Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

“If you really want to protect your network you have to know your network, including all the devices and technology in it,” he said. “In many cases we know networks better than the people who designed and run them.”

This is transferable to all other stuff you want to protect, like buildings, cars, mobile devices, what have you.

"The idea behind Java is indeed excellent, and the implementation has indeed been poor."

Oh, who can list and count the many, many offerings of the IT industry of which truer words could not be uttered.

"Let us collectively agree that the last half of this decade is a DevOps bullshit free zone and (hopefully) use some of the provisos and technical components described herein to separate the wheat from the smelly chaff."

The rest of this decade (or the beginning of the next) will be free of DevOps BS as soon as DevOps gets replaced with the next buzzword.

How about "brisk OpsDev"?

Working products/good service at a reasonable price. That's all it takes.

Whenever one of our IT guys at my workplace comes over to do something to my box that they can't (or won't) do by 'remote control' I make damn sure they don't leave until I'm sure everything works. However, I do this by making sure there is plenty of good coffee and cookies to go around.

In God we trust. All others get paid in cash.

I used to like Wikipedia very much - right now I have the urge to go out and buy a proper encyclopedia. At a local bookshop.

A lone voice of reason.

Bah, just make all the criminals update their FB status accordingly and constantly. "XYZ has just broken into ..." etc.

"We won't be waving the flag of success until the project has been running for three-to-four years. We're not saying it is all easy and risk free."

I guess they will be waving a white flag instead.

Slack. Because there aren't enough messaging services yet.

or

Slack. Because pouring money into Twitter is too mainstram.

So, Amazon is already gobbling up enough market share that Wal*Mart sees as theirs and fights back by open sourcing software. You couldn't make up stuff like that.

Anyway, if useful software is made availiable, it's a good thing.

Shouldn't have read all this, I'm having flashbacks of my DOS days now... well, one of them is at least funny, an instructor telling me that, if you apply the literal meanings of the words, every DOS system is also a RISC system...

Maybe our only hope is a sentient AI that not only becomes aware of itself but also deceides it wants privacy for itself.

Skynet vs G00gle, taking your bets now...

"VMware's execs were at pains to point out that those numbers look even better when one considers that its Russian, Brazilian and Chinese business have sunk nastily due to economic conditions, and that it paid $75.5m to settle a price-fiddling dispute with the US government."

Really? If you had sold more stuff than you did, revenue (and maybe profits) would be higher than it is? Why, that's economic genius, that is!

The fools!

Everybody who is really serious about security switched to '87654321' years ago!

"El Reg asked Citrix why it closed the facility. A Citrix spokesperson said: "We made the decision to bring the CTO office into the business units. With CTOs sitting in the business units, they are tightly linked to the product strategy and customer needs. We scaled back the advanced products group in general as we refocussed on our core businesses."

El Reg asked Citrix why it closed the facility. A Citrix spokesperson was unable to provide a comprehensible answer.

There - FTFY!

I thought these things were called 'webinars' now...

2016

The year of BaaS - bullshit as a service.

If you ever want to visit a fast breeder (that was finished but never used) and have a fun outing for the whole family:

https://www.wunderlandkalkar.eu/en

Florida. Uber.

*shrugs and gets on with his life*

Okay, so how do I get Osborne to do my taxes as well?