Posts by Secondrule

Government buyers take 22 months on average to procure tech

Re: So what are the causes of these significant delays?

.. and their lawyers are better paid and more motivated than public sector ones ..

IBM ordered to pay $1.6b to BMC

IBM vs the world

Dodgy business practices + IBM = The Norm.

Shady as all shit.

IBM looked to reinvigorate its 'dated maternal workforce'

Re: IBM suck balls

There are a lot .. but very few of them work for IBM. Come in, learn something, get a qualification, FRO to another tech company that pays more money, wash, rinse, repeat ... end up as CEO of IBM

HMRC: Contractors, don't worry about IR35 reforms in private sector 'cos it all went so well in public sector

The whole idea is to prevent tax avoidance - which is legal. (Tax evasion isnt)

Make life so bloody uncomfortable for the contractor that they come over to being permie.

Then it is an easier managed situation.

Im permie and will never contract in this country again, but when I watched 3 of the most highly technical people walk out of the HMG door due to being "inside" I realised it was the death knell for contracting.

HMRC dont need to get it right(if you are old and cynical like me) they just need to make it high profile enough that contractors will leave and come into PAYE for companies

UK government opens consultation on medic-style register for Brit infosec pros

And lets not forget the NMC

The Nursing Medical Council.

Exorbitant yearly fees just to wipe arses and put hands into chests to keep fat, old blokes who smoke too much, drink too much and dodge salads, alive for another year until their fatberg heart gets replaced.

In the long list of ideas, this is as ridiculous as the Betamax!!

Red Cross forced to shutter family reunion service following cyberattack and data leak

Postpone

Nothing to see here, says IBM, Redbooks are still a thing. Move along please

Never explain, never complain.

IBM insiders say CEO Arvind Krishna downplayed impact of email troubles, asked for a week to sort things out

Presumably the emails that are being sent to shareholders and clients, are to apologise for shoddy service, high costs and poor delivery, since 2012, after 24 consecutive quarters of revenue decline

UK arm of international charity the Salvation Army hit by ransomware attack

Another organisation not interested in the cyber security insurance policy of properly protecting that which is important to them.

ZZZZZzzzz

Sympathy? Between shit and syphilis in the OED, if anyone cares.

IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say

Re: Bean counters?

More like the Betamax of video delivery systems

It was the best keyboard ever!!

New IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says hybrid cloud will be bigger than mainframes, services, middleware

... and let’s talk about the new redundancy drive

How does this idiot propose to do more than the last one, with the wholesale redundancies that are planned?

Non-customer facing, non-revenue generating?

Job for life? I’d rather shove my dick in a grinder

Gov flings £10m to help businesses get Brexit-ready with, um... information packs

They need to send it to their own govt departments.

Riotously unorganised and a lack of fwd planning will cause carnage.

Get rid of the clown

Western Digital has cloudified the NAS and shoved it in a trendy box

Complete garbage

I have had this device 24 hours and I already want to throw it down the stairs. I have had a WD MyCloud NAS for two years and it was brilliant. A little buggy, but Im a geek with advanced Linux skills and hacked it to make it do what a NAS is supposed to do. But this is neither an upgrade or an enhancement. It is poorly coded, the interface is non-communicative and the documentation is unintelligible. You have to use the web app or the smart phone app. There is no official tablet support. You cannot SSH into this device to put stuff on it, you have to use the apps, which keep dropping out. There is no bulk delete on the portal .. so god help you if you took 4000 photos on your holiday and the majority were all garbage. I currently stream the videos from my WD My Cloud directly to the TV, using a WD device. That's why I decided to "upgrade" to the new My Cloud Home device. I was shocked/disappointed to find the dumbed down product does not support DLNA and as mentioned previously read/write seems slower than the My Cloud. So I installed PLEX to stream to my smart TV using the LG Plex app. However, streaming is terrible. I am really not sure why PLEX is the go-to solution for WD and it is surprising how un-useful it is considering it's all they specialise in and they've been around for so long. This is entirely my fault as I should have researched. I guess I have an 8TB back up store, not a fully functional NAS, as I wanted. AVOID.

IBM slices heavy axe through staff in the US

Re: redundancy in the UK

We can & we do. By law.

Rumor: IBM gobbles Bruce Schneier, Resilient for $100m

Security is the market

It's the market to be in. You pay as much for security as the value of the data you could lose