Posts by Pascal Monett 19067 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
That would be enterprise-internal stuff and they won't update anyway, it's been ages since you cannot update anything IE6-related because that will just end the application.
On the web these days, the mantra is Use An Up To Date Browser, so it shouldn't be a problem.
Honestly, where ?
Do traffic laws in Britain mandate that one drives through the roundabout ? I don't have a British driver's license, but somehow I think they teach you to drive around the middle, just like in every other country.
The picture speaks for itself : there aren't all that many cars and the roundabout isle itself is barren. You can easily drive your car onto it, get out without bothering traffic at all or putting yourself into any sort of danger (unless there's a spy chase barreling down on you - then all bets are off and you're probably dead even if you weren't in the middle of the road), set your mugs artfully and then drive off without any trouble.
Especially if you have the help of a spotter who tells you when the road is free to get back on.
Sure, I understand that it is not something any municipal counsel is actually supposed to condone, but from there to cautioning people about danger, come on.
You could put a lounge chair in the middle and set yourself up with a table, a glass, an ice bucket with a nice bottle of Claret and a book and spend a marvelous afternoon. With a parasol if the sun is a mite hot. The only problem you'll risk is that of a police officer coming to get rid of you.
It may not be solid research, but it's still more significant than personal experience (including mine). Not many companies use that many drives, so it's nice of Backblaze to publish the figures they have.
And they're not saying it's research. They're doing everyone a courtesy.
Well my personal stats are four 3TB WD NAS drives that have been functioning flawlessly for over five years now, plus a 2TB WD drive in my main PC that has worked every day since 2013 and is still going strong.
Of course, my main PC also has a 3TB Seagate that has been functioning without a hitch since 2015, so I'm a bit on the fence here.
Um, isn't that a bit exaggerated ? There may be more people gaming right now because of the current situation, but a lot of them are out of a job, so if they are depending on anything, it's on a chance to get another paycheck.
I'm glad that you are doing well, I have long been a customer and your products are good, but let's not lose our heads over what you do : you sell graphics cards and specialized GPU processors for data centers. You do not support our lifestyle, nor are you a cornerstone of our lives.
Don't try and make us believe that you are helping us get through these trying times. You're profiting from this situation (in an honorable way), that's all.
"the board has stopped publishing minutes and reports, and refuses to break out the different businesses in financial reports "
I just checked out Nominet's Board page and found that, apart from the two youngest members (who apparently haven't had the time yet), all of them are affiliated with PwC, ICANN or HP. Most of the oldest are also on other boards.
Obviously, they have forgotten the job they are supposed to do, and decided that, like ICANN, they have a structure and a market at their disposal, and they are going to make the most of it.
This is the UK, obviously, but I wonder how many of these sleazebags would be Republicans of it were the USA.
A technical glitch can happen to anyone, we all know that.
But to invoice your customers because they were asking you to check on their status is pushing things too far.
Such behavior can only mean that Equinix is a company that is searching for every penny it can possibly scrape, which doesn't mean good things for hardware maintenance or employee proficiency.
Not COVID, of course, but freelancing from home. Also there's the fact that I have a 1GB fiber connection and an office to take advantage of it.
But what I really like is the fact that my customers - with one exception - aren't even dreaming of asking me to come in to their office to work. All (but one) of my customers are contacting me by phone or mail to ask if I can log in and do something for them. Instead of a 45-minute commute on crowded highways, followed by a good 10 to 15 minutes hunting for a parking space, I'm logged in and ready to work inside of ten minutes.
If this remote working situation endures, I will be quite satisfied.
Gosh. What a surprise.
I never would have thought. A multinational corporation that lives on ads delivered by clicks is not doing enough to stop successful pages that disseminate false information.
Who'd've thought ?
"This is a bug, but by the time the problem was discovered there where so many databases in circulation that depended on the bug that the decision was made to support the bugging behavior moving forward, "
I will readily admit that I'm no database administrator, but even I know that there is always supposed to be a primary key. How on Earth did not only someone find a way to need null primary keys, but more than one someone did too, to such numbers that it is now a feature ?
Could someone explain that to me ? I'm really curious to know.
Indeed, I was absolutely not criticizing El Reg for the article, I was bashing the MS spokesdrone for what was being said.
I should have been clearer. Now that I re-read myself after a day, I realize that confusion is possible.
Sorry for that.
"Outages are 'an unfortunate inevitability of the technology industry' "
The Cloud (TM) is sold as being always on, always there, so you have no right to make that argument.
""Azure has operated core compute services at 99.995% average uptime across our global cloud infrastructure "
So you're boasting about the fact that you've got 4 nines performance when you sell at five nines and, on top of that, you're talking about how your cores are functioning, not about how reliably your customers are accessing said cores.
"more than 95 per cent of our incidents" do not appear there
Then your Status page is worthless and you should do better. A Status page that only says there's a problem when every single customer can see that there's a problem is just a cover-up.
there is a separate Azure DevOps status page
Which proves that there is a cover-up. If you have to separate your failure warnings over multiple web sites, you're just diluting the information willfully.
And this last one is a beaut : "reliability is a shared responsibility"
Not when you're making your customers pay for said reliability.
This entire piece is just a "it's your fault, we're doing everything we can" puff piece.
Despicable.
The ones suing are three defense lawyers. The only mention of cops in the article is to say that they obtained illegal recordings.
And, if they obtained them, they used them. What is not said is if the cops knew the recordings were illegal, although I bet listening to the recordings should make it pretty clear.
Everyone is going to The Cloud (TM) and, lo and behold !, now The Cloud (TM) is where the big money is being made.
What a surprise. Not.
Cloud evangelists have been pushing us in that direction for at least a decade already. It's no surprise that, with the largest multinational corporations throwing tens of billions into The Cloud (TM) and refining their offerings every year, that money is to be made there.
We're back to the mainframe server paradigm of the 70s and 80s, except that now, the mainframe belongs to someone else, you only get a slice of it, you can't discuss conditions and, when your link goes down for whatever reason, you can only wait for the mainframe operator to resolve the issue. Oh, and if you have trouble, a million other people probably do as well.
Yay progress.
That 150 companies are affected provides absolutely no sense of scale unless you know how many companies there are in total.
I do not. Is it 150 out of 300 ? That would be important. Is it 150 out of 10,000 ? That would be marginally insignificant.
So which is it ?
From what I understand, eCall only activates when there's been an accident, which is quite different from a spy looking over your shoulder and whispering everything to its boss.
I am fine with eCall - until it gets proven that eCall is actually on all the time, in which case it will go into the same basket as Toyota, ie the Do Not Buy basket.
That is something I will never get. Trump is by far the candidate that the Democrats should have mopped the floor with. Where were the attack ads on his failures, multiple bankruptcies, cheating, prostitutes and pussy-grabbing ?
I don't remember hearing anything about all that.
The Democrats had the ammo to bury Trump alive, yet they did nothing.
It's like they let it happen on purpose.
It is a sad state of political landscape when you have to actually count on people who state they will put their country first.
Personally, if you don't put your country first, you have no business being in politics.
Whatever they are using, it's pretty clear that they've only just discovered access management and user control options and are trying to understand how they work, what the consequences are on their daily life and how to set up said options in the way that best corresponds to their needs.
Ain't it a shame that nobody thought to bother with all that when they first subscribed to the service ?
Bah, it's like patching. They are part of the wait-until-you-get-bitten crowd.
It's called hypocrisy partisan politics. The Republicans will spare no effort denouncing a Democrat who does something shady, but if it's a Republican, then they will spare no effort to publicly state that everything is normal, fine, it wasn't done with that intention, etc.
It's political bullshit that has now been stretched so thin that you can easily see right through it, but since the Democrats are apparently helpless to stop Trump & Co, who cares ?
Not the Republicans.
So, a person does her job and is rewarded by being shifted to another role. Gagging order, anyone ?
She was responsible for managing the case and complained about a shady, manipulative intervention by someone who should have known better (but hey, it's Trump government, so anything goes).
I fail to see the justification in moving her out.
If a landlord tweaked his terms of leasing, there would be a court case, but because this is the Web, one-sided changes like that can be made and nobody can complain.
When will Terms of Service be recognized as a binding contract for both sides ? I understand Docker is struggling, and it's a shame for its employees, but it offered a free service and didn't think things through. Now it is trying to find a way to stay afloat, so it modifies the contract to put people's images in danger if they don't pay up.
Not fair. They offered a service under certain conditions, now they are unilaterally changing the conditions. That should not be allowed.
I would have liked to know how it gets installed as well. The article says "When deployed on a victim machine" and stops there.
How does the nasty get deployed ? Phishing ? Targeted email ? USB carried by a sleeper agent ?
Is this a plot of The Americans ?
Oh boy, you guys are soo late on that one. We've been in 1984 since the 1970s, when Echelon was created.
When the Internet became ubiquitous, the NSA upgraded our 1984 status by tapping all the calls under the excuse of terrorism.
We've been in 1984 since practically my birth, and we're not getting out of it any time soon.
Obvious icon is obvious.
The point of the app is to alert you to a possibility of infection. If you don't trust the alert, why use the app ?
All those people who don't care about quarantine, protecting others and saving lives will not use the app for sure. Those who do likely will, and likely will pay attention if alerted.
Well I think Oracle is not going to have any problem downsizing it now.
Developers are leaving. That means it's not a good idea to invest in it. That means there will be no customers.
This is undoubtedly going to be a successful downsizing operation.
The USA is not the only economy in the world any more. Chinese companies deal internationally, but they can very well grow inside their own country as well.
And if the US government throws a hissy fit every other President, then some Chinese companies are likely to start thinking that it's not worth the trouble.
With all the losers who can't deliver on their empty promises these days, it's nice to see that there still are people who can not only promise, but actually ship a functioning product that does what it says on the tin.
And now, they're even improving on it.
If I were to buy any retro console, it would be theirs.
They deserve it.
How about this for a rule : every politician's every tweet/post/declaration has to include a link to the full list of his/her contributors sorted descending by amount.
That way it'll be a bit easier understanding why he/she says what he/she says.
I don't think he really needs to. If internal Windows traffic is being sent to and from space, he can likely gather enough info to make a targeted attack via a proper land connection and, if he's got enough, he might even be able to authenticate without any hacking involved.
Who in their right mind would think "Hey, why don't we just include our non-encrypted satellite link right in our LAN ? Makes things a lot more simple, right ?".
Right. It makes things very simple for hackers to infiltrate you and scumbags to mount ransomware attacks on you.
Brilliant.
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