Posts by JMiles 105 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jul 2009
> Nobody ever said that we shouldn't cooperate with the EU on anything.
Err.. so we left Horizon because we were all for co-operating with the EU right?
...'Piffle' in the words of BoJo. I never put forward a federalist ideology. And whatever the ONS data might say, just take a look at the reality - crumbling schools, failing health service, potholes galore. Yea we're doing great mate.
Just hilarious. All that pomp about how much richer and better the country would be if we didn't have to ship untold billions to the EU. Turns out the country is too poor to stop schools from crumbling, keep roads in decent condition or meet the healthcare needs of the population.
All that Brexit hubris finally being put right one painful step at a time.
Meanwhile, those responsible oscillate from saying 'things are great' to 't'wasnt us, it was covid'. As if the UK is the only country having to deal with a pandemic it hadn't planned for.
Google Cloud Domains? Yes its a separate thing from Google Domains - it is the domain registration service within GCP. So Google are unlikely getting out of the domain registration business altogether, probably just ejecting the more consumer-friendly offering.
But it begs the question, why not try to move those people onto Google Cloud Domains? Did they really need $180m so badly?
Is anyone really believing this is anything other than the government making sure it can maintain or steer the status quo for the benefit of its own supporters? And who can trust a government that wants us to exit the ECHR, ignores the Genva Convention on refugees, bans experts (including those in AI like Kate Devlin) that don't agree with their policies and is busy cracking down on the right to protest?
And what tech or AI experts would want to set foot here on any kind of visa when the level of government incited hostility towards immigrants is at an all time high? The government has made it clear as day they're not welcome.
This band of shysters are entirely unsuited to regulating AI in any form!
They are so clueless and if it weren't for their gov backed jobs would barely survive a day in the real world. In fact, “Mr Harra hits the real world,” was the comment PAC chair Meg Hillier made about the head of HMRC. Jon Thompson was the dimwit before.
They live in their own bubble and until one of them ends up like a pendulum off a lamp post they're not going to wake up. They don't care about the suicides from the loan charge, they don't seem to want to accept that they've created a 2 tier system for workers where those who are self-employed pay the same taxes but get none of the same benfits.
And where was Rishi during the Pandemic when he was putting together the furlough scheme and the SEISS? Actively knee-capping Limited Company contractors is where. HM Gov are begging for a backlash of epic proportions.
Lizz Truss says she'll do a review. Go do one Lizz, your lot have been cocking it up for 12 years making everyone poorer and the type of 'unashamedly pro business' Tories you guys are was put on public display when Grenfell happened and it became obvious that its only 'big business donors' you care about. Like Michele Mone who after getting £200m of tax payers money has ended up with an HMRC winding up petition. Whups - imagine if politicians and civil servants could be held personally liable like company directors?
Corrupt to the core. The country doesn't need handouts, it just needs this lot to get their snouts out the trough!
I used TeamViewer to let a friend view my screen while we worked on a hobby project - entirely non-commercial. TeamViewer slapped the 'suspected commercial use' message on us. We filled out the form and emailed it to them as instructed, never heard a peep. This was pre-coronavirus.
I tried contacting their sales and they claimed they don't provide support for the 'free' version. Well if there's no support and they're happy to lock it down to prevent it being used with NO recourse then what do they expect when people leave? I setup WireGuard and used Remote Desktop instead. Good riddance to those clowns.
Totally understand their need to make money, but why not offer a paid personal edition instead of making people suffer for a free version like that? How does it do their business reputation any good?
The only thing HPE have proven is their incompetence. Lynch and co might be guilty as sin, I have no idea. If it was 'him who dun it' and after all these years this is all HPE can show up with in court then either Lynch is innocent or incredibly smart and HPE are unlucky or incredibly dumb.
DXC are totally left without any real customers, business offering or meaningful revenue?
I honestly think they should just shut-up shop now and hand back what cash they have to shareholders. They seem to have very little (if any?) strategy for making money or exploiting new markets - I'll add them to the list of Zombie Corporations. IBM's been similar for decades. Cost cutting is what bloated companies need to do; otherwise its just a sign that management have given up any prospect of growth.
Microsoft could have gone that way but Nadella seems to have done a fantastic job of actually adapting his company to the changing world.
"We will carefully consider the outcome of the tribunal before deciding whether to appeal." Clearly their comment wasn't reported correctly, I believe HMRC's spokesperson had said in fact: "We will bury our heads in the sand before deciding that further non-retrospective retrospective legislation is needed."
Oracle never understood cloud and still don't. As far as getting clients to trust them... well their reputation precedes them and unfortunately it isn't so favourable.
Their best bet was to partner with Google or AWS but they thought they could go it alone without a real strategy or products that are cloud-friendly. IBM made a similar error but at least they tried to create some cloud-friendly products via BlueMix.
Microsoft is the only one out of Oracle/MS/IBM that seems to have some kind of cloud strategy and is making cloud-friendly offerings.
I used SQL server a couple of years ago and couldn’t believe that UTF8 was missing! Glad they finally sorted that.
The management UI always felt really nice but the cryptic error messages when something didn’t work were always a challenfe. Error codes wihich wouldn’t return many results on Google (or Bing) and descriptions that seemed to assume users are intimately familiar with the SQL Server source code. To be honest, it’s very un-Microsoft because things like .NET always provided me with helpful error messages or codes I could look up on MSDN.
My life has been much easier since moving to Postgres which I use exclusively now for SQL work.
Does the British legal system deserve much respect between one-sided extradition treaties, 90% of typical crimes going uncharged and parliament passing draconian legislation around use of encryption, mass surveillance and retrospective legislation (i.e. on tax)?
We're in a banana state now anyway. The only things TPB care about are average speed fines, parking fines, extradition of anyone the US wants and, oh, going after 'tax avoiders' who haven't made significant donations to their political parties.
If you're up to anything else, go ahead and break the 'law' with impunity.
"The Intel Core 2 Duo vPro, Intel Centrino 2 vPro, 1st Generation Intel Core, 2nd Generation Intel Core, and 3rd Generation Intel Core won't get patches because they are now so old that Chipzilla no longer supports them." - so they put in this ME stuff that a multitude of security experts said was a bad idea at the time and now want to claim its too old to support? How about just offering the option to disable ME for old chips that should never have shipped with this trash in the first place?
Cue US law suit please.
On one recent job application the company hired an external CV validation service.
They got in touch to ask me for a whole bunch of stuff about my education and past experience. For the education piece I told them to 'just mark me down as having no verifiable education and being illiterate' - they thought it was a joke but I insisted they do it.
They did. The company that offered me the position thought it was funny and hired me anyway.
The IBM people are nice and most of the people I worked with were pretty competent - far better than when a previous place I worked at got borged by Oracle.
However... the 'bluewashing' is ridiculous. Yes, every large company 'integrates' their new purchases. We had a product that would work on almost any Java app server (JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere) but before the acquisition JBoss was what most customers used - by a large margin. IBM decided this was not gonna fly, the bluewashed version would come bundled with a special version of WebSphere.
Trouble was, our product was successful because it could be easily deployed and managed - that's simply not true with WebSphere, and most of our customers (and internal PS guys) had limited experience with WebSphere. Add to that the fact that the 'special bundled version of WebSphere' had a LOT of bugs due to being rushed meant it was a disaster.
Dear companies, if you buy a company then please think twice before anchoring it to a sinking piece of turd - it is always far more likely that the turd will bring down whatever you've tethered it to!
I get that most developers will have limited knowledge on IT kit. However, if a developer has any business working with access keys / encryption tokens / etc. then they should understands the ins and outs of how they work and how to protect them (I don't suggest they need to understand the maths of it all) but otherwise they're just monkeys working with tools they don't understand.
Oh wait. I just realised. DXC. I take it all back - monkeys working with tools they don't understand = normal.
"a member of the technical team created a personal space on the public Github"
We always laugh about how silly the average user is with their online security but to read that a techie made this type of error is beyond amazing.
Honestly, I would automatically fire any techie that had no understanding of the implications of publishing internal corporate material on a public resource. They shouldn't need training to tell them that's a bad idea FFS!
The downvotes must be from all the OSS zealots. Fact remains, despite all the hard work that has gone into LibreOffice, it remains a major step down in many respects that matter to the average office user. Instead of castigating those that don't like it, why not go improve it so its more competitive than MS Office?
All IBM lacks really is a single vision. They need a Bezos, Nadella or Benioff that can actually lead a coherent vision.
Not saying that any of these names are necessarily role models but at least they actually know how to do something other than accounting and marketing gimmicks. When one of those three have something to say many people listen; when was the last time anyone cared what an IBM CEO had to say?
... when a company tells you they'll share their info with credit reference agencies they remain responsible for what happens to the data once they send it off. Once in a while I wish we did have the litigious ambulance chasing lawyers in the UK like they have in the US and can sueball Equifax into non-existence.
Java on the server is well suited. The GC issues happen only in the most latency sensitive situations - think financial transactions and the like (and can be worked around - take a look at some of the high performance messaging software on java). Your average Java web app can be chugging along without anyone noticing a stop-the-world GC occurring.
When you compare it to node, ruby, php java tends to scale well too. Then you add to the mix the millions of java developers and probably the widest set of libraries that exist anywhere. Why exactly wouldn't you think it's suited server side?
"One peach was that all the data from the cloud had to come back through site to go through box “X” before going back out to the internet at large. Because, security, obvs. "
No one from the business side is likely to request anything like that. Sounds like Bobs problem was also internal to the IT department.
Anyone remember Silverlight? Windows 8.1, the 'essential' OS for 'Enterprise'? Or the promise of a unified .NET development experience across Phone/Tablet/Desktop?
Microsoft rally its army of developers and customers around its new shiny with promises of enterprise support and commitment and then ditch it as soon as they think they're onto the next New Shiny.
I always laughed when I saw the MS fanboys in the office salivate over Silverlight and try to redo all the corporate apps in it. Then they salivated at the unified .NET vision and discovered it to be a marketing puff. Then they salivated over the 'come back' of Windows Phone. Those guys never learn - with MS you HAVE to ignore their hollow commitments and look at the bigger picture. Always.
Tax payers don't buy anything from you.
You don't sell them anything.
It's a LEGAL obligation for tax payers to hand you money and/or fill out your turd forms online and offline.
Tax payers can't 'shop elsewhere': You have an absolute monopoly on the service you provide.
So.... please can someone tell HMarse stop with the 'customer' rubbish.
In the end, the tax payer is paying for the profits of some commercial entity and the jobs of people elsewhere in the world.
I must be in the minority who believe that taking tax payers money to give it to a commercial operator who was only chosen because they could offer the lowest price by sending jobs abroad is wrong.
Lots of companies have experimented with Big Data solutions because they were told it is the 'next revolution' (just like data mining before it...).
However, there are 2 truths that few could deny:
1. The number of customers who have try 'big data' needs is quite small - small enough that I don't think there's room for the kind of growth that Hortonwork's early investors were betting on.
2. The techies who have to sell this stuff haven't figured how how to apply their big data capabilities to solving enough concrete business problems (all the clients I worked with who wanted this stuff already had a good idea of what they needed it for).
So extremely niche market, over-funded startup and a bunch of geeks who struggle to actually demonstrate use cases. That's why they had to IPO... their investors needed to unload their shares to the Big Stupid.
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