Although not as irritating, I really see Tim Cook as Apple's Steve Ballmer... Business and supply chain focused, but actually crap at design and strategic direction and inspiring customers... Apple just needs to find it's Satya Nadella.
Just like Australia does...
It's not just China which requires companies to comply with requests to forego and break security (without judicial oversight no less).
I just want to know whether its running CleanFlight or Betaflight/Butterflight... presumably not Baseflight after dongie restricted the GPL to prohibit forking by NASA.
But seriously, is this running any specific open flight control firmware? Or custom from the ground up?
The company I worked for is outsourcing...
They replaced 10 people with 40, the 10 people were highly educated and experienced local staff. The 40 people are two grades below the original staff and inexperienced with moderate education. This is how the outsourcing company intends to make money, by reducing employment costs.
Now the new staff are utterly clueless on several subjects, notably what actually happens on the data center floor, how things are plugged together and how they should be plugged together properly.
After a 3 month ongoing delay hooking up a few servers.. they finally called in an experienced local staffer to finally resolve it. 6 hours later, all done. The issues identified showed that they had been unplugging active connections and patching in the new ones, overwriting network configs without backing them up, misconfiguring network switch interfaces... even getting stuck on basic things like switch interface administratively down and wondering why its not working... basically the inexperience and poor decision making was slowly reducing redundancy on the network and distributed nature of the new teams meant that knowledge of those changes was too distributed for anyone to put it together what was happening.. eventually this would lead to an outage. See OP.
Outsourcing companies are in a race to the bottom. The sales guys need to undercut, so they under spec the employees... its cut throat and it's irresponsible. The fact is, the CEO in this case was warned of the risks, giving something to someone else to manage for less money introduces a swathe of new risks that no clause in a contract will mitigate, only penalise. Your company is still going to experience reputational damage.
Preaching to the choir.
Far out, and they have the gaul to pretend it isn't an advertisement!
This makes the decision very clear.... I *HATE* ads... like with a vengeance. Doing something like this is a breach of trust (yes, I know Google is an advertising company, but when I *pay* for a device I expect it not to also have ads.
This is also the reason I have been holding off on buying a new laptop that runs Windows 10, I've seen the advertising M$ is doing in the interface ("Try Edge!", "Use OneDrive!", etc) and can't bring myself to jump ship from MacOS....
They will be "resource allocated"... which everyone else calls "made redundant".
These deals always guarantee retention of staff for a set time period, with them working on the account until transformation is complete (i.e. outsourcing to China/India).. after that, only a few key staff are retained on the account for a period of 2 years or so, and then after that.. it's anyone's guess. Don't expect any of the original jobs to be retained by IBM in-country more than a few years.. they're still aggressively "resource allocating" to cheap geographic regions with ongoing targets like 10% reduction of in-country workforce each year...
Saying that these deals with make the company more "agile" is a total joke. IBM is heavy on process, it's slow and clunky and highly siloed. But what the bank will get is some vigorous process and associated results... but agile... hope you like 3+ month turn around on new physical servers....
Time to make it a federal crime for any organisation public or private that knows of vulnerabilities to fail to disclose those vulnerabilities to the vendor. Circumventing computer security and knowingly allowing vulnerabilities to persist is tantamount to sabotage enabling financial and reputational damage to organisations and individuals that use those computer systems/software.
Class action?
I wonder how long before we are uploading a small biopic of our lives or journal of thoughts for passing on from generation to generation... all embedded in our childrens genes...
Wild concept...
Similar to the End of Life Vehicles Directive in the EU, Similar to the German End-of-Life Vehicles Act of 2002 (extended from a similar law in 1997).
Manufacturers are responsible for recycling their vehicle at the vehicles end of life, this means manufacturers design their cars to be more easily recycled and means any overhead costs are built into the cost of the car up-front. There is no good reason that this shouldn't be the case for any larger or common products, why should the cost of recycling be deferred until the product has reached end of life, no consumer will pay more money to have their product recycled *after* it is useless.
I'm inclined to agree with you.
This is big news when a professional news organisation deliberately misrepresents someones work like that, and in doing so causes direct harm to their work.
It's not up for debate whether the work is in bad taste, boring, annoying, or bat shit crazy... it's a beat up and taken totally out of context, and it's harmful. They shouldn't get away with it, it's poor reporting at best, a free speech issue at worst.
I hate to say it, but really it should "just work".. given Microsoft *can* control what drivers are installed, I simply don't understand why hardware drivers aren't maintained through a quality controlled channel, let people choose which version they want, but otherwise have a default currently supported (and tested in at least the most common hardware configurations) driver that is delivered through windows updates or something...
One of the reason's I (as a Windows admin, and Linux admin too) enjoy using an Apple Mac is because I *never* have to dick around with drivers. This is likely also a major contributor to touted enterprise support cost savings at IBM despite higher initial buy cost for their Macbook Pro fleet.
I realise all the myriad configurations would make extensive testing of every configuration improbable, something that Apple has an advantage over by controlling the hardware as well as OS, but I also refuse to believe this is an insurmountable engineering problem.
I've had the dubious honour of dealing with and recovering from two attacks in the last two years. On both occasions we had one or more staff open a phishing email and execute the ransomware. On both occasions the ransomware successfully encrypted over 250000 files on file shares.
We do have quite a reasonable level of protection in place, including 1) AntiVirus and Anti-Malware (useless in both accounts), 2) moderate level of security groups for users limiting access to only those files they require, with exception of a "temp share" which is a dumping ground for all kinds of stuff, but cleared automatically every 30 days, 3) file name/extension ACLs on windows shares that prevent files like.encrypted.EnCiPhErEd from being created on the file system 4) daily backups.
In each case, we still had to do targeted purge/restore to get the files back. We never for a second thought about paying the ransom. I restored all files within 4-6 hours, using a mixture of scripts and manual review of folders and files.
The best solution is have great back-ups... those backups should be regularly tested and monitored for success. With good backups, you can recover in a very short time frame....
But, this isn't a high end desktop replacement gaming laptop, is it?!
The laptop isn't exhausting very hot air, instead it is a good performing laptop that achieves this within a very usable form factor. There are trade-offs to be made, and so far this *extremely long overdue* refresh is so far looking like it's well balanced.
Now, comparing this to previous gen Macbook Pro, is definitely a piss poor comparison.
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Although not as irritating, I really see Tim Cook as Apple's Steve Ballmer... Business and supply chain focused, but actually crap at design and strategic direction and inspiring customers... Apple just needs to find it's Satya Nadella.
Just like Australia does... It's not just China which requires companies to comply with requests to forego and break security (without judicial oversight no less).
It looks like Cimon's OS is ubuntu! Check out this video around 1m 35s => https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Let me guess... someone let a cert expire?
I just want to know whether its running CleanFlight or Betaflight/Butterflight... presumably not Baseflight after dongie restricted the GPL to prohibit forking by NASA. But seriously, is this running any specific open flight control firmware? Or custom from the ground up?
Because no one is going to RTFA https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Fake News" and honesty are mutually exclusive... Don't want to embarrass anyone... Now that's settled, let's get back to making America Great Again.
The company I worked for is outsourcing... They replaced 10 people with 40, the 10 people were highly educated and experienced local staff. The 40 people are two grades below the original staff and inexperienced with moderate education. This is how the outsourcing company intends to make money, by reducing employment costs. Now the new staff are utterly clueless on several subjects, notably what actually happens on the data center floor, how things are plugged together and how they should be plugged together properly. After a 3 month ongoing delay hooking up a few servers.. they finally called in an experienced local staffer to finally resolve it. 6 hours later, all done. The issues identified showed that they had been unplugging active connections and patching in the new ones, overwriting network configs without backing them up, misconfiguring network switch interfaces... even getting stuck on basic things like switch interface administratively down and wondering why its not working... basically the inexperience and poor decision making was slowly reducing redundancy on the network and distributed nature of the new teams meant that knowledge of those changes was too distributed for anyone to put it together what was happening.. eventually this would lead to an outage. See OP. Outsourcing companies are in a race to the bottom. The sales guys need to undercut, so they under spec the employees... its cut throat and it's irresponsible. The fact is, the CEO in this case was warned of the risks, giving something to someone else to manage for less money introduces a swathe of new risks that no clause in a contract will mitigate, only penalise. Your company is still going to experience reputational damage. Preaching to the choir.
So, what about the S8 with Samsung's own Exynos 8895 10nm octa-core?? They are doing the S8 with that SoC too....
You're right! Even the damn cinema that we pay like AU$22 to go to has 15-30 minutes of proper advertising before the feature starts!
Far out, and they have the gaul to pretend it isn't an advertisement! This makes the decision very clear.... I *HATE* ads... like with a vengeance. Doing something like this is a breach of trust (yes, I know Google is an advertising company, but when I *pay* for a device I expect it not to also have ads. This is also the reason I have been holding off on buying a new laptop that runs Windows 10, I've seen the advertising M$ is doing in the interface ("Try Edge!", "Use OneDrive!", etc) and can't bring myself to jump ship from MacOS....
They will be "resource allocated"... which everyone else calls "made redundant". These deals always guarantee retention of staff for a set time period, with them working on the account until transformation is complete (i.e. outsourcing to China/India).. after that, only a few key staff are retained on the account for a period of 2 years or so, and then after that.. it's anyone's guess. Don't expect any of the original jobs to be retained by IBM in-country more than a few years.. they're still aggressively "resource allocating" to cheap geographic regions with ongoing targets like 10% reduction of in-country workforce each year... Saying that these deals with make the company more "agile" is a total joke. IBM is heavy on process, it's slow and clunky and highly siloed. But what the bank will get is some vigorous process and associated results... but agile... hope you like 3+ month turn around on new physical servers....
Stuff that matters?? Really?
Time to make it a federal crime for any organisation public or private that knows of vulnerabilities to fail to disclose those vulnerabilities to the vendor. Circumventing computer security and knowingly allowing vulnerabilities to persist is tantamount to sabotage enabling financial and reputational damage to organisations and individuals that use those computer systems/software. Class action?
I wonder how long before we are uploading a small biopic of our lives or journal of thoughts for passing on from generation to generation... all embedded in our childrens genes... Wild concept...
Similar to the End of Life Vehicles Directive in the EU, Similar to the German End-of-Life Vehicles Act of 2002 (extended from a similar law in 1997). Manufacturers are responsible for recycling their vehicle at the vehicles end of life, this means manufacturers design their cars to be more easily recycled and means any overhead costs are built into the cost of the car up-front. There is no good reason that this shouldn't be the case for any larger or common products, why should the cost of recycling be deferred until the product has reached end of life, no consumer will pay more money to have their product recycled *after* it is useless.
I'm inclined to agree with you. This is big news when a professional news organisation deliberately misrepresents someones work like that, and in doing so causes direct harm to their work. It's not up for debate whether the work is in bad taste, boring, annoying, or bat shit crazy... it's a beat up and taken totally out of context, and it's harmful. They shouldn't get away with it, it's poor reporting at best, a free speech issue at worst.
It's the American way...
That never happens in Windows... so no need to fix what ain't broke... amirite?!
I hate to say it, but really it should "just work".. given Microsoft *can* control what drivers are installed, I simply don't understand why hardware drivers aren't maintained through a quality controlled channel, let people choose which version they want, but otherwise have a default currently supported (and tested in at least the most common hardware configurations) driver that is delivered through windows updates or something...
One of the reason's I (as a Windows admin, and Linux admin too) enjoy using an Apple Mac is because I *never* have to dick around with drivers. This is likely also a major contributor to touted enterprise support cost savings at IBM despite higher initial buy cost for their Macbook Pro fleet.
I realise all the myriad configurations would make extensive testing of every configuration improbable, something that Apple has an advantage over by controlling the hardware as well as OS, but I also refuse to believe this is an insurmountable engineering problem.
As long as my wife can't see my porn browsing history, no worries!
I've had the dubious honour of dealing with and recovering from two attacks in the last two years. On both occasions we had one or more staff open a phishing email and execute the ransomware. On both occasions the ransomware successfully encrypted over 250000 files on file shares. We do have quite a reasonable level of protection in place, including 1) AntiVirus and Anti-Malware (useless in both accounts), 2) moderate level of security groups for users limiting access to only those files they require, with exception of a "temp share" which is a dumping ground for all kinds of stuff, but cleared automatically every 30 days, 3) file name/extension ACLs on windows shares that prevent files like .encrypted .EnCiPhErEd from being created on the file system 4) daily backups.
In each case, we still had to do targeted purge/restore to get the files back. We never for a second thought about paying the ransom. I restored all files within 4-6 hours, using a mixture of scripts and manual review of folders and files.
The best solution is have great back-ups... those backups should be regularly tested and monitored for success. With good backups, you can recover in a very short time frame....
Clearly not! https://www.facebook.com/NowTh... Reality distortion field engaged!
But, this isn't a high end desktop replacement gaming laptop, is it?! The laptop isn't exhausting very hot air, instead it is a good performing laptop that achieves this within a very usable form factor. There are trade-offs to be made, and so far this *extremely long overdue* refresh is so far looking like it's well balanced. Now, comparing this to previous gen Macbook Pro, is definitely a piss poor comparison.
In action. Iron, feels so satisfying.