Posts by defiler

Re: Enterprise? SATA??

This, 100%. But they don't want to cut into their Enterprise SAS profits, I expect.

If they were SAS and competitive with the 10k drives in our SANs, I'd be filling out an order this week...

No great surprise. If you were to shunt my neural weightings into a different brain I don't think I'd be so lucid. Frustratingly, I don't imagine I'd even manage to just be rude either...

Yorkshire has its own currency?

Yep - it's the Muckle. It's worth 100 Mickles.

Re: Fingers crossed

Yeah - that's always nice to watch. Even in KSP :D

Because they don't have the special Torx drivers with the holes in the tips to undo the security bolts.

Re: Maybe I'm misremembering, but...

Yes, but in space, no one can hear your beam.

Re: Close but no cigar

Apparently a downvote from the guy who's never tried a Dvorak keyboard...

I'm using one right now. Took two days to get used to, and my aching wrists stopped. Although, to be fair, it's pretty pointless on a phone. :)

Re: Zhuque 1

The "safe" version of bomb-in-a-tube.

Re: Downvoted ..

"snatch team"

Very good. I see what you did there.

Re: Leave 123-Reg

"Its okay as we have secure telephone lines"

Good for you. I don't...

Re: or....

what small recoveries our country has made in 2 years

I'm honestly curious as to what progress DJT has made to 'undo the rot' or whatever you might describe it as in the past two years. Can you give examples?

Seriously, I'm in the UK so I don't see much of USA domestic politics. From an international standpoint, Trump appears to be a dangerous toddler amongst dangerous toddlers, but I really don't know what difference he's made at home.

Re: Remember the mystery goo container

I've been trying to do docking in orbit, and damn that is hard.

Eventually it's worth just installing MechJeb.

Re: Good luck

Boo! Down with this sort of thing!

Re: Similar scenario with a line printer

We always used to have trouble with new paper jamming in the copiers at an old job. The paper was kept in an outdoor lockup, and (you've guessed it) was cold and damp when brought inside.

Keeping a couple of boxes handy indoors sorted that problem - that gave the paper a chance to warm up and dry out so it wouldn't stick together.

Re: Deleted Emails

In the end the only inconvenience to the deleted users was that they had to set new passwords for themselves when they came back a month later

Bwahahahaha!!

Okay, first of all, well done for getting yourself back up and running - let's not consider taking that away from you. But a month? Gotta love academia... I've seen myself staring down the barrel of a figurative gun if the email server wasn't back up by the morning.

Got any good jobs going?

Re: "I’m an engineer, I work in IT..."

Came here fully expecting this legitimate tirade.

I looked at the Yale smart alarms when I was alarm shopping. Then I realised that it offered me almost precisely nothing I cared about and introduced 1000 things that could go wrong and which I was in no control of.

At least one of those should have flagged itself in the mind of an 'IT' 'engineer'. Unless, of course, he's a civil engineer who unjams printers because nobody's pouring concrete just now.

Re: Silicon bugs not fixed yet

That's because they need the capacity now.

Look at it this way. Do you think that the Amazons, Googles, Facebooks of this world will sit back and say "Nah - the CPUs have a really funky little flaw. We simply can't expand operations until <undefined date> when that's fixed."

Companies in particular need them now, or their competitors will take them and move ahead.

Consequently there more more house fires and electrocutions back then, fuses blow for a reason.

Whoosh!

Yes, and this leads to more data theft and more fraudulent activity online. But people will still use the figurative nail in their browser. It's the old "it didn't happen to me, so it must be fine" gambit.

Re: "were made available for other OS" @ defiler

Just because different GUIs are available on Linux, it does not prevent applications with different look-and-feel from running simultaneously on a system.

I totally accept that. I used to run Xubuntu as my daily desktop. Games compatibility (or lack thereof) put me back to Windows, but I could at least get my fix of KSP!

But you and me are not "the average person". The average person will wonder why one application looks so weird next to the others. The average person will be confused and concerned by the lack of consistency. In fact, the average person will succumb to decision paralysis before actually selecting a window manager. They'll likely have been told that Linux is "quite hard" or "complex", and this is their first step in getting into it, and they're faced with a question that they're not expecting and likely not equipped to make a judged decision about.

Re: What a machine.

I'm 37 and still want to go in a space shuttle.

Of course, but he's too young to remember them flying. Still, I just checked with him, and given the choice of Apollo/Saturn V, Soyuz or STS, he went with the Space Shuttle without a pause.

They just fire little imaginations in a way that normal rockets don't manage to...

The real war stories end up in the comments. The article only seems to serve as an air duster to clear the mental cobwebs away.

Re: 11Gb/sec

SWMBO thought the cable count was mad.

That's how it works. I did some moderate cabling in the old house which was useful because WiFi was 11Mb/sec. Then there's been a race between cheap wired and wireless. Every now and then I think I could get away with wireless, and then I hit something that could really use the extra bandwidth.

So when we were tearing the house apart I just went for it. Even the spark was astonished by the amount of cable that went in. :D

Re: the arrival of Shielded VMs for Linux VMs

Seriously, WHAT advantages are there to running cloudy VMs on a Windows host, vs something LIKE CentOS or FreeBSD?

Veeam, Bob. They have Veeam. And it's been requested to support KVM, but it's never happened yet. So you can have Veeam without the mental licensing storm that is VMware.

Now fuck off and lie down before you give yourself an aneurysm.

Re: ORLY?

@AC

Yep. I agree with you 100% on both counts. Just pointing out that every time I've bought servers, per-core performance and more recently license costs associated with the extra cores have been a significant factor.

I would absolutely love to see AMD going toe-to-toe with Intel in the server market. Save getting gouged for these Xeons...

And whilst I'm writing my letter to Santa, if they could use the same sockets that would be nice too. Being able to swap Intel to AMD on a whim was great. But it was also twenty years ago.