Posts by pele

One possible explanation, since he mentions that backup systems would not trust other systems, is that backups were running expired certificates (for db connections etc) or for the backup sub-domain and backup machines would talk to eachother but would not talk to primaries (because of the aforementioned certificate issues) since noone ever bothered to check if they even could (cross-talk between the mix of primary and backup boxen). In the previous 70k-plus-employees organisation we had a team of 5 who would only worry about certificates and keep them fresh on all machines all day every day. We even had a random person in charge of changing batteries in servers on any given day for chrissake! And there were no "backup systems" per se, everything was live at all times, in parallel, but spread across 3 physical locations. And we would be knocking machines out daily in the process of rolling out new versions and patches so were constantly testing "backup systems". Every friday PSUs for the building were kicking in just for fun. As did the fire and smoke alarms. Something like this BA "incident" was not possible. So to my mind CIO/CTO bear the full responsibility for this together with a lot of people downstream from there. And CEO just for choosing an incompetent CTO/CIO for the job. And the whole board for bringing on-board such an incompetent CEO. YES you outsourcing crucial brain power to indian subcontinent DOES have EVERYTHING to do with this episode. Just like it did for RBS 5 years ago, an assowl comes along who thinks he can just "upgrade" the MQ and "lets just clear this stupid queue there who needs that anyway". I say someone needs to fine BA heavilly and use the money to re-hire all the laid-off people. And then re-nationalise the whole lot. No I never worked for BA nor am I a member of any workers union, I was just a well-pleased BA frequent flyer who is sad to see such a great airline being degraded by small greedy men who have no basic understanding of the quality they (used to) represent.

It's a damn shame that CMU is not going after some FAR bigger fish for infringing on their FAR bigger patents. CMU had argued that they don't want bad publicity. Now that the judgement has been reached in Marvell case I remain hopeful that CMU will see that they were going after the underdog and go for the big nasties out there...you know those that have more in unpaid dividends than the whole of Marvell is worth..

It's time someone put them in their place.