Posts by leadyrob

30-year-old NHS supply chain system hit by 35 major alerts in 11 months

Re: What is Rhesus?

Looking at the linked Business Continuity Plan, it's almost certainly an old VMS system.

The mention of shadow-sets and paths such as dsa3603:[major_incident]major_incident.txt give it away.

Shackleton's Endurance sets sail for polar peril in Lego

They're moving to more recyclable packaging. A Christmas present had a leaflet about the change from plastic to paper-based packaging.

LEGO.com/sustainable-packaging

Atos denies Space Bears' ransomware claims – with a 'but'

Buy, buy!

There's "struggling" and there's "Atos struggling"...

Their share price is currently sitting at zero.

Quite glad I never took up the Share Options!

Red Hat's open source rot took root when IBM walked in

Re: Right cause, wrong target

I've been wondering for a while if Oracle was the target here, but I'm not convinced.

Oracle are a Red Hat Certified Cloud Service Provider, which was only announced in January '23.

https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/red-hat-enterprise-linux-supported-oci

https://catalog.redhat.com/cloud/detail/216977

If Red Hat/IBM had concerns about Oracle I can't see they'd agree to them signing up to be a CCSP.

UK government tool to monitor its legacy application estate is… LATE

Late?

I'm struggling to understand how such a tool could be late?

Surely it's just a case of:

1) Start Excel

2) Create new Blank workbook

Consultants' eyes light up as UK.gov dangles £4bn over 6 years for 'large-scale digital transformation programmes'

Digital transformation

Digital transformation - Does that mean the UK Government will finally stop using any Digital Equipment Corporation systems?

I somehow doubt it...

Highways England seeks vendor to replace Windows 2003-based pavement management systems

pavement == road

For anyone confused by the Reg's associated image, the pavement system being discussed here is for managing the road surface, not the bit that pedestrians walk on.

OVH founder says UPS fixed up day before blaze is early suspect as source of data centre destruction

Re: UPS Engineer

There's an implication that the UPS wasn't adequately isolated from the server racks.

UPSs fail and often quite spectacularly - I've been in the nervous position of having to flick the bypass breakers on one, when there was still smoke coming from the inverter capacitors.

The big failure here seems to be a design that allowed a failed component to have such a negative effect on the rest of the data centre.

Yes, a UPS engineer may take some of the blame, but most of it should go on the shoulders of the DC designers.

Atos handed £1.5bn to run IT for UK government-founded pension trust Nest

Re: What the actual????

It'll more than likely be Atos IT Services UK Limited who'll be delivering this, with little involvement from the French parent company.

Pizza and beer night out the window, hours trying to sort issue, then a fresh pair of eyes says 'See, the problem is...'

Re: Proof reader

The best proof reader I've ever worked with, was completely blind.

When you rely on screen readers and braille displays you will quickly identify all of the typos and errors.

123-Reg is at it again: Registrar charges chap for domains he didn’t order – and didn't want

123-Reg customer records are just broken

I think it's fair to say that 123-Reg's customer records are just broken.

Back in September 2017, after they increased their prices massively, I shifted all my services over to Mythic Beasts and cancelled my 123-Reg account.

Cue September 2019 and I get warning emails from 123-Reg claiming the services that they no longer host are at risk, and I need to pay them £150 to renew.

Unsurprisingly, no response to any correspondence with 123-Reg.

It's a good job my credit card had expired in those two years !

Wipro wasn't a one-off: Same hacking crew targeted scores of firms, big and small – researchers

Hmm... Expedia

> Targeted companies included <snip> Expedia ...

I wonder if that explains my credit card being cloned having used ebookers earlier in the year ?

Halleluja! The Second Coming of Windows Subsystem For Linux blesses Insider faithful

How Big ?!

> The VM issue also rears its head with the file system which is now a VHD using the ext4 file system and configured with an initial size of 256GB.

Now I know Windows systems can get bloated but that's a tad large !

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-ux-changes

Ah - should say initial *max* size ...

Heathrow Airport drops £50m on CT scanners to help smooth passage through security checks

Already at Schiphol...

Assuming it's the same tech, they've already got them at Schiphol.

Quite annoying as you're approaching the security line, thinking I've got to down this bottle of pop before being let through, only to be told you don't have to do that anymore !

<burp>

How to (slowly) steal secrets over the network from chip security holes: NetSpectre summoned

[In]Spectre Gadget

Was Dr Claw a co-author of the paper ?