Stumbled across this thing called Xebia Labs the other day, added a few of the named components to have it return its own map and…
…realized that we have loads of room for improvement. There are so many things we can do differently or to improve our deployment process.
I love Nagios.
I love Raspberry PIs.
It’s awkward to shoehorn Nagios into into an rPi.
Somebody fixed that particular annoyance.
Honestly, this has been around for a few years, but I’ll have to learn something about it and stop trying to hack together my own solutions.
Some summary info is on an older Cat5 Tech TV episode:
Wait, wasn’t it Bloomberg that did a hit and run piece about a rather implausible, science-fiction-y issue with SuperMicro hardware a few months ago? Entirely baseless, didn’t name names or give any other mechanism to substantiate the claims.
Stock on all three companies took a dive.
And now that same Bloomberg has released “leak” of the pending Apple release of macOS (v10.15), iOS (v13), and WatchOS (v6) that outlines a huge number of features.
Sounds quite suspicious to me, especially because of the source. They haven’t named a name or provide any other means to validate the claims they’re making. So, no, I certainly don’t trust anything revealed via Bloomberg.
Samsung hasn’t had the best of luck with certain tech. Not long ago, its top-load washing-machines turned into guillotines with regular usage — glass lids parting company with the slightest vibration.
And there was the Note 7 smartphone, which had a tendency to spontaneously and spectacularly burst into flame.
And now, with the release — and retraction within a few short days — of Samsung’s latest folding phone, I feel that it doesn’t bode well for Samsung, but it also indicates the looming end of an era: smartphones have Jumped the Shark.
But it folds!
And it fails.
Quickly.
Go ahead. Go Google samsung fold fail. I’ll wait. Here, I’ll do it for you:
It’s also amazingly expensive. If you think a top of the line smartphone is pricey at US$1,100, that folding Samsung monstrosity is twice the cost.
Oh, and it flounders — it’s not waterproof.
I’m starting to suspect that Samsung’s business model — once thought to be a cost-savings process not expending resources on engineering, QA, or Product-testing teams — instead relies on consumers to buy their quickly-conceived products so they can try them out and find faults and failures.
That means that you’re not only going to buy a shoddy product, but you’re also going to do the testing and provide marketing feedback for them!
It’s a win/win from Samsung’s perspective. But a fail/fail for the longer-term. That feedback part that will be detrimental to them in the long-term.
The current process to “undo” on an iPhone is awkward enough. You’ll look like an impatient loon getting frustrated with a phone call when you want to undo whatever the last action was.
It’s even more maddening on the iPad.
Mistakenly delete something? Welp, grab your grippy-gloves, readjust your grip, and shake it like an electronic Etch-A-Sketch, because you’ll not be getting it back unless you begin flailing the rather expensive iPad around.
And you can forget it if you are unlucky enough to no longer have the dexterity to coordinate the rhythmic shake-shake-shake to bring it back.
Or resign yourself to redoing whatever thing it was.
Shake to undo was useful for awhile. But doesn’t seem so anymore.
Please, Apple, can we please make “undo” something a bit more accessible?
the rest of me 