Posts by Code For Broke

How is this problem mine, techie asked, while cleaning underground computer

Re: A 1980s minicomputer at the bottom of a mine ?

DV BC: Run a terminal video signal 100s (likely 1000s) of meters? In an heavy industrial setting? On a shoestring budget? Not likely.

BT dips toe into liquid cooling in quest for a chill network

Re: Even better

I believe Intel, Nvidia and AMD recently announced a shared initiative to make their CPUs even more inefficient in order to increase the waste heat they can produce. By this means, the companies hope to help eliminate the climate challenge by providing "green heating" to millions.

These days you can teach old tech a bunch of new tricks

Re: A first?

"We enjoyed running the venereal Windows ME"?

Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software?

Re: It was only after the implementation began that they revealed that they couldn't.

Sorry @Filippo, but I really disagree. At least in he US, Oracle is selling big into healthcare delivery networks. I might or might not have some first hand knowledge of this.

Anyway, I believe that Oracle is fully aware that their product is seriously lacking many of the features needed by healthcare delivery supply chain (again, may or may not know a thing about this too). This is evidenced by the rudimentary functionality requests, and Oracle's often clueless responses, that you will find on their Community "Ideas" portal.

I think Oracle sells a reasonably solid HCM system, but they also know they've got to sell the other two legs of the stool: Finance and Supply Chain. The trouble is, SCM (and more than a few of my peers in FIN) would argue that these two "pillars" are decades behind their best of breed competitor solutions (i.e. the "primitive" solutions that we have to rip out so that we can make way for a "cloud based digital transformation").

Oracle knows they are selling many of their customers a time machine to the past, under the guide of a spaceship to the future, and they are absolutely not going to come clean in meaningful ways about this.

Good article. But Oracle really is shite.

Start rummaging: Atari's new 2600+ console supports vintage cartridges

Re: Let the Games Begin!

The last time I saw Atari carts for sale, outside of the most rarified collector shop or eBay eqv. (in other words, just at a garage sale or thrift store), was the late 1990s.

We are, I fear, at least 25 years too late to luck upon these carts for a bargain. That is what fails to attract me to this 2600+. Its already over priced, and then I need to get into a bidding war on eBay for each attempt to expand my game library?

No thank you.

Re: Woohoo! Star Raiders!

Even the box will likely be worth mad cash on eBay.

Re: Lovingly recreated joystick?

See for yourself:

https://vintagegamingandmore.com/vintage/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/IMG_4041.jpg

Re: No shipping

You saw an article about an object that doesn't interest you. You opened it and at least skimmed it. You then opened the comments of that article and posted about how much you disrespect the object and it's enthusiasts.

If this is your idea of a fun pass time, then I really think you ought to give the Atari VCS another chance. I think you'll find it at least as much fun, and, god willing, it will keep you out of the forums for 15 minutes.

Re: No shipping

XK2630, Circus Atari, would be worth at least 75 quid today. More addictive than many other things that the same sum would get you.

Re: No shipping

DV BC: An AC throwing insults... the contempt I feel must be rewarding to you. How odd.

Zoom CEO reportedly tells staff: Workers can't build trust or collaborate... on Zoom

Re: Context is everything

Thanks for contributing Elon.

P.S. "VBA work"? Visual Basic for Applications?

Florida man accused of hoarding America's secrets faces fresh charges

DV BC: I am one of those pretzeled Americans of which you speak. And I do have my moments of being worked up because: essentially all of the very worst of what America has been (and, granted, very much still is) is so diligently manifested by a single individual. And we quite democratically brought that particular manifestation of God's creation into a position of such acrimonious discord with the actual progressive arc of our nation, and made ourselves just look so damn foolish in the process... Well, it hurts ones pride, you know?

Re: You sure are preoccupied by Trump and Musk!

DV BC: As we judge corporations to be people here in the US, and there is a pretty sustained track record of such "people" quite literally getting away with murder, I would beg to differ with your closing remarks.

Re: You sure are preoccupied by Trump and Musk!

Are you quite sure it isn't you that has changed? As I've aged, I don't laugh as hard as a I used to. Parenting and long years of marriage and watching the friends and family take their leave of this mortal coil has corroded my funny bone a bit it seems. I think the only really tremendous laughs I get these days are at the hubris of mostly my kids (and the odd world leader). And that's only because witnessing such folly is one of the best vehicles for transporting me back to my own youth.

P.s. I'm only 45.

Kinder, gentler Oracle says it's changed, and now wants you to succeed

Sorry. DV because I assure you that Oracle has understood deception since day one. Recall that their first customer was the US CIA. The entire business model is framed on psyops.

We are (still) implementing Oracle Fusion at my shop. Kinder, huh? I think most people spell it "kinda", as in, "Oracle Fusion only kinda works as intended."

UK.gov reboots ERP refresh with £934 million procurement

Word of the year, 2024: Oracilian.

MariaDB CEO: People who want things free also want to have very nice vacations

Re: Software developers, consult

Not at all. If you are a solid programmer with a clear history of committing import code to important projects, you will have people beating down your door to hire you.

Not everyone is going to make a solid living being an "artist." My heart will not bleed for them. Sorry. Just won't.

Thank you for absolutely validating my point 100%, before you started backtracking with TLDR fodder.

Re: consult

And yet basically the entire arc of human technological progress in the past 20 odd years has been on the back of FOSS. So apparently it does work.

Listen, my previous work is just my business card. If I want future work, I make sure my work is good enough to be invited to perform again. Be that in an auditorium, office or ALM.

This idea that I should collect forever forward on work I did before is actually, I think, one of the flaws in the current social construct.

I see it really upset people. I don't know what to tell you. It would be nice to get royalties. But even the root of that word kind of points to a concept that I personally don't care for and represents an injustice.

Content creators would perform for paying audiences, or, in the case of software developers, consult. It's actually not that complicated.

Ellison's healthcare obsession carries risks for Oracle

What Oracle sells healthcare:

https://www.zero2turbo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Bugatti-Chiron1.jpg

What Oracle delivers:

https://ericlahti.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/yugo.jpg

I should add that, as a techie responsible for the implementation of Oracle products in a healthcare setting, Oracle does provide me countless opportunities to consider these kinds of analogies. Which is a lark. I suppose. Of maybe just the only way I cope.

Help.

Silicon Valley Bank seized by officials after imploding: How this happened and why

Re: Federal Spending > Inflation > Rising Interest Rates

Listen here you smug prig, if you can do better with your professional credentials, then speak up. A professional seeks to expand understanding. Else you're nothing but a professional ass in my opinion.

Re: Federal Spending > Inflation > Rising Interest Rates

And the enemy is... Woke libs? Gender-fluid librarians? Who?

Re: Federal Spending > Inflation > Rising Interest Rates

"...been overspending by many trillions of dollars in the past two years."

Since Trump left office you mean, right?

Nuff said to explain my DV.

Sorry, DV bc... Go see Royal Bank of Scotland. Or something called the Asian Financial Crisis. Or the Nation of Greece... for banking gone bad. Now, I expect a savvy commentator might find that most of the above financial failures had deep ties to the US banking system. But I'm not confident you'll find anywhere outside of Iran and North Korea whose banking isn't deeply entwined in that of the US.

As for mass murder, seriously? That beyond ignorant.

However, had you left it at gun violence, you would have received my enthusiastic upvote. On that subject, I confess, we are eff'ed up, and deserve all the shame and blame the world can hurl at us.

Great Graph Database Debate: Abandoning the relational model is 'reinventing the wheel'

Database hygiene is a fine topic. But you piss me off by implying that tons of crappy data is a problem native to RDBS. It's a problem native to human nature and is also well evidenced in essentially every computer storage solution ever conceived, including graph dbs.

Seriously, not cool.

IBM teases AI-infused hybrid cloudy upgrade to z/OS - Bingo!

Re: You're not kidding about the buzzwords!

Indeed. Write me an article when it starts posting selfies of itself doing dances and makeup "hacks", then I'll take notice.

Suspected Russian NLBrute malware boss extradited to US

Взлом (запад) не является преступлением.

A tip for content filter evaluators: erase the list of sites you tested, don't share them on 100 PCs

Re: Bulldog

Anarchists are well-known in some parts for their excellent chicken dishes. Of course, having the same thing twice is quite impossible.

Sick of smudges on your car's enormo touchscreen? GM patents potential cure

Re: My car has clean, unsmudged surfaces

Actually, my nearly-20-year-old Toyota (no touchscreen, I was chuffed that it had an LCD odometer back when) now has a fine patina on most of the commonly used buttons and switches. I've tried to wipe it off and then ask myself why I'm even bothering. "It's a nearly-20-year-old Toyota..." (which I'd dare say is about 15 years older than most GM cars ever get to be.)

Yea, you GM-loving downvoters? Bring it!!!

Re: Patents

So the purpose of patents is not to make money, but simply to prevent others from doing so?

Capitalism is such a contrary God.

Microsoft switches Edge’s PDF reader to pay-to-play Adobe Acrobat

I've always thought that Adobe products were largely regarded as the second-most obvious attack vector for hackers, just behind password = "password".

Adobe is that jovial consultant who stinks of cologne, wears suits that cost a years salary, and doesn't even both with buzzwords. They let the spray-on tan and golf membership do all the talking. And, like their software, they are about 12 time the size they should be, but clearly working with all their might to look trim.

Re: Not time to "opt-in" but to bale out

DV bc "FTFY". I hate smugness, and to capture it in an acronym? Gut wrenching disgust.

The Twitpocalypse may have begun, as datacenter migration reportedly founders

Re: The solution to this problem is exceedingly simple, and is being overlooked by everyone...

Since most people don't know what engineering actually is, and since most people are under the impression that Elon is a "genius", it's all the same thing. Therefore, he is whatever he claims to be.

Microsoft swears it's not coming for your data with scan for old Office versions

Re: Strange way to respect user privacy

I'm preparing myself for the downvotes as I type... Ok... Here goes...

Who here would say that older versions of anything M$-written pose an increased security risk?

And would you say this is often even more true for the Office suite of applications?

And when some kind of highly publicized security event occurs, do they not usually name the software that appears to have allowed the event to occur in the first place, including the name of the company that wrought it?

And when most people read that, for instance, "Microsoft Word responsible for enormous data breach..." they do not care or consider which version of "Word" was involved, even if it was a version released 20ish years ago?

And so then, would SatNad (not sure this rises to his level, honestly, but "M$ leadership") not have a keen interest in the reputational risk that exists within their commerical landscape?

Just sayin'.

Semiconductor world in for a rough ride as chip bubble bursts at the high end

ChatGPT, is that you, you little devil? Back in your lamp!

Upvote (to break the streak) because: You must be having a laugh. Jolly well then. Good on ya.

McDonald's pulls plug on Wi-Fi, starts playing classical music to soothe yobs

Re: The smell from the one near me is enough

For some, a sense of "belonging" among their peers is quite important. Being ace at some private hobby or treking in ones and twos isn't satisfying.

If only we could still send them halfway 'round the world to colonize, like in the good old days, eh?

Not a simple problem.

Dear Stupid, I write with news I did not check the content of the [Name] field before sending this letter

I think 'Stan' has some culpability here. He inserted rows into a table without running the same SELECT into a table on screen first, for at least a glance and maybe a quick chat with the boss? "Because he told you to," is just not an acceptable excuse. Stan was working at a trade publication, not a Minuteman silo.

New IT boss decided to 'audit everything you guys are doing wrong'. Which went wrong

On the other hand... My current boss works from about 10:45-1:45, with at least a two hour lunch in there, about 2.5 days a week. I wouldn't say he "boasts", but he doesn't try very hard to disguise his, um, distaste for effort. Of course, every crucial boss-level crisis that he is absent for goes to me to sort out. "Tell the bosses boss!" you say? I would, but they are hard to track down when they are off on the links or in a bar somewhere together. Get it?

Oh dear, AWS. Cloud growth slowing as customers get a dose of cost reality

Re: Quelle Surprise

Heh... "Muppets"...

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Re: AWS is the home of Hackers

DV because: Since about 1974, Internet was intended for slurping.

Basecamp details 'obscene' $3.2 million bill that caused it to quit the cloud

Re: Hella good mp3 collection

I upvote you and tip my hat. Thank you for the gracious correction.

Re: Hella good mp3 collection

8192 terabytes.

Re: Open source

As someone who regularly gambles and does drugs, I seriously resent this pernicious association with open source developers.

Unix is dead. Long live Unix!

Wouldn't you say that WSL is simply Linux running in a VM? If so, then I don't think it would qualify Windows as UNIX compatible?