Posts by Pascal Monett 19055 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Yeah, that tweaked my funny bone as well.
This presentation was undoubtedly for the Fortune 1000 crowd who are looking at what their privacy-slurping datacenters will be in ten years.
For the rest of the business world, tape storage is cheap, reliable and doesn't cost an arm and a leg to put in place.
Good question.
I purchased and installed a NAS from Synology and put in 4 3TB drives in RAID 5 configuration. That gave me a total of 8.5TB of useful storage. Of that space, I have used less than 4TB ripping my 450+ DVD collection and other assorted data files.
Even if I went back to upload every single one of my 150+ DVD backups, along with my new collection of 47 BR optical backups, I still couldn't fill up my NAS.
Still, I'm happy with the knowledge that I can replace all my 3TB drives with up to 8TB ones. I just don't have the slightest idea when and how I will need to get that much space.
Well, we'll see if the board is still happy after the customers leave in droves.
If customers are unhappy enough - and have an alternative available - to do so.
If that is not possible, there just might be enough people to mount a class-action lawsuit - although I don't know the status of that kind of legal action in the UK. If it is possible though, then it will hurt the board directly.
But reality commands that this is just a minor issue that will be forgotten after XMas holidays. I doubt very much that any number of people will be leaving because of this.
Windows 10 has been designed 'together' with the user fanbois. MS clearly listened and learned from what decided that the user wants the same interface on his phone, tablet and PC and ignored anything that went contrary to that idea. Has implemented borked and rearranged features not based on their cool factor, but on their usability confusion factor.
FTFY
First it was only the small 4-cylinder engine, now bigger 6-cylinder engines are also concerned.
What's to bet that virtually all constructors are doing something like this ? Come on, am I really supposed to believe that VW is the only group that had something to improve their test results ? Especially since we now know that the engine software has to know it's being tested, since the test involves one set of wheels not rolling when power is applied, and that, in normal function, that would apparently be a cutoff situation.
I expect more constructors and engines to be drawn into this issue.
Not really, since VW is under investigation. Whatever is going on will be found, described, ascertained and thoroughly evaluated. Then there will be measures taken. Whether or not they will be useful is another matter.
Snowden was necessary because the NSA was never going to go under any spotlight whatsoever. Even now that we know, the NSA is carefully hiding its activities behind the iron curtain of "national security" and everything it does has been and will be repeatedly described as legal.
That, very much. Going into politics is like entering a monastery : you're going to spend all your time with the same people. If you are completely against everything they do, you are by definition uniting them against you. And they have more experience than you. So your failure is a foregone conclusion.
The only way to change the system is create an overwhelming public movement against it that the monks can simply no longer ignore. Takes time, dedication, mountains of effort and probably not a small amount of cash. The only alternative is to wait for people to wake up, but, save for a miracle, you'll be dead before that happens.
In a Hollywood film, there would be a rallying effort to save the underdog, and by some miracle it would end well.
In real life, however, money is an absolute and an attitude is not enough to get around it, nor does it suffice to encourage someone to invest against the likes of Amazon.
A bleak end to a nice story. Hopefully the employees and management of Ninefold will have gained valuable experience and will be able to market it successfully.
When your stats are based on millions of unique connections, although they may not be perfect, there still can be meaning inferred from them.
In this case, we can argue about exactly how much the slowing is, but apparently, that there is a slowing is not in doubt.
Win 1 0 has been the proverbial twig on the camel's back for me.
I am almost done getting the unused tower filled with the necessary components - all I need is a SATA DVD reader - and I will be set to install Mint and find out if I can get it working for me.
I've told everyone who asks me for PC help to stay away from Win 1 0 and that I am trialling Linux for the future. They are aware that I will not be supporting Win 1 0 and why.
When I am confident that I understand how it works and can get it set up to get stuff done easily, then I will be going around demonstrating it to said people.
What must happen will happen, but I'm certain of one thing : Win 7 is the last Microsoft OS I will ever use at home.
Astounding that somebody just happened to fry seaweed and declare that it tastes like bacon. I'm sure that, with a bit of artificial flavoring, it just might.
I'm also pretty sure that it will never be as crunchy out of the pan. But hey, after months and months in space, it'll probably do.
If there is a big CME alert, what should we do to protect our equipment ?
Are we going to get to a stage where we need to physically disconnect our computers from the wall, electrical socket and network cable ? Can it get that bad ?
Or is it only a problem for telephone lines ? Somehow I doubt that. If long, copper wires are what is affected, then network cables are in for the ride as well.
We need a website that responsibly discloses these incidents in detail, showing the current total and the history of how we got there.
Then we can arrange betting pools on who will be next, how many will be impacted, what the total will be at the end of a given period, etc...
Because anything goes these days, right ?
$55 billion ? $80 billion ?
Why stop at 80 ? Make it an even 150 by the time all is said and one.
This is typically the kind of project where things can really get out of hand, and nobody is really able to stop it.
I look forward to seeing the reports on this project's progress. The Northrop Grumman board is probably looking forward to renewing their fleet of personal Learjets (at that level, a Mercedes is pocket change).
Cyprus-headquartered 000webhost admitted: "A hacker used an exploit in old PHP version to upload some files, gaining access to our systems. Although the whole database has been compromised, we are mostly concerned about the leaked client information.
"We removed all illegally uploaded pages as soon as we became aware of the breach. Next, we changed all the passwords and increased their encryption to avoid such mishaps in the future. A thorough investigation to make sure the breach does not exist anymore is in progress."
What they actually said is that they made their website ages ago and never updated it, so they were thoroughly pwned. Now, they are pretending to do something to cover the issue.
The investigation is simple : an old PHP exploit should not be allowed to exist on an ISP's website. An ISP should be well aware of best practices and apply them rigorously.
When they fail, they actually fail harder then HDDs because recovery is exponentially more difficult, and you have even less warning.
For the moment, I have two SSDs on my desktop that are doing their job properly, so no complaints. But a colleague of mine had an SSD in his laptop that he was very happy about until the day it stopped working. He lost nothing of significance because backups, but the disk basically bricked itself and getting a replacement shipped in cost him two days.
He has stopped ribbing me for preferring my slower, 500GB HDD in my laptop.
If that is true, it still is not the success Microsoft was expecting. Apparently, the Windows share of the market is sliding, and has been for 5 quarters in a row now.
What I would like to know is how many of those installs were pushed to people who didn't actually want them, and got reverted to some prior version of Windows. We know 1 0 is being very aggressively pushed out, the question is : how long does it stay when in place ?
Sorry Robert, but you cannot deny that the USA is the only country in the world where so many people die from gunshot wounds every year. And that in a country that is not even at war.
The simple fact is that having less guns lying around would certainly solve the issue. Another simple fact is that that is never going to happen.
Yes but that is exactly the problem : many computer users are new to the environment and have barely enough knowledge of IT to do their work correctly, let alone prepare and execute contingency plans for things they have never even heard of.
Computers are a great tool, but they are also a world of risk that few users are even aware of. People who just work with them don't even know what they risk until it happens - and most of them don't even bother with the backups people who do know keep telling them about.
I think most people view computers like their car : bring it to the garage when it breaks. Only then do they learn that, unlike a car, repairing can well mean losing everything they stored in it.
My fingerprints are like my privacy : I have nothing to hide and it's nobody's business but mine.
My biometrics on a smartphone ? Those things are already a prime target for malware and now you want to add more interest to the things ?
No thanks, I'll stick to VISA and cash. Pin and chip is way better than fingerprints : if your card is compromised, just ask for another one.
Yup, just like SatNad told us that Windows 10 was a successful launch.
Personally, I think it's going to be an enormous cock-up. Hundreds of thousands of XBones all downloading and installing and updating at more or less the same time, what could possibly go wrong ?
Hint : ask any company how a major launch went on Day 1. There are more examples than I care to list.
Trust of the data requires knowledge of how it is gathered and filtered.
Understanding the data requires knowing what it represents.
You cannot have meaningful data and put it into a form anybody can understand. The "consumers" of the data need to know the significance of what they are looking at.
The only thing this research tells us is that Microsoft is having the same trouble managing data than everyone else does. There is no magic wand to solve data management issues. It requires expertise, knowledge and, most often, experience. No program can replace that.
It will be interesting to see the fallout on that.
On the one hand, goverment wants to be able to check what we are doing with ease (our current situation).
On the other hand, government wants its IT, based on the same tech as ours, to be secure even from state-funded actors.
That is one heck of a clash of interest.
Are we supposed to be impressed ? That's a bit like a driver promising to never drive on the sidewalk.
Of course you wait for a court order, that is the normal thing to do. But if the US Gov has reason to knock on his door, it will be with a court order - or even an NSA security letter. And then you comply, citizen.
What would be impressive is if Hurd promised that regional data centers outside of the US would never hand over data to the US Government even with a court order.
Then I would take my hat off to him. As it stands ? He's just promising to do what he should be doing anyway. My hat stays on.
That must be true, because it certainly isn't ready to continue working the market.
If I were a customer at this point, I would freeze all spending with QLogic and wouldn't be planning anything new with it until the management situation is resolved - one way or another.
Without a CEO there is no telling what the future of a company is. There is no sense in giving money to such a company when there is no guarantee that they will be around to support the sales in six month's time.
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