Posts by T J

This actually made me laugh out loud

I'm still chuckling and giggling as I type this.

Poor MS, they *still* cling desperately to the belief that with their awful amateur programming and complete lack of understanding of anything surrounding performance and security, they can enter and hold onto something in the Server market.

No they can't, and they never will before they disappear and become a gadget company (by the end of this year) and then split up (by the end of next year).

HyperV and....actually I dont care. All their server stuff is just an utter waste of anyone's time and money getting involved in. HyperV was extremely embarassing to use and ditching it was about the only smart thing the company in question (that I was consulting to) did.

There are only 3 virtualization competitors.

VMWare - who jumped the shark and just priced themselves out of the market.

Citrix Xen - the Novell one is a complete mess but it may catch up. Citrix's Xen offering is probably going to take over the world actually. Xen is cheap, has a very stable and scrutinizable codebase, does all the virtualization basics that everyone else pretends are features (in case you hadnt noticed yet, Dumb PHB Management is NOT trendy anymore....), and has some great tools. Plus its API is very good so for Xen there will be more tools in the future. Citrix seem to be doing quite a good job of getting behind and around Xen without compromising its FOSS components.

IBM's KVM - this is up in the air at the moment. The deep nerds involved swear that it is the most 'hardcore' virtualization solution around. Given IBM's long track record with virtualization, KVM being supported by them does promise some interesting futurism, so let's see.

This article is unintentional comedy, it really is :D

How Quaint

How quaint

Look, we don't actually *care* what M$ do or think or say from now on, because they wont exist in 2 years time. Its so galling how they see themselves as some kind of Institution, rather than the fast-food outlet they equivalently are.

Where does Windows come in?

The space probes all run QNX, and all the military fighters run VXWorks. Some hardened hardware runs BSD variants. None of these things would ever run a domestic or desktop OS.

Linux is a full blown UNIX, thats why its going through the final phases of taking over the world now.

Did they just do this as an experiment so they could finally sack the idiots who keep accepting m$'s coke and hookers??

There are smart Republicans ?????

OMG, a Republican with a Brain that Works !!!!! Is he just an extremely rare abberation .... or a genetic experiment?????

I support the bombers

Even though the threatening note's text pretty clearly indicates this is just a bunch of mindless teenagers trying to play tough guy, I still support them. I cannot begin to get under how unacceptable this attempt by governments - elected and more often NOT elected - and dying corporations to control our 1s and 0s online really is. Its beyond class warfare, its almost into Them vs Humans territory. For that reason - I support the bombers.

Oh not AGAIN

Oh ffs. We forgave Brocky (Peter Brock) when he temporarily went insane and started peddling this snake oil. He came back to the fold of sanity and had the good grace to say the project had been all rubbish. The trouble is, there are always hippies (which these days stands for Hipster Ignoramus) who think there is merit in this crap.

Psychopaths

The problem is psychopaths. Pure and simple. And yes despite the ad-monkeys jumping on the spin wagon here in the forum - yes its a mess. The US Economy collapsed, but nobody wants to use those frightful words..... since it happened to the USSR only 2 decades or less before. Massive regulation and a proper psych profiling approach is the only thing that can save this, frankly, rather primitive part of our 'civilised' society.

Cuts both ways

Interesting when it cuts both ways, huh.

Realistically, there needs to be a very wide crackdown on the ridiculousness of lawyers fees, in all western countries.

The party of the last 300 years is now firmly over, its time somebody enforced that.

In the meantime, I will take any means available of crushing the legal fraternity underboot and grinding them into the dust.

This site - I like it.

A big chorus of Oh My Heart Doth BLEED For Thee

Shall I lead the chorus then?

You are a playboy model and already have everything. Piss off and die! We dont CARE and never will!

Steven....

This is going to be crap like everything else isn't it Steven?

Give up - see if one of the 70s writers is still alive and hire him.

Civilization!

Civilization! It exists!

Oh god NO

Oh god NO, DONT LET THEM DO IT. Its always a complete disaster.

Balance??

Balance?? Who's the idiot who ordered 'Balance' here??

Just keep telling AFACT to f**** offff and that's all there is to it.

So this is the best the 'mighty' USA can do?

Years ago I proposed something along the lines of what Wikileaks has done.

The only way, I said, to stop action in Iraq would be to publish the home addresses of the families of every single serviceman.

Immediately various friends (some in the armed forces) jumped up and swore that anyone who attempted that would 'disappear before it hit the public!'. I expressed doubt on that, for various reasons including the massive incompetence of....pretty much any government on earth that you care to name.

And here we are and..... this is the best the 'might(y)' USA can do?

We are living in a farce (that is getting warmer, don't forget whats actually important out there folks).

Apple Patents Ass You Cant Extract Head From

Its called iSAnyoneStillThere ?

SERIES SEVEN NOT TEN

The last Red Dwarf series, as anyone knows, was Series 6.

I heard rumours there were some kind of silly spinoff series after that involving fart jokes and tits, but The Boys From The Dwarf definitely ended with Rimmer blowing the time drive to smithereens.

So this is Series Seven, not Series Ten.

Just thought I'd clear that up.

Graft & Corruption

This is becoming a semi regular thing. Does CRA realize how pathetic it sounds?

So, they're not even pretending anymore

The only good thing I can hope for from this is that it pushes human rights in hegemonised western societies right up the scale of importance.

Use Linux or QNX

Or even VXWorks. This isnt a job for shit.

I remember Blu-Ray

I remember Blu-Ray. It was some nutty physical media project that jusssst barely got to market before solid state and online killed all physmedia dead deady dead.

Ah, nostalgia!

The peerage really should just STFU

Given Monkton, I really dont think any of the peers should be opening their big traps right now.

They make it SO EASY

They stick their heads up and say "DONT VOTE FOR ME OR MY PARTY. WE WEAR TINFOIL FASHION AND WE ARE A JOKE. AVOID! AVOID!"

The process of attrition will eventually wipe these idiots from the board. Good riddance.

Oh and parting shot - the technology soon wont let you do any logging whether you want to or not Mr Big Brother moron sir.

Anyone ever heard of it - ever?

Anyone ever heard of this Chef thing? Ever?

Yes I have a Problem with this

Thought about it at length and decided YES, I have a PROBLEM with them doing this.

While its something obvious, corporate, stupid and the law is an ass, yes HACK, that is the holy role of the Hacker, to mete out justice (and have a huuuge wank) where it otherwise cannot occur.

But once you get into moral arguments, and where the law DOES apply....ooooh man you are in a messy place. What's next guys? You're going to take on the Russian Mafia? Good luck with that, the Colombian cartels already track down and kill bloggers that displease them.

And in the end - you'd just get co-opted, in other words they are compromising their own integrity by doing this. And in an ad-hoc environment, Integrity or the appearance of Integrity - is all you've got!!

TOO FUNNY!

And we can't hang it on him now - because that just wouldn't be PC!!

Well DERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

How many of these have to come out before we can just start publically tying up the doubters in front of steamrollers and slowly crushing them for putting us and our children at risk?

Call Saul!!

Paging Mr. Goodman. Mind you he covered his ass quite well with all the denials (he shouldnt have opened his mouth at all of course); his lawyer should be able to defend him.

Facebook is not safe, use only with caveats

If you use your real details on Suckerbook you get what you ask for. And as a citizen of the UK Descent Into The Orwellian Nightmare you should really know better!

Microsoft is a major vendor?

"Microsoft is a major vendor"?

Isn't that a bit of a quaint statement now?

Its War

Its War.

RIP Skype

Well thats 2 significant funerals this week - Ritchie and Skype. (I heard some IT tycoon died too but didn't catch his name, but he wasn't a major player).

There are a heap of alternatives out there but which is best I wonder?

Use Ubuntu?

How about using a real OS instead of an extended Desktop with some OS abilities?

ie. Something properly designed so viruses are out of the picture?

Eg. Use Ubuntu 11 - it runs on everything and has fantastic hardware support.

Oh yeah, and its a Unix with a proper security model so it doesn't get viruses.

Unlike that Desktop with OS bits I hear that some people use (US forces drone pilots for example - the next sept.11 wont be terrorists it will be a drone trying to sell someone something).

Ritchie Essential, Jobs Optional

I couldnt care less when a marketing exec dies. Really, truly, DONT care.

But a true computer scientist like Ritchie passes..... its sobering. Its like when we lost Stevens.

Kernighan is still with us.

Those 3 guys built the modern world, but morons do not know such things. They only know how to OOH! SHINY!!

Shouldn't it be.....

A Linux that tolerates the continuing (tenuous) existence of MS?........for now........?