stewartm

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by stewartm 6y ago
I would be intrigued to know what happened with this one. Across well over a decade of using Apt on Debian, Ubuntu & Mint, the amount of times I have seen Apt crash, is never. By contrast I have seen Apt tasks fail leaving packages part
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by stewartm 7y ago
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1205/
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by stewartm 7y ago
You are definitely right that it is a fast moving target and hence can be frustrating to work with at the moment, particularly if you are trying to get it running on-prem. It is still relatively early days, and there is plenty of distillati
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by stewartm 7y ago
If you work for a business, are you not all 'business people'? In my working lifetime, having people occupying managerial roles that have zero relevant shop floor experience, has gone (or at least feels to have gone) from being th
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by stewartm 7y ago
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9407661B2/en
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by stewartm 7y ago
I love that Sound City doc - watched it a bunch of times. I was a studio engineer the same time as you, predominantly in a studio in Sheffield. I was blessed for the fact that the studio had an epic live room, fabulous collection of mics an
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by stewartm 7y ago
:) Had not spotted the humour section on gnu.org before. From the same site, the source code of ed: while :;do read x;echo \?;done -- https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.html
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by stewartm 7y ago
In the UK in general, you run into the back of someone, it is your fault in the eyes of the insurers. If you hit someone due to them brake checking, you were driving too close.
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by stewartm 7y ago
Getting out of telnet? Mere bagatelle compared to trying to get out of `ed` for the first time. At least Telnet attempts to tell you what to do. The defacto ed tutorial exactly predicts/describes my first encounter: https://
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by stewartm 8y ago
It never ceases to amaze me, that despite the pattern of behaviour, people continue to be willing to consider that Google/FAANGs/politicians/etc are just a bit thick and don't get it. (Not a dig incidentally, just that a
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by stewartm 8y ago
Errr ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11420790
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by stewartm 8y ago
Yep. 3AM, deep slumber, called out to look at a stricken server. Its problems included that systemd was frozen. Reluctantly I came to the conclusion that a restart was the only route forward. Cept, that is when you discover that the command
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by stewartm 8y ago
I have recently completed a project applying CIS to a clients estate. Whilst CIS is great, particularly if you are a large Org having to deal with auditors and the like, it can only be regarded as the bare minimum.
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by stewartm 8y ago
I can understand that. Humour is a matter of taste so I can't imagine they hit the mark 100% of the time for anybody, certainly they don't for me. However given the weariness derived from seeing the same kind of tech issues/f
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by stewartm 8y ago
You either need to read a lot more of The Reg, or none at all. The Reg is written with a certain brand of humour that is appreciated by a fair chunk of its tech readership. If you want a humour free version of the article, checkout the link
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by stewartm 8y ago
"Second, you can tell a lot about a product by how it makes money. Giving away vast amounts of storage creates data that can be sold to advertisers, with the inevitable result being that advertisers’ interests are prioritized over your
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by stewartm 8y ago
If it is a while since you last tried the switch, startpage is worth a go. I recently built a new laptop and set it as the default, after several failed attempts in the past. I now rarely find myself struggling with tech related searches as