Posts by Smartypantz 92 posts • joined 14 Oct 2011
Thousands simultaneously consuming their own copy of the latest dystopian CGI bonanza is the pinnacle of human consumerism. It is completely idiotic and burns bandwidth like it has no impact.
Broadcasting, multicasting or manycasting these things would make some sense. What we are doing now is pure stupidity (engineering and resource wise)
Video on the internet should be timeslot based multicasting! (I. E. Wait 5 minutes for your multicasting slot to start)
Win 2000
- Sane UI, good kernel, AD blows Novell directory crap out of the water
Win XP/srv 2003
- Slightly cracked UI "same" kernel, some web-like stuff? and teletubbies UX?
Vista/srv 2008
- Slightly cracked UI, Stupidly slow kernel stuff, insane ekstra ring of auth.
Win7/srv 2008 R2
- Ui not quite so annoying, Kernel faster, still batshit crazy "ekstra" auth ring
Win8/srv 2016
- Insane UI as in "LSD UX mobile hybrid crazy garbage", kernel the "same"
Win 10-11-12½/srv 2016-19-20½
- UI backpedaling, still insane. Kernel the "same", software subscription racket groundwork, batshit crazy patching scheme, because of subscription racket
No doubt they will rule the world, stupid and money, says that they can do no wrong
Also staying on netbeans!
The UI is well thought out, cleanly arranged and conservatively managed. Just as any UI on a professional tool should be.
"UX designers" are a blight on computing! Nobody wants an "experience" using their tools of trade! Especially not if this "experience" means change for the sake of change or for an sake not in their interest! (win 8, 10).
What we need to keep for posterity is knowledge, proven facts and plausible theories.
Code... Pha!! i spit!! "If not then this, else this" bullshit. who the fucks has the inclination to sift through that clusterfuck in 30.000 years? Code is is worthless in it self. The logic behind it is better expressed outside of code, and might not be worthless, AND might be worth preserving for posterity.
Yeah it is so easy, and you don't even notice that your competence is being siphoned away. Do you know that the docker containers are running in virtualized linux hosts? "Easy", apparently trumps everything else!?
Good for you that the 3. world supporters from the companies ruling our communication is so nice and loving to their subscription-paying serfs.
Soooo Easy!!
I did XEN before Citrix thought it was a good idea, compiled the kernels, jumped the hoops.
A bit later it dawned on me, as it should on any thinking body in this cursed industry: Virtualising, massive amounts of closed source binaries (aka Windows), ad infinitum, is an completely idiotic and a massive "WORK HARDER NOT SMARTER" waste of resources!
Do the applications right instead! You fucking simpletons!
PS: Containers are based on the same idiocy, with a slightly smaller footprint (in the short run)
Ooehh. i Love the smell of fear in the morning!
Vendors of remote support, remote desktop "und so weiter" (looking directly at teamviewer and their "upgrade now or else" scheme) must be trembling..
Open source desktop sharing with no hassles? I can't wait! And i won't! Now that i know of Apache Guacamole! HAR-HAR! /Nelson
Took the best pictures of my life on my journey through east Africa in '95!! with the Olympus 10 (OM-10? cant remember :-) )
Eventually had to sell the thing to survive in Nairobi until the plain-ticket kicked in ;-D
I guess we (me and my buddy) lived on french fried potatoes and the cheapest hotel room in Nairobi for ten days for the money that thing got us at the local pawn shop.
Good times, finally got friendly with the hookers, safari pushers and street life in general. Only possible because they knew we had no money!
So it apparently dawned on some people that if you download 10000 runtimes from "random internet dude" and deploy them in docker/kubernetes (because you know fuck-all about deploying servers) you have to maintain 10000 instances of security patches 1½ year later.
About fucking time! Container-dazed idiots!!
Better find that coffee and smell it!
C is simple and easy, Strongest tool in the hands of idiots, geniuses or devils. "higher" languages are instruments of power-wielding. With these you are not programming the computer, you er the serf of a framework provider ... (C#, MS, Java, Oracle, javascript, Google (yeah, node fucking hipsters) and so on)
Netbeans has always been my goto IDE. It just works, and the design is thought out and organized. It supports a lot of languages (C, C++, PHP, and offcource java) and Unit testing, debugging and version control, is superb. Never understood why the brogramming proddingfools loved that piece of crap, eclipse more? The brainwashed lemmings of MS + VS are excused and beyond reach of reason.
Young people SUCK!
Now get of my lawn
NO!
Java is the best example of a runtime where containerization do NOT make sense!! Nothing is easier than running your application with different versions of JDK on a server. No need for a lot of extra container layers, and added complexity between you and you application!
Good luck patching all of your jdk copies inside your containers, unless you mount them from the host OS, and then whats the point (see earlier paragraph).
Hear-Hear
Let's hope that the users never wake up up and realizes that the whole, insane mess of "accelerated development cycles" is just i big scam to employ an army of developers scratching an itch!
New version every few months with major feature changes is great job security for an developer, and its a steady income for the software companies. For the users, (strangely) tolerating it, it is an enemy of productivity.
Let's hope they never wake up!!
The FTP protocol sucks!
It should not be allowed on the modern Internet.
The only reason sftp hasn't replaced it, is windows servers. Only way to transfer files to a vanilla Windows box is through this ancient relic of a bullshit protocol (NO, cant install crap on customers server to transfer files! One option: explorer).
The people who invented this crap should be fined!
ftps is just as sucky, or even more as no one seems to be able to agree on one way of doing it, AND it depends on the stupid, snakeoil, security of commercial certificate rubberstampers.
ftp and its insane mess of active/passive transfer, port range bullshit and cleartxt everything, can go to hell, as soon as possible, thanks
Hear Hear!!
I like to go on about how Windows XP was the greatest productivity booster in the history of IT. Simply because it lived for so long and there was no fundamental changes.... In the end everybody knew exactly how that thing worked and as a result people got to get shit done!
You are all staring at the decoy!!
Microsoft do not give a shit, any longer, what you run on your device! They are focused on dependency and lock-in to the cloud! This works just fine with software under a CopyLeft license.
Run anything you want on your device of choice, but any services will come from Azure!
With the hardware RAID you have to trust the handfull (if lucky, probably just one guy)) who really understands the "firmware" if you are in real trouble, late at night, that is not a good place to be!. I have forced individual sectors to "act" as good with the help of mdadm and assorted disk tools, i have rescued a raid5 array by hand picking bad sectors and forced rebuilding!!...... When that shit mounted at boot and was R/W was the best moment of my professional life!!! Pheeeewi!! I could NEVER have done that shit with crippled "firmware UI from DELL inc!""
Many workloads can easily coexist without the added complexity of containers if you know what you are doing!: https://xkcd.com/1988/
It is especially idiotic to run containerized java processes. If you need to ask about the reason of this argument, we will have to hunt you down and confiscate your geek passport! (if you have one (which i sincerely doubt))
Oracle, hated as it is, will quite probably be remembered as the last software vendor. When we are all enslaved to the singular cloud, which computes everything by means of non-disclosed "algorithms" "in the cloud", we will think back with fondness to the days of free computing on and proprietary software!
The Endgame of all this convenience-driven cloud-frenzy. is 2 or 3 players owning the computing platform of the future, shaping it in any way they see fit. The personal and independent computer is unobtainable because of cost or incompatibility with the "cloud" providers platforms. This, very real and eminent, scenario effectively eliminates any kind of free information processing. If "cloud providers" get free reign in the future. can you trust any information at all?
We NEED free computing!! "cloud computing" is slavery!
So true! and most of the time the "new features" are just the same old functionality being shifted around in the UI. combine this with "continuous delivery" and you have pure insanity, It is all a combination of make-busy-work for the developers combined with profit-driven upgrade bullshit. I really wonder why the users put up with this?
The greatest service, the software business have ever done to the world was NOT upgrading Windows XP for as long as it did, towards the end a lot of stuff was actually working!!
I hate this business! I want out!
"Do you really think that anyone who knows what they're doing with containers just pulls images willy-nilly off the Docker Hub?":
YES! And i know they do because i actually operate in the real world
"f you run Docker direct on your host O/S you are a bit of pillock too. You run Docker in a VM"
You sir are an idiot! Have you ever stopped to contemplate the reason of virtualization? You run Docker on "the Iron" if you want to do any kind of resource optimization that is! Off course you can run it in the public cloud like any schmuck and do your new feudal masters bidding.
I have 20+ years of service uptime under my belt, you, sir sounds like an asshole with a few to many opinions from "social media"
Docker is a gaping security hole as a concept
Downloading and running random internet guys image in a container on your docker environment is worse than downloading and clicking random .exe files on your windows box:
1. NO and by NO i meen absolutely NO malware detection in must cases!
2. Everything as root, yeahh... check those container processes!
3. Culture of trust: This is beautiful but can we be sure that the loving altruistic spirit is in ALL container images available as a one-liner from repos?
4. majority of docker containers run on powerful server systems with high bandwidth
If i wanted malware running anywhere, i would look at docker repos as my first choice!
Docker is for people who havn't got the skill to setup a proper server.
Apparently this exploit allows "others" to:
"run spyware, ransomware, and other nasties on your device or machine …"
How is this a problem in a product like Google Chrome? If you use chrome, Google, and by extension, "others" run "spyware, ransomware, and other nasties on your device or machine …". because this is the whole business model! Do you not know this?
i Guess the best analogy would be a pornstar complaining about cum-loads in the face from men she have not yet shaken hands with ;-)
And your customers are correct. "upgrades", which should always be in quotes these days, especially from the ilk of creeps like Google and Microsoft, mostly are about benefits for the supplier, and are, more often than not, detrimental to the interests of the user. A. K. A. antifeatures. How do the end users distinguish? They can not.
Your data is your data! You have an obligation to be hygienic about your own data! Most people are 100% frivolous about their data,. They will sell that shit for the tiniest amount of convenience!! YES you will ! You HAVE, and you DO!! People NEED to be aware of the consequences of this sale! if they are not, they, no WE, will be ruled.... Harshly!!..
Host your own databases, mailservers, fileservers, webservers.
- Cheaper
- More secure!! Yes its IS!
- Waaaay faster! when everything is not forced through https/html/json/xml, and services is on a guaranteed high bandwidth LAN
- Ethically compliant (fairtrade and so on)
- Freedom of choice maintained
Subscription based web services as a software substitute is for suckers!!
Every time the details of some exploit surfaces it seems that the thing that makes it possible is always sheer stupidity! Default passwords on telnet connections and so on and so on
It must bee the easiest thing in the world to build a massive honeypot to capture the wannabe IT-criminals of the world!? Sadly it seems that the IT branch of our law-enforcement is even stupiduuhhrr..
So the way to keep a secure server running is to not be dummer than, say... a potato! Doesn't really seem that hard ?!??!?
I truly have never seen, so much, being squandered so fast, by so few, as the Oracle acquisition of java!
They have had an opportunity to develop an "ecosystem" around java, their cloud and their other software offerings. They could have used java to ease the path to an Oracle future (Shudder..).
They have had the chance to really make java pay off, something that sun never succeeded in. It seems like they never even tried after the acquisition. Seen from the outside it looks like utter stupidity?!
Now this licensing move?? They have given up, and are on a suicide mission!
Hybrid cloud is a fact of life. Its the question of self hosting versus Strangers hosting you tish. For a long time Strangers have been better at "convincing your stupid boss's ass"/cheaper at.. hosting it. Now: not so much, maybe. Clearly cloud vendors sees the trend as a way to consolidate grips on customers. Unfortunately some (Cough.. microsof¤%#) are jumping the gun and jacking prices. Do not be a stupid lemming!! Host your own tish!! (or host with local hosting vendors!!). Article reeks of non-competent person with "communication skills" (a.k.a. whats killing our trade). with a peripheral idea of networking and application design defending their unproductive non-position on a fictitious point ("hybrid cloud".)
Still use KDE as my goto De.
I remember being sooo impressed by konqueror (in kde 2 and 3) and kioslaves flawlessly handling sftp, ftp, smb, http, webdav, local filesystemes and more!! hands down the best file manager ever made!!
Where has this gone? dolphin isn't anywhere near this, it can't even handle modern SMB/CIFS. It seems like it has been sacrificed on the alter of UI re-design like so much good software!
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