Posts by vgrig_us
61 posts • joined Thursday 10th November 2011 21:33 GMT
Re: iPad app
@Don Jefe
As pointed out by pretty much anyone who had to deal with "work only with IE" b.s. and knows about user-agent - it's NOT up to you to decide who's looking at your public website.
Hold a private viewing in your basement if you want control.
Posted in RIAA: Google failing on anti-piracy push
Is everyone connected to music industry retarded?
Is everyone connected to music industry retarded?
Honestly - this whole world seems to be void of even average intelligence.
Ok - don't care about others, but...
Ok - don't care about others, but NetApp is dead to me - no more FAS boxes...
Re: #1 Rule of Management
F*ck the "Rules of Management" - i'm tired of being told to babysit idiots and do their jobs for them.
Nothing good ever was created "Rules of Management" - pretty much worth existing was created despite of them.
"Rules of Management" exist so mediocrity can be at least somewhat productive.
Re: Err...
"programmers who are more skilled"
As a linux user i personally don't care how skilled the programmer is if he's - oh - sensitive. I need a rock solid OS (which i get) - not a politically correct POS. Linus is absolutely right - if you let a bug into kernel on principle, not just mistake - public humiliation is the very least you deserve.
What a spectacular collection of douchebags Oracle is.
What a spectacular collection of douchebags Oracle is.
I blame SUN
Most of the JAVA problems are JVM related - SUN did a piss-poor job with backwards compatibility and maintaining stable API.
And if you don't think so, here is an example - how can minor version upgrade (1.6.0.28 to .29) break and application? What was so f&%^$g important that had to change?
Overstating the risks to drum up biz?
"Secure64 DNS products are security-hardened commercial DNS appliances" - yep, talking up their own book.
All this "bind is insecure" is BS. Useless company with useless product - "The SourceT Micro OS executes on standard Itanium server hardware, and provides the foundation for Secure64 software applications." Itanium? Really? Not even ported to anything else? What are they gonna do when Intel kills it?
"environmentalism, has relied so heavily on apocalypse"
"environmentalism, has relied so heavily on apocalypse"
i always thought that environmentalists and religious doomsdayers are same.
just one example: very prominent environmentalist in one small country i know, 10-15 years before he became the voice for "green" weighted the soul of the rabbit : put it on the scales alive, killed it, put it on the scales again. Got a difference of few grams.
Posted in Why women won't apply for IT jobs
Re: Sexism in the industry?
I agree - i've seen far less hostility (really - almost none) towards women in IT than say in gamers community.
One thing that's really pisses me of about SOME women in IT - thinking they have more to prove than men (for all women out there!) - that's a BS, just show me you can think and learn and handle the pressure. If you can do that - you'll earn my respects.
Posted in Why women won't apply for IT jobs
What a bunch of BS
"Women won't apply for IT jobs unless they are certain they meet every single criterion for the gig,"
Maybe in Australia. I wish some of the women in IT would at least make sure they meet 50% of requirements - i wouldn't have such terrible female VP of IT at my previous place of work.
“Industry wants women,” - that's a problem: "industry" should want qualified people no matter gender. I was lucky enough to have a very good female manager at one time, i also had a number of very smart and capable female colleagues - just wish their gender wasn't a factor when they were hired (it was, sadly).
Re: I still don't understand
Probably same people who valued VA Linux at $9.5 billion, or more than half that of Apple Computer at the time (December 1999).
Now - Linux itself is alive and well as we know. So will be some social media sites in the future. As for VA Linux? It's Geeknet, Inc. now (thinkgeek website anyone?) with total assets of 74.2 million and total equity 62.6 million (all USD). So, $9.5 billion down the drain. Awesome job, investors!
LinkedIn shows webtastic social media firms how it's done
Not for long - people (like technical recruiters) who pay for premium accounts will slowly (cause that's just tha type of people who would buy a premium account on linked in - sloooow) that it's a waste of money. It's not really linkedin's fault - it's just if you're annoying salesman with no value in what you sell (like non-existing job postings - looking at you again, technical recruiters!) it doesn't matter where you approach potential targets.
I actually use hotmail more than any other email i have
Reason - it has a "fat" client. Hate webmails. Now - gmail does have IMAP, but by the time they came up with internalization, un-threaded folder view, etc. - i lost interest. Plus - they don't preserver plain text formatting well - Linux kernel developers won't accept patches from gmail accounts.
Also - hotmail still shows X-originating IP address header, gmail fakes it. So if someone in Nigeria claims to be from, say, Boston - i'll know right away in hotmail, but not gmail.
Re: I see what you did there!
Yes, i'm one of them. And i can run windows or linux and i don't care (aside from netflix which i can watch on smart TV).
Thing is - gamers so far been largest group of PC users that HAVE to run windows. If most games start supporting linux, windows may loose at least some of those users.
"real men use the command line"?
I don't know about "real men", but real sysadmin use whatever gets job done with enough time spared to read Reg.
"Six years on, Oracle has 7,000 Oracle Linux customers."
Holly-molly! They'd have more buyers for Brooklyn Bridge!
Another BS patent with tons of prior art.
Ahhh!!! You can't imagine the kind of sh&^%&^t you find in patanets:
"A method of navigating the Internet, comprising: displaying on-line content accessed via the Internet, the on-line content reformatted from a webpage in a hypertext markup language (HTML) format into an extensible markup language (XML) format to generate a sister site, the sister site including a portion or a whole of content of the web page reformatted to be displayed and navigable through a simplified navigation interface"
From unix man page at wikipedia:
"The default format of the man pages is troff, with either the macro package man (appearance oriented) or on some systems mdoc (semantic oriented). This makes it possible to typeset a man page to PostScript, PDF and various other formats for viewing or printing."
So any viewer that read one type of markup language and presents result in another type with additional links (or not) is a prior art.
Lynx does it? Linux info viewer? I think so...
Nah - Reg will come up with nickname though. iPhone - "Jesus Phone", Amazon Phone - "Rain Forest Phone"?
Let's hold a contest.
LOL - indeed, but just imagine Apple or Oracle or Microsoft holding that patent
Because B&N didn't fight beyond preliminary injunction...
The terms of the settlement were not disclosed - so we'll never know how much B&N got "cleaned".
Amazon is not a cuddly kitten, i agree. But in a very grey world we're living in - they're closer to off-white in my opinion.
Re: Looking for a bunch of wireless patents?
"develop something different enough from the iPhone"
Huh? iPhone is very generic, very common in it's looks - really: Candybar phone with different aspect ratio a screen size.
At leas original iPhone was something new, unseen before.
And as far as OS - Android is already different from iOS, Win8 is different from iOS - yet Apple keeps suing. That's why Amazon needs patents.
"1-click patent litigation, anyone?"
On yeah - that was a bad one. How ever - seems like Amazon got the message (screams really all over Internet) and behaved since.
Re: Excellent. Let us hope that it is the start of a trend as far as how................
Second that. But "small number of users" spin is disappointing. Then again - not bad by Apple PR statement standards .
Re: Gee
"Do you think a researcher @Ms doesn't know how to read& verify headers?"
Well - i won't be surprised. Office 365 (that Forefront is part of) support didn't know you can have 2 MX servers with same priority for domain ("It creates a bottleneck!").
Re: At least the pay their developers on time
Amen!
That's how fanboys are... Of any company. I think it's the inability to hold two opposite thoughts in their heads at the same time (Apple - nice design, good; overpriced - bad. Google - Android Alternative to iOS, good, privacy policies and lack of phone support, bad, etc., etc.)
Re: Sounds familiar...
"You do the maths."
I always do - i have masters in math. What about you? What kind of bullshit, liberal arts major would screw you up this badly?
Re: Sounds familiar...
Oh, god! Really? Quotes bother you even that sarcasm is obvious, you moron!
Re: "Software petents" - WTF ?
Wow! Apple fanboys are truly the worst...
Posted in Gouged by cloud - but it's so convenient
both wrong
"A recent North Bridge Venture Partners survey suggests that scalability is the top reason, with business agility not far behind. Meanwhile, a KPMG survey of government IT buyers indicates that cost is the biggest reason government agencies are embracing the cloud."
Both wrong - managers think and/or trying to convince others (C-execs mostly) that it's cheaper, more scalable and more agile. They'll even produce some figures (before and after deployment) to support the claim...
All wrong - as anyone in internal IT dept. will tell you: agile? ask me how long it'll take to fix a simple problem (office 365 anyone? there login id change takes anywhere from 2 to 72 hours to take effect)?; cheaper? what about internal staff spending a lot more time dealing with problems (holding for cloud vendor support, explaining support techs things they should already know)?; scalable? not even that (not with many cloud providers anyway).
Re: General hospital
Well, i hope someone had this story on hand when my boss insisted on a drip pan under the pipe joint running over our ERP rack in just built server room. Everyone looked at him like he's crazy.
Ok - now one from my experience...
I used to work for s mall company in downtown New York.
Owner of that company had a friend (frenemy?) on the same floor (owner of accounting firm). After I (and another very good SysAdmin) left the left the firm, said owner got some $90/h Ms Cert Partner consulting to take care of the network and systems.
The internet setup we left behind was public IP network (remember - it's 2000) on a cisco router with partial T3.
So, owner decides to get back some T3 cost and sell internet connectivity to accountant for $50/month. Consulting firm handles the detail. For a while everything is great! Things work. But all of the sudden random PCs in both offices can't access network (LAN or WAN). I just happened to stop by - they beg me to look at it. So, here is the multiple FAIL:
- consulting firm just ran the cable from available Cisco interface to accountant's office: no NAT, no routing, basically just combined two layer 2 networks (a major no-no, but seemed to work for a while)
- accountant decides at some point it'll be good to sublet a room to an attorney.
- said attorney's "tech savvy" partner sets up a network with server (but it's own private IP subnet) on the same switch as accountant's network.
- things would still work and noone would know how f%$#d up the setup is if said "tech savvy" partner didn't setup DHCP server.
So, 2 DHCP servers on the same LAN (same vlan). PCs were just getting private IPs from attorney's server.
I told them thir options:
1. Cut the freaking L2 uplink.
2. Pay me same ($90/h that idiot from consulting firm charged) to setup NAT and such.
They opted for cut uplink, cheap bastards. :-P
Ok - not one of mine, but...
...from trusted source.
Unix dev server with Sybase DB running. Suddenly Sybase won't start - developers start asking around.
Here is what happened:
- whole bunch of technical (supposedly) users were using this server.
- these technical (supposedly) users discovered that if you save files to /tmp, permission don't, you know, "get in the way".
- same technical (supposedly) users discover later that their files are gone after reboot.
- sysadmin (with Unix knowledge supposedly) got tired of complains and decided to do something about it.
Many of you guessed what he did, right? I can hear "Oh, nos!" and banging heads on keyboards.
YES - HE CHANGED PERMISSIONS ON /TMP, restricting writes to it! And Sybase servers won't start.
So, sometimes, oh, who i'am kidding - most of the times - BOFH is a moron BOFH. Major motivation for me - not to be one.
"The question should be: do all cars look like Aston Martins?"
Well, yes - a person who never seen a car would never been able to tell a difference between them.
Some are even more similar looking - a lot of Lexus and Hyundai models look like Mercs, Chrysler 300 looks a lot like Bentley, etc., etc.
So...
"Fury at Apple's 'rip-off' plan", "Every iPhone accessory you own is now obsolete."
So when you bought a device and accessories with old, proprietary 30-pin connector that made all your previous accessories (Fire-Wire was it?) obsolete - you didn't think anything was wrong, huh?
Sorry - no sympathy for Apple users in this case. I'm not even sure i'm mad at Apple - they're just milking their customer loyalty. It's the customers who keep buying Apple products...
Awesome!
Now if only they figure out how to represent 0s and 1s as a "girl thing" (maybe with "Bulgarian airbags" and tampons) - the insult would be complete...
That's why...
..first thing i did is disable new tab (switched it to blank in about:config) - it's a useless feature anyway: if it was user initiated thumbnail view that would be ok, but why do i have to wait for that somewhat heavy thumbnail page to load (running a s^%tload javascipt, no doubt) if all i want to do i paste the url or type it in?
Re: "the insufferable atmosphere in any Apple shop"
"At least "geniuses" know how to open machines and actually fix stuff."
That's called "technician", not "genius": laying the foundation for modern algebra before dying in a duel at the age of 20 - that's a genius...
"worse camera quality than now 8 months's old 4S [GSM Arena], old Pentile display technology, a bad copy of Siri easily beaten by the 8 month's old original"
None of which i use. Oh - and i'll put a CyanogenMod on it if no update for a year - just like i did with my Droid Eris. Speaking of update - here is and iOS version history for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history
Re: "the insufferable atmosphere in any Apple shop"
Amen! I always felt kinda stupid taking someone called "genius" to school on something very simple (had a former "genius" working help desk for us once.)
Re: What a douchebag...
Wouldn't know - never been to Apple shop... :-)
What a douchebag...
Like i needed another reason not to buy Apple gear...
Re: Warning Unix fanboys ahead
Sure - i want command line tools. Shell - even better! Was very exciting about PowerShell... Till module required for Office365 coexisting server work would only install under 2008 32-bit or Windows 7.
PowerShell sucks! And none of it documented. Not even MS support (3-rd level and up) knows how to use it.
Re: My experience
"If you know what you're doing" - and office365 support doesn't:
ME: we have delays in email delivery to some users.
TECH: you have to change your DNS MX records - you can't have multiple MX servers with the same priority... It creates bottlenecks....
ME: ????????????
TECH: Yes, sir - it creates bottlenecks
ME: What about hotmail.com? It has multiple MX servers with same priority?
TECH: You have to change MX records.
ME: Get me your technical supervisor - someone who knows what they're talking about.
SUP: you can't have multiple MX servers with the same priority... It creates bottlenecks....
ME: F^%$@#^%$#^, m^%#&^%s!!!
Re: Sendmail?
I can tell you why - users (all the way up to CEOs) are to emotionally attached to Outlook... And Outlook sucks as IMAP/CalDav client (try to find a caldav plug-in for outlook - at beast you'll pay arm and a leg).
Re: It's only gonna get worse
LOL! :-P
Just shows you what kind of morons lawyers are (not to mention content providers). You don't need The Pirate Bay - it's peer-to-peer.
Plus, The Pirate Bay publish their ip addresses (and keep changing them) - easily found with simple web search. What - they going to block all search engines in UK? Even if they do - how are they going to block mailing lists? Word of mouth? Non-piratebay owned mirrors? Proxies? And that's just easy workarounds (nmap anyone?)
"Apple is the good guy on the block of all of them"
Really? With "slide to unlock" and claiming Galaxy tab is a copy? WOZ IS FULL OF IT!
just shows you even best of headhunters are incompetent morons
"One serious programmer explained to me that “if the system goes down for 30 minutes, you’re incompetent. Bring it back after five hours and you’re a hero”."
"Serious programmer"? Don't you mean a "serious sysadmin"? I bet you still don't know the difference between the two. It's from morons like you i get 5 emails a day about "software development" jobs - and i'm a sysadmin.
Headhunters are ignorant and insist on staying ignorant - guess is a job requirement...
Other than few gross inaccuracies though - article is ok.
Posted in Microsoft slashes Office 365 prices
Re: re: BPOS
"Business Productivity Online Standard" - believe it or not. Office 365's predecessor. Same sh^%$t, different wrappers.
