Posts by Hans 1 3797 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Aug 2009
Oh yeah, there was this story about Neil de Grasse Tyson and a jury, a court trying to get a guy for, 2000 mg of heroin or whatever .... Neil of course intervened: "Are you not trying to make 2 grams sound like some tonnage or something to the rest of the jury."
Apparently, poor Neil was not invited again ...
I never got this Apple iTunes or Windows privacy bullshit I have to accept, anyway.
I have no means of checking whatever is written in these is true, and absolutely no reason to trust what is written is true.
Apple/Microsoft do not know where your data is going to, they can claim otherwise, but unless they open source their wares, they cannot prove it.
I know you have outdated business-critial software/hardware running in production, or some other 20 year old piece of custom-developed software that is encrypted, yeah, supports up to SSL 2.0 and the like ... sooner or later, Boris and his friends will come and get you.
Go FLOSS now, or regret it later ...
I have used docker and lxd, what I like about docker, in theory, it can run Linux containers on macOS and Windows, now I do not really see the point of running Linux containers on a Mac in a VM, then again, it is pretty stable, and this cannot be written about Linux containers on Windows, well, no, you really cannot. Every other docker update breaks something new, Windows feature updates re-enable fast startup and that then causes you to have to restart docker after every shutdown or reboot, once docker has come up or it will list your containers and not allow you to connect to them. It uses HyperV which sucks, imho, it is dog slow. On Linux, docker is pretty solid as well and you do not need a VM, obviously, so all is good. LXD is really quite easy to setup and run as well, is Linux only, but honestly, docker on Windows is a waste, just too unstable, YMMV.
There's nothing to indicate that 737-MAX is inherently unstable.
Well, does it or does it not have an annoying tendency to push up the nose without MCAS correction? This will inevitably stall the aircraft if the pilots do not intervene, hence why you want a third sensor, two sensors is a SPOF.
1. The MAX should NEVER have been certified with the new engines, an inherently unstable aircraft might be acceptable for military fighters, NOT passenger jets.
2. A software system that has only two sensors is brain-dead, you need three, ok, then that software either "reacts to just one sensor" or "engages when sensors disagree" (two version of the symptoms I have heard up until now) is also brain-dead. IT SHOULD ALWAYS DISENGAGE IF IN DOUBT.
I have never seen an implementation of that RFC, did not even know it existed.
Ohhhh, the memories:
Theodore Ts'o, Editor
VA Linux Systems <------------------------
43 Pleasant St.
Medford, MA 02155
https://www.cnet.com/news/10-years-gone-the-va-linux-systems-ipo/
!!! Achtung !!! 90's feel to this website:
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/refundday/
I take my daughter to school and pick her up "every single day" by bicycle, except when I am travelling, very rare, and I am a guy. I see lots of guyz in front the school every morning, ok, we represent maybe 30%, so there are more women, but still.
Another aspect is, the French claim to live in the land of the bicycle, yet, only very few people bring their kids to school by bicycle.
We are just three, 2 guyz and a woman. Now, I know the US is a big place, but is this a normal distance to a school in the US, is there not anything closer by ? I dunno where they live, but that would be a long ride for a teen.
"So you scratch our backs and we'll scratch yours"
Ok, so, whichever side you're on, in the end, who wins ? Nobody! Management will think internal IT are a bunch of morons, which they are, and the consultancy company will get a bad rep because they failed to deliver.
I was looking for a car to rent last year, I used the obvious search engines as well as looking at the offers on the sites and, Hertz site experience was abysmal, well beyond the worst experience .... "useless" is the adjective that comes to mind. I booked elsewhere, though I really wanted to book one of their southern German brand cars ... I felt they did not want my business, fine by me, saved quite a bit but was not impressed by the car I ended up driving ...
Well, you have speccs, you design to them - the base MUST be clear. Once you have the base, agile is best to implement any enhancements, changes etc.
That is my personal $0.02, YMMV, my projects DON"T fail, though ... agile is like everything, too much of the good stuff kills it, just like waterfall, in the long run, unsustainable.
Motto in software projects: always start small, add features later.
Rules in software projects:
1. once the speccs are done, and contract signed, NOTHING gets added
2. nothing goes live before all boxes are ticked.
3. changes are to implemented with agile-like methodology.
3.1 AGAIN, nothing goes live before all boxes are ticked, including any new features recently added.
3.2 goto 3.
Why Hertz decided going live with a website from hell is anyone's guess and they hired Accenture, which is enough evidence for me. Accenture is #SureToFail - it's the Craptita for the rest of us.
For the sake or argument, the 9200 MAX 7.7TB was $3100 online. I doubt the new 16TB model will be over $5000, heck, pretty sure it will be around $3100.
NB: that the 1.6TB 9200 MAX was around $900, which is actually pretty good, considering reliability-performance, imagine that in a RAID 5 or RAID 10 ... can a controller cope with that IO, scrap that, can any interface support 12 of these maxed out IO-wise?
Big Linux fan here, but ... I care to disagree ...
Plug USB stick in Linux with Gnome 3, it gets mounted, all good, you're in the terminal, where is it ? Go into terminal, issue mount, not there, check nautilus, it is there ... great ... the greybeard gets the UUID and goes to /etc/fstab for a nice entry with all needed flags, sure enough, plug out, plug in, works like a charm ... then you reboot and systemd will NOT boot until you plug the USB drive in ... yeah, udev rules help, but ... WTF.
Linux used to be good, before Gnome 3 and systemd.
Grabs coat with a USB stick containing Devuan install image.
Availability Zones in the Azure world means separate physical locations within an Azure region, with independent networking, power and cooling, so a failure in one location shouldn't hit the other.
Well, that is the beautiful theory, here the reality:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/17/azure_outage_report/
It's fine if you've got the option, but if an idiot requires you to work with Windows servers (or whatever) then you've got to work within those requirements and solve problems within (as well as with) those requirements.
TFTFY
Oh come on, it is not that bad. a lot of us are still around,
Idiots have previously stirred up shit about stuff, this time they saw that it stuck, now, el reg reports on it, idiot have come ... no worries, they come and go ...
I do miss Matt Bryant ;-) Reg headstone icon for Halloween, pretty please.
Three steps back.
1. Assange is a journalist.
2. He has found a source that can provide him with some newsworthy data.
3. He helps source extract newsworthy data.
4. He gives newsworthy data to the press.
5. The source Assange was helping was a whistleblower.
Nothing, absolutely nothing wrong either way.
Manning was a whistleblower and thus needed protection, protection that the US has NOT provided.
Assange is a journalist and needs protection, protection the US seems not to want to provide.
As for Ecuador, they just secured a $10bn loan from the IMF, captain obvious, where are you ?
unless you wait about 10 minutes and then try because for some reason it won't work if you've been logged into your PC for less than 10 minutes.
That is not the website, that is sneaky Windows trying to trick you into believing it only needs 5 seconds longer to start than GNU/Linux; apparently, yours needs a full TEN minutes longer ... poor you ;-)
Deactivate developer mode, that did it for me ;-)
In any case, read the update logs to figure out what is failing for you, that is what I did ... I think I used:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/windows-update-logs
Then google for the "too many to mention" errors I got ...
Airbus introduced this feature on the A320, the very first A320 in 1987, and they use three sensors, if one is giving incorrect info, the other two must give the same or the system will disengage. If is NOT infallible, though ... as for the Rio-Paris crash, they decided to go through a storm, the pitot tubes froze, auto-pilot disengaged, a co-pilot kept pulling the nose up and as the aircraft stalled, he continued to pull the nose up, ignoring NOSE DOWN advice for MINUTES .... until the captain came back from rest, trying to figure out what was wrong ... he noticed the pilot's mistake, but sadly much too late - how that co-pilot got through pilot training is anyone's guess.
So, Airbus systems disengage if there is a doubt, however, the system expects somebody in control who can actually fly an aircraft ...
1. I do not have anti-virus software on my macs/linux boxes, even the ones kids use
2. I have had Windows Defrauder on a box the kids used, it got 0wned severely and I needed to get avast to clean up the mess.
I later found the same malware on a Windows box handed to me by an acquaintance 7 whole months later, with defrauder fully up-to-date on it, everything still happy, the system a dog ... cleared it with avast, again.
Yes, you have done it manually/scripting, but ... that involved 1000's of registry keys, when you tried to uninstall it, it would claim it would first need to uninastall <list of all third party software installed>.
GTAV needs to run on Linux, natively, pretty please ... Rockstar sucks, no as much as EA, though ... who use emulator software for Sims on macOS, the software was first developed for Linux, yet still do not support Linux - ea are scum, as is nVidia.
Obligatory Linus: "nVidia, Fuck YOU!" video ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36yNWw_07g
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