* Posts by Aitor 1

1568 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jun 2009

Ditching your call centre for an app? Be careful not to get SAP-slapped

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Re: MySap, Mishap more like..n

SAP is non intuitive un purpose.. and the whole transaction crap.. oh my god...

XPoint: Leaked Intel specs reveal 'launch-ready' SSD – report

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Re: Not as good as some?

Nand is very reliable. It just wears out, no big thing...

With nearly 1m users on its books, DigitalOcean touts load balancers

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Relax

So some ppl are scraping your websites using virtual machines hosted in Digital Ocean eh? Not relevant to the article.

GoDaddy CEO says US is 'tech illiterate' (so, yeah, don't shut off that cheap H-1B supply)

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Cheap labor

The reason most sane ppl dont want to study tech is because low wages and long hours and stress.

So the solution seems to perpetuate the problem by importing relatively lowly paid ppl while breaking the law....

Cardiff researchers get £250k to monitor Brexit hate crime on Twitter

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Re: Who defines what Brexit Related Hate Crime is?

Well, if you think that native Britons and not all citizens shoudl be the focus, you are a tad xenophobic... just saying...

Put down the org chart, snowflake: Why largile's for management crybabies

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Re: Removing the need

Yep, that is the problem.

You have to talk with the user, for sure, but many times the problem is not the software, but the process itself.

Who's behind the Kodi TV streaming stick crackdown?

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Re: Home streaming is killing..

Disagree. Acting/filming should be a viable business and career choice.

I have a very talented acquitance that can't live from it, and needs a "day job" while collecting accolades, good reviews etc. Ridiculous.

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Re: cheaper is the biggest 'selling' point for piracy.

Same here.

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Re: Home streaming is killing..

I am ok with paying say 5-30£ from content a month.

30£ is more that they would get if I bought everything legal, and I think it is fair.

Now, if I want to watch specific titles (movies/series) I find that I have to subscribe to whatever 10-15£ a month online service.

So I can't watch what I want. Yes, I can watch more quality things than I have time for, but I cant really choose.

I am stuck with a paid for service, youtube and torrent. Ridiculous.

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Re: Said it before, will say it again

But .. but.. you want them to compete on content and quality! and abuse of market share!

Speaking in Tech: So. Hard-boiled Brexit... will tech firms scramble?

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Yes and no.

I dont want problems with my migratory status, etc.

If I have I will move to the US.. but certainly not France.

Three isn't going to back away from a fight over spectrum

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Buy a monopoly

So buying a monopoly is ok? Shouldn´t be the case...

Intel's Atom C2000 chips are bricking products – and it's not just Cisco hit

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Crap support

The problem with this is they will simply start dying.. and my guess as many other commentards say is that most vendors will do a la la la, and ignore clients. As they are set to lose plenty of money.. unless intel compensates them.

What SHOULD be done is vendors sending new devices with the corrected processor, so the old ones are returned and either scrapped or refurbished.

This is quite bad news.. and potentially crippling for intel, not just for the money, but for the lack of confidence. Ppl might just feel more confident putting an nvidia SOC than an Intel one!

SHA3-256 is quantum-proof, should last billions of years

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Re: Rainbow Tables

You can only use rainbow attacks on non salted hashed dya.

Hence the use of random salt.

Virgin Galactic and Boom unveil Concorde 2.0 tester to restart supersonic travel

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Keep the basics

I see that they kept the basic premise for the plan working: building the plane in the US.. that was the greatest problem by far for the concorde.

Trump's immigration clampdown has Silicon Valley techies fearing for their house prices

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Re: "sell his house and make a profit"

AS long as people continue buying tulip bulbs, all will be ok.

Ups, sorry, wrong bubble ;)

Brexit White Paper published: Broad strokes, light on detail

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Re: cost benefit analysis

Services DO have tariffs, and even prohibitions put on them.

They are generally nos taxed because tax avoidance/breaking of rules. I used to do it for international projects, and I guess/think/maybe remember you also work in that line of work.

Our main offer is banking. And if they are mean they can teake that out of us with a tolbin tax... and while I seriously doubt they would go and do it, they can pressure us A LOT with that, as we dont have that much competitive advantage.

LG's $1,300 5K monitor foiled by Wi-Fi: Screens go blank near hotspots

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Re: Did someone not do their EMC/FCC/CE testing then?

Almost nobody tests their stuff as they claim. This is normal with "self regulation/self certification": it means wild west.

It is also fun than Macs freeze, as they obviously also did not test for interference.

You're taking the p... Linux encryption app Cryptkeeper has universal password: 'p'

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Re: Assuming makes an ass out of you and some guy named 'Ming'

I love powershell. What I dont like about it is the huve number of bugs it has.

For me it is a fast way of doing comey scripting, disregarding performance. But man, it fails and doing what is promised in the documentation...sometimes in a subtle way, but some others in a clear way. I wonder what tests they do...

Oc, that means that i I change the version of ps my scripts might stip working..as they might work because ps works differently from the spec.. And if they fix it i am screwed...

Still, nice..and about my problems, eell, I found the bugs using google qfte a bit of frustation...it took some years for the ps team to fix obvious and reported bugs... And this makes ppl to code arround the bugs.

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Re: Assuming makes an ass out of you and some guy named 'Ming'

Haha go upstream and fix it!!

First, the project owners will almost for sure reject my request, or ignore it.

Second, even if they do accept it, I will spend my time going upstream, and all th way to the kernel, jus to be insulted/derided by linus et al.

No, I will code arround the problem as I have been doing for the last 25 years, put a ToDo and a dependency, and inform the mantainer of the package, unless I have alredy informed them of other problems and I was ignored.

Each man to its post, that is the only way to be effective. I will not lose myself again fixing other peoples stuff, be it os or closed source.

Oracle sues its own star sales rep after she wins back $200k in pay fight

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Re: Expected

Yep, abandon java it is for me. First Oracle DDBB and PL/SQL, now Java.

Silence is golden: How Google hunts Android malware in the wild

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Code injection.

All nice, but you can always inject code remotedly, and no way they can get that.

Non-American nerds jam immigration pleading for right to live in the US

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Re: Anyone in the Netherlands wanna swap citizenships?

Sorry, I wont renounce to my nationality. And that is a problem as I cannot get the british one without renouncing..

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Paranoid

I live in the UK, an it is ever worse here. So...

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Re: Looks tricky ...

I did, I work in IT and would prefer no to move to the US.

Promising compsci student sold key-logger, infects 16,000 machines, pleads guilty, faces jail

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Re: How is a keylogger illegal?

He sells a keylogger that sends data to a server under his control. He is DUMB.

Oi, Mint 18.1! KEEP UP! Ubuntu LTS love breeds a laggard

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You can change that behaviour

I did.. just dont remember how...

This'll be the next thing Trump crows about: Apple assembling servers on American soil

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Re: What's old is new again

By made you mean they put it together in Ireland, with 90% of the value coming in boxes from Taiwan or China right?

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Re: What's old is new again

Labor is cheaper in Mexico than china.. yet it is cheaper to manufacture in China.

Some things can be produced in the US at a similar price, as wages are not that an important factor after all in high price high margin products.

As for robots.. they are not always cheaper than humans...

How Apple exploded Europe's crony capitalism

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Absolutely agree

I was fed up with telcos, and I worked for years as a consultant for them.. they just broke the phones on purpose.

And damn nokia, and its internal war + wrong perception of clients.

Fake History Alert: Sorry BBC, but Apple really did invent the iPhone

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Apple invented the iPhone, but not the smartphone.

The smartphone had been showed before inseveral incarnations, including the "all touch screen" several years before Apple decided to dabble in smartphones. So no invention here.

As for the experience, again, nothing new. Al thought of before, in good part even implemented.

The key here is that Steve Jobs had the guts to force the thought of a useful smartphone, gadget for the user first and phone second into the minds of the Telcos, and he was the one to get unlimited/big data bundles.

He identified correctly, as many had before but before the power to do anything about it, that the customers are the final users, not the telcos.

The rest of the smartphones were culled before birth by the Telecomm industry, as they demanded certain "features" that nobody wanted but lined their pockets nicely with minumum investment.

So I thank Steve Jobs for that and for being able to buy digital music.

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Re: Diesel engine.

A steam engine can be very efficient. What it cannot be is very efficient, light and cheap.

So oil/alcohol engines won because they were easy to use, manufacture and CHEAP.

Had the steam engine manufacturers invested properly, and many of the locomotives would have been steam based for a long time (proper steam seals, using oil as fuel, etc)

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Re: Andrew Orlowski ... BBC

It is unfair to snipe on Andrew for no reason whatsoever.

Prez Obama expels 35 Russian spies over election meddling

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Re: Evidence it was the Russians what dunnit

I would like the US to stop supporting Israel, and I think that it is not in the best interest of the US tu support, in general, "bad things in the name of power". When I say the US, I mean "the majority of the US population".

I am not a US citizen, and I don´t live in the US (we could, my wife is a US citizen).

What I think is bad for the US is this thing of burning the house before the new tenant comes in, as we have been kicked out. This is really bad for the US. Strategies have to be at least medium term, and a President that us going out has no mandate to do these things. It is just wrong.

I did not go into these things because I did not want to appear to be judging from a bias. Albeit I am, but the opposite that you thought I was.... I try to be fair.. of course I fail, but I least I try.

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Re: Evidence it was the Russians what dunnit

Oh, and the genocide started just right now, as his side lost the elections?

I don`t like Trump, but the actions Obama is taking are a disgrace, and he should be ashamed of doing them after the vote and a few weeks from leaving office.

If he wanted to mess with Israel, he had two terms to do it. Chose not to, but now, he is messing around... this is not in the interest of the USA.

Virgin America mid-flight panic after moron sets phone Wi-Fi hotspot to 'Samsung Galaxy Note 7'

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Re: This leaves open all sorts of pranks!

Oh, you can. I have done it with breadboard prototypes, and was never stopped.

Apple drops requirement for apps to use HTTPS by 2017

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Re: Dear Apple

Https is wide oprn to MiTM as it relies on keys that can be issued by trusted cert orgs. Only without trusting any other than us/uk/chinese/russian/indian companies can you be relatively safe....

European Patent Office supremo rapped on knuckles by nation reps

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Re: "Limit his tendencies"?

He should be in prison.

Oracle finally targets Java non-payers – six years after plucking Sun

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Re: True Evil that makes even Microsoft look good

I was a solaris admin. Moved to oracle admin. Then back to dev...used java...now we have set a shop that uses both java and python...I hate larry for destroying my source of income repeatedly...

Microsoft quietly emits patch to undo its earlier patch that broke Windows 10 networking

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Re: ,So there's an online fix for not being able to get online?

I learned ms-dos and gw-basic with the manuals. And they were TERRIBLY BAD, as they did not explain how the os worked, but were rather a collection of all the calls. Yet I got it.

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Re: ,So there's an online fix for not being able to get online?

I think you got it right.

In order for you not to be able to opt out, they are mangling the network... so even if you put some things as 127.0.0.1 in the hosts file, windows will ignore it and give you info.

Maybe they are doing the same with DHCP in case the DHCP does the trick.. and they mangled it.

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Re: ,So there's an online fix for not being able to get online?

My mother does not even understand the fundamental difference between a website and an app... so how is she supposed to go to the command line? oddly enough, it was my elderly father (almost 80) who had to go to the command line and do it.

So, when the command line gets substitued by a modified powershell, how is he going to fix things?

TalkTalk hacker gets iPhone taken away by Norwich Youth Court

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Re: Ridiculous

It was the hacker.

if I have a frontdoor made of cardboard (not the case) and somebody kicks it and nicks my stuff, it is the burglar who is responsible. Not the victim.

Yes, they were negligent and ignored security, but the criminal is a criminal, or is it only a crime if it is really really difficult? Murdering people requires people to defend themselves properly and put up a nice fight to be a crime?

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Ridiculous

I am fed up with this.

You cause extreme financial pain on thousands of people, some of whom might die out of stress related illneses when their identites are usurped and he gets a slap.

But hey, if he had dope, then off to jail, right? or "extreme porn" or whatever.... but not if you attack somebody, etc.

Beancounter nicks $5m from bosses, blows $1m on fantasy babe Kate Upton's mobe game

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Steam

Head out for steam and got to the brave new world of DLCs, where a train simulator can cost more than an actual train... well, not THAT much but Train Simulator runs for about 4000$

Russian hackers got Trump elected? Yeah, let's take a close look at that, says Obama

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Re: As far I can understand

No. That was NOT the reason and it is not how it works.

What can we use to hit Intel between the eyes, thinks Qualcomm – a 10nm ARM server chip

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Re: Hmmm, on the face of it a win - Xeon price cuts to try to stifle the infant at birth and ...

Oh, I friend of mine did an implementation of Sparc. And got sued, just in case, by Sun.

SQL Server on Linux: Runs well in spite of internal quirks. Why?

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Benefit

I like SQL Server, but I wonder what are the advantages of this over postgresql. With the full spec, yes, I get it , bus as it is.. more memory usage is the main "advantage" I see...

Dyn Dyn Dyn – we have a buyer: Oracle gobbles Internet of Things DDoS victim

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Re: So what are Oracle's plans for Dyn?

I was with them since year one.. but as they droped free services.. no longer.

Seagate plans to bring down the 16TB HAMR... soon(er)

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Deliver

Assumptions here fail as they are failing to deliver, year after year.

On may, it was going to be 2017. On November, it is 2018.

My guess is that in april they will say 2019...