Posts by Matt Bryant

Re: Robert Carnegie - Those aren't the only threats.

It's not just a matter of deleting other jobs in the queue, with certain models it's possible to also dump copies out of memory and send them over the LAN to another device. If you have a designated printer just for your MD then it would probably be of interest to competitors to be able to sneak off copies of all the documents he/she prints. Not sure about the MFPs listed, but some of the hp printers also have hard-drives which would make copying other people's print jobs even easier. Leaving debug code active in production kit really is a serious lapse and someone at hp deserves a slapping for it.

Re: @Matt

"I think you're being a little unfair here....." Deliberately so. I do think it is tragic that anyone as young as Aaron should take his own life, but the reality is he put himself in the situation with his publicity stunt of mass-downloading copywrit items a second time, and Aaron put the rope round his own neck. Do we hear any sensible debate on how we should focus on stopping other such tragedies by looking for the depressed and helping them with their issues? No, all we hear is the usual bleating and frothing about striking back at "the Man". I'm sure in his family's case it helps them to think they can push all the blame for Aaron's suicide onto an official they probably have a differing political opinion to, but Aaron was talking about being depressed and suicidal years ago.

Re: Re: Matt Bryant "what with Obambi being intelligible for a third term as POTUS?"

".....My guess is that you meant "ineligible" and not "intelligible"....." Sorry, blame the wife's iPad's auto-correct. No children involved, unless you're implying Apple have developer shops in China full of kiddies?

".....After all he's been playing hardball with Assange, Manning and assorted hackers for a long time...." Ah, it always makes me laugh when Lefties finally realise those that create the biggest security infrastructures for spying on their own citizens, and are scared the most of "the people", are usually those on the Left.

".....That must warm the cockles of your heart....." Well, I'm not exactly crying over it, and the fact so many Lefties are does add a certain comic tone.

".....At the gun show last week, I could have bought anything I wanted....." So, how many people got shot at the show? What, none!?! Surely not, all those irresponsible gunowners in one spot, all unable to resist their prediliction for blazing away, AND NOT ONE SHOOTING!?!?!? Maybe the screwballs like Adam Lanza skipped the fair because they might have thought they stood a chance of their targets shooting back if they weren't the only person armed....

".....If I want a Judge or Public Defender....." Hmmm, both a bit too "Desert Eagle" for my liking. The shotgun capability is pretty poor, IMHO, and there are better .45 Colt revolvers. Have you had a reason to shoot a shotgun in the years you've had the PPKS in a box? I take it you don't hunt. Even the oddball .45 Colt would seem just appealing to "good 'ol boys" - if you must, get a Glock in .40 or a proper pump-action shotgun, both better options for home defence. Of course, the better option in your case would be to sell the PPKS and use the cash to buy some history books.

Re: Why am I not surprised Eric Holder is no better than Ed Meese

".....a black Richard Nixon?" There has been a renewed interest in Nixon-bashing lately. I was beginning to wonder why, then I saw the re-re-re-release of stories about how Nixon "committed treason" and "sabotaged" the 1968 Vietnamese peace talks in Paris. Why is that old story suddenly worthy of a re-run? In the classic words of Poirot, who has a motive? Maybe it's because Nancy Pelosi did her bit of "treason" out in the open when she violated the Logan Act with her visit to Syria in 2007. A bit of Dem infighting going on, maybe, what with Obambi being intelligible for a third term as POTUS?

Re: AC Re: What a crock of shitze

".....What exactly do you say you have done for the advancement of society and technology?....." Yeah, cos Aaron healed the wounded, cured the sick, put an end to global hunger and then invented the Internet on his coffee break, right? In fact, what seems to make him a "hero" in the eyes of numpties like you is he claims to have defeated SOPA all on his lonesome, and got caught twice downloading massive amounts of documents in breach of the terms of his access to those works. Wow, how will humanity survive without him - not!

Re: None of this will matter

"Replace "Aaron Swartz'" with "Stephen Heymanns" and the above message will make sence." Nope, still doesn't make sense, it still just looks like the bleating of one of the I-can-pay-but-won't-pay freetard numpties.

Re: I'm on to you

"......you don't seem concerned about the tax payers money that was wasted on prosecuting Aaron Swartz. Why is that?" Swarz was charged with a crime, so the investigation and prosecution of that crime was proper and what taxpayers expect.

Re: Johan Re: None of this will matter

".....So you equip some nutjob with a high precision sniper rifle, he splatters Aaron Swartz' grey matter all over the street....." Aaron Swarz is already dead, so no need for a sniper. On a lighter note, I think your posts are compelling evidence for the limiting of Internet access to those with an IQ in at least double figures.

Re: Johan Re: What a crock of shitze

".... The current question is if that Aaron Swartz fuck can take it like he likes to dish it out....." Aaron Swarz is dead, he committed suicide before the trial started.

Re: Damn constituion

".....it's a pity we don't have any judges that are independant." Sorry to disturb your popularist bleating, but the current problems we have in offloading that scumbag Abu Qatada back to Jordan just go to show that not only is our judiciary quite independent but also that the UK Government's powers are not unemcumbered nor unchecked.

Re: Phil Re: AC AC Bullet-proof?

".....Sorry Matt, but you're wrong on this one. Solaris Cluster has supported scalable apps spread across multiple nodes for decades. It started with SPARCcluster and Oracle Parallel Server back in the early 90's, through to Oracle RAC, Apache, web loadsharing and a bunch of other services today. Go read the docs, they're online.....". No it did not. In all those cases it is the application on top of the cluster providing the application sharing and all SPARC-Slowaris Cluster is doing is proving hardware failover beneath, period. Oracle Parallel Server was the predecessor to RAC, it did the sharing bit, not Slowaris Cluster. Oracle went with the VMS clustering tech in RAC as it was better than OPS. OPS could be run on top of any number of failover clustering technologies, just like RAC. I would suggest it is you that needs to do the reading.

Re: @ Bryant

Aw, wasn't that just too precious?

"English is not my first language....." I applaud your educational achievement. The joke was more aimed at Kebbie who has a habit of lapsing into some quite comical, pidgin English when he gets excited about Sun.

"......When you'll be able to post on a foreign language technical website....." Apart from the fact that you have no idea of my linguistic capabilities, the simple fact is I wouldn't need to anyway as English is the international language of IT, as you prove by you having learned it and come here to an English techie website. Hats off to our Yankee, ex-colonial brethren for making it so.

"......In the meantime, pls abstain from personal attacks, this can only make your points more valid, and it will also make you grow....." Grow very boring you mean? I notice that you cannot disprove the technical points I made in between the "personal attacks" - were you too upset to counter them? Maybe you need to grow a thicker skin, or maybe it was just easier for you to rail about "personal attacks" rather than deal with technical facts?

".....CPU is cheap, data integrity is primordial....." Hmmmm, it seems you think primordial means something other than from the earliest era of creation. Did you mean of primary importance? If so, then how much more important could it be that you do not lose access to your data through a single point of failure like ZFS?

Re: Alan Brown Re: Hear hear!

Thumbs up for mentioning GlusterFS, not so sure why you brought SAM-QFS (hierarchial archiving) into the conversation? Distributed file systems seem to be the way to go.

"......If you're sucking on the GFS koolaid....." Que? Been using RHEL with GFS and Oracle RAC to replace old UNIX systems since about 2006 and it has been quite stable, I think some of it we didn't even bother upgrading to GFS2 as it has been so reliable. Are you talking about with different apps, maybe MySQL?

Re: AC Re: AC Bullet-proof?

"Funny you mention Veritas, since your beloved HP couldn't figure out how to port the much better TruCluster...." The reason hp didn't bother porting Tru64 and associated clustering to Itanium or adding the features into hp-ux was because us customers said we weren't bothered with it, we were happier with hp-ux and Serviceguard clustering, the latter having a much bigger market share than Trucluster. Porting from Tru64 UNIX to hp-ux was a pretty simple job, much simpler than migrating VMS users to hp-ux, and VMS survived because it had a big market share and VMS Clustering had unique features.

"........so went crawling to Veritas and begged them for their crappy implementation." Never heard of Serviceguard, existed long before the Compaq purchase? I think you're confusing hp's use of VxFS with VCS. Do we need to welcome you as someone new to the industry or do you just know nothing about hp-ux?

Re: AC Re: AC Bullet-proof?

"Matt, I know you love to post anti-Sun propaganda....." Why would I bother, Sun is dead, or didn't you get the memo?

".....but this time it is you that knows SFA....." LOL! So if I disagree with your Sunshine I must be lying? As I asked above, why would I? There is no need, Sun is dead and Slowaris is nothing more than a relic. The reason I post verifiable facts is I get very sick of you Sunshiners posting easily debunked guff. Sun is dead, get over it.

".....Of course you can run SC active-active....." Not like VMS clustering. In Slowaris Cluster the best you could do is run different apps on different cluster nodes and fail them back an forth, just two or more instances of failover clustering in one cluster, you cannot share an instance actively across two nodes at once. VMS Clustering can use shared memory and is the basis for Oracle RAC - two instances, one application (in RAC's case one database). Trying to pretend Slowaris Cluster could match that is laughable, Slowaris needs Oracle RAC (ie, VMS Cluster tech) to provide the same capability.

"......I've worked with VMS clusters for 10+ years, and Solaris ones for 15+....." Really? But you seem to know SFA about VMS shared memory clustering? Do you work for a chap called Yen Sid, perchance?

/SP&L

Re: Hear hear!

OMFG, Kebbabfart has learnt English!

"Raid is dead, long live ZFS......" I can cluster RAIDed disks, I cannot cluster ZFS. RAID is far from dead, but from a serious HA viewpoint ZFS is stillborn as it cannot cluster.

"...... Why it is not widely used is beyond me." Obviously a lot is beyond you. Let's start with the simple fact RAID can be implemented in hardware so less of a CPU cycles stealer than ZFS. Then let's look at how ZFS is software and just as buggy as any other Sun software, whereas RAID is tried and tested and trusted. After that we have the fact that RAID works across so many more OSs than ZFS. Then we have the problem ZFS inherited from WAFL - as the file system fills up ZFS slows down and chews more CPU. ZFS for a Slowaris desktop might be a good idea, anywhere else it fails miserably. I'm really getting tired of the Sunshiners that keep pushing it as some amazing panacea to all computing ills.

Re: AC Re: Bullet-proof?

".....Solaris Cluster....." Seriously? You obviously don't know that Veritas reps used to say that Solaris Cluster was the best sales tool they had for selling Veritas Cluster into Solaris environments. Actually less reliable than Microsoft Cluster, RHEL Cluster Suite, in fact just about any clustering tech I have ever met! And the VMS cluster was true active-active, which Sun Cluster is not. Only someone that knew SFA about VMS Clustering would consider Sun Cluster in any way comparable.

Re: Local Dupe Re: "Bradley Manning trial delayed until June...."

Sorry, were you trying to make a point? All that last post came across as was "shriek, whine, gnashing of teeth, bleat, bleat".

"......thinks that the conference between the referee and the captains of the opposing teams is part of the game....." So, you think Manning's original declining to enter a plea was made just for the fun of it? The trial has long since started, some would say at the PIA (second stage of the arraignment) when the final list of charges were set. Please do keep up.

".....Did you ever hear of a prosecutor who didn't have the upper hand?....." Plenty of cases have gone to court only for an acquittal. Oh, sorry, I suppose the idea of a fair legal system messes with your desire to call it all a big, rigged conspiracy, the White House under the control of "corprorate America", etc., etc.

"........Does the name Carmen Ortiz mean nothing to you?......" There you go again, rattling off into fantasyland about some completely different case. If Schwarz had been a lot smarter he too could have won his case or even avoided going to trial at all (if he'd been REAL smart he could have not deliberately committed piracy to "prove a point").

".....the Obambi administration is the slave of corporate America and that the Pentagon is dictating foreign policy and strategic positioning....." Ah, there we go, the expected bleating about "corporate America", right on cue! I bet you have "Margin Call" on DVD and spend your days alternating watching it and footage of "The Storming Of The Winter Palace". So funny to hear the sheeple that voted for the great Not-White Hope Obambi now bleating against him!

Re: "Bradley Manning trial delayed until June...."

".....The trial has not begun....." <Sigh> yes, that rustling sound is Local Dupe grasping at straws. The main event has not started, the actual trial started as early as Manning entering his original plea of not guilty.

".....Are Manning's lawyers discussing a PTA with the prosecutors now?....." If they are then the prosecutors have the upper hand and you know what they will ask for - A$$nut on a plate!

".....and avoid a court martial the government doesn't want all over the media for days on end....." Obambi has no reason to want to avoid a court martial - Manning has no new secrets to threaten to leak; by his own statement he has admitted he knew what he was doing was wrong and against regulations; and Manning's thirty-five page "justification" has blown his chances of pleading temporary insanity. Obambi is onto a winner - he gets to look tough on leakers, and gets to nail A$$nut. Obambi is into his second term so he doesn't have to worry about upsetting the sheeple and losing votes. There is no reason for the authorities to want to stop the trial, indeed they might be glad of the media coverage to take attention off the sequester mess.

Re: Military (UCMJ) Pretrial Agreements (plea bargains)

Mr Cave is largely correct in his definition of a PTA, but wrong as there is no PTA in Manning's case, this is still a "naked" plea. Manning did not agree with the prosecution which charges he would please guilty to in return for a PTA, his team instead tried pleading guilty to the lesser charges in the hope further charges would be dismissed or dropped. The only limitation the Convening Authority (who would actually have to agree a PTA, not just the prosecuting team) have stated is that the death sentence will not be applied - Manning has no other limitations on the books. Mr Cave is just supplying more wishful thinking for the sheeple, and you're re-bleating wihtout understanding the actual matter.

And joking about Jimmy Saville? OK, I guess having your blindfold tweaked is painful for someone that has willingly lived in the dark for so long, but jokes about paedophiles should be below even you.

Re: Matt, Is this joke anti-Semitic?

Not particularly, seeing as you could substitute the Jewish element for Christian, etc. I also note it has nothing to do with the topic of the thread.....

In the meantime, what you should be worrying about (as a rabid A$$nut lover) is that Manning's attempt to get his trial closed by pleading guilty to a batch of the "lesser" charges was done as a "naked guilty plea" - an acknowledgement that no deal had been done with the prosecution to limit the sentencing tied to that plea. For any legal defence, this is a most depserate strategem. Potentially, Manning is looking at twenty years just for the charges he has already plead guiltily to, a plea that the judge has accepted. The fact there was no deal with the prosecution just underlines how desperate Manning's team are to avoid a trial against the remaining charges - that means the prosecution not only wants to go for all the charges but is confident it will win, despite any media attention. They are not worried about the exposure of any new secrets, they are not worried about "embarrassment" of the administration, they are going to drop the hammer on Manning.

That makes it more likely that Manning's only means of avoiding fifty years in prison is going to be to cut a deal on the prosecution's terms and provide testimony against A$$nut. Even worse for you is the news the judge has accepted Manning's plea but still decided to go to trial over the remaining charges, meaning Manning's attempt to avoid further charges has failed. If Manning was up the creek without a paddle before, he now also has a sinking canoe.

On a more simplistic note, by pleading guilty to intentionally causing intelligence information to be published on the Internet, he is now not only officially a criminal but also a confirmed traitor. Even in the very unlikely event that he manages to not be convicted of aiding the enemy, he will be going to prison and he will be then dishonourably discharged - no pension for him. I hope Oprah pays well because Manning will need it.

Re: YIKES!

"...... I'm speechless....." Hmmm, why do I sense that is highly unlikely.

".....Will try to sell my PPKs....." Why? It's quite reasonable as a personal defence weapon. Besides, isn't it SoCal law that all private gun sales have to go via dealer, and don't you have to have registered the gun beforehand?

".....What do you think about the Taurus pistols that fire shotgun shells?....." If you mean the Taurus Judge I'd say don't bother. I haven't fired it but i've read a few reviews (out if curiosity - shotgun pistols have a bad history). From the short barrel version the spread of shot at ten feet can be two feet wide - you would probably hit an intruder with a first shot, but there is too much chance of those pellets not dealing a disabling wound, and too much chance of the intruder returning fire whilst you're still choking on all the powdersmoke that leaks out of the Judge's cylinder. The longer barrel is only slightly better, much heavier, and still not easy to aim and fire. You'd be better off getting a proper, stocked shotgun like a Mossberg 500 - much easier to aim - and firing proper 12-gauge shells. I'm told just the sound of a pump-action is enough to scare many intruders away!

Re: It's too bad you don't know as much about Greek mythology......

Well, then ain't it lucky for me that you don't need to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of Greek mythology to be able to spot prejudice. And if anyone is stuck in echo mode, I think we have shown many times your lack of originality, be it regarding Dreyfus or your political "ideals".

Re: Local Dupe " Manning will get 112 days taken off any sentence he receives."

"......Don't be so wilfully stupid......" Oh, puh-lease, that pretence is comic! If it was only a matter of innocent criticism then your critical eye would be directed equally at all, but when you only look for faults in just one group of people, that is because you are prejudiced against that group of people. Deny it all you like, but you are blatantly prejudiced against Israel, and it is obvious to others why even if you are living in (more) denial.

Re: Touchy Luke 11 Re: Reliability - HP

"......Has nothing to do with buggy firmware, corrupted flash memory on controllers and bad replication technology....." True, I don't get to touch the recent MSAs much nowadays, we use proper enterprise arrays, but I think we have a few G3 models in our T&D labs and I don't recall hearing the issues you mentioned. A quick yahoogle also doesn't bring up lots of hits for P2000 problems, so I suppose that leaves three options:

1. The vast majority of other P2000 users were simply lucky and didn't run into the problems you did.

2. You were really, really, REALLY unlucky and got thirty "bad" units.

3. Your install and/or maintenance skills suck.

".....you post an e-mail address and I'll forward you all the anonymised support e-mails....." Now, if you had an hp support contract like we do, you'd know all you have to do is post the hp support call IDs and then I could search the hp ITRC knowledge base for them. Hmmmmm, looks like you need some training on your hp support tools as well as your install skills. Just saying!

Re: Reliability - HP

"...... I've installed about 30 of them over the last four years so know what I',m talking about." Hmmmm, ever stop to think the problem might be your install skills?

Re: AC Re: Probable key factor in the outage - "IBM mainframes don't fail!"

"Look at a System z data sheet......" AC, the data sheet is just part of the IBM sales smoke and mirrors routine - "it can't fail, it's an IBM mainframe and the data sheet says it is triple redundant". You're just proving the point about people that cannot move forward because they're still unable to deal with the simple fact IBM mainframes can and do break. The data sheet is just a piece of paper, the RBS event is reality, you need to understand the difference. Fail!

Re: Roland6 Re: Probable key factor in the outage - "IBM mainframes don't fail!"

".....There was time when the Director would of called you to ask why they had to get the news of a fault from IBM and not their own IT organisation..." If you're implying the typical IBM response was to worry about cuddling up to senior management rather than fixing the problem then nothing has changed. But you should also know it is the first rule of BOFHdom that you should always know more than those above you. Dial-home services and the like should always have the BOFH as contact so you are in control of the flow of information uphill, so as to make sure that when the brown stuff comes rolling downhill it is not on your side. Your role has probably already been short-listed for being outsourced if you haven't mastered such basics.

Re: Probable key factor in the outage - "IBM mainframes don't fail!"

".....Yes, anything manmade is fallible....." But - don't tell me - IBM mainframes are made by The Gods, right?

"..... IBM mainframe is fault tolerant, redundant hardware....." Ignoring my own experience, this story goes to show you are completely and wilfully blind!

"......No system hardware failure should ever take down a mainframe...." So the event never happened, it was all just a fairy tale, right? You know I mentioned stupid people earlier that said stuff like "forget DR, it's on an IBM mainframe", well please take a bow, Mr Stupid.

Re: Re: Tasmanian Plod Que?

"First outage was caused by batch, second outage cause unknown....." You are thinking like a techie, most decision makers in companies that can afford mainframes don't. All CFOs, CEOs and MDs hear is "bla, bla, IBM mainframe failure, bla, bla, loss of service, bla, bla, loss of money, bla, bla, customer rep damaged, bla, bla".

Re: Tasmanian Plod Re: Que?

"......IBM should go the HP Outsouring Route....." Oh, so you didn't read the. Article then?

".....Big Blue also makes entry and midrange Power Systems, various storage arrays, and System x gear in its Shenzhen, China plant.....moved the manufacturing of all high-end gear from Ireland to Singapore.....Guadalajara......." For many lines IBM has already thrown the towel in and given them to Lenovo, the rest are being outsourced to the cheapest locations IBM can find, all at the expense of American jobs.

".......The fact that only a few hundred people are making Power-based machines to serve all of the Americas region shows you just how far shipments have fallen over the past two decades......." Oops! Maybe they should sell it to Intel before it dies! And with more bad press from the second IBM mainframe failure for RBS in less than a year I'm sure there will be few less gullible customers out there. Enjoy!