I know how some people view Google, and I agree they have a lot of dominance in the market at the moment. But I was somewhat gob smacked by the quote in the news today, concerning the Microsoft owned company ciao.co.uk suing Google
"Parent company, Microsoft, claims that Google has used its dominant position to limit rivals' products."
Not like Microsoft has ever done anything like this.
I can't decide whether this is due to Microsoft's fear of Google, or their complete lack of any morales in search of the almighty dollar/pound/yen/etc
Monday, 18 April 2011
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Someone having a rant, other than me
I work in a building that USED to be the local cemetery's chapel of rest. The keywords being "used to". There is a sign on the entrance saying the company name and also saying there is access to the CEMETERY.
The fact that the crematorium is next door (also sign posted), and accessed by a different entrance, is not our fault. We regularly get a few confused and slightly upset visitors.
But today we had a first. An irate mourner complaining to US that the crematorium is not well enough sign posted and it's not good enough (slamming the door on the way out).
Everyone has always been courteous, understanding the that person is possibly a little upset already. However, this slightly angered us and in some way amused us.
The main moral of this is one of general civility. Using abusive and threatening speech to someone who is unrelated to the issue you are complaining about is hardly going to endear them to helping you. If we had not already told them where to find the crematorium I would have given her false directions.
The fact that the crematorium is next door (also sign posted), and accessed by a different entrance, is not our fault. We regularly get a few confused and slightly upset visitors.
But today we had a first. An irate mourner complaining to US that the crematorium is not well enough sign posted and it's not good enough (slamming the door on the way out).
Everyone has always been courteous, understanding the that person is possibly a little upset already. However, this slightly angered us and in some way amused us.
The main moral of this is one of general civility. Using abusive and threatening speech to someone who is unrelated to the issue you are complaining about is hardly going to endear them to helping you. If we had not already told them where to find the crematorium I would have given her false directions.
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Woe is me
Upgrading with yum
To upgrade with yum
1 | Login to the op5 Monitor server via ssh as the root user. |
2 | Check what packages that is pending for upgrade by execute: yum check-update |
3 | If you want to apply the upgraded packages execute: yum update |
These are instructions from a commercial product we have. They provide repositories for the software to provide easier upgrade.
As a note this is definitely not the way to do it. This will update your entire system. I queried how to do this, and they effectively didn't know. The only method they have is to install the new version over the top. Wicked.
As a note this is definitely not the way to do it. This will update your entire system. I queried how to do this, and they effectively didn't know. The only method they have is to install the new version over the top. Wicked.
Commercial vs Opensource Contd...
My fight with the commercialised Nagios continues.
Though they've managed to fix a number of bugs, they seem quite capable of introducing more. Documentation is still poor (one of the support techs actually having to write an upgrade guide for me specifically).
In addition they have committed a most foul heinous crime: changing the architecture mid version.
version x.2 to x.3 totally changes the distribution/load balancing model. In fact in x.2 there was no such thing as load-balancing. beforehand. To me this is a major change in the system, and requires work to accommodate, and should only be done as a new version.
I can see how this is happening, RAD + opensource mentality means, fix the bugs add new features, release it into the wild. Not really what I would expect from a commercial product though. I need stability and bug fixes. New features are great, but I'd prefer to take those as a separate option
Though they've managed to fix a number of bugs, they seem quite capable of introducing more. Documentation is still poor (one of the support techs actually having to write an upgrade guide for me specifically).
In addition they have committed a most foul heinous crime: changing the architecture mid version.
version x.2 to x.3 totally changes the distribution/load balancing model. In fact in x.2 there was no such thing as load-balancing. beforehand. To me this is a major change in the system, and requires work to accommodate, and should only be done as a new version.
I can see how this is happening, RAD + opensource mentality means, fix the bugs add new features, release it into the wild. Not really what I would expect from a commercial product though. I need stability and bug fixes. New features are great, but I'd prefer to take those as a separate option
Android woes
I've now had my android phone for a while now, and I think it's top. I've had the odd crash, but mainly when I've tried to work past it's capabilities. The device I have is an entry model, and sometimes I expect the response I get from my laptop.
Smartphones are probably the future. However, one thing to note: Smartphones are not really phones. They're handheld computers with voice capability, treat them as such.
As to Android itself, it's great. Plenty of apps both free and commercial, all pretty much of high quality. I keep meaning to produce a few myself.
Smartphones are probably the future. However, one thing to note: Smartphones are not really phones. They're handheld computers with voice capability, treat them as such.
As to Android itself, it's great. Plenty of apps both free and commercial, all pretty much of high quality. I keep meaning to produce a few myself.
Monday, 13 December 2010
Cable Hell
I've just travelled some distance to get to a hosting centre my company has kit at. It's not easy or cheap really for us to do work down here, but this is where it's at.
So doing work is a pain, especially when you have to do it at stupid o'clock to cause least disruption to our customers.
So getting in, doing the shizzle and getting out asap is always a good thing. So things need to be prepared beforehand. What,when and by whom.
However arriving on site with barely any of the kit prepared and a few hastily written notes is not good, recipe for disaster.
So we've now discovered in our haste to get down here missing most of the rush hour traffic we've forgotten one cable. Ordinarily we wouldn't need it as it's only for initially setting up a device, the worst thing is the device is used for remote management of all the other kit we installing.
Arse.
So doing work is a pain, especially when you have to do it at stupid o'clock to cause least disruption to our customers.
So getting in, doing the shizzle and getting out asap is always a good thing. So things need to be prepared beforehand. What,when and by whom.
However arriving on site with barely any of the kit prepared and a few hastily written notes is not good, recipe for disaster.
So we've now discovered in our haste to get down here missing most of the rush hour traffic we've forgotten one cable. Ordinarily we wouldn't need it as it's only for initially setting up a device, the worst thing is the device is used for remote management of all the other kit we installing.
Arse.
Friday, 24 September 2010
Commercial vs Opensource
I'm a huge Opensource fan, it's what the web is about. However, commercial offerings have there place. No company can totally support each of the apps it uses, and so commercial offering can be a great resource.
Commercial offerings on opensource products I'm also not an enemy of. However, if I'm paying for something I could potentially get for free I have to see the benefit.
Typically this would be a slicker, more streamlined and documented. Also the support of a team that can go figure stuff out for me.
Recently we've become a customer of Op5, a commercial offering of Nagios. It's a better interface, gui config, but sod all documentation. I don't count a document that says "put the alias in here", and a screenshot of the alias input, as documentation.
I need to know structure design of implementation, what the various options actually mean to me. And perhaps a few examples.
In effect I would have probably been better to tweak the old design I had with nagios, rather than have to decompile their mechanism. Also there helpdesk attitude stinks.
Commercial offerings on opensource products I'm also not an enemy of. However, if I'm paying for something I could potentially get for free I have to see the benefit.
Typically this would be a slicker, more streamlined and documented. Also the support of a team that can go figure stuff out for me.
Recently we've become a customer of Op5, a commercial offering of Nagios. It's a better interface, gui config, but sod all documentation. I don't count a document that says "put the alias in here", and a screenshot of the alias input, as documentation.
I need to know structure design of implementation, what the various options actually mean to me. And perhaps a few examples.
In effect I would have probably been better to tweak the old design I had with nagios, rather than have to decompile their mechanism. Also there helpdesk attitude stinks.
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