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I'd say quite a lot of people, even in this industry, expects (or hopes) of annual raises at least in line with inflation and rising cost of living, and if performance is there the raise should be noticeably above the inflation. If you get no raise at all, you're getting a paycut every year as living costs keep rising.
Does not everyone think about everything all of the time? Or are we to be led to believe there are prepared pigeon holes available to restrict and/or block further free future thought?
As Carl Sagan said; It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Worth a try? Nothing to lose? If there's more than 383,000 readers and we all gave a quid it could work.
Definitely nothing to lose. Based on earlier article, it does appear though almost like the Uni wants to close it and the money is just an excuse so could be interesting what happens if one was to wave a cheque for £383k.
Anyone who tells you that "countries with more guns have more crime/murders" is a charlatan, using a very selective set of statistics - because every country on that list has more guns per capita and more gun owners per capita than the UK. But most have much better homicide rates!
Case in point Finland. Higher homicide rate than UK. However that number doesn't tell you if it was gun related. I recall Finland come about 4th in number of firearms, ownership of which is tightly regulated, per capita however guns are only factor in ~14 % of the homicides.
Malini Paul, research manager at IDC, told us the Windows 10 refresh had driven sales in Britain,
O'rly? I'd say its more case of any new computer/laptop will come with Win 10 as the only choice and its hardware refresh that drives the sales rather than the worst OE Microsoft has managed to produce. I doubt there are any meaningful numbers for anyone buying a new computer just to get Win 10.
If I am manufacturing 250,000 devices, am I going to generate 250,000 unique SSH keys, give them to my (Chinese) manufacturer, and expect them to ensure that each device is programmed with a unique key, and correlate the devices to the keys (so that I know which device has which key) AND keep all that from leaking to ______ (insert name of dodgy hacking outfit here)?
No. You're going to have the device to generate its key on start up if one does not exist.
Why would you need to know the device's key? If it is for some ill-adviced clody paltform, the device can tell the platform its key when it registers itself.
My Nokia 8 is still getting the security updates every month
It probably helps that Nokia 8 is more or less stock android with no crap on top. I suspect the later Nokias with "AndroidOne" are even better with regards to updates. Very happy with the phone and excellent value when its price dropped to ~200 quid.
If I were a professional journalist, I would be highly embarrassed to have made up a fictitious unit of "kph" instead of writing the correct "km/h".
It should of course be km/h. And if you must use "per hour" then surely it should be kmph (as some old texts back in the day did) after all we're talking about kilometers (km) and not "kilos per hour".
(Yes, I know I could use "Send corrections", but I see this particular error (and it is an error, not a typo) in just so many places nowadays, and it really is shamefully embarrassing and cringe-inducing.)
British press seems to do insist on kph. I have no idea why.
Needless to say the return taxi trip to Luton soon made up the difference...
But not for the trauma of Luton. I wonder if they ever finished the upgrade (or whatever they were doing) of the airport.
Unless it has improved massively I'd rather fork some of my own money than suffer LTN.
Amazon search engine is not fit for purpose (unless it's something they cannot fchuck masses of dross results into such as ISBN search)
It is indeed so bad, that it must be on purpose to try to make you buy more. It can't be that bad just due to incompetence.
Accordingly, DynDNS Pro/Remote Access is decoupling from the Dyn brand and business unit this summer, and will remain a business unit within Oracle.
Your organization has the right to access and use DynDNS Pro/Remote Access. This product will continue to be available from Oracle without any disruption of service and no action is required on your part at this time.
I have been paying customer of the Pro service from the days since they stopped the free service (not to mention the constant need to "yes, I'd like to keep the service" for the free one was getting annoying) and have been happy with it and the price was not unreasonable. Bonus was that just about any piece of kit supported dyndns out of the box.
Given it is Oracle I have no trust in that statement that it will continue as is, or that they don't try to start hike up the prices, so I'll need to check my renewal date and ensure I have found an alternative provider (or I could just set up my own in hosted VM that I use for VPN) as I do not wish to give Larry any money nor do I have confidence in the continuation of the service.
It's like people are proud that they worked long hours and crunched, like its a right of passage or something? Sorry, but I've never worked more than a 45 hour week.
Some might be, other less so. I'm certainly nor proud. I've been there, have burnt out couple of times and it is not really worth it. Sometimes it just happens as things drag on and before you know it the hours have clocked up.
I absolutely agree that in general need for anyone to do overtime is a sign of under staffing.
Work/life balance is important and it is much more difficult to get me to agree to overtime these days especially if it inconveniences my plans.
I also think there is a lot of cultural "longer hours mean harder/better workers" in UK and US. That is obviously a misconception. Work smarter, not harder.
I am so glad that no-one let me anywhere near anything live that week. Bad things would have ensued for sure.
I have broken a century. As you have already discovered, I would not recommend it. I also had to work on live production system. As the hours piled up, productivity dived (probably inverse squared). Even the simple things started to require ridiculous amount of concentration.
Having colleagues to check, at least that you're not doing something utterly stupid, can be a lifesaver.
Movies could now be dubbed in other languages without worrying about making the new dialogue match how the actors' lips moved in the original. So more accurate translations of the dialogue could be used, and yet the actors would look to be saying their lines with completely accurate speech movements, as if the movie were originally made in the target language.
Whatever was wrong with subtitling? I much prefer that to dubbing. Must be weird watching dubbed stuff and hearing same voice associated with several different actors (as I seriously doubt there is sufficiently large pool of just voice actors)
As a bonus, subtitling might even help learning a foreign language.
The BGP leak this month was likely a simple mistake but China Telecom appears to have made the most of it. And that has sparked internet engineers to again press their colleagues to adopt better security measures on this critical underlying internet infrastructure.
Maybe it is time to start requiring adoption of MANRS or equivalent as a pre-requisite for peering. Lax handling of BGP, no peering for you.
"debug all ...
.. on a core router."
What would that do? Log every action taken for every packet through the router? That sounds like a bad time for all concerned.
It would attempt to display debug information on everything. In most cases it will peg the cpu and the router will become unresponsive and only recoverable by powercycling it which is not what you want at an ISP.
The only use for debug all without further specification what you want to debug (say an interface for example) is when you've been debugging various things and want to turn all debugging off with no debug all.
About an hour later I got a call from the senior network god who offered me an opportunity to 'learn how to soak-test a customer connection without taking down the entire network'. Training subsequently given and ne'er a bad word was said.
That reminds me of some network chaps, while troubleshooting issues, made the mistake of debug all ...
.. on a core router.
Powerful learning experience that is, and hence I don't recall anyone doing it twice. The more surprising thing is that even with the stories, it did happen more than once.
I'm always happy to work with someone who can learn of their own accord, even better if they learn for learning's sake. And, to paraphrase Nanny Ogg, it's better having them inside pissing out than outside pissing in :)
While I don't disagree with Nanny Ogg, the main reason I would not hire Charlie is that when he realised it all went bit wrong, he didn't have the guts/integrity to own up to it.
I liked the HP3000. I have Series 39 running MPE V that I rescued from being thrown away. Not quite the full rack a Series III was. Whopping 2MB of memory, I really liked SPL. It was well documented and nothing was off limits (even if you had to resort to inline assembly for some things).
The embedded Image/3000 database was actually pretty good (for its time anyway).
I woudn't mind a 3000/XL, but they don't tend to crop up that often. Given you can convert HP3000 9x9 to a HP9000 K-class, it should be possible to do the reverse. Maybe if I come across MPE/XL distribution, I'll try that.
Ordered an espresso, price around 25 SEK. Cafe refused to take cash, card only, so I had to use my Euro-denominated debit card and will be billed ~2.5 EUR + 10% commission + 1.5EUR foreign transaction fee.
Hopefully they were clear about not accepting cash before ordering. I'd find it very tempting to just walk out unless I was desperate for that coffee.
Your level of comprehension astonish me. RTFC? I did not back publishing people's IP address, I back banning commercial networks, VPNs from comments, and publishing the origin country from which the comments are made from.
Oh really? Let's see, this is from your original post (if you are the same AC):
Incidentally, has TheRegister thought about publishing people's IP addresses publically here? I'm curious to see how many are home broadband users and how many are hiding behind VPNs or other commercial networks and are in fact operating from troll farms.
To me, that looks like backing publishing people's IP addresses. Ah, perhaps its case of my level of comprehension.
However, if the lunch truck was passing by, I can see where some people might get distracted ;-}
This is quite some time ago, but we used to get free rolls and baguettes at lunch time. Speed was essential to ensure you got to the trolley early while there was still decent selection available. Nice they were too. They also had a habit of having piss ups paid for by the company few times a year.
Sadly these days everyone is penny pinching and looking for a way to shaft you, rather than spending a few quid and ensuring happy and productive workforce.
Microsoft say lots of things. The sheer number of about turns last gaming generation is anything to go by, they it could have already canned things.
So does Sony. Backwards compatibility in hardware, ah sorry not for you in Europe. Want to run Linux, sure go ahead, actually we've changed our minds and dropped it now you bought the console.
About turns in gaming is the way the industry goes. Of course they can still can it, but despite having released specs, so could Sony. In gaming nothing in certain until it has actually been released for real, and even then it might not have been what was anticipated.
essentially meaning the next XBox (if Microsoft bother with another one), will have some serious deficiencies compared to PS5 and PC gaming.
If? They've already announced Scarlett Lockhart and Anaconda being in development. Rumours include DirectX ray tracing support, but rumours are rumours. Maybe we'll find out more in in June at E3.
You can normally see the buttons which are pressed often, but you can always feel which they are by pressing. If you know the four digits, it's just the order to work out.
Some PIN locks display digits on the pad, and randomize the order in which they appear on the pad. Not perfect, but does reduce the chance of guessing by looking at the pad or shoulder surfing somewhat.
High end brands essentially do the same, but in higher volume. It means the garments tend to fall well from the outset, and you can also have things adjusted to fit better.
I'd agree with that. Couple of decades ago I needed a jacket. I didn't have the time or liquidity for made to measure. Tried on number of off the shelf ones, most ok but never quite just right. Out of curiosity I tried on an Armani one. It fit perfectly. It was more expensive than I would've liked, but still doable.
Like many others have said, I have my doubts if quality today is as good as it was back then but I would certainly consider them again if similar situation arose.
Auditor's have to undergo a lot of training and get qualifications, generally not something 'you get called upon to do'. Maybe things were a lot more lax 'back in the day'.
Perhaps. Some of the ones from the well known firms doing that stuff could've fooled me. Or the training has been on, dunno say trimming shrubbery.
Lot of auditors are effectively secretaries/project managers collating responses from staff to the questions and evaluating the evidence the staff has provided.
Also: Hmmm. Yes, I did receive your urgent SMS to my personal phone. However, it seems I forgot to take the phone off silent after the meeting yesterday, so I didn't notice it until just now.
I no longer ever give work details of personal phone. In the past it happened that personal numbers given for one off situation were retained and people were called on them. Never again.
Now it is strictly, "You want to be able to contact me, you provide me with a phone". Also always set clear expectations on availability. No one expects to definitely be able to call me if I am not on-call at the time.
Oh, and saying "I'm fixing the problem - Do you really want me to stop to give you a status report?" works well when on a conference problem with 90+ people
Especially true, when those kinds of calls tend to get various managment or interested parties join asking for update and then leave. If you update each of them, you have no time left to actually resolve the issue.
So yes, "Would you like me to actually resolve the issue or give you an update" or "I can either keep resolving the issue or stop to give you an update" type responses work very well, even if they sometimes infuriate the management.
Well, they could just sit on the call and receive updates like anyone actually working on the issue rather than join while walking to the next tee.
Sometimes it can get so bad that the only solution is to drop from the call, whether management likes it or not, to get peace to actually work on the issue.
Google are telling people that over 25% of their accesses are coming in over IPv6... 1 in 4 people around the world are using it when they go on Google. Do you think they all sat there and deliberately configured it, or do you think it's just a base protocol that's part of the requirements of major technologies like 4G?
Google would probably very much like everyone to use IPV6, especially if they're not using RFC4941 (effectiveness of which depends on the implementation a lot).
Is it just me who hates it when these companies equate $ to £ and screw over British consumers? I know the £ has devalued somewhat but its still pretty far off actual parity.
Yes, you and others who don't take into account sales tax.
US prices are without sales tax, whereas our prices include VAT (which varies between EU countries and in UK is 20%). So if we take 1USD to be 0.79 GBP (as of this morning) and add 20% we have 399 * 0.79 * 1.2 = 378.25. Not a world of difference really.
My understanding is that buying your phone through the operator (as most people do) is technically done via a hire-purchase agreement.
As such, I don't understand why it is legal for the operator to carry on taking payments for what is basically a loan. once that loan has been paid in full.
With O2 Refresh that is what happens. You have a separate load agreement for the device. Once that is paid off you only continue to pay for your air time.
With most others, whilst it may appear to you as a hire purchase, it is not. No doubt the operators finance the handsets via loans, but your contract is not a loan, it is for some air time tariff for a minimum period that just happens to include a device (either free or some upfront cost). So unless you cancel or change tariff once the minimum contract period is up, you will continue to pay for that tariff. Nothing illegal about it, its how all contracts used to be until variations like O2 Refresh.
It may seem immoral/unfair but nothing stops you from cancelling or changing tariff once the minimum contract period is up.
And for the record I'm not defending mobile operators who are greedy bloodsucking parasites most of the time, but the "is it a hire purchase or not" is quite simple and no doubt all in black and white in the contract that you have signed.
...as the first step to total destruction of SQL and the total domination of AI.
That is such a narrowminded view. How about picking the best tool for the job. Lot of data is more suitable for traditional SQL database than a "conversational" one.
And ML is not AI. Even the better neural nets are still very far from anything I would be willing to call actual AI.
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