Posts by Tom 38

Re: Obviously the solution is....

Bikes are not a solution because it is cold or rainy enough of the time. We don't all live in fucking LA.

Re: PowerShell?

Just because you don't understand the advantages doesn't make it meaningless. You can run Powershell directly against remote machines without having to pipe connections via SSH, etc.

Yes, really, I get it! I just think it is an awful idea. The two things are not related.

So say SSH has no place connecting to a Shell?

No, of course it does not. "The shell" and "how you get remote access to a shell" are orthogonal concepts, implemented in separate programs. The shell doesn't care how it is connected to its user, and the transport doesn't care what it is transporting.

Like I said, whether you agree with this or not will depend on whether your viewpoint is "small programs that do one thing that you can combine with many other programs that also do one thing" is good, or whether you think "one program that can do everything we need in all possible scenarios" is a good thing.

Not to cast too many aspersions, but the best designed, most complex and maintainable a system is, the more likely it is composed of many small programs that do one thing.

Re: One of the more interesting questions

what happens if someone operates one and it gets to court?

You spend 7 years on bail - just ask Daniel Mahony

Re: Amsterdam

there is no suggestion nor likelihood that you'll need a work permit, or even a visa, any more than you do today if you travel to non-EU countries like the US, Canada, Middle East, etc.

You know you do need a visa to do real actual work in the US. Currently we are told to lie to Immigration* and say that we are travelling for "meetings and training". Definitely not any actual programming officer, I just bring my das keyboard everywhere I go.

* To be honest, if they asked me to go back these days, I'd have to think hard about it.

Re: Unimpressed by Gnome

I switched to MATE, and still changes in Gnome affect me. The latest one is that libvte (a Gnome library used by Gnome and MATE to implement terminal applications) lost the ability to set the selection by word characters AND they changed the stock selection by word characters to not include ":", which means that when you double click to select a URL, it doesn't select the protocol anymore.

What was more confusing was that MATE terminal still has the relevant config option, but as libvte isn't reading it anymore, you can put whatever the fuck you want in there and nothing will change.

Re: ZFS

I disagree, it is great for smaller machines. You can periodically attach your external storage and send incremental snapshots there; or to a server if you've got one. Local snapshots give you the time machine like features that sparked this discussion, along with rollback (+forward if you like) on your updates.

For the failing drive in a laptop/single drive pool scenario, I use a dock adapter* to plug in the new hard drive, turn the pool into a mirror (zpool attach pool vdev ; (+do whatever your OS needs to boot off it)), wait for it to resilver, power off, switch the drives and then detach the now missing faulty device. Exactly the same process to expand to a larger drive (+one more reboot).

* Get USB 3 or eSATA or you will be there for days

Re: Well this could get messy...

Our way of life doesn't just happen naturally, it has been fought for, and refined over hundreds of years, by argument and bloodshed - and we have reached this current pinnacle not in spite of Christianity, but precisely because of it. It is a truly precious thing, so naturally, it is taken for granted and devalued.

What a load of bollocks. We don't live in the "Judaeo-Christian" West, we live in the post Enlightment West, which came out of a gradual and increasing irrelevance of the church.

Re: Prioritising the priorites

Wimbledon is one of the few venues that don't really have this problem. The tickets you can buy in advance are bloody expensive, but still sell out, which maximises revenue for the tournament. The rest of the tickets are made available on a daily basis to those who queue up for a reasonable price, which ensures that people are not priced out of attending.

Re: A couple from the medical profession

Many more from the medics:

PDE - Pissed, Denies Everything

PGT - Pissed, Got Thumped

PFO - Pissed, Fell Over

UBI/UDI - Unexplained Beer/Drinking Injury

CTD - Circling The Drain

DBI - Dirt Bag Index, # tattoos + # piercings

GPO - Good for Parts Only

LOBNH - Lights On But Nobody Home

GROLIES - Guardian Reader Of Low Intelligence in Ethnic Skirt

GLM - Good Looking Mum

TTFO - Told To Fuck Off

TBP - Total Bloody Pain

WAW - What A Wanker

Pumpkin +ve - If you shine a light in their mouth, the whole head lights up

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Processors require microcode updates, which are delivered by OS drivers.

Quoting grauniad (who are quoting the FT, so...)

According to the Financial Times, Rupert Murdoch and his younger son, James, could take senior roles at a combined company if a deal is struck. Iger, 66, is due to retire in 2019 and James Murdoch, 44, currently chief executive of 21st Century Fox and chairman of the satellite broadcaster Sky, is a possible successor.

Re: Self-representation?

In the UK, workplace tribunals are designed to be accessible to employees without needing to hire counsel. The panel consists of an impartial judge, an employers advocate and an employees advocate. Costs can be ordered on the claimant, but it happens in less than 1% of cases.

Re: Internet of S***

My wife received an Echo Dot as an office holiday party secret Santa gift.

Swanky AF! All I got was a mug.

Likewise, if anyone is owed more than 700 quid, just issue a winding up order.

Since this is crowdfunding, the company doesn't actually "owe" their backers anything (IANAL etc), which is why it is such a shit storm.

Re: The financial world is crazy...

They also are involved in TV advertising; an advert uses a particular recording of a song, distinguishable to shazam, and users "shazam" the song to find out more about the advert.

Re: Average of one household perhaps?

So you'll know then, no-one gives a fuck about the Trimleys. They're on the Felixstowe exchange, so its a straight line 5km to the exchange, and they were built with the shittiest copper available.

Re: Is RBS run by Montgomery Burns?

Due to workers rights and tax years, Christmas is basically the only time to legally do layoffs. Not terribly well thought out, was it?

Re: ...existing drivers pushed to unemployment

Who gives a fuck? Maybe they can then do something more useful/interesting than driving other people around?

We don't worry about the lack of openings for gong farmers and chimney sweeps

Re: “Tech people need to tell policy people about the next coming threat.”

"Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword"

If he can put the sword back in place, then he has already drawn it, no? And if he has already drawn it, then his death by sword has already been confirmed, so what is the purpose of putting it away again, the damage has been done.

Re: Linux?

Why bother with getting an ARM machine, when a four year old laptop with an SSD upgrade will be faster, more useful, and most importantly for linux, there's a chance some of the hardware might be supported.

Show me this mythical 4 year old laptop with a 20hr battery life.

And why "can we Linux"? Lets see:

* Cheaper SKU if we don't have to buy wiindows

* No need for on-the-fly code translation

* No restrictions on what we can run on it (You can only install Chrome on the pro SKU? GTFO)

* Its what we actually use in day to day life

Sorry if this bores you, I'm a tech guy, I use Linux for my work, Linux on my phone and Linux on all my home machines, please forgive me for being interested in whether this new device can actually be useful for my needs.

Re: Convicts Next

Why not, Anglian Windows use them in call centres

I think you will find it is working in an Anglian Windows call centre that turns people to crime.

Re: Too much thrashing around.....

I don't think there is that much to grasp:

* vagrant builds your VMs

* terraform creates provider agnostic infrastructure to run those VMs

* apps are developed to run inside docker

* kubernetes is used to manage deployment of containers, and to make the services provided by those containers available

* Puppet/chef/Ansible are less relevant these days; deploy new containers/vms rather than update existing ones, and docker is used to compose container images

If you are a sysadmin, you are using vagrant to produce some images to run kubernetes, terraform to build the infrastructure that will actually run it, and kubernetes to manage that running infrastructure. If you are a developer, you are using docker to build and package your application (ideally from CI), and kubernetes to release/rollback. (And obviously, if you are doing devops, its a bit of both)

vagrant is less important these days, because most VMs are simply kubenetes nodes rather than specific application VMs