Posts by Pascal Monett

"13 nines durability"

Did you hear that rushing water sound ?

That's the sound of millions of Microsoft customers salivating at the prospect of a cloud that actually helps them, instead of keeping them from working.

But hey, Nadella, stay the course ! Nothing like being a living promotion for Open Source tools, right ?

Well it seems that fiber optics companies are going to make a killing in offshore revenue

Meanwhile, US telcos will do everything in their - admittedly - immense power to retain the status quo.

Might as well try to stop the winter from coming. Change is inevitable and trying to avert it only means you will fall harder.

"it had seen higher satisfaction ratings and fewer issues than any previous Windows 10 release"

Yep, and it looks like it's going to stay that way for a while yet.

This whole story sounds like a bag of poisonous snakes in which I am very glad I don't have to put my hand.

I agree with the above posters, it does indeed seem that, from the top level down, our "institutions" need a serious cleanup.

"The vision has an educator running an interactive lesson on a large display [..]"

I envision that that vision will be crudely interrupted by Windows Update asking if you want to reboot Now, or Now ?

I rather like it, but for one detail

It's a niggle, but for me it is important : the keyboard lacks a dedicated numeric keypad. I am very used to that, and not having one is a miss for me.

Still, I'm sure I've seen USB numpads, so all is not lost. I might look into that more closely when the time comes to replace my current workhorse.

"the weakest link should not define the digital economy"

Sorry Ginni, but the weakest link defines the limits of everything you can do.

It's just how it is, and throwing a tantrum or making a speech as CEO is not going to change that.

"then someone’s argument comes true"

That argument was valid from the onset of this current cloud fad and it has already been validated a good number of times, Daz.

It's not our fault if you ignore reality until it bites you in the demo.

And honestly, with Microsoft's could performance this year, you can thank your lucky stars it only happened to you in November.

"who is allowed to gain access to the non-public portions of the database"

The answer to that is simple : anyone who has a warrant.

That means probable cause, approved by a judge and enforced by proper police force.

Of course, that also means that US-based IP lawyers can go fuck themselves, which is an outcome I entirely approve of.

Couldn't happen to a nicer company

Anything that makes Uber execs bleed is music to my ears.

"It expects to get there by acquisition and organic growth."

Acquisition. Taking over another company and folding some or most of their employees into yours. Merging two different corporate cultures, making a mess of both in the end. Sure, it makes for bigger numbers on the ledger, and hopefully captures more market and customers, but it really feels like a pain to go through for the expected result - which is not always attained.

Here, we have the remnants of HPE employees who are apparently leaving in droves. That is a sign that DXC has a rather big problem on its hands ; its experience is bleeding away. That does not bode well for future execution, meaning acquisition is just going to mask the problems to the outside.

Right now, I do not see a rosy future for DXC.

Been there as well

I've completed a few big projects in my time, with thankfully only minor niggles to correct in the new version.

What gets me the most is that I know that, however much preparation and planning and caution I employ, in the end, on launch day, there will always be one user who will have an incredible problem nobody else does. And when I'm confronted with it, I then have to tie my brain into a knot in order to find a solution that doesn't break it for everyone else.

And, often, that one user will be a VIP or otherwise important person in the company, so the solution just has to be found ASAP.

It's almost as exhausting as the entire rest of the project.

"compromises made on border control systems would be on financial [..] risks"

I smell massive tax evasion tactics coming soon. Followed by tearful reports of fiscal revenue going into the toilet.

Funny, normally the government does everything to ensure that tax revenue keeps flowing, so why isn't anyone getting the ball rolling on this ? What political thing is worse for someone's image than ensuring tax keeps coming in ?

Because that's what it is. This is purely someone who does not want to be seen saying something definitive that nobody will like, so they keep quiet despite the guys at the Tax Bureau going blue in the face over their inability to move forward.

This is an interesting development

rcxb and Miss_X2m1 have brought my attention to the fact that I too have been receiving so-called notifications apparently from Amazon of things waiting for me at my post office, with a helpful link to some page that is neither a Post Office site nor Amazon.

Of course, not being part of the numpties that click on links from unknown entities, I just controlled that the link was suspicious and trashed the mail forthwith.

Now, though, I have to wonder : is this part of the consequences of the breach-that-was-not-a-hack ? I live in France, so if it is, the problem is much larger than just the UK (since Miss_X2m1 is USA-based).