Posts by spireite

When ERP projects go bad: Surrey County Council's £30m ditch SAP effort delayed again

Basket case

As someone living in Surrey - Runnymede - I can confirm that they can't be trusted to run a sweet shop.

This does not surprise me in the slightest.

Microsoft Teams: A vector for child sexual abuse material with a two-day processing time for complaints

Re: Wow, Teams can actually do something?

If it's a group chat of three, are you technically being double-teamed?

Re: Now everybody in MacD is staring at me

Years ago there was a fellow employee who always had sticking keys that never afflicted anyone else.

Predates Teams though.

Adobe confirms UK looking into its $20b Figma deal, EU probe 'expected'

If it doesn't happen

.. I guess that makes it a figma of it's imagination

Corporate execs: Get back, get back, to the office where you once belonged

Meetings cut

One benefit we all see generally is that tons of meetings were never actually needed, so got cut out in the WFH paradigm.

In my case, that meant I got another third of my working day back to work, not meet.

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried charged with fraud by just about everyone

Re: True fame to be denied him?

Is the 'Give Peas a Chance' still over the M25?

New research aims to analyze how widespread COBOL is

Re: it lives!

SQL is unpleasant? How?

I make a very good living from it, adn it is hardly unpleasant.

Now, JS...... that *is* THE definition of unpleasant.

Where are EU going with that Teams antitrust probe? Microsoft wants a word

Can't help but think Boeing are building a high-altitude lawn dart...

I'm on the fence, because a previous employer used both.

Tech used Slack 99.9%, everyone else Teams...

Slack has its issues with video calls (back then).

To be fair Teams has improved, but it's still a massive sucker of resource,

Theranos' Sunny Balwani gets longer sentence than Elizabeth Holmes

Why not in the clink now?

So, he's to report in March, she in April?

Why aren't they going in immediately after sentencing?

And, if he was considered the main instigator they could do a Medical Jurassic Park....

...if he was the Theranos Rex...

This is the best pay offer you'll get without more strikes, union tells BT workers

Amazes me how many people complain when they get a pay rise that it isn't big enough.

Many don't get a payrise, and then complain... but.... there are other jobs paying more out there that they could do, but can't be arsed to switch, or do a little learning.

I see it quite often in the tech sector...

"Yeah, there is a role perfect for me paying 5/10K more"

"Have you applied?"

"No, I haven't got the time (to rework the CV/for an interview/fill the knowledge holes)"

Well, quit complaining.... you have to be in it to win it.....

Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as 'substantially harmful' for coding issues

ChatGPT MP

They should put an instance or two in the House of Commons, or Lords.....

It's probably equally truthful....

Killing trees with lasers isn’t cool, says Epson. So why are inkjets any better?

Re: I'm a caver

If you're trying to get up a bit of a ledge, then i'm sure you'd appreciate using a laser or inkjet as a step

FTX's crypto villain Sam Bankman-Fried admits 'I made a lot of mistakes'

Re: Smells like teen fraud

All tokens price, include BTC, is bullshit....

By this point.....

Nobody is listening to him, his credibility (which wasn't that high to start with) is below 0.

Nobody cares (unless you drank his Kool-aid), and I would hope that anyone over the age of 35 saw all his companies as ...... 'debatable'.

What nobody should doubt is that he's (should be) looking at a long time in a boutique/bijou room where minimalism is the order of the day.

I'm sure the current cons will suddenly believe in recarnation when they see Screech at their soup kitchen.

Big tech's discarded techies won't sate the job market, says analyst

Re: If they want to solve the shortage of staff...

I had a look at the tech jobs in the NHS.

While I expected them to be slightly below industry standard, nothing prepared me for how far below they actually were. Nobody normal would accept that, unless working for the NHS for 'philanthropy' reasons.

Cloudflare hikes prices by a quarter, blames the accountants

Re: The Great Mismatch

The price does scale... upwards

Vendor lock-in?

Honestly, it could have been worse.

On the plus side, unlike the permanent shackles of M365 where most companies wouldn't allow it to be ripped from their cold dead hands - even if MS tripled the price - you can vote with your feet on this one.

Minus side? Price is up - but in the current environment what hasn't?

And, they are more transparent than most - so we should give kudos for that at least.

Just 22% of techies in UK aged 50 or older, says Chartered Institute for IT

Re: hmmmm

Said manager left the company two weeks later. HR didn't take kindly to his overreaction, and the fact I threatened to quit the following day no doubt contributed. Know your value........

Re: hmmmm

What about the non-Pi like the OrangePI stuff? They the same on lead-time?

Re: hmmmm

In this respect, you're not wrong....

As a 50+ oldie, who has done the Full Monty... as listed previously...

I've found that my experience is both liked and disliked.

Maybe it's because I stand up in a meeting and say - that's a bollocks idea (because they always are)? Some management like the fact someone has the balls to do that and be questioned. That said, in my early 40s I did that and the manager didn't want to be questioned at all and there was a massive bustup.

Yet some (not all) management seem to think that because the nappy-rasher can do JS, React, Rust etc which is the 'in/upcoming thing', they are better placed to judge anything and everything architectural - even in tech they don't know (which I do know)

It is just plain weird and dumb.

BT performs U-turn, agrees to up wages for 85% of UK staff

Need eyesight checking

I read the headline and thought....

"They've done well to get an 85% payrise!"

Singapore branches out onto internet of trees

If there is a system failure.....

...they'll be looking fir someone to blame.

In that case it'll need to be a root and branch review.

If they can't find anyone, I guess they'll just shrub their shoulders.

Block Fi seeks bankruptcy protection as 'shocking' FTX contagion spreads

Pack of cards....

Nothing would make me happier than see this house of fake currency collapse....

Guess the most common password. Hint: We just told you

Don't need a difficult password when I have activated......

...MFA on my phone.

That was a serious answer I had once when I asked a simpleton, sorry - colleague - why they had a really easy to guess password.....

Massive energy storage system goes online in UK

Staff car fleet....

... I expect they'll have a Road Assist package with the AA.

SQL Server license prices rise ten percent as version 2022 debuts

Re: Entice

Isn't Postgres more 'natively' better for handling JSON data types? (as an aside)

Re: Word soup

DBeaver any use??

FTX collapse prompts other cryptocurrency firms to suspend withdrawals

Re: Crypto still has supporters? Why?

I'm not even sure you'd call Bitcoin and Litecoin that honest

Crypto still has supporters? Why?

On LinkedIn, there are still plenty who support cryptocurrency as being worthy.

When the second biggest exchange(??) collapses in a heap, you'd expect people to run for the hills.........

The fact they haven't tells me these people are in a position where they can longer get out because they are already holding an ever-emptying bag where they cannot find a greater fool. That's because the greater fools had an epiphany and have already climbed the hill to safety.

Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move

Re: "I can confidently say this man has no idea wtf he's talking about."

Musk probably has a Cessna Citation....

As a result, he's probably declaring himself to be a former airline pilot who knows how to fly Concorde, all X-series from Boeing, an A380....

He'll also claim that all aircraft have REST APIs, that he control the flight via Postman or Insomnia

Tesla recalls 40k cars over patch that broke power steering

When it fails

does the vehicle notify the driver with a tweet..

Enquiring minds need to know

Catching a falling rocket with a helicopter more complex than it sounds, says Rocket Lab

Re: Landing speed

"I'm a mechanic, not a rocket scientist"

Re: catching it is another matter

There's an idea - catch it with a hover craft...

Microsoft feels the need, the need for speed in Teams

Where is the true full screen?

To be honest, speed has never struck me as a problem.

What does hack me off is the lack of a true full screen on viewing somebodies screen share....

Boeing's Starliner launch pushed back again... to April 2023

As previous article....

I said it'd never go, and i'm being proved right...

Come April '23, it'll be moved on the launch tractors again...... to the Smithsonian or similar...

Latest layoffs: Lyft, Stripe more than decimate staff

Re: The non-recession recession

He pissed away that money as soon as the contract was signed.

NASA wheels SLS rocket out to the launchpad for another attempt to get off the ground

Paper rocket

I remain convinced the launchpad is the furthest it'll get

The world was promised 'cloud magic'. So much for that fairy tale

The hidden costs of the cloud.....

I've been using Azure and AWS in equal measure, and it's astonishing how quickly you rack the costs up.

You have to be watching it every day.

Just the other week, I wanted Azure SQL to push executed query history into Log Analytics....

It's a logging system for goodness sake....

I was staring down the barrel of 1000 of your finest Sterling PER DAY, but only after someone questioned the extra 6000 that appeared in the Cost Analysis screen.

That it was spotted was purely accidental, because they went to the Costs for something else and spotted the 'anomaly'

Callling it an OpEx vs CapEx ?

No! Call it for what it is, a sinkhole of cash - however you account it.

Version 252 of systemd, as expected, locks down the Linux boot process

Systemd or not....

It doesn't really matter... seriously...

Life is too short.......

Crowds not allowed to leave Shanghai Disneyland without a negative COVID test

Heating

If they are kept in, hope it's warm otherwise they'll be Frozen

If you think 5G is overhyped, wait till you meet 5.5G

A problem...

... looking for a solution.

For most people,even the upper speed of 4G LTE is overkill.

Calamity capsule: Boeing's Starliner losses approaching $1B

What they are building........

... surely is a higher altitude lawn dart.

These days, even Jeffs Blue Origin is held in greater esteem??

Db2 goes 'cloud-first' as IBM struggles to lift database dinosaur

Late mover...

Honestly, I thought it was a dinosaur - spoken in the same way as Informix... as another IBM product.

Surely, by now, they've not just missed the boat - the harbour has since been destroyed by coastal erosion - and this is another death throe of a venerable platform.

Party like it's 2014, if you can – that's the last time smartphone sales were this low

Let's be honest here.....

Is there anything innovative left to introduce to mobiles? We have the foldables as the last big innovation introduced, and I've hardly seen any on the street.

Next up will be the rollable.....

Both are niche, likely to be seen with w/b/ankers and nerds, but no use to the public otherwise.

If it wasn't for the forced obsoleting by gluing in batteries, the sales would be signficantly less again. My early Samsung S pre-glue had several batteries in its life, because it still had all it's functionality.

AWS warns of demand slowdown as customers seek to cut spend

Cloud is costly?? You don't say....

Cloud has its benefits, but my god.... your available cash goes down faster than a tarts knickers....

I do most of my work in it, and what I seem to find is the simplest of things seems to be the costliest.

What astounds me still, is the lift-and- shift mentality by default still prevails.

Companies still don't realise, or refuse to, that you need to do your systems differently to reduce cost OOTB when deployed in cloud.

I've seen systems that when self-hosted in a DC have excessive logging switched on 'just in case we need it'. That's fine, put it in a cloud environment, and you'll see costs rocket.

Azure Log Analytics, cheap on the face of. Activate logging into it on a very chatty system, and you could see literally 1000s of pounds of spend magically appear.

Python team wraps version 3.11.0

Re: 3.11!

Workgroups suggests a collection of pythons....

So, really, the version is 3.den

IBM withholds healthcare subsidies from some retirees

The most untrustworthy company.... and that's saying something

Boffins shatter data transmission speed record

Re: More like a modem...

Which is Live, Neutral and Ground?

Too bad, contractors: UK government reverses decision to axe IR35 tax reform

Re: The very definition of an omnishambles.

I think you're giving Diane Abbott too much credit there.

Thank god - Diane Abbott will be not be anywhere close to running the economy.

Wouldn't trust her to run a piggy bank.

Oil company Castrol slips and slides into immersion cooling

Bitcoin mining.....

I have an Nvidia GTX that needs cooling