Author: blambert

Republican 2021

I put this on twitter and facebook: “I saw Barry Goldwater’s ghost walking on the hilltop in Paradise Valley where his radio antennas used to stand.He is PISSED!!”

The extremes met by the Republican party under the present administration have caused moderates in the party great stress. The events of the 2021 Capitol Insurrection have cinched the deal.

A reorganization of aims and agendas within the party is underway. Some leaders of the party have condemned the events and the promotion of the violence by the President. Cooperation with the incoming administration and Democratic party members seems to be in the air.

Party members that work loudly at the extremes of their party now risk disenfranchisement. Moderate, cooperative effort is now de riguere.

What’s your opinion??

The Shame!

I have not been accepting of any of the Trump agenda. It is because I have never liked bullies. The bully talk has now escalated his “vote-fraud” lies to the point of inciting riots in Washington. I have watched this all day. The formality of the Electoral College vote acceptance was caused to move when the riot spilled into the Senate chambers. Late in the day after 4 PM, the President held a video in the back yard of the Whitehouse telling everyone to go home. The formal acceptance was crushed. The respectful acceptance of his loss has escaped Trump since election day. His destructive rhetoric has come to finish his presidency exactly as it has been; tell them what they want to hear then do what you want through lies and intimidation.

The media and Trump’s PR folks will have some difficulty “covering-up” the mob rule Trump has drummed up. I am sure Trump will blame the “liberal press”.

The next thing will be moving this “liberated” mob out of the Capitol building. Mob behavior can go either way. Trump thinks telling them at 4PM that they should go home will suddenly disband and go home. This too shows his leadership shortcomings as he does not understand the energy and unpredictability of a mob. People are going to be hurt. Our trust in the system is going to be hurt.

Don, of all the things you have done, this is the most despicable.

Bernard Lambert – January 16th 2021 14:49 MST

About H1B

The email brought me this chart from Dice.Com. It is meant to show what H1B visa workers are making in big American corporations. Take a look:

Company# of H-1B FilingsAverage Salary
Microsoft32,735$135,535
Vmware4,910$139,299
Apple11,543$139,457
eBay4,635$143,313
Google24,896$144,285
GM Cruise330$145,243
Spotify468$145,800
Twitter1,794$149,188
Bloomberg2,914$149,863
Waymo591$157,591
Facebook13,471$159,597
Doordash274$160,444
Lyft1,174$167,650
Airbnb1,451$168,306
Dice extract of Labor Department Stats

Demand for code producers is high. The methods are myriad. Individuals that make timely, solid code are richly rewarded. The individuals that keep up with the ever-changing platforms for that code are also in high demand. They too reap rich rewards.

I’ll take you back to a time when Digital Equipment was in market favor and the language folks at Maynard were in high spirits. A young fellow from Redmond came and hired everyone at salaries unimagined up to that time. App and OS development stopped at Digital. The fellow from Redmond got the first iteration of Windows NT from the effort.

Paying performers in this IT business is de rigueur. It is also not as common as this chart indicates. Let’s dissect these stats a bit. Small and medium businesses cannot come close to this rate. The organizations hiring these workers charge the entire cost off as employee pay expense. That is the number you see above.

In the case of many H1B workers they actually get paid from the agency that brings them into the country as their sponsoring employer. Their employer bills the hiring corporation. Of course there is an employer’s/sponsor’s cut taken from that total billing. The aim of the sponsoring employer is to bring individuals that produce income for them. They also aim to just undercut what the “running cost” the client corporation is experiencing trying to acquire the same talent. It also allows for the quick “fire and hire” scenario when an individual does not pan out. That total cost is the big corporate “employment” cost shown above.

So does an imported worker enjoy those numbers shown above? No.

Your thoughts please???

Intel Optane in HP Desktop

I was using an HP Pavilion Desktop that had the Intel Optane SSD synched with a Toshiba SATA drive. The customer just bought it 4 weeks earlier and had gone through the Office 365 add and other data recovery jobs to get all the working files and Outlook going. The move was from an older slower Win 10 machine to this faster one.

It stopped booting and displayed the HP messages to try different function keys for Recovery, Setup and the like. Once HP was contacted and the standard tests done, the RMA was made to ship it back to them to fix. Great service, but what about the data.

The Optane SSD and the Toshiba HD normally synch so that often used data is cached in the much faster solid-state memory. There are complex software algorithms to keep the data safely on the disk or SSD. Then the power blinks.

At that point, the data on the spinning disk and the data in the SSD cache cannot release each other from a fatal embrace made by the synch keys no longer matching.

The faux RAID feature of the Optane is used to pipeline the data to each volume; be it spinning or SSD. Its driver must already be in the Windows 10 install media used to recover the machine. But there is one last impossible problem.

Your data cannot be accessed until Windows installs on the drive. It refuses to do so when the install process runs. It will also destroy the drive contents as it installs.

The machine must have a healthy Windows 10 environment running before the RSTSetup resetting software, which brings the drive back into volume and data synchronization, can be run.

There is no tool to do this prior to Windows 10 installation attempts. Failure is due to the Optane and hard disk refusal to be altered until their volumes are synchronized.

Data is lost. That is bad. The inability to save it somehow is even worse.

Bernard Lambert – November 25, 2020

What?

You know there are the laws, morals, mores, and customs we live by. They can differ widely but generally true up to being socially acceptable.

I believe we are experiencing a human being reducing themselves to behaving like a cornered animal. He has a considerable following but not the popular or electoral votes and he is cornered and striking out.

Bernard Lambert – November 20, 2020