Posts by BlueJay

GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners

Re: Does this really reflect the cost?

Probably - if you use Azure DevOps Services (their other cloud-based source dumping ground) they have the audacity to charge you $15/m for each additional parallel job you want to run on a self-hosted agent, the first one as per usual dealing tactics, is free.

UK tribunal says reselling Microsoft licenses is A-OK

Re: Copyright?

Oh definitely, the features will follow you, provided you’re happy to re-license the licence you already licensed

Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe

Re: an inadvertent tenant configuration change within Azure Front Door (AFD)

A tenant change? Bobby Tables strikes again...

Mark Boost - MRDA

Might be worth adding the little bit of information that Civo just so happen to have a vested interest in lobbying for a 'sovereign cloud'. Although last time I checked Azure and AWS both had UK locations, if perhaps with varying availability…

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 struggles to take off

Re: What could possibly go wrong?

I’d say it’s a failure of both sides – the devs aren’t blameless here, if you are relying on a cache then you have to assume at some point that cache is going to become empty/unavailable and it’s how you handle things during the recovery that matters.

How Google uses mirrors to dynamically reconfigure its networks

Re-inventing

I'm not sure what's new here that wasn't already achieved by photonic switches? Some Internet exchange points have been doing this since at least 2004, but maybe without the beta tag...

Atlassian outage lingers, sparking data loss fears

More than two months

We had to ditch using OneDrive as a backup destination as more often than not, downloading a large file (e.g. 1GB) would have a different hash compared to the one we uploaded.

It wasn't consistent, so it didn't appear to be MS value-adding some metadata on every upload.

This was happening well over a year ago, switched over to Dropbox who at least seem to be able to provide the same file you provided to them...

Your data centre UPS could feed power to the smart grid, suggests research

Smart but dark

In my experience the UPS/switchgear is one of the things most likely to result in you reaching for the torches due to a dark and silent data hall. I fear adding yet more complexity to a UPS isn't going to improve matters.