Posts by Roger Kynaston

Bit of an admission

One of the main reasons I post on these Reg articles about the twit who liked anti social media so much he bought the company is for the downvotes from Musk Ox fans. It is also a bit of a compulsive car crash thing as well. I have had to stop sneering at my wife for obsessively following the fate of Elizabeth Holmes now.

first good news met story for a while

Makes a change from stories of them moving on peaceful protestors or restraining people at vigils.

new acronym

Backup Operations Resilience Group need to do the implementation of this new deal.

DNS?

it is always DNS. Someone likely updated a zone file incorrectly.

Procurement conversation.

Busniness Analyst: OK we need to replace our ageing ERP application. This meeting is to decide how to achieve this with minimum disruption and the most cost effective solution.

Sales Droid: There is this fantastic new technology where you can host it remotely and so save a fortune on your CAPEX budget. It also increases resilience and scaleability.

BA: Sounds great.

Systems Manager: What clout platform does this run on?

SD: This is a new integrated ERP package based around an established technology stack built on the best of breed Oracle products.

SM: Right, can I stop you there. There is no way that this will be affordable or efficient. We should look for another product.

BA: Great! When can we start implementation?

And the rest is history

The old dilemma

The trouble with any system (or desktop for that matter) support is that you are only noticed when things go wrong. I know that this is utterly unoriginal but it is still true. Back in the day, they noticed if the punch cards were not sorted properly. Now they notice if the auto-scale doesn't scale. Personally, I was too late to the party to experience punch cards and my current gig is not ready to step into the cloudy utopia. Plus ca change!

I am not sure what the solution is though I am already counting down to retirement.

two observations

And before anyone points it out, I know I am ignoring my own advice. I am just a slave to the commentardosphere here on El Reg!

First, every time someone posts a critical thing about the Chief Twi(a)t they get at least one downvote. Does the Musk Ox patrol these chats and punish anyone who says nasty things about him? Enquiring minds wish to know.

Secondly, can we have a hold on articles about this until he drives the antisocial into the ground - perhaps the same time the Zuck android kills facefail.

JWST is amazing

Beers to everyone but the MIRI picture looks like one of the Meerkats from those terrible Comparethemarket ads.

Note to El Reg: Can we have a wine glass icon for us oenophiles?

New monetary unit

Since her chancellor crashed the economy shirly a Kwarteng can now be defined as £/$43,000,000,000. I add the dollar since he nearly brought the pound into parity with the US dollar.

Great mision

But the child in me wants to know if Lucy has some diamonds with her as well as being in the sky.

magnatec

Better be careful not to have this near any legacy spinning rust storage arrays.

Had to be done.

I worry about the longevity of Emperor Penguins

This seems to show that there is a bit of a single point of failure by having one (albeit very dedicated and thorough) person to have the ultimate say over something so important.

I hope that the kernel developers and Linus work to get a more resilient system without sacrificing the care with which the development is completed these days.

waterproof?

If so it could double up as a boat hook for picking up buoys etc.

compulsory corporate bollocks

Why do these types feel the need to impose such things. The whole debate about remote working seems to be seen in far too binary a manner. Speaking personally coming to the office once a month or so is what I want (and seem to have at present). Others, I know will far prefer to be clocking into an office most days. Why not allow for all scenarios?

Perhaps not the biggest outcome

I am still sad that the current situation might curtail this sort of research.

Speaking as a so called "eco loon" as well.

Reminds me of the early days of Oyster cards

There was a brief fashion for extracting the chip and gluing it to your watch. With hindsight I am surprised someone didn't try to implant it in their hand.