Lurk or Smirch?
Posts by HmmmYes
862 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Apr 2010
Angler's obituary: Super exploit kit was the work of Russia's Lurk group
Intel fabs to churn out 10nm ARM chips for LG smartphones next year
The developer died 14 years ago, here's a print out of his source code
Friday 5th August 2016 09:21 GMT
How do you know if a suge protector has failed after a lightening strike?
There's normally burned out bits on it usually.
Lightening is wierd. After one electrical storm I had a single computer where the LCD and graphic card were fcked. Everything else was OK.
Id guess monitors are prone to some sort of surge/inductive charge.
Friday 5th August 2016 08:52 GMT
A cheap good VGA monitor can be had for £60.
If a company is balking at paying than then there's no way they are going to pay ~800/day fees.
Explain the situation. Explain theyve been failing to maintain their systems and they have pushed their luck too far and there's no 100% guarantee of success. Get them to pay after everyday.
Openreach to split from BT... so they'll be 'Legally Separate'
Crashed and alone in a remote location: When paid help is no help
Silicon Valley's contribution to the US Republican Convention: Gayness
Ofcom should push for fibre – Ex BT CTO
Lily Cole: Profit still looks almost Impossible.com
5G: Mother of all pipes, or actually useful?
Seagate defrags 14% of workforce: 6,500 axed
Tuesday 12th July 2016 09:49 GMT
I think that the future of storage is less about whether you have spinning rust or solid state. Its about how you manage your storage - horses for courses.
The drive manufactures have been around a long time. They ought to have guessed where things were heading and use their current profitability to build their business for the next stage.
But they didn't did. Outsource the bulk of business to (cheap) Asia, dumb production, no R+D.
Oracle says it is 'committed' to Java EE 8 – amid claims it quietly axed future development
Jury awards US$3 BEEELION to HPE in Oracle/Itanium lawsuit
Microsoft releases cross-platform .NET Core 1.0 at Linux event
Intel mulls sale of Intel Security – reports
The Windows Phone story: From hope to dusty abandonware
Tuesday 31st May 2016 10:01 GMT
Re: I wonder when Microsoft is finally going to pull the plug.
Its both - the margin and the management.
Intel needs good chunk of $300 profit/chip to afford its fabs.
A highend ARM SOC costs ~$60
Intel management are so indoctrinated they cannot grasp that Intel are terrible at designing chips.
Intel survive as they can keep chucking money at a design until it works.
Quiet cryptologist Bill Duane's war with Beijing's best
Friday 27th May 2016 09:07 GMT
Id like so more detail on this too.
I found:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/the-rsa-hack-how-they-did-it/?_r=0
The lines:
'In the attack on RSA, the attacker sent “phishing” e-mails with the subject line “2011 Recruitment Plan” to two small groups of employees over the course of two days. Unfortunately, one was interested enough to retrieve one of these messages from his or her junk mail and open the attached Excel file. The spreadsheet contained malware that used a previously unknown, or “zero-day,” flaw in Adobe’s Flash software to install a backdoor. RSA said that Adobe had since released a patch to fix that hole.'
Im truley boggled that a secutiry company would have a network that is open to a dumb user opening a dodgy email and running Flash. I mean, FFS.
Sure, have a network connected to the internet for your employees to watch cacts on FB. But FFS dont connect the secret stuff to it FFS.
$10bn Oracle v Google copyright jury verdict: Google wins, Java APIs in Android are Fair Use
Friday 27th May 2016 08:46 GMT
Re: I haven't downvoted a post in a long time...
Java on the server is pretty good - CLI + socket - Great.
Its the rest of the garbage that comes lumbered with Java and the problem that so many poeple and companies have been burned by Java incompatibilities and securities snafus in the past make Java a very hard sell these days.
Java's problem has and always - wheres the revenue model to maintain it?
That naked picture on my PC? Not mine. The IT guy put it there
World goes SIM-free, leaving Sony and HTC trailing behind
Friday 20th May 2016 09:02 GMT
Re: I just bought a £45 phone...
'shockingly, some Android phones are still sold with less than 1GB of RAM which is just asking for frustration'
1Gb RAM!
Wierd isn't. Times change and all that.
30 years ago I started learning C on a Prime minicomputer, shared by ~40 people, which had 16M of RAM.
Inter-bank system SWIFT on security? User manual needs 'revamp’
Sysadmin paid a month's salary for one day of nothing
BT to splash £550m integrating EE. Firm shrugs: Cheap!
'Feature-complete' Windows Server 2016 preview 5 lands
Thursday 28th April 2016 08:45 GMT
I'll have a bash with my MSDN subs version.
I was quite liking Windows Server. Peaked with WS2008R2.
Just confusing GUI now.
Still not sure about Powershell.
You know the French joke about managing a country with 1000s of cheeses?
I seem to have the same problem - admining WS with a 1000 versions of powershell.
Look,s its shell FFS. Get the first version right and dont change the bastard.
Another failed merger, Carly? Ted Cruz to bring in ex-HP boss Fiorina as running mate
Why has Microsoft stopped being beastly to Google?
Wednesday 27th April 2016 10:06 GMT
Because MS is a little bitch now?
Its a bigger, badder world than when MS started swing its dick around in the early 90s.
Also, MS see to be really struggle of employing SW bodies. As far as I can work out its seriously down on heads. Yes, its not short of employees but it does seem sort of the SW bodies who make a difference and get things done + shipped.
Or maybe its become a nice ,respectable company?
Yeah, I dont believe the last one either.
30 years on, Chernobyl wildlife still feeling effects of nuke plant catastrophe
Docker hired private detectives to pursue woman engineer's rape, death threat trolls
A perfect marriage: YOU and Ubuntu 16.04
Tuesday 26th April 2016 08:27 GMT
I want ZFS because its great and it works.
Yes, it eats memory but when 16G costs me ~£100 - who cares FFS.
When I was young I spent £100 (~£250 in todays money) 512K - yes thats K, not M, not G!
I want Dtrace as its fantastic for debugging.
I want it on Linux as I use Dtrace on FreeBSD and Solaris - open + larrys versions.
Stop using USB sticks to move kids' data, auditor tells Education Dept
Microsoft's Azure and Office 365 growth slows
BlackBerry is pivoting from phones to enterprise software
Red Hat bets on RHEL to sell its OpenStack elastic enterprise
Thursday 21st April 2016 09:50 GMT
I genuinely do not understand why MS is top on that list.
I mean, plannign for cloud stuff, MS just does not appear.
At the mo. its looking like Docker and why in fuck sake do I want to run that on Windows server?
Ill give them AWS - it can still piss money away giving away stuff for free.
Have JP Morgan not heard of a scrappy little company called Google FFS?
Intel literally decimates workforce: 12,000 will be axed, CFO shifts to sales
Wednesday 20th April 2016 16:14 GMT
Re: What was the Plan
Israeli - Yes. Super duper impressed with the core arch.
Indian? Nope. Ill be on the web somewhere but Intel did try and start an Indian silicon development centre quite a few years ago. A proper one bot just a pretend one to get government sales.
Staffed it with loads of Indians from the States. Big plans. Big ambitions.
(The following is hearsay from other employees and leaks)
After a year of so they went native (return to their naitve state??)
Fraud everywhere. People were charging everything against Intel - houses, cars, dumb nephews et etc.
Intel were royally ripped off, from the top to the bottom of the Indian site.
It was all shut down and everyone sacked. Big dark cloud.
Wednesday 20th April 2016 16:08 GMT
Re: Profits over a billion and they cut staff?
Depsite being caught up in a (shortish) 'bought by Intel, booted out by Intel' period, it is down to Intel to call the shots. Thats how companies work.
Saying all that ... Intel are their own worse enemy. The company was - and probably still is - stuffed to the gills with seat warmers. You have the fabrication people/site which, whatever you think about Intel, are very very good at what they do - them and TSMC best in world. However the cost of fabs is almost getting exponential and Intel no longer have $$$$$ from operating at 80% margins to keep those fabs in capital.
Im never sure whether Intel chip designers (who they buy in) or Intel chip tester are crap. One or both is. Intel fckup a lot of designs. You'll never hear of that as they either tell the person to foff or stuff them with money.
Which then leads me to ask - what do 60% of Intel employees actually do? I know bits and bos of what happened in Swindon but Id be fcked if knew what 80% did. Go to meetings, check their diversity and such like.
Cringely reckoned big techs companies vastly overemploy to keep te government off their backs and to have some meat to throw to the Wall street EPS lions. I think hes right.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
