Re: know what you're doing
That pre-supposes Oracle ever wrote down such information and is willing to show you what they wrote.
Neither of these is a given.
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Oracle storage analytics break Oracle storage appliances
Monday 27th July 2015 14:04 GMT
Re:
The classic example of that is the Unisys ASCII COBOL problem that "goes away" when "MONITOR ALL" is used, but knowledgeable types just tell the Expert Programmer to use extra option 7 on the compiler so they will get an error when their "logic" zooms off the end of a table. The monitor code simply pads out everything so the table pointer is still within bounds (but wrong).
Unisys halts and catches fire: Mainframe builder dives into the red
Friday 24th July 2015 18:25 GMT
Bah!
The Walrus and the Carpenter were walking close at hand
And they wept like anything to see the legacy of Rand
"If only there were strategy" they said, "It would be grand".
"If seven men with seven brains worked on what to do
Do you suppose", the Walrus said, "that they could get a clue?"
"I doubt it" said the Carpenter, and took a sniff of glue.
"Oh customers do walk with us" the Walrus did entreat
"And buy once more our lovely kit" (the thought of sales were sweet)
"Some products from the dawn of time your business needs will meet".
"But wait a bit" the customers cried "before we go and sign"
"This kit is from the nineties, have you no newer design?"
"I doubt it" said the Walrus "put your name down on the line".
"Oh customers" said the Carpenter "you've had a pleasant run"
"But our RDBMS is still on version none"
"Can we sell you something else like Cool Ice e're we're done?"
The Carpenter stood waiting for an answer in the sun,
But he stood in vain because of answers there came none,
And that was scarce surprising 'cause they'd b*tt-f*cked everyone.
Again.
Global drug-dealing cyber crime web was centred on ... Aberdovey
Jeep breach: Scared? You should be, it could be you next
HP slaps dress code on R&D geeks: Bin that T-shirt, put on this tie
Friday 24th July 2015 17:49 GMT
rugby shirt, kilt and Cat boots
I, an Englishman from Coventry, once shared a cube with an Irish-Irish American from Montgomery NJ by way spiritually of Kilarney, an Indian from Bangalore and a Chinese American chap from Queens.
I was browsing the interwebs in search of work stuff like CDs and interesting work-related cat videos and came across the then-new Utilikilt. I was dead excited by this provocative fashion statement and mooted the idea of Kilt Friday once a month.
The one guy who refused point-blank to have anything to do with it? The Irish-Irish American.
*Irish-Irish American: One who celebrated his heritage to the point of teaching Irish Step Dancing to co-workers in his lunchbreak desite their protests and who visited The Auld Country once every year even though he hated the cuisine and plumbing. Positively reeked of Guinness and hurley.
Friday 24th July 2015 17:38 GMT
Bah!
If your "geeks" can't figure out proper attire for the office, perhaps you don't need them as badly as you think. Such behavior indicates a lack of engagement with the workforce which can (and does in my experience) translate before long into interminable personnel issues and complaints.
Businesses don't need to coddle. Geeks are two-a-penny, there's always a fresh batch cooking in the halls of "learning" and I've yet to see any business collapse when their coddled geek du jour decided he was better than them and packed his bags for pastures new.
In the words of Sherman Potter to Charles Winchester: *No-one* is that good.
NIST in suspected 'meth lab' blast: US Congress is demanding answers
Friday 24th July 2015 17:24 GMT
Bah!
Pfft!
Sometimes science goes bang. That's why we do it.
Who could stand the utter tedium of doing a titration if their very life didn't hang in the balance because of the presence of unstable, shock-sensitive chemicals or flammables with a high vapour pressure standing in a beaker next to an open flame?
If you can't stand the heat, don't break out the Bunsen burner.
All smartwatches are insecure, reveals unsurprising research
Friday 24th July 2015 11:34 GMT
Bah!
The danger to the iWatch wearer is significant. Consider: you are minding your own business in one of the thirty seven Starbux near work and some yob hacks your timepiece and replaces the time display with a custom one. In a trice, An iSherrif leaps from behind the organic chocolate chip cookie display and slaps you, the innocent iFan, with an iSuppoena pending ruinous sueage.
Oh the humanity!
Disaster-gawping cam drones to be blasted out of the sky in California
Americans find fantastic new use for drones – interfering with firefighting
GOOGLE GMAIL ATE MY LINUX: Gobbled email enrages Torvalds
Neil Young yanks music from streaming services: 'Worst audio in history'
Thursday 16th July 2015 17:33 GMT
Bah!
He wrote the words. He wrote the music. He learned to play a staggering array of instruments on which he plays his music while he ... sings ... his words.
So, if anyone has any right to say how the music in question gets distributed it is Neil Young. If you think your opinion should matter more, start making your own music. Sampling other people's stuff and remixing it doesn't count. Original works or properly attributed covers only (you can hire people to play the instruments if you can't be arsed to spend the time learning how yourself).
Can't stand much of Neil Young's work personally, so no great loss to me either way, but as far as I'm concerned those with no skin in the game have no say about it.
Lawyer brands client 'small penis asshole' before challenging him to a DUEL
Thursday 16th July 2015 17:17 GMT
Bah!
I'm having a problem visualizing the new unit of size - the Penis Asshole.
Is it a measure of length, width, area or volume?
One doesn't want to fall into the trap of being ridiculed for measuring the path taken by New Horizons in Penis Assholes when it would have been more appropriate to use it to show how voluminous Pluto is or how much real estate there is on the unplanet.
Horrifying MOCK BACON ABOMINATION grown in BUBBLING VATS as ALGAE
Wednesday 15th July 2015 17:18 GMT
It is universally known by even people who have not had your bacon,
My bacon? I don't farm, butcher or sell the product, but I do know where to get it. Listening to English people rant about American bacon is often as risible an experience as listening to some CS grad reading chapter and verse about Cobol "not working" on the strength of his (it is almost always a "he") one three month course in it. If you want decent bacon you have to look for it in a proper venue.
And I simply pulled the most famous THF atrocity-in-eating out of my long-distance driving scarred memory, though I'd argue that a place that was so bad for so long it became an iconic metaphor for the industry is a right and proper example to use. Watford Gap was also a paragon of the inedible served by the unsociable. Indeed, I'll bet that when I lived in the UK I could drive the length of the M1 without finding a single edible meal. Since I drove the M1 twice a week between Coventry and London I usually packed sandwiches.
And I seem to remember British Rail getting into the act when a customer was served a hamburger so old and stale it was blue-green all the way through with mould. Kings Cross? Victoria? Can't remember the station. Would it be fair to use this as the yardstick for the British Hamburger? Actually, that's a lost cause too. So many visitors have experienced the unique British Boiled Hamburger as to taint the opinion pool in perpetuity.
Seriously, if you want a food fight you are in big trouble if you start it while standing in the UK. I've lived in both the UK and the USA for several decades and as far as the casual dining experience is concerned the UK lost the race on so many fronts before the new century turned it has about as much chance of regaining credibility as it has of re-asserting its territorial claims on Injah.
Ex-MIT prof jailed for 'making experimental film' about bank robbery. In a bank. Without saying it was a film
Run Windows 10 on your existing PC you say, Microsoft? Hmmm.
Wednesday 15th July 2015 13:01 GMT
Bah!
So it will install on any reasonably recent PC running big name brand hardware. This appears to be in line with every other MS Windows release.
Meanwhile, in the real world of six-year plus old kit, not so much.
Scaling for the large enterprise was a real challenge for MS, who in the NT3 era seriously under-estimated the desktop count represented by "large". Understanding the economies of those large enterprises still eludes the marketing and R&D department's spokesdrones.
Been hacked? Now to decide if you chase the WHO or the HOW
Pluto revealed as KING of the Kuiper belt
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo chieftain and gamer titan, dies aged 55
Monday 13th July 2015 19:47 GMT
Bah!
Nintendo will always have a place in history as the firm who showed everyone and his dog that gaming consoles a) were not a dead-and-loving-it idea and 2) did not have to become a cess pit of ill-written software dashed off for the quick buck a-la Atari.
Nintendo are the reason you have X-Box and Playstation today.
Someone at Subway is a serious security nerd
Monday 13th July 2015 19:39 GMT
I'll never let you store my credit card data even if you did offer that
And just how, pray, do you prevent them from doing that if they really want to?
Plus: Your credit card data are intended to be publicly revealed. To think that a credit card is secure over a blind tele-transaction is optimistic to say the least.
Naive pizza customer is naive.
Pan Am Games: Link to our website without permission and we'll sue
Saturday 11th July 2015 18:39 GMT
Bah!
I think the letter would have been more helpful if you'd pointed them to a blacklisting service so they could stop all links from everywhere before they are attempted. Then they just need to have their DNS records expunged and it's job done, I should think.
Unless you think they would be safer simply turning their servers off?
Brit teen who unleashed 'biggest ever distributed denial-of-service blast' walks free from court
FLYING PIG crash-lands in Utah: Rider survives, bacon saved
Sorry, say boffins, the LHC still hasn't sucked us into a black hole
'Real' vampires reluctant to 'come out of the coffin' to social workers – barmy prof
Apple and MS attackers Wild Neutron return with fresh run of attacks
Decision time: Uninstall Adobe Flash or install yet another critical patch
Thursday 9th July 2015 00:24 GMT
Bah!
Given the audience for this e-rag, do we really need the statement of the bleeding obvious re: not using Flash in every single article about another exploit being found? Can't we assume that if someone at the level of IT graspitude to be reading here is using Flash they have a good reason to be doing so?
Thursday 9th July 2015 00:21 GMT
Re: Steve Jobs right
Speaking as someone using an iOS device (as I type) I think your definition of "working" would have to be a bit looser than mine. Safari over iOS is a distinctly less awesome experience than I was led to believe before I dipped my feet in the water. But then that has been my experience of just about every Apple device other than the original iPod Nano - people simply don't talk about the Apple horseshirt the way they do about the Windows version.
The app I had only one moan about, the music player, was just updated under me. It now has controls you'd have to have electron microscope eyeballs to find, let alone use and defaults to a splash screen trying to trick me into trying a "free" trial of their "radio" service instead of using an ounce of user-friendliness and taking me to the 80+ gigs of music I have in my library. Now, to play an album I have to wake up the app, fight my way free of the iTunes store and its free trial bullshirt, locate the album, then swipe upward to try and get the iPad control panel to appear - and sometimes the gesture doesn't work properly so several attempts must be made.
So thanks, Apple, for moving to the Microsoft model of unwanted and unhelpful software changes foiisted on an unwilling audience, you almighty pricks.
Google's new view of the world takes two pics to make 'DeepStereo' 3D
Linux on the desktop is so hot there's now a fight over it
Tuesday 7th July 2015 12:38 GMT
Re: X1 Mouse
Oh Azathoth yes. I try and work on this iPad but if any inline edit is in order I usually have to deploy a Bluetooth keyboard to get out of iOS Thinks I Should ... Land. It infuriates me that when I want to select and copy the bloody OS won't cooperate, but when I want to interpolate something two words back it can't stop itself painting so I can do the cut/paste I so obviously need to do.
Progress source replenishes international space station
Dormant ALIEN SLIME LIFE frozen in SPEEDING comet will AWAKEN - boffins
Monday 6th July 2015 18:16 GMT
Bah!
"Since current theories, and experiments conducted since the '70s suggest that it is rather difficult to get life going on its own, it doesn't seem totally unreasonable to posit that if life can exist in a dormant state inside a frozen astronomical body such as a comet, then it would only take a small fragment of such a body surviving re-entry intact to deliver such life to a planetary environment."
But then, how did it get started on the comet? This comet theory solves nothing about the "hard to get life started" thingummy, it just pushed the problem horizon further away.
Plus, shaving with Occam's Razor for a bit tells me that if life can get started on a bleeding comet it can get started oodles easier on a nice warm planet. If there's one thing we can agree about, it should be that getting life started requires energy. Not so much about for the taking on a comet. Lots bombarding the place wantonly on a planet.
Apple fanbois to be empowered to bonk each other
Monday 6th July 2015 18:07 GMT
Bah!
And what recourse does one have if the "bonked" transaction is in some way not carried out properly? To whom does one turn for redress of overpaid funds or funds not received?
Because fairly basic questions like this being unanswerable was what caused the first rounds of PayPal hate.
The answer to reforming the banking system is unlikely to lie in throwing out the bathwater, baby and all.
Florida cops cuff open-carry, balls-out pirate packing 'operational' flintlocks
Oi, idiot fanbois. DON'T buy this gun-shaped iPhone case, mmkay?
Monday 6th July 2015 13:14 GMT
Re: Probably not the best idea to buy one...
"I was in line at the Apple Store and went to phone my bros to tell them I was only thirty seventh from the front of the queue, but my iPhone Personal Defense Edition stupidly selected "ordinance" mode instead of "phone" and I shot out a street light and burst my eardrum."
Ford recalls 433,000 cars: Software bug breaks engine off-switch
NHS IT failures mount as GP data system declared unfit for purpose
Friday 3rd July 2015 00:23 GMT
Re: Bob the Tea Boy
Heh. I was once roped in to prototype the lifecycle process in my government IT shop by the tiptp mucketymuck. He insisted we get everything signed off as saiod project represented a joint project between two different monolithic government authorities.
I got past the fact that Bossman demanded I use the wrong process - it was a new project but he insisted we use the MAINTENANCE life cycle procedures. I got past the fact that world + dog wouldn't say anything in one word when twenty would do (any twenty - EULAs made sense compared to some of the submissions by the various people esponsible for deliverables and milestones).
But the cherry on the top was when the requestor refused point blank to sign off on the requirements document OR write the required statement as to what was needed to bring them into spec.
Said requestor was, of course, the man who insisted on thois process in the first place.
To my knowledge I remain the only person to ever go through the process, and in point of fact, since the document was never accepted or rejected, I didn't officially go through it either.
Why SpaceX will sort out Sunday's snafu faster than NASA ever could
Thursday 2nd July 2015 02:41 GMT
Re:I wouldn't mind to see all the money for the white elephant F-35
No-one wastes public money like the Pentagon.
Even when the contractors are honest and tell them when asked for a late addition to an airframe that an ashtray made of titanium will cost $800 per whereas an aluminum one can be brought in at about 100th that cost they will pick "only the very best", then look outraged and surprised when the papers get the story.
Sergeant York was being decommissioned when I first came to the USA. That one took, what, ten years to be proven as unworkable at the design level. Before that there was the first iteration of the M1 tank that wore out transmissions every 36 miles on average. After that there was the Strategic Defense Initiative. All funded from the bottomless public moneybucket.
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