Posts by man_iii 34 posts • joined 7 May 2019
Everyday I see these "hacks" being perpetrated by using Windoze systems. Why????? Linux is still free as in beer. Just build your servers and contract custom tools you might need based on OSS.We have seen enough that security through obscurity doesn't really work anymore.
Now that IBM decided to spin off NewCo... why are they still deciding layoffs? Aren't their sole focus on Hybrid cloud business and nothing to do with client services of GTS??
I wonder if Itsy Bitsy Morons pointyheads will at the last minute cancel the whole NewCo shenanigans and claim it was their plan all along to evaluate the spinoff and not really go through with it.
I am sure just as Software requirements drives hardware development and vice versa as hardware limitations "inspire" software features. ... I would have hoped that at least engineers would keep that in mind and design systems with robustness and consistency.
Speculative execution and branch prediction for common or repeateable code seems normal until you realise root level commands and userid pwds are also "predictable" :-P
If you depend on Microsoft then you probably deserve to get hacked. I remember when colleges used to run Sun Solaris servers and dos mounted Unix samba volumes per Dept software or used NFS all located on UNIX servers I dunno how long those things were running for. .. until when I left they tore it out and instead installed Microsoft AD and outlook. ... cue infinite crashes and instability and networks going wonky students mail lost. ..
STOP USING M$ for CRITICAL STUFF!!
It doesn't excuse Microsoft for having a driver certified with problems where you certify the driver that can't handle the HAL ? Logitech as a company has its own problems ... I won't go into it ...
If you introduce bogus drivers in Linux you will get shouted at by someone ... for example the whole Nvidia and Linus spat.
No excuses from a Multi-Billion dollar company vs Free as in Beer opensource software.
As we speak I have moved off the WindBlows MicroShoft 10 latest to Fedora32 Everything latest :-D
Recently had to install Logitech mouse drivers for an ancient MX1000 which to this day is still running. On a Linux system the Bluetooth mouse would 'Just Work' Alas the hardware failures during the 'Rona Times means no replaceable parts for the time present. Cue the MicroBloat WindLows 10 whereupon this famous mighty mouse falls on its own driver sword. Logi SetPoint 16.69 drivers fail to reconnect after suspend or sleep forcing the WUser to manually do the device removal and rediscover and pair the bloody thing only to disco repeat the same thing whenever Wind10 decides to sleep....
Uninstall and reboot and do it with the 'generic' HiD mouse driver and no issues ... just the Logitech special sauce like remap the various. 10 mouse buttons is un possible now.
:smh:
Are the SpaceX engineers confident enough about say 10 launches to the ISS per year or is it just for this one launch ? I find that a regular cadence on projects tend to sharpen or weaken the minds depending on the company culture. A lot of the stuff that happens is mostly robotic or autonomous to the point that we can trust the computer and its redundancies to take care of eventualities most humans won't even come close to reacting to things.
Once upon a time AMD had plans to launch an APU that had an ARM core inside. Just like how they started to include the North bridge and south bridge chipsets in the CPU dies and now with GPUs inside.
Soon I hope to find an AMD AP-AP-APU with a RISCV or ARM big.LITTLE 4-core8-core , dual GPGPUs, a 6800x or a Starcore or TI DSP, the regular CPUs x86_64 and maybe x86_128? even OpenPower ?, 64GB DDR7 RAM. All of it stuffed into a 1nm die process ;-) lolololol :-D
Hmmm seems strange not to plan for outages at a location some ways inland and nestled between gentle rolling hills with no access to undersea cables or proper high speed high density satellite uplinks.
At least Mumbai or other Port cities seem to be a better option as you can flood your data center in the sea for some passive water cooling and access to that trunked underwater cables of notoriety.
When managing co-located facilities you might want to ensure that there is sufficient separation of network data and app layers not to allow any cache sharing. It might cost extra to have multiple instances for multiple customers but at least you did the sane thing of keeping the actual data not just logically separate but somewhat isolated at least. It is like using 127.0.0.1 for all customers and wondering why everyones data is exposed...
When a Senator abstains to vote, I think it may have to do with his/her stand on the issue. By supporting or opposing a law that is essentially illegal but modified with conditions won't stop the making of everything wrong into a legal justification.
So something like disaster relief or emergency funding with tacked on riders siphoning funds means you may not get the ability to fight this kind of corruption. Better not to participate and get your own type of bill pushed into place rather than get dragged into the mud.
Tulsi gabbard failed her duty and job as a Senator when she voted 'present' because the job is to vote up or down and not "I don't know" while Bernie or anyone abstaining to vote an essentially unconstitutional law do not fail to do their job by not supporting 'conditions' for it.
Impeachment Yes/No was a job requirement and in the constitution. Passing surveillance laws is not.
isn't the issue of OS updates more to do with the system packages vs app packages breaking compatibility and not really a boot issue?
I wouldn't say cloning and rolling back images are as helpful when you need to isolate the offending package or library update that broke it ...
Elop was only the symptom of the PHB NIMBY disease infecting the top and manglement levels of Nokia with Symbian fighting Maemo and Meego. should have launched N900 in 2006 PROPERLY specced hardware instead of making so many blunders and refusing to launch a "phablet" back before the iPhone or Samsung ...
N900 Or N950 with an Ottercase was night indestructible with a beautiful sliding keyboard.
Wish mine don't end up in a ditch somewhere on a torrential rainy day :-P else I would still be rocking the snap cover to take fotos one handed and installing debian packages and doing all fun stuff... Compared to the bloated crap everyone calls a POS "os".... Even SailfishOS/Jolla can come close to whatt was the Nokia's last hurrah :-|
Most definitely not using Boeing and their TOY delivery failure in future. MCAS and this "software" Timer based goto loops... Is this how engineers design rockets and spacey things?? I can understand the need for simplicity but a lack of feedback synchronization seems so strange...
All this nonsense about running entire business on cloud with no backups should worry more IT folks given how frequently cloud platforms tend to fail.
Even multiple cloud providers can experience near simultaneous regional outages and having things in a S3 bucket and github project doesn't cut it as being "backed up".... it is how data exposure and breaches happen....
Sounds like the olden days grey and white bearded druids were right about managing your own IT inhouse if your business depends on it!
Apple tends to be a corporate entity with profits its sole motivator. Tech moves forward through the wetware of human beans. This is why open source GPL freeware is important.... what was once a hobby tinker doodad gets shared via the human touch for the better or worse lessons learnt along the way.
Saw some air safety analyst mentioning 737 and 737MaX were airworthy planes... For a given value which differs significantly for both aircraft. Hence the need for recertification of pilots and planes.
I always wondered is it air worthy when cruising, climbing, descending, landing, takeoff, rolling left or right, ..... What percentages of air worthiness is acceptable for commercial and passenger aircraft?
Is the 737MaX 80% guaranteed to kill u landing and taking off???? No one and especially not the analyst seemed to answer that, to me, obvious question.
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