Posts by Giovani Tapini

Also a great way

of moving kit to a colo environment and telling the PHB that you have moved to cloud without changing anything apart from geography...

Diagnostic hammering..

So even NASA uses percussive maintenance! Does that mean I can safely say its now best practise even for the aerospace industry now...

If I could give NASA a thumb up for that I would do so.

I don't think you should have played that...Dan...

In principle this has been tried before on smaller scales. Although I cannot imagine most people's internet connection piping in 4k or 8k streams without "breaking the internet" or at least overwhelming their local connection.

Games are for more lag sensitive than movies - there is a need for upload removing a lot of capability of buffering. Even simple games can stutter and stall on standard internet connections. Beyond that, if you are trying to play people in foreign countries you run into the laws of physics becoming a barrier, not just hardware that could be upgraded. Latency will be a big challenge. This is why, at least in general, large MMO games have relatively simplified combat physics and behaviours over the complex versions that most locally played games have.

Regardless of discussion on Google being an appropriate host... I just don't quite get how this will work for many people to an acceptable standard..

I have ended up helping the field engineers that are proudly billiing me...

I remember diagnosing issues with services running on IBM iSeries with IBM field engineer. I also recall teaching him how to use the low level tools to perform the diagnostics at both software and hardware layers.

To be fair on the engineer these tools are fairly obscure on the platform, however obscure low level stuff is what is expected of them!

I don't remember all the discussions but I do recall the engineer saying "Thank you, I really had no idea any of these tools existed. This will be very useful on some of my other sites"

Also in this case they were called because any time there was an issue the management say "call the vendors, call the software suppliers" with no thought that the IT team may already know exactly what is happening but the answer is... er.... unpopular...

Just the locals "droning on" then

Although they do have a point.

High pitched sounds are indeed more irritating, most animals are more sensitive to higher pitches, and its freaking loud.

The idea of slowing them down baffles me, as it just means they are noisy for longer, who'd have thunk that eh?

Probably just needs a few cats chopped out of trees, or a nice neighbour with some barrage balloons to cause havoc (you can even get them with custom slogans... hint)

It would be far better to use them in rural areas if they have the range for longer trips with single items, although I can imagine the sheep there probably would start to file their own complaints...

Does this mean the end of custom firmware for your phone too then?

It is hard to see the edges and unintended consequences if enforced to the letter.

People with the same job title dont do the same work

I know job titles are a bit cosmetic, but you would expect there to be some fundamental similarities between similarly named roles in general.

Are Oracle routinely giving people fake job descriptions?

The most relevant comment in the article

is the one that says security of your passwords is not an issue until you open the password manager that uses them...

Ultimately you can throws layers of defence around access to your machine, it's services, the OS, etc. etc, but as soon as data has to be used or seen it is at risk. This suggests that the only safe data is that which is never accessed and not accessible. Otherwise there will always be threat vectors.

I would like to think that these tools will be fixed where the entire password catalogue is stored in plaintext, and they are decrypted on demand. But decrypted they must be while systems are accessed in a way where credentials must be entered. The benefit of this, is that I own my own credentials (albeit with described risks) whereas a lot of the alternatives you have to trust someone else and their own infrastructure to manage your identity for you.

Big Brother, or incompetence could make this more catastrophic than the loss of individuals credentials if they happen to be the one unlucky enough to be compromised. Bearing in mind the general public don't even seem to care about being compromised unless it slows down facebook too much we, although right, are not barking up the right tree.

Have big red

Made sure they hadn't employed or contracted anyone that would give themselves leverage? I don't imagine for a second the two guys had any overall power over the bureaucratic purchasing machine.

Oracle calling ANYTHING unduly restrictive has to be having a laugh.

If the DoD is not authorized to enter the market at all how does that help them? That's just bad luck.

Again, the winners will be lawyers and nobody else...

Will probably encourage

More copyright thieves sending takedown notices to original content providers. These scum cannot be challenged as the YouTubers in Google's case will me marked with challenges and banned.

This problems are less with Google but what is now a wild west of claim, counter claim between law firms at the creators loss. Yes there are some blatant copies of stuff but they will easily republish via TOR

Business before pleasure...

Any app from any app store, including fruit flavoured ones collecting personal information should arguably be audited. This is information over and above that already collected by the app store owner, Google or otherwise.

In some ways, this is a really good idea, although instead of pushing an auditable qualification standard, pushing specific auditor firms and costs does not sit well with me.

It's always fun to bash Google, however business before pleasure and all that, I would rather see other stores take a similar stance, albeit with a more flexible regime depending on the data collected and the volatility of the use-cases. These proposed costs do seem rather excessive for the masses, and will probably end up inefficiently re-auditing a few advertising solutions hundreds of times as they are consumed in apps. Frankly Google, evil or otherwise, is scrutinised far more than random-app-developer.com's independent, unsupervised, data harvesting operation.

He is now slipping down the greasy pole

He clearly has little idea about how the internet works. Or that people have bookmarked the site. Many people use bookmarks and forget the domain entirely, like contacts on phone where you only now recall your own number.

Indeed if I site suddenly changed like that my first assumption would be that it's an imposter and not to be trusted at all.

They are well rid of him...

Mouse ball sucked up by vaccum cleaner?!

As I recall they were like steel shot with a rubber coating that was solid and heavy enough to use as high calibre musket shot and kill people.

I do recall finding spiders nesting in one, given the inside of the mouse was effectively void.

The worst was the debris that collected on the sensor wheels, not the ball though. These would get caked in some sort of solidified mucus and collect enough hair to make a fairly convincing wig. Usually this hair would have to be surgically removed with scissors and sharp knife.

Those were the days...

Yes, I have been to places like the one described

It's not what I would call "clean" dirt like a factory environment, this is environmentally hazardous, deliberately created, and usually malodourous laziness.

Where you don't even want to sit on the chairs because you cant tell if the unidentifiable stains on the chairs are still moist, and the toilets smell so bad that you would rather hold on till bursting than actually use them. Indeed using the floor may actually make the place cleaner...

Using the kettle you find it contains a layer of discoloured slime that may be from accidental ingest of soup powder or simply congealed rust, the mugs are filthy and the sink is so full of dirty items you cant even see if clean water may drop from the tap. Bearing in mind that you could only reach the tap while wearing gloves of a length that a farm vet would envy...

I wonder if they treat their customers the same way they treat their own office...

Article talks about crubling courts

In my area they are looking at closing the local, recently and expensively built court to "save money" in favour of the crumbling buildings it was intended to replace.

Sounds like the same strategy applies to their IT!

Perhaps I should stop using Cisco network gear

In case it's enabling the Americans to spy on me, as opposed to normal commercial gouging...

I strongly suspect that this is more related to the trade dispute and "America first" than any genuine issues.

All vendors are based in countries where governments could attempt device comprising, either for targeted shipping or backdoor as a standard service.

Perhaps the Chinese could accuse AWS of enabling mass surveillance by the NSA with all the concentration of data and networking and compute while standardising their configuration for interception..."cloud is US cloak encouraging people to provide the state intelligence service with all their data voluntarily and unwittingly."

Basically they are all either at it or capable. Set up your networking properly, try to avoid single vendor setups (usually easy as they all have services they don't provide) and use encryption.

If you don't trust anyone keep your data off the Internet, otherwise use caution and wait for evidence before backing the latest political manoeuvre...