* Posts by Vern not Winston Smith

6 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Apr 2016

Microsoft exec warns of business functions being sacrificed on the altar of AI

Vern not Winston Smith
Trollface

Behind the curtain

Several AI "implementations" I have seen are large scale automation exercises hiding under the guise of AI. Much of the block and tackle automation work is not very sexy or exciting and therefor does not get funded.

I would say 90% of the using people in our company are using to create presos for execs or "leaders".

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

Vern not Winston Smith

Shoulder Surfing is only 10 years old.....

In the dark ages of the internet (late 1990s), I would fly from San Jose to Boston. A couple times during the flight I would stroll down the aisle of the plane to see what people were working on; layoffs, firings, preso for products under NDA, earning reports etc. I guess what is old is new...except for me.

WTF is 'deployment phasing'? One reason Cisco revenue just went backwards, is what

Vern not Winston Smith
Facepalm

Color me suprised

During early covid when Cisco's inventory was borked, we held up a number of network projects. Near the end of covid and up to now we have shrunk or closed offices. The few offices we had to upgrade, due lease terms etc, etc, we dropped in wireless gear and very few switches. All of the medium size offices, we no longer have network cabling to each desk. Outside of engineers, most people enjoy the mobility of not having to plug stuff in. This of course happens when they occasionally show up in the office now. I am amazed that cisco did not see this trend. Covid accelerated the trend that was already present. Starting in 2017, the office builds I did for a very large SaaS company, we had to justify pulling cable to each station. At $200/cable drop, you can see where this is going.

It's time for IT teams, vendors to prioritize efficiency; here's where they should start

Vern not Winston Smith
Coat

Where have I heard this before?

I never thought I was that old, but I do remember the vmware sales pitches about vm allowing us to move/migrate apps onto a system and run the cpu at a higher rate. I remember something about containers doing something similar. At the end of day, most system, even today in the big clouds still are spend most of their time at idle. I seldom hear anybody talk about job scheduling, unless it is an old mainframe. I only hear the app needs to be up 100% of the time. I don't really think most IT leaders really understand what it takes to build an app stack that is on-demand, leveraging lamba functions or whatever microservice your trusty cloud provider serves up. At a primitive, I don't really care (Yes, I failed sensitivity training). I have a job building and servicing data centers, so I should employeed for another few years. When you start the conversation at the building / cpu level, you are going to get building cpu answers. The answer TReko, should be the starting point for the conversation.

Miffed Googlers meme on CEO's $226M pay award amid cost-cutting campaign

Vern not Winston Smith
Pint

Permanent?

I have always joked, if you are permanent you are really a temp with an unknown end date. There will be a day when your contract ends. When I was a consultant, I always knew my end date.

Line by line, how the US anti-encryption bill will kill our privacy, security

Vern not Winston Smith
Big Brother

Re: You do not need to

Feinstein, while a democrat has always sided with law enforcement since her time as Mayor of San Francisco. The article notes this is not her first bill she has "written" to support of the NSA and FBI. I am speculating here, it won't be her last.

FYI: The senator has been in her current office going on 24+ years. Nobody has the money to take her seat. The last election, she didn't even campaign.