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I've resorted to GS110TP on couple occasions. POE for APs, cameras,phones etc plus SFP uplink. Relatively cheap, and yet for most part they work fine unlike Cisco Small Business stuff that seems to either die or just have "interesting" b0rkage in firmware (and Cisco seems to refuse to fix ths issues). And GS110TP has a rudimentary CLI as well. No, never registered any of them.
In more general terms, I would agree with your comment though.
Not to mention having to nudge the scales, the bag is on, every so often as it decides something that should be in the bag, isn't or vice versa.
Sainsbury's *groan* "smart" shop is actually first half decent way to do it. Scan it yourself and bag as you go. Quick, painless. Unless you get the random check of 5 items and any of them happen to be in the bottom of the bag(s). And yes you do need "let us profile you" card, but you don't have to register it...
When emailing my US colleagues I always write dates out with the month by name.
I use ISO format. I know that most of the time the merkin colleagues will misunderstand it, but that's their problem. Just like they always assume time is in one of their timezones. Some are slowly learnning about time. With date, its much rarer.
8mm tapes and VHS also had this issue.
Logical. However, for some reason my experience with EXB-8505 was that they were rock solid and I never had issues. Even XL was pretty reliable and think I only ever had one or two slight issues. I did run cleaning tapes pretty religiously.
I had some lovely Imprimis Wren ESDI drives (yes, 5.25 FH) with voicecoil actuators. I remember testing with drives just sitting on the desk and they really wanted to wander around.
Most drives had jumpers to select whether it spins up at power on or requires command to spin up. Been a while since I last looked at drive docs (good few years for some SCSI drives) but the jumper for that is probably still present.
Remeber Freeserve?
I had BT's crippled ISDN (HomeHighway) and used cisco 2503 to bond D channels via Freeserve. Yes, had to drop the line(s) every hour or something to keep the call free, but wasn't difficult to do with IOS and at least connection estabilished quick enough over ISDN that most applications didn't even notice.
Eventually Freeserve cottoned on (I'm sure I wasn't the only one) and stopped allowing bonding. By that time DOCSIS solutions were available so it didn't really matter.
and will use nothing but ed (and, of course, emacs, I mean, everyone uses emacs, right?): this attitude is probably why they succeeded in putting the machine back together at all: it's rather unlikely that something as vast and overcomplicated as vi would have been present on whatever minimal Unix they got up to recover the system.
Erm... I wouldn't put emacs and minimal in the same sentence.
It is always good to understand the RDBMS (or specific client) you are working with. Someone used to Oracle would be in for a shock if they had to work with for example Sybase where default is unchained mode. No rollback for you if you didn't explicitly begin transaction (or change chained mode for your session).
Ah comments in code.
I (and I am not alone by a long shot) have often included choice comments in the code to explain bits of code. Usually the comments are critical of some less than stellar policies or practises necessitating some jiggery pokery, so more likely to be potty mouthed against the company (possibly manglement) than any specific user.
I do recall colleagues being told off and asked to remove the offending comments.
I suppose ideally anyone above team leader shouldn't have clearance to see code. I mean what is the point, it is not like its likely (apart from rare exceptions) they'd understand it.
"I think so because what everyone's looking for now is a great experience and that's what we kind of give them at ServiceNow," he said, before padding out his big sell with mention of silos, stitched together workflows and virtual agents.
Guess he has never tried to use their own product. It may be due to implementation, but my experience is defnitely not great. Simple task of raising an incident takes forever with slow lookups for fields that it insists on looking up (or verifying if you try to bypass by typing it in).
For many things it will take longer to wrestle with ServiceNever than actually do the work.
ServiceNever more like it.
Not sure if it is due to the implementation, but my experience mirrors yours. Ridiculously slow. Look ups for fields in form take forever, so just raising a simple incident takes multitude of time longer than actually dealing with the issue. Alas, incidents must be raised.
Here, have a virtual one (hope you have real equivalents in your fridge) if you also have to suffer from this abomination.
There are only two keyboards I have found comfortable to type so that I don't need to look at them at all and they are Model M (I really need to check why they occasionally lock up and need a reset (unplug and reseat cable at keyboard end) ..could be bit flaky connection I guess) and Sun Type 5. Sun Type 4 is not too bad either. Nor is LK201 come to think of it.
Used Webex to get past the 45 min Zoom cap. It was pretty terrible and looked like it had barely evolved in 5+ years.
I wish that was true. They have been mucking with the UI a lot, and like so many other have been infected with hunt around the screen with a pointed and you might come across a button for some functionality. Bring back the old UI, it may look clunky, but it worked fine.
ff I'm on conference call I don't care if the UI looks pretty, I just want it to work and be able share application/screen if needed.
As I've posted on these hallowed pages before, you can pry my LJ 4 and 5 out of my dead cold hands.
In fact given the reliability of the old, properly built HP printers, quite a few years ago I got a 4700 to print in colour (on the rare occasion I need to) and not have to sufffer the dried/gunked up ink/heads and constant banding. Ok cartridges for 4700 are not cheap but the amount I need to print (especially in colour) probably last lifetime of the printer.
Repair/maintenance manuals are out there easily available, spares are plenty.
@PJL RDYMSG DISPLAY = "Happy Days"
Yeah, most things point to the core network. I didn't see loss of connectivity to CMTS and even traceroutes worked, kind of, but extremely slowly. Needless to say any actual traffic, name look ups, estabilished connections etc timed out.
Amusingly, this time VM's outage page didn't lie that everything is ok, but was also broken.
I don't hold out much hope that VM/LG ever tell the truth, but it would be nice to hear what actually happened just out of professional interest.
Not quite equivalent, but VNC (there are quite a few implementations both free and commercial) is not bad alternative forremote support if you can live with its limitations compared to TeamViewer.
TightVNC tunneled via SSH has saved me from a long trip on occasions,
Article says 80s, so probably not very since RS485 came about in early to mid 80s. Current loop would've been around for sure.
Quite a few implementations in those days supported current loop option, so may not even had necessarily needed converters. The article doesn't mention distance, but sounds long enough for current loop to be the more sensible option especially since lower maximum data rate would not have been an issue.
It's been painfully obvious for many years that Apple just want the professionals to go away. Yes, they buy the really expensive Macs, but there aren't many of them compared to the consumers buying Airs, iPads and the like.
Hardly, especially when you can also sell them wheels and monitor stands for some extra cash.
I wouldn't (unless you're running L3 switch with reasonable feature set perhaps the line gets bit blurred) call it a router. Yes many home routers have 4 port switch built in as well, and some modular enterprise routers have switch modules available. That said, 9300 is a switch not a router.
Since you brought routers into the discussion, it might be worth pointing out that CPU (and to an extent memory) is a real issue. Sure if you're just passing packets that can take advantage of hardware acceleration you don't need much CPU. Once you add more complex firewall rules (or heaven forbid DPI and/or IDS) or anything else that causes the packet to be handled by CPU, the CPU load goes up considerably and your maximum throughput drops massively.
Did you mean that if I have access to medical records I can hoard them and sell them to health and pharma companies? If I work in a bank I can access at will and use for my personal gain, or give away people's financial status? If I have access to a model database I can sell their telephone numbers and addresses?
Of course not. Perhaps CFAA, as it currently stands, is not the law for that however.
IANAL, but surely there are other laws, probably even from time before computers, specifically for disclosure of information especially for monetary gain.
My biggest beef with any mechanical charging port is that it will suffer from wear and tair.
Agreed. Epecially with USB ports being fairly flimsy, although USB-C seems bit more robust (so far) than previous USB-A, MicroUSB and the like.
Reminds me when I used to have a slim 9-pin F-M straight through "gender changer" plugged into serial port to save the real port from wearing out as it got console cables plugged in and out frequently enough. Better to change the few quid adaptor occasionally than whole laptop (or to take it apart to solder a new connector to the mb.
And this is why you don't allow anything external to configure your network. At least with the likes of Ubiquiti (not that they are without their own foibles) offer the choice of running AP controller, NMS, etc locally if you don't like the idea of using their cloud version.
That reminds me of Freeserve back in the day. Got BT HomeHighway and used cisco 2503 to connect (and ensure line got dropped every 59 minutes) 128kbit/s, effectively permanent, connection. Eventually Freeserve stopped allowing bonding of B-channels which was hardly unexpected.
Sometime later NTL brought out the first cablemodems, that made the ISDN setup redundant.
So their participation in outsourced services has declined.
Hardly surprising as many corporations insist employees/contractors in India to work from a clean room, which is currently rather unfeasible.
I'd like to think it would make companies rethink their outsourcing decisions, but I suspect that is not going to happen.
Most of this wouldn't be recognized as 'computing' by most modern programmers (just as they won't make a lot of sense of antique computing hardware)
Antique computing hardware makes more sense than the modern. All my "relics" Just Work(tm).
Too many (thankfully not all!) modern programmers also could do with pulling their heads out of their agile arses long enough to actually assess if what they;re doing and if it is the right solution to the problem in hand.
Think of all the bad things you've heard about JFK and Heathrow. Add them and multiply by 10. CDG is still worse.
You're being generous. Then add to that vistiing some grotty building (maybe it has improved since 90s but I've seen nicer council estates than that) on outskirts of La Defense.
And yes definitely, just carry-on bag with laptop and change of clothes.
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