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* Posts by YTC#1

9 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Mar 2017

Boat biz breaches itself: Brittany Ferries 'fesses up to leaks caused by routine website update

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As someone who's passport has been scanned and copied at many borders and hotel check ins around the world, passport details are not one of my major concerns.

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Containers have security problems and flexibility issues. VMs will make them viable

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Missing "container" option

The article fails to mention Solaris Zones, which are essentially containers. These allow branded versions whereby older versions of Solaris can be run (ie S10 on an S11 system) and Kernel Zones that allow other levels of S11 or different patch levels to be run within a S11 instance (and then allow zones within that KZ).

With ZFS datasets delegated the zone gets a high level of control over storage.

If you don't like Oracle, then there are other options available via the illumos https://www.illumos.org/ (opensolaris) route.

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British Army adopts WhatsApp for formal orders as coronavirus isolation kicks in

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Re: SIGINT anyone?

I had to read a long way down before finding the 1st post that mentioned some of the options available, that were probably more sensible.

What should also be consider is Next Cloud. This has it's own add in messenger, is also available on Android and Iphone/Pad. Plus, it can be run on their own servers. (if they have not been farmed out to 3rd party US firms)

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C'mon SPARCky, it's just an admin utility update. What could possibly go wrong?

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Solaris 10 introduced a "that is / , don't be silly" built in override to reduce the numotyness.

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What do we want? A proper review of IR35! When do we want it? Last year! Bunch of IT contractors protest outside UK Parliament

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Re: I know of some that have already accepted contracts outside of the country

And we still have that right until 31/11

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GlaxoSmithKline ditches IR35 contractors: Go PAYE or go home

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Re: Killing the Goose that lays the Golden Eggs

Assuming he is a UK citizen. Moving to Europe will shortly not be an option for him.

And obtaining s US work visa is another mine field.

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Motorola: Oops, phone busted? Grab a spudger and go get 'em, champ

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Re: I think my next phone will be a Motorola

This story sounds great, until it transpires that Motorola/Lenovo are currently "bricking" phones, and it is the fault of the user for having the temerity to repair their phones (ie a replacement screen).

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Moto-G5S-Moto-G5S-Plus/Just-updated-my-G5S-to-Oreo-touch-screen-has-stopped-working/

There is a growing number of bricked phones, they work fine with Android 7. As soon as an upgrade to Android 8 is performed the touch screen fails to work.

Shades of Apple ???

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Apache OpenOffice: We're OK with not being super cool... PS: Watch out for that Mac bug

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You moan about MacOS

Think about how us Solaris users feel.

We can thank SFE, http://sfe.opencsw.org , for keeping us going.

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UK.gov gears up for IR35 private sector crackdown – say industry folk

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As my company's sole employee, I get unlimited leave, paid sickness, technically gapless employment (for the days/weeks I don't work I still get a wage), my company pays for my training and will supply me with security for the next 90 days (standard for anyone working for a large company). The only thing I don't get is a pension paid for me.

But then again, I don't tend to stay in any one place for a long term, the majority of my work is weeks in length not years. I (and others) are not doing anything illegal.

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