Posts by Matt Palmer

AWS boss: Don't want to come back to the office? Go work somewhere else

Re: If he took that informal poll Friday

I come in on Friday precisely because there are fewer people in the office. It's much less distracting and noisy.

But yes, clearly most people don't come in on a Friday for some reason...

SpiderOak One customers threaten to jump ship following datacenter upgrade

Re: SpiderOak is still around?

Yep, used them for years. It was slow but I thought I had peace of mind. Well, when I needed the data back, it almost completely failed. Restore processes would run for days and only restore a few hundred megs.

The it turned out that if you had data backed up onto old machines, you could not restore them, as the upgrades they made over the years were incompatible with their own old backups. So I was paying for storing things they could no lt restore at all. The only way to keep data from old machines is for it to be on a live current machine all the time as well.

That was it for me. I now just backup onto a small home nas and rotate the disks every few years, old ones off-site.

Half of polled infosec pros say their degree was less than useful for real-world work

Education is not training

Sigh... When I did my info sec degree, some of the students complained that the systems we were looking at were old and not current.

The professor had to explain that education is not training. We are not trying to acquire marketable skills in some tech. We are learning how to analyse systems from a security perspective. These skills are transferrable to any other tech, if you put in the work.

Aside from anything else, tech changes so rapidly that training will be out of date very soon.

People seem to think that a degree is for getting a job and are upset when it turns out it's about learning to think.

Largest local government body in Europe goes under amid Oracle disaster

Bid low, change requests cost

I have no idea what actually happened in this case, but I have observed how IT costs tend to mount up in both the public and private sectors.

The supplier bids low to win the contract, knowing that the customer really has no idea what their true requirements are. Every change is chargeable, and so the costs mount. Some changes are extremely expensive but turn out to be critical.

Euro monopoly cops to probe Microsoft for slipping Teams into Office

That is the issue. If you get something for free bundled with something else you use then you have much less incentive to spend money on a competitor's product.

Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office

Re: Its all a matter of what you call "work"

Stop the presses! Work that requires physical presence can't be done at home newsflash!

The only thing wrong with your argument is that a huge amount of work, including having lots of meetings with people and interacting a lot, can be done from home perfectly well. No physical presence required.

Gen Z and Millennials don't know what their colleagues are talking about half the time

Re: Bit of a mixed bunch

Argghhh, revert! I only started noticing this in the last few years. First time someone asked me to revert, I wondered what change they were talking about.

Crypto outfit Qubit appeals to the honour of thieves who lifted $80M of its digi-dollars

Re: As someone who understand blockchain ...

Given that research indicates a very high proportion of trades on exchanges are wash trades (around 70%), the actual proportion of criminal to non criminal activity in terms of trade volume is *much* higher.