debth, more p#### of lenders.
I've done java maven and node npm and they are terrible and bloated.
a maven pom under 300 lines are seldom. and you need a artifactory or nexus local repo to build fast. and all the plugins.
npm a bit better but the directory stucture completely messy. typescrip ,
And this stupid audit every time you try to reduce the Oracle footprint.
Is there no license manager that takes care of this so you only run what you have license for?
I've used the free version Oracle Express 1core/4GB ram/16GB disk for porting away from oracle.
I had a hard time with the native blobs format, different from DB2 and MSSQL the blob format seems to be some oracle internal.
Since then I always store binaries as raw strings in cblobs. Someone says it has a performance penalty, but it makes oracle way more portable.
Oracle give you Golden Gate for free. So my DBA love it and cant it praise it enough. But it is a major part of the lockin strategy.
>Excel is great.
I hated programming in rows and columns. I used this module: https://metacpan.org/pod/Excel::Writer::XLSX
Banking people got nice html reports from their data-warehouse and payed me to convert it to excel.
A customer had a >1TB database with financial data, they wanted extracts in excel, so I created a script that every morning created around 15000 spreadsheet.
After some time they wanted a way to import changes from the excel spreadsheeds back into the database. That was really hard. Worked a long time on it.
Ended up with adding alter transactions operations we feed into the transaction system.
They were wizards in excel, but learning a few lines of splunk, perl or python were no option.
Nowadays I program in dataframes in R and Python and present it in jupyter workbooks on a website. A dataframe is just a simplified CSV version of a excel spreadsheet.
hm 16 year agos SGI discontinued Irix, the best unix Ever,
still have a green 2xR10K 175MHz/2GBmem Octane/MXI in the attic,
It doesnt power up, So I'm not sure whats wrong It was last powered-up around 2010.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX
- xfs now the default filesystem on redhat
- CXFS - clustered filesystem long before Lustre or ZFS
- Geometry Engine and Open GL
- openMP - shared mem MPI
- 4DWM - Still miss the minimize into icon, you could easily have 100 windows arranged on a 1024x1280 screen.
- 4DWM also had backing store so, for the first time you could drag full video windows around.
- smake - sgis parallel version of make, when you had 4+ processors it was very nice
Databases with lots of nulls often have a lot less meaning than ones where the designer thought of the problem and fixed the representation of the data so they would not need null. When I see a null in a row, what does that mean?
You describe a perfect excample for boyce codd normalization. Perfect normalization results in a missed table row and no nulls. In my previous job I had this normalization wizard that fixed our 17Tb 120 tables 25 year legacy into a 12Tb 320 tables a with 300% query performance. Developers over the years had just added collumns to existing tables in stead of making new tables with foreign keys. Joining tales with loose connections and lots of ORs kills performance and waste memory.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce%E2%80%93Codd_normal_form
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Zeloof is already at 300nm in his parents garage with its 2nd hand 90ies tech and homegrown equipment.
Most universities should be able to jumpstart this.
You can also do a lot similar to xilinx with massive FPGAs, I think they are at 7nm with Versal.
I bet there are lots of ways to improve still.
Microsoft did not disclose the suppliers for its renewable energy agreements, but other sources have identified Norwegian energy company Statkraft and Ireland's Energia Group as two that are involved, with the energy coming from a mix of wind and solar projects.
Unfotunately this is hydropower draining our dams in areas with little line capacity to import energy from middle and north.. Norway used to have a healthy surplus of water based electricity but all the greenwashing projects have exhausted it. The worst project is to electify europes largest fertilizer plant in Porsgrunn. It will need 4TWh yearly. Another idiocy is to electrify the oil platforms where they have today have gas turbines using excess gas from drilling for all their energy requirements. In north and middle Norway we have built lots of wind turbines and little capacity to export to south where we have megawatt cables to uk,germany,denmark and sweden. here the price per kwh is below hydropower maintenance rate so they let the dams flod over. while in the south is is 15 times higher rates and danger or rationalization. The result is a terrible poll for the ruling parties and massive small businesses layoffs. Our inflation is 90 percent energy related. Nothing you can solve with higher interests rates. Lots of talks to tax the powerlords and energy-companies but not much will because it is mostly owned by local counties which love the extra money for healthcare and social spending. hope they wake up before the last local business shuts down.
You give your name and phone number and location data and taste of videos and friends to a chinese company. This is a nice starting point for further data probing.
Nothing more than Google, Apple, M$ or Meta is doing, but sending it to Beijing.
Are there any metric gathering entity that can back up the decision?
There is nothing as good as showing numbers for management to contradict their decision.
And it happens a lot. in the IoT space there are lots of protocols and hardware now outdated, but still being used.
When you see 10% of your customer-base still using a dead protocol with old hardware, it will cause riots to abandon it.
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