Posts by DavidRa

Re: Better testing

You said, "There is a better way and that's proven by the fact other OS don't have that same problem."

Unfortunately you seem to be unaware of the concepts of a UNIX/Linux/BSD/OSX kernel panic, original Mac "bomb" crash, which are all pretty much the same thing.

Something went wrong and continuing with error checks might corrupt things, so the safest thing to do is "Halt and catch fire". And it's a balancing act. Want stability? It'll cost more and/or be slower. Pick your poison.

AOOStar and MinisForums

There are a couple of different options I have found. AOOSTAR has some NUC-sized AMD units that have dual 2.5Gb networks plus wifi, three PCIe SSDs and up to probably 64GB of ram in the new one, and MinisForums put out the ms-01 recently with I think three SSD locations, dual 10Gb and dual 1Gb networks and a PCIe slot. That one supports 64GB but unofficially I've seen reports of 96 GB working.

I have a recent AOOStar unit and so far, so good.

What I haven't managed to find is a NUC / NUC+ sized box that will take 128GB or more.

Re: 3gb

Gave up on Seagate...

Don't know who makes all these now, but not one ever failed me.

Mostly Seagate and Western Digital.

Re: Would be really nice

Thank you Bernard, that will be quite enough.

Re: File a bug report to the manufacturer

The problem is that people don't read them anyway. Perfect case in point would be an error message that says

"Please call the help desk on 555 5555 and say that the Rostrum app had error Bingo"

They call and what you're told is that

* I can't log on

* There's no error message

* Windows is broken

* It's definitely not the same Bingo problem in Rostrum that twenty people have reported.

How do you make that any clearer?

Re: In this case I think the correct decision was made.

I'm not so sure it's entirely on the dev. Surely part of the check before releasing the name should have included checking simple things, perhaps like "whether the bloody thing had been updated in the past year". I recognise that there are statements about "fixing the process" but really, given there was evidence of continuous use, it should be more like the ICANN result where the original owner gets it back.

Re: Sorry I'm late

Is there any chance that some of them, or perhaps all of them, are... Alike?

Re: Environmental repair tax

I am thinking of the company profits, and how good they'll look when not needlessly extracted from the pockets of the customers.

Re: Holds hand up....

I also prefer Core where possible but it's no longer true (if indeed it ever was) that there are fewer updates and reboots. Microsoft shot that idea down the moment they moved from individual updates to the CU model. Core and Desktop receive the same packages, same size and they install in about the same time on each.

I suspect I'm neither the first nor only person to call it the Cumulative Update for New Technology model on the back of Windows historical designation.

Re: When is it safe to make the jump?

For goodness sake. Windows 10 is more than five years old at this point. Windows 7 hasn't received security updates for a year.

You can pretend all you want that you're waiting to see what happens but reality says you've made the decision already to stay on old and familiar but increasingly insecure.

In my view you're the "XP is best" dinosaur from late Windows 7 timeframes.

Re: EVs = bad for planet, bad for poor people, bad for practicality

I've considered the idea of solar + battery cars in the past, but even with double the efficiency of modern solar, I'd need 6m² of panels for the daily (220km) commute. I think I'm an outlier, but I don't think the fit for many will be as promising as Aptera suggest (since lots of parking is underground, for example, you're not going to get charged while you're away from the car).

Can't fault them for trying though.

Re: Postcodes [in the UK] can be personal too

It's not quite that simple though. Some postcodes in Australia cover quite large geographical areas with lots of people, others cover large areas with a few people, and still others might cover just a few suburbs in Sydney or Melbourne.

Wikipedia - Postcodes in Australia gives a few examples of extremes.

Given those sorts of examples, most Australians probably won't think of a postcode as being able to directly identify people.

Re: Own Goal

Yes, but we dont then keep it at 97C despite being told that it is too hot and goes against policy which states it is supposed to be 80C. And continue doing so after complaints that it was too hot, because it saves $2 in replacing it over the course of the day.

Browser profiles are the shiz for this

The trick here is to use Profiles in Edgium (I think it's called Profiles in Chrome too?) to separate out your personas. I have between 4 and 10 on the go at any one time - one for my company, and one each for every O365 or Azure customer.

Also, if you can get yourself onto the CSP program, you should be able to set up the tenants so you log in once, and have delegated access to the other tenancies; you can then switch between them using links at the top of the various admin portals.

Re: How it will all work out.

I believe the draft name is "Edge Computing" - locating the compute close to the users and data.

What a concept.

Stop trying to look behind the curtain! There's nothing behind the curtain. Also, the emperor's clothes are fantastic.

Re: I can see it now

I believe the new hotness is Edge Computing. Get the compute and services out where the users are for latency and performance.

Also known as on premise.

So your contention here seems to be that a SME with a need for SQL Server to support a line of business application for 50 users on 4 cores in a VM or container should pay the same as a large multinational who want to support 5,000 users on bare metal and 128 cores.

I don't agree with that opinion at all.

If you don't want to pay the licenses, buy or build a solution that doesn't require them. Otherwise - it's a business, pay for the software.

Re: Any chance

I was given to understand that an EW is there on behalf of the court (and therefore "called" by the presiding judge), not either of the parties to the action. It seems that would be the only reasonable way to have someone who is impartial in their role as the EW (and specifically that's because they are _seen_ to be impartial as well).

Re: Questionable value

Honestly, I've spent five weekends and countless nights trying to get K8s to run in a truly HA mode in my lab (3 masters, shared storage for volumes and 2+ workers). I've read dozens of K8s guides, 95% of which build an "HA" environment with a single cluster master accessible only from the master itself.

The other 5% are outdated (even though at least one was only 4 months old, it referenced a process that had been replaced two months prior to the guide date) or plain don't work as written.

At this point K8s feels like ivory tower academia desperately pretending it's open but rabidly protecting its IP so it *can't* be replicated on premise. That's not really a recipe for a future in which I want to be building IT.

That in turn means that I don't currently see containers as a way out of the cloud mess, in case it's not clear.

Re: Class action suit?

I rather suspect that admitting that is irrelevant - wouldn't it be the case that only the owner of the mobile device would have standing (in the legal sense) in a disagreement about the specific devices?

After all, Alice can't sue Bob for Bob breaking into Candace's computer, right?

Your information is out of date. Edge Stable has been available for several weeks (both v79 and v80 are in stable, and those map closely to Chromium versions with the same inflated numbers). While there are Dev and Canary channels (and I run in Dev) it's definitely wide release as of Jan 15.

And as far as I can see, Edgium doesn't send the X-Client-Data header (nor did it seem to have an equivalent for Microsoft properties so it seems to be MORE privacy conscious than Chrome).

I don't get the continued FUD about Microsoft hoovering up info - unlike Google where you don't pay for stuff (which supposedly means you're "the product", right) you do pay MS. And regardless of all the noise about it, I've never actually seen anyone show any data suggesting that MS really is copying everyone's hard disks to the cloud. Even when all the "privacy invasions" are left on.

Re: Euphemisms

As opposed to the "CFIT" designation - Controlled Flight Into Terrain.

Re: European Space SLAs

's water music was referencing a song by Tom Lehrer, "Wernher von Braun".

Re: Support ticket

Not quite. The Exchange 5.5 Admin console had a nasty habit of not committing changes with the OK button, leading to those who administered Exchange being rapidly conditioned to clicking both in sequence.

Re: Backups

It's called VSS, but it's new technology (only available since Windows 2003) so I'm not surprised some vendors haven't gotten around to fully supporting it yet.

Normally I'd expect installing VMWare Tools to provide the conduit between "host wants an application-consistent snapshot" and "call VSS function to quiesce IO properly". It's probably less than two hundred lines of code including proper error checking (I say 200 because I expect the bare call is probably ... 5).

Re: obligitory

The topologist will point out that they are in fact identical.

Re: Good riddance!

> (BTW, I prefer to be refereed to as "Oi You" although "You Bas****d" is also acceptable).

Identity theft is NOT a joke.

Remind me again where the phone is going to be to measure your heart rate while swimming, running or biking, count laps and provide basic info such as the SMS from your SO (which might mean an emergency)? I too was a naysayer until that specific need (swimming data/analysis) presented itself. The alternative would appear to be a heart rate band and the phone app, which would seem to provide no significant benefits and some detriment when compared to the wristwatch.

Re: Physics will still be applied

Well, if they situate themselves correctly, they'll at least get a kiss before they pass on.

Even if that is likely to be a Liverpool kiss (that one was safe at time of writing, but YMMV).

Re: "It still has a local console for when the worst happens"

All the more reason to install Core, I'd say.

Re: Latency sensitive workloads

That would never happen, because everyone is so organised and time-rich thanks to our new automation overlords.

Re: Chaos

This feels like a "because they can" scenario. They figure the phones without Play Store will be less desirable and thus they can double/triple/quadruple charge for the service (charge the phone manufacturers for the right to put an icon on the device, charge the developers 15-30% - I can't remember the actual number - for Play Store access), and no doubt if they figure out a way to do it, charge consumers extra and possibly telcos too.

Sure they did, but the universe invented better idiots

Of course. However, the incompletely-experienced often choose to force bypass that configuration. For example, a lot of systems aliased rm to "rm -i" by default, which would force interactive confirmations. People would then say "UGH, I hate having to do this" and add their own customisations to their shells/profiles etc:

unalias rm

alias rm=rm -f

Lo and behold, now no silly confirmations, regardless of stupidity/typos/etc.

Re: C

50 litres a minute? Wow. The Australian nanny-state seems to have limited most of the pumps I've used in the last couple of decades to about 20-30 lpm at most. Can't find any supporting requirement (e.g. Wikipedia lists US as limiting to 10Gpm or ~38lpm, but nothing for AU).

Certainly makes filling a 90L tank in 40C temps a bore.

I don't think you understand - this is Google demonstrating the problem so they can propose the advertising- and tracking-based fix.

Re: Question:

Of course they can, because they might be discussing terrywrism. With the threat of $50K fines hanging over their heads, we'll end up developing new capabilities - like the reconstruction of paper after burning, or creating the recording of a conversation years after it happened.

After all, if the laws of mathematics can be bypassed, physics and chemistry should be easy and reversal of entropy not far behind.