Obligatory Dilbert
Agile programming is the future:
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Posts by reeferman
6 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2015
Our software is perfect. If something has gone wrong, it must be YOUR fault
Keep your cables tidy. You never know when someone might need some wine
VMware to kill SD cards and USB drives as vSphere boot options
Tuesday 5th October 2021 11:49 GMT
Re: Nanny
Definitely not nanny syndrome. More like customers screaming down the phone and sending SWAT teams to their homes.
We've had to open support cases with VMware in relation to this. Expensive Dell hardware (FX2 / FC630) that has been rock solid for 3+ years with 6.x started to show problems with 7.x after unspecified period. Problem was not extant during precursor testing and took weeks to show up. Net result is no rollback as our entire real estate was over to 7.x before we knew the extent of the issue.
Problem is down to a change in VMware 7.x which results in many more frequent writes/reads, choking on USB/SD storage, rendering the hypervisor unresponsive and requiring a fool reboot to fix. VMware recently released update 2c after much pressure to address this.
Short version? Seems VMware 7.x was not adequately tested prior to release to the customer base and this should have been picked up.
Rather than unpick some of the changes in 7.x the PHBs at VMware have simply decided to use the Unsupported Hardware billy club to make the problem crawl away and die.
Techies take turns at shut-down top trumps
Monday 25th March 2019 14:42 GMT
Big Button Fun
That final anecdote in the article is remarkably similar to a recent (couple months ago) occurrence here. We have swipe cards to come in through the doors in our facility and a push button to get out of the main doors. The Father Ted / Father Dougal Award goes to the in-a-hurry delivery courier who dropped off a parcel at reception then rushed out, pressing the big square green alarm button by the main doors instead of the obviously-labelled Press To Exit button. Naturally when the fire alarm sounded he legged it as fast as possible, closely followed by the personnel evacuating the 9 storey complex.
Borked ESET antivirus update says entire web is too risky to browse
Monday 29th February 2016 16:06 GMT
PRACE BETS NAOW!
Considering the disruption this has caused to us (one company, 200 users) I expect that ESET will have a great many unhappy customers today. Anyone prepared to bet on if/when a more placatory response comes from ESET? I place 100 quatloos on the date when our licenses are up for renewal.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
