US main stream media tell a story, sources say unknown companies are doing this. One true, past evidence clearly establishes the second version as a lie. Meh, more main stream media crap. Name the companies ripping out Kaspersky software, otherwise you are lying.
It's half-clickbait, half-smokescreen to keep people too distracted to look at the leaked DNC emails and see that many members of the mainstream media have explicitely asked the Clinton campaign what they could do to help them win.
The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and their parrots should either hire some real security experts, people who can understand low level code
That would be a good idea if their agenda was to uncover the truth. Unfortunately, those organizations have made it clear that they're an unofficial branch of the Democratic party, so don't expect them to stray from the red scare narrative; they will ignore or twist facts shamelessly to serve their masters. They don't care if a good company with a good product is decimated in the process.
Nowadays, there's probably more truth and unbiased articles in the newsletter of the Flat Earth Society than in the New York Times or Wall Street Journal. They have made themselves irrelevant at a time where their industry was already struggling. Bravo.
When markers for different types of cells were analyzed, Einstein's brain was discovered to contain significantly more glia than normal brains in the left angular gyrus, an area thought to be responsible for mathematical processing and language.
So I guess we're fucked if a dolphin gets access to matlab or excel.
That's not an area of expertise for me, but I suspect that J2EE platforms hosted in non-Windows environments are capable of even your low-rent examples.
The point here is not "omg we can use java app servers on linuxes", the point is that there's no serious open-source alternatives to some products, of which I gave an example. Expensive B2B solutions exist, that's for sure; on mainframe, mini, eunices, name it. That's besides the point.
Also you may want to dial down the "low-rent" disdain. I'm sure it's not the case but it does sound like you take pride in working with expensive enterprise software that someone else is paying for, like a maid looking down on small houses because she cleans the toilets in a huge mansion. There's nothing wrong with SMB software, it serves a purpose, and it can often be found in very large organizations that have a limited number of users for that specific need.
I'm sure those blog posts from 2008 are fascinating, but when I see someone plugging twice his own blog in a Slashdot comment, it's an immediate SEO red flag.
This led me to google "Bruce F. Webster", and wow, dude did you really create your own Wikipedia entry using your own blog as source?
There's nothing in your bio that even remotely justify a wikipedia article, that's more like a LinkedIn profile.
most developers these days couldn't develop themselves out of a "hello world" problem.
hello world is easy: just do serverless micro-services with an api in the cloud and docker-compose machine learning using babeljs. The only tough part is picking the right spotify playlist while you code your brains out on that macbook.
If you're as absolutist as "The Cloud is your enemy," then you're not suited for a job in modern IT.
And to bring us back full circle, this is why modern IT is a disaster, the entire point of this article.
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And as we all know, that war was crucial otherwise Vietnam would have become a communist state and it woud have been the apocalypse (now).
Oh wait...
Vietnam, a one-party Communist state, has one of south-east Asia's fastest-growing economies and has set its sights on becoming a developed nation by 2020.
After the migration (several months), we lost a document.
We're law and the document was majorly critical.
As they had for years, management came to me for retrieval.
I told them to "see the cloud people," as I stirred my coffee.
You know the real scary part? Lots of companies buy in the Google cloud (now called G Suite) without realizing that Google doesn't offer data loss protection. The customers are supposed to backup their shit themselves.
And do you know what is the guaranteed uptime for an AWS virtual machine? None. If you want a SLA you need the whole load-balancer thing. Meanwhile high-availability for a vm has been available on VMware for a decade.
I'm not sure where people keep getting the "knows better" thing from the Mac. It's designed to abstract technical complexity, not "know better". If you ask it to do a thing, it still does it.
so it will let you: - have the menu on each window, as opposed to being a unified big thing on the top of the screen? - have min/max buttons (on whatever side of the window you choose) that actually make the window take the whole screen when maximized, not some ratio it decides for you? - have a full-width taskbar (dock) on each monitor that shows only the apps open in each specific monitor? - use a click on the mousewheel to close tabs in file managers and browsers?
those are all things I can do in Gnome without having to go in the command-line or having to create keyboard shortcuts.
Have you worked in the enterprise world? It's never about pointing fingers, it's usually about senior management wanting to align their IT portfolio with Gartner's magic quadrants.
Also at the moment Postgres is almost never in the support matrix of big vendors, it's always Oracle/SQL Server/DB2. So even if the app you buy for a gazillion bucks use JDBC and could technically run on Postgres or even Paradox, the solution wouldn't be certified by the vendor.
It's not a lost cause, though. Many big data platforms use Postgres by default (ex: Ambari) and vendor like Hortonworks make it more acceptable for the suits. Red Hat also helps, since they support it. But those are still minor players in the big chess game of enterprise database rackets.
Right, so the 5 staff ordering toilet paper have to dictate the IT requirements for the 10,000 other staff members doing actual productive work. RIIIIIGHT!
Nobody said that. The point here is that there's no serious FOSS alternatives for those systems.
What support do you get with the Microsoft equivalent? If I understand things correctly, what you're paying for with Red Hat is the support?
Yes it's the same level of support. Open a ticket, etc. And they're both pretty good. Microsoft support will often call to follow-up on a ticket, RHEL is mostly by email but they reply really quick with the correct information.
At the other end of the spectrum there's Oracle and IBM, who basically tell you to either read the documentation or to wait for the next patch.
the President should be involved directly in drone strike targets. Otherwise these decisions would be made by unelected military officials, and that sounds very troubling to me
What is troubling is doing drone strikes, full stop. If someone from another country was to send drones to bomb a condo tower in Los Angeles because "they have intel", you'd probably be the first one to call them terrorists.
It's real people that die in those strikes, not just names on a list or pixels on a screen. Thousands upon thousands of innocents that are robbed of their life and future, thousands upon thousands of family who lose someone for no reason.
I know the number makes it easier to digest (as Stalin said: "one death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic") and the threatening image of ISIS makes it acceptable to some... but this is some truly evil shit.
And you know what is the most disgusting? When people support drone strikes but shit their pants because Trump want to freeze immigration from the countries where those strikes are inflicted. Wtf.
Let's call it a weakness and a strength. 3-4 competitors offering real alternatives is well and good vs a single monolith everyone has to use. 100 or even 1000 cooks in the kitchen not so much.
Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon, Mate -> that's easily 80% of the linux desktops. We're not talking about 100.
This does not match my experience with J2EE applications connecting to Ariba, SAP, Aspen, and Peoplesoft. I can run a J2EE server on AIX -- extremely far removed from Microsoft -- and connect an enterprise asset management solution to anything.
SAP and Peoplesoft are an order of magnitude more expensive. This is a different matter entirely, and does not provide a cost-effective alternative to the Windows-based solutions I mentioned. That's like saying: don't us MS-Access, use Oracle instead. Sure, as long as you're the one paying for it.
The whole mass hysteria about Russia comes from the FUD campaign launched by Clinton to distract people from the fact that she was sending top secret emails in plain text using her own Exchange server instead of using the state department secure infrastructure.
Is that the official party line to use when the Mueller investigation starts sending out indictments?
I don't know what you mean, but the bit about using her own Exchange server and sending messages in plain text is public record; the date at which they switched to TLS and moved the server to an actual data center is even known.
There's lots of nasty shit about Clinton that is a matter of public record (such as when her brothers had to pay back the bribes they received to buy presidential pardons from her husband) but mysteriously those facts never seem to cross the thick layer of propaganda behind which you people hide your conscience.
With a margin that small, every single thing that nudged some voters was required to win the election. That includes email, the utterly incompetent Clinton campaign, and Russia. Take any one away and those margins flip.
There was the email server, but also the DNC emails that were leaked - and those contained damaging content for Clinton, but of course they brought in (again) the mysterious Russian hackers (of which there is still, as of today, zero actual evidence), and the mainstream media jumped on it since it was easier than explaining things such as those "How can we help?" emails they sent to Clintons campaign.
Anyone who supports Clinton at this point and who still peddle that Russian hacker bullshit should stop calling themselves liberals, and call themselves Clintonians instead, as those are two different things.
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If it praises Trump, it's good journalism. If it criticises Trump, it's fake news. Gotcha. Oh, and Russia are your friends.
lol.
Are you an imbecile or just biased?
Blockchain makes banks irrelevant
Sure, until someone finds a way to game the system and then everyone's fucked because it's decentralized. ex: ethereum
US main stream media tell a story, sources say unknown companies are doing this. One true, past evidence clearly establishes the second version as a lie. Meh, more main stream media crap. Name the companies ripping out Kaspersky software, otherwise you are lying.
It's half-clickbait, half-smokescreen to keep people too distracted to look at the leaked DNC emails and see that many members of the mainstream media have explicitely asked the Clinton campaign what they could do to help them win.
The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and their parrots should either hire some real security experts, people who can understand low level code
That would be a good idea if their agenda was to uncover the truth. Unfortunately, those organizations have made it clear that they're an unofficial branch of the Democratic party, so don't expect them to stray from the red scare narrative; they will ignore or twist facts shamelessly to serve their masters. They don't care if a good company with a good product is decimated in the process.
Nowadays, there's probably more truth and unbiased articles in the newsletter of the Flat Earth Society than in the New York Times or Wall Street Journal. They have made themselves irrelevant at a time where their industry was already struggling. Bravo.
Did you read the Wikipedia article you posted?
When markers for different types of cells were analyzed, Einstein's brain was discovered to contain significantly more glia than normal brains in the left angular gyrus, an area thought to be responsible for mathematical processing and language.
So I guess we're fucked if a dolphin gets access to matlab or excel.
That's not an area of expertise for me, but I suspect that J2EE platforms hosted in non-Windows environments are capable of even your low-rent examples.
The point here is not "omg we can use java app servers on linuxes", the point is that there's no serious open-source alternatives to some products, of which I gave an example. Expensive B2B solutions exist, that's for sure; on mainframe, mini, eunices, name it. That's besides the point.
Also you may want to dial down the "low-rent" disdain. I'm sure it's not the case but it does sound like you take pride in working with expensive enterprise software that someone else is paying for, like a maid looking down on small houses because she cleans the toilets in a huge mansion. There's nothing wrong with SMB software, it serves a purpose, and it can often be found in very large organizations that have a limited number of users for that specific need.
How do you watch prime? Did you buy the remote thing? I think they have good series but I was disappointed in the streaming options.
I'm sure those blog posts from 2008 are fascinating, but when I see someone plugging twice his own blog in a Slashdot comment, it's an immediate SEO red flag.
This led me to google "Bruce F. Webster", and wow, dude did you really create your own Wikipedia entry using your own blog as source?
There's nothing in your bio that even remotely justify a wikipedia article, that's more like a LinkedIn profile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
if I wasn't a lazy bastard I'd edit your page to flag it as a WP:PROMO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Where are the wikipedia nazis when we need them.
Admit it, our profession is a joke. We are con artists working for con artist peddling the latest craze.
It was true, until IT became a two-speed enabler of business outcomes using digital twins.
most developers these days couldn't develop themselves out of a "hello world" problem.
hello world is easy: just do serverless micro-services with an api in the cloud and docker-compose machine learning using babeljs. The only tough part is picking the right spotify playlist while you code your brains out on that macbook.
If you're as absolutist as "The Cloud is your enemy," then you're not suited for a job in modern IT.
And to bring us back full circle, this is why modern IT is a disaster, the entire point of this article.
Want to see to what point modern IT is a disaster: the article we're discussing comes from cio.com, the land of clickbait slideshows.
Compare:
Buzzfeed:
-25 Things That May Help Soothe Your Broken Heart
-32 Kids Who Absolutely Nailed Halloween
-19 Pictures That Are Too Real If You Only Have, Like, $7
Cio.com:
-6 hard truths IT must learn to accept
-15 essential project management tools
-10 best places to work for women in technology
Welcome to hell
And as we all know, that war was crucial otherwise Vietnam would have become a communist state and it woud have been the apocalypse (now).
Oh wait...
Vietnam, a one-party Communist state, has one of south-east Asia's fastest-growing economies and has set its sights on becoming a developed nation by 2020.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
After the migration (several months), we lost a document.
We're law and the document was majorly critical.
As they had for years, management came to me for retrieval.
I told them to "see the cloud people," as I stirred my coffee.
You know the real scary part? Lots of companies buy in the Google cloud (now called G Suite) without realizing that Google doesn't offer data loss protection. The customers are supposed to backup their shit themselves.
And do you know what is the guaranteed uptime for an AWS virtual machine? None. If you want a SLA you need the whole load-balancer thing. Meanwhile high-availability for a vm has been available on VMware for a decade.
I think you need to beef up on your conspiracy theories. i think there's even a Netflix documentary about the "Faul McCartney" thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm not sure where people keep getting the "knows better" thing from the Mac. It's designed to abstract technical complexity, not "know better". If you ask it to do a thing, it still does it.
so it will let you:
- have the menu on each window, as opposed to being a unified big thing on the top of the screen?
- have min/max buttons (on whatever side of the window you choose) that actually make the window take the whole screen when maximized, not some ratio it decides for you?
- have a full-width taskbar (dock) on each monitor that shows only the apps open in each specific monitor?
- use a click on the mousewheel to close tabs in file managers and browsers?
those are all things I can do in Gnome without having to go in the command-line or having to create keyboard shortcuts.
Have you worked in the enterprise world? It's never about pointing fingers, it's usually about senior management wanting to align their IT portfolio with Gartner's magic quadrants.
Also at the moment Postgres is almost never in the support matrix of big vendors, it's always Oracle/SQL Server/DB2. So even if the app you buy for a gazillion bucks use JDBC and could technically run on Postgres or even Paradox, the solution wouldn't be certified by the vendor.
It's not a lost cause, though. Many big data platforms use Postgres by default (ex: Ambari) and vendor like Hortonworks make it more acceptable for the suits. Red Hat also helps, since they support it. But those are still minor players in the big chess game of enterprise database rackets.
Right, so the 5 staff ordering toilet paper have to dictate the IT requirements for the 10,000 other staff members doing actual productive work. RIIIIIGHT!
Nobody said that. The point here is that there's no serious FOSS alternatives for those systems.
What support do you get with the Microsoft equivalent? If I understand things correctly, what you're paying for with Red Hat is the support?
Yes it's the same level of support. Open a ticket, etc. And they're both pretty good. Microsoft support will often call to follow-up on a ticket, RHEL is mostly by email but they reply really quick with the correct information.
At the other end of the spectrum there's Oracle and IBM, who basically tell you to either read the documentation or to wait for the next patch.
the President should be involved directly in drone strike targets. Otherwise these decisions would be made by unelected military officials, and that sounds very troubling to me
What is troubling is doing drone strikes, full stop. If someone from another country was to send drones to bomb a condo tower in Los Angeles because "they have intel", you'd probably be the first one to call them terrorists.
It's real people that die in those strikes, not just names on a list or pixels on a screen. Thousands upon thousands of innocents that are robbed of their life and future, thousands upon thousands of family who lose someone for no reason.
I know the number makes it easier to digest (as Stalin said: "one death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic") and the threatening image of ISIS makes it acceptable to some... but this is some truly evil shit.
And you know what is the most disgusting? When people support drone strikes but shit their pants because Trump want to freeze immigration from the countries where those strikes are inflicted. Wtf.
Let's call it a weakness and a strength. 3-4 competitors offering real alternatives is well and good vs a single monolith everyone has to use. 100 or even 1000 cooks in the kitchen not so much.
Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon, Mate -> that's easily 80% of the linux desktops. We're not talking about 100.
Have you seen someone use it in production? So far all I've heard about is prototypes in docker.
This does not match my experience with J2EE applications connecting to Ariba, SAP, Aspen, and Peoplesoft. I can run a J2EE server on AIX -- extremely far removed from Microsoft -- and connect an enterprise asset management solution to anything.
SAP and Peoplesoft are an order of magnitude more expensive. This is a different matter entirely, and does not provide a cost-effective alternative to the Windows-based solutions I mentioned. That's like saying: don't us MS-Access, use Oracle instead. Sure, as long as you're the one paying for it.
The whole mass hysteria about Russia comes from the FUD campaign launched by Clinton to distract people from the fact that she was sending top secret emails in plain text using her own Exchange server instead of using the state department secure infrastructure.
Is that the official party line to use when the Mueller investigation starts sending out indictments?
I don't know what you mean, but the bit about using her own Exchange server and sending messages in plain text is public record; the date at which they switched to TLS and moved the server to an actual data center is even known.
There's lots of nasty shit about Clinton that is a matter of public record (such as when her brothers had to pay back the bribes they received to buy presidential pardons from her husband) but mysteriously those facts never seem to cross the thick layer of propaganda behind which you people hide your conscience.
Anyone who modded down the above is a fucking hypocrite and probably knows it.
With a margin that small, every single thing that nudged some voters was required to win the election. That includes email, the utterly incompetent Clinton campaign, and Russia. Take any one away and those margins flip.
There was the email server, but also the DNC emails that were leaked - and those contained damaging content for Clinton, but of course they brought in (again) the mysterious Russian hackers (of which there is still, as of today, zero actual evidence), and the mainstream media jumped on it since it was easier than explaining things such as those "How can we help?" emails they sent to Clintons campaign.
Anyone who supports Clinton at this point and who still peddle that Russian hacker bullshit should stop calling themselves liberals, and call themselves Clintonians instead, as those are two different things.