And a small dent in the write-off losses from the Autonomy debacle for HPE.
Posts by A Non e-mouse
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Oracle really does owe HPE $3b after Supreme Court snub
TSMC, Samsung plan price hikes for chip designers – reports
Uber, Meta to reduce hiring as stocks slide
Only Microsoft can give open source the gift of NTFS. Only Microsoft needs to
Monday 9th May 2022 11:43 GMT 
Re: Microsoft should move beyond NTFS
I think you'll find the design of a filesystem is closely aligned to the primary operating system it's going to work with. If you try to design a filesystem that works with Linux, Windows, Apple, etc, you'll either end up with a very basic filesystem (e.g. something looking a lot like FAT) or something so hideously complicated that no-one will use because it's too slow, bug ridden and complicated to debug.
And I'm not even getting to the differening workloads/use cases placed on a filesystem.
We all know which XKCD we're thinking of here.
Monday 9th May 2022 10:37 GMT 
Microsoft Bashing
Oh please, can we all stop the childish "Why does anyone use Microsoft software?" In your little fantasy world you may be able to survive as a "pure blood" but the rest of us live in the real world and have to deal with Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, et al. I'm not saying their products (or the companies for that matter) are wonderful: I swear at them on a daily basis. But my employer has decided that software X is what it wants and either I help support it or I look for another job. I doubt there are many IT jobs where you don't touch Microsoft (or Oracle or IBM) products.
Monday 9th May 2022 10:31 GMT
I don't see EXT4 being included in Windows.
devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/access-linux-filesystems-in-windows-and-wsl-2/
RAD Basic – the Visual Basic 7 that never was – releases third alpha
Apple's return-to-office plan savaged by staff
Tuesday 3rd May 2022 20:33 GMT
Many of us spend several hours every day commuting to and from the office..
You knew that when you accepted your job at Apple. Complaining now because you've discovered a different work/life balance isn't Apple's fault.
This is the dilema many, many employees face across the world: LIve close to work where costs are sky high, or live further away but loose many hours a week of your life to commutting.
Autonomous Mayflower to attempt Atlantic crossing, again
BT starts commercial trial of quantum secured London network
ZX Spectrum, the 8-bit home computer that turned Europe on to PCs, is 40
AMD: Our Epyc CPUs helped Mercedes win F1 Constructors' Championship
Google tracked record 58 exploited-in-the-wild zero-day security holes in 2021
Atlassian outage lingers, sparking data loss fears
Tuesday 12th April 2022 07:03 GMT
Re: More than two months
I believe this has been fixed by Microsoft.
theregister.com/2022/04/08/atlassian_service_issues_linger_leaving
At last, Atlassian sees an end to its outage ... in two weeks
Day 7 of the great Atlassian outage: IT giant still struggling to restore access
Monday 11th April 2022 18:37 GMT
Re: From the ZSF book of quotations...
When writing contract specs, our legal dept. insist on putting in KPIs to keep the vendor honest. The vendor duly agrees to these KPIs when they sign the contract.
I asked our legal people: What would happen if the vendor breached the KPIs? Would we sue them? Terminate the contract? All I got in return was a shrug. The legals are keen to add all this boiler-plate into the contract, but not keen on actually doing anything when asked to.
The vendor knows our legal team aren't keen on taking any action so don't on the KPIs anyway.
Monday 11th April 2022 14:47 GMT
Re: Ah....remember....."cloud" is cheaper......
And big enough to have:
* Enough knowledgeable staff to cover for sickness, holiday, COVID, etc
* Enough kit/capacity to cope with systems(s) going down
You pick the right tool for the job. I work for a large company and we have a mixture of on-prem and cloud. On-prem when the problem is big enough to tick the boxes above; Cloud when the product/service is too small/niche for us to keep skilled up to manage.
Amazon books rocket flights for its Kuiper broadband internet satellites
Wednesday 6th April 2022 09:20 GMT
The satelities are all in low Earth orbit so experience a minute amount of atmospheric drag. They will naturally fall back to Earth over time. They need engines just to stay in orbit. It's a good failsafe.
As to the rockets: SpaceX are recycling/reusing their first stage rockets & fairings. Not sure what happens to the second stage. As to the other launch providers....
GitLab issues critical update after hard-coding passwords into accounts
National Security Agency employee indicted for 'leaking top secret info'
The wild world of non-C operating systems
Thursday 31st March 2022 09:30 GMT
Re: ARM Holdings Instruction Set Bias
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family#Design_concepts
Nvidia releases $1,999, 8K-capable GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GPU
GNOME 42's inconsistent themes are causing drama
Debugging source is even harder when you can't stop laughing at it
Monday 28th March 2022 09:37 GMT
Re: Been there, done that, tipped the swear jar
And I've seen similar comments around my own code, that was coded up ever so clever and making use of arcane template knowledge that meant my code was awesome, extremely succint, nicely formatted and impossible to modify without basically having to rewrite it from scratch
You wrote it in Perl?
Help, my IT team has no admin access to their own systems
Friday 25th March 2022 08:42 GMT 
I worked in a small company that worked closely with other similar, local companies. We all had independent IT. One day I got an email from one of the other IT teams asking me to reset their admin password as they'd lost it. I replied saying I couldn't as I didn't have access to their system. It took a bit of persuading that I couldn't help. They then asked how they could reset the admin password. I told them it probably wouldn't be a quick and painless process (just as it shouldn't be)
The admin password they'd lost was the global admin account for their Office 365 tenancy.
Complaints mount after GitHub launches new algorithmic feed
Wednesday 23rd March 2022 15:05 GMT 
And how many of these vocal complainers are actually paying Github for service?
A couple of stats from: expandedramblings.com/index.php/github-statistics/
Number of Github users: 73 million
Annual Income: $200 million.
DoJ accuses Google of training staff to make 'false requests for legal advice'
Oxidation-proof copper could replace gold, meaning cheaper chips, says prof
This browser-in-browser attack is perfect for phishing
Openness of Oracle licensing and audit tools questioned
Half of bosses out of touch with reality, study shows
Wednesday 16th March 2022 21:13 GMT 
Leaders Vs Managers
Please don't fall into the trap in believing that someone at the top of the management food chain is a "leader". Being a leader and being a manager are two very different skills.
I would argue that Steve Jobs was a leader at Apple whereas Tim Cook, sat in the same executive position, is just a manager. (A very senior manager, but still just a manager)
Wednesday 16th March 2022 21:05 GMT
Re: Hybrid work ?
That day is collectively acknowledged to be the least productive of the week
In isolation there's probably less work being done. But if you look at people's work throughput over the longer period you'll probably find it higher than if they never met in person as their mental health is way better.
We have to stop measuring a successful work environment as one which enables people to get the most work done. Has no-one ever heard of burn-out?
Russian demand for VPNs skyrockets by 2,692%
Tuesday 15th March 2022 16:12 GMT
Re: Not yet banned
You can probably easily pick-out the IPSec & Wireguard based VPNs based on ports/protocols, but the SSL ones that run over port 443, et al are much harder to identify from normal HTTPS web traffic. (And don't forgot an awful lot of stuff is now shoe-horned to run over HTTPS so your heuristics have to be pretty good to pick out just VPN traffic.)
If you want to connect GPUs direct to SSDs for a speed boost, this could be it
Tuesday 15th March 2022 08:49 GMT
Re: Whats old is new
I guess the reason this is really taking off is that the storage is no longer the bottleneck. In the past you needed something like a CPU to moderate access to storage to ensure no one device or process hogged storage. Now storage is no longer the bottleneck and everything can talk to it direct.
Prototype app outperforms and outlasts outsourced production version
Monday 14th March 2022 08:53 GMT
Scouts UK
Sounds an awful lot like the UK Scouts system: https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2015/01/23/national_scouts_database_at_serious_security_risk/#c_2420265
I wonder how that's going?
Conflict in Ukraine disrupts fragile supply chain recovery
Thursday 10th March 2022 15:35 GMT
Re: "Russia will likely turn to Chinese vendors to bypass Western sanctions."
Right now, Russia needs China more than China needs Russia. But China also needs The Rest Of The World.
Russia is in a weak position with China and China is walking a fine line between supporting Russia and not pissing off TROTW.
IT blamed after HR forgets to install sockets in new office
400Gbps is the new normal for biz networks
Monday 7th March 2022 07:51 GMT
Re: The eternal questions
You have to remember that these higher speeds (10Gb/s+) aren't generally 10Gb/s: They're multiplexes of slower speeds (e.g. 4 x 2.5Gb/s)
This multiplexing for interconnects usually* isn't a problem but for an edge connection it definitely becomes an issue where it depends. on how the multiplexing happens. (Per host, per port, per UDP/TCP flow, etc)
* - I saw a HPC user happily buy some 100Gb/s networking only to complain that they couldn't saturate it. The problem was this multiplexing issue. Once they re-configured their software, viola...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
