Re: Pfft.
See https://xkcd.com/908/
Posts by Smoking Man
108 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jul 2008
Psst. Hey. Hey you. We have to whisper this in case the cool kidz hear, but... it's OK to pull your data back from the cloud
Who needs 4th July fireworks when there's a new Windows 10 build?
Monday 8th July 2019 17:54 GMT
"Build 18932 is all about accessibility.."
I would think the first and most important step to achieve a meaningful concept of accessibility is A WORKING AND USABLE OS.
Listen, MS, GET YOUR FREAKIN', F*CKING UPDATE CONCEPT IN ORDER!
The current concept of repetitive Patch download, installation, reboot and rollback ain't funny by any means.
Nor are the useless "0x8002<something> error messages that seem to be spit out by a random number generator.
If your Update Repair Tool thinks that the Windows Update Database needs a fix, THEN HAVE YOUR UPDATE REPAIR TOOL FIX IT.
And don't leave it to the user to repair it <somehow>.
Tesla driver killed after smashing into truck had just enabled Autopilot – US crash watchdog
'Software delivered to Boeing' now blamed for 737 Max warning fiasco
Wednesday 8th May 2019 10:30 GMT
Difference between an US and a non-US company.
Volkswagen cheated with their software, and they got caught pants down.
Nobody died or was injured because of their software.
Still it cost them some 35 Billion dollars fine.
Boeing screwed up their software, big time.
Almost 400 people killed.
What will fine will Boeing have to pay 1 Million?
Can I get a RHEL yeah? Version 8 arrives at last as IBM given go-ahead to wolf down Red Hat
Former HP CEO Léo Apotheker tells court he didn't read Autonomy's latest accounts before fated $11bn buyout
Huawei savaged by Brit code review board over pisspoor dev practices
Don't have a heart attack but your implanted defibrillator can be hacked over the air (by someone who really wants you dead)
OK, team, we've got the big demo tomorrow and we're feeling confident. Let's reboot the servers
Saturday 23rd February 2019 17:44 GMT
No trial licenses necessary.
At least for those products I used to work with for years and decades.
Name of the company developing and selling those products: Oracle.
You could (and can) basically install and use all of their products (at least around the RDBMS thingy), with all named features.
No need to apply a license key.
And still they're making _some_ money with that type of business, don't they?
From Firefox to fired cocks: Look who's out to save you being shafted by insecure Internet of Dingalings – it's Mozilla!
Sysadmin's three-line 'annoyance-buster' busts painstakingly crafted, crucial policy
Post-Brexit plan for .EU tweaked: No dot-EU web domains for Europeans in UK, no appeals, etc
Want to spin up Ubuntu VMs from Windows 10's command line, eh? We'll need to see a Multipass
Thursday 24th January 2019 11:18 GMT
Re: Webservers?
I remember a customer engineer connecting hist notebook to a server vga (and keyboard/mouse) port with this device:
https://www.startech.com/Server-Management/KVM-Switches/Portable-USB-PS-2-KVM-Console-Adapter-for-Notebook-PCs~NOTECONS01
Enables a laptop to act as a KVM device. Nice and useful gimmick, just not the cheapest one.
Are you sure your disc drive has stopped rotating, or are you just ignoring the messages?
Sunday 20th January 2019 17:34 GMT
Re: simple instructions
Ahh, those were the days.. when a Sun workstation came with an optical mouse and some sort of glass panel, a special pattern printed on it, to be used as mousepad.
It took most people a while, some never understood, why their mousecursor went sidewards when moving the mouse up or down.
The stared at you with eyes and mouth wide open when you told them to rotate the mousepad (back) 90 degrees..
Excuse me, sir. You can't store your things there. Those 7 gigabytes are reserved for Windows 10
Peak Apple: This time it's SERIOUS, Tim
The D in SystemD stands for Dammmit... Security holes found in much-adored Linux toolkit
Error pop-up? Don't worry, let's just get this migration done... BTW it's my day off tomorrow
It is with a heavy heart that we must inform you hackers are targeting 'nuclear, defense, energy, financial' biz
Waymo presents ChauffeurNet, a neural net designed to copy human driving
Microsoft, you shouldn't have: Festive Windows 10 Insiders build about as exciting as new socks
Tuesday 11th December 2018 18:28 GMT
Re: Havn't they finished this yet?
[Quote] They've been building Windows for over a quarter of a century, and it isn't finished yet? [/Quote]
So you thought the deep knowledge on how to configure the underlying DOS system would keep your job safe?
And using more than 16 MB of memory is just a waste of resources?
You gotta be strong now: Things and conditions develop. Different from what you were thinking. Sometimes.
Microsoft: New icons, new drivers, AI! Everything is awesome!
HP's Neon Dion says if anything goes wrong, it's totally Intel's fault: CPU shortage may hit PC maker's financials
Microsoft slips ads into Windows 10 Mail client – then U-turns so hard, it warps fabric of reality
Techie was bigged up by boss… only to cause mass Microsoft Exchange outage
Monday 29th October 2018 11:48 GMT
Re: RE: Then came the Linux crowd where there were no such applications
Just dreamin':
[Quote]
Linux is like a sleek F1 car, each part is self-contained and held together with screws. It can be hard to get the components working together at first, but they're easily swappable.
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Then there was systemd: https://youtu.be/hYOWIdPHXts
The D in Systemd stands for 'Dammmmit!' A nasty DHCPv6 packet can pwn a vulnerable Linux box
DXC axes Americas boss amid latest deck chair musical
Thursday 25th October 2018 10:49 GMT
Re: AC cause reasons
Leaving DXC and its magagement out of discussion for a small moment, I would just like to point out, that it's certainly not the brightest idea to post company internal data, names, and structures on a public discussion board. These are competitive information.
Such sort of data contains -at the end- company confidential data.
If you worked or still work for DXC, you signed a contract to keep such information for you.
You're alone in a room with the Windows 10 out-of-the-box apps. What do you do?
PC shipments just rose, thanks to Windows 10
UK taxman outlines its CHIEF concerns for customs IT systems
United States, you have 2 months to sort Privacy Shield ... or data deal is for the bin – Eurocrats
Who fancies a six-core, 128GB RAM, 8TB NVMe … laptop?
Sysadmin shut down server, it went ‘Clunk!’ but the app kept running
Monday 2nd July 2018 17:17 GMT
Re: Random USB
Decades ago, when I worked in tech presales of a somewhat bigger system supplier, I learned in a discussion with one of our director folks, that a LCD display on the front panel _and_ on the back panel of system sold for more than a million £/$/€ was way too expensive and by this would never happen.
I thought of and described the same sort of LCD display that was used in those days in "our" laser printers..
Amazon’s Snowball snowballs as Google's clone gets real and IBM's comes to Europe
Friday 29th June 2018 13:11 GMT
USB
In old days, USB sticks with some dozen GB of sensitive data on them tended to get lost on trains, cabs and such.
I think the fun really starts when such a snowball device with unencrypted mass data in the 100 TB range disappears in the street.
"Boss, I really don't know how this could happen, I wanted to take some files with me just to work with them at home later today.."
Oracle's new Java SE subs: Code and support for $25/processor/month
Friday 22nd June 2018 11:29 GMT
Just guessing.
Next year or so, license and support cost will stay the same, just not per server though, but per Oracle licensed core.
All cores in a system to be licensed, as long as it isn't running Oracle VM.
Oh yes, of course, Vmware datacenters as a whole.
And no, it doesnt' matter how many or few cores in that datacenter actually run Java SE.
Theoretically, you could run it on all, couldn't you?
So here's your new license and support contract, adding 8192 cores * 25$/core/month * three years...
You love Systemd – you just don't know it yet, wink Red Hat bods
Kaspersky Lab loses the privilege of giving Twitter ad money
Facebook previews GDPR privacy tools and, yep, it's the same old BS
Was April 10th 'Add storage features to enterprise OSes day'?
Thursday 12th April 2018 17:48 GMT
I'm getting old.
How do I know?
When reading something like " “virtual data optimizer” that applies “de-duplication and compression of data before it lands on a disk.”", I keep thinking "Dear OS, just place my data quick and safely on disk. Otherwise just leave your fingers off. I'm not interested by any means in a new and shiny layer you want to place here and there."
'nuff systemd'ed.
Europe dumps 300,000 UK-owned .EU domains into the Brexit bin
User asked why CTRL-ALT-DEL restarted PC instead of opening apps
Friday 23rd March 2018 13:01 GMT
Even the classical UNIX workstations.
Had a customer call me why the disk of one UNIX workstation filled up to 99, maybe 100%.
Lucky me, I could connect via modem and kermit to that system.
Turned out that during the managers two weeks vacation his secretary started the daily backup.
Backup device: /dev/rmt/0m
Since she was used to a PC keyboard, not to that somewhat special UNIX keyboard, she specified the backup device file as CTRL-7devCTRL-7rmtCTRL-70m
The backup ran until the disk was full..
But it was quick!
Air gapping PCs won't stop data sharing thanks to sneaky speakers
Developer recovered deleted data with his face – his Poker face
Monday 19th February 2018 18:28 GMT 
And the beauty of using scripts as opposed to type commandline after commandline lies in:
That you can easily do much more damage to a wider set of data in almost no time.
I remeber quite well when I had messed up several directories with thousands of files of old, older and newer versions, a huge set of files with the same name etc.
It was already late int he evening, when I hacked a small shell script that checked various directories for file duplicates.
And, as expected, I somewhat messed up the check ("test, []"), which at the end kept all duplicates and deleted the single files that should stay untouched. Job well done.
Mines the one with the backup tapes..The ones with "tar: read error".
Who wants dynamic dancing animations and code in their emails? Everyone! says Google
Intel adopts Orwellian irony with call for fast Meltdown-Spectre action after slow patch delivery
Friday 9th February 2018 14:04 GMT
Re: What about homebrew computers?
Just last week I did a Bios upgrade to a almost brand new system, ASUS Z370 MB with Intel I7 8700K CPU.
The new firmware brought the performance down to about 16% of the level achieved with the previous version. Yes, not _by_ 16% but _to_ 16%. (*)
So there's room for improvement.
Yes, I indeed switched back to the previous firmware. Shame on me.
(*) = Measured under Win10 Pro with Cinebench v15.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
