Re: Complete waste of money
I couldn't agree more, Oracle Fusion is the bloatiest of bloatware ever inflicted on despairing IT and Finance depts. And the UI is like something from a student's first year computer studies course. Appalling
Posts by yosemite
39 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Nov 2009
Tata Consultancy Services wins £4m deal to carry out Oracle 'reimplementation' for University of Manchester
East London council breaks off 20-year Oracle relationship to shack up with cloud ERP nobodies by year's end
Wednesday 27th January 2021 13:15 GMT
world of pain
I commend them for trying to break free. I'm currently writing various ETLs to support data flows between Oracle Fusion and legacy platforms. It's an absolute nightmare. Really poor documentation especially around REST and SOAP APIs
And the poor users have to put up with one of the slowest, least slick UI I have ever seen. It's appalling.
Wanna be a developer? Your coworkers want to learn Go and like to watch, er, Friends and Big Bang Theory
Monday 11th May 2020 14:56 GMT
DumbF**kery
What would make me a happier programmer? That would be intricately tied to those who "manage" me.
1) You are allowed to tell me what you want me to write, just not how to write it. Micro managing is ugly and doesn't suit you
2) I expect you to organise/prioritise and schedule my workstreams as per business requirements. I shouldn't be expected to do that, that's your job. It's called managing.
3) I don't expect you to understand (i.e) 3rd normal form. I do however, expect you to be able think logically
4) dozens of other gripes but, I'm worn out telling you and I need a beer
LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them
All your ETL pipeline are belong to us: Google snaps up Alooma
This is the final straw, evil Microsoft. Making private GitHub repos free? You've gone too far
Is this cuttlefish really all that cosmic? Ubuntu 18.10 arrives with extra spit, polish, 4.18 kernel
Sure, Europe. Here's our Android suite without Search, Chrome apps. Now pay the Google tax
Due to Oracle being Oracle, Eclipse holds poll to rename Java EE (No, it won't be Java McJava Face)
How is the big switch to the public cloud working out?
Thursday 26th October 2017 07:37 GMT
Re: Frankly delusional.
It's such a shame then that Oracle Fusion is so shite. It's hands down the worst designed and implemented pile of craps I ever had the (mis) pleasure of working with. And don't get me started on Oracle (un) support.
Have any of you actually experienced this monumentally awful software?
UK prison reform report wants hard-coded no-fly zones in drones to keep them out of jail
Friday 4th November 2016 13:23 GMT
Re: time to put prisons into bubbles
Can't think why this simple low tech solution hasn't been more discussed. It seems blindingly obvious to me that slinging a large net between the prison roof and the outside walls would solve the drone problem easily. And better still if the mesh was ferrous then wouldn't this act as a faraday cage and block mobile phone signals too?
Streetmap's lawyer: Google High Court win will have 'chilling effect’ on UK digital biz
So, Linus Torvalds: Did US spooks demand a backdoor in Linux? 'Yes'
Is the IT industry short on Cobolers? This could be your lucky day
Facebook: Yeah, we'll ban chainsaw beheading vids - when journos call us
Friday 3rd May 2013 12:23 GMT
I wonder if you worked at the same place I did?
My two fellow "workers" thought it hilarious to watch a poor retch behind beheaded. I rapidly decided I never wanted to speak or hang out with these guys ever again. I just don't understand how any reasonable person would be anything except sickened when they witness such brutality.
SQL database start-up flings out code peanuts to tempt biz
Microsoft dragging its feet on Linux Secure Boot fix
Asus N56VM 15.6in notebook review
Tuesday 16th October 2012 07:11 GMT
Re: Price
Me too, snapped one up when I saw the £699 price at Comet. At that price there isn't really any other (proper quad) core i7 laptop around. First job is to rid yourself of the ASUS crapware or as others have said if the 5400rpm disk is a bother , then budget for a decent SSD with the bonus of getting a nice fresh install of whatever OS takes your fancy. On that matter I did find out that Ubuntu 12.04 really doesn't seem to regulate the battery properly and it tends to run down in less than an hour, which is seriously disappointing! It's also far trickier to dual boot due to UEFI.
Otherwise a good machine and yes those B&O speakers really do sound good. A great laptop for Devs who don't want to spend an arm and a leg just to do their work.
UK's web super-snoop powers could be extended to councils
Ten... e-cars and hybrids
Leap-day Visual Studio beta provokes 'passionate' response
Apple lands slide-to-unlock patent blow on Motorola
Free the people from office chains and commuting pain!
Saturday 19th November 2011 11:49 GMT
Looking like a hobo
Yep, All those things, that's why more than two days a week at home would be my limit. I remember a particular contract I had a few years back meant I worked from home ALL the time. I think I went a little mad, never got out of my dressing gown, stopped shaving which really freaked the girlfriend out.
You have to turn up at the office sometimes if only to remember what other human beings look like and to have conversations with.
Apple after Steve Jobs is still Steve Jobs' Apple
SQL survives murder attempt by mutant stepchild
Wednesday 10th August 2011 13:35 GMT 
Couldn't agree more @Dweeb
Most of those championing NoSQL simply have missed the point when it comes to RDBMS.
I'm constantly amazed at the lazy, crappy applications that loop over SQL tables retrieving records one at a time (Java programmers I'm looking at you) and then have the temerity to complain that
a) Their app server doesn't have enough memory (16gb for a few tens of users!!!!!) or
b) SQL is too slow for their app (it can cope beautifully with tens of millions of rows a second on 4Gb of Ram)
Most commercial off the shelf enterprise apps are guilty of this. Most of them haven't even heard of a stored proc, primary/foreign keys or even the Update statement. A five year old could write more efficient code.
Go back to using Excel you useless lazy, ignorant tossers
New Mac scareware variant installs without password
Beastly Android will batter Apple's iOS beauty
Skype's mega-FAIL: exec cops to cause
Pirate Bay verdict: Three operators lose appeal
Saturday 27th November 2010 19:47 GMT 
Huh?
Anonymous Coward - <smug>"Perhaps because it's affecting the profits of the big corporations - there, fixed it for you."</smug>
So...'big corporations' aren't allowed to make profits? Tell me who do most people directly or indirectly work for? Yup, probably one of those "big corporations". If we followed your argument to it's logical conclusion then we'd
1) all be out of a job because the company we worked for has gone tits up after all profits had been sucked up by pirates and
2) as a result all back in the good old USSR due to the collapse of capitalism.
And of course everyone knows how well that little experiment worked.
Reg Hardware Reader Awards 2010
No wonder CompSci grads are unemployed
Tuesday 2nd November 2010 10:35 GMT 
An archaeologists tale...
I had to chuckle when you mentioned archaeologists' job prospects. When I graduated (some time ago now!) with a BSc in Archaeology I had high hopes of becoming a post excavation bone specialist. But, the reality of a junior site archaeologists' pay shocked me so much I retrained (myself) and became an Access developer. Many years later and I'm a senior SQL DBA steeped in T-SQL and (now) .NET.
Despite my lack of an academic background in IT (though I started out programming 68000 assembler in my teens), my non CS background has benefited me with reasonable social and communication skills which I'm convinced has won me many a contract over my CS graduate competitors.
Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala
Tuesday 3rd November 2009 10:27 GMT 
Not plain sailing
I'm a relatively new Linux user (9 months-ish), but not a computer virgin (I'm a SQL DBA), so Ubuntu made sense to me. 9.04 and worked pretty well on my Acer Aspire 5684.
However, the upgrade to Karmic ruined it (even with a split partitions for root and home). It took 5 minutes or more to get to the logon prompt and then another 2mins to an almost unworkable desktop. Lots of forum googling led me to the conclusion it was all down to the *completely* missing graphic drivers.
Only after another 2 failed attempts did a full clean install finally work even then I had no nvidia drivers and had to manually install them with envy (text version) before the long boot times disappeared and I actually got to the desktop.
I'm a lifelong Windows user but I have with no entrenched OS loyalty. I like Ubuntu and want to see more competition in the desktop arena but, this isn't the way to win over the man in the street.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
