Posts by Smartypantz

OpenJDK lands on Windows 10 for Arm: Not 100% there yet but enough to start tinkering

Are dopes that think java is the same thing as java applets and javascript still around?

Apparently, and they are still vomiting the same boring catch-phrases :-)

Node.js creator delivers Deno 1.0, a new runtime that fixes 'design mistakes in Node'

Re: Wonder how long it will take…

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)

Eclipse boss claims Visual Studio Code is an open-source poseur – though he would say that, wouldn't he?

Netbeans ftw

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

Where do you want us to make you want to go today?

Thank you for supporting the borg, usefull idiots, Your contributions will be assimilated.

PS. We are not evil, we LOoOoOoOve Open source!

Oi! You got a loicence for that Java, mate? More devs turn to OpenJDK to swerve Oracle fee

ASAP!

That upgrade from Java 8 to 11 you've been putting off? UK fintech types at Revolut 'quite happy' after a year in production

Re: Just put everything in containers.

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).

Well, 2019 finished with Intel as king of the chip world, Broadcom doing OK, everyone else shrinking. Good thing 2020's looking up, eh?

Consequences

Cloud computing means massive sharing of resources (and massive loss of control). When there is a massive shift towards massive sharing of resources. the result is:..... A massive drop in demand for resources. What a shock, who would have thunk it??

Out with the old and in with the new as Java 14 arrives, bringing with it first Project Panama enhancements

Re: Two bad ideas

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!!

Re: Great IntelliJ salespitch

If you don't know what you are doing and won't or can't learn. You will fuck things up! sad ,but a fact of life

Firefox to burn FTP out of its browser, starting slowly in version 77 due in April

Because of MS we are still stuck in the 70's

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

Bada Bing, bada bork: Windows 10 is not happy, and Microsoft's search engine has something to do with it

Well Said!

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!

Free Software Foundation suggests Microsoft 'upcycles' Windows 7... as open source

Re: I'd like a pony with that one, please

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!

Whoooooa, this node is on fire! Forget Ceph, try the forgotten OpenStack storage release 'Crispy'

Re: A bit off topic

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!""

A bit off topic

But a lesson to be learned is to stay away from those damned, blackbox, raidcontrollers! mdadm has saved my ass so many times, just about as many as dells damned PERC controllers has burned it ;-)

SUSE tosses OpenStack Cloud to double down on application delivery

Re: OpenStack != OpenBox

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))

Scrambling for cloud relevance, Oracle hires... 2,000? Yes, that sounds like a nice round number

The last Software vendor

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 OS is 'no longer' important to Microsoft, and yet new Surface kit has 3 Windows flavours

Endgame

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!

Sucking

Whats important for that creep is that you subscribe, subscribe, subscribe! If you run any code, on any OS, they will get their drop of blood.

If you really can't let go of Windows 7, Microsoft will keep things secure for another three years

Re: Features? Bah!

There is a very big distinction between security updates and "continuous delivery/roling releases" that you seem to have missed, one is necessary, the other is bullshit!

Re: Features? Bah!

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!

Contain yourself, Docker: Race-condition bug puts host machines at risk... sometimes, ish

Re: The github generation

"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"

The github generation

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.

Two weeks after Microsoft warned of Windows RDP worms, a million internet-facing boxes still vulnerable

Re: Basic security

Please tell what do you think is the "ftp port"

Re: Basic security

Exactly right!

If original posters tip actually was a "PROTIP" (i hope not) its no surprise that the security of our profession is in such a poor state :-)

Re: Basic security

Regarding your "PROTIP":

Off course it helps to run it on a non-standard port. Most exploit code is dumbass script kiddies copying and pasting the same, lame code that, as a matter of economy, does not run a full portscan + protocol detection before letting the load!

Mozilla tries to do Java as it should have been – with a WASI spec for all devices, computers, operating systems

Re: So 30 years (at least) on ...

Its fantastic, we are sooo close to have re-invented the operating system (again)(in-a-browser) ;-)

Re: If it happens

Verbose is your friend when revisiting code after years gone by. I'm loving verbose method names instead of smug, abbreviated smartassery.

Also.. You do know that "public static" actually means something right? For defaulting stuff. see previous sentence.

Put down the cat, coffee, beer pint, martini, whatever you're holding, and make sure you've updated Chrome (unless you enjoy being hacked)

You will not feel the difference

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 ;-)

Re: Get off my lawn with your modern browsers and all that!

Good for you! Enjoy it while you can! Because it is only a matter of time before the last of the open protocols (mainly HTTP and SMTP are left) get s killed of by GAFAM.

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.

Welcome to the sunlit uplands of HTTP/2, where a naughty request can send Microsoft's IIS into a spin

Easy fix ....

Run IIS on Windows (This comment "might" contain sarcasm) and your CPU will already be at 100% for most of the time, handling "Windows Update"/"Feature change-fad of the month" "in the background", (you can continue "working") ;-)

"Aarrgghh" ...... "!"

Three quarters of US Facebook users unaware their online behavior gets tracked

Yours and mine

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!!..

OneDrive Skype integration goes live aaand... OneDrive falls over in Europe

Lan technology FTW

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!!

Malware scum want to build a Linux botnet using Mirai

So lame

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 ?!??!?

Just one Corretto, give it to me... AWS brews its own blend of Java with free long-term support

Suicide move by Oracle

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’s growing pains – and how to beat them: A guide to raising a good platform, so you can raise a glass later

Meta-bulltish

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".)

We (may) now know the real reason for that IBM takeover. A distraction for Red Hat to axe KDE

Re: Without KDE, RHEL is GNOME to Hell

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!

Is this cuttlefish really all that cosmic? Ubuntu 18.10 arrives with extra spit, polish, 4.18 kernel

Re: "the system has a more modern and no-reboot look"

Riiight...

http://2.108.137.128/UP.png

This is a virtualization host, only trusted hosts on it and off-course its firewalled against access unless from a few hosts (and has no Internet access). It runs desktop hardware and consumer SSD's!!

You can't argue with years of service! Its the only currency in the operations business!

Open-source this, open-source that, and the end of the Windows 10 Creators Update

Fear among the gargantuans

Microsoft buying something like Minecraft (java based for god sake), clearly shows the fear among the IT Titans that rule our world, of anything threatening their rule.

There will never be "another facebook"! Any would-be creators will be drowned in money by one of the Leviathans (microsoft, google, facebook, amazon or apple)

None of them can tolerate interruptions to the feeding scheme for the AI monsters in their basements!!

In Windows 10 Update land, nobody can hear you scream

Re: Installing Windows 7 on Sky/Kaby Lake CPUs

I guess most peoples resentment (including my own) is that the very valid points 1, 2, and 3 adds up to a piece of software (win 10) that is obviously NOT in the service of the user, but serves the nefarious purposes of the authors (Microsoft). FUCK THAT!!

Anybody who is able to use alternatives will. Sadly this is not the majority

Re: Yes I understand Microsoft's problem ... and Linux...

This "Eventually, the never-ending pain train will drive the users away, but by then they would have been monetized for years. MS could then toss aside the withered remains of Windows and be all about the cloud, having sucked all of the juice out of their former desktop monopoly."

Is the true reason behind the lackluster quality of Windows. It also explains Microsoft's sudden friendliness towards Linux and Open Source in general.

MS doesn't care what you run, as long as you pay your subscriptions and run it on Azure!!

Ugrading works.. On linux

I have been upgrading Debian (with tons of applications since "etch" (EOL 2008). That this process has never failed me on 100's of occasions testify to the quality of the operating system (and Debian)

Microsoft accidentally let encrypted Windows 10 out into the world

Modern IT sucks

Because there are waaaaaay to many "UX designers"! All scrambling (at their masters bidding) to lift the same old shite to look like its NOT the the same old shite, with another evil twist to own your data.

It walks, it talks, it falls over a bit. Windows 10 is three years old

Re: Could Windows 10 spell death for Microsoft?

"I question how well this would really work. Cloud services are inherently platform-agnostic"

That is completely un(anti)true!! Do you not know that if you develop for any cloud platform (i.e "Azure") Your data AND your application logic becomes hopelessly vendor locked?? That is the whole point and ultimate goal of being a cloud vendor!

Re: Reasons why Windows 7 is far superior

Sad but true

Microsofts Windows audience is not tech savvy desktop users anymore though! Its people slowly being accustomed to being bent over and anal probed on a daily basis by facebook and google/android. It works for Google and Zuckerberg, why shouldn't it for Microsoft (it will too)

Microsoft will ‘lose developers for a generation’ if it stuffs up GitHub, says future CEO

Re: Be smart

Hi shill

Managed services like azure means that your administration budget goes through the roof (on top of the linearly scaling subscription costs), and that you no longer have any control over your infrastructure!. To host repositories (or anything else for that matter) is Cheaper, more secure, faster, and more scalable then any cloud offering if you buy a building and run everything in your own server-room (even more so if you eliminate any proprietary licenses, service agreements and so on, and run everything on "of the shelf" hardware and Open source software).... *SHOCKIIIIING*

Half of all Windows 10 users thought: BSOD it, let's get the latest build

Re: They say history repeats itself.

I think you mean ".NJET" ;-)

An easy-breezy attitude to sharing personal data is the only thing keeping the app economy alive

Re: And that's exactly why...

Neither do i (to great extend ;-) ). And i would like to question if the value of this data is really worth the 1000's of billions these companies trade for? Especially now that people are more and more aware of the nature of the STASI economy (their data is to a greater degree poisoned by awareness resulting in "good old" garbage in, garbage out)..... I smell a gargantuan bubble!

Microsoft Office 365 and Azure Active Directory go TITSUP*

And if you multiply the amount of users with the duration to get a real sense of impact?.... (do not understand the "cloud" apologists at all!)

Microsoft says 'majority' of Windows 10 use will be 'streamlined S mode'

Good old soothing CDE

Operating systems from the era where design was meant to enable users:

http://2.108.137.128/cde-scree-theregister.png

CDE running with todays issue of "theregister" Look at the soothing and comfortable colors, clear contrasts (apart from the garish website) and thought out icons