Hewlett Packard: Never a Dull Moment
April 27, 2014
I read “Watch Out! KILLER HP Firmware Update Bricks ProLiant Server Mobos.” I am not sure if the story is spot on, but I find it interesting that HP seems to generate excitement whether it is the Autonomy dust up, promises to the Wall Street worshipful, or nuts-and-bolts hardware lovers.
The article reports:
Sysadmins who download and install the patch on a vulnerable system will shortly discover that the server cannot detect its network adapter, which will be a pain to fix – especially when trying to subsequently load in replacement firmware. For some, the warning HP tacked onto the service pack’s web page came too late in the day: the firmware was released on 18 April, giving unsuspecting IT departments plenty of time to brick their electronics.
For amusement, I navigated to www.hp.com and entered the query “HP Service Pack for ProLiant 2014.2.0.” The result for the query was:
The good news is that I could leave some feedback. That was less helpful than the links to Windows XP.
Perhaps Autonomy’s content processing system might help those HP customers with non functional servers? One question: “What is HP’s real world expertise in information retrieval?”
Stephen E Arnold, April 27, 2014
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