Posts by Sam Paton

Hurray

Good luck to them, at least we can get PRs accepted again. Pretty confident that Hashicorp will get left behind pretty quick on this one.

Lucky they have other products

Going forward... really?

How about “in the future”.

It’s bad enough people saying it, without it being used without irony in my favourite source of snarky tech news.

Oh those bitcoin, yeah I’ve definitely lost them officer sorry.

No, officer, absolutely no possibility I was smart enough to distribute my coins but dumb enough to store my private keys in a single place, in my house. That I run a criminal enterprise from.

Of course I’d never wait you out and access them later. What do you think I am, a liar AND a criminal. Jeez

I’d never lie to you.

As many called out the whole tld thing is a scam. That said I can see why Amazon and .aws would be useful to Jeff but it’s all just a jip really. No one takes them seriously and no one would think to use them.

Look at ford.cars for example

Feeling both a little smug, and a bit bad.

I took a decision a while ago to not buy Sonos again because of their practices. Got rid of the last one recently, poor guy that bought it has just paid $300 for something that’s about to be junk

Given I replaced it with LS50W’s I’m sure I’ll have something similar happen at some point, the software is pretty shocking but oh my gosh the sound

With regards to the app switching, if you move the pill up rather than left or right it’s a lot easier to see what’s open and to close things.

Of course he hasn't got a job. He tried but none of the recruitment consultants called him back as he didn't have a degree or 5 years experience.

A 4 hour RPO is generally considered pretty tight in non-transactional environments and the recovery is comfortably in so it would seem their protections worked.

If you corrupt the data files and the archive logs you're losing data. It's just a case of when you last put some files in a place that didn't get FUBAR'd. Moving them every few hours is normal and 4 hours is a common figure used as it's a good balance.

I'm sure that Salesforce will be crafting more expensive and complex solutions for more stringent objectives as we speak.

Wouldn't want to be a CIO explaining that they lost that amount of data if the business did not "allow" that amount of data loss though.

Haha left wing.

Aussie politics: Centre right, far right and ooo that Hitler fellow's a bit lax on immigration isn't he.

Nice to see the current lot following Gordon Browns lead and still not managing to balance the budget during a growth period though. Eejits.

They're not really online only, just online occasionally.

Buy CS6, Buy the cloud offering in 3 years when you probably need the upgrade. No point giving yourself a heartattack because you don't have a new version that probably isn't that relevent for you. Most people know if they need it. Personally I still find new stuff and I've been using Photoshop since version 5.5 and other than content aware actions and maybe gpu offloading most changes have been a bit meh. Sure the usually 'fix' a tool (or make it so you can't find it or it doesn't work the same) per release and that might improve your productivity but that then has a value you can justify expenditure on.

Maybe we'll get a resurgence of Quark and Corel, that probably wouldn't be a bad thing.

As for the UK pricing, it's fairly arbitary. Australia was $59.99 a month until the Australian government started its pricing investigation for software sales and then 'coincidentally' the prices dropped $49.99

"If you're spending $10,000 on public cloud ...there is a cost associated with that"

Wise words there Mark, wise words. Would it be about $10,000 by any chance.

Not that uncommon, the US has the same thing and has done for years and you only need to invest $1m

I hoped that they meant an overhaul that meant that paperback books weren't $35 (£20) each or that DVD's and Blu Ray's weren't twice the price of Europe or America. My mistake.

Keep buying from Amazon UK then I guess.

Sounds Familiar

I suggested almost exactly this idea to Symbian about five years ago. That They do a shell store that operators or end users can customise and take revenue from but is integrated directly to the phones.

If only I wasn't so lazy at turning ideas into products

So illustrous thought leader, what do we do?

Here's where I struggle, if you have large data volumes (in the PB range for clarification) and there are low levels of duplication (I know this isn't typical), then what are the alternatives.

You can mitigate it over time with distributed models and the like but I don't see that we're there yet. Until the migration from client / server and monolithic enterprise arrays using RAID back ends we still need backups, they still need to be maintained and sent offsite and at large scale Tape is just cheaper at doing that.

Not designed for western markets

It's for developing countries where there might not be a reliable electricity charge but they are more likely to have a bike. (It's a lot cheaper in those markets)

They just sold it here as a pander to greenies.

So wait.

He tries to get consideration in sentencing because he is "wrestling with a gambling addictionW, and then asks if he can pay it back because he's making a living off poker (still considered gambling in UK courts hence the tax situ)... Genius.

Oh come on

Is the Reg taking some news tips from Engadget. Nice to get a bit of conspiracy in there but there is quite a big difference between -10 and -25 or lower, which isn't uncommon in Finland. Even in the south.

I've had my iPhone screen stop responding whilst here. I don't think it's really a refund worthy fault (I might think different if I was in Northern Finland) but the judgement is more reflective of Finland's generally socially orientated government and regulations than some silly protectionist policies (which wouldn't work anyway, everyone here seems to be buying HTC's or iPhones)

Orly

You only need to look at the advertisements to see why they can't get the people.

Take a random job and you'll see something like being; Red Hat Certified, MCSE, CCNP, VCP, have extensive knowledge of SAN's, know EMC and Netapp storage inside out and ITIL v3 and TOGAF qualified.

And for your god like knowledge of IT Infrastructure we'll pay you £45k a year.

Now working in the real world as I do, in a million years I wouldn't get my company to pay for half that training. So I can

a) Go overseas and do the training cheap

b) Or spend half a years salary (Or half an MBA) to pay for it

or

c) Watch it go to someone who is shipped in at £35k a year, has all the required certificates but crucially does NOT know what they're talking about.

If you read almost every single job, the recruiter wants you to be doing exactly that job already. God forbid you should learn or expand in a new position.

hmm

That statistician in me does wonder how relevant those headline suicide rates are.

I do wonder what the rate would be amongst those in gainful employment and without critical illness. I would suspect (in the abscence of any inclination to check) that it would be somewhat lower than that.

However, given the size of the facility it wouldn't seem to be *that* high a rate and those that are depressed could be seeing it as their way to get some noteriety in their dull and monotenous (I'm guessing, they live in a factory after all) lives. Probably the same thing that happened with that cluster of suicides in Bridgend (which has a tenth of the population and a WAY higher suicide rate)

Things change, people forget

If Nokia, Samsung or LG can produce a phone that has 90% of the shininess factor (UI wise) of an iPhone they can produce it for a lot less than Apple can or would ever sell it at and most people won't care enough to pay the massive Apple tax.

As the Android phones and Meego / Symbian^4 devices improve, Apple will need to quickly extend their lead over the others as those marvelous profit margins will evaporate pretty quick as Motorola found out in the post Razr years and Nokia are increasingly finding (they aren't in the dire straits people make out)

Apple does currently make the others look bad (issues with the iphone notwithstanding, ie shit call quality) but the gap will close and I personally can't see what they can do next that would be the same sort of step change to differentiate them from their competitors (This lack of foresight obviously being why I'm not rich)

What Apple are doing and others are increasingly aiming for is that they can lock people into the ecosystem because of the sunk costs of their apps etc and then that makes them less likely to leave when the 'new' uberphone comes along that likely as not won't be created by that manufacturer.

Ah good old DVLA post

I sent off for a change of address on my driving licence. They sent me thanks in return, and returned the proof of ID. Someone elses brand new biometric passport.

USB Speaker

For me the best feature is that I can connect it to the USB on my laptop or desktop and it becomes a USB Speaker, so I get all my properly encoded lossless stuff that doesn't fit on my iphone.

Lovely bit of kit, firmware update doesn't work in Windows 7 though which is a bit irritating.

Market Forces

I don't understand why they'd complain, if the market doesn't want it then Oracle don't get the sales. If people do want it then they do and Microsoft are proven wrong.

Not that complicated surely

not that much

The IBM blades have supported SSD's for years, they had those silly little 15GB ones for years.

No they won't have any embedded 10GbE any time soon. Personally For my own VMWare configuration I'd prefer that they didn't anyway to be honest, keep management and vmotion off of the q tagged 10GbE trunks (ala best practice), plus you get a bit more flexibility through not having expensive options enforced but it's horses for courses.

So really what you're saying is that IBM have taken a while to bring out a 18 Slot server vs a 12 Slot. Which is a fair point. They were still trying to push the XSeries Scale Up as the ideal virtualisation solution (it does work pretty damn well in fairness) so they've probably finally given up on that.

It'll be interesting to see what happens if IBM finally manages to nail Scale Up on the bladecenters using the XSeries chipset.

495c's are a nice little blade though.

HP = Meh

EVA is crap, XP you might as well buy from HDS or from Sun for much cheapness (how long that relationship lasts is another matter)

The lefthand stuff, not really used it so can't comment too much.

EMC, HDS, StorageTek and god forbid IBM (replace the 8000 now please) have a better portfolio of products if you want to form an end to end solution from a single vendor. If you are happy to manage multiple vendors then the world is your oyster and there's nothing to make many people go "ooo let's go to HP"

Earth Round, Pope Catholic

Well they would say that, seeing as they don't really 'do' high end.

Hardly an earth shattering revelation from a storage vendor is it. "Use cache to reduce required spindles or disk speed" We've all designed solutions doing exactly the same thing. They just happen to have a fancy name for it and a slightly different way of implementing it.

I think the markets for both drive types will still exist for a while though. They're not really *that* different these days any differentiation is just a choice of the drive manufacturer who quite likes his SAS / Enterprise SATA margins thanks very much.

Always an interesting discussion when someone says that a solution 'requires' SCSI or SAS, because you know SATA drives and controllers haven't sped up at all in the last 5 years. "But I need high throughput......"

Tier One ISPs

They're for the global telco's. Tier One ISPs aren't in the habit of changing their core routers very often as you're looking at hundreds of millions and into the billions in network investment before its necessary. So the core routers need to be able to scale to support increases in the data transmitted.

At this level they're basically designing equipment to specifications given to them by the telcos.

10 Years ago it was rare that carriers had a 10 Gigabit backbone themselves (they were just starting to come online and it cost the carriers an insane amount of money to implement), now I work for a (admittedly massive) manufacturing company that uses one between main sites and there are many companies that do similar. 10 Gig is effectively becoming common.

When you consider that a transatlantic cable operates in the terabits per second and there's a lot of the you can start to get some sense of the amount of 1's and 0's that are transmitted. Just imagine how much traffic google uses with it's hundreds of thousands of servers pushing data out. You've got to remember the internet isn't just the www , phone calls, data communication between businesses etc That's why these devices are needed and that's why they need to be as fast as they do.

Right

I'd like to see the face of a Para or Marine that was told he isn't capable of doing 39 miles in a day with full combat bergen.

Typical Murdoch

Block Project Kangaroo with the competition commission but then implement technologies that allow people to get Sky without a dish or cable.

That said, living in a listed building I've been waiting for something like this for years.

Don't think 1and1 was total failure

My physical server hosted with them has been fine all day.