Posts by fredesmite

Ex-Cloud Foundry boss to pull strings at Puppet as CTO, says open-source software 'evolves faster, is more mature'

" I'd hit that "

Rob Porter

Server sales went through the roof in the first three months of 2020. Enjoy it while it lasts, Dell, HPE, and pals

Little , if any .. ARM servers in the mix

Arm is a pipe dream

IBM to GTS staff: Not volunteering to leave with a redundo cheque? We'll give you a helping hand

Cheer up all you BLUE people !

Ginny is walking away with a cool $20M !

At least ONE IBM'er survived to retirement

India Business Machine

Every IBM grunt is suffering from

I've Been Molested

Syndrome

Oracle faces claims of unequal pay from 4,000+ women after judge upgrades gender gap lawsuit to class action

It doesn't take any Little Rock Man Scientist to understand ...

THAT EVERY WOMEN IN AMERICA IS UNDERPAID IN EVERY PROFESSION ( except maybe the oldest profession ).

The sad and ironic part the majority of REPUBLICAN WOMEN VOTE AND SUPPORT THAT .. THEY ARE BRAIN-WASHED INTO THINKING HAVING A VAGINA THAT POPS OUT A KID MEANS THEY SHOULD EARN LESS .

Wall Street analyst worries iPhone is facing '2nd recession' after 2019 annus horribilis

I am too cheap

To buy a $1000 phone

That no one will ever call me on

IBM Watson GPU cloud cluster Brexits from London to Frankfurt – because GDPR

REMEMBER -- CLOUD COMPUTING

is just using someone's else COMPUTER .. praying they care about your stuff as much as you do

We're all stuck indoors, virtual reality tech should be hot. So why is Magic Leap chopping half its workforce?

Magic Leap is a sweat shop

I've been contacted more than once to work there .. They only hire "contract to hire " which means that don't pay bonus, profit sharing , stock hire-on , benefits, PTO , or unemployment insurance .. they get free development work for 12 hrs .. then move on to the next sucker that believes their lies

NEVER JOIN A Hi_TECH COMPANY AS CONTRACT TO HIRE

Tata Consultancy Services predicts hot viral mess for the next nine months

Another Injun Cesspool

Those staffing firms are the worse

Guess what's heading to trial? IBM and its tactic of yoinking promised commissions after sales reps seal the deal

Did he join the law suit for being pink slipped ?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/23/ginni_rometty_ibm_email_age_discrimination/

Wipro says clients already asking for discounts and restructured deals, decides not to offer guidance

Re: So, WiPro is doing fine with its employees at home

I haven't worked in a Cube-farm daycare in over 10 years

And I won't work for one in the future either

IBM's outgoing boss Rometty awarded $20m+ in 2019 for growing revenue 0.1%

Isn't she too old to work there ?

India Business Machines got rid of everyone over 40 I thought

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

Re: Uptick in remote S/W sales

I will never be baby sat in a cube farm at a daycare again .

You are living in a 1980 work environment.

I will never be

baby sat in a cube farm at a daycare again .

I haven't worked in a building for 10 years . This is absolutely no reason for the majority of technical personnel to be present in a office.

Gin and gone-ic: Rometty out as IBM CEO, cloud supremo Arvind Krishna takes over, Red Hat boss is president

He is too old to work there too

Krishna, age 57

I thought IBM got rid of anyone over 40 .

She can join the law suit for being pink slipped

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/23/ginni_rometty_ibm_email_age_discrimination/

No one else her age is employed at IBM anymore ..

So why is she so "special " ?

Ever wondered how Google-less Android might look? Step right this Huawei: Mate 30 Pro arrives on British shores

$900 for a phone

No way

Don't tell us to go Huawei, Chinese ambassadors tell UK and France

Why there are no US competitors for 5G ...

https://www.ft.com/content/18d3823a-65f2-11e9-9adc-98bf1d35a056

Huawei to the danger zone: Now Uncle Sam slaps it with 16 charges of racketeering, fraud, money laundering, theft of robot arm and source code

Why there are no US competitors for 5G

https://www.ft.com/content/18d3823a-65f2-11e9-9adc-98bf1d35a056

There's got to be Huawei we can defeat Chinese tech giant, thinks US attorney-general. Aha, let's buy stake in Ericsson and Nokia

300M people in Amurika

And the US gvmt wants to invest in Sweden and Finland for 5G ?

Ah, night shift in the 1970s. Ciggies, hipflasks, ADVENT... and fault-prone disk drives the size of washing machines

I remembers those days

In the prime of computer development

You've got (Ginni's) mail! Judge orders IBM to cough up CEO, execs' internal memos in age-discrim legal battle

So the court rules against IBM

That doesn't change the fact they pink slipped hundreds of thousands of employees . The impact of being laid off is enormous . What will those people receive ?

VMware? VM... now where? It's that time of the year again when Dell's virtualization software giant sheds staff

Right ......

" The Silicon Valley giant noted that some of the chopped staffers could find other roles within the organization, so the final number may go up or down."

I've heard that lie before .....

" WFR personnel can apply to any positions within the company as long as they are not on a WFR list"

DELL

IBM

HP

Remember that Sonos speaker you bought a few years back that works perfectly? It's about to be screwed for... reasons

Re: Wrong

Sonos has a music outlet there.

Over priced music gadget

If you were stupid enough to spend $1000 on nothing but an expansion speaker that plays compressed mp3 audio files from your iTunes account you deserve to be screwed again.

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

Why anyone would use Windows product is beyond me

When Linux desktops are openly available.

BOFH: When was the last time someone said these exact words to you: You are the sunshine of my life?

Dear BOFH

You are the sunshine of my life

That's why I'll always be around

You are the apple of my eye

Forever you'll stay in my heart

I feel like this is the beginning

Though I've loved you for a million years

And if I thought our love was ending

I'd find myself drowning in my own tears

You are the sunshine of my life, yes you are

That's why I'll always be around

You are the apple of my eye

Forever you'll stay in my heart

You must to know, you must to know that I was lonely

Because you came to my rescue

I know that I must be in heaven

How could so much love be inside of you?

Inside of you

Are the sunshine of my life

Sorry to be blunt about this... Open AWS S3 storage bucket just made 30,000 potheads' privacy go up in smoke

Dave is that you ?

Dave who ?

Dave - YOU - man - you are DAVE

No man , Dave's not here

SPARCs fly as Oracle recharges Arm server processor designer Ampere with $40m

That dude looks like a lady !

So the song goes

Problems at Oracle's DynDNS: Domain registration customers transferred at short notice, nameserver records changed

DynDSN service has been dead for years .. what are talking about ?

DYN was a shitt-hole

I worked there for a year as a developer and jumped ship before Oracle killed them . The most rude, aholes in the business. Micromanagement, loud mouths, and bullie whose shitte doesn;t stink .. and real cesspool how not to treat employees.

GOOD RIDDANCE

It's Becoming Messy: Judge says IBM's request to shut down age-discrimination lawsuit should be rejected

Re: No title required

I worked at IBM in Austin back in the AIX days ...NOTHING WAS FREE. Not even coffee.

Why is CEO Ginni Rometty still there ?

Her model expired decades ago

Linux in 2020: 27.8 million lines of code in the kernel, 1.3 million in systemd

systemd is suppose to speed-up startup phase

By parallelling processes

Why do 100 startup processes though on a medium install ?

The thing is a pig

Here's a bit of Intel for you: Neri a day goes by that HPE doesn't feel CPU shortage pinch

You would think these "hi tech" companies

Could produce their own solutions instead of copying Intel's reference schematics

Oracle leaves its heart in San Francisco – or it would do if, you know, Oracle had a heart

Hoover damn use to be geek dream

Then they stopped the inner dam tours after 911 .. so now you just look over the 1st floor observation view

Moscone Center area has been a open sewer for 20 years

Having to step over homeless , smelly drunk and crack addicts to get in the building has been a sporting event most professions never had to try

So what took them so long ?

HPE planning to turn balancing on-premises and cloud environments into point-and-click adventures

from a company who use to "Invent"

-- but couldn't clone Debian Linux and distribute Openstack on top of it as a cloud offering

It woz The Reg wot won it! Big Blue iron relics make it back to Blighty

Too bad India Business Machine has gotten rid of anyone

WHo knew how to use them -- to maintain them .

HPE has only gone full Kubernetes, pops open new Container Platform

Re: What are they offering

In large enterprise deployments they need support -- that is how the resellers make money from open-soucre offerings

Re: Huh - flashback

HP(e) hasn't invited ANYTHING in a decade -- everything they've touched has died

Re: Yawn

No - Stolen . renamed . FREE open-source and piss poor support

Intel insists Xeon vs Epyc benchmark fight was fair, amends speed test claims anyway

Still pc crap

the only reason amd chips are.

attractive is they cost 1/2 of the Intel variety.

Congress to FCC: Where’s the damn report on mobile companies selling location data?

Yet another reason not to have a smart phone

big brother is watching everything.

Ubuntu says i386 to be 86'd with Eoan 19.10 release: Ageing 32-bit x86 support will be ex-86

I use run 32b VMs.

In use to run 32b VM .. they consume less space unless applications consumes larger than the 3gb virtual memory limit.I

Re: To Everything There Is A Season...

AIX on PowerPC around 1998 .

Re: To Everything There Is A Season...

uh ... No.

UNIX SVR4 on SGI /MIPS processors and AIX had 64bit OS when Linus was just a wet spot on the bed sheets.

IBM stands for I Block Money, says sales rep: Big Blue sued yet again by its own staff over 'missing' commissions

IBM ....

India Business Machines

Re: Not rocket science

They still deserve what they officially earned and contractual agreements the agreed to.