Posts by Ivan Frimmel 1

UK cops arrest five in Anonymous attacks probe

Arresting kids for political protests? #

" Rather saddened that so many Reg posters feel the need to put the boot in on kids who give a damn taking on large corporates. When did you guys sell your souls to the dark side and start wearing jackboots? Looking forward to seeing the idealism terrorised from them are you?"

What you don't realize is that a lot of us could have done it too.. protest for protest sake is stupid and irresponsible. ESPECIALLY if it is ILLEGAL. ESPECIALLY if they are going to take you to jail and make an example out of you - while taking away OUR rights.

Notice there has been ALOT of new talk about net neutrality ... kiss you internet privacy goodbye. You can thank these idiots.

RE: Asymmetric Policing

"Because Wikileaks is not a financial institution. Compare the sentences likely to be handed out for stealing an individual's £10k car and stealing £10k from a bank."

Not sure what you mean here - they Anonymous are in no way affiliated with Wikileaks nor did they target Wikileaks. They did target Visa, Paypal, and various other commercial organisation. So .. the gods of commerce are going to wale down piles of shit upon their combined heads.

Don't be confused..

LOIC is a freely available DDOS tool that simply generates traffic - it does not make any attempt to hide the IP of the attacked - it is NOT a botnet. You have to download it - install it - point it at a target and make it do it's thing. On the other hand Anonymous purportedly ALSO has control/access of a DDOS tool which is a botnet ( a weaponised version of LOIC - dunno ? ) - point being is that Anonymous orchestrated this attack via a website anonops.net and IRC and threw all those that were not smart enough to know or care (read: average enraged hormonal 15-year old) that running LOIC is not secure firmly under the bus.

Paris - because she would have run LOIC..

Provisioning - how do you approach it?

Just because it's virtual - doesn't mean it isn't real!

Just because you can power on a VM in 5 seconds doesn't mean a thing. The workloads they generate are real - FACT!

IT typically funds CAPEX intensive architectures like virtualisation by stealing from Peter and giving it to Paul. Management always has their pet projects and the only way to "divert" their funds is to oversize the requirement and hopefully replace some of the old crap in the DC (shh! it's a secret). As for saving OPEX to fund CAPEX - OPEX budgets are typically under the control of the ops folks - and they NEVER have enough! You can do a million TCO calcs and no ops manager is ever going to believe them or relinquish his grasp on the funds. Any idiot can spend $1m on hardware. Ops has SLA's which they get hammered on.

Until IT management and the CxO's of the world have the foresite to realise they are saving money by spending money on the latest and greatest of gear... i.e. embracing Moore's Law which is more than 3 decades old.. they will never see return on investement. Yes it's a paradox. Get with the program! Keeping a server for 5 years is RETARDED!!!

Oracle tried to sell Sun hardware biz

Would you buy a Sun?

With record low growth ( negative ) and decreasing margins in the server biz .. who would stake their reputation ( in a really dicey job market ) and buy a Sun? I

Along with Oracles (Ellison's) stated direction to pursue non-proprietary ( cheap ) server clusters ( 10g etal ) where is there place for Sun in Oracle ?

Mines the dusty one with the unemployment cheque in the pocket.