Posts by Dave 13

Oracle gets to store US users' TikTok data, says Trump

Uncle Larry

Here comes Uncle Larry's thumb on free speech.

SIM city: Feds say 100,000-card farms could have killed cell towers in NYC

What "state actors" might want the UN shut down? The list is pretty small.

Oracle Cloud says it's not true someone broke into its login servers and stole data

Uncle Larry

Uncle Larry never met a customer, competitor or individual he didn't want to sue. He's now got a problem since he doesn't know who to sue. Poor Larry.

Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament

Trump kills everything he touches

Trump's reverse Midas touch seems to finally be affecting the US economy. If only there was some warning this was likely to happen...

Dept of Defense engineer took home top-secret docs, booked a fishing trip to Mexico – then the FBI showed up

Run, Forest, run!!

All this chap needs to do is announce his candidacy for President. All will be forgiven, apparently.

Tesla Cybertruck recall #8: Exterior trim peels itself off, again

The new model

I once owned a series of British sports cars, starting with MGs and ending with a 90's Jaguar. One thing I moved from car to car in that decades-long journey was the little brass plaque which read "the parts observed falling off this vehicle are of the finest British workmanship."

Tesla has taken up this model, and then some.

Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data

Never enough

When even Infiniband has too much latency, draws too much power, and has too little bandwidth, you might consider that you might have hit a scalability wall or something like it.

Trump orders all government IT contracts consolidated under GSA

You can't optimise what you don't understand.

You can't optimise or automate what you don't understand, but Musk and DOGE won't let that stop themselves from breaking^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h trying anyway.

Dell discloses monster 20-petaFLOPS desktop built on Nvidia's GB300 Superchip

How long?

How long before Nvidia no longer needs the likes of Del, HP, etc? Little more than tin-bending and assemblers and Nvidia is already monetizing the larger AI server farms for themselves.

VA IT contract cancellation DOGE boasted about ... was due to end in 10 days anyway

Imaginary numbers

Musk has yet to prove any 'savings' from his wanton slaughter of civil servants and contracts. Imaginary savings from an imaginary genius.

AI bubble? What AI bubble? Datacenter investors all in despite whispers of a pop

Peak stupid

Buying at the peak of the hype cycle - good for sellers and likely bankruptcy lawyers when the 'trough of disillusionment' arrives.

CISA pen-tester says 100-strong red team binned after DOGE canceled contract

Obvious?

It's obvious, at least it is to me, that the Trump/Musk DOGE wrecking ball is intended to isolate and weaken the US. No other explanation or platitudes about 'efficiency' or 'savings' could possibly account for the wanton destruction of critical services, not to mention the disruption of lives caused by this.

Probe finds US Coast Guard has left maritime cybersecurity adrift

Too good...

I worked with a startup that had a *very* good solution for maritime cybersecurity, but it would keep sailors from pronscrolling and downloading nudes, so nobody would buy it.

Analysts welcome ACID transactions on real-time distributed Aerospike

Larry's coming...

Uncle Larry at Oracle is wondering how he can kill this thing ... or control it.

IBM return-to-office order hits finance, ops teams amid push to dump staff for AI

what comes around...

The ones pushing AI and RTO never think it's going to come for them as well. HR and C-suite is next.

Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study

Re: Big Brother Has Arrived

Big senile brother...

Re: Omniscience is the game

Uncle Larry, like Musk and Trump, wants to control the lives of Americans. Look at it as the new Stasi with better snooping tools.

LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab

Re: LibreOffice was nothing to do with Sun?

Uncle Larry never did like Sun kit much. He never met anything he didn't either want to own or kill off.

Re: All you need

I too use Libre to unscrew bad and protected Excel sheets. Excel seems the worst of the M$ lot, IMHO.

VMware users gripe over 3-year commitment to renew licenses

Toxic dump?

Dell's looking smarter by the day for dumping VMW when they did.

Trump 'waved a white flag to Chinese hackers' as Homeland Security axed cyber advisory boards

Simplimafication...

Trump wants to dumb down government to the level he can understand. Heaven help us.

Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home

Rather than RTO, my response was to simply accelerate my retirement. The brain drain of RTO will likely kneecap many industries and companies before they realize what it's done.

Trump's freshly minted meme coin passes $10B market cap

The grift never ends...

Grifting is the one core MAGA value - other than victimhood and hatred.

NASA mulls using SpaceX in 2025 to rescue Starliner pilots stuck on space station

Boeing's management fell for the 'shareholder value' myth of Jack Welch and hollowed out the company for short-term profits and C-suite perks. This is the result.

US elections have never been more secure, says CISA chief

Re: Solving the wrong problem?

Have you ever done business with the Phillipine government? Bautista likely shook down Smartmatic for a bribe and they fell for it.

VMware revenue plunges $600M, but Broadcom assures investors growth plan is on track

Dell looking pretty smart for offloading VMW before it cratered.

Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time

Re: Larry Ellison

More likely he needs to buy another island.

Uncle Larry never seems to change his spots - sue, sue, sue...

US Veterans Affairs hits brakes on $10b Oracle Cerner health record system

Uncle Larry sues everybody, eventually...

Has Uncle Larry sued the VA yet? He will. That's his business model.

Over a decade on, and millions in legal fees, Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle in Java API legal war

Still true

A 2019 post of mine rings true:

"Sun had the beginnings of an Android-like experience when they purchased SavaJe but didn't have the money or the will to pursue it. When Oracle came along they also saw little value in the concept of a java-based universal mobile platform and gave it no love. Oracle is simply expressing their frustration at their inability to spot golden geese when they're presented with them and going after those with enough vision to do it. APIs are simply not copyrightable anymore than anyone can copyright the use of clutch, brake and accelerator pedals in a car."

Re: Wah Wah Wah! Oracle! They don't like the ruling!

A someone who was tangentally connected to mobile Java while at Sun, I'd say this ruling fell on the side of justice. Sun fumbled with mobile Java and handset SW in general (remember Savaje?) and Oracle decided it wasn't worth their time and money to pursue. When Android came out Larry and his swarm of lawyers saw blood in the water, and deep pockets. Oracle's nothing more than a patent troll and customer shakedown outfit these days. R.I.P Sun.

Texas blacks out, freezes, and even stops sending juice to semiconductor plants. During a global silicon shortage

Re: The Real Story from Texas

And in 1983.

NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS – but forgot about eye-watering cloudy egress costs before lift-off

Re: Just wondering

I've seen this cycle in customers already. Existing CIO had things humming nicely, gets lured away by better offer. New CIO hired with a "cloud first" mentality. Dumps on-prem gear because "it's really expensive to run at $1.5m per year" and moves all data and computing to AWS. 6-9 months pass and the economics of the AWS deal become apparent and the CIO flees in disgrace. Next CIO buys new on-prem gear and gets everything humming.

Lather, rinse, repeat..

Oracle and Google will fight in court over Java AGAIN and this time it's going to the Supremes

Re: You've got to go into the weeds to understand.

Sun had the beginnings of an Android-like experience when they purchased SavaJe but didn't have the money or the will to pursue it. When Oracle came along they also saw little value in the concept of a java-based universal mobile platform and gave it no love. Oracle is simply expressing their frustration at their inability to spot golden geese when they're presented with them and going after those with enough vision to do it. APIs are simply not copyrightable anymore than anyone can copyright the use of clutch, brake and accelerator pedals in a car.

Amortize

Larry has to amortize his investments in lawyers.

Cisco slips on a Tolkien ring: One chip design to rule them all, one design to find them. One design to bring them all...

Magic sauce?

Honestly, there *is* no magic sauce in pushing packets around. Cisco has depended on the FUD that there *is* for decades. The rest of the world moves on..

This flash is too slow. This DRAM is too small. This bowl of data is just right. It's SCM flavored

HCI+SCM=?

Array-centric thinking is great.. but what if you actually stuff SCM into HCI nodes connected with 100Bbe or IB.. and lean on scale? I'm talking to you, ScaleIO (now VxFlex OS).

SPARCs fly as Oracle recharges Arm server processor designer Ampere with $40m

Play well with others..

Larry has *never* been one to play well with others. This from a former Sun/Oracle employee who watched him strangle priceless IP because the profit margins weren't as high as his legacy SW only to realize (always too late) that he'd killed golden-egg-laying geese one after another. I've moved on but will never be an Oracle customer because of this short-sighted attitude. Now he's moving ARM-ward because he thinks it's a cheaper route to server CPUs. He doesn't like anything he cant sue, shakedown or destroy. That's Larry.. he reminds me of another American businessman who's recently got into politics.. must be something in the Yank water.

This won't end well. Microsoft's AI boffins unleash a bot that can generate fake comments for news articles

Re: REALLY obligatory XKCD

Post of the week. You win the internet.

Bring in the clones..

You mean they're not already here? Hard to believe..

Oracle asks Supremes to snub Google's Java API copyright protest – and have a nice cuppa tea, instead

Eclipse?

So.. when IBM published Eclipse as a Java frontend, why didn't Oracle go after them? Oh, that's right - it was done as a nonprofit so there were no deep pockets to mine. Also, IBM had a mobile Java client but this somehow doesn't interest Oracle. Bottom line, Oracle is simply a shell company for legal actions against customers and competitors. If you think they're anything else, you haven't been paying attention.

As Red Hat prepares to become part of Big Blue, its financials look as solid as Linux kernel 2.4

Re: The 2.4 planets align!

So.. BB wants folks run RH on a $2m plus MF and not a $50k X86 server from Lenovo? How original.

3 is the magic number for HPE execs hopping over to AWS recently

Empty

Will there be anyone left at HPE to keep the lights on? Sounding a lot like IBM these days..

From hard drive to over-heard drive: Boffins convert spinning rust into eavesdropping mic

Back in the old Sun days

We screamed and yelled at arrays.

They sputtered and shook

for the trouble we took

And didn't come back online for days..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

New claim dogs Oracle: After $11m of sales, I was unfairly axed before next big deal – because I am a 64yo woman

Oracle doing what Oracle does

Oracle wants bright, young, idealistic sales folk, not ones that know when they're being screwed.

Hands up who isn't fighting Oracle in court? HPE, for now, as Solaris support sueball tossed

Lawyers > Engineers

Oracle has always invested more heavily in lawyers than in engineers. Curious for an ostensibly technology company but their business practices have required it. Shakedown customers, sue the ones that argue then increase prices - lather, rinse, repeat..

Amazon throws toys out of pram, ditches plans for New York HQ2 after big trouble in Big Apple

Ditched

Amazon should have gone with Austin, Dallas or Raleigh - places that actually wanted them. Instead Amazon chose a toxic place simply to be near Bezo's NY home. Wonder what effect the divorce will play in any eventual HQ2 decision?

Santander hands over $700m to IBM in hopes of becoming incredible banking machine

Hollow..

IBM has lollowed itself out to the extent that all it can offer customers is hordes of offshore bodies and some H1-B visa holders in the US. Their sales force is competent but there's no there there anymore for implementation.

Now, hold on. This may shock you... Oracle allegedly juices its cloud sales with threats and shoddy on-prem support

Shaft..

Why *anyone* would willingly do business with Larry Ellison and Co is beyond me. Their track record of shaking down and abusing customers is the stuff of legend.

Euro bank regulator: Don't follow the crowd. Stay off the cloud

Reward vs risk calculation

It's human nature to value reward over risk and our financial institutions seem more in tune with that than ever. The real problem with reports like this is that those who ignore the stated risks and get caught with their knickers down never seem to get any real punishment. Stupid pointy-haired-boss decisions mainly affect customers and low-level employees - otherwise known as scapegoats.