* Posts by ecofeco

8240 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

DBAs massively over-provision Oracle to protect themselves: Microsoft

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Re: Oracle has nothing to do with the headline

We have similar provisions for our off-prem resources as well.

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Re: Microsoft points out ridiculous licence setups...

Right? It just about defines irony.

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The lesser of two evils

The real question is which one is the lesser of the two evils?

My question is why use either?

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla agree on something: Make web dev lives easier

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Re: Keep It Simple, Stupid.

Exactly this.

Keep it simple. Stop the useless techno tedium.

Web devs rally to challenge Apple App Store browser rules

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Re: Oh great, the genius web developer talent has weighed in

Indeed. Web devs have turned the entire Internet to utter shit.

But marketing gets a lot of that blame as well.

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Re: Be careful what you wish for.

Yes. Was this a trick wuestion?

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Re: ...communicate off-the-record and then never heard back.

Rounded corners make that easy.

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Walled gardens never last

Every walled garden on the Internet eventually failed.

Microsoft details 'planet-scale' AI infrastructure packing 100,000-plus GPUs

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Re: Unbelievable..

Oh it's quite believable

MS is a hungry, hungry hippo!

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Do they WANT Skynet?

Because this is how you get Skynet.

Skills shortage puts SAP projects on hold

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Re: Really "skills" issues?

Obvious reason is obvious.

No money? No honey.

Journalist won't be prosecuted for pressing 'view source'

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FAIL

Re: The State changed its tune

Science is not a belief system,

FFS.

IBM looked to reinvigorate its 'dated maternal workforce'

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Re: Is it a really shit place to work if you're under 40?

IBM looks good on your resume.

That is the ONLY good thing I can say about IBM. They are not and never will be welcome anyplace I work. Not their services. Not their gear. Not anything, They lost the plot decades ago.

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Re: Millenials

tl:dr

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Re: Compare with Accenture?

2nded and tripled.

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Re: Bankers comparing sizes...

This. IBM is a dead man walking.

UK.gov threatens to make adults give credit card details for access to Facebook or TikTok

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Re: Teenagers

Every teen everywhere: Challenge accepted!

Geomagnetic storm takes out 40 of 49 brand new Starlink satellites

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No shielding?

Well derp, derp, derp.

Update 'designed to improve user experience' takes down the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal

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I never tired of say it

So how's that cloud thing working for ya?

Attack on Titan: Four Japanese Manga publishers sue Cloudflare

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Truth. Justice for just us rich people.

Intel R&D spending surges after years of neglect as Gelsinger pledges to make Chipzilla great again

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It's almost like there is a direct correlation!

It's almost like there is some kind of direct correlation between firing your senior engineers for years on end and lack of R&D and quality control.

Naw, couldn't be!

/s

Website fined by German court for leaking visitor's IP address via Google Fonts

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I upvoted because you obviously forgot the /s tag.

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Re: I am hardly surprised

Modern website design is utter, utter shite. Insane amounts of bloat and garbage. Just insane.

Shazam! Two world-record lightning events recognised

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Coat

BOOM BOOM

OUT GO THE LIGHTS!

I get my coat...

Citrix acquired by private equity, will be paired with Tibco in $16.5bn deal

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Wow

This is surprising news.

How can we recruit for the future if it takes an hour to send an email, asks Air Force AI bigwig in plea for better IT

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Re: Old machines

Ten year old hardware also isn't a problem if managed appropriately.

LOL wut?

Crack team of boffins hash out how e-scooters should sound – but they need your help*

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Sound?

The sound of silence. Because they are not there.

Well I can dream, right?

Microsoft brings Jenny, Aria, and more interface tweaks to new Windows 11 Insider build

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So yeah, about a year

As I said, always wait about a year with MS.

Running Windows 10? Microsoft is preparing to fire up the update engines

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Already here

Got my two updates this weekend.

'Please download in Microsoft Excel': Meet the tech set to monitor IT performance across central UK government

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The correct answer is "neither".

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Re: You want a ransomware infection?

You can bet good money somebody will. Hell, I would even bet good money of my own!

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Dear god

We're doomed, aren't we?

'95% original' film star Spitfire could be yours for a mere £4.5m (or 0.05 Pogbas)

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Re: If anyone's feeling generous

Well I know what I'm getting me for your birthday!

APNIC: Big Tech's use of carrier-grade NAT is holding back internet innovation

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Or maybe, just maybe

Maybe we could try to trim the network traffic bloat first?

Yeah, yeah, I know, optimization and not calling the mother ship every second with ceaseless data nattering is not what the cool kids are doing these day. Now get off my lawn.

Open source, closed wallets, big profits – nobody wins the OSS rock, paper, scissors game

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Re: What?

Organisations don't like paying for things.

There. NOW it's fixed.

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Why is anyone surprised?

Whocouldaknowed big business would steal from people? /s

It's a very noble thing to make shared code and software and intellectual property. It is utter, inexcusable naivete to think it would not be exploited with no recompense.

Microsoft seems intent on buying the gaming industry with $68.7bn purchase of troubled Activision Blizzard

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Re: Oh great. They've already borged Minecraft, now they've got Diablo

In another comment section on another website, I actually had one commentard use Minecraft, LinkedIn and GitHub as examples of MS successful takeover management.

Yeah, my ribs still hurt, but I got the keyboard cleaned up.

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Not enough upvotes.

Tesla driver charged with vehicular manslaughter after deadly Autopilot crash

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About time

No matter what, almost all state laws hold the driver responsible for any fault of vehicle control that is not force majeure. I've pissed off a few passengers who think I'm their limo driver.

3 years to figure this out is crazy.

Microsoft patches the patch that broke VPNs, Hyper-V, and left servers in boot loops

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YO! We heard you like patches!

So we patched a patched for your other patch!

That's right! We pimped your patch!

Billionaires see wealth double during pandemic as tech bros lead the charge

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"Mind you, you can't measure everything of value in $... can you?"

In what is now, and has been for quite some time, a capitalistic world, yes, you can.

But, never forget, a capitalist is someone who knows the prices of everything and the value of nothing.

Logitech Signature M650: A mouse that will barely emit a squeak or a clickety-click

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I have the 510 with those rubber sides (slightly different design) and it's very easy to clean. Wet napkin. Done. In fact the 510 has almost all the same features and design and it's easy to clean and use. Just about the best mouse I've ever used.

No defence for outdated defenders as consumer AV nears RIP

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Both utter garbage

Norton and Symantec should have been banned years ago.

Google Chrome 97 relaxes privacy protection just a little to help out Microsoft

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Why can't MS just fix online excel

Probably for the same reason users can't be arsed to use something else.

It takes more clicks to reject their cookies than accept them, so France fines Facebook and Google over €200m

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Re: It's not enough

Pay? For sites? Why should I?

If half the websites in existence were suddenly gone tomorrow, I would not miss one single one.

If simple banner ads are not enough to pay for operations, it's not my problem.

Mozilla founder blasts browser maker for accepting 'planet incinerating' cryptocurrency donations

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Re: In a desperate attempt to remain relevant …

Don't cut yourself on that edge, m'lord.

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Re: Cryptocurrencies are a scam?

Why do you think banks have your best interest in mind when they do... anything?

Hint: they NEVER do.

Ergo...

Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes found guilty of fraud: Blood-testing machines were vapourware after all

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Not yet noted

The convictions were for the charges of investor fraud and NOT ONE conviction for the patient fraud charges.

Why yes, it is very suspect.

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Re: Does not fit

Rich people are NOT as smart as people keep giving them credit for. They just aren't. Yet they wield an inordinate amount of power and resources.

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Re: I'm not defending any of them... but I'm not sure "scam" is right???

Yes it was a scam. Every bit of it.