* Posts by steviesteveo

34 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jun 2010

UK telcos didn't collude to put Phones 4u out of business – judge

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It means you'll never have a satisfying conclusion to the issue. "None of the surviving evidence showed collusion" is a hell of an asterisk to be left with

Capita faces first legal Letter of Claim over mega breach

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Re: So maybe...

It's definitely a bad advert for centralising all the important data

The problem with things like pensions is that's generated a lot of the sensitive data I would want protected. It goes beyond what I hand over: I want my pension fund to keep a good handle on my entire file

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Re: "Class action" ? UK ? Really ?

I took it as Americanised reporting of going for a group litigation order

Lenovo profits sink 75% as PC demand continues nosedive

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Re: Knee-jerk economics

"Shipments peaked at 350 million for 2021, and PC makers believed that the total addressable market would remain at those heady heights"

Why would you think that?

GitHub publishes RSA SSH host keys by mistake, issues update

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Re: Sex, Drugs, Money and ...

I never got the sense that those enthusiasts online even needed interrogated. If you've already told me your security strategy when I was just passing by on the internet then that secret was not going to get kept very long in an investigation

AWS puts datacenter in shipping container for the Pentagon

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Re: so ...

AWS is probably going to use it as a scare story for how much on prem costs these days

Thunderbird email client is Go for new plumage in July

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Re: " technical and interface debt accumulated over the past ten years"

And what incredible volunteers. There can't have been any motivation beyond sheer principle. You have people who will keep a desktop email client working for ten years. Send these people a cake and tell them about your other projects

Brit civil service claims there's enough money for mammoth ERP refresh project

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That's an unexpectedly profound question. On balance I'd say it's a shibboleth. I would wonder what someone's IT experience covered if they hadn't absorbed that one by osmosis. E stands for enterprise so it might also be a small company v big company marker

Enterprise resource planning is just one of these bread and butter concepts that sits in the background and quietly makes the world go round

Elon Musk to step down as Twitter CEO: Help us pick his replacement

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Re: “After that, I will just run the software & servers teams."

I found that quite interesting. We all know that software and servers is just a corner of what makes up a tech company but you suddenly wonder if he thinks it's a really clever way of saying he'll really be running everything

On the 12th day of the Rackspace email disaster, it did not give to me …

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Re: Right.

I think we might find that watching the cloud provider lose all the emails is just as much of a resume updater as doing it yourself

On the other hand, I can't imagine how ruinous doing it properly and having regular backups under your own control would be in data egress fees alone. It seems like a no win situation where, as ever, the best case scenario is no one notices that the line item you keep fighting for just saved the company

Intel aims for lower-power GPUs as Nvidia pushes pricey energy guzzlers

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I see it as really short termist. They've basically given up on the next generation of IT growing up with geforce. It might even reverse the mindshare as kids come through who never even saw a 1.5k GPU growing up but remember the AMD graphics in their Xbox

Tesla has a lot of work to do on its Optimus robot

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Re: What's the point of a humanoid robot?

But it also needs someone to push it onto stage at point. Let's wait and see if a future working model gets any heavier

PanWriter: Cross-platform writing tool runs on anything and outputs to anything

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IT Angle

Re: Enter candidate for dead simplest text editor

> Even on Twitter, that renowned haven of deep analysis and reasoned critical debate, there are people saying "my word the commenters really don't get it, do they?"

Could this perhaps be picking up on a simple text editor with hyperlinks and markdown output but no programming features being more of a Reg *writer* than Reg *reader* thing?

UK Home Office awards Oracle a deal extension worth tens of millions

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I think I will always remember the OVHCloud customers on twitter asking how to enable those disaster recovery features on the web interface, while the building was on fire

British Ruby conference cancelled after diversity row

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Re: @Ben

Yeah, apparently he was so worried at the mere prospect of legal trouble if a sponsor was to pull out that he thought it was better to let all the sponsors down.

It doesn't ring true to me, basically.

Get your kit off for Putin, win an iPad 2, Russian ladies told

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sigh

"But what other word should I have used that the English-speaking world would have immediately recognized as quintessentially Russian and female?"

Problem: you don't think your audience understands enough Russian for you to make jokes in a foreign language

Solution: use any word whatsoever, even if it's about grandmothers.

CERN 'gags' physicists in cosmic ray climate experiment

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Terminator

Im meeeeeeeeeelting

re: Posted Monday 18th July 2011 14:23 GMT

I think that's a misunderstanding of terminology. "Acidification" isn't crazy melting, Wizard of Oz stuff. It's a change in ph.

Terminator because of the bit at the end of Terminator 2.

'Being cyber-stalked is as bad as being raped, or in a war'

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Bit of perspective needed

There's a middle ground between "Cyberstalking is the worst thing ever" and "Cyberstalking: not that big of a deal".

Segway death blamed on good manners

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You don't need to beat it in a race

It's hard to outrun someone on a Segway if they have a head start.

This also all assumes that you're starting at exactly the same position as the mall cop with a Segway. It's not the 100m final - the Segway might have to turn around, accelerate and catch up to you at 12.5mph.

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"Sprinting isn't a long-term escape tecnique"

Nor is driving a Segway at full speed through a crowded mall.

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Being unable to walk,

I think, given that the Segway takes all its balance cues from the position of the rider, it might actually take an engineering genius to work out how to support you from the Segway.

You can't walk, so does someone follow you around and puts you back on it when you let go? It seems like a retroactive explanation of why you invented a thing to play Segway polo with, to be honest.

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Fundamental attribution error

No, reversing a Segway off a cliff costs you your life.

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Words matter when you're a cop writing a report

A cop reversing a car forward is also known as driving the car. It's a double negative.

He's policeman, not a grammar teacher FFS. So when he writes about what happens he needs to be clear and sticking extra words in where they're not needed is a good way to create ambiguities.

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They always seem a bit awkwardly in-between to me

I read they can do about 12 mph so they get you up to about three times as fast as a brisk walk - 2 miles in 10 minutes rather than 30. You can't be that sick or elderly to use one because you still need to be able to stand up and hold on throughout the journey. It's not an electric wheelchair and it's not exercise, it's faster than walking yet not as fast a bike and it's not anything like as fast as a car. It seems to fall into a middle zone that's a bit meh.

On a side note, there's a long standing debate surrounding whether people who do go from 'here' to 'there' as fast as possible on holiday actually do see more than people who walk about instead. Your friends certainly travelled past a whole lot more things than you did but that's not quite the same thing.

Your mom, girlf, boyf: Spying on your phone and email

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What is visible with my own eyes and audible with my own ears.

Oh yeah? You've seen all these horrible things with your own eyes, have you? Were you watching TV at the time?

If it's in the news it's exceptional enough to make it onto the news. Normal, everyday stuff doesn't get into the press. You don't need to worry about it.

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Maybe parents want to believe it's worse for them

I wonder if people like to think that they have it harder than their parents because the world has suddenly become a horrible and evil place like it never was when you were growing up.

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What is the difference between monitoring and spying?

I suggest they're all part of the same irregular verb:

I monitor

You spy

They put it on Wikileaks

Apple unveils 'World's First Thunderbolt Display'

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VGA to monitor cable.

I would argue that you could say one of the ends of your cable was a monitor.

iPhone plunges 13,500 ft from skydiver's pocket - and lives

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Quite understandable fanboy

If I was dropped out of a plane and survived because of my iPhone I'd be a fan for life.

Virtualisation soaks up corporate IT love

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Virtualisation, like everything, has pros and cons

First off, let's be honest here. ISYS's comment "Secondly, you don't virtualise services that require high end performance so sharing resources with all the other clients on a host is not an issue." doesn't tally with what the virtualisation providers advertise. For example, from VMWare's site:

"Run Business Critical Applications with Confidence

Deliver better application performance and availability with less complexity at a lower cost.

Scalability and Performance

With 4x more powerful VM’s, vSphere supports the most resource-intensive applications."

Of course VMWare wants everything you have to run virtualised hardware, that's VMWare's job. Additionally, sharing resources with all the other clients on a host is always an issue. For a start that's why you're supposed to stuff your new servers full of RAM.

I do see that there are pros to virtualisation and certainly in the "longer term" it makes increasing amounts of sense but right now the con does seem to look a lot like "throw out your stuff and buy new stuff". If your current stuff works, great. All the benefits of reduced power use and server space rental *need* to pay for themselves between licence renewals because there's no "it's better now" advantage in virtualisation. It's not supposed to make your server quicker. Your users aren't getting more done because you bought a few new servers and an often surprising number of software licences and that's a massive failing in a technology upgrade.

Spending money solely for the purpose of saving money needs to be done very, very carefully.

You should never forget that all of these trends (why hasn't your business virtualised / switched to Mac / upgraded from XP / let us install and support Linux / gone paperless etc etc) are advertised precisely because someone intends to make money out of you. The companies selling virtualisation software, as companies, don't really care if virtualisation is right for your situation.