buffoon

10 ms·

31.
by buffoon 11y ago
Been there, literally. Can confirm the experience, although I didn't get any sedatives at all as some of them cause my blood pressure to drop rapidly. Actually I was just uncomfortable for the 10 minutes it took but it wasn't bad
32.
by buffoon 11y ago
I have kids. I'm already there.
33.
by buffoon 11y ago
WinRM dropouts when building images in packer, random failures that are unexplained, network not coming up in vagrant, consistency. I've partially written my own version of it in powershell and Hyper-V now.
34.
by buffoon 11y ago
Wonder if this attempt will work properly with windows unlike packer and vagrant. Path issues, unreliable builds, ugh. This isn't the portability promise I expected.
35.
by buffoon 11y ago
Still use one of them myself. Korg Triton :)
36.
by buffoon 11y ago
No there is not.
37.
by buffoon 11y ago
Just remember when you contract something out to a third party, you're not subject to their SLA level but their general level of competence. This can be quite a bit lower than the SLA, even if they are high profile or expensive. If you
38.
by buffoon 11y ago
Dedicated servers. Even for cheap dedicated servers the support was crap. 6 days to change a blown disk for example...
39.
by buffoon 11y ago
I've never heard a good story about OVH. I've moved three clients away from them in the last 2 years after they were crapped upon by OVH. Their support is terrible and there are constant problems. They're trying but just not
40.
by buffoon 11y ago
And today I learn about Terry Davis, TempleOS and showdead. Moderation and censorship is a travesty online. Fortunately showdead allows us to bypass it somewhat.
41.
by buffoon 11y ago
The first 15 years of my life in the 1970s and 1980s was spent going in and out of London to various hospitals on trains. No. Absolutely not. It's much better now. Orders of magnitude better. Every train was late. There were engineerin
42.
by buffoon 11y ago
11 ... ok +5 ... easy x itself ... ugh. more coffee. divide by 7 ... TI83 slides out of desk drawer Actually it's really fun - thanks :)
43.
by buffoon 11y ago
Perhaps I'm older than you but it's been the same in my mind since the 1980s at least. My father informs me earlier. At least we have the joys of privatized services now (I'm serious). They are an order of magnitude better th
44.
by buffoon 11y ago
There are definite bad ways. I've watched a few companies go down the shitter using known bad ways.
45.
by buffoon 11y ago
Time to have another bash I think. She might take to a G4 Mac Mini over a full sized G5 as well ;-)
46.
by buffoon 11y ago
High profile companies seem to have a privilege complex I.e. you're lucky to be working for them.
47.
by buffoon 11y ago
Debian was a complete dick on my old ppc g4. It sort of put me off. The was going to try FreeBSD but I have to persuade the wife to let me buy a g5 yet as they're large, noisy and entirely unnecessary. I just want one to play with and
48.
by buffoon 11y ago
Yep. 2005 G5 powermac. Totally usable machine. Can get a dual 2.5GHz boz with 4Gb of RAM for equivalent $40 in the UK. But no, it's stuck on OSX 10.5...
49.
by buffoon 11y ago
"Done is better than perfect" "Move fast and break things" I'm glad they're not holding any critical data like our personal information, what we do, what we think and where we are then! If this set of slides em
50.
by buffoon 11y ago
The problem is that models rarely replicate reality for very long. I live in a particularly troublesome bit of London and they used some mathematical analysis to optimise traffic light timings in the area and celebrated that it was as succe
51.
by buffoon 11y ago
This is a major thing for us. We've got half a ton of stuff on AWS which is being moved back to physical kit at the moment. Turns out the cloud is a geopolitical risk and being in finance in Europe, our data protection regulations and
52.
by buffoon 11y ago
stares at the large pile of dell XPS machines that are dead in the corner of the office .... Not quite there yet...
53.
by buffoon 11y ago
The privacy changes, the license changes, the authentication changes, the cloud lock in, the general unreliability of it, the fucked up updates, the poor GPO support, the enterprise updates and LTS picture, the ad-supported default apps, th
54.
by buffoon 11y ago
There is plenty of discussion out there and no conclusive results. However there is a vague set of privacy notes in an EULA, a dodgy looking agreement between the EU and US over data export/sharing, data shooting out even if everything
55.
by buffoon 11y ago
And completely ignore you, you know like Apple circa 1994-1997...
56.
by buffoon 11y ago
The marketing of "we are sorry and we are listening to our users" which turned out to be a load of crap when Windows 10 came out turned me off to any promises made in the future.
57.
by buffoon 11y ago
Do they deserve a chance to explain if it's there or not? Probably not. They're off our purchasing list. Problem is: now what? Hardware vendors have all turned to crap in the last 5 years. Lenovo ships crapware and poor quality ki
58.
by buffoon 11y ago
I don't think Musk has proven anything yet but has given people some hope that things are certainly possible. I genuinely don't believe we need electric cars though at all. We need less travel and transport and redistribution of f
59.
by buffoon 11y ago
I agree with him. Billionaires are prescriptive. "I will solve this problem". It doesn't hurt to ask what problems need solving. Ultimately this just isn't altruism but it is promoted as whilst people are in deep shit al
60.
by buffoon 11y ago
I've had inssider running, channel hopped, tried three different routers (netgear, router board, Asus) to no avail. I've tried several client devices too from high end centrino, apple and Motorola kit. I don't stream any medi

More ›