Posts by sal II

Re: Drop in quality

There is only one way from the bottom.

Or so they think...

Re: A bloke called Norman

No, he was a permitractor. And people like him are the reason for the reform.

This is the only positive thing about the IR35 reform - it will weed out impostors like him that give contractors bad name.

Unfortunately the ham-fisted approach by HMRC is going to make a lot of collateral damage.

Fingers crossed, once the dust settles, the rest of us will be able to resume providing our services on a flexible and professional basis.

The more interesting question is who the hell still writes applications for Windows CE, for a handled device nonetheless.

Well Symbol I guess.

Re: Captain Obvious

Only it wasn't true redundancy. The secondary/passive one couldn't take over mid flight if the main failed. It required manual switch over.

In server terms it wasn't a cluster, but a identically configured cold spare sitting powered off at the bottom of the rack, used as a failback while the main is being fixed, or under maintenance etc.

Their latest fudge I guess is trying to run them in parallel for actual HA. Only every engineer understands that you need a 3rd (or any higher odd number) point for arbitration, they haven't learned even the recent lesson of having 2 pitch sensors speak to the MCAS

Re: KeePass

As with most password managers it allows for copy/past of the password without revealing it on the display. Handy against shoulder surfers in the office etc.

It also handles well concurrent updates to the same DB file and merge of the changes.

Neither of these is an option with just a file. I'm sure there are other advantages to it. Not saying it's the best password manager or anything, just pointing out that it's one of the last remaining non-cloud and completely free options for a decent password manager.

Re: That is taking security seriously

I suspect the digging out all the obscure places where service accounts are used, to update their password might be actually harder than going through 40k identified humans.

There is always that one critical app that no one knows how it actually runs.

Re: Shall we analyse why this is the case?

You of course are talking about commercially available software.

Large organisations like NHS thrusts are riddled with custom in-house software that someone wrote/bought donkeys years ago and the original developer is either gone or otherwise incapable of updating the application for Windows 10.

Then there are a host of medical devices that for whatever reason use windows as OS and the hardware is simply incapable of running Windows 10

Re: " 'desktop-level' performance"

You know that you can put these chips/SoC in a non-phone envelope right?

This should read as ARM (at least mobile derivation of it) being more powerful than x86

And it's already the case with Apple's A13 that has performance comparable with Intel's Core i5/7 CPUs and has been gaining 10-20% YoY, vs. like 3-5% for Intel's x86 CPUs gimped by legacy architecture way past it's life time.

Re: "the company cannot tolerate that kind of risk"

Russia isn't that important market for Apple, they don't even have Apple store there.

Despite the territorial size of Russia, it's population is slightly higher than Japan (about 140 mil). The low income for large portion of the population is pricing them out of Apple products.

Even if Apple officially pulls out, there will be plenty of sales on the black market and people just buying from abroad during their holiday etc. So the financial loss to Apple will be minimal, while the "moral" gain will be significant.

Now if China decides to pull something like that....

Re: Oh no

Not really if restricted to only print from e-mails from the company domain(s)

Re: Hosting Costs

Not a rocket science:

Step 1) lift and shift the entire legacy portion to legacy.downloads.intel.com and put it on a separate web server.

Step 2) slap an "as is" disclaimer on the main page

Step 3) don't lose reputation over pennies in hosting costs

Re: Setting Up

It's not unusual to use a generic/service high privilege accounts to run scripts etc. for the migration. Easy enough for a PM to get his hands on the credentials, as they are even hard codded in plain text in scripts.

Bad idea, but I have seen in done plenty of times.

Re: Given the cost of a Windows 10 Pro license...

These are most likely OEM licenses only legal for sale with a device by approved re-sellers.

Juts have a working license key, doesn't mean you are using a legal copy of Windows.

Re: Thomas Cook had hired Skurio

had hired, past tense. Presumably the service is already paid for as an yearly subscription or contract.

Even if it wasn't and Skurio is out of pocket, if they already had done the work in setting up the monitoring etc. releasing the info to the public is good marketing for them.

Re: How are the government going to cope?

The same It people engaged as contractors for a small consultancy not caught by the new rules charging double the rate to the end client.

Re: If there is a way to revolutionize the commercial real estate business...

The problem in Blighty is the B-word, and the potential for businesses collapses and/or exodus depending on the outcome.

Re: Amazing technology

I wonder which is faster - Booting up a laptop/phone and starting an e-mail client/application or browsing through 100s of faded paper receipts in a drawer to find the one you are looking for. I somewhat doubt you are using the Dewey Decimal Classification system.

I agree the paper copy should be always available as an option, but make it an opt-in, rather than opt-out similar to how most self-checkouts now ask you if you want a receipt at the end, instead of automatically spewing one, just to remain discarded there or instantly binned.

Re: Remain MPs all broke the law and should all be in prison anyway.

And this Ladies and Gentlemen is a prime example of a gullible Brexiteer "living and dying" by the Daily Mail.

Re: called it

Aaah DevOps... <3

They didn't need kickbacks from Intel. Nobody in their right mind have used AMD in the DC for the past 5-10 years, so there wasn't a demand

Re: Coverage, what coverage ?

Not much better inside the M25 ring either and that's for outside.

Inside is a s**t show. WiFi calling is mitigating the issue at home, but when you are not home...

Re: Is the target obsurd?

It has nothing to do with rural or FFTP. The voters he went to meet this time happened to be in a rural area and someone happened to ask a question about Broadband.

Boris being Boris, there are no half measures, when it comes to promises - Why stop at reliable Broadband - Full FTTP in 5 years or bust.

The best hope rural areas have for "reliable" BB is if Telcos are bound to offer full coverage in rural areas as part of the spectrum allocation. FTTP is simply not financially viable outside cities and mid sized towns.

Re: Respect !

Or indeed the Saudi...

Re: Question

At a Lagrange point it will always have one side constantly towards the sun, unless they introduce a spin around it's own axis, which I highly doubt will be the case.

So the question remains why exactly -90C

Never used any of these in "real world", so can't comment on features/usability. But the pricing for on prem offering seem a bit on the high end compared to Slack, and completely out of touch compared to Teams, given that a lot of businesses are already paying the O365 license so Teams is free or close enough.

Re: Insane

"I can't see where even half their estimate is coming from."

It's not important where it's coming from, but where it's going to :)

Re: With that sort of a power requirement...

"months worth of diesel in your generator"

at 1.5MW that's a lot of diesel even for Total :)

Re: How many home users *need* the admin password anyway ?

So how do you setup your WAN connection and at the very least DHCP scope on the LAN?

Re: it's probably

I doubt that the people working there know what QDOS is...

A fine example of the kind of talent you get on government salary / Inside IR35