Posts by Pascal Monett 18988 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
I can understand you placing your phone on a table and it falling off. I can understand you taking your phone out of your pocket, fumbling, and dropping it.
I cannot understand you mowing the lawn with your phone. You're mowing the fucking lawn. You can live without your slab of toxic materials during that time.
Self-configuring is already a red flag. The software doesn't know where it is, so some amount of manual configuration is necessary.
Self-healing means nothing for software. Software doesn't stub its toes. Either it has resiliency programmed in it, or it will fall over like Windows 95 after 24 hours.
As for self-securing, I look forward to reading reports of PCs running Omnissa where Omnissa has decided to refuse network connections . . .
"That may shrink cloud bills, or with Red Hat and on-prem tech shrink bills further still."
IIRC, the initial hype around The CloudTM was that it would make your on-prem IT less expensive. Highly paid consultants in suits were hyping CEOs everwhere (well, essentialy at Fortune 1000 companies where the business meal is still a notion), chanting about how The CloudTM would bring vast economies compared to all those expensive admins.
So, it looks like we're back on track to talk once again about how on-prem is lowering bills.
And the wheel ever turns . . .
I'm sorry to rain on your parade, but the EULA has been extremely efficient up to now at preserving Redmond from any fallout of its shoddy programming and lack of testing procedures.
I see no reason why this should change, and MSFT's stock price practically only ever goes up, so, that has to mean Redmond is right, right ?
That is the go-to excuse for companies who are not making enough money to satisfy the shareholders.
It doesn't matter that they're making money hand-over-fist and can largely afford the salary charge. No, what matters is that shareholders, who do nothing at all but sit with their mouths open like chick in a nest waiting for food distribution, what matters is that those freeloaders get their share.
Capitalisme needs a rethink.
So, Crowdstrike gonna pull a Zuckerberg, or is the CEO actually going to submit to a public flogging ? 'Cause that's what's waiting for him.
Not everyone can be a total asshole. I'm guessing Kurtz is going to bend over backwards to try and keep the share price from falling further.
Time will tell.
So it is down to the shitty Windows environment once again. No surprise there.
The issue might be more in the fact that it seems to be very difficult to isolate the kernel in an OS while granting security access to protective measures, all the while keeping the hoi polloi at bay and the system secure.
Too late to think about a redesign of the OS architecture. We'll just have to make do with what we have.
During COVID, we were all locked down, nobody was in the office, and yet companies not only survived, but many thrived.
Now, management is desperately trying to get back to before, but there is no going back. We proved that we could do the job with suffering the commute. Stop with the threatening, we know this works.
We were doing "network stress tests" during the lunchbreak. It became such a success that our little room, fir for three, was often occupied by six howling monsters during lunch hour.
One day, we were really getting on with the destruction and the howling glee. Unfortunately, that day, one of our colleagues in the next room had scheduled that time for a business call.
Needless to say, we were soon relocated to the basement, and that was the end of our network stress tests.
Totally agree.
Management, marketing and Javascript have long conspired to ensure that the URL got perverted into the absolute filth of length that exists today.
And news sites are the first to blame, with their stupid insistance that they needed their articles to display in three columns, just like paper.
It's the web, stupid. You don't display like paper. But, instead of dealing with it, we had to wait for smartphones and adaptive HTML to get something akin to what the newsies could have understood thirty years ago.
Stop management from interfering in the Internet. That would be a good start to getting things working smoothly again.
Unfortunately, I am inclined to agree with you.
After all, there are those pesky contract clauses, etc etc, and finding another AV supplier is going to be a major pain and probably require humongous amounts of work from IT personnel everywhere, so why not just listen to the siren call of "lessons have been learned" and stay the course ?
After all, it works so well for Capita in the UK (and Fujitsu, and God knows how many more) . . .
It's funny how there are absolutely no banks who invoke that excuse.
No real banks. Banks with a banking charter, and proper procedures and personnel dealing with actual currency and legal obligations, not fairy money and feel-good wishes.
Invoking Force Majeure when you don't have the compentence, the ability or the experience to implement secure money-managing procedures is like a teenager flipping his car in a curb and blaming the rain on the road.
Bunch of muppets, all of them.
"A lack of robust analyses before setting production and import targets, which were not realistic and therefore likely won't be achieved"
Likely won't be achieved.
Likely.
The initial analysis is flawed and unrealistic, but achieving unrealistic targets just might still be possible, maybe, in an alternate universe.
I understand that you need to not ruffle any feathers too much, but if initial analysis is wrong, the chance that results will not be achieved is a bit stronger than likely.
As in won't happen.
At $5 for 100,000, that's 200 requests per cent, or 0.005 cent per request.
At $1.50 for 5 million, that's 33,333 per cent, or 0.00003 cent per request.
Now, I'm supposing Google is still making money on this, since I'm supposing that India also frowns on price dumping. If that is true, it should mean that Google is artificially inflating its prices by a factor of 166.
Just FYI, you know. Google's prices are way too high.
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