Posts by spireite 741 publicly visible posts • joined 15 May 2015
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
30+ years in development, and I've never had a failure after pulling a 1-nighter the evening before release.....
</sarcasm>
In dev, we've all done it at least once, or we've put in a simple non-destructive tweak overnight - without telling someone - and then paid the price the following day/week.
If we've done it more than once it's because of the following options
1. we're never involved in cleaning up the mess it leaves behind.
2. we're brain-dead and never learn.
3. we like like self-flagellation
4. the day job is usually boring, so let's disrupt the system, for shits and giggles/entertainment/something interesting to do.
... what the issue is with systemd ??
I mean everywhere I've worked has used Centos, or mainly Ubuntu.
I can't say i've noticed any issues from using the systemd stuff?
Is this just a koolaid factor?
I mean, you could say that motorbikes are unnecessary, because a Penny Farthing does the job.
So, the systemd haters who motorbike to work - go to the office on P.F. - put your money where your mouth is....
Linux is full of functionally duplicate apps - it's just the way it is....
The problem with WP is that it's not a traditional sysadmin type who looks after it - that's why it's popular.
My wife has a WP site, but there is NO way that she can be a sysadmin, or do even the slightest sysadmin things.
It updates itself for minor upgrades, but the plugins used - don't - and she doesn't proactively check what updates are available either.
Reason? She's not a techy (though I am), and she fears breaking the website.
... yet, I have friends, colleagues, who still smell the (virtual) money, and refuse to smell the coffee.
Now, I appreciate that as a 50-plusser, my view on money is massively different to the Gen-whatever who are flinging money they think they can afford into crypto-currency.
Even ex-colleagues who did this up to 5 years ago, now say they'd not touch with a bargepole, but granted they gave the bag to the current holders and made real cash out of it.
As someone with a household of 3 workers, inc me, we never had a problem with a 76 connection.
It was still more than good enough.
Now, if the homeworkers are working from their rooms, streaming Netflix (or whatever) on their individual TVs - yeah, it'd be noticeable.
It may be able to carry substantially more payload than a Falcon Heavy, but it's also got to get off the ground as well.
I have less than zero confidence in it ever getting off the ground.
Arguably, the only way it gets off the ground is its current state. Hoisted on a transporter.
I can well imagine that it may never see a real mission, and much like a bad film goes 'straight to video/dvd', there is still a high chance this may go 'straight to museum'.
We know Elon can't admit he's wrong. and he'll get his up (ahem)
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