Posts by Mark 110

Its not necessarily about moving to SQL - probably more about being able to move to Linux without having to migrate data to a new DB product.

Re: praise?

The word praise was used sarcastically. In fact 'faint praise' is fairly standard English language idiom meaning the opposite of praise.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/damn-with-faint-praise

Re: tough job to abandon Oracle DB

Last time I was at Unilever many years ago, and if you are selling databases is there a bigger consumer, they were migrating their entire database backend for their SAP systems off Oracle onto DB2 because Oracle had tried to milk them too hard. IBM were seriously sugaring the pill mind.

If you want to behave like Oracle you deserve to lose business.

Another company I worked for we resolved a million plus license liability to Oracle they had got themselves into. Zero help from Oracle to get them out of it.

Oracle are cunts. Avoid if possible.

Re: @LDS ... "It's a statistical thing."

Doesn't the fact the code is open present a better chance the 'wrong person' can find the vulnerabilities. They are the ones with the motivation to go looking.

Something like Kerberos thats always been assumed to be secure the 'right' people have never looked at.

I agree its better the right people can look, but is it good that the wrong people can also look?

Re: Wait, there's no way to kill the foreground app in Android?

Of course there are ways to do this. The Panic mode is there for if those ways aren't working because theres a buggy app in the way. Not quite sure why they couldn't just code this into the home button single press. When I press the home button I expect it to take me home regardless of what the current foreground app is doing.

Re: Heat exchanger on TOP of rack?

It was in the basement I think the article said. Agree in principle.

Tempted as I am by all tech I just can't think of how this improves my phone or PC interface. Its a voice interface. Looks good on a star-ship bridge. Sucks balls in a living room.

Re: Ah, the joys of virtual currencies

This does make Bitcoin seem a bit shitter than it already seemed.

Re: I call that a result

Yep - got what was deserved. Well, for that kind of behaviour they should have lost the property. Just nationalise it. Might make them think a little harder about being racist next time.

Re: who's the contractor

Couldn't we have just bought a working system from someone and developed the interfaces. I assume other countries have Customs management systems that work . . .

Re: Will it really make any differece?

"They do throttle, eventually. Noticed it on several wet weekends when we've all ended up staying in, streaming most of the day, and bought a game on steam."

That will be capacity issue rather than throttling. Wet weekend = everyone in your street stuck in the house hammering their internet connection.

Re: I've never understood this

I just don't understand whats so inconvenient about a wire.

"While some excitable industry folk are already shrieking about 5G and how the continent as a whole is supposedly "falling behind" in deploying it, others argue that Blighty in particular should instead concentrate on perfecting 4G coverage."

Shouldn't they try and get 3G coverage right first . . . Just saying. Given my experiences on the train from Liverpool to Southampton which must have less than 50% network coverage . . . versus my experiences in some random rural mountainous area of India with full coverage.

Its a thing ripe for nationalization and consolidation of all the bandwidth and coverage into one provider. What we are currently doing is a pile of poo.

Re: Faster by using Windows download?

@Mage - So just use a normal install. I agree the Windows store is a bit rubbish . . . . but as I have only ever used it to see what it did then decided it was an unnecessary obstacle its not an irritant.

Unlike the whole Linux equivalent which has caused me no end of pain.

Re: I never fail to be amazed

And what would you use instead?

It would be a vast undertaking for someone like Unilever to migrate their hundreds of factories, 10s of thousands of staff, hundreds of suppliers and customers onto something new. Completely re-engineer all their Logistics, Supply Chain, Marketing and BI.

What would be the benefit?

Re: A different battle

"Putting kit on premises makes no sense"

Depends on the scenario. There's lots of use cases that work for Public cloud. There's lots that don't for all manner of reasons.

Re: Maybe...

We used to get all sorts of crap back in my Telewest days (yes I am that old) when big trunk fibres broke - either through classic JCB strikes or something to do with exploding electric grid transformers under roads (whoi new that was a thing?).

Anyway - even when the majority of routing failed onto redundant circuits for most traffic we'd always find the phones continued to ring because of strange undocumented static route configurations. It was usually quicker for the engineers to finish resplicing 1000 fibres than it was to dig through the routing tables.

Re: And so-

I thought perfection was a couple of episodes ago but I am currently getting funny looks off colleagues cos I am sat here grinning for no apparent reason :-D

Re: let me guess...

God, I hate those downvoters who don't tell us why. Whats wrong with Bombastics post? Seems like a well thought through and presented argument to me.

Re: watering hole attacks?

Setting up a website or other delivery mechanism such as social media account (watering hole) to deliver malware and then using your phishing emails and/or search result manipulation, etc to get your marks to go and drink the bad stuff.

I think anyway. Happy to be corrected.

Re: Market share? What market?

Its only including servers their scanners can see and get a response from. Anything behind a firewall or with the services that respond to those requests switched off won't show.

However there are a hell of a lot of SMEs that are Windows shops.

So this is one of:

- theres more Windows boxes out their than us Enterprise IT types imagine and the figures are correct

- 'nix, etc admins are more likely to harden their web facing boxes so we can't see them on these stats

- Most nix is behind Enterprise firewalls so doesn't appear on these stats

Re: 8 or 9 exabytes?

That's an estimate of what its customers are using its product to manage. Not what Aptare is doing itself.

Sounds like a cool bit of kit. Wish we had it here. Would make my job much much easier.

Re: I hate Agile as well

"Assuming you have defined replication ratio set to 3 in order to grow your storage size by 2 TB you just add 3 disks 2 TB each."

I was thinking of scenarios where there's no space for any more disks. I have no idea how much it costs to make space for more disks on a HCI platform?

Branson has never owned much (if any? Its a while back - I can't remember the exact terms) of VM. He just licenses the brand to them for a few £mill per year.

Re: Cost is the smaller concern

I disagree. For the NHS cost is the biggest concern and will become increasingly so.

The NHS is a great setting for an Linux desktop where 90% of the estate is applied to specific job functions - booking systems, record keeping, etc - just a handful of applications and hopefully a lot of them browser based. Limited set of applications and should be locked down nice and tight.

Re: Good

Seconded

Re: Bring Back

Agree completely. Its absolutely true that having 90% of the world on the same OS makes life easy for the attackers.

My point was more around the perception of Windows being fragile is probably to do with it getting attacked more than anything else. I wouldn't argue that it hasn't got security flaws but I imagine most other things do to. Linux was just an example.

Re: Next up -Microsoft...

In what way are they "forcing Edge". I was asked once if I wanted it to be my default browser. I said no. They never asked me again. Such a bizarre comment . ..

Re: What's eclipsing?

Mars I should think

Re: This article is sponsored by AWS

The Disclaimer was in the subheading of the article and was the first word of the article "Sponsored: High-performance computing (HPC) environments are expensive . . . "

Re: Huh?

Did you read the article? Its optional.

Re: Mandatory voting.

I wasn't saying turning out can't effect the result. Its just fining people for not turning out seems a bit harsh in many constituencies where, under FPTP, it won't make a difference. If you made turn out mandatory in my constituency then labour would just win by more votes than they currently do.

If we had a decent PR system (I'm thinking AV+ or DPR but there are others) Labour would win by more votes and get more representatives. Votes for smaller parties would also be represented in parliament. There are no wasted votes.

Re: Hello

Or the press could just ignore the press releases and report . . . errr . . . nothing!! There was enough cynicism in there for me along with the oh yeah that could be cool.

It could be cool. Chill.

Re: Well look on the bright side

Sinn Fein do tend to be a little more coherent than the DUP