* Posts by nilfs2

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Connected car in the second-hand lot? Don't buy it if you're not hack-savvy

nilfs2

Re: "Without naming the machine's maker"

Why do I have to ask Tesla for permission to sell MY car? One more reason why all that electronic gadgery doesn't belong on a car, GPS is as far as I will go with the gadgets, and that's on my phone, not on my darn car.

Ditching your call centre for an app? Be careful not to get SAP-slapped

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FAIL

The best CRM/ERP are the custom made

If you want the best CRM/ERP system, hire a developer and make your own; off the shelf CRM/ERP systems are a tard trap! An awful lot of the times they don't fit the customer company needs, that's why most projects end with an angry customer with a huge software + support bill with a half baked solution.

The stunted physical SAN market – Dell man gives Wikibon forecasts his blessing

nilfs2
Devil

"Hyper-this, converged-that, cloud-the-other. We've heard all this crap before. Customers are really interested in a solid, fast, and simple way to get at their data. When will the Big Three wake up and realize that the future is in reliability, speed, and capacity, not fancy-pants features that no one wants to use?"

They DO know how to make things reliable, fast and with good capacity; but if they fix the problem from the root cause, what are they going to sell you next?. Capitalism is a bitch.

Talk of tech innovation is bullsh*t. Shut up and get the work done – says Linus Torvalds

nilfs2
Boffin

Innovation= round edges instead of square, make the screen a few millimeters bigger, using a non-standard cable connector just to annoy people, and so on...

Invention= That word died a decade or so ago.

Cisco shrinks: Revenue, profit and margin all dipped in Q2 2017

nilfs2
Coat

How do you justify spending on expensive Cisco kit?

There is nothing that Cisco kit does that some other cheaper alternative can't do, except for the proprietary things that can be easily replaced by open standard alternatives.

NetApp confirms: SolidFire hyperconverged appliance is coming

nilfs2
Holmes

Good, but a few years late!

NetApp should have bought Nutanix a long time ago and became the hyperconvergence pioneer, instead of kissing Cisco's ass with the stupid FlexPod.

GoDaddy CEO says US is 'tech illiterate' (so, yeah, don't shut off that cheap H-1B supply)

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Coat

We have had enough of the USA empire already...

...lets try with the next empire; is it Chinese? perhaps Russian?, some Arab caliphate?, not very different from the Trumpsters.

Citrix looks like it has escaped 'not dead yet' status

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FAIL

Citrix is a great seller for 3rd party stuff

As a Citrix partner, I see all Citrix deals turn into a hardware and Microsoft licensing deal, Citrix representing just a fraction of the project.

Stop replying! pleads NetApp customer stuck in reply-allpocalypse

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Unhappy

Not the first time it happens

I've being the victim of NetApp's CC 3 times now

Uncle Sam sues Oracle for 'screwing over Asian, black and women staff'

nilfs2
Facepalm

Why is Oracle still relevant?

The best databases are free

Uber is watching your smartphone's battery charge

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Childcatcher

Grabbing battery status could be useful for their customers and drivers

The other day I was running out of battery on the street with only 3% battery charge, I had to call an Uber, when I was waiting for the car my phone died, I couldn't call or text the Uber driver to tell him my exact location (on a big and crowded city this can be an issue), luckily the Uber driver was nice enough and ask around trying to locate me until I spotted him. If Uber knew beforehand that I was running out battery they could have warned the driver that I was not able to answer calls or reply text messages.

Microsoft update servers left all Azure RHEL instances hackable

nilfs2
Windows

They suck on the desktop, on the server, and now on the cloud

and yet people keep throwing money at those monkeys for their shitty software

Hey techbros, make an airplane mode but for driving for your apps – US traffic watchdog

nilfs2
Headmaster

Mandatory cellphone blockers in cars

People have shown that they cannot be trusted to not use the phone when driving, the problem is not that they put themselves in danger, is up to them if they want to get killed/injured, the real problem is that they put other people in danger because of their reckless and selfish behavior, this is one of the things where the nanny state makes sense and should step in.

China gets mad at Donald Trump, threatens to ruin Apple

nilfs2
Coat

Trump is a moron

Nobody likes him but the ignorants that voted from him, he won't be able to deliver all the stupid things he promised, he'll be just selling his image like he has been doing for a long time.

Kotkin: Why Trump won

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Facepalm

Why Trump won?

Because most merkins are idiots, look for the presidential elections results if you need proof

If any idiot can do it, we're heading in the right direction

nilfs2
Unhappy

Amen for simplicity

I'm a huge proposer of KISS (not the band, I hate that one), complexity only adds cost and more things that can go wrong, but sadly this is the opposite thinking of most manufacturers, specially on IT, the more complex a system is, the more money they get out of licenses, hardware, support contracts and so on.

Microsoft flips Google the bird after Windows kernel bug blurt

nilfs2
Windows

Re: C'mon get serious...

Who cares about security and reliability? GUI "enhancements" is where it is at

Self-driving cars doomed to be bullied by pedestrians

nilfs2
Terminator

Human stupidity...

...that's what's holding the autonomous cars from going mainstream, the only way to get rid of it is exterminating the human race.

HPE tops in tape. Yes, tape is still a thing

nilfs2
Paris Hilton

How do you restore from a tape...

...if the tape reader needed is not available anymore and/or not compatible with newer technology?

Apple's car is driving nowhere

nilfs2

Cagers need to learn how to drive properly...

...before they attempt to teach a computer how to do so, not likely to happen.

Driverless public transportation, bicycles and mopeds should be the only available means of transportation on main cities, cars and trucks should be left outside the city and country roads, driving a car inside a main city is stupid, it doesn't benefit it's owner nor the people around them, it only benefits the car manufacturers and oil companies; it is a waste of space and resources since most people are driving alone a car capable of 5+ passengers.

Chat app Telegram's meltdown today was literal – its data center cooling failed

nilfs2
Meh

I'm in Central America

No issues here so far

French programmers haul Apple into court over developer rules

nilfs2
Gimp

Apple is a walled garden, get over it

If you don't like how iStuff works, try with Android, Apple is the oxymoron of openness

Don't panic, but a 'computer error' cut the brakes on a San Francisco bus this week

nilfs2
Unhappy

Emergency brake controlled by a computer!!!

Now I'm scared

What does Amazon have in common with Uber and Lyft? Road rage

nilfs2
Meh

Don't like the check? Don't work for them

As contractors, they can decide not to work for Amazon if they are not ok with the terms of the deal; just like your typical plumber, mechanic, gardener...

AWS has a lousy hybrid cloud story. VMware may fix that soon

nilfs2
Coat

Re: Makes sense...

"Doctors, for example, don't clean, sharpen and sterilize their own tools... I can say very similar things about astronauts, electric engineers..."

At least they know what's going on when they hit the easy button, unlike most IT "professionals" I have known, the majority of businesses running on Windows is the perfect example, easy of use over reliability and functionality.

nilfs2
Headmaster

Re: Makes sense...

The "easy button" is to blame for the awful lot of incompetent IT "professionals" out there, imagine if doctors, astronauts, electric engineers and so on, where asking for an easy button as an excuse to not read the F.... manual. At least 50% of the time of a competent IT professional should be spent building up their knowledge, not just hitting easy buttons over and over again. It is irresponsible to choose a solution based solely on "easy to use" rather than functionality because the IT "professional" is too darn lazy to learn new tricks.

Criticize Donald Trump, get your site smashed offline from Russia

nilfs2
Megaphone

Trump is a media product

Trump is still relevant because the media wants it that way, he is an infinite source of news, and we all know political polls are as reliable as Trump himself. He's the media's cash cow.

Upstart bags $2.5m to help put the brakes on self-driving car hackers

nilfs2

Re: All or nothing

Humans are also really good at doing stupid things, like cutting you off, running a red light, speeding, drunk driving, and so on.

nilfs2
Coat

All or nothing

That's the only way autonomous cars will work, computers can't predict human stupidity on the road.

Apple's Breaxit scandal: Frenchman smashes up €50,000 of iThings with his big metal balls

nilfs2
Gimp

He did what Apple wants their customers do

Trash their iDevices and buy new ones, you know, since you can't fix iThings

Germany calls halt to Facebook’s WhatsApp info slurp

nilfs2
Facepalm

Stop using Facebook and WhatsApp...

...problem solved!! If you are a user of any of those services, you are the one to blame for things like this, stop using Facebook services, there are better alternatives out there.

Will US border officials demand social network handles from visitors?

nilfs2
Trollface

The USA is not a country to take seriously

After knowing that Trump has a real chance to become a president, I lost all credibility and respect for that country and most of their people; I actually want Trump to win just for the lulz.

Azure is on fire, your DNS is terrified

nilfs2
Windows

Just Microsoft being Microsoft

That's how Microsoft kit works, nothing new here.

Audi works with Chinese technology companies to develop intelligent cars

nilfs2
Thumb Down

Stop putting distractions into cars!!!

All those gadgets should be banned, aren't drivers distracted enough already?

HP Ink buys Samsung's printer business for a BILLION dollars

nilfs2
Mushroom

Can't remember the last time I printed something

Printing is stupid and primitive

Edward Snowden's 40 days in a Russian airport – by the woman who helped him escape

nilfs2
FAIL

The USA created the terrorists

If it weren't for the US military aide given to this groups of bearded nutjobs, we wouldn't have to be worrying about terrorists. The USA government is the biggest terrorist of them all, they live by the motto of "do as we say, or we will bomb the shit out of you", making up wars where there is no war just to keep the military industry cash flowing and stealing resources from the weakest.

FBI Director wants 'adult conversation' about backdooring encryption

nilfs2
FAIL

This is what happens...

...when a suit with zero technical knowledge and a huge ego is in charge of taking technical decisions.

Robot cars probably won't happen, sniffs US transport chief

nilfs2
Flame

A typewriter would make a better driver than most human drivers around here

A typewriter would make a better driver than most human drivers around here, psychos on wheels the lot of 'em!

Is VMware starting to mean 'legacy'? Down and out in Las Vegas

nilfs2
Facepalm

Why pay for something that is free?

Enterprise grade hypervisors like Xen and KVM are free, why on earth is people still paying for that?

Replacing humans with robots in your factories? Hold on just a sec

nilfs2
Holmes

It's called evolution

With technology, factory line jobs can be automated with robots, that means that low skill labor force is no longer needed, which means that low skilled people should get some degree of education and become skilled or highly skilled to do tasks that a robot can't do, like designing new robots.

Height of stupidity: Heathrow airliner buzzed by drone at 7,000ft

nilfs2
IT Angle

"Stay away from aircrafts chip" mandatory on all drones

Make the drone manufacturers install by law a mechanism on the drones to stay away from airports and planes, it could be as simple as a RF signal emitted by the planes and airports, that the drone can catch and override the stupid drone's operator commands.

Windows 10 Anniversary on a Raspberry Pi: Another look at IoT Core

nilfs2
Devil

Nano BSOD

Great, now Microsoft can make the life of IoT developers miserable as well dealing with their shitty OS.

DoJ preps criminal charges for VW over Dieselgate

nilfs2
Coat

Ban petrol and diesel and be done with it

The actual regulations are impossible to comply by manufacturers playing fair, just ban the dinosaur juice and be done with it.

Microsoft to overhaul Windows 10 UI – with a 3D Holographic Shell

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Windows

New feature idea for Windows

Hey Microsoft, what about implementing a feature called "Reliability" on your products? That would be better than any new graphical UI attempt to make people forget about the underlaying mess of OS.

Italian MP threatens parents forcing veggie diets on kids with jail

nilfs2
Facepalm

License to become a parent

In many countries you need a license to be able to have a pet, but yet any moron can spawn a kid because "human rights", what about the human rights of the children being raised by a couple of morons?

The bigger they get, the harder we fall: Thinking our way out of cloud crash

nilfs2
Angel

I hate cloud...

...because my refurbished, out off warranty, 10 year old servers that are next to that leaky water pipe, on my company's dusty basement never go down (at least that's what I think, because I wasn't allowed to buy a monitoring software, so I never notice when my servers crash); and I manage to do all that with an almost non-exhistent IT budget. I'm so awesome!!

My Microsoft Office 365 woes: Constant crashes, malware macros – and settings from Hell

nilfs2
Windows

Outlook is shit

No matter how many updates and versions it goes through, it still crashes and bugs users all the time

Bomb-disposal robot violently disposes of Dallas cop-killer gunman

nilfs2
Meh

Re: lol @ yanks

You are lucky to have a strong mindset, but not everyone is like that.

nilfs2
Facepalm

lol @ yanks

They train and individual in the Army to become a cold blooded serial killer, and then set him free on a gun friendly state and expect that nothing wrong is going to happen.

Facebook offers end-to-end encrypted chat – if you find the right setting

nilfs2
Big Brother

lol @ ingenuity

Why on earth do you need end to end encryption if Facebook and the government spooks still have access to your data?

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