Posts by HmmmYes

Re: Learn all of them, but NOT Java

I can top that.

Having to port a networked unix server to DOS using a TSR and a 3rd party TCP/IP stack. I almost quick the profession.

Re: I suspect there are quite a few Java devs out there

I have ~20 odd years of Java experience.

I try and implement something in it. Its shit, its slow, I have to install 20mb of JVM and crap.

I pull it and re-write the stuff in C + python.

This is just for internal tools. A quick read of the Java license scared me off doing any billable product in Java.

I struggle to remember what the problem that Java is the solution.

Re: Yet another distro?

I dont know know but Id guess ts more of a stripped down, less choices of a particular Ubuntu release - i.e. XFCE only, no dev stuff- bascia kernel, X, and web browser.

i.e. nothing more than a stripped down YUM repo.

Re: Intel's Problem in Chief = CEO

Not just Krzanic. All Intel CEOs since ~96 have been the same.

Talk to the number of peple who've been thru the Intel VC meat grinder.

It goes like this: 'You are strategic investment, we want you to work Intel silicon into your products which we use as base design to sell to 3rd parties who'll buy our chips inthe billions.

VC aquired company goes away. Puts Intel silicon in design. Silicon does not work - full of bugs.

Design fails. Intel review business - Its not making money! Err, you removed all our sales force and made our customers use box shifters sales channel.

Inel shutdown compnay as it does not make money.

Re: Another botched call by Intel

Intel have always been a bit embarrassed by the x86 ISA. Its shut basically.

They have wierd cycle:

-x86 makes lots of money.

- Intel execs get excited by the next big thing.i960 (object orientated CPU is I remember the spin), Itatmium (not sure what it was meant to be - Intels version of Alpha?), Pentium 4 (surface of the sun).

- Idea blows up in face, execs sacked, some faceless browne noser takes over and syarts banging up about x86 everywhere.

Intel are one of the best silicon fabricators going. No argument.

Intel are one of the worse CPU desgigners. Ever. They fuck up time + time again. Intel have had two major bits of luck that bailed them out big time: IBM choosing x86 for the PC; Israel designed producing a low power RISC which ran x86 (CoreDuo). At the time of the Core Duo, Intel had everyone in the company pushing Pentium 4. They knew it was an overhot piece of shit bu they they did note care.

However, Intels biggest luck as been the margins on x86, well Xeons these days. This allows them to outspend its competitors.

Re: Most of the people on my team are in different countries

Wow! Lync works sometimes for you..

I take my hat off to your IT dept.

mine barely works, crashes, brings down my computer.

Its afucking VOIP client. How of earth can MS fuck it up so much?

Any CEO who thinks IBM or HPE offer any lesson other than how not to run a company needs shooting.

But ... they are probably the same MoronBA alumni.

There needs to be a 'Go to' company for business. IBM used to be it. MS *could* get that business - but it needs to sort itself out.

By design, Windows is modular. In reality, there's no kernel space third party file systems. Ditto for TCP/IP stacks and the like. MS put up barriers/hide API/dont make the code modular.

For any core component - network, filesystem - then its either supplied by MS or not at all.

There is nothing close to ZFS in any of WS file systems, not close.

PowerShell is nightmare. It offers a lot of functionality but ....

its slow, making it hard to use as a command shell.

We are at coming up to version 6 in less than 10 years. Each version are some features added. I get a script. works on one version. Need to run it on an older server, fails. So do I maintain several versions of a script, or do I update Powerhsell? OK, go for updatign Powerhsell - oh, its comes bundled with 500M of .Net. Fuckit.

Let me know when its finished and I can use it for interactive shelling without having to wait several seconds.

No. If MS want a few billion dollars worth of free advise - Go after IBM's business.

But the wont, you know, clouds, AI, and all that. Whne there's billions of business $$$ for the taking.

In more detail:

Drop the current block drier for disks. Repalce it with FreebSDs disk block serivce, put in ZFS - get a license from oraclce so they wont sue you. Then port Dtrace to MS.

Drop PowerShell. Its shit, it just is.

Re: You're missing the point

No.

You are confusing telecoms meaning a bit of wire with a phone at each end.

What telecom systems are these days are large scale, distributed computers that just happen to manage telecoms services, which may be be circuit (phone line) or packet based (4g). And need to perform complex, realtime billing too.

Again, have a google around Erlang/OTP.

No. As the earlier poster mentioned - look at telecoms.

Explains why financial sector have twigged and are hitting on telecom software and system people.

5 9s is about 5minutes downtime a year.

Have a look at Erlang/OTP.

Re: Much like my pension, which I'll likely never get.

Not sure where you work in education. Lets say you are a teacher - most likely.

The Teachers pension is not funded. It operates as a Ponzi - working teachers pay in, retired teachers draw out. Theres no investment backing it up.

Due to the increased longevity (esp of Teachers - see mortality stats) and the previous habit of retiring off too many teachers before pension age, the scheme needs a huge increase of teachers paying in.