Posts by fredesmite

Cisco sacrifices iron, pushes gateway protection into cloud

sure .. it will be safer inside the cloud

Everyone and their mothers are putting their endpoint security tools on a Cloud instance in the front end side .

OK, 2016 wasn't the best, but look for a buyer? That's Cray

Re: Reminisce...

.. days of glory .. replaced by Intel Servers and special sauce

Dump the HPC and do Cloud

I never heard of "LPC" - Low Performance Computers

They have an ideal platform for HPC-Cloud + Openstack

Big blues: IBM's remote-worker crackdown is company-wide, including its engineers

Re: Titanic deckchair painting strikes again!

BS - my team is distributed and we do quite well No slackers

" By requiring that workers move to hub cities such as San Francisco, Austin, or New York, IBM could both rid itself of older workers and make the jobs more appealing to younger, lower-salaried professionals. "

The thought of micro-management in a cube farm is 1980's technology

Chrome 56 quietly added Bluetooth snitch API

We need cyber security

for protection from Google

Awoogah, enterprise bods: Tintri recruits Echo Alexa speechbot

"delete all luns"

bang

Pure unsheathes the FlashBlade, cuts out NetApp legacy system

so 1000 - 12k rpm drives were replaced

let me guess - 5 inch 12k rpm 1G drives from 2006 era

Linus Torvalds says Linux 4.10 just 'blew up' as rc6 bloats

useless releases

BFD .. never ending chase of another meaningless release .

I still like my 3.10 kernel , even 2,6,36 - runs great ; why bother ?

Oh, the things Vim could teach Silicon Valley's code slingers

gets your hands off of my floppy

if you can't use vi get the hell off of Linux

nuff said

Open source? HP Enterprise will be all-in, post split, says CTO

If you can't fix it ..

make it a GUI

Cutting Hewlett-Packard Labs down to size

Re: But...

ARM? I read Arm sales are in the toilet .. nifty idea but when there 200m Intel servers (with OS on them) in world I don't see Arm taking off.

Re: I've never even heard of most of those memory thingies

HP hasn't " INVENTED " a single thing since Botax Queen and the dozen CEO that followed her wrecked it.

IBM's SoftLayer is having a meltdown – and customers aren't happy

Re: The salespeople and evangelicals told me...

you simply can't move something to "the cloud " .. apps have to be cloud aware from scratch.

Re: Thank you for calling IBM technical support.

Thank you . Now which button do I press to get a factory job building something IN AMURIKA ?

So you want to roll your own cloud

Re: Backup and restore?

and upgrades ....

Folders return to Windows 10's Start Thing

who are aholes who down voted a truthful statement?

More MS turds

Ubuntu and Fedora works great on laptops .. and includes the folder Icon

Fedora and Ubuntu run great on laptops

Re: With the exception of the Master Race...

The Great Evil empire still has control what is sold on x86 machines .. you still have to pay the $100 MS tax when you buy a PC laptop even if you want to put "Free" Linux on it

Why do they continue to make a piece of shiiite worse?

The last time I touched a windows turd it stunk .. why does MS keep regressing it into something worse?

Seriously, VMware? Two bugs in the week before Christmas?

If you saw how sausage was made ...

You would never eat it.

Likewise if you saw how software is released simply to meet some director's calender date so he gets a bonus ... you wouldn't use it.

There are scores of known critical defects that never get reported to the outside world.

Qualcomm joins Xen Project Advisory Board

Arm is underpowered to be server

nice gimmick though.

'Upset' Linus Torvalds gets sweary and gets results

Re: Linus needs to start looking for his replacement.

Linus should be happy that the OS concept he stole from SVR-4 is still alive -- all the other UNIX's have died

Re: Safe space

go fvck yourself ; I've had with @ssholes thinking their shitte doesn't stink .

i have quit a job when a mgr acted that way

I was a new hire at a place where the sw director called people stupid and their ideas dumb

I started a new job the next month .

Life is to short to deal with @ssholes .. it is simply not worth it

Windows Server 2016's VM migration tools broken by a patch

Windows is such a turd

I am amazed it still is around ..

Cloud-happy Oracle dodges rumors it is axing its traditional hardware ... as sales of traditional hardware fall

Re: There are 2 types of high tech employees :

That makes no sense.

Yahoo! cancels! earnings! call!, dodges! hacking! questions!

1 BILLION USER ACCOUNT ID STOLEN IN 2013

AND THEY ARE JUST REPORTING IT NOW ?

THAT IS CRIMINAL

WHY IS YAHOO EVEN ALIVE STILL ?

Violin Memory shares collapse as it files for chapter 11

What are they actually selling ? What is the buyer getting ?

Old technology ? The big iron guys : Oracle/HP/IBM - out sell these little guys 1000:1 in hardware .

At best the buyer gets the customer list to sell them replacement storage .

Out of the 400 employees from last year who are all but gone .. .. he is only one left with they keys to an office to sign off on the pile of chap 11 paper work ?

That is pretty, er, Nimble. Storage firm claims 'six nines' availability

duh - what you think scheduled down time is ?

It's a ratchet: Old storage guard face incoming tech squeeze

No mention of Violin?

No one answered the phone?

Dirty COW explained: Get a moooo-ve on and patch Linux root hole

false alarm IMO

I tried the dirtyc0w.c test on Centos 6.6 and it passed

Sysadmin told to spend 20+ hours changing user names, for no reason

My reply would be DO IT YOURSELF.

What a @sshool

DSSD President quits Dell EMC

I guess he didn't like being a bottom catcher for Michael Dell

No happiness in merger land ?

Privacy is theft! Dave Eggers' big-screen takedown of Google and Facebook emerges

Re: Checks number of tracking cookies and javascript tracking on this web page.

What was the ghost count ?

Sciencetology meets Google

Too close to REAL LIFE !!!

Two top EMCers bail from Dell EMC

Boo hoo

Take the money ; and run; There are always "pitchers" and "catchers" in life - even in mergers .. Looks like they didn't like being a a bottom catchers for Dell .

'Significant' number of HPE OpenStackers flung to SUSE

Re: OpenStack Vapourware?

I tried the REDHAT RDO product on Centos 7 "Cloud in a box " on a single server as a demo a awhile back and that didn't even work.

It is still a nightmare.

Quest celebrates first day of independence from Dell with layoffs

"help finding jobs " - that is when you tell HR to Fck off and die.

I've heard that crock of bullshitte before ...

The "help " is generally some clueless "consulting " firm whose sole purpose is to help you write a "eye catching " resume to post on job sites so Injun IT cesspools like IDC, GlobalLogic, and Collabra can pester you with word matching contract roles.

This business has really gone down the crapper.

Broadcom snaps up Brocade for $5.9bn

umm... why not sell FC portion and keep IP?

I likely answered my own question ..

Brocade really isn't interested in IP portion.

HP Enterprise, Mirantis sack couple of hundred OpenStack engineers

Re: Dead in water

Rackspace would disagree .

HP can't even repackage a open source project !

The HP logo "Invent" has been replaced with " outsourced to lowest Injun bidder"

apt-get install openstack

That is the Openstack deployment model -- if you have questions .. read the docs .

Looking to hire IT staff in St Louis? The talent pool just got a lot bigger

When I think " HIGH TECH " -- I THINK OF ST. LOUIS !

*not

Violin Memory axes staff just before Christmas, gives CFO $150k bonus

Re: Nothing to see here, move along.

wow .. that is a 70% increase from 13 cents! That should make the Bloomberg must buy list!

Lenovo: If you value your server, block Microsoft's November security update

FUCK YOU Microsoft

what else need I say?

HPE core servers and storage under pressure

There is a reason HP removed the "INVENT logo

Because they don't invent anything ... they rebrand the same shitte mass produced by FoxxConn sweat shops in China used by everyone else.