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Comment Do we know what the current architecture is? (Score 1) 404

by bobthesungeek76036 on Thursday October 31, 2013 @09:06PM (#45296503) Attached to: Tech Titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google To Help Fix Healthcare.gov

Webserver? Middleware? Database? Hardware??

Comment Re:Oracle? Seriously? (Score 1) 404

by bobthesungeek76036 on Thursday October 31, 2013 @09:03PM (#45296495) Attached to: Tech Titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google To Help Fix Healthcare.gov

My guess would be that healthcare.gov runs on top of an Oracle DB already, so Oracle probably has a few engineers that can be brought in to help identify and restructure problematic queries and/or tweak server settings to eek out a bit more performance. It's also a distinct possibility that the back end is in Java, so Oracle has a few knowledgeable Java engineers too.

Oracle's one-word answer for the DB -- Exadata...

Comment Re:Let's see.. (Score 1) 404

by bobthesungeek76036 on Thursday October 31, 2013 @09:00PM (#45296485) Attached to: Tech Titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google To Help Fix Healthcare.gov

In two months the site will be using Oracle and Ellison will charge the Feds a fortune for the license fees.....

Yea you gotta believe Larry is foaming at the mouth at this. Selling them a named-user license and getting paid for every man, woman, and child in the US? Cha-Ching!!!

Comment Missing option: (Score 4, Insightful) 443

by bobthesungeek76036 on Sunday October 20, 2013 @01:07AM (#45179007) Attached to: I wish my car could...

Expand and crush the idiot in front of me...

Comment Re:So, does it run Linux? (Score 3, Informative) 56

by bobthesungeek76036 on Friday October 18, 2013 @04:01AM (#45162193) Attached to: Last Operating ICT 1301 Mainframe Computer Set To Run Again

With 12KB of memory I would think it would have a wee bit of trouble loading the kernel...

Comment $44.4K fine for Big Blue? (Score 4, Funny) 195

by bobthesungeek76036 on Saturday September 28, 2013 @02:10AM (#44977673) Attached to: Justice Department Slaps IBM Over H-1B Hiring Practices

I've seen strip club tabs higher than that...

Comment Re:link to apk? (Score 1) 54

by bobthesungeek76036 on Sunday September 22, 2013 @03:37AM (#44916241) Attached to: BlackBerry Delays Launch of BBM Apps For iOS, Android

go to XDA and search for BBM-release.apk

Comment Hangover??? (Score 1) 110

by bobthesungeek76036 on Saturday September 21, 2013 @02:14AM (#44910185) Attached to: Extreme Microbe Brewing: the Curse of Auto-Brewery Syndrome

... The most current case comes courtesy of an unnamed 61-year-old Texas man who for five years seemed to be drunk -- all of the time...

Drunk for five years straight??? Must have been a hella of a hang over after being drunk that long!!!

Comment "... medicine and other fields ..." (Score 1, Interesting) 70

by bobthesungeek76036 on Thursday September 05, 2013 @06:20AM (#44764111) Attached to: Computer-Designed Proteins Recognize and Bind Small Molecules

If steroids are involved maybe the baseball field???

Comment Re:Totally bogus (Score 1) 119

by bobthesungeek76036 on Sunday August 25, 2013 @06:15AM (#44668427) Attached to: Former Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer Auctioning a Prototype "Spy Rock"

I agree. Lockheed Martin does a lot more than just aviation. But Lockheed Martin Aeronautics - SkunkWorks mission is advanced airframe design.

Comment Bottom line... (Score 1) 119

by bobthesungeek76036 on Sunday August 25, 2013 @05:23AM (#44668317) Attached to: Former Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer Auctioning a Prototype "Spy Rock"

http://www.salespider.com/b-293488926/advanced-wireless-automation

See "Estimated annual revenue" -- $20K

I guess $10M for this shiny rock would bolster the annual revenue a tad...

Comment Re:Free shipping eh? (Score 1) 119

by bobthesungeek76036 on Sunday August 25, 2013 @04:49AM (#44668233) Attached to: Former Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer Auctioning a Prototype "Spy Rock"

$10M for a Styrofoam rock with some electronics inside? I would hope there would be enough cushion for worldwide shipping... ;)

Comment Totally bogus (Score 1) 119

by bobthesungeek76036 on Sunday August 25, 2013 @04:44AM (#44668219) Attached to: Former Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer Auctioning a Prototype "Spy Rock"

SkunkWorks? Don't they design aircraft? What in the world would an advanced airframe design company want with a rock with a camera in it? And for sure they wouldn't have to hire a sub to design it if they did...

Comment I think M$ will extend XP support (Score 1, Informative) 520

by bobthesungeek76036 on Thursday August 08, 2013 @01:45AM (#44506033) Attached to: China Has a Massive Windows XP Problem

My wife works for a hospital system and they are still on XP and have no migration plans as of yet. I think there are enough companies like that out there that will force M$ to continue patch support past the 4/8/14 deadline...

Comment Loose/Loose for all (Score 3, Insightful) 154

by bobthesungeek76036 on Saturday July 27, 2013 @04:24AM (#44397809) Attached to: Oracle Sues Companies It Says Provide Solaris OS Support In Illegal Manner

I used to work for the Big-O. Bottom-line is king there. That's why I had to quit. I understand the legalise of this situation. However, you have a bunch of folks out there still running Solaris w/o maintenance contracts. And if they don't update the OS with patches, they are vunerable to security hacks which hurts everyone in the long run. I wish Oracle would let folks update their software w/o contracts but that doesn't help the bottom-line and we all suffer for it....

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