Posts by Mark 65

Re: RE: Master / slave

I recall some version control systems having the concept of trunk and branch.

Hey hey hey, don't forget the 2010s too. My graphics card sh*t itself and the only thing anyone would replace it with was the exact same model sh*tty card that had the issue in the first place. Wouldn't even replace it with a later model card that was clearly compatible. For this reason it's stuck on High Sierra.

Re: I mostly use Slackware / But I have mint

I'm not an opponent of automatic updates. I am an opponent of someone else making my updates automatic. It's my computer, I should be able to choose what I do with it, whether that's

manual updates

automatic (security only)

...

full auto

Re: This is why I had to swap.

Apple only writing to its own disk system

Not entirely sure what you’re referring to here as I’ve been writing to a ZFS volume for years. System drive may be an issue but data drives aren’t.

Re: Well done Facebook

What I found more concerning was this

During a global pandemic, Australians can't access state health departments on Facebook.

I can see that they posted there (on Facebook) for reasons of convenience but it shouldn't be an alien concept to them that they were always playing with someone else's toys in a sandpit/cesspit they didn't own or control. Not really a great way of disseminating vital information. Also a bit of a strawman given health departments all have their own official sites.

I'm no fan of Facebook and think anyone who gets their information from their gets what they deserve. You always pay a price for convenience.

Re: HR evaluations everywhere...

As a wise man once told me - HR only exist to make sure you're gotten rid of legally.

Seems they failed in this case.

Re: very unfortunate move,

Patrick from Serve The Home covered this move by Synology recently. His take was that it is not unusual in the enterprise sector for this to occur as the likely buyer of this kit wants one neck to wring if there's a problem rather than a bun fight between storage and device manufacturers over who's to blame.

The other point he added was that it would be advisable for them to add one more manufacturer to the list of compatible drives else you can get supply chain issues for drives especially if there's another Thai flooding event.

He did also note that this move likely doubles their revenue from the sale of one of these devices when considering filling it with the larger drive size.

Re: Validated environments...

I would hope such systems are very isolated from others that do not share the same controls like the Windows desktops with working USB ports etc.

Re: Self host git

and for that 300 seat subscriber the price hike is designed to be painful (and profitable) without being so painful they disappear elsewhere. You'd hope they'd have done the calculations to work out what they could and couldn't charge based on the data they have access to regarding how captive you are - number of seats, number of active seats, frequency of use, data volumes etc. If you're priced out and leave my guess is that they've calculated you're not the sort of customer they want.

Re: Pirates on the Solarwinds

The words "Based on SolarWinds' own timeline" set the bells ringing. Investors get out, CEO gets out, announcement made....

It would be interesting if someone with the relevant knowledge could tie some of the historical "sightings" in with development/testing of military/spy kit. Things like the B1, SR-71 etc. Pretty sure a lot of these things can be attributed.

Re: "The issue with Twitter is that it is almost a de facto monopoly."

including the so called "digital natives" - who are just raised to be like Orwell's sheep.

One of the funniest and yet most inaccurate things I've ever read was any article proclaiming millennials to be tech-savvy. Wasting your life on the socials is not "tech-savvy".

Re: The whole point of continuous delivery is to make each release as stable as the one before

It's all about the money money money...

Plenty of places I know of used to run a single production RHEL system surrounded by a myriad of compatible CentOS ones. Not sure if that ruse still works these days, but it would be a good reason to get rid of CentOS - you want stable? $$$$$

Yep, my monthly fee when moving to the NBN when I can no longer stay on HFC will be $20 higher for no real gain.

OP: Absolutely. Anyone releasing code under a FOSS license who thinks the next user will be just as altruistic is plainly delusional. Choose the license that gives what you seek, as that's all you can expect to be adhered to.

For me, the move to a subscription from self-hosted signals the turning point for the decline of a company. With a lack of any compelling reason to continue to buy into upgrades they need to move to subscription + cloud to get income. Far from Adobe's move being an indicator of success, I believe it signals the lack of any meaningful competitor in their market. Their offerings have given no reason to update over the years so now they have to resort to extortion.

There's a lot to be said for being able to control what version you're on rather than having someone continually "upgrade" you no matter what.

Just have the image restored to an external SSD and boot via USB3 / Thunderbolt. Ugly, but workable.

Re: One-way hash?

My guess is that in order to match hand images, palm prints, finger prints etc and not have the "customer" get too many knock-backs the matching is suitably loose. So loose that it could only ever be used in a miscarriage of justice.

Re: A good time to be a lawyer...

Don't include MacOS - you can install software from anywhere on that, the store is just a convenience.

Re: I must be missing something...

Double-clicking to open an Excel associated file type like a CSV is like hitting "I'm feeling lucky" on a Google search with questionable search terms. It might work out well, but it probably won't.

Re: Why?

You’re not their target market. Tinkerers need not apply. These devices are targeted at people that buy what they need first up and “admire the design” as it sits on display. Pros using Apple machines spend big dollars on high end kit and write it off against tax. Their boxes have replaceable components.

Others like myself will run hackintoshes until they go all in with their own silicon. However we take the occasional pain for that choice.

Re: Better stay in jail

Tax man take it all? Not with a big 4 doing the liquidation. There'll be plenty of investigation and fees mounting for that effort I can assure you.

Re: Bollocks.

I think the point they're making is that his head isn't quite in the game. If you're there to write some quality storage code, pissing about with variable names because of the unknown offence they may or may not cause someone else is kind of losing focus.

Re: Available alternatives?

I think other systems refer to trunk due to branching. Subversion maybe?

Re: Why bother?

They can’t be that tech-savvy if they’re willing to install spyware.

Re: What a shit hole

They started with self-quarantine in Australia and found that, predictably, it didn't work. We now have a positive test gets you a mandatory quarantine period as does interstate or overseas travel (returning residents).

Re: Licencing is easy

Yep, worked at a few places that use the single RHEL, multiple CentOS model.

Re: let's just make things as confusing as possible

Does that mean we’ll now have allow hat researchers and deny hat researchers?

Re: Three steps to avoid this

Man, they’ve got control over you don’t they?