* Posts by coderguy

31 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Sep 2011

Broadcom loses another big VMware customer: UK fintech cloud Beeks Group, and most of its 20,000 VMs

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"Migration wasn't easy. Beeks runs proprietary software that it had tied to VMware APIs, and that had to be rebuilt to interface with OpenNebula.

The open source project's tools to collect metrics Beeks and its clients value – regarding CPU performance, and utilization of CPU, disk, memory, and network resources – were not strong. That's an issue because an overtaxed CPU or disk can be the difference between pleasingly fast trades or missing an opportunity. As OpenNebula is open source, Beeks felt able to develop tools to collect that info – and succeeded to its satisfaction."

[Anakin Meme]They provided their changes back to the project?[/Anakin Meme]

Desktop hypervisors are like buses: None for ages, then four at once

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I'm surprised Oracle hasn't sued MS yet

As I found out recently, VirtualBox still doesn't play well with Hyper-V. It's becoming harder and harder to disable in Windows due to the various "security" related features found in Windows 11 that many organisations are forcing on their users.

Microsoft unveils Office LTSC 2024 for users that remain stubbornly offline

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OnlyOffice

Personally I think OnlyOffice does a better job with compatibility than LibreOffice.

It also doesn't carry the same baggage. As an example, my colleagues know the name LibreOffice and remember how it was 10+ years ago, good luck getting that kind of person to give it a fair shake.

Cops across the world arrest 51 in orchestrated takedown of Ghost crime platform

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Modified Smartphone

So unlocked Android device with a custom AOSP build then?

I doubt the actual hardware is an different, I'm anticipating a ban on using custom ROMs soon.

Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

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Re: A project being agile

An agile *product* should never be allocated a huge budget. How do you know how to know how much work is needed at the outset?

That kind of thinking leads to Scrumfall, and it's bound to go pear shaped.

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Headmaster

Re: Just maybe?

Minor point Scrum is a framework, not a methodology. [1][2]

[1] - https://www.scrumalliance.org/about-scrum

[2] - https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-scrum-module

UK Home Office dangles £20m for national gun licence database system

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Re: How much????

Not really,

You're looking at the kind of design a bankaccount application you find in most technical interviews.

e.g. transfer serial# to new keeper in a transaction.

There's absolutely nothing special going on here that warrants that budget.

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Maybe report it to the NAO [1], most llikely you'll be shouting into the wind, but it's better than nothing.

[1] - https://www.nao.org.uk/contact-us/contact-us/

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Flame

How ?

Dear $deity, In what universe does something like this cost £20m?

On the assumption, it'll be using an even slightly modern stack, it's maybe a months work for a single developer.

Add in testing and operational costs, and you're in the region of tens of thousands at most!

FFS, I've seen technical interview questions that would be harder to implement. This smells very much like a way to shift government funds into donor pockets and needs investigating. Maybe there's more to it? I am not in a place to comment.

Open source maintainer threatens to throw in the towel if companies won't ante up

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Free in this context refers to the fact you are free to use and modify the code. Even to redistribute it. Just because you don't need a license, that doesn't absolve you of the responsibility to ensure it's fir for purpose. Just because the code is available, doesn't mean it should be used without support.

Stop thinking these projects are vendors, they're not, at best they are the caretakers of the codebase.

Treat any FOSS library as though it were commit from an unkown developer in Elbonia ™, that is trust. but verify.

IBM job ad calls for 12 years’ experience with Kubernetes – which is six years old

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Re: It's 1997 and XML will surely replace software

"XSLT"

There's your problem. I sincerely hope that I never have to work with that before I shuffle off this mortal plane. /shudder

Welcome to life in the Fossa lane: Ubuntu 20.04 let out of cage and Shuttleworth claims Canonical now 'commercially self sustaining'

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Re: I still don't see the purpose of WSL

"Is it the year of the Linux Desktop? No, totally not, and I say that as a Linux fan. It's not ready for your average end user at home, with no support other than google; It's so damned close though."

I'm curious, what support does a Windows end-user have that's so different to those using a Linux Desktop?

Other than Google, the Microsoft Community Forums where every second response is "It's probably a bad driver or Virus, you need to reinstall.

Then there are paid support options obviously, but these are not unique to Windows.

Corporate VPN huffing and puffing while everyone works from home over COVID-19? You're not alone, admins

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Re: Hmmm ... surely the very first hurdle is the Home->Office connection ?

Nothing to do with the idiocy that is VPN solutions that only work on Windows, or need a Java Applet to work. FFS

Windows 7 and Server 2008 end of support: What will change on 14 January?

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It is not unreasonable for Microsoft to stop updating a decade-old Windows

Bull.

If people are willing to pay, fill your boots.

The enforced deathmarch to desktop as a service, that MS seems to be so keen on, needs to die. In the end the computer is just a tool that I use to get stuff done (tm).

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Almost everything just works, sadly the bits that don't seem to be the most notable. In my case, thats video conferencing with Webex. It simply does not play nice. For everything else, I can do my job just fine, but then I actually produce solutions instead of just talking about what 'could' be done.

The fact that Outhouse, Powerpoint and Excel don't play nice should be viewed as an advantage.

LibreOffice 6.4 nearly done as open-source office software project prepares for 10th anniversary

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Remeber, there's no such thing as a free lunch. So... did you pay for someone to fix it, or the issue not enough of a priority?

Fairphone 3 stripped to the modular essentials: Glue? What glue?

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All well and good but...

I don't see on their website, Is Fairphone the only vendor for the modules or are third parties able to take part in the ecosystem.

That's when it would get interesting.

'Bulls%^t! Complete bull$h*t!' Reset the clock on the last time woke Linus Torvalds exploded at a Linux kernel dev

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Pint

Re: This is why Diversity matters. Linus is wrong, but he can learn from my story. Here's how.

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It took a while but the developer decided not to implement the function and indeed felt his do-profile would be a better fit elsewhere.

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For that you get one of these ---->

UK cyber security boffins dispense Ubuntu 18.04 wisdom

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Meh

Those numbers look a bit suspect.

From the link in the article; the title show is "Top 50 Products By Total Number Of "Distinct" Vulnerabilities", Selecting Ubuntu and then 2018 brings up a list of the likes of curl, Kernel and Perl amongst others.

Hardly Ubuntu specific is it ?.

NHS: Thanks for the free work, Linux nerds, now face our trademark cops

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Re: So familiar

All good points. There's one thing almost anyone not in the trenches fails to grasp. If you don't get a satisfactory support experience from one vendor, find another!

The source is open, anyone can support a particular system and there are plenty of local firms out there.

Microsoft: We're hiking UK cloud prices 22%. Stop whining – it's the Brexit

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Re: Work the problem?

Sadly for Linux to be viable, those using the software need to realise there's no such thing as a free lunch and pony up for the feature they need. Use something like bountysource, kickstarter etc... or do it in-house I don't care. Waiting for the 'community' to build something that exactly matches their requirements is never going to happen. /rant.

Pair programming – you'll never guess what happens next!

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I forget where I first read it, probably D. Knuth.

"Code should be written so that it obviously contains no bugs, instead of the norm. My code contains no obvious bugs."

Microsoft now awfully pushy with Windows 10 on Win 7, 8 PCs – Reg readers hit back

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It seems the practice may be illegal in the EU.

From : http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2015-011725&language=EN

Directive 2005/29/EC on Unfair Commercial Practices requires traders to provide in clear, unambiguous and timely manner material information that consumers need in order to make an informed transactional decision. According to the directive, commercial communications may not be misleading. Subject to detailed assessment of the specific case and verification of the relevant facts, a commercial practice that consists of presenting as a security update what is in reality a downgrade of the functionality of a product, could constitute an unfair commercial practice in the sense of Directive 2005/29/EC.

Complaints about unfair commercial practices should be reported to the competent national enforcement authority. The Consumer Protection Cooperation network established under Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 lays down the framework for cooperation between national enforcement authorities. It allows authorities to carry out coordinated enforcement actions in case of intra-Community breaches which harm the interests of consumers in more than two Member States.

El Reg Redesign - leave your comment here.

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What the f*

Seriously. I'm trying to view the site @1920x1024 This is hideous. You guys need to back away from the tablet & phones and remember that most people visit from work. You know, where we're forced to used a proper screen an keyboard FFS.

Swiss wildlife park serves up furry residents to visitors

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It's common sense.

I've been to the park in question, yesterday in fact. The deer are all over the place, what better use for the things can you think of? Hunting is not feasible, it's in a highly populated area.

Besides, Deer is great, almost as good as Horse.

The Old Reader evicts Google Reader refugees

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WTF?

Stop whining and do it yourself.

I don't see what the fuss is all about. Thunderbird, Netvibes or any of the other multitude of RSS clients do the same thing just fine.

IMO, It's sensible to use an RSS solution you can control, not a free service in cloud that can be pulled at any time.

Google AXES another 1,200 employees from Motorola workforce

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Meh

For a a long time Motorola made some great devices. The only problem was that they could only be bought in Asia. For example the A series of feature phones based on Linux. My particular favorite being the A780...

Anyway, these days, there devices have been ... what's the word? meh!. From my point of view, if the layoffs are affecting say managers instead of engineers, then it's a good start. Motorola have always made solid phones, just like the their walkie thumpies (communications devices that also function as a cosh ), long may this tradition continue. Samsung are better, thanks to Andriod, it'd be a shame to see the creator of the OS playing second fiddle to a reseller.

BYOD cheers up staff, boosts productivity - and IT bosses hate it

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Stop

If an employer allows BYOD, how exactly does the employer handle data privacy and security. The way I see it, if personal data is transferred away from the company (in this case, a personally owned device that can potentially be seen by someone outside of the company), shouldn't data protection come into force. Including the large fines that were threatened after the CSA, and HMRC data losses?

Apple gets patent for ‘unlock gesture’

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WTF?

@pete

Stating the use of a slide would. This patent is so broadly defined, typoing a code into the keyboard falls under it.

Keyboard == touch sensitive ( for the slow ones in the class )

BBC website ditches modules in facelift

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How does it cope with screen readers.

That looks ok, but does it work for blind users?