Posts by Pascal Monett 18221 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Proof once again that the Internet is not important.
Not unless you're talking about TikTok, banning Huawei or the latest changes at Meta, that is.
A web hosting provider ? What's that ? Who cares ? Just pretend to be nice and go about your business.
These are not the droids you're looking for.
Really ?
Maybe you could have planned ahead ? <slap> Idiot, what am I saying. You're Senators, you don't plan, you react.
When you have time.
Well, you don't.
By the way, when do you plan to have the time to plan on defending Humanity from the next asteroid strike ? When it's a month away ?
Agreed.
I'm sorry for Mr Ortberg, but his presence is too little, too late to restore the company’s culture and regain a leadership position.
He's got decades of rot to cut off first, starting with everyone on the Board and going down, like a surgeon cuts off gangrenous tissue.
A delicate exercise at best.
I wish him luck.
Well how do you think Sir Humphrey managed to keep his position so long ?
Yup. I completely agree.
I'll be very interested to read Broadcom's end-of-year 2025 report on how their cunning scheme has lost them money because all those big accounts left them.
The cynical in me says that Broadcom would have better off gouging the little accounts for twice as much, because little accounts do not have the resources (time, knowledge and/or money) to migrate to something else.
The big accounts take one look at the new bill and say : nope, not paying that, let's go somewhere else.
And they demonstrably can, because this isn't the first time it has happened.
Yeah. RTFM. All of it.
And understand it.
At least he was able to recover the issue. Good on him for that. And missing one sentence is an easy thing to do when what you are reading is about as exciting as watching paint dry.
But as an admin, what your doing is important (at least, the consequences may be). So read that manual.
"they refused to believe that they were being scammed, despite being repeatedly advised by family, friends, their bank and even the Police "
That's akin to religious cults, then (or Dunning-Kruger ?). If you ignore warnings from your family and friends, it might be understandable (after all, what do they know ?), but if you ignore not only your bank but also an official warning from the Police, I say you should go down that rabbit hole until you get it. Or until you're ruined.
Sometimes you have to learn the hard way.
And I'm guessing that all these scams have a lot to do with crypto (duh).
There are other domains where the language setting is a major issue - namely Windows (what else ?).
My default language setting is English, but my location is France (where I live, duh).
Guess what language Borkzilla uses when I access it's bloody Store ? French.
That's where I live, not what I chose as default language.
Bloody idiots.
Once upon a time, a company would propose a functionality and then <gasp> would actually support the customers that used it.
Borkzilla is the definition of a company that only proposes a functionalty to find out whether or not it will be interesting to monetize it.
Sometimes, I feel seriously driven to homicidal rage these days.
So, you're going to California now ?
What utter blathering. You have done nothing. That might not be your fault, and I understand that when giving your resignation speech you need to invent something positive to talk about, but the bitter fact is that cybersecurity will only become a priority when the power grid of the East Coast has been shut down by Chinese hackers.
Then, when Washington DC has recovered its grid, it will finally decide on a nationawide push towards security.
Before that ? Dream on.
It is interesting to see Redmond making such an effort at this point in time.
Does the Board really think that enlarging commercial activity with China now is a must ?
Because, from where I'm sitting, it seems to me that The West (TM) is increasingly going to war with Eastasia.
Something does not compute . . .
I don't really see why that is a problem. If you're a governing body, you don't have to have billions in revenue to fine a company for billions millions a few hundred thousand.
Roupies.
I would really like to see a fine in the billions once in my life.
It's the only way we're ever going to get those companies to comply.
And that has always been complete bullshit.
Windows needs 8GB to run, and if you do anything more than Internet and email, you'll probably need 16GB to be comfortable.
If you're a gamer, you need 32GB.
And an SSD card for booting Windows, and another one to store your game data.
Dates would be easier if they were actual objects.
We've been using object-oriented programming for decades now, but dates are still stored as a fucking string.
With the seperator.
Do you have any idea how many different seperators are used all over the world ? I have found these : / - . \ ! (and when I say found, I mean having to repeatedly debug code that was working fine until a new use case was found).
If date/time values were stored as proper objects, with Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute, Seconds, Milliseconds, and recoverable with the proper routines, then I strongly believe that all this kind of fuss would be eliminated.
But, even though Redmond is on version 11 of its perenially buggy software, it would apparently be too much of a hassle to record date/time values as the objects they are.
So we continue to get fucking strings, and having to parse them every time.
Impressive article, and I wholeheartedly support the message.
There's only one problem I can see : telcos have been surfing on money for decades and, as long as the money keeps rolling in, they have no reason to change their habits. Containment ? They've contained the media hoopla around the issue, problem solved.
Also, food for thought : what says that China doesn't have interested parties on the Boards of the various telcos ? China is notorious for putting its fingers in every pie it can find. I would actually be surprised if China had absolutely zero influence inside the communication companies of The West.
Ah, Indiana.
The state that proposed a law to set the value of Pi at 3.
You just can't invent that level of stupid.
A datacenter needs 4 million gallons of water ? Why should that be taken from the drinkable water supply every year ?
Build a tank that holds that water, and re-use it.
It will probably be more a bit more costly, but you'll only be draining the water once. Steam can be recycled endlessly.
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