Posts by fredesmite

Scare-bnb: Family finds creeper cams hidden in their weekend rental by scanning Wi-Fi

Re: How many other renters complained and were ignored before it finally went public?

many up scale hotels already keep track of those fancy robes and no doubt they will charge you for taking it.

why not

face it .. having people stay in your private property waive privacy .. it was in the living room .. not in the bedrooms.

From me 2U: Quantum has finally joined the NVMe fabric array party

All open source and off the shelve

Nothing to see ;

Everyone is building the same NVME boxes .

As Red Hat prepares to become part of Big Blue, its financials look as solid as Linux kernel 2.4

Re: Linux rescued IBM, so it's a good move

Actually ..IBM repackages a hugh selection of Linux RPMs for AIX . They have a Linux kernel interface

Re: Goodbye Red Hat

You can be sure the pencil pushers ,HR , and bean counters will be in the first wave ,followed by offspring even more development roles..

If you look at the open RH job reqs (as I have ) over the years ..most development and QA are offshore .

not too long ago

2.4 and 2.6.3x are the largest installed Linux kernels running in production worldwide .

Packet's 'big boy' servers given a shot in the Arm with 32-core, 3.3GHz Ampere CPUs

had news about arm

limited distributions ..many 3rd party Linux components are missing .. limited to what is in the box distribution

Stop us if you've heard this one: IBM sued after axing older staff, this time over 'denying' them their legal rights

I was on Watson HC cloud

As a contractor ( looking for a full time role ) When the axe fell .. I was spared when 2/3 of the team was wfr ... I landed a FT role the next month and left .

Re: Enhanced redunancy offer for signing away rights

In America if you don't sign the departure ... you don't get leaving package ...

make your money when your are young

Wander through any IBM ,HP , Dell .. Apple , Google, Facebook site .. you won't see any older employees.

Chip flinger Broadcom says its software unit's doing great. Wait, what?

Why ?

unrelated businesses

F5 Networks buys into open source, hands over $670m for Nginx! Double Nginx! Infinity Nginx!

Apache is free.

Apache is free.

Back to ASICs: Nvidia coughs GPU-uge $6.9bn to scoff Mellanox

Complete mis-match .. gamers and AI

What could possibly go wrong?

Is that rain or tears of frustration on your face? Google Cloud bursts, Console and Dataflow washed away for hours

Cloud computer is nothing BUT

Someone else's computer.

Amazon Prime Air flight crashes in Texas after 6,000ft nosedive

Gravity Sucks

Remember it not the fall that kills you ..it's the sudden stop.

Crew names released

Pilot : Wu To Low

Co-pilot :Ho Liu Fck

Engineer - Pul It Up

Who needs malware? IBM says most hackers just PowerShell through boxes now, leaving little in the way of footprints

YET ANOTHER REASON TO AVOID WINDOWS.

" FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION. IT IS INCLUDED IN THE PURCHASE PRICE "

So close yet so far: Pure fingers manufacturing balls-up for leaving firm $20m wide of its target

Have they ever made a profit ?

ull-year revenues were $1.36bn, up 33 per cent, with a net loss of $178.4m (Pure made a net loss of $159.9m in FY 2018.)

The DevOps Salary Report is in, and is great news for American men

Worse fucking job in the world after general IT !

never ending nightmares . Run the other way

After IBM SoftLayer fails to scrub bare-metal box firmware of any lurking spies, alarm raised over cloud server security

Softlayer is GARBAGE

We used Softlayer for a IBM openstack project .. they use supermicro garbage ..the worse availability ever . I

Decoding the President, because someone has to: Did Trump just blow up concerted US effort to ban Chinese 5G kit?

Please - someone shoot that asshole in the forehead

With all the guns in America -- how come someone hasn't popped a cap in that asshole yet ?

RIP, RDP... nearly: Security house Check Point punches holes in remote desktop tools

Re: VNC is your friend

Slow ?

Maybe your should replace your dial-up modem then with something modern.

/s

VNC is your friend

And works everywhere

Linus Torvalds pulls pin, tosses in grenade: x86 won, forget about Arm in server CPUs, says Linux kernel supremo

ARM "servers" are a dream .

Intel has killed off scores of other server class processors : MIPS, Power PC , Sparc; at HP, IBM .. Oracle ... simply due to the incredible hardware costs of maintaining and developing new platforms . The Big Iron companies hate having to pay Intel for server chips .. but they hate even more creating new platforms, so they are test driving ARM to keep some sort of R&D spirit alive ... but in the end when the final $$ tally is done they will all resort to mass produced , sweat shop manufactured garbage from China built on Intel reference schematics .. Just keep adding NUMA sockets !

Ivan to be left alone: Russia preps to turn its internet into an intranet if West opens cyber-fire

Bone Spurs is wishing for the same thing

That damn free press is a pain in the orange asshole

Scaling up Azure Service Fabric Linux Clusters using Ubuntu Xenial? Not so fast, friend

Ubuntu -- PURE GARBAGE

It's stench is horrible

IBM insists it's not deliberately axing older staff. Internal secret docs state otherwise...

HP has been doing the same thing

HP has driven off anyone over 45+ ; After they laid off my 60 yo director , I was demoted and moved to a group to produce paper work for vendors even though I was a principle SW engineer ; my next review has 2 sentences : "Does not meet expectations " after 24 years of excellent reviews ; I was gone 2 months later.

Wells Fargo? Well fscked at the moment: Data center up in smoke, bank website, app down

EVERYONE KNOWS WHEN THE SMOKE LEAKS OUT

of those little black chips they stop working !

smoke makes them work !

A simple software upgrade to the UPS controllers !!!

Don't worry

It's just a 1 line bug fix

The solid state of storage in 2018: Latencies, they are dwindling. On-premises, the kit is glistening...

nvme off the shelf

Every vendor is offering servers with nvme and FC or 20gE+ commodity hardware - I bet they have better performance over NFS v4 than existing spinning disk .. Cheap ; use chef as data blob raid.

why bother ?

Techie finds himself telling caller there is no safe depth of water for operating computers

Remember -- It's not the VOLTAGE that KILLS YOU

It's the CURRENT

As little as 5milliamps . cross the heart if I recall

What is worse ?

Water getting into those little black IC chips ?

or

Letting the smoke out of those little black IC chips ?

I've had my share of seeing what happens when the smoke escapes

The Six Billion Dollar LAN: Intel hopes to gobble network kit biz Mellanox 'for $6bn'

Monopoly is just

A GAME

Not to be confused with real life corporations . Who is going to complain ? There are no other competitors to Mellanox Infiniband. Mellanox went looking for a buyer . It's not like Intel in doing a forced take over.

Maybe they will then have compatible products

Mellanox doesn't play well with other infiniband or GeB offerings and they have no reason to want to - 100 % vendor lock in.

What's big, blue, and short on Intel? The supercomputer world's podium: USA tops Top500 with IBM Power9

What are the costs of these machines ?

The IBM Power9 likely requires a pile of gold bars

When you play the game of storage arrays, you win or you – where are the visionaries?

Re: HPE slipping away

That is exactly why HPE removed the "INVENT" . logo years ago ! It should be " BOUGHT AND OUTSOURCE "

No Violin ?

They claim to be back in the game

DXC share price tumbles on El Reg bombshell of Americas boss ejection

Just another cesspool

customers who use this garbage basically get what they deserve; half-baked implementations and no idea how to keep it running

Linux kernel's Torvalds: 'I am truly sorry' for my 'unprofessional' rants, I need a break to get help

Re: If only he got so passionate about Linux freezing when it runs out of memory...

Libc malloc should never return NULL until you have exceeded the heap size of your process. This could happen in x86 32bit world where the malloc/process space is around 3GB ; libc malloc should sleep infinitely until a memory page is made available via virtual memory reclaim steps. An 64b process would behave the same, although the process address space is match larger. What really causes system hangs in the kernel's inability to alloc vmalloc space; that is when system calls start failing and Out of Memory process starts killing off random memory hogs.

I've dealt with assholes and bullies in software dev for decades

Torvalds is no different ; people think their shit don't stink until you smear it in their faces

Supermicro breathes in, shimmies a PB of Intel flash into one rack unit

Re: hardware RAID controllers?

does it cure the write hole ( multi block rewrite ) problem ?

Re: @Colonel Claw

Stack three together using Ceph and you have self healing storage needs .

Are these ssd simply block storage ? Any SDS component to them ?

Four-year switch: Two Cisco veeps pack bags and go for a wander

two more penheads bailed out with a golden parachute for their next grifter positions.. line forms in the rear .

Franken-firm DXC Technology is born today, the fun begins...

Lawrie will no doubt be in exuberant mood, he could make up to $44m from the spin merger.

DXC will be damned if it lets cloud cannibalise the IT outsourcing biz before DXC does

Re: DXC Speak

Hi tech has become a cesspool. There was a time employee / employer loyalty .. that all came to an end with it staffing firms and Indian offshore in the 1990s.

Space, the final Trump-tier: America to beam up $8bn for Space Force

Re: Americans need to alter the criteria for being allowed to be president.

An IQ test would be the 1st

More welfare spending for military conplex

US military already gets $740b welfare now ..they were chased out of Iraq and Afghanistan by goat herders and cave dwellers using 1980 used Russian equipment.

Tintri rescued by DDN just hours after filing for Chapter 11

Re: The flash storage gold rush is over...

DDN is looking at the inventory of CUSTOMER INSTALLED BASE they can immediately grab for PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR

Violin Systems - REDUX

Almost as bad as Violin !! They survived for how much longer ?