Posts by EnviableOne

Re: It makes sense

still breaks a lot of things though

well, Matt Hancock took their fax machines .....

Re: Something in the water?

It's a symptom of using the same useless outsourcing companies over and over, to implement the legacy products, loaded with technical debt, that need extensive customisation to work for their specific use case.

Re: How to twist yourself in knots by trying to square an impossible circle....

yeah, "don't be evil, unless it affects the bottom line"

Re: Time to flush Oracle

Dont do that, the Jeff has you by the short and curlies.

make sure its cross-platform and have some in GCP and some in azure too

Re: a range of our customer engagement tools and go-to-market capabilities

It already happened, you are no longer a patient, you are a service user.

and busses used to serve you, they now just carry you. PSV became PCV

Re: sour grapes marketing

The problem for Intel is their x nm may be as good or better than TSMCs next step, but TSMC are at gen 2steps ahead so still outperform in the key metrics (Speed, power consumption, and price)

it's only May, are we still over Office200?

the only reason the fruity team slurp less data is they already know what the hardware is and how it handles the workloads, they made it and sold it to you

the choc factory has to collect the info, as 90% of the time, you didn't buy the hardware from them, and have to sign your life away for a bit of shiny, hardware and software lock-in and a premium for old ideas.

Apple hasn't had an original idea, since Jobs passed.

Re: €475,000

unfortunately, only 4% turnover of their "Undertaking," but the undertaking is the parent company and all subsidiaries (see Spanish DPO vs Google)

Booking Holdings Inc.

headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S.

2019 turnover $15.066 billion

so they got off lightly - $602 million would be their max fine

Re: "users should not expect much whizzbangery"

it takes a lot more now powershell, regedit, Local group policy, navigate 30 settings windows, try some hacks on the forums, then give up format re-install, restore, re-update, Just in time for Patch Tuesday to Bork everything again......

Re: Disaster recover?

Data centres are not a cloud, although a cloud is made up of them.

At the end of the day, if you had all your data in SBG2 (or the part of SBG1 that burned) and no-where else, "because its cloud" I have little sympathy.

That is not cloud, its Other Peoples Tin.

Now the ones we dont here about are those who did it right, and beause SBG went down there services came up in one of OVHs othe campuses or someone elses cloud in some other country for added resilience and saved themselves the downtime and red faces....

Now if all the Boards could see the extra cash u[pfront iss worth the savings if something like this happens...

power failure tens to send Hypervisors into panic, we lost power to the DC for 20 mins, the networking kit came up fine, but it took them days to get the VM hosts to decide which servers where where and which copy they were going to keep....

Re: Emergeny calls

the last place you want fibre is on a pole, Copper works because it can flex and grow without significant end to end changes in its capacity, Fibre is prone to breaks especially when constrained by connection to poles in high winds.

There s a reason why the cities have the roll outs, its easier cheaper and more cost efficient to roll out connections on 3000 core fibre to an entire city block than running a pair 25 miles over hill and dale to the isolated cottage in the highlands, or welsh valleys

Re: What a surprise

are you not aware of Murphys golden rule?

Being the one with the most Gold in his pile, Elon has the rule making privileges, previously held by Jeff and before that Bill

Re: Should not have Netherlands VAT ...

51% to 49% is hardly overwhelming

Referendums under uk law are not legally binding

The leave Campaign broke the Law

The referendum question was badly framed with little fact to support either side available.

As more fact emerged, A lot of those on the 51% side decided they had made the wrong decision.

Boris, Theresa, etc. all decided to ignore the calls from a more informed electorate for a re-vote.

the process was dragged out over the next 4 years

the effects of the above are just starting to be felt.

In the short term, any sort of brexit was bad for britain

In the medium term it starts to get to a grey area

In the long term there may have been positives, but this relies on their being enough to make it through the hort and medium term.

MPs have enough resources to weather the storm, the people affected mostly do not.

these are the facts, and they are self evident

Re: I wonder...

the interconnects are on 7nm, the compute units are on 5nm on the Zen2+

but the zen3s are all on 5nm

Re: El Reg Trolling?

yes and its a benefit only used by 200 of its 9000 uk staff or less than 2.5% of the workforce and its costing millions.

Re: Not exactly a new issue

Yet still NIST pulled pulled the advice against it from the SP800-63b when it went from draft to release.

Re: Accenture, Capita, IBM and an £800m budget -- A match made in heaven

Coincidently exactly how much the Millenium dome cost, and likley to be just as big a white elephant.

The NHS can't even do waterfall right, what chance to they have with Devops and Agile

The Problem is where...

In the US, SuperMicro need to prove that what was said was false.

(Absence of Evidence Is Not Evidence of Absence) - Not a Hope In Hell of wining

In the UK Bloomberg need to prove that what they said was true.

(put up or shut up) - If bloomberg cant prove it they lose.

if Supermicro could find a way to bring a libel action under UK law they could put it to bed, the problem is, its hard to get it out of a US juristiction.

TBF microsoft like saying they rebuilt things from the ground up, when actually what they did was take the top layer off the old one and and some more shiny bugs and a tweaked gui ontop.

Apparently original Edge was new from the ground up, but its amazing how many CVEs got patched in noth it and IE.