Posts by czechitout

Bored binge-watchers bork beleaguered broadband by blasting bandwidth: Global average speeds down 6.31%

It was me

I think a large part of this was me playing PUBG on Stadia

Brit local authority appoints a systems integrator in leap to Oracle cloud, but support time-bomb is already ticking

Re: "the cost of moving to a different system would be prohibitively high"

Ironically, the cost of moving from Oracle on-prem to Oracle Cloud is largely the same as moving to one of their competitor's cloud offerings. Of course, the Oracle sales team will tell you there are "synergies" between Oracle products, but in my experience this is a myth.

Brit unis hit in Blackbaud hack inform students that their data was nicked, which has gone as well as you might expect

Re: Of course, the storage was actually illegal

Data can be stored outside the EU, as long as it is held in accordance to GDPR.

Psst.. You may want to patch this under-attack data-leaking Cisco bug – and these Ripple20 hijack flaws

Phew

Lucky we've banned Huawei meaning we can rely on the safe and reliable products produced by companies such as Cisco.

Cornwall councillor suggests authority paid £2m for Oracle licences that no one used on contract originally worth £4m

"It was a requirement that the Council was licensed for Oracle Cloud throughout development and implementation phases, and this is standard practice"

This certainly isn't my experience. If you are migrating from Oracle on-prem to cloud they will give you one solution "for free" until the migration is complete - so you are not paying twice.

They actually use this in their sales pitch versus moving to one of their competitors.

Brit MPs vote down bid to delay IR35 reforms, press ahead with new tax rules for private-sector contractors

Re: The big consultancy firms want IR35

No. Not unusual at all. Same as subcontracting out work to other (often more experienced) consultancies and badging them up as their own.

Never knowingly under-digitally transformed: Retailer John Lewis outsources tech function to Wipro

Re: Madness

You got in it your last paragraph, it is short term cost savings. The IT director gets to move to his next role with "Saved John Lewis £20m in annual OP EX" on his CV.

Then it is someone else's problem to sort out the mess left behind.

Re: That will be 244 people looking for a job very soon

In my experience, many of those 244 will leave of their own accord, as who wants a WITCH company on your CV?

In fact, these companies bank on it, as they would rather have someone offshore than an expensive TUPEd resource.

Brit hacker jailed for strapping ransomware to smut site ad networks

"Has all the data scrambled for which ransoms have not been paid been recovered? Has all the money paid as ransom been recovered?"

Is there any evidence data was actually scrambled - or was it just one of those popups which locks the browser window creating momentary panic?