* Posts by Subs McNubs

9 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Aug 2008

Red Hat speed fiends celebrate automation

Subs McNubs

Re: Commissioning

Tasks in ansible are idempotent. You should be able to run them repeatedly without altering state unless your config item has changed locally or in your repo.

I've had multipl ansible playbooks run thousands of times against hosts without a single change.

That said, I don't yet have the confidence or balls to do that on a core dB server, uhuh.

Solaris 12 disappears from Oracle's roadmap

Subs McNubs

Re: Here is what Oracle is communicating to customers

"Solaris 11 follows a Continuous Delivery model, where new functionality is delivered as updates to the existing release; upgrades are not required to gain access to new features and capabilities. As a result, Support dates are evaluated for update annually, and will be provided through at least the dates above."

This makes sense. Big bang releases are pointless and cause customers pain, plus OS migrations every X years are a complete pain in the arse. Incremental updates make sense imho.

That said, what is telling is the lifespan support statement. If they were to carry on development for Solaris then point releases would also have their support dates amended in perpetuity. Ultimately, all vendors want you to consume cloud services (preferably theirs if they have one) rather than roll your own, this consumption-led model also appeals to bean counters across the globe.

From a purely personal perspective, another 15 years of supporting Solaris and migrations to Cloud or otherwise suits me just fine, its just a little sad that finally it looks like Solaris is finally entering its sunset years.

Tech firms warn Ireland on bailout

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Black Helicopters

Stop the bus. What the bejeesus is going on?

These "corporations" are text-book socio-paths. Whoever decided that companies should have the same rights as a real person didn't really think it through - it allows people to disconnect their emotions and moral and ethical sensibilities from business practice.

Also, can someone tell me why Indebted broke countries are lending money they don't have to more heavily debt laden countries to pay back borrowings to creditors who don't understand the meaning of bankrupt? Isn't this Akin to paying off one credit card bill with another?

Bring out the gallows, I want to see heads roll before I emigrate eastwards towards our new masters.

Oracle whacked by DoJ complaint

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Unhappy

Wha?

From where I'm sat, their traditional customer base pretty much are the customers they inherited from Sun.

For shame. That bastard is toying with peoples livelihoods.

Sony soars, sinks, soars on Apple buyout rumor

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Apple buy Disney

...then you would be able to say, hand on heart that MacOS has completed its transition to a fully-blown Micky Mouse OS.

boom, boom.

Icelandic ash cloud to keep UK skies closed 'til Saturday

Subs McNubs
WTF?

Sod the passengers, what about freight?

It'll be interesting to see which food supplies become scarce on the shelves in UK supermarkets.

'World's largest' BitTorrent tracker Mininova kneecapped

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media content supplied by british gas

Not really but that's what these numb-skulls should aim to. I'd happily pay £50 a month for unfettered access to all good quality steamed media. I could also do without the hassle of having storage devices thank you very much.

on tap. straight to my brain.

twats.

Black hats attack gaping DNS hole

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BT - No suprises

1. 194.72.6.57 (ns3.bt.net) appears to have POOR source port randomness and GREAT transaction ID randomness.

2. 217.169.46.108 (217-169-46-108.bis-internet.co.uk) appears to have UNKNOWN source port randomness and UNKNOWN transaction ID randomness.

Oh dear.