Posts by John 104 1062 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Jul 2009
“We had a server outage that caused corruption of our data centre.."
Huh. I guess their data center comprises just one server? Or did one server cause the entire infrastructure to become corrupt? Typical management. This guy obviously has no idea how his business is run from a technology standpoint. As noted above, Rush to the cloud, it must be better. Meanwhile, talented, qualified engineers are getting shown the door due to idiots like this guy. I'm sure we'll see an article here on el Reg in 5 minutes about how they are also going to adopt DevOps to solve all their problems...
"Judiciously, you start replacing capabilities in the legacy system with new code that’s more aligned with your new approach to software development, using some mild routing intelligence behind the facade to figure out when to call the legacy code versus the new code."
That has to be one of the most naive statements I've seen in a while.
If it was that easy, we wouldn't need the magic bullet of DevOps to accomplish this, would we?
While on the surface this seems like a clever idea, in practice it would be a disaster. Look what happened to DethKlok when they released a containers full of cats while performing a charity show. All good intentions, but the end result was not pretty...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwaD9tb1P50
@Lusty
Your argument is flawed. This isn't data center rack space we are talking about. This is user workstation virtualization. They still need a desk to sit at. Still need lights. Still need some method to connect to the VDI. In J&J's case, its byod. So that shifts the burden to the employee to provide some connecting device. However, the employer still needs networking gear to get these machines connected. It requires cabling, power, cooling. Other than not having to try and secure your own network (doubtful) I don't see the benefit. Not to mention, an 8 year old OS is your only choice.
The cost also doesn't make much sense. 16k employees, even at an aggressively reduced $500 a year for licensing is $8,000,000 a year. Or, you could buy decent workstations for every employee for $750 once every 5 years and only pay $2.4 Million a year. Add in annual licensing of O365 at $12 a seat and you are only adding another million/year.
Somewhere, someone was given a large kickback behind closed doors...
"Even when pressing the 'try again' button on the 'Your iPad could not be activated because the activation server is temporarily unavailable...' message screen, no further network traffic appears," our reader reports.
"This is the case regardless of the number of times the 'try again' is pressed – it does nothing."
It didn't work. Push the button again. It didn't work. Push the button again. It didn't work. Push the button again. Just keep doing it. Eventually your results will be different, right?
Are you sure this was a Reg reader?
...comes up with this shit? Microservice? Up until a few weeks ago I had never even heard of it. (not a dev). Looked in to it. What we are talking about are services, or small apps that run like a service. But hey, lets give it a cool name. Maybe I'm turning into old IT guy, but I'm about sick of all the buzz words. Just give me the code or app and let me make it work on a server. Keep the buzz out of it please.
I looked at these briefly when they first came out here in Seattle.
The hinge is...Interesting. It is very well engineered and nice to look at. However, its a bit bulky and close up very tidily. mechanically it is fine, it just looks weird when it is closed.. The Lenovo is far superior and nicer to look at.
The price. You guys are getting screwed. I think it listed for $1500 or so.
The tablet gimmick. Meh. Tablets are fun for around the house, or as a chart plotter on my boat. For productivity, I have yet to see them in wide use in the enterprise.
Fit and finish are very nice (other than the weird hinge). I suspect that these are made by HP as the material feel is similar to the Envy I got instead; magnesium/aluminum. Keyboard looks very similar as well. (what, you thought Microsoft made these themselves? hahaha)
I think detractors for buying these are price and flexibility. I got my i7 (skylake) Envy for $850. It's half an inch thick, fast as fuck, and looks fantastic. I could almost buy two for the price of one Pro. Plus, I have Mint on it (dual boot win 10 for a few apps). Disable secure boot and you are off to the races with no nagging by MS.
To each his own, but I don't see this as more than a niche device.
You hire sexy girls and have wealthy developers show up. Perhaps there is a hook up. Then they get married. Then they breed. Then you have sexy developers.
For the girls, you are surrounded by horny intelligent introverts. Perhaps there is a hook up. You get married. You breed. Then you have sexy developers.
I'm not sure how to see this other than a win win.
@AC Whine
You are obviously not a sys admin. Or, if you are, you aren't worth a damn. Nagging on consumer PCs ins one thing. Nagging on domain joined workstations in a tightly controlled enterprise environment is a huge deal. Most users are clueless idiots and will go into a panic when they see this message.
The verbiage on the page was intentionally crafted to put users into a state of uncertainty. It is a not so subtle way for MS to get corporate end users to start nagging their IT departments to upgrade to 10. There is no other reason for this to appear in a browser. None. It doesn't let you override domain or corporate policy to perform the update. It simply puts it on the radar of end users in a very negative way, pointing the finger at IT as if they are somehow doing the users a disservice by blocking the upgrade
I've already sent notification to my team that in no way will the root update be installed. Which sucks. There are legitimate security fixes in this update that will have to be skipped due to this extra bull shit that they package with it. It reminds me of politicians and riders on important bills.
In the mean time, I'll continue to grow my Linux chops on my personal Mint install and slowly shift my skill set in that direction. It's been a nice 15 years, Microsoft, but its time to move on and earn my living elsewhere.
The way your review reads paints a horrible picture of windows mobile. Why would anyone even use the thing? It sounds like utter garbage. In today's mobile market, that doesn't cut it. Apps need to just work without fuss. People don't have the patience or time to fiddle with crap wares.
But you are missing the point. As larger enterprise storage moves to SSD, the consumer grade devices will fall in price while growing in capacity and reliability. I see this year as the year I convert all my home machines to SSDs. No need to buy a new PC or laptop when you can gain huge improvements for a couple hundred.
Nothing against foreign talent, but when talented people are axed and visa holders get to keep their jobs, only for less pay, I get really pissy. Just wish there was something that could be done about it. However, the laws are made by elected officials. Officials are elected by way of back room pay offs by the companies who hire the H1B folks in the first place. So not much hope.
Microsoft no longer positions Windows 10 Mobile as a mass-market challenger to Android or iOS, but instead is pushing the platform for business devices.
They just don't get it, do they? Corporations buy less and less mobiles for their employees. Why spend on hardware when your employees will spend it for you? It's a BYOD world and those devices are Android and IOS. End of story. Only the die hard fanboys or people who get them for free use WP.
@tekHedd
You know, I've never had a problem with HP printers. I had an old school inkjet (512 I think? all in one cartridge) for probably a decade. The drive belt finally disintegrated. It was a sad day! That's when I bought the Epson.
Never had any failure to feed issues with any of them. Could be climate related in your case though? I suppose I'm a loyalist to a degree, but I can't fault them for not being reliable, which is why they are the printer of my choice.
@AC - Epson Printers
I bought an Epson MFP once. It printed wonderful color pictures. Scanned whatever. Copied whatever. Up until the ink in one color ran out. Then EVERYTHING stopped working until I put a new cartridge in. There is no requirement for ink to scan something, yet they put this stranglehold on users to force them to buy consumables. Fuck em. Went out and bought an HP color laser printer and gave the Epson away.
Had that printer for a number of years til it finally died. Then I bought another HP printer. It is going strong. I might suggest that the HP printer business is flagging because of the superiority of their product. If it doesn't break, there is no reason to buy a new one...
And, I'm doing my part. I bought an Envy last fall. Nice bit of kit. 5 months on and I'm still loving it.
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