Posts by DevOpsTimothyC 403 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Apr 2020
From what I've seen the response to this is both yes and no, or to be to be more exact "It's us not them".
Most places in the west are boycotting / sanctioning, and preventing the "unwanted" countries from contributing. I think anyone who has run a software project will agree the hard part is getting engagement, contributions and feedback. Any minor hurdle and most people won't simply "give back" so it's relatively easy to prevent people from contributing.
From what I remember The accounting was bad. The money never went "missing" (as in not in the correct accounts), it just wasn't correctly accounted. Money would come in and the "spare" money would go into an "overages" account and if it wasn't claimed or correctly accounted for within 3-6 months (I cannot remember which) it would be accounted as "profit" as in a donation.
Why the "extra" money didn't ring even more serious alarm bells just goes to show the mentality of senior management.
Many of these contracts have invoicing happening 3-6 months after work has happened with a further 3 month payment terms. How many suppliers can afford to be paid in time frames of 6-9 months, while still paying their staff in that time?
Then we've got the proposal phase which can be another 3-12 months before even starting work
It would help if we were all talking about the same thing rather terms being usurped and used for wildly different things.
Speak to the person in the street about 5G mobile phone networks and the response will probably be something about new handsets operating on different frequencies with more bandwidth. They might even throw in tidbits about cell sizes getting smaller in urban areas to increase capacity.
Speak to engineers or CEO's of mobile phone networks and you'll probably be told about how a 5G network is containerised and all the other elements that are changing in the core.
Then you look at the marketing and see things like "Fully 5G network". Which conveniently doesn't explain what the term means... It's both at once.
Even this article doesn't make it clear in some paragraphs referencing the network core and some referencing the handsets and bandwidth.
So back to the point... How about using different terms for the edge (frequencies, handsets etc, and the core systems);so people can follow what parts are meant and in scope.
In terms of the N1 going to NASA. I'm not sure if it was from the N1, but about 120 RD-180 engines (made by Russia) were used in the Atlas rockets.
The reason there are no more Atlas-V rockets is because the USSR only made so many RD-180's for it's space program before it fell apart in the 90's, radically downsized Roscosmos and started selling them off.
There's atleast one video supposedly from Puerto Rico showing parts of Starship burning up.
The whole flight was suppose to be sub-orbital starting at Texas, over the Caribbean, down the north coast of South America, over the South Atlantic, over the north of South America. I cannot remember exactly where from there, or where it was suppose to re-enter the atmosphere, but it was supposed to end up just north of Hawaii. Possibly with belly flop and propulsive landing (above the sea) before dropping in.
Oh please no.
My 2 major gripes with redis is that it ignores many of the memory settings (At the global level) in terms of pool sizes. I've had redis crash more times than I care to count because set a max memory side without how objects should expire. Including a case where they used persistent stores which caused a reboot loop where it would attempt to restore a dB that was too big to fit into RAM and be OOM killed over and over.
The other is where clients handle shared. The whole cluster mode on/off
That's before we even start getting into is this a cache / temporary store to speedup the application, or is it a permanent data store that is critical for the app to be able to start and run.
Honestly is anyone surprised by any of this?
Remember that little thing called the Y2K bug that was only fixed because companies had no choice?
The two things that come to mind.
1) There is no such thing as a temporary fix, only a permanent fix that's replaced by another permanent fix.
2) Proof of concepts are final solutions until they need to be expanded with more features.
The point the strikes me is that Meta must be making more than the fines.
If the fines are not large enough to prevent a company from breaking a law then the law makers need to make a change to protect their citizens. The most obvious that come to my mind are larger fines, jail time of senior staff, or both.
I wonder if Meta would have the gall to create a role "Legal scapegoat"
You don't need to read the value of forms to get some really useful meta info.
Different pages manage different parts of your tax return. Adding additional sections or pages to stocks and shares portion, property, or employer give lots of useful info without ever saying what people earn. Not to mention how long they spend on each of those pages.
I was looking at the whole Amazon / Elastic thing and it seems to me that there are essentially four types of open source
a) Hobbyist: project where a person maintains a project for the 'love' of it
b) Opened source / corporate donation: These sorts of projects are where the source code was closed (private corporate repo) typically internal tools, 20% time type project or similar, often where a key developer wants to keep using the tool (legally) when they leave a company, so they convince senior management to make it open source. Some cases corporate abandon ware, Often being maintained in a similar way as (a) above
c) Corporate loss leader: Kubernetes would be a great example of this. the open software promotes a different part of the business, in this case GCP and by allowing others to use it there isn't competing standards, eg AWS's ECS before K8s came along. Yes I know about docker swarm, but that was a commercial product
d) Freemium : Both Hashicorp and Elastic fell into this model where a very functional product was available open and free, but there is a corporate behind the product(s) and there are premium features that require payment.
From what I remember of Elastic's licencing model change it was basically "We're not getting enough on the premium / managed service, and AWS is riding on our coat tails taking alot of this business without any financial compensation coming our way" Granted that there was no obligation for AWS to give Elastic anything, but elastic still has to survive. So when the licence changed AWS forked the last version.
It seems that a similar thing is happening with Hashicorp, specifically if you look at Terraform. There are paid alternatives to Terraform Cloud.
Sadly most people and companies don't choose to give away money if they don't need to. Yes there are some exceptions such as the Core Infrastructure Initiative, but that's still primarily a few key donors. Perhaps some of the open source projects should have non-mandatory suggested licencing costs to bring social pressure on some companies to pay a fair amount for open source projects.
One of the core questions here that springs to my mind is related to
an FBI specialist broke the rules by running "a query using the Social Security number of a state judge
Why is the FBI specialist involved not facing a lengthy stay in a federal penitentiary ? If the specialist has a written trail of being instructed to run that search then he or she should have a cell mate. While the consequences of breaking this sort of law are a simple slap on the write then these sorts of issues are just going to keep happening.
Not knowing much about social security numbers I expect them to be a quite easy regex to match against and so anyone searching by one should be facing criminal charges
The "Problem" with Power (specifically electricity) prices in the UK is that they are function of the price of Gas. If the government broke that link then electricity prices could (and probably would) go down while gas prices would go up.
I've written to my MP a couple of times suggesting that
a) They propose a private members bill to break that link
b) They propose a private members bill that states that 60% (or more) of oil / gas / coal (I know we don't dig up coal any more but lets cover all bases) must be sold to the UK energy market (not for resale to other countries). My thought is that by creating a UK energy market the costs cannot be any higher than the global energy (Oil/Gas) market.
My MP has stated that while she will propose them to the energy select committee next time they review this, that she is a "Local MP and not interested in Westminster Politics" :(
The core point how ever is in the UK you can film where ever and unless the person is regularly selling pictures of themselves (has established that their likeness has worth) then it's all fine.....
That being said taking pictures of random people and then re-creating those likenesses in a completely different setting (as far as I know) hasn't had a legal precedent set. I would hope that if that came about the various studio's would lose the case.
I'm a scuba diver' all of my kit has removable / replaceable batteries. Granted I'm not taking a mobile phone with me under water, but my club has both a hand held gps and marine radio with batteries I can swap (while at sea).errproof
Don't buy the marketing hype that it must be sealed. Sealing it makes it harder to repair, not waterproof
The rats seem to be
a) HP's accounts advised it's board that something was up and they were over paying, but the board ignored their advice
b) It was a UK company purchased in the UK, it's just that the purchasing company (HP) is based in the US and for the facts of this case the USA laws are more likely to conclude that what happened in the UK should benefit a US company
From some presentations I've seen from major Telco's:
<p>A Fully 4G Network has visualised kit at it's core (and edge) to better allow selling capacity to virtual providers eg Tesco Mobile, GiffGaff etc. and to provide dedicated networks eg to the police.</p>
<p>A Fully 5G Network makes use of containers microservices & K8s to bring further efficiencies scaling up and down capacity as needed even to the extent of powering off capacity when there are very few people around eg cell sites servicing a football stadium.</p>
The different frequency bands aren't exclusively the 'G' the the man on the street typically associates to 3G, 4G, 5G
So how would it work if by UK law the sales (of games, subscriptions etc) happen in the UK and due to this decision Microsoft UK (and probably by extension any company wholly owned by Microsoft) is not allowed to make that sale? Taking a step further the game cannot be hosted in Azure?
You might call my above scenario a little far fetched but assuming Microsoft give CMA the middle finger. Then all any software house needs to do is reference this ruling in a legal dispute and that's probably going to be the conditions of selling the next Microsoft AAA game title in the UK
Why is everyone jumping to a full anti-trust investigation when this can be easily dealt with by a small fine of 25% of the licencing costs charged by Microsoft to clients with any EU presence while teams was bundled with Office.
After all Microsoft have repeatedly shown they consider this sort of bundling a cost of doing business so why not put it into cost of terms that would make doing that sort of business too costly.
It would be even better if the EU enacted laws that ratcheted fines for repeat offenders
If they were selling a driving as a service with a clear the car does not belong to you and will remain the property of Tesla then they might have been able to get away with it.
The problem is that they are selling their cars rather than only leasing their cars and so the first sale doctrine applies as well as all other laws and concepts that apply to cars. The automotive industry (in america) have already gone through the whole OEM servicing and parts vs generic servicing and parts lawsuits and the oem parts lost that one.
a boys' club would imply that the DCO's are quite selective with their hiring processes, however the following would imply the opposite.
And when datacenters can find staff, they're having an equally hard time keeping them. According to Uptime, 42 percent of datacenter operators said they were having trouble retaining staff, in part because they're being poached by competitors.
Still I do wonder what the other part of not retaining staff is. Could it be the noisy working conditions and heavy lifting? Could the poached by competitors imply that wages aren't all that good compared to that of an Instagram model ?
I've done overtime for employers, and have gone over and above my job description with the reasonable expectation that it'd be paid for either directly (via overtime pay) or indirectly (via promotion, pay rise etc).
In most places a "pay rise" isn't sufficient for what most employees have done. After all unless you're getting a pay rise every year that is line with inflation, then in real terms you're getting a pay cut. The only times I've seen people get a pay rise (in real economic terms) is when they switch employers
I've had similar. My story was that the monitoring system was REALLY badly configured because alerts were constantly going off.
The ops team were regularly being told off for not fixing stuff or responding to alerts. Management's attitude was "On-call rota is part of their salary, that's why they get paid for". There was a good mix of not quite enough capacity to deal with spikes, alerts would go off if there was high load but it was only considered a problem if it didn't calm back down after 20 mins (alerts pinging every 2 mins the whole time). The ops team were regularly complaining about not having time to do maintenance. They were always tasked with feature work during the office hours and as such alot of what maybe considered housekeeping tasks never got attended to eg ensuring there was correct logrotation so disk space didn't get filled.
As a contractor I ensured that the oncall rate was good and that an alert was a paid call out. While I only managed about 3 hours sleep a night for that week it was a VERY well paid week and strangely for the next 2 weeks the entire team was tasked with ensuring all the housekeeping tasks were sorted out and that the monitoring was appropriately tuned.
* New York change it's name and pay reparations to the city of York,
* The state of New Hampshire change it's name and pay reparations to Hampshire
* The New England area stop calling itself that and pay reparations to England
* All those calling themselves *-American (eg Irish, Italian, Greek etc) stop. It's been enough generations now...
I could go on, but I'm sure people get the point
Shame on El-reg. Not only for commentary like "so you may end up being offered a large bag of parts rather than individual pieces", which is just wrong. The bill allows manufacturers to ship sub assemblies aka daughter boards, which is what many of them are already doing with some of their own diy repair services.
The story has also done exactly what (in the linked video) LR said the media would do by celebrating it as a win for the right to repair movement rather than the status quo that it is.
About the only positive change this law will have is that independent repair shops should be able to buy the sub assemblies directly rather than having to go through grey channels. Who knows if that will be enough with security keys still being restricted by the manufacturer which may still mean that you've got to buy multiple sub assemblies due to them being cryptographicilly tied if a single part of one dies
Most employment contracts I've seen are generally "See HR handbook for bonuses, incentives and pension plans"
It's also quite hard for a company to argue that certain parts of it's workforce don't qualify for ad-hoc discretionary or incentive awards if those parts of the workforce are legally protected from discrimination.
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