* Posts by ecofeco

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IBM: ALL travel must be approved now, and shut up about the copter

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Downvotes? Have an upvote from me!

You have nailed it. Far too many of these once pioneering giants have turned into nothing more than strip mining operations for the executives.

UK PM Theresa May's response to terror attacks 'shortsighted'

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Mushroom

Cut funding and then blame some one or something else for resulting failures is a move right out of the American GOP playbook.

The year before the infamous Benghazi attack, the GOP had severely cut ALL foreign embassy security funding. But who do they blame?

Your T. May is a dangerous lying psychopath.

Enterprise patching... is patchy, survey finds

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Re: If Micrsoft didn't mess up badly with Windows 10...

10? Microsoft has a VERY long history of screwing up patches and bricking PCs.

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There is this as well. Many companies are stuck with very specialized old versions of machine controllers that would cost 6+ digits to replace. Or a million or more for a new machine system. Think very large factory machines.

Highway robbery, but there are often no alternatives.

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Re: Delays in updating software and operating systems are putting organisations at greater risk

Dear god! 5 downvotes?! I didn't think there where that many stupid people still working in IT!

I will not be polite about this: if you don't test Microsoft patches before deployment, you are a fucking moron.

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It may seem simple, but it isn't.

The biggest problem is all the proprietary and specialized software/middleware running on servers that barely play nice with each other, let alone that new patch that MAY or may not nuke everything.

Remember, it's now common practice to test Microsoft patches by the server team before being sent over the company system. That alone should tell you something.

Other vendor's patches? A shot in the dark every time. Now add the slacker factor of many companies.

It's no mystery to me why patches are spotty at best.

But the core problem is mostly shit software to begin with. Why SHOULD the client be the beta tester?

First-day-on-the-job dev: I accidentally nuked production database, was instantly fired

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Yep, you can't fix the stupid when it comes from the boss/client. All you can do is cover your ass.

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I've worked many places were training was practically non-existent but blaming the newbie was an approved substitute.

I never stay long at those place.

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Re: So....restore from backup

The backups failed?!

I'm not surprised they failed when they have documentation like that.

The biggest British Airways IT meltdown WTF: 200 systems in the critical path?

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FAIL

How? Is this a trick question?

Just look at some websites that have over 2 dozen external 3rd party servers these days.

That's how and it's fucking bollocks. Utter fucking bollocks.

(yes I know it was a rhetorical question and a damn good one that needs to be asked. That is damn serious FAIL architecture.)

Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop return as Linux desktop

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Interesting nostalgia project

I too remember these. This is an interesting nostalgia project, but I'll stick to modern Linux, thanks.

But if we could get those extremely cool and sexy chassis back? Yeah, that would be nice...

Walmart workers invited to shuttle packages

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Excellent points.

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Re: Nope, nothing to see here

Far too true.

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Nope, nothing to see here

Just another Uber wannabe. What could wrong?

Retirement age must move as life expectancy grows, says WEF

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It's worse than we thought.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/apr/08/global-inequality-may-be-much-worse-than-we-think

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Re: scrapping mandatory retirement would help

You live in Japan and I claim my £5.

:)

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Re: This is all very well, but........

Needs must, yes, but a single word throws a spanner in the works: insufficient.

Exactly AC. Nobody in their right mind is going to work hard to be poor.

"Eat cake" indeed. How'd that work out?

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Re: This is all very well, but........

There's another phrase: min wage don't pay the fucking bills.

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Re: Work longer? ... Honestly I'd rather sign up to:

HA! I posted the same up-thread.

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It died with offshoring jobs, pension cuts, unreliable jobs and pay cuts and zero hour "gig" jobs.

Was this a trick question?

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Re: Obviously manual labor doesn't count!

Welcome to the Thatcher/Reagan New World Order.

It's been crime to be poor in all of history, but now the poor are an artificial creation by the oligarchs.

The new Antoinettes rule the world.

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Re: Pensions

The thing is J.G. first you have to HAVE the income to save FROM, and no amount of "maths" will make up for decades of insecure and unreliable jobs.

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Re: Pensions

They've moved the goal posts all our lives, Tom and they are still moving them and blaming the punters.

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Re: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long

Logans Run.

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Re: Three functional errors

The oligarchs in the helicopter are blameless? The perception is just an echo chamber? Go on, pull the other one.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/apr/08/global-inequality-may-be-much-worse-than-we-think

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Re: The 1% does not "ADD UP"

That exactly what it is and it's worse than you think.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/apr/08/global-inequality-may-be-much-worse-than-we-think

Much worse.

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Raise the retirement age?

They can fuck right off with this bullshit.

BA IT systems failure: Uninterruptible Power Supply was interrupted

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There are many more of these hard lessons yet to be learned.

Bank on it.

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Dent in bonuses? You're joking of course.

Dent in some lower scapegoat's employment is more like it.

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Re: We haven't heard anything from the BOFH recently.

I think you may be on to something there...

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The cause is pretty obvious

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/11/british_airways_website_down/

As you stare at the dead British Airways website, remember the hundreds of tech staff it laid off

The staff who knew the quirks and oddities of the system were dismissed and the remaining staff had no clue. The rest is nothing but shouting.

I've seen this happen a few times. Quite a few times.

Manglement always thinks a complex network is plug and play and so are the staff. And this is always the result.

So much schadenfreude here.

The Linux cloud swap that spells trouble for Microsoft and VMware

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'Cause girls...

...just wanna have fun?

As you stare at the dead British Airways website, remember the hundreds of tech staff it laid off

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I'm having serious manglement Schadenfreude

See title.

Uber New York class action alleges passengers overcharged $7.43m per month

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Re: Money's for a good cause

One of those rare posts where the /s tag is obviously not required.

Have an up vote.

Google wants to track your phone and credit card through meatspace

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Mushroom

Re: Told you so. At least 7 years ago ...

As have some of the rest us, yet still the downvotes.

The human race really is its own worst enemy.

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Re: It's a bit of an irony, actually

Some of us have been trying to warn people for years and all we got were downvotes.

Uber found to be doing something awful? Yep, it's Tuesday

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Re: It's tricky

Apparently obvious sarcasm not obvious to at least two people.

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Millions?

The drivers will be lucky to see tens of dollars.

Supreme Court closes court-shopping loophole for patent trolls

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Look out Delaware!

Fun fact: Delaware is the state with the most incorporations due to its very "friendly" laws if incorporation.

Kill Google AMP before it kills the web

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They are failing.

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I have yet to experience the "acceleration" aspect.

I wondered why the pages load so slow these days.

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The problem is the shit barge of bloated webpages in the first place.

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Re: How it works in the real world

Truly, many of us get that the poor contractor is at the mercy of the idiocy of the client. Many of us have the scars from it.

But a lot designers are complicit as well. At the very least, as you say, if you want to get paid, you've got to at least ape what the clients want. And many designers are also just as stupid as their clients.

I used to build websites. Then the market finally got to the point where the client knew more than the designer and that's when I quit. I literally said "no" to clients right to the poor house.

Hence, the sorry state of web design these days. Dancing hamsters, the lot.

You've been warned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6TzAQXVpB8

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Re: AMP is training people to be conned

Another damn good point. Not enough upvotes for you!

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Re: AMP is good (For dumb mobile users)

The goal of AMP is to produce lightweight pages, which publishers SHOULD be able to create by themselves, simply using self-control to not stuff their own pages full of shit.

THIS. This right here is the nut in the shell.

All other arguments are moot and spectacle.

Not making lightweight webpages the way god intended is the REAL fucking problem. Everywhere.

I do NOT understand the downvotes for this. Poser designers? Clueless marketing bog brains? Wankerific script kiddies who just THINK they know how to design and build websites? The special-places-in-hell advert channel server business? Fuck off the lot of you.

All of them shitting in the nest by the tanker ship.

Does this mean I support AMP? Fuck no. The last damn thing the Internet needs it yet ANOTHER fucking protocol.

Biz overlords need to give a stuff about what they're told by IT crowd

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Re: Why that won't happen

Not enough upvotes for you!

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Hahahahahahah! Ego maniac stuffed shirt tossers listen to the hired help?

Can I move to that world?

Pay attention. We're only going to show you this once: OpenAI coaches robots to copy humans

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Re: Honey, I'm selling the kids and getting a Homebot!

....well, until AI overlords take over, anyway.

DeX Station: Samsung's Windows-killer is ready for prime time

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Re: ORLY?

Don't feel bad. Some of us have also been predicting that the basic PC for users is going to be a phone that docks.

With predictable down votes as well.

74 countries hit by NSA-powered WannaCrypt ransomware backdoor: Emergency fixes emitted by Microsoft for WinXP+

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comcast in the U.S. may be affected

Comcast internet is having national issues for the last 8 hours. Intermittent and sporadic depending on region.

Coincidence?