Posts by Hans 1

Re: Developer PC

a.) Sometimes it allows you to be more productive. Good developers know more than System Administrators, that is why they are paid more. It is not like the silly guy from sales bringing his malware-infested, 5 years out of date Windows PC without AV, full of pr0n ....

b.) Since you fell for this, I understand why you are mumbling about a.)

Do you happen to administer a Windows network ?

Re: 3 and WiFi calling

Hm, I remember WIFI calling, that got canned in France 6 years ago, when Free mobile (an ISP)

emerged with a 40Gb data plan, iirc, reduced speed after that, unlimited voice and texts (incl international calls to many countries) for less than 20 quid/month. It is like PAYG, in that you can cancel any month, they initially did not sell phones with it, iirc, but now do ... they do not rip you off as much with the phones.

This forced the 3 French historical operators to get their act together and stop the price fixing.

Since 2010 at least, you can get any phone unlocked for free, 6 months after the contract was signed.

I now enjoy a 100Gb LTE data plan with text and voice to over 100 countries fully comp (International land lines, only) ... so yeah, it is really cool.

In the UK, the operators are ripping you off!

What is the best deal in the UK, PAYG or do you have phone-less contracts ?

From my understanding, UK PAYG data does not roam or is expensive, correct ?

Re: has anyone else

I was asked: "Can you clean keyboards, if so, how ?"

I inquired: "What happened?"

Reply: "Mmmh, kids, mmmmh, Nutella, mmmmh, mmmh, you get it ?"

I got one of those key extractors ( |_| ) out of the drawer, removed all keys, then white spirit and an old toothbrush, scrub, scrub, scrub, with alcohol ... scrub, scrub, scrub. Next, rinced with demineralized water and left out to dry ... worked as new ... was a HP USB keyboard, it had more than Nutella in it .... several variants of crisps, biscuits, soda or orange gluey stuff, like dark Fanta, and hairs (rather long and blond) ....

Icon: Paris, was that yours ?

Most Windows users, since they were used to use Sun Java installer.

Hmmm, ok, so, if understand correctly, you are implying that Windows users who set up commercial or production systems, basically what I refer to as Windows Cleaners and Surface Experts, are not intellectually capable of deploying an MSI or ZIP file ?

Now, do not get me wrong, I also think Windows users are by definition useless at administrating computers, but come on, they are not that thick ... or am I too kind with the bunch ?

Sorry for the delay, was away ...

Answer:

What has this to do with IPv6? Well, it appears that IPv6 may have given some companies an opening to the big leagues, with some trying to become tier-one providers for IPv6 and hence the future of the internet. And not everyone is excited about welcoming newcomers to the club.

You are very welcome!

Re: Can anyone

I saw the first "vote for Frexit" posters in France recently!

Marine Le Pen lost the presidential debate, actually, it killed her party so she had to rename it ... she was one of two Frexit backers in the election, the French seem to be a little wiser than Brits because they listened to arguments on both sides ... result: the whole Frexit idea has been generally accepted as economic suicide.

Brexit means a lot of business is leaving the UK for France, The Netherlands, and Germany, so we're all happy campers, here! For us, Brexit means a nice influx of highly skilled, highly paid jobs!

I doubt the posters you saw were less than a year old, all worn out ...

NB: I happen to live in France ...

Re: Libreoffice is free and just fine.

The formatting can be a nightmare. We had one supplier turn up with a PowerPoint presentation, our company had standardized on LibreOffice and the meeting room computer had LO on it...

Ever heard of PowerPoint viewer ?

This has little to do with election rigging/influencing.

This all took place in or before 2008, so over ten years ago and involved Mr Clinton.

The 20% Uranium in reserves were already owned by a Canadian firm, which in the end got sold to Russian investors.

I understand it is totally normal in neo-conservative regimes to sell off infrastructure and other strategic assets to businesses in foreign countries ... if a penny or two can be made on the back of the tax payers ... what are you complaining about, again ?

DISCLAIMER: Brit here, could not give a flying fsck about what reigns over the white hut.

Re: "no redundancy in the internet link"

It is pure and utter design failure.

Why have 100's of systems download flight information from the cloud ? <---- that is already brain-dead, somebody in the design team has never heard of multiplications!

No resilient internet connection ? <---- that is brain-dead

Caching is not the answer to a fundamental failure of resilient network design.

It reduces internet traffic significantly and buys you time for the connection fail-over..

Re: /tmp noexec

Yes, yes, yes ... but anything that thinks it is wise to execute something in /tmp is NOT to be allowed near computers, so my take on it ? Don't use software that expects to be able to execute stuff in /tmp .... simples - brain-dead devs cannot make decent software, don't take the risk.

Re: 34000 people at risk

It's surprising how easily these car thefts are occurring these days. My suggestion to people would be to start using ethanol as fuel.

Makes just as much sense as what you wrote ... how is vpn (tunnel connection between two systems) gonna have any effect on the gullibility of the average staffer ?

Re: / Smug

I put it down to running around and screaming while waving my arms about.

Very much to our delight, as we inherit an extra (your) pint ;-)

Re: QLC? It's not the one for me

Yes, but it's a technology people are comfortable with, therefore it's superior in every important way.

Indeed, a batch of drives often fails around the exact same time.

How's it like living in a cave ?

did what the sales people said it would do.

That never, ever happens ... except when we do it! Our sales guyz are techies turned sales... they carried out implementations in the trenches for customers before turning to sales.

Here, GoLive was not properly prepared, not properly tested and apparently, they had no fallback. PRINCE2, anyone ? This is not a problem with SAP, Oracle or whatever, it is a project manager who decided to GoLive2Disaster ...

Re: Lots of companies run Linux including Google

Citation (relevant to this) needed - or a retraction

Actually, we all know somebody in the say got something out of it or they would not have migrated away ... simples.

I have personally seen IT execs receive "gifts" from Microsoft at numerous occasions.... to help them "make up their mind" ... been there, seen that too many times ...

As for Munich: Microsoft Germany jobs moved to .... guess where .... Munich, the decision was made at around the same time the city government chose to switch to Microsoft .... coincidence, of course ....

https://www.muenchen.de/aktuell/2016-10/microsoft-zentrale-wird-eroeffnet.html (in Teutonic)

Re: My wishlist

The glass protector will still crack if dropped from a height onto a but of gravel, but in doing so it absorbs the force and saves your expensive phone screen.

Daughter's phone has a cracked screen, screen protector is intact. A mid-range screen protector .... so, yeah ...

Re: Expanding

Exactly what I was about to comment. At least they are planning on milking the stock exchange and not us, for a change ;-)

Re: Ha

@CodeJunky

You should really stop taking all that codeïne, it is both bad for your health, affecting your mental health and your sense of reality.

No kidding. The EU will not be happy for long if they lose access to the place performing 70% of the Euro clearing.

You understand that those jobs will move to the EU, right ? To Paris, apparently, because the LCH has offices there - merely 100 000 jobs, according to the BBC article, what's that ? You want more ?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40258449

PS: I was a remain advocate yet could not vote. I do not want a second referendum, I do not want the UK to backtrack (they cannot, anymore anyway), I want the leavers to get a good whiff of what Brexit smells like!