Posts by Tokoloshe
13 posts • joined Thursday 5th August 2010 09:28 GMT
"Check Point claims FireWall-1 has never been breached."
I've been using Checkpoint software for 15 years and my memory is obviously better than Check Point's;
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=2409
Unless their definition of a breach doesn't include their software being bypassed;
Re: BYOD more like MDM
It's a fair point that MDM suppliers' focus on mobile operating systems (rather than all mobile devices including laptops) means that they don't yet cover the plethora of devices that could fall into the BYOD category.
From my contact with the main MDM vendors for a recent project, some support OS X (e.g. Mobile Iron and Airwatch), but in reality all of them are waiting for PC/Mobile OS 'convergence'. This has started wth Windows 8 ( I have to say 'started' due to the fundamental differences that remain among Win 8 Pro, RT and Phone variants) though presumably MS will get there in the end, with Win 9 probably. Re Apple, one vendor said that they expect iOS and OS X to fully merge in 18 months. I reckon they might run an iOS VM on OS X, though that would really require a touch screen on Macs and Tim Cook to remove and eat humble pie from his fridge-toaster.
Re: 100% availability?
Lots of service providers will give a contracted 100% SLA, but the penalty for it being breached is sometimes only a refund of the pro-rated service cost e.g. your £1m/yr cloud service is down an hour so you get £114.15 back.
Something useful for those 8 cores
Samsung could get Folding@home ported, especially since Sony have ended support on the PS3. All that silicon could do some good overnight, after the phone has fully charged and is still connected to the mains.
Re: Sarcasm
They will always be able to rely on (probably ever more) lossy compression to smooth over their imperfections.
Posted in New MPEG format paves the way for UHDTV
Re: Increase in spatial, but what about temporal?
Good point,
I'd prefer to get 1080p rather than 'i' from Sky HD right now so I can 'sweat' my current set, rather than upgrading to a 4k set which is similiarly hobbled by Sky's technology (possibly) and desire to dial down the bandwidth to support more channels (definitely)
Are Sky going to push a 4k signal for 3D at 1080P or another bunch of shopping channels?
Mike the Knight?
http://www.miketheknight.com/uk/index.asp
Foundering?
Floundering, shurely.
Posted in Sky to open net telly channels to all
Sky F1 channel 'free' for HD subscribers...
and as HD costs £10/mth, it's cheaper than buying the sports package either on its own (£20/mth) or in addition to Sky Movies (£12/mth).
It's worth mentioning that
The unmarked police vehicle was actually a lorry, though the police driving it were in uniform, and he failed a breath 'test' not 'text', though to be honest he would have failed anything breath related given the number of empty special brew cans in his cab.
I think he should have had his HGV licence revoked, livelihood or not.
Posted in Goldeneye 007: Reloaded
Console Vs. PC
While I haven't been reading this nonsense as long as I've been playing computer games (since Blitz on the VIC20), it seems to have gathered some sort of assumed truth over the last decade or so.
The inevitable 'argument' is used: console shooters are easy because the controller makes them hard to play, hence everyone *must* be using auto-aim.
Very few games have auto-aim on by default (I always check) and it can also be turned off.
So as I play without auto-aim can I assume that you're the pussy for using a more accurate control system?
And what system do I play games on? All of them. So I can get on and enjoy playing whatever I want on any platform I want.
Posted in Sainsbury's is abandoning tape
Costing everything in the real world
Actually you describe the non-accountant approach, as accountants (and more business minded IT professionals) are aware of the concept of marginal cost.
Graphing server costs against DC capacity would demonstrate the rather obvious spike in the cost of the server that exceeds the datacentre space (the marginal cost will equal the server + another datacentre, or perhaps more 'real world', the cost to host it elsewhere). It's high marginal costs like this that are front and centre when decisions on IT strategy are made.
Also, it's odd that you focus on what are long term capital costs that tend to be depreciated over a long period (whatever the useful life of a DC is), rather than the costs that are more directly affected by the server population, like power and server hardware maintenance. Even a DC's equipment (a/c, fire suppression, power generation/backup etc) will usually last 5-7 years, so through a server refresh.
Public service
El Reg is helping us avoid the recently ruined BBC news site.
