Posts by cocknee

News of the World TO CLOSE

First Chink in the Armour

Now the Beast is wounded and down lets get the pitchforks and have us a revolution. Whilst the politicians aren't running scared of Murdoch and his minions, it's time to circle the monster and despatch it quickly. If even prominent Tories like Nicholas Soames and Zac Goldsmith are calling for a review of BSkyB takover, not just the lefties and people with an Axe to grind like Prescott, the time is right.

As for all those lacky's "if it wasn't for Murdoch" like Toby Young this morning on Radio 4, well they can just feck off back up his arse because the world is better without his media misinformation empire. He's a threat to democracy.

To paraphrase ColonelClaw, go-on, fuck off

HP dubs Oracle 'bitter antagonist' in Itanic spat

Gawd the record is stuck

I was just going through some old posts of mine from 2008 and what do I see, a reply from Matt talking the same drivel 3 years later! You need to get out more mate. The resident HP Troll/Apologist.

As for the old Alpha / Itanic debacle. As I said in 2008, having been promised all sorts of stuff verbally and in NDA roadmaps from HP, AdvFS, TruCluster were being ported. The DL785 was round the corner. All utter sales crap - I agree it was small print issue.

Anyway we dumped our Integrity servers, bought Sun's equivalent of the DL785 in 2006 and got much more ooomph, reliablity than Itanic and H-POX for a fraction of the price.

Saying that H-POX has caught up in a lot of features since those days. However the support matrix is still utterly useless compared to everthing else.

It's a dying platform, only chosen by those already so far down the HP route the pain would be too great to move - though they'll have to one of these days as we did with the demise of Alpha.

Not that I'm a fan of Oracle and what they've done mind, shameless commericial knife in the back. Though what they report Intel as saying is most likely true given the E7 and those roadmaps and no matter how much HP protest and Intel mutter no-one really beleives them.

If I was running H-POX, I'd be looking for an exit strategy asap.

Cloud 'not ready for public sector market'

the vultures are gathering

The usual rubbish about how Cloud or out-sourcing is the only way Gov IT can be run is being trotted out.

Having run the largest and most successful in-house Whitehall IT infrastructures I can say that all they could offer was 5x the cost and more contract admins than sys admins.

Outsourcing is proposed by those that fail to understand IT or want a future career with the service providers they deal with for their 30 pieces of silver.

I'm not saying you can't bring in outside expertise at the right time, that's about managing relationships with SI's and ISV's. You wouldn't flog your house and rent it for more than your mortgage because you didn't you didn't want to run the central heating.

As for the gold plated pensions. Another crock of s*** I've left government, doubled my salary and improved my pension. Stop reading and believing the gutter press.

I suggest if your CIO/CFO suggests the Cloud or out-sourcing; call the men in white coats and have them taken away to a place of safety.

If you want to run a world class operation on a shoe-string; give me a call! It can be done.

Guy spills on girl in weird Huawei tablet teaser

at least.....

.....it wasn't mayo!

But what a CRAP advert, it couldn't have been more cheesy if done by the cheese manufacturers association (or is it board? Ok, terrible pun, bored now......I'll get me coat).

Time to say goodbye to Risc / Itanium Unix?

It depends....

There is no right answer a best system. It all depends on so many different factors. The move to "commodity boxes" is driven by the same numpties that drove the Dot.com bubble, working in lots of industries, they all seem to be jumping on the Linux bandwagon away from the big-iron, without really considering the whole picture and consequences.

Yep the X64 boxes are way cheaper than the RISC ones but what about the lack of features for partioning, virtualisation at the hardware and OS level that just isn't in Linux or X64 (or Windows)

You have to consider where the business is now and where it needs to be in the next 3 years, balancing the hardware, licensing, performance and human costs.

I moved a major operation from RISC to X64, because in 2006, the latter was so much faster. A major business model

Old RISC: 4h:45

New RISC 3h:15

X64 (AMD) 1h:20

but by mid 2010 I was recommending the move back to RISC as the workload and bandwidth required, X64 couldn't cope. Luckily the business was using an OS that ran on RISC and X64, no new skills or data.

However a year later, the with the arrival of the E7, the rise of flash storage, the prevelence of integrated 10GbE, 8GbFC etc....................... tough call.

Given that the business has a lack of human resources, I'd still stick with big RISC iron as less boxes is best for them and it doesn't make an iota of difference on licensing between the cores.

The big challenge with X64 now is the sheer amount of cores, how do you partition a large box - Vmware and Xen have an overhead but also limit on resources per guest. Linux is very immature, though RH6 is starting to get some decent features that the big boys (AIX, Solaris, Tru64, HPUX etc) have had for years.

Student suspended for posting random satire on YouTube

Could do better!

This is so typical of mediocre administrators and petty useless managers or teachers that are incapable of doing their allotted job.

They show their authority by bullying or demeaning others, or hiding behind petty bureaucracy.

This is a distinctly average school

http://ontario.compareschoolrankings.org/secondary/Donald_A_Wilson_Secondary_School/Whitby/Report_Card.aspx

I suggest they concentrate on getting their grades up rather than punishing creativity, something the management is obviously lacking!

Resign, resign, resign!

Boy George promises to cut employment rights

gone too far?????? Pahhh!!!!!!

What a load of clap-trap! Just because the Daily Goosestep and The Scum make up bollocks stories about a few people taking the piss, doesn't mean the laws need watering down or abolition.

The bad employers are still there abusing their employees even now and they far outweigh the few possible abusers. Don't forget that IT's are quasi judicial not a bunch of tree hugging social workers.

You can tug your forelock and doth your cap to the millionare son of a baron in no11 as he shafts you, I'd rather have a pitch fork and insurrection thank you.

And as for the other point about the Public Sector getting the same treatment as the Private Sector. They were there long before them. Whislt the fat cats and city types were driving their Porches in the 80's, civil servants were being passed over to the private sector only to have all their pension funds swallowed and given to the creditors when the dodgy private company went bust. So no job and up to 40 years pension gone; thanks to Norman Fowler for that one.

Miners, shipyards?

Stop sexing up IT and give Civil Servants Macs, says gov tech boss

despair in government IT

As someone pointed out, he and others are part of the Government IT problem and with throw-away views like that it's no wonder they're in the mire.

Having working in gov't IT for a long time it's full of career civil servants marking their time until pension "I used to be a programmer you know" is what you often hear - maybe back in Cobol days - not much use (I know the systems are still there) in a modern architecture and strategy.

Most projects are in paralysis due to bureacracy, inaction and stupidity. It's easy to blame the ISV's but they're not charities and they'll only work better and smarter when their customers and contracts make them do it.

I could cite so many examples of total cock-ups, failures that have cost millions due to the steerage from people like Whatmore and other IT Chiefs in Whitehall. He's toadying up to his new boss by blaming the previous administration. He's got a bloody cheek blaming others when his (and others like him) fingerprints are all over the crimes!

Back to the issue at hand - what a twat.

a) thin client is where a lot of large departments should be heading to reduce cost and shorten the time to delivery of applications (usually 6-9 months at best)

b) as much as I like MACs - it's style of substance; what business software other than office runs on them? There's plenty that don't! Whatever you think of Windows clients, everything run's on it. For the mack apologist going on about Web is the answer - no it's not!!