Posts by Dan 55 15423 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
While there’s no end of success stories when it comes to DevOps, rather than sending an email full of links that’ll never be read, arrange actual meetings between your doubters and outsiders who’ve been successful with DevOps.
An all expenses-paid trip to a meeting in Cancun might convince the commentariat. Does this mean El Reg is paying?
His mother is quoted as saying it's a Galaxy Core. If that's true, Samsung's bulging batteries have come back to bite them, it might mean they have a problem in the manufacturing process that affects batteries for more than one model.
I could write headlines for El Reg.
That's easy. He was expecting a Remain majority.
It would have given certainty to the result, whichever way it went, and not have triggered a constitutional crisis. There are still court cases running over whether the referendum gives a mandate to pull the UK out of the EU or not.
But he doesn't really care, he forbid civil servants from making a contingency plan for Brexit, took a chance on the referendum and screwed it up, walked out on the 24th despite promising to stay on leading the negotiation, and has left his job as MP today despite promising to stay on as a backbencher. I hope whoever is fool enough to have employed him regrets it.
It's a democratic decision, but it's a non-binding referendum which is just used to guide government policy and doesn't actually give the government the mandate to go ahead and to leave the EU. If you want a true democratic process then there has to be another referendum later on when government policy has been formed, this time binding.
Why was it non-binding? Why was there no supermajority? Who knows, ask Cameron. Perhaps he couldn't quite make the link between one nation Toryism and not setting a referendum up to provoke a constitutional crisis because he's a bit dim.
Look at the array of logos found on the boxes of many pieces of electronic equipment. Some of them read like the Star Wars opening crawl (FCC, CE, TUV Rhineland, BS1234, Chinese and Japanese symbols), yet as they're all there they logically can't conflict.
(CE is pretty useless anyway, if the manufacturer promises that they follow the guidelines then they can stamp the CE logo onto it.)
I have had the pleasure of attending a Spanish masters course. It consisted of the lecturer reading a book out to the lecture theatre (it probably doesn't really matter if the students are there or not), occasionally adding an observation or two but not straying very far at all from the text, and when there was a couple of minutes to go till the end ask if there were any questions. Obviously as time was up it was time to go.
I gave it up, I couldn't really hack it as I need visual representation and a bit of structure to understand things, if I wanted an audiobook I'd've bought one at a fraction of the price.
However students are good at getting together and putting together the knowledge that they each individually have to come up with something approximating what they're supposed to be taught by the lecturer, but I suppose they'd have to be.
That was about ten years ago though, maybe things have radically changed since then.
Perhaps what should have happened is 1) a DMCA request to FileFactory and then later via the courts 2) a request for the user details of whoever uploaded the content to go after them.
Of course, FileFactory couldn't give a toss and the uploader's account is probably full of fake profile data anyway.
The ECJ ruling is trying to balance three things:
1) As mentioned above, links themselves don't infringe copyright any more than bookmarks or the address bar do.
2) It's usually easier to go after the website with the link than the website with the content.
3) Websites with pages after pages of link to copyright content stored off-site in lockers who are obviously taking the piss.
Yes, you don't log passwords in the same way as you don't log "FUCK APPLE". Both are not good ways of logging. I think most people would agree with that.
Now back to debugging, I bet you work at RBS if you compile a release build with debug symbols set and think having a live system or a thread in it grind to a halt while you step through it is in any way acceptable.
You might claim you can get all possible errors all sorted out by the QA stage. When this doesn't happen because you can't set everything up to perfectly match the live system (e.g. scale), logging helps.
So an OEM says, "supplied with Windows 10", you are given the choice of accepting or rejecting Windows 10's EULA, but your rejection is worthless because the OEM was accurately describing what comes in the box.
You think it's a good ruling, I think it's a pretty stupid ruling.
It's a step backwards and doesn't aid consumer choice.
Their high court found that consumers could get a refund for the MS tax.
The Windows tax fight is finally over: Buyers can get a refund on their Microsoft OS in Italy
Two directly contradictory rulings, one at European level and one at national level.
They way Kirk went in Generations was pretty bobbins. Also the TNG films slowly turned into space opera but the crew were getting on a bit and weren't really able to charge about.
Now that problem's solved with the new crew in the reboot, it's all space opera all the time to get the money in. Next year's series will have to work a miracle if it wants to keep the Trekkies on side.
Apple has changed from the customers paying a premium because they like the complete package and it (mostly) just works to customers being price gauged because fashion.
Devices you can't repair and are designed so you can't.so you have to go to an official Apple centre. Non-upgradable devices so you have to buy the more expensive model from Apple at the start instead of upgrading as you go. Ports being removed to you have to shell out for an array of cables and dongles hanging off the side which looks like a Spectrum with an Interface 1 and a set of daisy-chained Microdrives.
Macs left to rot and obviously no ideas either when it comes to iDevices except charging more for less.
And it happened from 2012 onwards so I lay the blame squarely on Tim Nice-but-Dim.
End of rant.
1. The more effective Interpol shares data outside EU countries, no problem. Is this too difficult for Europol?
2. From Whackypedia: The Director of Europol is able to enter into agreements for Europol with both countries and internal organizations. Europol cooperates on an operational basis with: Albania, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Republic of Macedonia, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, the United States and Interpol.[15]
It has strategic agreements with: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Customs Organization.[15]
So where's the cutting off, apart from his nose to spite his face?
Firmware updates rarely add new features. There could be no driver changes but a bug fix in the firmware which fixes a bug which leads to data loss under some conditions.
1) I hope everyone's up to date with their kernel. Cutting edge, all the time.
2) It makes the data loss bug look like it's the kernel's fault, when it's nothing to do with the kernel.
3) Things like this can happen.
If the driver really doesn't like the firmware version, it always has the option of not mounting the device and letting you know with an error so that you can run the firmware update software.
He's right, again? Perhaps only because he's stopped Linux drivers getting a little bit worse than they already are. But by making a version of a device's firmware get compiled in with the device driver in the kernel you're linking firmware version to the kernel version. Not too clever.
He's got to make an effort to make Linux drivers more modular and bring driver and associated firmware out of the kernel. Linus said once he wanted to kill all ARM engineers or something similar, I suppose the feeling is mutual with the huge ever-growing list of compiled-in kernel drivers that Linux has.
In my particular case, I don't know what's more funny, the inept political class in the UK, the inept political class in Spain (currently seem to be heading for a 3rd set of general elections on Christmas Day but it's possible even they may realise this is unacceptable), or the inept political class in Brussels.
Anyway, this article is out of date as it seems there will now not be a points based system, but something even better, if that's possible. I can't wait to find out what that is.
Yay, bank security specified by the Jeremy Kyle audience. What could possibly go wrong?
It give sone the same peace of mind as Barclays' voice recognition and contactless payments. Presumably the banks have worked out they can shift responsibility onto other people and in the worst case get bailouts.
Negotiations took the first two weeks of July. So if they were to later turn round and say how bad Brexit is and they couldn't keep their promises, that would be a little... cheeky.
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