Re: hmmm
"I have a bridge for sale."
Did you buy it from Michael Corrigan?
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"Was wondering why my NAS wasn't working. Never mind, I'll just go upgrade to the latest firmware. Oh, there isn't any and they're not planning the upgrade? For this device still in shops? Fk off."
SMB2 came out in 2006. I am amazed that anyone would buy a NAS in the last decade that didn't support it.
"But STOPPING people/companies from BEING ABLE to pay extra to get better bandwidth, quality, etc"
It has never stopped that. People and companies are both able to pay for bandwidth and quality (contention) under net neutrality. What net neutrality does is prevent carriers from deciding to treating traffic differently once inside their networks for commercial or arbitrary reasons. Which is massively in the interest of consumers.
"To COexist (meaning existing together), then IPv4-only devices would need to be able to talk to IPv6-only devices."
No, IPv6 traffic can pass on the same network as IPv4 traffic, That's what coexist means.
And most IPv6 devices are dual stack so they can also work with IPv4.
"this means that in practice that there are 2^53 usable IPv6 addresses."
No, it means that IPV6 can handle 2^53 routable networks.
"What it means is that in practice, an IPv6 /56 prefix is the same as an IPv4 single address with NAT"
Sure. But it's now the routable address of a network.
"2^53 usable IPv6 addresses. This is 2 million times (2^(53-32) = 2^21) more than IPv4"
No, IPv6 can handle ~ 2 million times more routable networks. IPv6 can also handle ~ 2^85 times more addresses than IPv4.
"mostly because people have figured how to do more with their existing IPv4 addresses,"
Quite. So if it's not broken there is no motivation to fix it.
"But it is very hard to implement IPv6 in an IPv4-only ISP"
And if you cared, you wouldn't chose an IP4v ISP. If you have a choice! But if stuff just works, why would the average punter care?
"Why don't those inept clowns EE ("Nothing Anywhere") concentrate on getting their basic services to work properly before "rolling out" another worthless speed increase?"
Works just fine for me pretty much anywhere. And surveys show EE is on average the fastest provider across the country. So anyone else is likely to be worse.
"EE can't get even basic service to work at the tops of hills - a fundamental flaw in digital mobile telephony - because too many conflicting cell sites are "visible" to the handset."
So a firmware issue with the handset and nothing to do with EE then.
"the UK is the second most expensive place in the world to make a phonecall!"
No it isnt. Not even close.
https://www.therichest.com/luxury/most-expensive/countries-with-the-most-expensive-average-cell-phone-bill/
"Yes, O365 is dominating email in the cloud - but Azure is a different story.Here is the link to a Gartner report published this May year which talks about the Revenue from Azure (4 Billion run rate) vs AWS (20 Billion Run Rate)"
Those numbers are already out of date - Azure is still growing consistently at roughly twice the rate of AWS. There is little doubt in the market that Microsoft will be the eventual king of the hill.
And overall in cloud revenue, Microsoft went past AWS in run rate a year ago.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2018/04/27/microsoft-tops-amazon-in-q1-cloud-revenue-6-0-billion-to-5-44-billion-ibm-third-at-4-2-billion/
"- It's ran on a modified version of Windows Server (with Linux for the networking)."
Nope. It uses Hyper-V / Windows Server for the Hypervisor networking. There is zero Linux in the OS / Hypervisor stack.
I think you are confused that some of Microsoft's core network switches uses embedded Linux.
"How about vmotion with VM Cloud on AWS - migrate without even powering off the VM."
Sure, if you want to pay twice to use cloud! Zerto is a far cheaper and more cost effective way of doing that.
And any cloud can transfer VM images in and out. It's about the cloud services - If for instance you write stuff for AWS Lambda or say Dynamo DB - then good luck using that anywhere else. With Azure Stack you can run the entire cloud services on premises too.
"40% of their VMs where Linux."
Because mostly public cloud is used for test, dev and web apps. Hardly any brick and mortar companies have put their mission critical apps into public cloud.
"They've done the right thing by reducing their reliance on Windows"
Azure runs 100% on Windows Server so they couldnt be more reliant on it!
"the growth of Azure is solely down to the office productivity suite"
Azure is almost completely separated from Office 365 - they are entirely different products. Azure Active Directory is pretty much the sole common product to both.
And the growth in Azure is largely because its a better product than AWS in numerous ways but without the public cloud lock in.
Hence why Microsoft overtook AWS in total cloud revenue a year ago.
"I can imagine Sherlock Holmes deducing that you work for a third-rate company that has trouble attracting anyone who knows about IT."
Try again - Large and rapidly growing financial with mission critical IT.
Oh and lots of jobs are only listed on linked in these days too. Less competition for those of us that do use Linked in then.
"but I feel like old fashioned references will still work - what makes a profile on linked-in more trustworthy?"
Because it's a small world in the city, and someone I know or someone they know will be connected to any candidate of note and I can give them a yell and ask about the candidate...
"Does it sling ads at people?"
Probably it will - not hard to just use an ad blocker.
"Charge money for businesses to keep their code there?"
Of course if they want private repositories and any level of support. Just like now.
I'm sure they will (subject to GDPR optin of course) try to sell you stuff such as developer tools and related services too.
"It is reasonable to infer from the allegations in the complaint that Kronos obtained Dixon's biometric data without her knowledge or consent,"
Uhm, did they send special agents to secretly scan her finger prints when she was at home asleep then? Or is she rather dim witted?
"Here in the USA, beekeepers are a fairly close-knit community. Anybody suddenly "acquiring" 10+ populated & producing hives would be a rather remarkable occurrence."
It's also a rather large country and there must be plenty of buying and selling of hives that would potentially explain such an occurrence, and there must also be lots of remote locations where such could be delivered without even being noticed let alone raising any suspicions.
" But the limpwrists at the ICO have already said that they're going to go softly softly on enforcement this year, preferring education and improvement."
I think you will find that blatant incompetence with widespread impact will still result in a large fine. The softly softly is for stuff that's new under GDPR and that might not have been clearly understood or implemented in time.
"I suggest taking the duckmobile tour along the old docks in Dublin. "tiny satellite office" my arse. 7 floors+ glass blocks standing in lines with a sole graffity covered old garage left in between - Bono's old recording studio which he is refusing to sell. And this is just one district, there 4-5 more spread around the city growing at the same rate all pre-sold to major banks. Most have taken full buildings too."
Mostly unrelated to Brexit though. It's always been a cheap offshoring location and it has the advantage of being English speaking. A few banks are considering relocating a few staff. Nothing much of note.