Posts by spireite

Raspberry Pi IPO is oversubscribed multiple times

Re: "Certainly while I'm in charge."

Presumabky....

They are offering 'x shares' and applications to buy them would equate to 'x shares times 3'?

Boeing's Starliner finds yet another way to not reach space

Redundant...?

Fair to say this last 18 months is close to proving that the one thing there is redundant..... Is Boeing!

Codd almighty! Has it been half a century of SQL already?

SQL will always have its plaice.

For the last 10 years at least, they've predicted the death of SQL.

It still exists, simply because for most tasks, it is the best language for the job.

New tools come, but they end up building an extension for new tooling for a SQL interpreter. That alone tells you what we've known for years.

NASA, Boeing opt to fly leaky thruster as-is for first crewed Starliner CST-100 mission

Naming convention

One thing they need to do before launch is rename to the

USS Sphincter

Where do Terraform and OpenTofu go from here?

Re: For what it's worth...

When I see terms like agnostic thrown around, I expect to see the same definition, with a parameter of 'targetcloud'.

I was massively disappointed to see that if I did something for AWS, it was a whole new set of tags for targeting Azure.

If it wasn't free, I'd say it was missold.

I appreciate that the clouds do not have a 1-1 match in capabilities but they could have made it easier for the ones that do broadly match.

IBM Death Spiral.....

I'm aware of smaller shops migrating this way after the IBM takeover, but nobody would notice.

This is a big name, and somebody at IBM should notice. If they don't, they could well be see the market move rapidly!

'Little weirdo' shoulder surfer teaches UK cabinet minister a lesson in cybersecurity

Re: Situational awareness is rare

Reminds me of what happened to me in my office 20-odd years ago.

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I committed the cardinal sin of leaving my PC open unlocked whilst spending time with mother nature.

I came back to find I'd sent an email to All Users declaring

"Join me at the Pheasant, where I will buy you a drink"

HR expert says biz leaders scared RTO mandates lead to staff attrition

You have to realise thought that that 'talent' has more talent than anyone dictating the RTO

thought you said middling manager!

Tax helpline callers left on hold for nearly eight centuries

Is not being answered a mercy?

...because when either me or my wife call any government agency and actually speak to somebody they actually giove half the information, or no information.

Rarely do they actually say anything other than "I can't advise, it's your responsibility'.

Return to office mandates had senior employees jumping ship

Yeah, we had them in the local pub.... A lager team meeting.

Undersea bit-barn biz offers 90-day trial of submerged server system

Re: Push it a little bit further out to sea...

How many servers do you fit into a dinghy?

First real major customers?

Holy mackerel, their first customer will be Tidal...

Any setup you'll need to use Octopus Deploy, but you're limited to 8 concurrent deployments.

I also expect it to be quite costly, so will need to pay out a few Squid.

Plenty of choice of Shells to use too.

AI Catholic 'priest' defrocked after recommending Gatorade baptism

Re: hellish simulation

Ironically, though they aren't part of the church, they are more likely to follow the faith properly than the church actually does.

Clock is ticking for NASA to fix bucket of issues before next Artemis mission

Self-preservation

Has Artemis got AI?

I'm afraid I can't do that HAL....

CISA in a flap as Chirp smart door locks can be trivially unlocked remotely

3 years?

Obviously not in a thrush to fix it, which begs the question.....

Wren are they going to do it.

Now this is publicly known, there must be plenty of robin going on!

I assume they won't be parroting about how safe your property is now.

75% of enterprise coders will use AI helpers by 2028. We didn't say productively

Re: Let’s hope it improves

Where I've used it is in quickly finding me boilerplate, to give me an idea - not necessarily solution.

For example, Terraform configurations...

caveat: some of them can be found on the TF site, but some couldn't.

How HashiCorp's license shakeup seeded a new open source rebel

Re: The Hyperscalers are forcing this

Microsft Bicep.... it's god awful IMO

UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in

Reduce costs by writing more efficiently....

We're talking about third-party consultancies implementing most of this stuff, through hiring third-party contractors within many cases.

Where GDS is using it's own people to do the writing, they couldn't write efficient meaningful code in the old data-centre days and neither could the third parties either.

Vendor lock-in isn't so much the real issue here, design choices are.

As noted above, to replicate the stuff that is a PITA pre-cloud to the simplification within the cloud I say it'd cost more ultimately.

Microsoft unbundling Teams is to appease regulators, not give customers a better deal

Pick your poison

All of the various chat apps share one thing in common..... they are all s**t.

For what are often professed as productivity apps, they couldn't be farther from the truth.

What they have done is murder productivity, and ironically, communication.

What could be achieved by walking to somebody at their desk, ask and answered inside of a minute, has been replaced by ...

1. Walk to desk

2. Ask question

3. I'm too busy can you Slack/Teams/etc me....

4. Hours of tumbleweed

5. Days of tumbleweed

6. Walk to desk

7. Sorry, I didn't think it was important/I forgot a.k.a I can't be arsed

OWASP server blunder exposes decade of resumes

That's gonna sting :D

I imagine when theywere told this, there was a hive of activity to address it.

Simulation reveals all Japanese will have the same surname by 2531

Is it that esay to spot?

JetBrains keeps mum on 26 'security problems' fixed after Rapid7 spat

Patching an unknown fix?

I'm old enough and long in the tooth to have experienced software explosions where a known fix has blown an install.

What makes you think I want to take an Eastwood - do you feel lucky - punt on a fix.

I need to know what is being fixed, what mitigations can be put in place until the fix - because other dependencies may prevent applying a fix in the short term Nowhere in my working history has an update been authorised without knowing what it fixes.

Farewell .NET 7, support ends in May – we hardly knew you

Do Devs really want to do reguar updates?

In my circle of Devs, the last thing they want is to get in a regular cycle of upgrades....

Taking Open Source as the example, it's hard work keeping pace.

Incidentally, I know ,NET is still used plenty but almost exclusively it's 99% in the Windows ecosystem. I haven't come across anyone using it outside of POC in Linux.

Boeing top brass stand down amid safety turbulence

Re: Whether they will look outside the company

Ryanair will start playing their landing jingle when the number of bolts matches.

These 17,000 unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers are a ticking time bomb

Out of date?

It's probably worse.

You can gaurantee that most of those instances will be running on out of support Win Server instances as well.

Trying out Microsoft's pre-release OS/2 2.0

OS/2 Star Trek Edition

I remember right at the beginning of my career that we had several licensed copies of OS/2 Warp.

Frankly, it was an excellent OS, and made Windows look silly.

I was coding in C++ for that in Supply Chain related businesses, and it was head and shoulders above.

We practically wept when we saw it was Windows taking hold of the market. Very much a Betamax moment when you questioned the sense of companies backing the poorer horse.

Job interview descended into sweary shouting match, candidate got the gig anyway

'arguing' with an interviewer

Not exactly an argument, but 25 years ago now, I was given a 40 question quiz about a language I and they used.

Inevitably, there are many ways to skin a cat, and the chief dev decided to claim that my some answer code was invalid, and that the other way (his) was better.

I proceeded to dismantle the argument there and then.. Considering the CTO was sat in the interview, strangely I wasn't concerned.

I was hired two days later, and the first thing the CTO said on arrival on my first day was 'Thank you for knocking him down a couple of pegs'.

Venturing beyond the default OS on Raspberry Pi 5

DietPi

Does it count as another distribution?

My Pi4 seems happier on it.

JetBrains TeamCity under attack by ransomware thugs after disclosure mess

Failing to apply patches is commonplace

Not specific to TeamCity but It's almost like admins are Jet for Brains

You have to question why you'd expose TC to the internet *without* insisting on a VPN or .similar to get at it.

'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO says after Big Red audit

Inspection Legality

Genuine question.......

In the UK, does the Licensor have a legal right to enter a Licensee premises to check this stuff out?

Boffins propose fiber-optic network for the Moon

Pretty obvious who's cabling it

... Because it's Virgin territory

Ellison-backed med tech startup Project Ronin closes doors

20min to 5min ?

I would assume that wasn't the only selling point of the project to prospective customers.

If it was, I'm not surprised. Medical professionals have enough stuff to do, so waiting 20m is hardly a hardship - is it?

Equally, if that time reduction is the only 'shout from the rooftop' achievement from Oracle, then it sounds like a money-pit.

Web archive user's $14k BigQuery bill shock after running queries on 'free' dataset

..but, but....

cloud is cheap and it's bottomless........

...a bit like your corporate wallet...

Crowning glory of GOV.UK websites updated, sparking frontend upgrades

Be nice if they concentrated on making the websites work properly.

If there was ever a demonstration that good UX designers are worth it, any GOV.UK hosted site demostrates why you should hire them.

Without exception, the current lot is unwieldy, amateur, buggy....

The logo ius a VERY long way down the implementation list - or it should be.

Dell staff not alone in being squeezed to reduce remote work

Re: Saying you'll quit isn't the same as quitting

In fairness to Musk, he appears to have excelled at SpaceX though.

Damn Small Linux returns after a 12-year gap

Re: DSL 2024 is not as svelte as it used to be – but who is?

If only the main person involved was called Jason

Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount

Chatbot vs Human

Amazed they tried to get out of it....

On the other hand, anybody who has called any of the following in the UK with questions.........

Border Agency

HMRC

Benefits

will probably conclude they'd get more accurate and sense out of a chatbot!!

YMMV.

Europe's largest caravan club admits wide array of personal data potentially accessed

Updates due...

.....sometime in the awning.

If they want to attract business going forward, it'll need one hell of a pitch.

Have they pegged the access and damage?

How they address this will determine the Calor of their P&L line

Hopefully a Swift resolution.

Finding the perpetrators will be like trying to find Elddis.

Jet engine dealer to major airlines discloses 'unauthorized activity'

Scary.....

The more often I see these kind of things, and the data been stolen... it gets worse.

....you could see it gives me the Willis

Another airline finds loose bolts in Boeing 737-9 during post-blowout fleet inspections

Bolt count.....

Maybe the engineers read the Aircraft Type & Variant and mistook that for the potential number of bolts required...

Max - 9

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Apparently, Boeing are doing a Safety Torque at the company today...

Re: I hope they also covered

If it was at cruising altitude rather than 16K or so - believe me - somebody would have died.

Re: A gross understatement?

That's the least of Boeings problems, a little bit of plastic.

Previously, they've left tubes of sealant, and a ladder for gods sake....

I'm waiting for someone to find the body of a Boeing Engineer behind the bulkhead!

NIST: If someone's trying to sell you some secure AI, it's snake oil

This entire GPT/Bard/whatever is snake oil

I've been round the block numerous times in my career.

Never have I seen so many intelligent people fall into a new-tech (GPT) trap, making it something it clearly isn't.

It doesn't take much to prove it's mostly show and nowsubstance.

Back in the dim-distanxe, the first thing I was tough in the early 80s was 'Garbage In, Garbage Out'. GPT et al are still proving it exists.

Microsoft prepares Visual Studio 2013 for retirement

Re: So Much 32-Bit Code Still On Windows

To be honest, it probably wasn't the most likely platform to benefit from 64bit that much. In my usage I haven't appeared to gain much benefit at all!

The other thing is that it probably is the buggiest/slowest POS whether it is 32bit or 64bit

Nvidia slowed RTX 4090 GPU by 11 percent, to make it 100 percent legal for export to China

Boeing....

Raises the question at what point did Boeing start putting binned components in the 737MAX ?

They ceratily binned their foibles there.

NASA Juno probe to produce 'firehose of data' during close flyby of Jupiter moon

But...

It's not a dwarf planet

‘I needed antihistamine tablets every time I opened the computers’

Scruffy people about....

Back in the early 2000s, the IT department of which I was part regularly had to replace the keyboard of someone I'll call Terry.

Terry had a devastating habit of eating French stick chicken salad and sweetcorn at his desk. This contributed far too regularly to keys not registering and this was sometimes down to

1. Mayo gumming up the mechanisms

2. Crust getting between keycap and keyboard plate

3. Sweetcorn getting UNDER and inside the keycap.

For some time the keyboards were being replace at 3 month intervals.

Eventually. we stopped doing it. because....

... Terry was spotted in the loo taking a No1 or No2 and exiting WITHOUT washing his hands.

Once you see that, you question every bit of stickiness, and keyboard discolouration. You also give yourself a good scrub down not unlike Chernobyl...

Eventually senior management banned him from having an office supplied keyboard, and also from eating at desk.

Infosys loses ten-year, $1.5 billion contract announced just three months ago

Infosys - cowboys

I've been involved with some Infosys generated stuff.

Not a fan...

With reference to the previous comment about AI, I'd wager you'd get a more cohesive end product just instructing ChatGPT to do it all.