Posts by Androgynous Cow Herd

Re: Musicians, if you don't like robots

Do you believe in life after AI?

"...you gain security risk awareness early on"

"You should be aware that you are about to be pwned"

Re: CS students are interesting

SO, you're saying they all are earning a better salary while working shorter hours?

Re: Anytime there's an answer so many new questions appear

My question is how were they able to even figure out its name after so many years?

Re: error correction

It ain't the bandwidth...it's the latency

299,792,458 metres per second ain't just a good idea...IT"S THE LAW!

What's not to like?

Emacs for text editing

:wq!

Re: Resilience?

Absolutely.

If you divide all the customers Google has by the number of customers that were actually impacted, it is a higher level of resiliency than you can possibly get out of a single tenant on prem data center.

That's how the cloud gets all those "9s" of availability while sometimes being as stable as an epileptic rollerblader in a discotheque.

" It's a fucking outrage."

It's 2023...you need to be more selective about your outrage.

Plenty of choices.

Re: It's called Pig Butchering for a reason

The "Midnight Cowboy" Talent Agency?

Re: Confused

Maybe he can sue a lawyer for malpractice now...

Re: Money for nothing, it's the best

Oh, that's easy to handle, and I think this should be done anyway....

Change all your credit card numbers annually. Just "Lose" your old card and tell the CC company the same. They'll go through the protocol of changing your number.

The services you actually want to keep and use, you'll notice when they start complaining about not getting their money - update those.

The services that you don't use anymore might complain, but you probably won't notice, and if you do, won't care.

Has the side benefit of rendering any old leaked CC data incapable of impacting you.

Back in those days...

Real (non-linux) systems ran NT.

Ever try to get USB to work on NT 4.0?

Didn't think so....

Re: Good!

OK.

So, lets say a pharmaceutical company uses AI to sythesize a large amount of raw data looking for protein interactions, and in the process finds a "hit" that holds the cure for cancer. Since the AI actually did the synthesis, is the resulting cure not patentable?

Re: 271 are rookie numbers

"Mike Salvino boss of DXC earns either 650 or 918 times more than the average employee."

No, he RECEIVES that much. He earns a fraction of that amount.

Re: Complete this saying:

"A fool and his money are some party!"

Re: Why Google?

HAhahaha No.

Unless your phone is more that 15 years old or so, it has E911 capability which cannot be turned off. The phone knows it's location, and therefore the carrier know it's location, and therefore, anyone who cares to ask the carrier knows its location.

And all phones have a unique SSID.

So, next time you feel like overthrowing a government, leave your phone at home, mkay?

Re: License fee

Dell is in the Standards business.

Stardards are key to their business model. They sit on many standards boards, drive standards, and design and build to standards. And to their credit, it has worked out for them, because it commoditizes the discrete components like RAM.

Re: z-Mainframe-z RULE!

Watson may have been right

What he though of as "Computers" we now call "Cloud" - read up on the concept of "Utility computing" where an individuals' access to those 5 computers was via a special household cable and terminal.

Now, Count the major cloud vendors.... If you actually count Oracle cloud, there are 5...

and most PCs function mostly as smart terminals. And more and more applications are delivered via "Cloud versions"

Re: So someone steals something that doesnt exactly exist

Yup - Bretton Woods 1944 tied world currencies to the US dollar, which was tied to the value of Gold at the time.

1971 - Nixon "Temporarily" suspended convertibility of US Dollar to Gold.

Re: Marketing

I spent the day looking at the latest Intel Procs for a new project. Power consumption is up again but clock speeds really haven't gone up for decades. It's more about the rest of the instruction set.

Right.

If you've ever been an e-mail admin or had to keep the wheels on even a medium sized exchange environment, you probably got all gushy inside when the various cloud vendors offered to allow you to wipe that booger on them.

E-mail and particularly exchange environments have been a huge vector and target forever. Hosting your own does not make it any safer than putting it in someone else data center. It does, however, let you point the finger at them instead of updating your resume.

Re: Windows NFS was so terrible

Nexenta was never intended to front a SAN. That directly from my counterpart over there as a solution architect. Even though Compellant used Nexenta just that way, the guys who knew it best HATED it used as a SAN gateway.

Windows 2012r2 was actually pretty damned usable for NFS - I had a couple of large implementations of NFSv3 fronting Nimble Storage iSCSI SANS, they were performant and rock solid. Outperformed much more expensive NTAP systems Never tried it for V4, and at the time Nimble didn't have deduplication at all. No problems there, we weren't using the NFS for VMWare .vmdks as only a moron would do that when a well integrated block system is available.

Your issues sound like you might have been running out of inodes (dedupe COULD exacerbate that) and the inode limit for Windows based NTFS systems is not all that large. That would explain "out of space" when you have plenty of physical space - no addresses available to store the data. I've seen that in some largish Veritas FS environments.

WIndows NFS PRIOR to 2012r2 *was* terrible, but after 2012r2 dropped it was very usable for even some fairly high performance work loads with the right SAN mounted to the host. If you haven't tried it and tested it personally, spare me the hate mail...and I KNOW there are better systems out there for NFS. But Windows isn't the worst of it.

Re: Nasty goings on

Yup...if you recall, Disney used to have a show called "So Weird" which was kind of X-files for kids...the plot line was a the child of some touring rockstar (rockstar played by Mackenzie Phillips IIRC) had a web blog about paranormal activity. This would have been around 1998.

My kids had access to the family PC, placed in a public hallway, and wanted to see this fictitious site....so I went into a search engine and typed "So weird"...

I glanced at the results, shuddered, closed the browser window, and simply told the kids the site didn't exist, it was all made up for the show...but if you type "So weird" into a search engine, you WILL get proof on just how weird people can get.

Re: Yes, but how much?

like all storage - it will be cheaper next year

Re: Google can't count

I have said the same thing millions of times