VSpike

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by VSpike 10y ago
For me, probably dwm. I almost forget that I'm using it, but in a good way. It has merged with my muscle-memory and never, ever fails.
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by VSpike 11y ago
I can't comment on Google, but we pay for AWS business support ($100 per month currently) and we can raise as many support tickets as we like and get nearly instant access to an engineer. Also, the quality of the support has been amazi
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by VSpike 11y ago
We've been using Proxmox VE ( https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page ) in production for a while. It's open source and free, and is a tweaked Debian with KVM/QEMU virtualization and also LXC container s
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by VSpike 11y ago
We (UK business) have a contractor who is ex-IBM and who says it all the time. It annoyed me at first but I've got used to it. That was the first time I'd heard it, but now I've become aware of it, I notice it a lot more.
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by VSpike 11y ago
At least it appears that there is actually a filling station to show for the money. I worked with people that worked in Afghanistan as contractors for the US and UK governments and they told me that often millions would spent on building a
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by VSpike 11y ago
Yeah, Delphi needs to die. I used it for a long time, and it was an excellent product for developing Windows applications when compared to the main alternatives, i.e. Visual C++ with MFC (the horror!) or VB6. It was fast, efficient, easy to
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by VSpike 11y ago
Me too. I have a real fascination for this Cambrian period of computing, even though I came into it via the strange world of home computers (Sinclair). By the time I got my hands on business computers, Wintel had won. I saved an S-100 machi
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by VSpike 11y ago
Same. Running Arch, my display driver had some kind of attack of the vapours and I had to reboot the box blind. Fun!
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by VSpike 11y ago
In the case of LinkedIn, the world might have been a better place if they'd never shipped at all.
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Container integration in systemd(0pointer.net)
1 points by VSpike 11y ago|0 comments
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by VSpike 12y ago
Always nice to have more alternatives, but I find either http://bliker.github.io/cmder/ (a tricked out console with a nicely tweaked git bash environment) or http://babun.github.io/ (Cygwin but easier
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by VSpike 12y ago
I was told by a Dell person (via the chat thing, naturally) that it would be released in about a week. If I bought either the Windows model or the official Linux one I'd wipe it and install Debian or Arch or Mint, but I'd still pr
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by VSpike 12y ago
404 on my work Google Apps account.
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by VSpike 12y ago
I get this on my personal Google account, but our work Google Apps account doesn't show the change. I'd guess it's rolling out gradually, presumably with GA work customers getting it last.
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by VSpike 12y ago
I recently had to compare AWS and Azure for my company. I limited my comparison to AWS c3 and c4 class instances versus mid-range A and D class instances. I did some of my own quick benchmarks here http://browser.primatelabs.com&
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by VSpike 12y ago
Agreed. When I was looking at cloud providers recently I noticed that most of them make a claim along the lines of "$X percent of {Fortune 500,FTSE 100} companies use $OURPRODUCT" where $X is > 50%. My conclusions were:- * Most
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by VSpike 12y ago
I live in a tech bubble, but I see a pretty even distribution of iOS vs. Android devices. Is this a US versus Europe thing, perhaps? Android phones and tablets seem pretty popular among UK geeks - at least as much as iOS. In fact, I frequen
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by VSpike 12y ago
I was wondering if vCloud Director and vSphere Web UI were the same thing. From your comment, I infer that they aren't - is that right? I'm currently trying to build out virtual infrastructure on a trial from a preferred supplier
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by VSpike 12y ago
The headline made me think they were offering IRC bouncers (e.g. ZNC) as a service which might have been slightly interesting. Sadly, the reality was much less fun.
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by VSpike 12y ago
The radios in Nokia phones were always superb. I live in an area of poor mobile coverage [known as "the UK" ;)] and Nokia phones were amazing at operating reliably in marginal signal conditions. The last Nokia I had was an N95 whi
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by VSpike 13y ago
Reminds me of RISCOS more than a little.
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by VSpike 13y ago
"I know the feeling working on a team where everyone clicks and things just get done. What I don’t understand is why I had that feeling a lot more in the bad old days of BDUF and business analysts than I do now." I suspect it&#x27
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by VSpike 13y ago
I started looking at Salt and really liked what I saw, but the first task I had to do was to provision some Windows Servers on Rackspace or AWS and configure them. Like the other commenter, I wish I didn't have to deal with Windows but
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by VSpike 15y ago
Unsure why this is hacker news?
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by VSpike 16y ago
Trumpet was a fantastic piece of software. Strangely, I was only talking about it a couple of days ago. Happy to donate for the hundreds of hours I spent online with it, and the fun I had creating dialup scripts in it.