Posts by Kurgan

Re: Gmail is the worst thing that could happen to email

Actually I have it to none already. In my experience having DMARC set for outgoing trafic (on the incoming one, do what you like with your antispam rules, of course) even at none, helps in not being rejected.

Re: Talking of Boeing

It seems that it's already all covered up.

Re: Recipe for a low cost virtual desktop

I know they are not "virtual" but actually "remote" desktops. I also know that they work for a 10 users org and not a 200 or 2000 users org. But they are really cheap, they work well, and for a small office they are just fine. And of course they have to be maintaned and updated and so on, but it's not such a big deal once windows update works and also the auto update on the other software (browsers and the accounting program they use) works.

Re: Advice in dealing with Oracle audits

If you do, then try and find alternative solutions and stop being an Oracle customer.

Re: As a Dutchman I'm pissed off

Economy was cool when there was no (open) war. Now the world is changing again for the worst. We are at war now, the free market is a thing of the past.

Re: Forks have always annoyed me

You are right. I too have forked some projects and never did anything on my forks. I have forked them for "archival" and for "bookmark" purposes. Which is in fact wrong.

At least there should be a way for everyone to jump back from a fork to the original project, and if a project is a fork it should be clearly visible. A way to make users aware of the whole "fork tree".

Re: The public

It's never the tech that sells devices, it's the functions

Quite true but not completely true. It's the AVAILABILITY that sells devices.

If I'd like to have a product that's, for example, secure and long lived, and all I can buy is an insecure device that lasts 2 years, I'll end up buying what the market offers anyway, because I need one and I cannot have it the way I'd like it.

Then the sellers will boast that "EVERYONE IS BUYING AI PCs". Well of course, we have no choice.

Re: Priorities

Sorry but currently we need more weapons, not less weapons.

Re: if you, as a "middle manager"

The management layer above me exist to shield me from crap coming from above.

So basically the whole management pyramid is some sort of umbrella to protect the workers from the shit falling from upper management? Great, just fire the whole pyramid and let workers work.

(I'm a freelance, so I take the shit in my face anyway)

Re: you weren't able to transmit / connect / emit on un-authorized frequency bands

Idiotic bureaucracy maybe?

Or they are interested in being able to stop you from using navigation aids on US soil, so they don't want you to be able to receive other signals.

That's how government logic works.

.local has been grabbed by someone at Apple (I believe) for their mdns / bonjour service, thus damaging a lot of people that used .local as their internal domain. Nowadays the resolver libraries tend to send out mdns broadcast requests for .local and don't as the dns server at all, making it unsuitable for use.

This is a good point: lots of open source (and commercial, too) virt solutions are based on KVM, so Veeam could gain a lot of compatibility with different solutions by supporting KVM. They could help build a KVM backend that supports starting VMs from Veeam repository without restoring the backup, for quick access to a backed up vm, and this could be used on every KVM based system.

On the other hand, Veeam is a commercial / closed software, and it can be quite hard to make it work properly with open solutions, both on a technical standpoint and on a commercial one.

In the end if Vmware fails and disappears then Veeam has only one big product left to support, that is Hyper-V.

And customers, too.

Re: 7kW

When there will be more EV than pertrol cars, the energy to charge them will be taxed like hell, of course. And all of the benefits will go away, of course. I'll keep my LPG car as long as I can.

Me too. It's incredibly convenient for the bribed politicians, don't you think?

you don't own anything

You don't own anything. Only pirates own their contents.

Re: Linux too

put your hand down at the back there, Pöttering

LOL!

Re: "Fix"?

I'm quite sure that running the "fix" will break my label printer AGAIN.

Like some fast lead one? I'm totally in for the fast lead one.

About Teams..

I have never used it. A friend of mine has added me to their org Teams. I'm running Linux, so I have accessed it via web. I downloaded more than 80 MB of "stuff" just for it to be able to show me a message that read "test". This is our much valued "progress".

Re: In case of a reset.....

Interesting comments, both of these.

I suppose that in case of something that is not a real extinction level event, but something less, the collapse of modern society will kill everyone who is not already "primitive". Populations that are already primitive (people living in self sufficient small communities without modern technology and medicine and whatever) will most probably survive quite unscathed (unless the bomb hits them directly). Even in a fallout scenario they are best suited to actually suffer from it (cancer, etc) but not be wiped by it. In the end they will survive because they still have something to eat and drink, even if it's somehow contaminated. They will live 30 years instead of 80, but they will live on as a species, if not as individuals, just like the wildlife has done around Chernobyl even in the worst radioactive places.

Re: Indian Bureaucracy

The want full control on their subjects. It's a totalitarian regime. That's all.

Re: Disgusting

You are an ecologist that actually uses his (or her) brain. Usually the "green" are just incompetent people that shout slogans or snobs that show everyone how rich they are with their Teslas, or businessmen happening to be selling those Teslas and other not so green but profit making items or ideas or whatever.

Anyway, the issue with Windows 11 is that while it's possible to install 11 on unsupported hardware, or it's possible to run Linux (as I do), it's not a good idea in a work environment. Linux is sadly not good for the common office worker (guess what? it lacks MS Office), and hacking around win11 is not a good idea because we all know that any update can break it. Imagine what will happen if one day a patch disables all of your organization desktop pcs at the same time. So to the landfill they will go, all of them.

Re: Science History

This would be the coolest thing in the world. We somehow invent FTL spaceflight and in a 2 day mission we go to recover the old probes and take them home.