billybofh

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by billybofh 11y ago
That might be due to restrictions on things regular companies/people can post in the UK. I used to work for $big_parcel_company and the list of things you weren't allowed to send was... interesting. Some made sense (bodily fluid
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by billybofh 11y ago
There's also an excellent old BBC dramatisation of this - and a few other good dystopian sci-fi's as part of the same strand called "Out of the Unknown". "Level Seven" and "Tunnel Under the World" a
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by billybofh 11y ago
Having been doing sysadmin duties for more years than I care to remember and having gone through the gradual process of manual configuration -> shell scripts -> cfengine -> puppet, I'd say despite problems in tools like puppet
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by billybofh 12y ago
Just curious if you've ever tried a non-GUI client like Mutt[1]. I used to love Mutt, but switched to Thunderbird at work as I was increasingly having to deal with a lot of attachments and it was just easier to handle with the GUI. A
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by billybofh 12y ago
I really liked him in the 1978 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077745/
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Hotel staffed by humanoid robots set to open in Japan this summer(ibtimes.co.uk)
2 points by billybofh 12y ago|0 comments
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by billybofh 12y ago
The choice of font is terrible...
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by billybofh 12y ago
I do quite a lot of what could be considered artistic photography, had exhibitions, been published etc - and I find film is just more beautiful than digital. A poetic point possibly, but when I'm making a piece of visual art that&#x27
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by billybofh 12y ago
One of our city-based HPC facilities has had a recurring fault where the aircon goes off for no obvious reason overnight. Eventually we figured out that a homeless guy had realised he could sleep above a vent from the aircon and be relativ
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by billybofh 12y ago
On another comic note : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YKvtX8E-v8
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by billybofh 12y ago
See also the 'Synod of Whitby' (Whitby is also famous for Dracula - I'm not sure if that's related, but if you're a goth or easter-history fan it's a great place to visit! ;-) : http://en.wikipedia.o
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by billybofh 12y ago
I have suffered a few commercial backup packages, and by and large they've been pretty grim to use. Veritas was the last one and (at the time) its interface was a horrid java lump combined with a fairly arcane backend of config file
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by billybofh 12y ago
Yikes - this took me right back to writing M68000 bootsector demo/loaders on my AtariST in the 80's. Happy times. I sometimes wish there was still more of that creative free-for-all spirit in todays UI's. To think of the c
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by billybofh 12y ago
I've been a longtime linux sysadmin (back into the 90's) and have run into similar issues as you. I've never had as many problems with basic system stuff as I have since testing some of the new systemd-defaulting distro&#x27
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by billybofh 12y ago
There's a really good O'Reilly book on this geared towards sysadmins (though I'm sure it applies to dev's etc). http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596007836.do Just following it for a short time ma
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by billybofh 12y ago
All this without docker? Their devops team is seriously behind the times...
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by billybofh 12y ago
It reads to me like it's going to do what OpenVZ has been doing for the past decade or so. Where would be be in IT without wheels needing re-invented?
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by billybofh 12y ago
I've used to to make an Ubuntu packaged app available on CentOS machines. The compile-from-source was a bit of a headache (lots of dependencies which also had to be compiled from source) so being able to deploy like this saved a lot o
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by billybofh 12y ago
I've got to maintain a couple of RHEL4 servers that have simulation software running on them that has never been ported forward (education - the people who wrote it have long since left). Though we also still have a couple of DEC Alph
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Aphex Twin on on a decade of unreleased music and drum-playing robots(rollingstone.com)
1 points by billybofh 12y ago|0 comments
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by billybofh 12y ago
That would diminish the usefulness of the map quite a bit. People will be interested in this on a ward-by-ward basis - I'm pretty sure. A small random 'shuggle' should be enough to help.
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by billybofh 12y ago
Do you have any plans to have a 'broadcast' mode where the person who creates the whiteboard is the only one who can draw on it? I can see itchy student fingers abusing it otherwise in a teaching context... ;-)
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by billybofh 12y ago
There was a related 'In Business' BBC Radio 4 programme on this subject last week - it was an interesting listen. You can download it here (possibly UK only - not sure) "In Business: Fast and Furious 7 Aug 2014" : http
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by billybofh 12y ago
There was also a pretty good BBC Radio dramatisation of it. Sadly, from a quick search, they don't seem to be selling it - but there are copies floating about online. Well worth a listen.
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by billybofh 12y ago
A really simple typo - but it's always stayed with me. Many years ago on a Very Important Solaris Box(TM) I wanted to check when it had rebooted a few months before, so typed "last | grep reboot". Only I forgot to put in the
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by billybofh 12y ago
I guess. Having a commercial version with a different name to push can't have helped the branding either.
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by billybofh 12y ago
Yeah, I realise it's place in LXC history. It still seems slightly odd that it's been kind of overlooked. It offered quite a lot (and still does) that I don't see replicated in any of the other container packages. At least
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by billybofh 12y ago
I'm always surprised that OpenVZ[1] doesn't come up more in discussions about containers. I used to use it extensively in for small lightweight VPS's (usually just an apache or mysql instance) and always found it to be pret
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by billybofh 12y ago
For me http://www.taps-aff.co.uk/ is usually the go-to site. Certainly a taps-aff kinda day!