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Your #4 is the same as my #3. Play out your #4 and it ends up as my #3:

4. Struggle to come to a conclusion on what to do with the EOL OS because of internal political factors and the reality of how enterprise works.

Security or Compliance teams raise the concern with continuing to run the EOL OS, they demand the App team power down the offending servers or upgrade. App team escalates to leadership advocating for the upgrade and they ask for the funding. Leadership asks for a business case justifying the large spend requiring the ROI numbers. App team mostly shrugs because the ROI are intangibles of security or support-ability. Leadership sees no immediate monetary benefit being realized in the next 2 quarters from a costly upgrade and instead chooses to accept the risk. They send an exception order to Security or Compliance teams that this EOL OS should continue running as is and the App team shouldn’t be bothered anymore.

…and we end up with my #3.

Also with the abandonment of DEI initiatives, there are no longer any protections for Lizard-Amercians.

just take credit for fixing the symptoms over and over and over again.

If the goal of the individual is a measurable delta of positive change, then it would be beneficial to the individual to cultivate problems now to solve and get recognized for future accomplishments? It would be much easier to solve a problem that you know intimately, because you were the original cause.

Most of the time I’ve run into this its COTS software and the customer refuses to pay for the cost of the updated version or the company that wrote the original COTS application is long since out of business.

It is more like ‘involuntarily end up riding the risks of using unsupported old software’.

Involuntarily? An org choosing to use an EOL OS to keep running an application is a business choice that accepts the risk of compromise/lack of support of an EOL OS. Any org in this situation has 3 choices:

• deprecate the application entirely closing down that line of business the application was supporting
• rewrite/replace the application to maintain the line of business on a modern supported OS
• continue to run the EOL OS and accept the risks

There’s nothing involuntary here.

RHEL 7 and RHEL 5 need to be flipped in your meme.

Any large enterprise still running RHEL 5 in Prod (or even, yes, older RHEL versions) has fully accepted the risks and will grumble about supporting it, but go forward with whatever workarounds are necessary to keep the application running on it running. The RHEL 7 folks, however, are modern enough that the answer for any problem is “Upgrade to RHEL 9, because we know you can with some effort, because we don’t want to waste time on supporting something you should be able to upgrade away from”.

This is the game of chicken in a modern enterprise for app teams. If their application is critical enough to business continuity and they remain on RHEL 7 long enough, they too will join the select few applications in the org that either get a cash injection for an application rewrite to modern RHEL 9 or be enshrined next to the RHEL 5 apps still running with grumbling, but continued support.

In a perfect world these EOL unsupported OSes should be retired and replaced with modern supported version, but we’re talking about reality now which is what the modern enterprise is, and which is far far from the perfect world.

China pushing back on work leaving China. Taiwanese company Foxconn still working to keep the lights on in the India manufacturing effort.

I disagree with your original position, but it appears even that too has evolved. I appreciate you taking the time to reply. Thank you.

What if people could earn money by generating solar energy and selling directly to vehicles, instead of the grid? I believe this could actually boost renewable energy generation over the roof.

If you’re cutting out the grid, how do you propose getting electricity generated by solar to the EV? In your system do they have to come to my house and plug into my solar array when its sunny to collect their purchase? Or are you expecting the grid to deliver it, but not expect any compensation for grid capacity consumption, transmission and distribution of the electricity?

Generators would be rewarded with a blockchain token for the energy generated, while consumers would pay for the energy in those tokens. Therefore speculation would be curbed as the tokens are for a real thing, energy, which on top is a stable unit - kWh.

I’m a generator. Why would I want a token to buy electricity I already have a surplus of for my EV? How do non-solar EV owners get tokens? Does your system propose non-solar owners buy tokens on the open market with real money (dollars/euros) from solar generators? If I’m spending dollars/euros to buy tokens, why don’t I just use my dollars/euros to buy electricity for my EV instead?

Yep. The problem is that they keep trying to push it as some sort of workspace for home or office.

It’s a shitty workspace. Nobody wants that box strapped to their face and work in a cartoonish porthole view world.

It will eventually be great for a virtual workspace, but the technology isn’t there yet. The resolution on headsets has to get several orders of magnitude better, and the headsets need to get several orders of magnitude lighter/more comfortable.

I just love the people who refuse to get a Quest device (formerly Oculus) because it’s meta. And meta bad. But then they have their entire life connected in a web of google and/or Microsoft.

Meta is a walled garden. You have to give them everything to get anything. Google and/or Microsoft you only have to give them some to get some, so you can choose if what you want is worth what you get from them. Meta is all or nothing. So for Meta, I choose nothing.

So it was either wait for everybody to finish the Sunday matinee of Wicked so someone can move their car and I could slip in to jump it from mine…or buy a battery and get tools and replace it there in the parking lot.

If you had your new battery and your jumper cables, there would be no reason to buy the tools. You put your new battery on the ground and jump you car from it. Your car will run on the power from the alternator with a completely dead battery. Without turning off the now running car, disconnect the jumper cables and drive the car home where your tools are.

This article is building off of the readers assumed knowledge of quantum entanglement. If you don’t have that, they you’d absolutely be lost.

Here’s a simple explanation of quantum entanglement:

Imagine you have four balls of playdoh and a coin. You flip the coin and let in land on the floor. Without looking at which side is up, you smash one of the balls of playdoh over the coin. You gently peal up the playdoh off the coin but are careful to not look at the face of the coin or the impression it left in the playdoh. You take another ball of playdoh and flatten it between your hands. You very gently lay the flattened playdoh over top of the coin-impression playdoh. You pinch just all the edges together. So now you a single piece of playdoh with the coin impression sealed inside. You do the steps of created a second piece of playdoh from the same coin with the same side up (again without looking at it). Lastly, you close your eyes and pick up the coin and put it back in your pocket, again without looking at it. So now you have TWO of these pieces of playdoh with the coin impression sealed inside and you don’t know which coin impression (heads or tails) is in there, but you know its the same one in both. Instead of wrapping the playdoh in plastic so they don’t dry out, you leave them out for a week and they become hard and crusty as playdoh does.

These two pieces of playdoh are essentially what quantum entangled photons are. They contain information (a coin impression of either heads or tails, but not both), both have the SAME information (both will be heads or both will be tails), and there is no way to know if its heads or tails without tearing open the playdoh to look.

Here’s the expanded idea for using quantum entanglement for encryption:

Alice and Bob want to meet each other in secret a week from now. The problem is Bob’s ex girlfriend, Mallory. She’s has been stalking Bob to chase off any potential future girlfriends. To keep Mallory from finding out where they are meeting, you meet both Alice and Bob separately and give them one of the playdoh pieces you created in the first step. They agree that if its “heads” found inside they’ll meet at the restaurant. If its “tails” found inside they’ll meet at the park. If they learn Mallory knows where they’re meeting, they’ll not meet at all. One week later, Alice and Bob each open their playdoh and even though it crumbles, they can both see that the “tails” impression was inside the playdoh. They know each other is going to the park. They successfully meet at the park and Mallory learns nothing of the meeting or who Alice is.

A week later Alice and Bob want to meet again. They take a new pair of playdoh pieces with a new coin impression inside you made for them. This time however, Mallory overheard Bob talking to his friend about this system and what heads and tails mean. Mallory gets into Bobs apartment when he’s out and finds the playdoh. She breaks open the playdoh and sees the “heads” impression and knows it means that the meeting will be at the restaurant. Mallory tries to put the playdoh back together, but its dried and crumbly, so its clear its been opened when she leaves. Bob returns to this apartment and finds the playdoh broken open, also sees the “heads” impression, but knows that someone else knows it too. At the meeting time Alice shows up at the restaurant, as does Mallory looking for Bob and whoever he is trying to meet. Bob doesn’t show. Mallory never learns who Alice is because Bob wasn’t there to meet and identify her there. Alice knows that Mallory is there somewhere because Bob didn’t show and quietly leaves on her own.

So here’s where the article is coming in for using regular internet fiber optics:

Alice and Bob want to meet a third time, and come to you for more playdoh impressions. Instead of each of them coming to your home to pick them up at separate times. You take each piece of playdoh (with the coin impression inside), and put them in cardboard boxes, and drop them in the mail. Alice gets her box and opens it up and finds the playdoh intact. Bob does the same. All of you thought that the playdoh was too fragile to share the same mail system, but the playdoh survived intact with its secret still safe inside!

Yes. Keep in mind nothing in the article talks about the fiber repeater. That is my addition with some knowledge of telecommunications infrastructure. Because fiber optic cable isn’t perfect, there is light loss over distance. Different grades of fiber have different levels of loss across distance. An example of high end fiber would be ZBLAN. There is experimental level manufacturing (successful in small quantities already) of producing ZBLAN fiber in space to improve the fiber quality, but that makes it much more expensive. Once the limits of the fiber are reached a telecommunications provider can place a fiber repeater to double the length by intercepting the light (signal) and reproducing it (blinking new laser light) into the next segment of fiber.

However, these repeaters create NEW light, and that would mean the quantum information is not carried over in present day fiber repeaters. Even measuring the entangled photon to recreate it would break the quantum state of the entangled photon at the source, so current means can’t be used as a repeater for quantum data.

This is a cool progress forward.

TLDR; Researchers used a 30km optical fiber. They found a wavelength that was off-to-the-side that would mean the quantum entangled photons could ride in the same fiber without interfering (or being interfered with) the classical fiber optic communications. One current shortcoming for scaling this up is that the quantum photons would not survive optical repeaters commonly used for extremely long distant fiber runs. That doesn’t take away from the success of their research, just puts it in perspective for the next researchers to tackle at some point in the future.

Are you not sure because you don’t understand the subject matter or don’t care about it? The first is easy to fix it you’d like. The second would have me just as curious as you are.

“How about a nice game of chess?”

Except companies are already jumping ship to other solutions. One very large company is moving thousands of VMs to an implementation of KVM, virtually eliminating the insane VM licensing.

Sure there are a few, but its unlikely that many large enterprises will be able to completely migrate away from VMware, evaluate and deploy ancillary support products for the alternate hypervisor, as well as retrain all their support staff inside of the time that their existing support contract expires. All but a lucky few that happened to negotiate a long multiyear support deal under the old licensing terms (and pricing) will be paying at least 1 year of expensive support renewals and more than likely more than one year.

Broadcom knows this and will make these companies bleed until they can migrate away.

Broadcom has all but admitted their own solution is inferior, by converting their workstation virtualization to KVM!

This is what sucks about Broadcom. Vmware vSphere is still a good product with thousands of trained professionals available for hire to support it, and great third party support for things like backup and enterprise support services.

To Broadcom’s credit, the writing was on the wall that versions of KVM would be eating their market over the next 10 years (for example, Proxmox), so they’re getting all they can now before their corner on the market weakens.

There was no such writing. Most large enterprises were just fine paying for VMware licensing under the old terms.

I like Proxmox, but it doesn’t even provide half of all the features that vSphere does that are needed for large enterprises. Small shops with a few nodes and no HA requirement? Sure. Hundreds of ESX nodes and tens of thousands of VMs? That is just beyond Proxmox as it is today. Also, good luck hiring Proxmox trained staff. Large companies want ready pools of labor, and Proxmox doesn’t have that market penetration today.

Sure!

Here’s more relatable analogy. Microsoft Office costs about $30/month per user for companies. For our example imagine Google Workspace doesn’t exist. So the “default” office software of MS Office that nearly everyone uses is not cheap, but not expensive. Further, you don’t buy MS Office from Microsoft directly, but through a partner that gives you other discounts and support. Now imagine that overnight Microsoft decides they’re desolving their partner network and you have to buy MS Office directly from Microsoft and also starting tomorrow that MS Office now costs ten times as much at $300/month per user. Would everyone stop using MS Office? Eventually, but you’ve got business you need to do today. Your company can’t even send email without Outlook, which is part of MS Office. So your company is BLEEDING money just paying for MS Office, and there’s no good alternative. So you pay it for now. You try desperately to come up with a plan to use something else, but for now you’re paying through the nose. Companies will take years to identify another product that replaces everything in the company that MS Office is used for and training the entire company to use and support this new product.

Replace the name Microsoft with Broadcom. Replace the name MS Office with VMware. This is what is happening and Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank.

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