Re: WRT Apple and El Reg...
Good stuff, reminds me of a funnier time. KM's were always pure gold.
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When I saw the comment number before opening this page I knew I was in for a good time. Thank you for the war stories. I hope there'll be more.
VMS is definitely interesting but what to use it for since production use would need a license that probably costs way too much. As said above: an /engineered/ system instead of haphazard "good enough" -- the pinnacle of which is Linux.
Looking at the OpenVMS installer it is clear what inspired the OpenBSD installer.
I would argue that the much bigger problem these days are developers (oh sorry "DevOps") playing systems administrators with Docker and willy-nilly pulling in images done by who-knows-what without any constraints and considering all that smoldering mess fire-and-forget, never bothering to update anything - or indeed even understanding that they need to be updated.
The amount of images pulled in from random individuals is frankly frightening and a disaster waiting to happen. And even in the rare case they do update there's no guarantees that Jimbo in Lower Elbonistan bothers to keep their image updated.
Of course all of it is done with minimal understanding of anything, and why would understanding be necessary: just check from the README what few configuration parameters are needed to make it work and off to production it goes.
(Insert xkcd here about gluing stuff together)
I ran trivy once and there were thousands and thousands of high+ vulns in just one machine...
Yes indeed. I am considering migrating the company fleet to Firefox when MV2 is dead for just this reason.
Since Firefox finally supports GPOs there's no real reason to keep Chrome, except the pesky rogues in HR and Finance spewing confidential data all over Google Sheets.
It looks like a good portion of people indeed have. Full on xenophobia mode, foaming in the mouth raving about the Sovi^WRussian menace and how all Russians obviously have turned bad suddenly one day in 2022.
It all just exposes them as the hypocrites/xenophobes/racists they are.
I hope they could finally make a stable iDRAC or let us run OpenBMC on the mainstream R servers. It is a constant struggle with the bugs in iDRAC that surface when automating things. Currently I'm putting "reboot iDRAC" tasks to error handling since they start to bog down more and more on every redfish request.
It is similar "designing to the lowest common denomination" as the idiotic touch screen interface in win10. MS just doesn't get it, it even gets worse and worse. Reducing the whole task bar/start menu to a list of icons and nothing else is a new level of screwing the power users.
Ah, NetworkManager. Another crapshow from the loonies at freedesktop.org. Bane of server administrators around the world.
There is no place for this crap on a server. I know how to configure a network interface and once it is configured it stays that way.
It is totally crazy that Red Hat forces these on servers.
What all the journos seem to be missing is the highly alarming large number of patches like May 2022 that go like this: "this patch will add event log events and registry keys, then in one year the registry key stops working and we force the new functionality. Oh and it works like this because it'll break your Macs, your Linuxes, legacy software, ..." And on top always seem to have critical bugs that make it work not as intended, breaking even more stuff.
But that is ok, they are just clueless journos and not sys admins.
I can't believe that this is not being reported on more.
It is becoming a monthly occurrence and it is a HUGE workload for us.
I do not agree to this at all.
It is actually the opposite. Things are supposed to be scrolled vertically. Most things don't fit vertically and scrolling so is a fact if life.
Instead it is the horizontal screen real estate that must be optimized to avoid scrolling in two directions.
And scrolling vertically is needed only to view more stuff. Horizontally scrolling must be avoided so that one doesn't have to scroll every line.
We've actually had one of 2 critical UPS now down for way too long in one DC. It took Schneider Electric *two weeks* to come on site to even look at it. It has now been a *further one week* since that and no information about results of the site visit a week ago.
All they say is that they will submit a report later at some unspecified date.
I would imagine SE is not this crap in every country. But they should seriously keep their country branches in a much tighter leash, this is ridiculous.
I wish there was a way to let the mothership know how badly their brand is being tarnished. Avoid Schneider Electric - which is hard now that they have taken over APC&MGE.
Lots of different things can go wrong with UPS and often do based on my experience in some medium-sized Galaxy models. Contrary to old APC models that are troublefree workhorses.
The worst part is that the single countrywide Schneider distributor is a total sham with unbelievably inflated prices, laughable response/delivery times, and bad service in general. Some behavior is borderline fraud, jacking parts prices up by offering parts for a much larger sized UPS or claiming that products are discontinued so cannot do anything to them so why don't you buy these new ones...
I hate UPS.