Posts by Geronimo!

Re: What about the Winter sun

Driving a new Opel (Vauxhall) Insignia with all those nice and helpful toys onboard, I can confirm: Being blinded by the sun is no fun of you're the driver. My ACC (Adaptive Cruise Control) does recognise the car in front of me w/o any issue an slows down to match the speed.

Or hits the brake and warns you - that happend once as well. Fun, if the car in front of you has no working brake lights and you are blinded by the sun...

Re: Fake news

Rumour has it, we even ride bikes, grow tulips, eat cheese and smoke funny herbs all the time.

Re: Not impressive. But then again if you're a sysadmin how would *your* company fair ?

I could've replaced DHS with the name of my current customer ... and it'd be spot on.

Re: Is this the same in other large corporations?

I can only confirm Big_D's story from my own experience:

27 years spent with the smallest companies (3-4) and big enterprises (300k):

The only sexual harassment case, that I have seen / experienced so far, was in the Army.

(Funny story, where I was the apparent offender first and then became the victim)

Everywhere else:

Yes, "funny" comments about women were being made, when no female was around.

But I have never, ever seen or heard of men behaving like that.

Seeing the difference between Europe / UK and US / Canada - you might start to think, there's a massive cultural difference there...

Re: Wow.... just... wow!

So far, they have not even been able to prohibit Windows 10 from contacting home base.

And Telekom and Co want you to believe, that they have completely cut of any access for MS?

I have severe doubts there.

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Behoerden-ignorieren-Sicherheitsbedenken-gegenueber-Windows-10-3971133.html shows what's wrong here: Not even the German government could "persua<de" MS to stop hoarding data. And yet, we're led to believe the Deutsche Telekom did?

(Couldn't find the English article)

Na, don't think so.

Re: This R-type Evolutionary (Left) Psychology is poisonous in a competitive environment!

WTF?!

You actually believe this yourself, don't you?

Women: Reproduce, that's all you've been destined for? Male: Superior in every way imaginable (Apart from breeding...)?

The issue at hand is plain and simple:

If we'd treat every single human being as equal and would not be a misogynist, racist nutcase like ... (Fill in the dots yourself please), then yes, we might still see certain groups (Be it gender- or race-based) being represented more in certain professions.

But then one could say, it is because these people were actually fitter to do the job.

As long as companies rather hire white males for leadership roles and asians for tech jobs (You almost would assume such) etc. - we'll need to make sure that other groups will get their share.

If we're not grown up enough to share and be non-biased, then parenting is needed, which is what a decent government does (should do) in such cases.

Re: IQ tests

Nope.

Never taken a real IQ test, have you?

Yes, you can improve your score by practising. And by practising you do what exactly?

Ah, okay, I'll answer that for you: You practise your skills to solve certain problems, you read up on common knowledge ... and yes, that improves your IQ too.

I call bullsh*t

The axe-wielder was no right winger, but apparently a man with severe mental disorder. (Well, yes, that might apply to one of two of these rightwing dicks too, but for the rest: neither stupidity nor ignorance are mental disorders).

The lorry driver was an ISIS terrorist.

To prevent radicalisation, you'll need education first.

But since you can't lock them kids in schools 24/7, you need to have an overview of the places where these kids are the rest of the time.

Making sure that hate speech etc. is not being seen as "normal" (It's been on facebook now for weeks, so can't be anything wrong with it) but is being removed and acted upon, will send a clear signal: If it's unlawful, it gets deleted and the author will be held responsible for that.

True: This will only help so much, but it is a start.

By the way: being a German citizen myself: I do not feel bothered one bit. Might be because I received a proper upbringing, learnt to think for myself and check facts before believing what someone else tells me. Having reported rightist hate speech to FB and Twitter several times, not once these posts were reacted upon, not even where threats to healt or life were written in the comments.

According to the message from FB, this was not in conflict with the FB guidelines...

Re: That's degrading...

Having spent 6 years as a Dutch infantry soldier, receiving a lot of "coaching" from our special forces colleagues, to me -as to many of my male colleagues- the acceptance of female colleagues was one of the best decisions made.

Yes, they (sometimes ... not always!) lacked our physical strength, but they often proved a better mental strength than many of my male colleagues (Including myself ever so often) during long confinements, manoeuvres or generally stressful situations (days, if not weeks, in a 2mx4m trench tends to get to your nerves somehow).

Not to mention an absolute improvement in culture, since most men do behave more civilised in the company of a woman: Nobody getting out his best parts in public to remove "the cheese" and more things like that.

In combat, you are a part of a team, where everybody has its tasks. Yes, it's more likely that the female in an armoured infantry group will be gunner, driver or commander and she' probably not be the one dragging MAG, ammo or the AT weapons. But she might be the medic, recon or pioneer.

And to be honest: If I had gotten shot, I'd rather have a female medic next to me, than the bulky MG colleague.

She might not be able lift me up and drag me 20 miles to base (How many men can actually do that? Ever tried to run with a 80kg person, next to 30-40kg of equipment (Twice!) on your back?), but she'll be able to stop the bleeding, thus improving my chances to get out alive, at a time where support is near.

Re: Ç'est incroyable ñ'est-ce-pas*.

I didn't even notice the missing "?". I did notice the ~ on the n though, which shouldn't be there.

Re: OpenStack Vapourware?

For all Cloud-Plattforms: It's never something which you "just install" and it's up & running.

Starting with defining a test-scope, setting up a test-environment and then actually putting it through tests (and the latter two can and should be repeated several times) installing and configuring a (Test)Cloud environment is a matter of weeks, if not months.

It all begins with deciding what you actually want to achieve with implementing OpenStack, CloudStack, Ovirt, Proxmox etc. etc. etc.

For my company, I have now invested several months in Apache CloudStack, as it seems to suit my needs and still have things I need to test and investigate.

So, it's no vapourware. But it needs quite a lot of input.

(To get a grasp of Cloudstack: They have a quick setup for a single server under Cent OS 6 on their website.)

Re: It's "Kontoauszugsdrucker"

You beat me to it, Rainer ;)

Re: Govts needs to get a grip on it and now

Would be a good idea, weren't it for certain Asian countries to not give a sh*t about those rules and "building" (badly copying) vulnerable IoThingies and selling them.

The amount of pirated and illegal "copies" you can buy on Amazon, Ebay and co is astonishing.

And even if other governments find out about these things being sold and banning the device or even the manufacturer: They'll just rebrand them and sell them anyway.

So, yes: responsibility should be with the manufacturer, providing secure IoThings. But main culprit is the horrendous ignorance, carelessness and plain stupidity "users" with which behave when it comes to AllThingsInternet.

Virusscan? Don't need it,

Use a firewall? No, I have nothing to hide.

Buying music? No, I'll download some malware-infected RAR-File, that's cheaper

Pay more money for decent appliances? Hell no, this (mostly Asian) costs only 1/10th and does exactly the same...

Re: Running vCenter VM on the cluster it's managing...

Hmmm, in case of a redeployment somewhere else, I'd have put out the first node in the new building, even if it'd be with local storage only.

Migrate the vCenter over there and then move over the other nodes.

I'm biased ... and I know it. So I can work around it.

@ DougS

Both as a freelancer and as an employee I have been put through tests or had to show and discuss technical cases, solve test cases.

Prepare a few VMs with deliberate mis-configurations (Boot, network, etc) and you'll be able to see how somebody works or is able to solve a problem.

Ask questions. If the applicant starts bragging immediately, ask nasty questions.

So many options here, to see if the applicant is fit for the job (and not afraid to get into a discussion with the boss-to-possibly-be)

Now, being an employer myself, my wife and I have agreed upon the following:

CVs will be anonymised by her, so only the experience and education part remains.

Any hint on gender, religion, disability or "race" (how I detest this word) are removed.

Why? Because I am biased. I will probably treat applications from men older than me, people with "exotic" names or hobbies I don't like, the same.

I don't like that about me, as there are other things I don't like about me.

And I can work on those, try to change them, but that'll take time. So my wife (Procura in our company) takes care of that.

Funny that: I recall getting billed by Microsoft -as a German company- charging the 22% Irish VAT, as opposed to the 19% or -later on- 21% German VAT.

I am not sure what the bills from Apple state at the moment.

Re: Well at least

You're holding it wrong!

Given the quite care-free way they worked, at least in the beginning, I would not be surprised if they actually did so from their home IPs. Apart from that: It is to be seen how they used to pay the bills of these Usenet-Providers. Might very well be, that PayPal will be adressed as next instance to give out the data of these users.

Re: Great brown globs couldn't possibly be sweeter

Add bacon!

Re: Interested in your opinion...

Here, have an upvote.

And thank YOU for a superb comment!

Re: Grey area

I've been a customer of at least 10 different banks here in Germany, business and private, over the last 20 years. Only 2 or 3 of those actually wrote their online banking can work with card readers. 2 even offered card readers in their shop, somewhere around € 30-35.

Yes, in NL it's a default completely.

Can't say if NL is more secure or pays less in total for fraud damages.

Re: Schiller:

On a side note: The gender stays the same (Female). The article changes due to the word "Mit" (with) in front of "Dummheit", causing it to change from Nominativus to Dativus.

Re: Meanwhile in Germany...

Try doing all those things in the Netherlands...

1) 120 or 130 on all free ways, as opposed to no speed limit in Germany

2) Rural areas max 80km/h as opposed to 100km/h in Germany

3) Pictures are taken from behind ... so you'll find out that you were gotten if the "congratulations" letter drops in your mailbox.

4) trajectory control: You get photographed at the beginning and at the end of a trajectory. If your average speed is above the limit, you'll get fined. This kind of control is not (yet) allowed in Germany

5) Prices are way higher in NL than in DE

You're seeing it too black & white.If Brexit happens the EUR will go down too, for sure. Nevertheless trade between UK and Europe will continue, be it under different regulations.

GDP PC will drop by ~1.5%, which would destroy -for instance- the growth of Germany (1.7% last year) ... but that would be about it.

If all connections and trade 'd be cut. So, yes, it will be a small set back for the EU, but we'll manage...

Re: My biggest concern

No ... no, spot on, me thinks.

So what if the drop arms would be bearing Aussies, then my mobile phone goes *bang*? Provided I am neither in the USA, wearing full body odour, nor in the UK, quoting 17th century laws made by Dutch princes, killing bears and snakes with the 2nd Amendment.

Innit?

Re: Owned by BMW, Audi and Daimler

Ooohh...good one!