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by setq 10y ago
Whilst bitching heavily about it earlier, I've got to be honest here. If they fix the people, mail and calendar app bugs, which they are doing rapidly, it destroys Apple and Google's offerings. I've only used them with an out
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by setq 10y ago
Yes. First thing I turned off.
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by setq 10y ago
Microsoft are telling us this. When they deliver it I'll believe it. As a Microsoft focused developer for 22 years and a windows phone user, everything still feels like its held together by sticky tape and string at the moment. It work
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by setq 10y ago
The moment they suggested installing remote control software on my kit, the interview would have been over.
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by setq 10y ago
Expect is great for persuading things, particularly poorly written Java monoliths that use text interactive installers, to play nicely with ansible. On more than one occasion it has been tasked with handling one. You run autoexpect first to
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by setq 10y ago
Call me cynical but this feels like another platform to be abandoned when no one buys them as per the old Windows ARM tablets. Those who bought them abandoned quickly. There will probably be a crazy restriction like App Store only. Oh and t
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by setq 10y ago
Yes. Incidentally when you get a nice fresh SAN for example, you can dd 20TiB volumes in a couple of seconds. Doesn't mean they have been written to.
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by setq 10y ago
Not all drives allocate all flash cells for storage. Some are metadata and some are spare so they wear leveling has some headroom. In fact if you use Samsung disks you can leave some headroom extra on the device to handle these scenarios.
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by setq 10y ago
This is true. However you have to trade off the risk of an entire volume failing due to a partial cell failure which would mean only the loss of a single file if it wasn't encrypted. This device was stored securely in a fire safe at ho
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by setq 10y ago
I actually used mole grips to powder the FLASH ICs.
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by setq 10y ago
I recently had a bout or two with Amazon over a relatively trivial issue. Simply that sold me a USB stick (Corsair Survivor) that fell to bits. Asked for a replacement to be sent out. They wanted me to send the old one back. I refused unles
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by setq 10y ago
I ignore it as my escape from the daily grind of computing is digging the soldering iron out and building some very minimal kit out of only discrete components. There is something fascinating about extreme minimalism. The fact it transmits
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by setq 10y ago
I do this. It's a curse. I don't know why.
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by setq 10y ago
Those who do understand it, just use it and ignore everyone else.
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by setq 10y ago
Zero to start with, now business. Business is "ok" - sometimes takes a couple of attempts to get someone who knows what they are talking about.
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by setq 10y ago
I wasn't complaining about that. I've had 2-3 day turnarounds on "everything is broken" events on normal AWS VPC. Always factor their support offering in as well.
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by setq 10y ago
You're capped at 20 instances as well by the looks. Plus you'll get AWS 'dog shit' support included which is hopeless. Will stick with Linode.
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by setq 10y ago
Definitely. If ever I have a hosed Linux machine, the wrangling with systemd, initramfs, grub2, mdraid and all the associated shenanigans fills me with dread. Sometimes it's easier just to reimage and restore. Free/OpenBSD get thi
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by setq 10y ago
This. RS and Farnell in the UK use parcel force and UPS respectively. The success rate for me is higher on stuff shipped from China. I've had some stuff from Leeds to London end up in Belgium for two days.
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by setq 10y ago
I was considering an upload gateway and administrative functions. You can't really just expose S3 on that scale.
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by setq 10y ago
Well they have your cash during the time between the purchase and the refund and may have a 20% no complaint rate so it might still pay to let them sell nothing.
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by setq 10y ago
I'd love that job too really. Well you can just point at Capita and say "it works better than their shit did".
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by setq 10y ago
Yeah pricing was awful. I remember someone playing £12k for a single PA RISC CPU option and when they cracked it open to have a look it was 95% heatsink. Cue the "bloody expensive heatsink" comments. It had about as much go as o
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by setq 10y ago
Lots of companies still have inbound dialin access for EDI stuff still running on POS systems from the 1990s. It's scary really.
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by setq 10y ago
Probably just a couple of HP DL380 G8's with SSD arrays on Linux would run rings around all that kit. Or a smallish EC2 instance and the whole of the rest in S3...
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by setq 10y ago
Indeed. AUI was a killer. We had a policy of turning it into 10base2 right away with an adaptor, then 10baseT when that became a thing. I liked this era so much I used to skip dive all the kit that was chucked out. Had myself a nice stacked
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by setq 10y ago
Probably a shared host. All the other sites are porn. Which makes the point about how ridiculous recording an IP address is.
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by setq 10y ago
A very valid and often ignored point.
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by setq 10y ago
Even worse as that's about as legitimate as it gets.
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by setq 10y ago
Excellent thanks for this - much appreciated. I dumped R# a few years back. It couldn't cope well with larger C# projects that I have to deal with and regularly hoses VS. Plus I spend a lot of time on Linux platforms so I don't wa

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