Posts by DavidRa

Re: Chaos

This feels like a "because they can" scenario. They figure the phones without Play Store will be less desirable and thus they can double/triple/quadruple charge for the service (charge the phone manufacturers for the right to put an icon on the device, charge the developers 15-30% - I can't remember the actual number - for Play Store access), and no doubt if they figure out a way to do it, charge consumers extra and possibly telcos too.

Sure they did, but the universe invented better idiots

Of course. However, the incompletely-experienced often choose to force bypass that configuration. For example, a lot of systems aliased rm to "rm -i" by default, which would force interactive confirmations. People would then say "UGH, I hate having to do this" and add their own customisations to their shells/profiles etc:

unalias rm

alias rm=rm -f

Lo and behold, now no silly confirmations, regardless of stupidity/typos/etc.

Re: C

50 litres a minute? Wow. The Australian nanny-state seems to have limited most of the pumps I've used in the last couple of decades to about 20-30 lpm at most. Can't find any supporting requirement (e.g. Wikipedia lists US as limiting to 10Gpm or ~38lpm, but nothing for AU).

Certainly makes filling a 90L tank in 40C temps a bore.

I don't think you understand - this is Google demonstrating the problem so they can propose the advertising- and tracking-based fix.

Re: Question:

Of course they can, because they might be discussing terrywrism. With the threat of $50K fines hanging over their heads, we'll end up developing new capabilities - like the reconstruction of paper after burning, or creating the recording of a conversation years after it happened.

After all, if the laws of mathematics can be bypassed, physics and chemistry should be easy and reversal of entropy not far behind.

Re: Fs#king Pisa Airport!

So tell me - how many litres to fill the tank of this Fiat I've rented, based on the tank being 50L and the needle on the dial (which is of unknown accuracy and non-linear scale) showing somewhere between E and 1/2?

Bear in mind that if you get it wrong, you have to go through the rigamarole of doing it again with another semi-random amount or paying the $50 per ml that the rental extortionists charge?

My Civic used to get 330km from the "top half" of the dial (from F down to 1/2 tank) and 160km from the second half. 45L tank, but filling from E to 1/2 tank on the dial was only ~16 litres.

Re: 512 MiB of misery

I've had to do that when I've realised I've hit the power button on the wrong bit of kit (but before I let go). You used to be able to keep it on if you reapplied power within about half a second - sure you didn't want to do it all the time, but I saved my own bacon a dozen times.

Then came ATX.

Re: Bah!

> Isn't that Facebook's new marketing slogan?

It's hardly "new" at this point.

Re: Speaking of carbon paper...

"Sadly, one of my clients who sells supplies to school still have AND use these printers for orders. They still use hand signatures to go across all three copies vs using a tablet for a signature. Even though the paper is getting really expensive, I cannot get them to switch :(

Yes - they were impacted by the stupid MS updates on Windows 10. No - they do not want WSUS installed either :("

Time to fire them as a customer. You have a problem, and there's a known solution. You won't let us implement the solution, and you're still complaining.

"I'm sorry, but at the termination of our existing contract, tomorrow lunchtime, as governed by section 44.3.7.91(g) 'Unreasonable Customers', we will not be offering a renewal."

Re: Who owns the data ?

Well sure, but SAP seems to be attempting to say something like "Because the number 1 was stored in a SAP system for a time, you need to license all the 1s with which you interact". How many steps do you have to be away from SAP before exhaustion? Infinite.

Actually, I'm surprised they haven't attempted to charge/sue indirect users who have deliberately or inadvertently redistributed "SAP licensed" data (e.g. by sharing invoices that were generated in SAP or something similar). Stupid, ridiculous, and malicious, but when has that ever stopped them?

Re: Skype for Business

Now Teams, as I recall seeing.

Says the bloke who has happily deployed Exchange Chat, Live Communications Server x2, Office Communications Server x2, Lync x2 and SfB so far...

Re: Why write bandwidth matters

40 hours to write - that means you can't actually reach its wearout limit in the warranty period. So basically the warranty is back to time-based - 5 years.

Round and round we go...

Re: "Yes, I have experienced the issue of HPE ignoring warnings until the system went down. "

Au contraire monsieur.

Sir Loin of Beef had a 3Par 7250 model QZF rev 1 with seven UFS400 rev B drive trays cabled in configuration A.

The ATO had a 3Par 7250 model QZF rev 2 with nine UFS400 rev C drive trays cabled in configuration B.

These are totally different and in no way related, so the failures are completely unrelated and unique, have never happened before and HPE are totally telling the truth.

Technically they're still not wrong...

Re: Use NTP

Not necessarily. http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-time.htm#Q-TIME-LEAP-SECOND is prescriptive, but basically you end up with 23:59:59 --> 23:59:60 --> 00:00:00 (that's the leap second) instead of the normal 23:59:59 --> 00:00:00, when the extra second is inserted. After that it's up to the kernel (if it knows how to handle a LS) or NTP will adjust slowly back to sync.

It's simple, time never goes backwards. I mean seriously, this is a solved problem, and someone didn't understand enough about time.

Re: Confidentiality

Agreed. We can only hope the ACCC says "Well, you're acting like a monopoly by refusing to let people see the T&C's without a confidentiality agreement, so we're going to assume you ARE a monopoly, and that your T&Cs entrench your monopoly, oh and by the way, since you're a monopoly you can no longer enforce regulated pricing on iPhails by taking advantage of the loophole for selling on consignment."

Dreams ...

Um, no, a cluster consists of eight hundred and eighty (multi-socket, hundreds-of-GB of RAM and stack of disks) hosts.

At least, as far as I understand it.

So conceptually at least an Azure cluster is potentially 10,560 cores, 440TB of RAM and a few PB of flash and disk, all probably connected with something like 10GbE for networks and 56Gb Infiniband for HA and storage interconnects.

The above is conjecture, I have no direct knowledge.

No Cloud? How COULD you?

Oh well then it's fairly simple, you're just "wrong". See there's no scenario which having a one size fits all solution (like Cloud) doesn't suit perfectly.

Want offsite and archived backups? No, you don't. You don't have a need for them. They're archaic - just replicate the data it's the same thing because no-one would ever accidentally delete something, and you never have a regulatory or legal requirement to show "the way it was" 20 years ago.

Want the ability to work when your office Internet connection is on the fritz for a week because someone cut 2,000 fibers tearing up the main road to replace it with a tramway? Pfft. That could never happen.

Work somewhere you don't have 1000Mbps Internet? No, no way - there's no such place on Earth!

Oh, you think you have a critical application that can't be licensed for the Cloud? Just throw it out - you don't need it even if it runs your entire business!

Besides - you aren't one of the high priests of IT, so bow to your betters. Mainframes in space was never a better description, we're right back in the 70's with longer console lines to someone else's computer.

No disagreement from me, although I wasn't certain that upgrades to the fiber on that scale wouldn't need changes inside the ... FSA? FDA? FSAM? rather than on the borders.

Re: Mission impossible...

This doesn't make sense to me. You already have management of devices that Apple freely and willingly push as "personal, not for business" yet won't consider managing devices that are intended to be managed?

Either you have the ability to push out Windows updates (which includes Surface updates and BIOS), or you don't. Since I'll guess you do, you can update these tablets already. Also, you probably have some form of OS and app deployment (SCCM, Zen, ?????) which can push to any Windows machine. Because this is just another laptop/Windows machine. You manage it like anything else Windows in your fleet.

Also, I know several non-technical people who have purchased SP4 specifically because it's Windows and a tablet (in addition to the techies). No, it's not for everyone. But blanket disregard for change is antithetical to professional IT.

Re: Root requires a LICENSE?!

Oh, no I've worked with Cisco kit before - just not anything that requires a separate license to enter the "enable" command (and presumably to create a user with privilege level 15 or its equivalent).

Re: And what about applications that install themselves outside <program files>?

Oh, if only it were that easy. But apps (I'd say "real enterprise" if it wasn't so blatantly ridiculous) such as SalesForce don't even have a standard installer - just a web download that puts itself in %Temp% and installs into the user profile.

Central distribution? We can't have that, we need to be able to update our cloud app whenever we want, customer testing be damned.

And so we're all still allowing execution from %Temp% and AppData, which is effectively dropping daks, bending over a nearby table and being handcuffed to it with a sign saying "Please roger me with the spiked baseball bat behind you". Because the alternative is for no-one to be able to sell stuff and keep the business running.

But hey, what else can you do as a developer when those bloody admins insist on attempting to secure a machine? We have to do things the easiest way we can, security be damned!

Re: telling quote

Further, the implementation of (effectively) random words as root zones has no doubt caused extra costs to unrelated companies. I'll bet good money that there are hundreds or thousands of cases of internal domains being "duplicated" than just my own network at home. When I built it, 15? 18? years ago, .earth was a perfectly reasonable choice as it wasn't public. Now I can't even tell (programmatically) if I'm inside or outside the network if I look up nameservers for what was my internal space - it's no longer NXDOMAIN outside the walls.

And each one will require either some internal migration work (to something real that is "owned" or at the least to something that can never BE owned - good luck guessing today what ICANN will not decide to make available as a root domain over the coming decades). Or, "sorry no you can't browse that site at work because our internal network clashes with the Internet".

I'm not saying the individual costs are huge but when there are thousands of small impacts it adds up.

Re: RSAT-tastic

Pfft.

NET USER Bob /Domain *

<enter password twice>

Or if you insist on PSH:

Set-ADAccountPassword -Id Bob

<enter password twice>

And the way you get first line to work with it is you provide processes and/or your own toolset (e.g. a central website that audits and logs resets, runs PSH in the background, and does all the other first level stuff).

You could run up a .HTA app with jQueryUI in a couple of days that does this sort of thing - I know, I've done it recently to provide a front-end for USMT plus data backup and restore, plus password resets and computer moves.