Posts by CrazyOldCatMan 6355 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2015
Then you have to take into account age groups
There is a pretty clear link between mortality and age - the very young seem to shake it off with little effect but old people (or people with compromised immune systems like me) seem to have much higher levels of mortality.
It seems to work well
Sadly, anything other than a simple flat network isn't trivial to setup. Mine is as follows:
VDSL-Router <---> Firewall <-> Internal networks
IPv6 works between each adjacent two parts but the internal machines can't see the Internet via IPv6 - which means anything with IPv6 bound to the network stack will fail since all the OS's that I run seem to prioritise IPv6 if it's available. Windows 10's 'Internet detection' is particularly broken and will flip-flop between "you haz teh internetz" and "Oh noes - no internetz!".
So I've got it turned off. And enjoy uninterrupted Internet access.
Why the mass revocation?
Because they could (theoretically) have issued certificates to people wo were not entitledto them - if you submit a list of domains and 'accidentally' included a Microsoft sub-domain in the list their old process wouldn' have picked it up.
So, safer to revoke all the certs and get people to renew - and that will pick up the wrongly-issued ones.
Demanded isn't necessarily getting.
As anyone who has ever played a mining/manufacturing character in Eve Online knows very well. No - I'm not going to sell you the 100m worth of Vexor Navy issue for 100 ISK. I'd rather list it at a specific price and wait for someone realistic to come along and buy it..
required to do a new test in a "pseudo assembler"
My first (proper) job we had to do that in an aptitude test. My wifeand I both passed easily and went on to the interview stage. She aced that because she didn't really care about getting the job and so was relaxed. I failedthe interview (I was really nervous and the person asking the questions had a really strong Swiss accent and I kept having to ask him to repeat the question..).
They phoned up and offered my wife the job. When she discoveredthat they were not going to offer me the job she told them that she wasn't prepared to work there unless I also got a job there. We both started there 3 weeks later..
I'm entirely happy to have got tha job as the result of my wife pulling some strings!
(As it was, I left after 6 years - she stayed there until they closed the UK hosting and programming centre about 5 years later)
I was subjected to one of those stupid and completely non-scientific multiple choice personalilty tests
I've done those (at various places) they seem predicated on asking the same question in multiple different ways to try and catch you out.
Which doesn't work if you are pretty intelligent and also have a lot of years experience playing tabletop RPGs. We used to amuse ourselves by doing them multiple times and trying to be in a differentcategory each time.
Pretty much any rock star of the 60's/70's
On the first Genesis tour of the US, the record company hired private investigators to follow this (then unknown) British 'rock' band.
Report was summed up as "two operatives have died of boredom and another is going to join them..". I'm sure there are prog rock types who do lots of illegal things but I suspect it's mostly in the direction of psycoactive substances (cf Roy Wood).
we don't seem to have reached a consensus yet
Ditto for the results of 'experiments' conducted by Mengele and his ilk (both the Japanese and the Soviets had their own versions and we don't exactly have clean hands either).
Should they be kept in the annals of modern medicine despite their source or should te be rejected? My vote is for the former, if only as a memorial to the sufferings of the victims.
I could never hear the lyrics for some of his stuff properly
It's Peter Gabriel - his lyrics weren't meant to make sense.. Certainly not in the Genesis era[1] and immediately afterwards..
(In the interests of full disclosure - Genesis were, and mostly still are, my favourite band[2] and the first, second, third and fourth records I bought were by them. When PG left I think it was good for both him and them.)
[1] For evidence I present the song "It" from Lamb lies down on Broadway". 35 years later I *still* don't know what it's about..
[2] And I stll can't listen to "Follow yu, follow me" without vomiting. It's the worst song they ever did. Boring, boring, boring. Best album is probably "Wind and Wuthering". Then Steve Hackett left and the musical direction changed pretty drastically. Still made damn fne music though.
Many years ago (2001? Maybe) we stood up a new server room in our offices in France (which acted as a European hub). Lots of Sun boxen and a few PC-type servers.
All was plugged in, configured and working. What we didn't know was the the server room aircon was tied into the building aircon management and shut off during out-of-hours..
We arrived the next morning to find that the server room was doing a good imitation of an oven (50C) and almost everything was shut down. Once the room was cool enough, we managed to get the switches up and then sequentially bought up the Sun boxes. Most came up fairly cleanly - the shutdown had been caused by a thermal warning and, in most cases had happened cleanly.
The PC server boxes and the Sparc storage arrays however were basically toasted. The SSA chassis was OK but the majority of the SCSI drives had so many errors as to be unusable - fortunately, since they had just been provisioned, there was very little data on them and we could just get new drives.
Most of the PC servers had to be replaced.
There was an amount of French-type shouting going on at a senior level afterwards.
In some states they can take any money you have in an account if there is no activity for three years
Wasn't that sort of thing a contributory cause for the colonial rebellion you guys had? Something about "unreasonable searches and seizures"?
Next they'll be quartering US Marines in your house..
again in 1688 for the "Glorious Revolution "
Paraphrasing Gibbon here (about the Holy Roman Empire): The Glorious Revolution was neither glorious nor a revolution - it was a (mostly) bloodless coup by a foreign king to take over England from the anointed (but unfortunately Catholic) monarch. Said foreign king happened to be married to said monarchs daughter but that was the extent of his claim to the throne (apart from the fact that he and said daughter were Protestant). It was directly followed by the law that no Catholic can inherit the throne (which is still in place)
It mde the populace fairly happy (no-one wants to be ruled by a Catholic right? Apart from the Catholics..) but they really didn't participate much (although quite a few nobles did).
It was as much a revolution as the whole Stephen/Matilda debacle but just with a much, much lower body count.
doesn't the USA in some sense control the Internet and all domains?
Nope. .uk domains are controlled by Nominet (A UK company) who manage the .uk TLD. And, since the various root servers are scattered around the world it would take *very* drastic action for the US to impose control..
Mene, mene, tekel uparsin..
(Original writing on the wall - roughly translated "you have been weighed in the balance and been found wanting. Your kingdom has been taken away and given to another" - in this case the Persians. If only the same would hppen to Facebook (not th Persians though - although the thought of Iran owning Facebook does engender a wry smile at the thought of Trump hearing the news..)
knowledge of 70's prog rock
Then you should know that Ian Anderson was insistent that the Jack in the Green was plural and should properly be called Jacks in the Green.
Mine's the one with the original version of "Bursting Out" in the pocket. You know - the one with the bit of toilet humour elided from the remastered version..
Guaranteed to need three pulls to get the bugger to move
And when it did you only got the bit you were holding because the water on your hands had soaked into the towel and made it too soggy to pull out..
Mind you, I despise the handblowers as well. Need a proper conceirge service to provide proper towels and change them regularly.
I wonder if I should look out of the windscreen for a bit...
Reminds me of the Heinlein qote (is Starship Troopers?) about an armoured space marine having their head bashed in by a caveman with a rock because they were too busy tryingto read the displays in their helmet..
The moral being that if you are doing something dangerous, maintaining situational awaress is a Good Thing.
My car has a number of self driving features
Mine has one - a specific feature on my must-have list: Adaptive cruise control.
Which is great (most of the time) but meas I have to adapt my driving style (including not driving into the system detection zone for other cars if they are moving significantly slower than me).
Most of the other stuff (lane keeping and lane departure warning for example) I've turned off.
how you detect fileless malware in memory without scanning memory
You watch what processes are trying to do - most malware follows a similar pattern of actions so something trying to do the pattern (or smething close to it) might be malware. So, at the very least, you can pop up a prompt for the users saying that "process xxx is doing odd things, shall I terminate it?"
I'm working here on the assumption that most linux users are vaguely tech-savvy..
account the SOOOOO many ways to prove earth is round
Even the ancient Greeks (who didn't believe in the scientific method particularly) were able to prove that theworld was round - and, by using fairly simple geometry, work out a pretty close estimate for the size.
It's coming to somthing when a modern, educated person has regressed to position less rational than the ancient Greeks.
alter of Bishop Usher and his dating method
It often amuses me to point out to rabid young-earthers (most of whom are Protestant) that ther foundation lies on the words of a 16th century Irish Catholic archbishop..
It's a shock to most of them. As is the news that, prior to Usher, most denominations had no problem at all with and old Earth. And some of us still don't..
Honestly, what can one say?
"Get yourself a good study Bible, a good concordance and something like Strongs[1]. And discard all you have been told in preference for doing your own study[2]. Oh - and don't bother looking at the Internet"
[1] A literal translation that also gives the original Hebrew/Greek/Aramaic words.
[2] One intereesting thought is that the 6 'days'[3] mentioned in Genesis refer to mass extinctions.
[3] Word used also means 'times'. Just like the word translated as 'morning' literally means "starting" and "evening" is "ending".
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