Posts by A Non e-mouse

Re: Migration

No-one's saying a successful migration/upgrade can't be done. It just needs to be planned, tested & executed properly. Something that many organisations fail to do.

"If you fail to plan, to plan to fail"

Re: Discourse is weird

Has there really not been much effort put into list-specific mail clients, or to functionality specific to mailing lists? Over so many decades? Or do people just not realise that there is any other way to read email than the inbox-firehose model offered by Outlook Express and Gmail?

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but email is a dying technology (along with telephones) You may love your RFC 822 SMTP, but the younger generation aren't into it.

Re: Lock picking lawyer

That reminds me: Must get my lock collection out and refresh my lock picking skills.

Re: motors from two French automakers

It's the reprogramming without opening that's the scary part.

Many years ago I owned a Citroen and was surprised that the garage would connect the computer to the OBD port on the car and get the car to reprogram the keyfob.

Especially when there aren't many fibre links to Antarctica - even the "ancient" 100Gb/s ones!

Re: Did they spot ...

Or the featureless black wall.

Re: From the Rust Code of Conduct

A long time ago I discovered that if you're nice to people, they tend to be nice back to you.

Why does this matter? Unless you're some kind of hermit, you're going to need to interact with other human beings. That interaction will likely include you wanting them to help you achieve a goal you have. Being nice to others is a dead easy first step to getting people to help you. Saying "Please" & "Thank you", using their correct name, pronoun, gender identify, etc are all simple things you can do.

Maybe I'm getting too old for life, but I prefer people being nice to me verses being hostile or agressive. I find it makes life easier and more pleasant.

YMMV.

Re: Well..

The problem isn't the core Oracle RDMS: It's the whole ecosystem that's built up & tied to it.

Re: Eduroam CAT

Wirelss itself is OK. But just like security, cheap IoT devics barely pay lip-service to the wireless standards so cause most problems.

Re: Google, the little startup that could!

If Google expect "fun" to replace compensation, they're on the wrong track. It can work for a while, but that gimmick will wear off when you need to pay the bills

Job satisfaction is really important - but unless you're a millionaire, we all have to keep an eye on the size of the paycheck.

Re: "the lack of [..] an automatic fire extinguisher system"

I'm no data centre designer or manager, but the list of design flaws do sound very basic. Almost as if the place was designed by people who had never worked in IT.

Re: Now you think of a suit?

NASA has spent billions of dollars over many years trying to build new spacesuits inhouse. It realised that at the current rate of progress, the suits would be ready a year or two after they're needed. So they've decided to give up on their internal project and ask the private sector to step in.

More of a "repaint the lipstick" update.

Phones have stagnated, and, apart from willy-waving, there aren't any real reasons to upgrade to the latest shiny.

Re: So does this mean Everyone now has to use 2FA?

Be careful. Some older versions of Outlook don't support modern authentication by default and need a registry key to kick it into life. (But, to be honest, if you're using an Outlook that old...)