Posts by Alpy

After Copilot trial, government staff rated Microsoft's AI less useful than expected

What did you expect?

Co-pilot is B2C AI, not B2B. It uses the wrong models and can't be trained on enterprise data. It's literally useless in a corporate environment.

Already three years late, NHS finance system replacement delayed again

Re: HR and Payroll

It's Oracle, they make the numbers up and idiots continue to buy it...

Might want to check the expiry date...

Larry says 'Tax the stupid...'

Oracle have been pushing their self licking lollypop (EBS to Fusion, then Fusion to OCI) for a while. Best check when Fusion runs out of runway and prepare to have a nice big bill when you have to move to OCI in a couple of years. Brilliant business model. Another Government department has been caught out in this trap recently. Lazy IT professionals love buying it and then defending their decisions while Larry swims in tax payers money.

Cloud repatriation officially a trend... for specific workloads

Hopefully the awakening has begun!

The realisation is starting to dawn on people. Public cloud only works when its agile, open, interoperable with other cloud vendors and obviously cost effective. Public cloud today doesn't do this. Hybrid (mutlicloud, public/private) cloud is genuinely the only way organisations are going to get a real option.

Europe's largest city council: Oracle ERP allocated £2B in transactions to wrong year

Re: Why the hell isn't Oracle paying for this?!

They have better lawyers and no ethical compass. That's why they won't pay for this. People need to stop buying their overpriced sh*te software.

Exactly this! They lock you in with millions of bespoke changes and then laugh as you cannot escape. Incredible business model that people still buy knowing full well. It's a lazy world we live in

Re: Did the system do this on its own?

Exactly this! Great post!

Re: Did the system do this on its own?

That unfortunately is how Oracle works. Out of the box it's pretty much as useful as a chocolate fireguard and millions of hours of consultants and specialists needs to be bought to make it useable. Great model if you're Oracle and one of its consulting partners. It's a total swizz and many people are in on it.

Why do people still buy this junk?

Why aren't people switching to alternatives? There are many of them out there at half the cost and twice the flexibility.

Oracle needs a ungodly amount of bespoking to make it work, creating lots and lots of billable hours for consultants and specialists to make margin rich millions, while at the same time locking you in because it's incredibly complex to unravel when the contracts are up. "Now you're trapped with us, so here's your bill and you'll shut up and pay it!" I see Government departments fall into this trap time and time again.

One day the madness will stop...

Brit council gives Oracle another £10M for professional services amid ERP fallout

What a great outcome...for Oracle!

I'm sure this is their model. Sell an ELA, half deliver the platform, customer gives up, instead of walking away the customer comes back and throws more money at Oracle. Customer hopefully get a platform and realises the technology isn't fit for purpose, massively out of date and then they have to throw more

Legacy tech shoots down Ministry of Defence's supply chain improvements

Re: The answer is ...

lol!

It is if you want to wait 10 years for a working system which is then not fit for purpose and needs replacing or it that the Oracle model for licensing and delivery? #NeverEndingStory

NHS England published heavily redacted Palantir contract as festivities began

HMG never ever learns...

... And never holds anyone accountable for their actions. What's the point of having rules, policies and processes if people can just ignore them? I'd love to see the competitive, technical and financial analysis on this procurement. FOI

UK government slammed for Palantir 'free trial period' deal in Ukraine housing scheme

Then this option to needs to still be opened up to competition. Just single sourcing without justification even for a zero amount is still breaking HMG procurement laws.

And Palantir win a £300m NHS contract...

You honestly can't make this up. I wonder which member of governments son works for Palantir? Oh silly me, I wonder which Cabinet Office procurement director is in their back pocket, that's more like it! HMG never ever learns, mistake after mistake after mistake with zero consequence!

Capita has 'evidence' customer data was stolen in digital burglary

What on Earth needs to happen to remove these clowns from anything UK Gov. related?

Honestly? What on earth needs to happen? Does someone need to lose their life? Capita should be on a list to say they cannot compete for UK Gov contracts. Poor performance, and poor cyber hygiene should automatically send a huge red flag! It would in the private sector, so why not in the public sector? It's our data they are carelessly giving away!!!

Capita's bespoke British Army recruiting IT cost military 25k applicants after switch-on

Large outsourcing is dead within UK Gov...

...and this project should be a visible reminder why!

DRS has been a disaster and the horse needs to be put to rest. Between a several year delays in the application being completed (debate exists to this day if that it is actually complete!), huge overspend, and a system that has clearly crippled the recruitment processes of all services, it's time this ancient, monolithic, waterfall approach to IT projects are also put to rest.

The 2019 Army figures looked good due to a significant reduction in target and the near but damn it, removal of any real entry barrier into the Army. It's not something to be proud of in hindsight.

I hear that Capita are also looking to extend the contract further from 2022 into 2024 as part of AFRP (Armed Forces Recruitment Program). Madness.

Sure, Europe. Here's our Android suite without Search, Chrome apps. Now pay the Google tax

Good for Google...

I like their stance...their OS, their Platform so they can do what they like. Choice is with the consumer.

Unbreakable smart lock devastated to discover screwdrivers exist

I see what you did there ;-)

As I was reading...

...I thought to myself this product sounds so awful it must of been crowdfunded on Indiegogo and to my relief I was right!

Never fund or support anything on Indidgogo! It is the wild west of crowd funding. So many scams and failed ideas come out of this terrible piece of the internet.

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins preaches the cloud, but nothing new

ACI

Probably the most interesting comment from Robbins was the fact he admitted that ACI was difficult to implement. Basically new direction is 100% Intent Based Networking. Good riddance ACI!!

'WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?' Linus Torvalds explodes at Intel spinning Spectre fix as a security feature

Re: Hopefully people will wake up!

And a cure for the common cold! Barstewards! ;)

Hopefully people will wake up!

Intel have taken advantage of corporate enterprises and home users for years by setting artificially high prices in a market they had total domination in. During that time Moore's law hasn't been maintained due to Intel holding back innovation and maximising margins on existing chip architecture. Now this all comes out in the wash and most people have lost at least 10-35% performance depending on architecture and usage surely people now need to wake up and realise that there is another x86 vendor (AMD) waiting in the wings along with ARM and IBM Power chips to take them into the next generation.

Please wake up and realise that Intel have been robbing and lying to you for long while!

All the AIs NVMe, says IBM: Claims POWER9s + InfiniBand brainier than COTS

And Watson runs on....

.....x86?....

Crowdfunding small print binned as Retro Computers Ltd loses court refund action

Always Indiegogo!

Why does it always seem to be Indiegogo that attracts the scammers? I got scammed last year via them on a product that never arrived and the company disappeared into the ether. When I complained the response was 'talk to the company not us'! When I went to my credit card provider to report the scam they chased Indiegogo for the evidence and they gave my bank the same message, bugger off and don't bother us, thus no refund to my credit card, helpful. They just don't care or have any vetting process in place. Scammers central.

My advice would be avoid Indiegogo to avoid said scamming disappointment.

Cisco gives intent-based networking a third leg to stand on

Apstra + any vendor = IBN

Honestly you like Cisco, good go Cisco. Carry on taking the blue pill.

You want freedom of choice, any HW and OS and want intent based networking then look at Apstra. Take the red pill and come into a world of freedom and choice.

It really doesn't have to be difficult or a lock in to a single vendor...

Gamers red hot with fury over Intel Core i7-7700 temperature spikes

White Knight AMD

Great timing from AMD on rejoining the CPU race! Intel have artificially inflated prices and delivered little to nothing in advancements. They should be ashamed on how they pocketed from market dominance.

Stealth-cloaked startup claims to be developing super-fast arrays. How fast? Well...

I stopped at Fibre Channel!

Honestly? Fibre Channel? Why would you design a super quick storage array and glue legacy technology such as fibre channel to it? Ethernet and Infiniband technology is currently pushing storage around at 100Gbps and 200Gbps while using RDMA (RoCE) to obtain very low latency and very high throughput. Fibre Channel is dead in modern infrastructures. Let it die!

Download al Qaeda manuals from the DoJ, go to prison?

This story makes me happy!

...yep if the authorities know which people are in posession of this type of material then that makes me feel a lot safer as I sleep at night.

I think I'd rather have a Goverment that knows everything about everyone rather than a Government knowing nothing and my friends and family not returning home one day.

Metadata ruins Google's anonymous eBay Australia protest

Awesome Work!

I love it when people get caught out like this, I loved even more that someone at Google is using M$ Word over their own product! Awesome work guys, two birds one stone ;)

Daily Mail cites video game as proof of terrorist doomsday plot

Like banging your head against a wall

Reading anything the British press write about is a lot like banging your head against the way, pretty pointless and it kill serveral million brain cells.

Rootkits on routers threat to be demoed

Admin rights required...

....sort of makes this rootkit issue a non starter. Having to brute force the router which should be protected with a AAA TACACS or Radius server, and on an out of band management interface with ACL's would make this very very very difficult to achieve.

However if the rootkit code is added to a version of IOS binary then system admins could actually be installing the rootkit and not knowing. Advice would be to only download binarys from cisco.com and not to get them from any where else. Also check the MD5 and checksum hashes to make sure they match on cisco.com.

This is all just standard best practice. Common sense rules all.

Alpy