Re: Maybe we dodged a bullet?
Surely that requires a single threaded kernel?
Posts by HmmmYes
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Meltdown, Spectre: The password theft bugs at the heart of Intel CPUs
Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign
Wednesday 3rd January 2018 18:57 GMT
Re: Is this latest Intel BUG really a surprise????
When i worked at intel, apart from the fabs, which were given a pass, mainly as sod all people worked in them and they were so key to Intels profit, the rest if intel operated in a lunatuc, ranknrate, paranoia, run around hell.
Intel need to realise that their core comoetence is running software.
Tuesday 2nd January 2018 21:12 GMT
Re: No joy from Intel
I worked for Intel.
Other parts of Intel would not talk to us, even when we were finding significant issues with the silicon.
The way intgl works is every now snd thrn, it thorws lots of silicon at the wall. Some stick. Some fall off. Some slowly slide down.
Once a product meets an internal gate - poof - all the people go off and wotk in other stuff.
'Twas the night before Y2K and a grinch stole the IT department's overtime payout
Oh good, half of Defra's Brexit projects involve IT
Thursday 21st December 2017 09:28 GMT
Re: How difficult is it really?
So, now, rather subbing production, we sub the likes of grouse moor - thats where millions of agri sub are going.
And, speaking as someone who comes from a high farming area, we create these de-treed landscape which cause flooding to the lower lying land.
Tarrifs are enough.
If you want to sub agri productin then you need to to let everyone bid for sub rather than just doling it out to the same bunch of people every year.
Wednesday 20th December 2017 14:53 GMT
Re: How difficult is it really?
Is farming a business or division of the DSS?
If farmers are dependent on subsidies then lets call it what it is - expensive countryside dole.
And in a country with people cramped in tiny, expensive housing, can you make a case for epople having to work to pay for someones hobby that uses up lots of land?
One more credit insurer abandons Maplin Electronics
Ex-Microsoft intern claimed one of her fellow temps raped her. Her bosses hired him
Friday 15th December 2017 16:20 GMT
The alledged attack took place outside of the company.
All that MS could do would be seperate the people involved until the investigtion completes.
As a manager id not want to be sat in a meeting room with a bunch of hungover interns asking them what had happened on Saturday night - its not my fucking job.
Im at a loss to explain why a person should expect a company to manage their life.
Funnily enough, no, IT admins who trash biz machines can't claim they had permission
Friday 15th December 2017 13:01 GMT
Loon.
Just follow company procedure.
I remember one place where legal/hr had a hardon for escorting off the building thennthere anyone who resigned . I think they saw it in a filum.
30% of the group quit over a 6 month period.
Despite the claims of people being fungible, they could not get anyone with any thing approaching the skills into an interview.
So, the other 60% minys 1 quit on the say day. All escorted off the building.
How do i know you ask, i was the minus one - i was waiting for a new job place to complete before quitting.
Companies luve and due by their procedure and employees.
Hello, Dixons Carphone? Yep, we're ringing from a 2015 handset. Profits down 60%, eh?
Language bugs infest downstream software, fuzzer finds
Monday 11th December 2017 10:06 GMT
Re: but... will anyone learn from this?
Well ..... this fuzzing thang is pretty new-ish.
Im sure well run projects will incorporate the tests into their release tests. I know Im looking at using fuzzing - anything a computer can do testing wise rather than me is 'A good thing (c)'
I note the XDIFF tool is written in python, so Python cant be that bad ...
So you're 'agile', huh? I do not think it means what you think it means
Monday 11th December 2017 09:24 GMT
Agile fucks me off more than most stuff I have to deal at work.
The original Agile might have some merit, at least in the early stages of development where teams are struggling to work out what and how to do a project.
Its a fucking disaster for everything else. The term is so pointless that any piss poor products gets classified as Agile to overcome the vast number of shortcomings.
Microsoft emergency update: Malware Engine needs, erm, malware protection
Inside Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845 for PCs, mobes: Cortex-A75s, fat caches, vector math, security stuff, and more
Staff at Steria gov shared services centre offered voluntary redundo
Microsoft adds nothing to new Semi-Annual Windows Server preview
French activists storm Paris Apple Store over EU tax dispute
Infosys names a new CEO: welcome to the hot-seat Salil S. Parekh
Brit MP Dorries: I gave my staff the, um, green light to use my login
Ex-cop who 'kept private copies of data' fingers Cabinet Office minister in pr0nz at work claims
WD to move all its stuff to RISC-V processors, build some kind of super data-wrangling stack
Google Chrome vows to carpet bomb meddling Windows antivirus tools
A certain millennial turned 30 recently: Welcome to middle age, Microsoft Excel v2
Monday 27th November 2017 12:08 GMT
Re: Increased productivity
If you have multiple people using Excel to control the stock of whatnot in a hospital then I can guarantee you, 100%, they will have no fuckign idea what the stock level is.
Again, Excel is a tool for displaying and parsing numbers. Its is not a database. Excel does not support transactions from multiple sources.
Sunday 26th November 2017 12:07 GMT
If his name was Charles then i workedfor him.
I proved my computer genius credential to him by getting his computer to work whilst waiting for my interview.
How did you do it ? He asked.
Oh just press the right buttons.
I actually just put the kettle lead back him which hed trod on and pulled out,
We should recruit this one, he said, hes a genius...
Saturday 25th November 2017 19:28 GMT
Dont use spreadsheets for any numbers that are important.
Just keep excel for displaying data.
Do not start puting code into spreadsheets - its never tested, always has bugs in.
There are a surprising number of large companys who base their decisions on storing and manipulating numbers. Its fuking nuts. No transation, no seperation of data and code. Limited testing - one had test and real data in the same file which, inevitably, got mixed up at some point.
10 years of the Kindle and the curious incident of a dog in the day-time
BBC Telly Tax petition given new Parliament debate date
Saturday 25th November 2017 15:54 GMT
Yeah bbc is greay. Channel 5 is cheap porn.
Last night (Friday) bbc1 offered the one show, followed by a warmed up totp corpses, followed by eastenders then that god awful mrs brown.
Ch5 offered a 1h documentary on that big french brudge, followed by bethany hughes.
The bbc is mainly shit, admit it. 80% of its budget goes on junk.
Stick to the script, kiddies: Some dos and don'ts for the workplace
Friday 24th November 2017 23:20 GMT
It has an object pipeline, thats the main differencre
Rather than a fifo of characyers, you have fifo of objects.
And, like anything involving objects, everything expands like mad.
And they did not have a No man when it came to adding new commands and options.
Powershell is open source now. Maybe somone wil fix it...
Friday 24th November 2017 09:43 GMT
Hmm, not sure.
Sure, Powershell is better than DOs - it would struggle to be worse. And its means I dont have to piss around with GUI.
But the syntax is way too wordy for being a script - PS needed a powerful editor to bang heads o gethe to keep the core short + sprightly. As it is, is a spawling mess. Its seems to be stuck in a nether rworld between a shell and a system language.
And its slooooooooooooooow. I use PS as my Window shell for admin stuff. Its very laggy. Yes, Ive ried all the recommendations.
And the worse thing - the versions and the bloat.
Oh, I ned to do something on (old) box. OK Ill run this script - Oh fuck it does not work. OK Ill update Power shell - .net download kicks off ...
Digital Entrepreneur Awards help UK tech cop an eyeful of... WTF?
Abolish the Telly Tax? Fat chance, say MPs at non-binding debate
Linus Torvalds 'sorry' for swearing, blames popularity of Linux itself
When it comes to ML, reports of JavaScript's death are exaggerated
Intel finds critical holes in secret Management Engine hidden in tons of desktop, server chipsets
Nathan Barley blamed for global GDP slump
Monday 20th November 2017 17:37 GMT
Nope.
Its tax credits, which have pulled low and medium earners with kids out of FT work and into PT jons with *huge* tax payer top-ups.
A quick scan of my local tonw's FB Jobs' page shows everyone is self-employed selling make-up, dog grooming. Or asking for jobs - 'Looking for 16h work ...'.
I know people who've jacked in FT jobs, pulling in 24k (North), to go self-employed for bugger all. And then get the rest of the money from UK's hard pressed tax payer. They are giving up 38h/w + travel time + cost, to pretned to work for 16h.
Thats where the UK's productivity has gone. The only puzzling thing is why anyone, with a grasp of the UK's tax credit setup, regards it as puzzling.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
