Posts by The Count Is Dead

Zoom records another bumper quarter as pandemic rumbles on, but Wall Street types quiz execs on how long it can last

The reason for that is

The only people who should have access to your video and/or audio conferences are the people who have accounts created by your IT dept. and are logged in with verified credentials. Do you want just any old random Joe Shmoe attending your meetings where private IP is being discussed? Your "well designed client" would allow that. Not very smart.

HPE to move HQ from Silicon Valley to Texas, says Lone Star State is 'attractive' for recruitment, retaining staff

Texans are gonna love this

All these Silly Valley liberal types bringing their politics to Texas. This is gonna end well.

Scotch eggs ascend to the 'substantial meal' pantheon as means to pop to pub for a pint during pernicious pandemic

Re: 11pm and cornflakes

Don't forget the 4 whole fried chickens. Nutritious.

Re: "has only left people scratching their heads"

Don't look now but Cornwall is in the south WEST. Hardly eastern bastards then are they?

Mysterious metal monolith found in 'very remote' part of Utah

Re: Stainless steel, and very new

Did those lizard people go on to form the Republican Party?

Snap decision: 74-year-old Florida man wrests puppy from jaws of alligator

In the whole article

Not one mention he did it all with dropping his cigar. Disgraceful journalism.

IBM Power9 processors beset by Cardiac Osprey data-leaking flaw as Spectre still haunts speculative chips

Is the media ready to admit

That the Spectre and Meltdown type attacks are not solely and Intel problem but that they effect AMD and Power as well? They are fundamental to modern day CPU architecture.

Everybody's going to the Moon (and Mars): The Reg chats to ESA about 10-year plans and sending Tim back to space

Not just one Tim

Lets send all the Tim's back to space where they belong.

South Korea bods open source NVMe storage controller to save academics, non-profits a bundle

I suspect

Companies like Intel are going to be most displeased.

NetApp reorg: Plans to 'scale public cloud', grow storage systems biz as company sheds hundreds of staffers

I'm really surprised

That NetApp is still in business. I interviewed with them in something like 2010 or so. They haven't really been setting the market on fire since then. To bad there's no zombie company icon.

FYI: Chromium's network probing accounts for about half DNS root server traffic, says APNIC

Totally agree

This is really annonying at where I work (some no name really big tech company).

VMware gives its desktop hypervisors the power to spawn local K8s clusters

My problem with VMware

Has been that these days they only offer Workstation on a 1 year subscription basis. Which means you have to buy the same thing again every year. When I buy something I'm going to use it for however long I see fit.

Their 3 device license doesn't change that. KVM is free, learn to use it.

First alligators, then dogs, now Basil Fawlty is trying to standardise social distancing measures

The Basil Fawlty becomes official measurement in the U.S.

In the U.S. state of Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has issued a executive order proclaiming that the Basil Fawlty shall be the officially recognized measure of social distancing. Although we did have to play a few episodes for her before she got with the program.

Lockdown team building: Actualise the potentiality of your workforce... through the power of video games

If you say

"Actualise the potentiality of your workforce" one more time I'm gonna fly over to London and break the pint your drinking over your head.

Forget tabs – the new war is commas versus spaces: Web heads urged by browser devs to embrace modern CSS

You just had to go with...

The Boy George pun didn't you? Now I'm gonna have that song stuck in my head all day.

Damn you to hell!

Google Cloud rolls out of bed, slips on suit, draws up premium support, vows to take it SLO to lure enterprises

Imagine the usage and tracking info they will be able to gather with their "intimate knowledge" of your application stack. Advertisers are gonna love this.

Rust in peace: Memory bugs in C and C++ code cause security issues so Microsoft is considering alternatives once again

If you would just hire

Developers who actually know what they're doing instead of every chip-as-chips H1-B from everywhere-stan then you wouldn't need a language to save your ass.