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by jlawer 12y ago
This instructor doesn't feel that 25-50% is a fair split for the effort of teaching the course. Given that he is now selling the course directly most likely backs this up. I am not familiar with the specifics, but I think it would be h
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by jlawer 12y ago
The drives are expensive still, largely because the consumer level products no longer exist. Unfortunately a USB hard disk is the closest thing to backup that most consumers will touch. and for these that are serious other technologies tend
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by jlawer 12y ago
Can you not opt-out of it? In Australia a simple "No Junk Mail" sign on the mailbox makes it illegal to deliver junk mail. Mail that has gone through Australia Post that is individually addressed is legal (however now must include
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by jlawer 13y ago
I admit that I am not familiar with ARIN, but if it is anything like APNIC (Asia Pacific) then those big Class A Allocations are protected as legacy allocations. As such they are not required to give the legacy allocations up and its questi
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by jlawer 13y ago
There is no requirement for (historical) IP addresses allocations to be publicly routable. Unfortunately many companies own large allocations that they are quite rightly able to use for internal allocations. The only way they are going to g
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by jlawer 13y ago
In Australia gov (state & Federal) is now "Cloud First".
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by jlawer 13y ago
I never really worried about heart bleed with CBA as I figured if they were stung by it our consumer banking laws would pretty much effectively ensure that the bank wore the costs (at least until they could pass it on to a merchant). The ba
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by jlawer 13y ago
This is DANGEROUS advice. Email is typically one of the easiest channels to access. There are dozens of ways that someone can get access to your email, it shouldn't even remotely be considered secure. For low security content it can be
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by jlawer 13y ago
The airlines can, but they don't because if its not mandated they aren't likely to do it unless it is advantageous for them. There is an additional data recorder that operates like this the "Quick Data Recorder" designed
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by jlawer 13y ago
Most home Routers run their own DNS server. I came across this a lot back working as a mac support engineer. It used to be a common issue with older routers that too many DNS requests would kill the inbuilt DNS server, effectively preventin
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by jlawer 13y ago
The redhat model is really an outgrowth of the open source consulting model. If you look at smaller companies there are hundreds of projects that have spawned companies doing consulting, custom development and professional services. Red Hat
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by jlawer 13y ago
Normally I would agree with you but I think with a code base like slash code your going to end up having a lot more time free going back to something much simpler. Your going to spend ages dealing with little foibles with a code base that o
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by jlawer 13y ago
Seems to be starting from a technical place to replicate slashdot. Slashdot is a great site and the new beta sucks, however I would try and take what works (Curation & community (and historically moderation)). Slashdot kept its relevanc
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by jlawer 13y ago
You can't really change package managers (or at least the package format) on a linux distro effectively without installing a new OS. Yum and apt-get could be replaced as these are front ends, but trying an in place conversion of rpm to
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by jlawer 13y ago
Haiku actually seems to be trying to be something very different. The BeFS filesystem's use of metadata / extended attributes for one, very multi-threaded core libraries and GUI for others. The kernel is also different giving the
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by jlawer 13y ago
So a quick look through the github repo, it appears that Node OS is : 1.) New Init Process 2.) New Shell 3.) NPM as a package manager Not really an "OS" in the traditional terms, but not just a distro. It uses glibc like most othe
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by jlawer 13y ago
I think the problem is that if they missed a trademark then CentOS was distributing Redhat's Trademarks putting them in a sticky legal position.
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by jlawer 13y ago
I agree that there are ways to implement this. And perhaps they should (mind you from experience not all SSDs do this properly). I simple can't blame them for delivering what they say they are going to give me, even if they could have
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by jlawer 13y ago
Damn straight. If I have something important on a VM it is purged before issuing a destroy. I will overwrite the block device myself so I know it is empty. Why should I have to pay for DO to do the same again just because someone can't
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by jlawer 13y ago
I completely agree for the UI. For the API I think it is completely fine to have it not as default (In fact I would argue having a boolean controlling an optional action default to false for an API is the most correct action).
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by jlawer 13y ago
The bug in April was about the option not working. The feature now works if you use it. By design if you don't use it you don't wipe the disk (saving you money).
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by jlawer 13y ago
I would expect any sane large provider to zero the disks simply to make it easier to overcommit on the storage layer.
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by jlawer 13y ago
DO provide a single block device (so swap is on the same block device), that gets zeroed if you set the scrub data option.
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by jlawer 13y ago
If the hardware is spending its cycles on your workload, then it definitely makes it a reasonable choice. Its not like they can sell those cycles to someone else until your job is done. Besides we are not talking about a high margin busines
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by jlawer 13y ago
Why? If customers don't care enough about the data why should DO? DO is a budget provider. Their main hook was cheap SSDs, and is still cheap costs. They billable time it takes to wipe a VM adds to the cost. If you want the data zeroed
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by jlawer 13y ago
Talk about a link bait title. Its a bit hard to call it a leak,Its a configuration option that is well presented in the web UI. It is optional as it adds ~ 10 minutes of billing to the small 512mb VMs and as such it is optional if you do it
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by jlawer 13y ago
A few people have mentioned this but if your using a web based email service, then simple mark the email as spam. This will cause an Abuse Feedback Report to be sent to citibank, which should cause their server to automatically unsubscribe
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by jlawer 13y ago
While I think the Mac Pro is a nice bit of kit, it feel heavily specialised for video editing, post production and 3D work with a quiet profile. But if your speccing competing kit, why wouldn't you build a 'better' product, r
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by jlawer 13y ago
This brings back memories... I remember fresh out of high school following a few tutorials and writing a basic kernel & code for my old Pentium MMX and reading through the intel developer manuals for the 386 processor , and all the comp
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by jlawer 13y ago
I think the parent was predicting RAM, HDs & GPUs will become more expensive as more and more people buy off the shelf non-upgradable hardware. Without a large base to spread costs over, it will become a more and more specialised field.

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