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We’re excited to announce Cray ClusterStor in Azure, a dedicated solution to accelerate data processing of the most complex HPC jobs running in Azure. Just in case you want to say that, "My code runs on a Cray"
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I used a Cray about a generation ago to do someheavy duty engineering calulations. Performance wasamazing at te time, but I'm not so sure my dersktop I-7 is that much worse and certtainly more affordable.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I was working at Shell Oil and they had a contract with Boing Computer Services to provide Cray access for our reservoir simulation work. I was assigned TO EVALUATE THE FEASIBILITY OF developing AND producing a potential OFFSHORE gULF OF mEXICO oil field, iT WAS TOP PRIORITY AND i reported directly TO THE board of directors, NOT TO my NORMAL BOSS. aS A RESULT I HAD ACCESS TO ALL THE RESOURCES NEEDED TO DO THE JOB, whether my boss likedfit or not
One day I got a call from aBCS rep who asked if I was running a large simulation, I said yes and he said that the output I generated filled all of their print buffers and effectively shut down the cluster. Next year I went to a trade show and as I walked by the BCS booth a guy jumps out grabs my arm and pulls me into the booth and says to all his assoociates "I want you to meet the guy who shut down our system. Seems that it was a condition they had never anticipated. I ended up getting all the output transferred to microfilm so I could analyze the results and do my engineering. Shell won the bid on that field, developed a platform and I think it is probably still producing now,some 30 years later.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Yipee, now I can make more errors per second than I thought was possible.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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When users of the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge use Google Docs, the service is stating that the browser is not supported. As the new Microsoft Edge uses the same HTML engine as Chrome and is clearly supported, some users feel that Google is playing unfairly. That's because it's missing all the important ad-distributing code
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Shouldn't that read, "That's because it's missing the all important ad-distributing code" ?
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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My irony meter broke over the company that releases software in public with a beta tag for years is blocking someone else's beta product. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Then they shelve the product one month after the beta tag is removed.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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IT pros believe the C-suite should be fired if the data breach is serious enough. All thumbs to the dike!
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Instead of registering the component during deployment which is the case in packaged apps, you can now declare information about your component’s assemblies and classes in the classic Win32-style application.manifest. I know, I know. You'll miss having to deal with the Registry
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According to Splunk’s State of Dark Data Report, a lot of organizations have “dark data” — data that the organization is unaware of or unable to find, prepare, analyze, or use. Do we need to spend some Dark Energy to find your Dark Data?
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Actually it's stored on all the dark matter in the universe.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Of course, the obvious solution, "Stop collecting data you obviously don't need, you idiots!", never occurs to anyone.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Of course, the obvious solution, "Stop collecting data you obviously don't need, you idiots!", never occurs to anyone.
But then you can't send spam and sell the data on the dark web!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Both high and low-risk bugs and licensing conflicts are rife in today’s business codebases. And 100% of closed-source vulnerabilities
*totals may not add up to 100%
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Those super-modern development technologies we should embrace (according to fashion designers) make it next to impossible to follow what code you actually use in your development...
(We have over 700 3rd party packages installed, of witch less then 50 requested directly, the others are dependencies and dependencies of dependencies)
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: of witch
I'm voting for that as the Unintentionally Appropriate Typo of the Month.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's almost Freudian in its slippage.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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And where is my prize?
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Unfortunately, I was the only person who voted for you, so you can blame everyone in the world except me for your not winning.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yet Vodaphone continues to buy their equipment. Apparently security is a low priority for them. A lower priority than cost anyway.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: Apparently security is a low priority for them. A lower priority than cost anyway.
Are you surprised?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Not particularly, no. I just think it's amusing that they report their findings and continue buying Huawei stuff as if they found nothing at all.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I have a hidden bavck door in my house. It's where the dog goes in and out.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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