Posts by trollied

OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg – all services unavailable

It's not looking brilliant ... https://twitter.com/xgarreau/status/1369559995491172354?s=20

UK taxman is supposed to know how IR35 reforms work but still lost appeal against TV presenter Kaye Adams

'twas the summer of '99

They first announced IR35 in 1999. 22. Twenty. Two. Years. Ago. Let that sink in.

22 years to prove this was the right thing to do, and make it work. I don't think they'll have sorted this out in another 22 years....

The Curse of macOS Catalina strikes again as AccountEdge stays 32-bit

Developers have had 2 1/2 years to sort their software out in preparation. You really can't say that they didn't give enough notice.

UK taxpayers funded Grand Theft Auto V maker to tune of £42m – while biz paid no corp tax and made billions

$6 billion

I'd have thought that World of Warcraft would have pulled in way more than $6 billion over the years.

LG's beer-making bot singlehandedly sucks all fun, boffinry from home brewing

Re: Why?

It's obviously aimed at people that have some space in the cupboard under the stairs, right next to the bread maker & ice cream maker.

Microsoft suffers the Tuesday shakes as Exchange Online continues to be wobbly for UK users

What...

... number are we down to so far this year?

Office 358?

Developer mistakenly deleted data - so thoroughly nobody could pin it on him!

Re: Never edit the fstab table on a production system...

Oh, crikey. Reminds me of a balls-up from yesteryear, when I was a young scamp in my first job.

Many 100s of LUNs presented to a large Sun box (E10k or E15k, I think it was). Spend a good few days carving the devices up and configuring them in Sybase.

Then the machine was rebooted.

I hadn't updated the vfstab.

Took me AGSE to dd bits off each disk to work out which device was supposed to be mounted where... You live and learn!

Magic Leap's staggering VR goggle technology just got even better!

I think they should go with...

This reads like a Daily Mash article :-)

AI is worth learning and not too tricky – if you can get your head around key frameworks

Meh

It does make me laugh that crap devs can write 4 lines of R, then all of a sudden they are a "Data Scientist".

Drone smacks commercial passenger plane in Canada

Re: They seek him here...

Depends on the make of the drone. If it was a DJI Mavic drone, for example, then they'll nab him - all flights are logged to their servers & you have to register the drone to your account in order to fly a certain distance / altitude away from yourself.

Oracle promises ‘highly automated’ security in self-driving database

Re: Query deleted data

9.1 supported it (so 2001), but it was harder to use than in 10.1.

It's paydaygeddon! NatWest account transfers 'disappearing' (not really)

> MySQL

Banks do not use MySQL to store your transactions. Crikey.

You shrunk the database into a .gz and the app won't work? Sigh

A lesson some other Oracle DBAs have probably learned over the years. Do not give your redo logs a .log suffix - A sysadmin WILL think they can be archived/deleted

UK web host 123-Reg goes TITSUP, customer servers evaporate

Re: In related (hoax) news

That was a hoax:

http://meta.serverfault.com/questions/8696/what-to-do-with-the-rm-rf-hoax-question

Getting metal hunks into orbit used to cost a bomb. Then SpaceX's Falcon 9 landed

The thing is...

Falcon 9 could have carried New Shepard as its payload, that's the difference we're talking here!

Forget 5G, UK.gov is making 2G fit for the 21st century!

It's hilarious that rural communities don't want masts putting up, yet want a decent signal. I live in one of the most popular honeypots in the Peak District - signals are crappy. Yet a few miles up the road (hills in the way, I'm afraid) I've seen a new lamp post that looks like an oldskool bit of wood stuck in the ground - nobody has complained about the new mast, but the little green box next to it and the top are a bit of a giveaway. Good job the oldies can't see high enough to notice....

Sorry, bit of a rant.

Leap second bug cripples Linux servers at airlines, Reddit, LinkedIn

Killed my Ubuntu desktop too

Got to work this morning and the load average on my Ubuntu desktop was ~30.

A fair few of our servers went kapput. Thankfully I wasn't on call! ;)

RAC's Bristol data centre breaks down

I wonder...

.... if they run Oracle RAC.

Fusion-io demos billion IOPS server config

You could probably avoid rewriting apps by using a shlib & LD_PRELOAD.

*Ponder*