Posts by BenBell

Thats novel

...normally, we hear about Data Breeches, not someone actually lifting-n-shifting servers.

This is exactly Why I BitLocker all servers I build/deploy. While it adds an overhead, the price of 15k disks and a couple of extra cores is nothing compared to potential backlash of having unencrypted customer data stolen.

Sounds about right

Almost as much of a pain as our change management system - At present, if I want to patch one of my domains, I have to link all 600 servers individually to the change control.

If I had to do "Stages" for "open wsus and approve changes", "watch patches download and install", "get all machines rebooted" and "listen to users bitch and moan about how the latest IE patch broke their wallpaper or changed their screensaver timeout".. I'd quite possibly need the bleach and carpet myself.

Cloud isn't the culprit!

Cloud:

- Available outside the house

- 2 meg a sec upstream where I live to get anything

- 10 meg a sec downstream where I live to get anything

- Requires re-downloading on every device I want to use on.

- Price £66/month (Google Drive, 16tb, according to CNET)

My NAS:

- Available outside the house via VPN

- gigabit LAN, 300 WiFi at home

- 10/2 outside the home

- Doesn't require a re-download from the net at slow speeds for each device

- Price £800 one off (16TB, R5, QNAP, what I paid 5 months ago)

Bit of a no brainer really. By this time next year, I'll have access at home and equal speed at work access to the same storage, be £300 better off, not have Google claiming ownership of my stuff (It's inthe T&C's apparently!) and still be able to run my webserver, MySQL DBs, VPN, Media Server etc from home to suit my own needs.

SOHO NAS providers are their own culprit. My little 4-bay QNAP has more functionality than I know what to do with - mail server, web server, db server, ldap server, radius server, media servers (multiple), file storage, VPN, data sync, auto-backup (which is crap btw1). I can add bigger disks and the array will resize/reshape itself. As long as the box doesn't die - they've had a one-time few hundred quid off me and aren't likely to see anything else.

All together now

99 bugs in acrobats code,

99 bugs in their code,

Take 8 down, patch 'em around

130 more bugs in the acrobat code!

(I'll see myself out now)

....and they all lived happily ever after - all the way to the overtime bank :)

So it's escaped but not escaped.

It's Schrodingers space probe.

What kind of idiot thinks data breached don't cause a drop in share price?

A breach causes a loss in customer confidence, makes customers want to leave, makes some customers actually leave, exposes the company to lawsuits, proves the company isn't a secure/study as it once believed itself to be, more often that not reveals a need to spend to secure, the list goes on.

Something of this magnitude will help or harm a share price and you have to be pretty thick (IMHO) to think that it will make your company worth more.

The UK and China agree to establish a high-level security dialogue to strengthen exchanges and cooperation on security issues such as non-proliferation, organised crime, cyber crime and illegal immigration.

We Agreed that F**K ALL will change.

Fixed that for you :)

1,000 jobs lost is a real sad state of affairs regardless of company performance.

Fair severance package or not, the stress of job hunting for those who are (for lack of a better description) less employable than some of us is a horrible thought - especially for the single income or low income homes out there.

Paying the top dogs this much does seem unfair under these cirumstances, but unfortunately, this is very unlikely to change given the society we live in.

Ah Damnit, I've got 2 Joomla shops active at the minute... Time to get patching (again!). Normally I check for updates at the beginning of every month, but time to make an exception.

Former Mountain Rescue climber and currently sysadmin here. If I were an american, I'd be asking where to sign!

As it is though, this has just wasted 5 minutes of my life.

IF he did it, then good - he deserves what's coming to him.

IF he didn't, then i feel sorry for the poor guy - because odds are he's going to be convicted regardless.

...Sounds like it's a good day to work for IBM. It will be interesting to see how bigger shift towards XIV there is over the coming months, or whether this is just more moaning for moanings sake.

Cockwomble

..has just become my new favourite word. How have I not heard this before?

..and yet someone was allowed to call their kid "Hashtag"?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4671412/We-called-our-baby-hashtag.html

I'm off to weep for society now - if you need me I'll be in the comms room.

What am I missing

When I take a cab, a device calculates how much it has cost to get me from point A to point B.

If I used this service, a device would be calculating how much it cost to get me from point A to point B.

Whether the method is GPS/Distance based or ground distance & stoppage based - does it matter? I will still have travelled distance "x" and it will still cost £y..

I am probably misreading something here though.. It's friday and I'm not feeling the brightest.

Well, as a customer of Three - I can't often complain. Good signal and good speed at home, at work, at the climbing wall, at the gym, at the supermerket, at the parents and up-n-down the M1 when working (well, I never seem to get call dropouts)

..but then I go to the Inlaws - only a couple of miles from Lincoln - and I get absolutely nothing! I have to go outside to make a call or send a text. Interestingly, the rest of the family (a mix of GiffGaff, Vodafone, O2) all get great signal and speed there too.

Everyone complains when the net/call signal drops - it's only human - you're paying for a service and are being inconvenienced by it's unavailability - but by virtue of it being a complaint-worthy event - we can't be doing too bad at all.

From a purely personal perspective, this can (hopefully) only be a good thing.

In the last couple of years, I have managed to brick at least half a dozen SANDisk cards in my Helmet Cam, phone, card reader, tablet etc...

I also have purely WD drives in a 6 bay NAS, 2 desktops, 2 laptops, mixed up between SSD, 2.5" and 3.5" spinners - never a single failure to date.

Hopefully a new parent company would mean higher standards and more stability from products... probably not, but I can hope. Or, maybe I've just been unlucky.

Just my £0.02.

Looks like nobody is safe these days :(

My wife works for a charity - they are having to spend more and more on cyber security ever year and are struggling to find the funding to stay secure and still be able to have an impact in the area they work in.

I appreciate that security of data is of upmost importance, but I quite like the idea of knowing that my donations actually go towards helping people - not to paying for the next years firewall maintenance contract.

Sad state of affairs.

Sink or swim

Bold move - effectively killing off the OS in favour of its own Android flavour.

I personally love the idea of an Android phone with a real keyboard and some of the physical toys associated with the Blackberry of yesteryear.

It may also revitalise the company, bringing back those who loved BBM, who loved the old warhorse that was BES.

Or, it'll kill the company... but then the company is dieing anyway.

Sink or swim fellas.

Here we go again

I give it a week before my phone starts ringing with family members and friends losing access to email because they use one password for everything.

On the other hand, it will be nice to see something new on Facebook - I've noticed that a lot of my social haunts (Reddit, Facebook, et al) seem to have hit a stage where there aren't many new toys appearing - unless there are and I havent noticed them.

Am I the only one

Who reads these stories and thinks "I could have done better" or wishes that they could have been in charge of these types of projects

...and then very quickly changes their minds??

I genuinely feel for the poor techs like us who get stuck working their asses off on big projects like these only to end up taking (partial at least) blame for poor management choices - while the poor management go off onto other high paying contracts and we get left with scars on our records.