* Posts by vt100

4 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Aug 2017

Who fancies a six-core, 128GB RAM, 8TB NVMe … laptop?

vt100

Current Precision 5510 owner

I've been running a 5510 model with Xeon, 32 GB and SSD for the past 2+ years and it is a beast.

My work entails building virtual PoCs comprised of multiple servers, routing, firewalls, IPS etc. and so far, this thing was able to handle everything I throw at it.

Battery life could've been better, but it is hard to expect the system used in this fashion to last long when unplugged.

Running Win10 Pro, VMware Workstation with nested ESXi(s).

I suspect that the 7 series is the improved version and will likely be the one I'll upgrade to, if my current one gives up the ghost.

The only issues of note are absence of the fingerprint reader and the smardcard slot.

The 15" screen is a 4k, but I had to dial it down to 1080p, since some of the apps were not scaling properly and I did not have a microscope handy.

Verizon commits to AWS after buying and selling its own cloud

vt100

Look to the East...

I suspect that Alibaba will, in time, rival big two (+GCS,Oracle and IBM), as an alternative not beholden to US.

Not saying that it will be on par with AWS or Azure, but there is not a chance it will not carve-out a sizable share of the market.

Some of my thoughts on US Cloud vendors are here, if anyone is interested:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stretching-cloud-how-microsofts-azure-stack-changing-vladimir/

You're the IT worker in charge of securing the cloud for your company. Welcome to Hell

vt100

Re: Now let's play this through for a UNIX(oid) shop

For those of us tasked with securing environments from such frivolities, there is no SSH out permitted from users' workstations, nor HTTP/HTTPS/DNS/NTP, that stuff goes either through explicit proxies, secure recursive DNS servers and services, and on-premises timeservers.

All SSL traffic sans banking and medical is decrypted, its payload analyzed and PCs behavior checked for anomalies.

US focuses eyes in the sky as Hurricane Harvey starts to slam into Texas

vt100

Re: High ground

You are correct. I have recently been working in Dallas and had to comment on this exact issue: darned place is flat. I mean absolutely. The only deviations in elevation were due to the elevators or highway overpasses.

I have even contemplated starting a crowd-sourcing campaign to finance creation of artificial hill, for people to be able to rest their eyes on.