Posts by ecofeco

Yelp wins fight to remain morally bankrupt

Re: Used to be known as

No, it's racketeering and he is not the first to complain.

Yes you can Google it.

Microsoft's Service Fabric for Linux hits public preview

Re: Upside Down solution

The USA is one big Stockholm Syndrome. Corporate style.

Login?

I really don't know. I'll let you know when I actually see one. I know it exists, or so I've been told, but I have yet to see one.

Re: Fabric?

Polyester and pleather.

No thanks exactly.

I don't use Linux because I want to use Microsoft. Seriously, WTFF are they thinking?

"It's too super complex for you plebes so just give us the money because complexity du jour is super cool and all the hipsters are doing!"

Upstart AI dreams of 'disrupting' digital marketing – with sex

Re: "the power of evolutionary algorithms"

Damn! I was one square away from winning that small kitchen appliance I wanted!

Google-funded group mad that US Copyright Office hasn't abolished copyright yet

Re: Us peasant need to rebel.

U.S. peasants are more afraid of gun grabbing, gays, union commies, brown people and mosslims than actually protecting their important rights.

3 down votes?! WTF?! No really, WTF?!

Have an upvote from me.

This issue is utter bullshit and shows, yet again, that American corporations want unequal rights.

NHS health apps project plan: Powered by your medical records

Re: I'm wondering...

In the U.S. it depends on who you work for and how much discount you want on your insurance.

Dell swings layoffs axe at 3,000 EMC people

Re: Believe it you like

As I've said before, most M&As these days always seem to be the incompetent company trying to buy themselves a clue (a competent company) and end up just killing it.

Considering the trillions of dollars of subsidies and tax breaks many U.S. businesses receive, yes, they are charities and greedy, psychopathic whiny baby ones at that.

Re: Dell is no Perot

Yep. Have an upvote.

No matter what they say

If you are the buyee and not the buyer, you will always lose your job no matter what they say.

US Congress blew the whistle on tax-dodging Apple, claims Europe

Multi billion dollar profit comany has to pay taxes?

Cry me a goddamn river.

As for Senators being the ones to point out the fault, I do find this very surprising and unusual... that they are actually doing their jobs.

Funny how it nonetheless doesn't benefit the American taxpayer who has to make up the difference that the big corporations don't pay.

Linus Torvalds won't apply 'sh*t-for-brains stupid patch'

Carry on Linus. Carry on.

Considering the superior quality of Linux these days, Linus should carry on.

IBM loses chunky ATM contract, reaches for staff eject button

Re: IBM CEO needs to go. Workers should physically eject her.

IBM may be trying to reinvent itself, but it is also digging it's own grave

Mine, and other's I've talked too, experience with IBM, impressed us the same way. We will NEVER work for any part of IBM ever again.

Re: IBM CEO needs to go. Workers should physically eject her.

For literally millions of employees, America is already a 3rd world nation.

This is why you lost the contract IBM

...“in order the relationship remains positive for future win back opportunities”

This would not pass a 5th grade grammar assignment.

Any company whose communication used composition like that would literally be laughed out the door. With a few choice insults as well.

SSP to PERMANENTLY shutter mega-outage bit barn

Re: Am I missing something

You're thinking of a properly funded data center, not one running on duct tape, spit, second hand equipment and tight fisted accountants.

You're guilty but broke, judge tells Wash.io – the 'Uber of laundry'

Re: Huh?

The average working person can't afford to hire lawyers and the government labor protection agencies are overwhelmed, understaffed and underfunded... on purpose of course.

I'm surprised they were able to get lawyers this quickly!

Re: I bet that the board didn't miss out.

You can bank on it.

Like hell they're broke

They aren't broke, just trying to use the old Hollywood accounting dodge.

At least the judge said "prove it."

Universal Credit: 'One dole to rule 'em all' on verge of recovery – report

Re: "IT-enabled business changes "

The real irony? Computers were made, literally invented for simplifying record keeping, yet the very bureaucracy that relies and insists, upon serious legal penalties, on record keeping, can't seem to master them.

16 billion? Cui bono?

This is outright theft. I could take some clever college students and a few experienced programmers and made this work for 10th the price and everyone would have still been paid handsomely.

This was deliberate theft and embezzlement.

US tech college ITT is not pining for the fjords. It is no more. It has gone and met its maker

Re: good riddance assholes

Not the DOE, but Congress who made this decision.

Namely, the GOP. You know, free market, smaller government, less waste and all that. It was literally another handout to Wall St. through financial companies.

Speaking of which, there have been recent early warnings of the collapse of the student loan resell and re-packaging market. Remember the CDOs of the housing collapse? Yeah, that.

Re: What about ripoff schools and majors

They are being systematically shut down and this has been ongoing for several years now.

Sysadmins: Poor capacity planning is not our fault

Re: "get senior management to take the issues seriously"

Change Management process? I've heard of this. Isn't it a four legged animal with a single horn on its head?

I'd love to see one in the flesh.

(I take that back. I've seen one. One in 20 years)

So one word then?

Manglement. (I almost said IBM)

I see this everywhere. Manglement without any real experience in IT trying to stuff 10 pounds of shit into a 5 pound bag and buy champagne on a beer budget.

There's an old saying: it's good to save money in business but you can save yourself right out of business.

That should be the first thing they teach in business schools.

Tech-for-insurers biz out of action for 10 days now. Hope they had, er...

Re: So TITSUP is becoming the new norm then?

Every day my friend. Every day.

Re: Where are the profits going?

But they won't. They'll buy only the bargain basement solution in both hardware and skills.

Re: the mirror was some 15 minutes behind

Financial companies of all stripes are notoriously skint when it come to operations and especially IT.

Re: We dumped SSP 3 years ago ...

It seems in my career that most M&As are to make up for the severe failing of the company doing the buying and instead of adding improvement and using the knowledge of the company being bought, they keep the people who are the problem and created the inept corporate culture in the first place.

Like so many companies and people I talk too, they think a technology solution will fix their cultural problem.

The real question is why was the mirror 15 minutes behind in the first place?

EPIC FAIL across the board.

I would pull my business from them immediately.

10 days?

Epic, epic FAIL.

These are not just job cuts, these are M&S job cuts

Just add them to the list

Just add them to the list of companies who really don't give a flying monkey fart about the country's IT industry yet will be standing with all the others complaining about "lack of talent."

ABBA-solutely crapulous! Swedish router-maker won't patch gaping hole

Re: Mamma Mia!

Well played sir. Well played.

Mama Mia!

We want GCHQ-style spy powers to hack cybercrims, say police

Re: Due process? Whats this then?

"...concise as it GETS..."

Damn it! *facepalm*

Due process? Whats this then?

Ha! My computer tells me I've already used this title!

Well, that's about as concise as it guess so... done.

Ice to see you! Windows 10 fix for freezing PCs finally flung at folks

Re: Safe mode?

In my situation, when Safe Mode is needed, it's usually because the login in screen can't be accessed. The diagnostic screens still appear and are usable, but if they can't resolve the issue then I need to access Safe Mode.

I've tried this several times now and Safe Mode just doesn't seem to work. MS tech notes say that Safe Mode must be enabled manually from a regular desktop or should be accessible from the Diagnostic Restart once the proper option is selected. If I can get to the regular desktop, then my problem is halfway solved in the first place and I can continue repairs, but Safe Mode from the Diag screen just doesn't seem to work.

As for the alternative boot media, the client usually doesn't have one as Win 10 was installed via download.

I haven't seen anything yet where I might be able to make a universal boot media USB or DVD, so I don't know if that's possible.

Even so, this is far too complicated when the simple F8 should not have been eliminated.

Re: Microsoft doesn't say if the update will fix the other issues-

When? Is this trick question?

Safe mode?

Hahahahahaha! Safe mode. Win 10 will not boot to Safe Mode unless you manually enable it... from the desktop in normal mode.

You might be able to from diagnostic start up screens, but I haven't seen that work yet.

So basically, no Safe Mode.

The list of basic failures of this update is un-damn-believable.

Google scraps its Project Ara modular smartphone wheeze

Re: Great idea

The only surprise is that Google didn't actually start selling these phones before dropping support after 9 months.

Well they aren't Microsoft, are they?

Childcare app bods wipe users' data – then discover backups had been borked for a year

Re: So much for Due Dilligence...

Testing? That costs money!

Don't forget the executive bonuses will still be given out as well.

Windows 10 now rules the weekend, taking over from Windows 7

Does this include the frozen ones?

How much of that activity is users trying fix the problems?

Tim Cook: EU lied about Apple taxes. Watch out Ireland, this is a coup!

Re: Just dumb

Apple and other companies should NOT be blackmailing nations with a choice between investment (including jobs) or paying tax.

It isn't blackmail, it's extortion and I'm personally fed up with it as they would not get away with this if the politician weren't undeniably complicit and directly benefiting from it.

Drama in orbit: Brazen UFO attacks Earth's Sentinel-1A satellite

Don't touch my junk!

It was only a matter of time before the orbiting junk yard trashed something.

Shock: AT&T totally not OK with FCC saying it ripped off US schools

Re: Sharks eat slow fish

You give far too much credit to the school boards. The truth is there were probably kickbacks involved.

How can I put this delicately?

Fuck at&t. Fuck them with a flaming log.