Posts by james7byrne 17 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jul 2017
I knew when IBM bought RedHat it would not be a good thing. Big companies buy successful ones for the revenue stream. They kill R&D and layoff expensive employees. Customer service be damned. They will suck the revenue for until many customers leave. I remember when Symantec bought Veritas software in the 90s and the same thing happened. Netbackup R&D slowed and customer service went down the tubes.
In the year of our Lord 1432, there arose a grievous quarrel among the brethren over the number of teeth in the mouth of a horse. For thirteen days the disputation raged without ceasing. All the ancient books and chronicles were fetched out, and wonderful and ponderous erudition such as was never before heard of in this region was made manifest. At the beginning of the fourteenth day, a youthful friar of goodly bearing asked his learned superiors for permission to add a word, and straightway, to the wonderment of the disputants, whose deep wisdom he sore vexed, he beseeched them to unbend in a manner coarse and unheard-of and to look in the open mouth of a horse and find answer to their questionings. At this, their dignity being grievously hurt, they waxed exceeding wroth; and, joining in a mighty uproar, they flew upon him and smote him, hip and thigh, and cast him out forthwith. For, said they, surely Satan hath tempted this bold neophyte to declare unholy and unheard-of ways of finding truth, contrary to all the teachings of the fathers. After many days more of grievous strife, the dove of peace sat on the assembly, and they as one man declaring the problem to be an everlasting mystery because of a grievous dearth of historical and theological evidence thereof, so ordered the same writ down.
—Francis Bacon, 1592
Cloud is just like outsourcing 15 years ago. Everybody went all in and found out that 100% outsourcing was not so great.
The cloud migration trend is just another IT fad. People will over do it to the cloud and bring some stuff back on-prem. We will end up in a Hybrid cloud model that make sense for each business.
The NSA just gets data from the the Big Tech giants. No need to slurp up data anymore. Google, Facebook, and Amazon already know everything about you and all the person you know. I find the amount of info Big Tech has to be just as scary as the NSA, yet we all just keep posting on Facebook.
I have stopped buying electronics in general because everything is made in china. If they won't build electronics in the US all I can do is stop buying. My TV is over 10 years old, my iphone 6 is over six years old, my macbook pro is 7 years old, and on and on. I only replace electronics when the die. I now spend my money at local restaurants, golf courses, garden center, and other places that keep money in my local economy. Everyone worldwide should do this. Stop the elites from giving away your jobs to China, keep your local economy strong!
Many services are only available in a particular cloud. For example code written for AWS lambda only works in AWS. You can't take lambda code and run it in Azure. You need to take some care when going to the cloud. If you run an application in AWS make sure you can do the same in Google and Azure. The more generic you make your environment the more portable it is. This is why many companies still use VMs because they can be run anywhere (AWS, Google, Azure, VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM, etc.). If you run a 'serverless' environment, like most cloud providers recommend, you will get locked in.
I've been to several EMC World events in Las Vegas and they were all excellent. The Las Vegas hotels know how to work together on an event. The event was run across several hotels, hosting 15,000 attendees, without a hitch. I found there was a lot to do in Vegas and I don't gamble or go to stupid strip clubs. Las Vegas is more affordable and the airport is close the main strip, it's perfect for a convention.
This algorithm has no impact on my life. I go see my doctor, he comes up with a treatment plan, and we move forward. No algorithm needed.
The two Democrats are just trying to stir the identity politics pot. The fact is, each individual is responsible for their own health care. This is all between you and your doctor.
The other big point is why did she have an email server in the first place? She was supposed to use a secured State Department server. Think about your own job. How would your employer like it if you stop using corp email for business communication and put a linux sendmail server in your basement? You would be told to follow corporate policy or get fired. She had her own email server so she could side step e-discovery by government auditors.
VEEAM uses an API call to quiesce the application running in the VM. If you quiesce an application via local script or VEEAM, the result will be the an inconsistent snapshot. Microsoft will need to fix Windows 2019 so applications can be properly quiesced. It is incorrect to say a third party backup application like VEEAM will fixe the problem, it won't.
I have worked at companies where they think they can save a dime with offshore help. I always just quit when they say "we need to you to train these offshore people". I put my resume out and in a couple of months I have a new job. Have some common sense people, if the ship is sinking be the first one to get out. Don't be an idiot trying to find a job when a ton people get laid off and are looking for work at the same time!
I live in Connecticut and my internet has always been terrible. After 20 years I finally bought a dual WAN router. WAN1 uses wireless to a cell tower and WAN2 uses ADSL. Now if one provider goes down I can continue working on the second WAN connection.
I experienced the same BS Jeffery Nonken experienced. I had a DSL outage for 3 Days with Frontier DSL. Customer service was awful. Everyone goes through their service script and nobody really knows how to troubleshoot anything.
Now my internet is up all the time because I have two providers. I'll pay more for internet to save my sanity.
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