jlawer

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by jlawer 10y ago
Rosetta was mostly painless because the raw performance of the Intel chips were multiples of the G4 chips in the macs (especially considering most systems doubled the available core count). Even so Creative Suite was slower as high performa
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by jlawer 10y ago
First Owned by John von Neumann.... Now that is a find.
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by jlawer 10y ago
Running co-located servers for email & web (marketing services). We amortise the cost to $3k a month ($1k hardware, $2k colo/transit) over 5 years. Total CAPEX was $65k AUD 5 years ago including the warrenty. That gives us 3 Nodes
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by jlawer 10y ago
Not sure where it is in the US / rest if world, but in Australia the point of demarcation for residential houses is the 1st phone point, so any issues in the line are almost certainly the telco's problem.
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by jlawer 10y ago
Yes, because my phone charger is going to supply 90W.....
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by jlawer 10y ago
Depends if you can replicate to S3 and spin up as a DR site when you need it, you will be paying for it, but it shouldn't kill the bank for the corps who would look at this. That would be the killer use case, to use AWS low cost storag
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by jlawer 10y ago
The intel CPUs have pretty good thermal management. I suspect what will happen is the CPU will just start throttling itself to cool down if you kept making the OS spin down the fans. Even back in the P4 days there were videos of people ripp
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by jlawer 10y ago
With the shift to utf8mb4, are indexes / keys still stored as the maximum possible length (ie length *4 bytes)? and is the maximum key length still ~750 bytes? I asked some of my developers to look into converting to utf8mb4 from utf8
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by jlawer 10y ago
Office of ~ 15 macs here, all machines within 4 years old. It seems the Magsafe 2 chargers are failing at a MUCH higher rate then the old side mount Magsafe 1 chargers. All fraying around the T Magsafe connector. I have just had to order 3
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by jlawer 11y ago
I am curious if this was caused by the export restrictions on Xeon & Xeon Phi chips to the Chinese government due to the concerns about their super-computers. If that is the cause, it could be interesting as we may end up with AMD (and
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by jlawer 11y ago
Would be really surprised if OVH hit Australia before Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong or Taiwan, but crazier things have happened. Something worth monitoring, thanks.
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by jlawer 11y ago
Hadn't heard of Vultr, but they look awesome and prices appear right. BGP is an awesome feature for my use case (mail), but unfortunately 32gb instances aren't available in Sydney and one of the virtual appliances I run have that
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by jlawer 11y ago
GCP is a non-starter for us due to Region support. No Australia, Singapore or even US west regions means that latency is too high. CDN / caching can make web performance acceptable, but service performance will always suffer. Unfortuna
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by jlawer 11y ago
I imagine this is more talking about Word 6 and Office 97 then the later versions. The 2000 upgrade was forced by the aim of making the office XML files the new standard as opposed to the competing OASIS (OpenOffice) standard.
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by jlawer 11y ago
I believe that the xbox one doesn't emulate for backwards compatibility, instead it downloads a new version of the executable that was built for x86 and uses the game content from the original disks.
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by jlawer 11y ago
I am an "Infrastructure Engineer" by job title, but really I am a jack of all trades. Many people working in small business need to wear many hats. You can be deep on a single area (specialist) or be spread out (generalist). Large
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by jlawer 11y ago
My understanding is not directly, however it could be argued that they were encouraging the end user to break the EULA on the product and thus interfering in the contract between apple and the end user. Different legal systems would view it
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by jlawer 11y ago
iOS doesn't allow apps to be installed outside a few apple controlled processes without a JailBreak. I don't think Amazon would want to launch a product dependent on JailBreaking. Unless Apple is forced to provide an API for alter
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by jlawer 11y ago
Red Hat have a very good guide for RHEL / CentOS: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterp... NSA have also put out some good hardening guides
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by jlawer 11y ago
Due to the speed limitation of the Serial interface, I wonder if you could run the 3com card with low enough resources to do the emulation. Not real networking, I am thinking more of embedding requests into raw ethernet packets with a direc
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by jlawer 11y ago
The big one is ECC memory.
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by jlawer 11y ago
Heroku is a PaaS offering that offers its key value in that it provides a simple environment that caters to a lot of workloads. The way it does this is make many decisions for you. If your workload don't suit those decisions they may b
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by jlawer 11y ago
Delphi was so powerful when Win32 rich clients were king. Pre 1998 the web was not a serious development target for applications for most people. Mac OS was on a pretty large downward spiral. Linux was still under the radar (and changing to
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by jlawer 11y ago
OS X Server is really a shell of the former product. It used to be a great small business / design studio server, but it has lost most of its use-case and I really question its use outside of a few Apple Device Management scenarios. Al
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by jlawer 11y ago
https://www.airbnb.com.au/guarantee
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by jlawer 11y ago
Well Airbnb claim to cover hosts : https://www.airbnb.com.au/guarantee and market themselves as such.
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by jlawer 11y ago
Looks awesome, Signed up for the beta and will give it a go with ~ 80 VMware VMs and a few bare metals boxes. I have been looking for something similar for the last year. I just hope that 1.) it is easily extensible (as there is no way it w
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by jlawer 12y ago
Not in .au
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by jlawer 12y ago
I wonder if this is more an effect that because a fewer number of women become leaders of the companies that the leaders they get are better then average. Similarly to how during World War 2 when African American pilots were finally allowed
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by jlawer 12y ago
I disagree. When you think of all the functions the vmware hypervisor has a range of features where it is quite far ahead of the competition including Fault Tolerance. vSphere is the management interface, its telling the vmkernel to do thin

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