Posts by Calleb III

One pig = 8 rumps, sign me up

Next to come Centipede pig

Joke's on us, as sure as hell their human/corporate overlords aren't going to pay much tax themselves

Re: ???

"install a computer virus via a trojan, someone please explain this one?"

Just a speculation if that was the case here but popular method is something in the line of:

Scammer: Sir/Madame we detected that your computer is infected by viruses and as you are a valued customer we offer you free technical assistance in removing them.

TalkTalk punter: How can i trust you are from TalkTalk

Scammer: Here is your account number and private details that you only shares with TalkTalk (gives leaked details from the TalkTalk hack)

TalkTalk punter: Ok i trust you are from TT, now what?

Scammer: Please go to https://TalkTalkSupport.org/support download and install the remote assistance software that i need in order to get access to your PC and clean the viruses

TalkTalk punter: Ok, I'm installing the tool but my anti-virus warns me it might be a Trojan

Scammer: Not to worry kind sir, this is normal, just ignore the warning, I'm from TalkTalk, you trust me, no?

Scammer proceeds to gain access to the punter PC and instead of cleaning imaginary viruses actually infects it.

Re: Seriously?

If the damaged cable was the passive in an active/passive setup and a failover was triggered for whatever reason (like primary/active controller node failing or being rebooted for firmware upgrade or simply failing etc.)

It's a loooong shot and would expose poor redundancy in the first place but not impossible.

My $$ is on firmware bug(s) though - same thing that brought down KCL's 3PAR

Because they will become stationary. They might need to bring one outside of the cabin to loot at schematic and/or wiring on something like stuck landing gear or what not.

And it's not like the plane is not full of li-ion batteries of all the passenger gear

Re: Were the real lawyers on holiday ?

>So how are private parking companies laying expensive tickets on cars for overstaying and such??

They are doing so out of court, most people are ignorant and pay. Others challenge them in court and the parking enforcers usually back down immediately.

Re: "'get as much $$$ by any means and spend as little $$$$ by any means"

>I hate to tell you but that's pretty much SOP for all businesses.

Not quite, while maximizing income and minimizing expense is SOP for all business, the "by any means" part is definitely not

But they are all the same shit, but little different. Might as well go for the cheapest

Re: Okay then...

>So this move will be directly correlated with a lower job satisfaction, higher absenteeism and turnover costs...

But ultimately a (seemingly) higher bottom line as it will lead to certain proton of the staff quitting, lowering the payroll cost, earning the execs nice bonuses in the process.

Re: Leaking Helium?

Not quite HGST = Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

WD bought them a while ago, but they still use the brand

Re: So I'm having....

That's why you make multiple work streams, working on alternative solutions in parallel

Re: Why not just dollar value?

"Truly - best laws money can buy."

Pfft Yankee amateurs, I present thee the UK tax code and it's record holding 17'000+ pages (and counting)

http://www.f9consulting.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/long-tax-code.jpg

Re: Where there is smoke, there is fire

Not possible because of HBO trademark infringement...

Re: Helium?

As others have explained it's used because Helium is much less dense than air. But they missed one of the advantages, which is not heat, but turbulence. At high speeds and fractions of a mm between plates the turbulence is a major factor preventing higher density.

Re: Jesus saves, but also does incremental off-site backups

There was working backup set, the problem is TTR for 250TB of data is a tad longer than even a half baked DR...

Re: Three to appear in court over TalkTalk hack

"working" as intended by the author...

According to Wikipedia (not the best of sources for this) They are making 0.7bn profit on the 7bn turnover which is a healthy 10%

Re: With cloud computing, hackers have so many more points of entry

You (nor me) don't know what is running on the co-lo kit and how it's secured to make an informed statement whether this is smart or not. there is plenty of insensitive data and applications in a bank that are perfectly suited for co-lo/cloud.

Re: Question?

This is the inevitable result of FPTP, colorfull explanation here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

Re: More hype than reality ... in operations

I'm not saying that the future of containers is guaranteed, but given the fact that the majority of the cloud load is from web services, the ability to just dump containerised applications on top of he hypervisor without having to muck about with VMs/Servers and guest OSes is definitely something to look for in the future.

Once that happens, they'll stop in a very short period.

So never...

Re: “Our storage algorithm allows us to regenerate any corrupted or lost data.”

Irrelevant, as this is cold storage offering and hardly anyone is looking for intersite redundancy of that

Re: Insurance premiums

Your logic is false. If the driver less cars prove much safer record their premiums will be lower than the meatbag models indeed. But that doesn't mean the meatbag premiums will get more expensive than meatbag premiums now, only than driverless cars in the future.

Not to mention that it will take years if not decades to correctly establish driverless cars safety records to match a driver with say 20 years of experience and 5+ years of NC bonus, So I wouldn't hold my breath for this to be the selling point of driverless cars

Re: I'm puzzled

Dedup is more of a buzzword in a sales pitch than actually useful feature. It doesn't work well on dynamic data and most of the static data is backups and archives which are already compressed

Re: Who not jam the lot?

Not sure how the wireless ones work but i'm fairly sure the wired operate a kind of hearth beat, meaning that when you cut the cord it's equal to triggering the sensor. The jammers are used to block the outgoing call to the security company.

DevOps

It's where the management decides they don't need to pay the computer people in operations, when they already have computer people in Development, that know computers right....

I get the idea of SysOps and Devs working closely together.

I don't get the idea of the same person writing code, managing hypervisors, storage, network, AD you name it. Yes there are a limited number of people out there who are capable of doing all this on a professional level, but certainly not to amount that is in demand according to the job ads. So everyone ends up with subpar Developers and subpar Sys admins for 20% higher price, go figure...

"On a laptop, I really don't care about performance per watt."

Unfortunately for AMD, most people actually do care about performance per watt on a laptop as it's tied to the battery life. And where 2h battery wife might be acceptable to some, nowadays people tend to expect full working day of 8+ hours on battery charge for office load.