Posts by Mark Exclamation

Boeing offloads some software businesses to private equiteer Thoma Bravo

"CEO Kelly Ortberg said the deal “ is an important component of our strategy to focus on core businesses, supplement the balance sheet and prioritize the investment grade credit rating.”" I see "quality" is still not amongst their priorities. Will they ever learn?

IBM dragged down by DOGE contract cancellation roulette

Is there no compensation payable when a contract is cancelled?

EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits

Re: Good practice

You forgot Norway and Sweden (The Vikings), Italy (the Romans), and Genghis Khan (and probably many others).

White House budget proposal could beam NASA science back decades

America doesn't need science any more. God did it all. That's all they need to know.

Tech CEO: Four-day work week didn't hurt or help productivity

"...but we've been able to work around this by hiring extra people to improve our coverage." So there has been a cost to the company to switch to a four day week. I suspected you don't get something for nothing.

The Reg translates the letter in which Oracle kinda-sorta tells customers it was pwned

"I recommend anyone which uses Oracle cloud to initiate a migration to other more reputable, organized, secured and honest vendors," he said. Whilst I wholeheartedly agree with this advice, I think it will fall on deaf ears; for most people it will be just too difficult and expensive, oh, and Oracle has advised that everything is just fine, which must be true. So, no change here, then.

Trump tariffs thwart TikTok takeover as China digs in heels

Re: Yes no one should trust Trump

"Trump is an unethical and unreliable negotiating partner. You can't trust any promises he makes, because he feels no shame in going back against them the next day if it serves his purposes or makes him feel powerful". Sounds just like Putin. No wonder they get along so well together.

Oracle says its cloud was in fact compromised

"Otherwise the biz may face a fine of between two and four percent of global revenue." If that happens, you can be sure tariffs will go up by 20%.

Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs

He doesn't actually have the intelligence to work "tactically". What you see is what you get. In IT talk, this administration is JBOD - Just a Bunch Of Dunces.

Dell sheds ten percent of staff for the second year in a row

Sorry, I thought you were talking about IBM. Oh wait, you were talking about ALL US companies....

Tech suppliers await final grade as Trump prepares to flunk Department of Education

Seems that way, because certainly Trump and "Jaydee" sure as hell don't have any.

IBM US cuts may run deeper than feared ‒ and the jobs are heading to India

I wonder if VP Trump knows that IBM are sending jobs offshore, rather than employing MORE AMERICANS!? Oh yeah, I'm sure IBM have made a sizeable donation to Trump's favo(u)rite charity.

Trump orders all government IT contracts consolidated under GSA

Re: 'appropriate kickbacks' rule the nest.

Exactly this - there won't be any more voting in the good ole US of A. Those were the good old days....

Oracle Cloud says it's not true someone broke into its login servers and stole data

I'm torn here. Hackers are scumbags and should be locked up. But Oracle is also a scumbag, and I'm not sure who is worse. There is some delicious irony here.

Tesla Cybertruck recall #8: Exterior trim peels itself off, again

Re: Tesla has issued its eighth Cybertruck recall

And all of which countries will be subject to tariffs if said crappy vehicle is not allowed in.

Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense

DUSA

The Dis-United States of America......

CISA: We didn't fire red teams, we just unhired a bunch of them

Re: In effect, reducing voting security...

I think you'll find it's more than that. Trump (and his moronic mates) will be working on a way to prevent there ever being another election in the US so they can remain in power forever. That's why they're so happy to talk to Putin; they're getting ideas and recommendations.

ASML will open Beijing facility despite US sanctions on China

Are you related to amanfrommars1?

No peace for Gandi this past weekend, after storage SNAFU breaks email and more

These days, I don't believe a single word Musk says. I am also disappointed he is associated with SpaceX, because I think SpaceX is great. It's funny how association can muddy one's perception. Musk didn't even start Tesla (he conned and bullied his way to ownership) but I can't help but hope everything he is associated with fails, and Tesla seems to be heading that way.

Please fasten your seatbelts. A third of US air traffic control systems are 'unsustainable'

Q: How do you know when President Musk, VP Trump and some idiot who is so juvenile that he calls himself JD are lying? A: Their lips are moving, and sounds are emanating from their vocal chords.

Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal

Excellent. Precedent shows that if I sexually harass someone, I'll get a $7.5million payout. Now, where's my victim...?

Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco

Re: Colour me surprised. Not.

That's exactly what I thought; we've got someone with a PhD working in a really shit admin position, just doing basic, menial tasks. Can't understand why they would want to take such a position.

France tops China’s tokamak record with 22-minute plasma containment run

I read an article a while ago (no idea where so I can't link to it) where it said (assuming you pay someone to do the cleaning) the cost of cleaning solar panels will never be recouped by the extra electricity generated as a result of the cleaner panels. The conclusion was, never clean solar panels as it's not economically viable.

Already three years late, NHS finance system replacement delayed again

By the time they get the "new" system up and running, support for it will be withdrawn due to its age, so it will need replacing.......

Los Angeles wildfires force tens of thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed

"...Grace and I are praying for their safety and the safety of the first responders battling the blaze". Yeah, that'll help. Helping put water on the fire would be more useful.....

Ingram Micro to 'stop doing business' with Broadcom, downgrade to 'limited engagement' on VMware

You need a new keyboard, your "Shift" key doesn't work......

CrowdStrike still doesn't know how much its Falcon flame-out will cost

The company I work for never had any Crowdstrike software prior to the debacle, but since then, we've all suddenly got the "Crowdstrike Falcon Sensor" icon in our system tray. That's thousands of licences we are now paying Crowdstrike for. I was relieved we weren't using it at the time, but it looks like we may have fun times ahead of us....

Swedish authorities probe Oracle Cerner health record rollout

Imagine picking the Cerner Millennium solution as much because you didn't want anything to do with Oracle.......!

UK orders Chinese biz to sell majority stake in Scottish chipmaker

Re: Pathetic little serfs

You really shouldn't feed the trolls......

Dropbox to shed another 500 staff, CEO takes 'full responsibility'

"As CEO, I take full responsibility for this decision and the circumstances that led to it, and I’m truly sorry to those impacted by this change," wrote Houston - Well, that makes the newly-unemployed feel much better, I'm sure!

Uncle Sam accuses Aussie AI startup boss of financial fakery that duped investors

Re: For the record

VB is even worse than Fosters - horrible stuff!

'Cybersecurity issue' takes MoneyGram offline for three days – and counting

Re: has since hired third-party cybersecurity experts

"This is a huge international fintech company" - is that why I've never heard of them....?

Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before, drowning cosmic signals

Re: Just for curious...

Conversely, I ditched "fixed wireless" (maximum 50mbps up/5mbps down and not very reliable) and switched to Telstra 5G; now I get up to 750/40 and rock solid.

No way? Big Tech's 'lucrative surveillance' of everyone is terrible for privacy, freedom

Did the author of this report get a degree in "Stating the Bleedin' Obvious"?

NTT Data, IBM team on mainframe cloud for banks

The company I work for used to run an IBM mainframe (MVS, CICS, JES3 etc) costing $millions/year for licencing. We now run an IBM "mainframe" running AIX, still spend $millions/year on licencing, but most of it now goes to Microsoft. Not sure which was the better alternative.

Telegram CEO was 'too free' on content moderation, says Russian minister

Was thinking the same, but also going a step further - why should we listen to Russia about anything these days? It's all just hypocritical bullshit.

CrowdStrike's meltdown didn't dent its market dominance … yet

It's great they are making so much money - they can afford to pay all that compensation they owe to their customers.

Seattle airport 'possible cyberattack' snarls travel yet again

"....according to an Xeet...." - should it not be "a Xeet"? I am assuming it is pronounced "Zeet"?

Amazon antitrust case in Washington DC is resurrected

Re: It's in the customers interests...

But...but...but.... it's capitalism at its finest....!

UK tech pioneer Mike Lynch dead at 59

I always thought he was not guilty, and that HP(E) was just chasing him to try to cover up their incompetence. How sad that this happened just as he was putting all that crap behind him. I never knew him but fell so sad for him (and also Stephen Chamberlain).

Microsoft really wants those old Exchange 2016 servers put out to pasture

Time to upgrade to Lotus Notes....

HP Inc loves China – but wants to reduce the risks it presents

FFS! Why can't the West just bring manufacturing back home? It does mean they'll make a couple of $million less profit, but... oh wait, answered my own question. After all, bonuses and short-term profit are more important than long-term business.

Would you rather buy space broadband from a billionaire, or Communist China?

Re: .. easy

"I choose Chinese coz they will be better, faster, cheaper & more secure by my opinion. Moreover, they are ofc anti-nazi, anti-fascist & anti-endless-war hi-tech oriented."

So they say. If you believe ANYTHING the Chinese government says, then you are really naive.

Not sure it's going to need collisions. Once we get every man and his dog's satellite service up there (>200,000 LEO satellites), good luck getting a rocket through there.

Sonic Automotive says ransomware-linked CDK software outage cost it $30M

So, instead of making an obscene, customer-gouging profit, they only made a reasonable profit. Karma?

Kaspersky says Uncle Sam snubbed proposal to open up its code for third-party review

Re: I dropped Kaspersky for one reason

Me too, and we really don't need any other reason to ban them, than we no longer do business with Russian companies. Forget the security risk, which is real, just no more business with Russia. Putin chose for Russia to leave civilised society.

Administrators have update lessons to learn from the CrowdStrike outage

When I started in IT in 1979 (when it wasn't even called IT), we were considered gods. These days we're just a service department/cost code/necessary evil. How times have changed.

Failure to follow proper procedures caused US-wide AT&T outage, FCC says

Do enlighten us.....

Kaspersky culls staff, closes doors in US amid Biden's ban

Considering what Russia has done, and what it continues to do, it and its companies should be prevented from doing business with the West. It's not like we need to give them a reason, as it's perfectly clear to blind Freddie! Russia has chosen to exit civilised society.

SpaceX hit by inflight Falcon 9 failure

SpaceX have, up until now, done a fabulous job. I really hope they haven't become complacent.