Posts by NoneSuch

I'm Imagining...

A very confused Jedediah Kerman standing on the lunar surface.

Re: I resisted for all of 20 seconds

"(Right now it's Putin that's the problem - Russians are pretty smart and will not just put up with this)"

The smart Russians are either in jail or under threat of arrest if they speak up against a tyrant.

The obvious next step is for VPN companies to block Russian source IP's from using their services. Blocking Chinese ones as well will stop my firewall from overuse.

Face It...

If you have Windows installed, you no longer own the computer you paid for.

If you cannot determine when patches go off, what patches to install or what feature sets are put onto your PC, it is no longer your computer. It belongs to a nameless set of Microsoft engineers who will tell you what you can and cannot do.

Now we calmly await the monthly fee paid to Redmond to allow you to log onto that PC you used to own.

Re: be careful what you wish for

Fighting ignorance with facts. That's worked incredibly well so far.

Can't wait for the typical Apple no response response.

Re: Holodeck

"They actually shoot the actors on green screen and use a computer to replace the green (color humans don't have) with whatever CG decor they want. And if you feed the real camera's moves to that same computer you can make it copy the exact same camera movements in your fake 3D decor space, making it look even more real (check any and all recent movies)."

Only local TV stations still do greenscreen for the weather report. Everyone else has moved on to background projection. The Mandalorian pioneered this. They project the actual world onto the background behind the actors to give natural lighting in whatever scene they want. Then a bit of CGI cleanup to get rid of the prop and harness wires.

https://youtu.be/gUnxzVOs3rk

"I still find it baffling that a company that sole purpose was to host GIFs which were primarily made from content they didn't own the copyright to, could be even worth $400m."

Meanwhile, Meta is worth multiple billions from selling the private info from their users. At least they are consistent as a corporation.

Re: The charger numbers seem a bit low.

"The government is missing a trick, the future is geothermal."

Yes, because of global warming we have a lack of heat above ground at the moment and need to pump even more up from the Earth's core.

This is like the American solution of solving gun violence by adding more people with guns.

Re: Win 10 is good enough

Windows 10 is commercial spyware.

The life expectancy of Windows releases will keep shrinking until MS is ready to announce the monthly fee for accessing your copy of Windows.

It's coming boys and girls. Best to have your Linux escape plan well prepared today.

Re: Cold

Microsoft didn't have a mega $$$ hit on day one and so it is punishing the people working on the project.

The actual people responsible for the fail are the senior executives who created chaos with unachievable goals, threw in impractical ideas, over-rode the engineers with fantasy and then nickeled and dimed the production staff budget into obscurity before blaming others for the failure.

How do I know this? That's every major project that every corporation has ever worked on.

The execs will collect stock options and hefty bonuses at year end because of their "contributions." The others are on the street looking for a job.

Re: Does anyone need more justification

Exactly. Only the ignorant use Chrome as a daily driver.

Brave browser is excellent at blocking crap and the (Current Beta) Brave Search is coming along nicely.

People going to browsers that protect their privacy. Who would have thunk it?

Re: The great trust pairing

Because the use of your photos will not stop with the child pr0n investigations. It's also the thin end of the wedge when you will be forced to let police go through your financial records at will so they can find money launderers and your emails so they can find terrorists.

They can do that today if they get probable cause and get a judge to sign off on a warrant. But they find a warrant limiting and want to do away with them so they can gather info on EVERYONE. THAT is what you should be afraid of.

Or, and here's a counter-opinion...

"They're probably stressed because they aren't the right people for the job." - AC

The team is burned out because of continual patching of security products (firewalls, VPN, switches, routers, DC's, web sites, SQL, wifi access points, etc.) across five countries and four datacenters for years while also dealing with a pandemic. By the time they get everything up to date, a new round of "Critical" patches is waiting. We've received notifications of critical patches mid-way through applying critical patches FFS. They can't patch during the day because people are working so that leaves evenings and weekends. Lots and lots of late weekends and evenings.

Then there are the users. The mouth breathers who click on every link offered in the dodgiest looking of emails needing a security intervention of their account and review of the impact of their actions when they blindly accept the 2FA request that follows. Then chasing the motherclicker to change passwords only to be told "can we do it later, I'm really busy?" Sorry if our actions trying to prevent hefty GDPR fines for leaked PII is inconvenient to you Mr. VP, sir.

Microsoft, Cisco, Adobe (Have you seen the amount of patches these weenies put out in any 30 day period?), et al. are the largest cause of the issue releasing under tested code that borks systems and protections resulting in more patches. The proverbial house of cards. Then there is the day-to-day break and fix things that pop up.

The average IT team fights that battle daily to keep a largely unappreciative staff in the position where they can continue do their jobs. Now, I do admit, unlike you AC we are not perfect. You work from 9-5 M-F exclusively, patching your three or four Mac Book Airs from the graphics department then go home for a day of massages and spa treatment. Good on you for perfecting the lifestyle.

Re: The law is the law, hurrah hurrah

" If the employer doesn't reimburse commuting costs (and what employer does??)"

NASA. Transport costs to the ISS.

Re: Prediction

At home:

- I have Internet speeds five times faster than the office.

- Wifi speeds are ten+ times faster.

- I have a Threadripper workstation, 3090 video card with two 32" Predator monitors for lots of window real estate.

- The only annoying a-hole near me is the cat.

- I can listen to my tunes (when not on unnecessary video conferences).

- The kitchen is six paces away with full Cappuchino / Espresso making facilities.

- The fridge has everything I need to snack on or for lunch.

- The bathroom is clean and fit for purpose.

- I get a LOT more done there than in the office.

Good luck to Elon making grandiose pronouncements in an economy where "The Big Quit" is trending.

Re: ADAM::THOR

Observatory on the Dark Side of the Moon. Problem solved.

Re: Potentials with 100% guarantee

Unless the public gets their noses out of FaceBook and starts making politicians accountable they will end up in camps with barbed wire around the perimeter "for their protection."

Freedom is a right only if it is protected by those who want it.

BREXIT Smoke and Mirrors

Don't look at the crippling economic damage being done by a moronic decision based on lies, or our cabbage patch PM lying about parties at No. 10, look at our new economy boosting policies instead!

Re-join the EU and all this horse manure goes away, people get their jobs back and visa free EU travel is restored. Then we need to send all the politicians who put us in this position to Rockall as an example to others.

Blockchain and Red China will not mix well.

The Chinese Communist Party likes to rewrite history frequently. Blockchain makes it quite inconvenient to rewrite the historical "truth."

Expect Chinese technology soon that takes an existing blockchain, parses it, then re-builds it with embarrassing elements deleted in the process. The new blockchain will replace the old. Anything that shows the CCP is flawed will be purged.

Let's not slag off other Distros

Regardless of your choice (and Linux gives us that choice) of distro, we can all agree Windows is not the OS we want or need.

Microsoft's goal is for you to to pay them a monthly fee for everything. That's not my goal.

Plan B

We recently converted our dev environment away from ESXi to PROXMOX over a long weekend and no one out side of our team even noticed. That will save us a decent chunk of change.

We're keeping Production on ESXi for now, but we can convert over to PROXMOX at the drop of a hat if the buyout turns out to be negative.

Some are mentioning Nutanix. We dumped them over a year ago.

Hmmm...

I thought Microsoft Flight Simulator would be a little more upmarket and have better graphics.

Re: That's the tech sector.

Physical lockdown ends, political lockdown continues.

Actually, without COVID, quite a few democracy loving individuals are still physically locked up. The Uyghurs, the Tibetans, Falun Gong and any one else the Chinese Communist Party decides needs a bit of re-education.

Oh no, wait. The CCP says it has no political prisoners, so everything is fine.

Screw that. I used, yes USED DuckDuckGo as my daily driver. I just swapped to Brave search.

Protect my privacy by being in bed with Microsoft? Out the door they go.

Hoarding...

The panic buying that demarks the imbecile.

Here's your pint.

And in the immortal words of Nelson from the Simpsons. "Ha-ha..."