Posts by Multivac

I am/was a self confessed Gitlab fan boy, I spent a week sniggering when Microsoft bought Github. But then Goldman Sachs invested in Gitlab and it became obvious which way this was going. I guess it's just what happens, you develop some great software, you attract the attention of the big money, get dazzled by the bright lights and gala luncheons and sell your soul to a corporate bank.... or Microsoft.... or Google...... or Amazon..... But I guess that then creates the space for the new upstarts to come up with a better idea.

No one thinks it's going to actually happen so they're not doing anything to prepare for it, in the unlikely event of it happening then the worse it happens the sooner it's likely to unhappen so again, doing nothing is the best way to prepare!

Why would anyone poach an exec from Oracle? That's like poaching the accounting staff from Enron!

I installed virtualbox on my Win 10 laptop and then created an Ubuntu (other distros are available) virtual machine on it which I do all my work on, I use portable apps to backup that virtual disk to a USB drive so when my laptop borks after an update or just overheats because Windows defender has gone mental, I just get a spare off the desktop IT guys, install virtualbox and carry on. It's a great way to isolate yourself from a lot of problems and makes the device you're working on disposable.

Tor

Looks like the Tor project is going to suddenly become very popular!

That or small AWS servers in the US owned by British residents who configure them as proxies, this is also a good way to avoid the blocks on non GDRP compliant sites.

Never had any problem with systemd, took a bit of learning and experimenting but once you have the basics nailed it's loads better that init scripts, it's definitely not the rocket science it's made out to be by some of the comments on here.

Jenkins, seriously, of all the CI/CD tools out there it's probably the worst.

Presumably there is going to be a git agent shipped on all future versions of Windows that works with Github but oddly won't work with Gitlab?

Hey....

..... could someone please tell the dude in the picture for this article that if they pop a bit of tape over their web cam they could probably take that balaclava off.

"With NASA highly unlikely to allow any astronauts to fly aboard the Soyuz until a full investigation is complete" Read that very carefully, it says nothing about Roscomos not flying cosmonauts up to the ISS!

and as yet we've not heard is ESA will stop their astronauts flying.

Oh FFS.....

Work laptop updated the other day, wireless keep dropping out, fan is thrashing like a hair dryer.

Try patching an Exadata once a month LOL

It takes almost a month to get an Oracle Exadata back up and running after Oracle themselves patch it, if we patched it every month we'd never get to use it!

Gartner buzz word bingo

The only way to get through your CIO's quarterly lecture!

I'm up for a bit of civil unrest

If I lose my job as a result of brexit then I'll be right round my retired parents house with their now homeless grand children demanding my old room back on the grounds that they voted for this situation, that, I can promise you, is not going to end well!

...... and physicists

It's down to you to stop atoms being weaponized and chemists you do the same for chemicals!

I have this horrible trick in interviews where I ask people who claim to be AWS or Azure certified some of the questions from the certification exam, its a quick way to figure out who paid a ringer to go and sit the exam for them.

Crapita

Bunch of badly treated employees working for a company they despise managed my career managers who have no idea and directors who cream of any cash they can. And people wonder how this could affect the quality of their work!

Look, look, I'm punching myself in the face!

Blockchain makes perfect sense in an organisation that has loads of distributed IT hardware all on an internal network. But when it's implemented by a company that can't even produce a firmware patch that won't take down your entire business you'd have to be some serious kind of masochist!

Kaspersky

I really don't need to say any more than that do I!

Does your blockchain project have a token/coin?

1. Yes - it's probably bull.

2. No - it'll probably work.

Stop fiddling with other peoples stuff

There are many different scenarios that may cause you to have to fail over, this addresses just one of those scenarios. If Oracle could maybe put a little more effort into updating their applications to be more HA then we’d likely get a heck of a lot more of those scenarios covered.

Wow.....

..... Github, is that still going?

I have literally sat under my desk on a telephone call because the team that sit next to me were making so much noise, think they were getting excited over the previous nights Great British Bake off or something. One of my employers office buildings is also 100% hot desk with unbookable meeting rooms, the marketing types love it but it's really depressing watching all the technical people walking round with arm fulls of books looking for a quiet corner every morning. I tend to work from home 2 days a week now just so I can get a solid 2*8 hours of work in every week.

I didn't send you that cock pic, honest, it was my phone!

This is a very elaborate setup to get someone high up in Samsung off the hook for sending a cock picture to one of their colleagues.

Microsoft buy GitHub and everyone moves to GitLab.

Google or Amazon will buy GitLab or make a hostile takeover of GitLab in 2020 when it's IPO is targeted.

I will create GitVac ready for 2020 and then sell it to whichever of Google or AWS lost out on the GitLab takeover while having MultiGit ready as a startup for all the non commercial developers looking for a home.

Then my friends, all you code are belong to me mwahahaha!

All the disadvantages of a tablet coupled with all the disadvantages of a laptop, without a keyboard, then go and install Skype LOL!

Correction:

CIO's want more dinners at fancy restaurants, tickets to shows and corporate golf tournaments before they'll consider Oracle cloud.

Because we all know how this works, when the CIO's agree with the technical people they employ you know some dodgy shizzle's going down.

Maybe I'll sue too

Google keeps associating me with some account on pornhub..... oh, hang on..... forget that.....

Pretty standard for a US company

We have a forced ranking system, top 10% get a pay rise, middle 80% get a token pay rise, bottom 10% get put on a performance plan and get the boot 12 months later or as soon as the company feel they can do it without getting sued. You should see out management structure though, it's a thing of beauty, it must have been based on the design for the Eiffel tower it even has a dotted line lattice work!

Would it be at all possible to ........

.....fix that bug where when you try and use it to open a web browser or open a word document or something and it seems to be very very busy doing something clearly very very important while completely ignoring any of those things I'm trying to do.