Posts by Morten Bjoernsvik

Re: Glad Oracle did this..

>If your desktop is Windows (which I doubt) then it's also a free option to enable.

You need a windows 10 pro or windows server license to use hyper-v. The only way to get it for free is to run win10 fast ring, It updates so fast the license is never activated. But you are then at the mercy of beta testing new versions, I had an issue where v8 vms was automatically upgraded to v9, and it could no longer be used anywhere else. There is also on cut and paste bug with gfx console that drives me nuts. (cut and paste not supported, need to use ssh).

Re: Nothing new...

>It's not well-suited - it's slow at computation and basic string processing and heavily relies on libraries >to keep up appearances.

Python has also very easy bindings to C via Cython, We had a string splicing bottleneck. Since strings in python are immutable, splicing in larger strings are something you should avoid, but the code existed, it was easier just to rewrite the module calls in C using char pointers and the speedup was around 30X.

Re: The cost of Win10 is far too high.

If you join M$'s windows insider program and choose the fast ring, you do not need a license. the OS is atleast updated every week so the trial license never expire. I've had some crashes, and WSL was out for a week due to a bug.

windows sexy?

I think the new windows terminal and wsl2 is quite sexy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE

If your workplace is all windows, you can install wsl2 and do all stuff in linux and still run those pesky windows applications you are forced to use.

The old wsl was dead slow and had poor filesystem support (all RWX), no sbus, no services, but it was still better than cygwin. wsl2 is a hyper-v virtualized ubuntu 18.04 with a nice windows terminal.

Re: It does mean we're getting a _little_ better at spotting them.

From the first observations and the velocity they should be able to predict that the orbit was very close to earth.

Re: Eh?

Chris Sawyer programmed Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 in 2002 in MS Macro Assembler V6 *

But hand written assembler is far more readable than what my latest GCC spits out at -O3

Wonderful game by a programmer Genius.

*https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Roller-Coaster-Tycoon-written-in-assembly

Re: MS

M$ rationale was giving up playing catch up with chrome on experimental features not yet accepted by the W3C, while being used on sites like youtube.

A single renderer now having close to 100%. This is like we all should use the same compiler.

We should all back Firefox: https://donate.mozilla.org

Re: Mature Product

If you buy your gear in parts, as most of my mates do, you are not part of this statistics?

Mint

95% of Mint is Ubuntu, it is just some fluff on the top, But as long at it is an LTS it will live for long.

Re: Develop with Visual Studio for linux? Thanks, I'll pass.

The article mentions Visual Studio Code, it is not Visual Studio, but its Rebel little sister written in typescript and running just as well on linux as on windows (the project with most stars on github). It has an excellent plugin system and cli interface. It uses intellisense and language server tech compatible with Visual Studio. I use WSL (or bash on windows as it is also called) as default.

Re: Supercomputers are VERY MUCH needed for AI

Please do not Alice and Bob this, there are other needs of a supercomputer.

Re: Your numbers are rather high

I use https://github.com/gogs/gogs on an rasberry pie with an apache proxy and lets encrypt. 7w with usb 1TB ssd drive. totally silent. It is only for wiki, code and documents. but it works on any device. My only complain is that searching when you get a lot of repos is almost non existant in gogs. But it is easy to rsync and replicate elsewhere on anything that runs linux in a few minutes.

Re: Overpriced

And you can get jypyter + mathplotlib + numpy + pandas for free.

737MAX will be safe

This will be the safest plane ever once AOA has completed the re-certification.

Certifying a new passenger aircrafts take years. No cutting corners this time.

Wont be flying before 2020.

Re: To all professional sysadmins here

>Some of us, have enough real work (TM) to justify our ongoing existence.

Like porting python software to windows. I much rather do SystemD than service wrappers which needs a hack like nssm.exe, or navigating around with event logger. If there was SystemD on windows it would be a great improvement.

Re: Width

collapse + expand buttons for nested comments would be great :-)

Re: NATO task force can't read Morse code?

But they are way better than our navy officers:

https://medium.com/@cargun/radar-images-audio-log-of-knm-helge-ingstad-frigate-sola-ts-oil-tanker-collision-a71e3f516b54

Norwegian journalist, military expert and political analyst Helge Lurås has suggested that the dramatic incident is closely related to the proportion of women in the Norwegian Armed Forces:

https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2018/11/20/norwegian-warship-accident-raises-questions-on-women-in-armed-fo.html

It all boils down to officers leaving untrained freshmen in charge. Quite common out in open sea far up north where there is almost impossible to hit anything, but inshore close to an oil terminal it is utterly suicide.

Re: Note to self ..

use LetsEncrypt and Certbot

More competition please

We're using Azure standard and basic tiers, and their CPU/Disk/IO/Mem allocations seem to 'optimize' with each new version. Resulting in apps taking longer and longer to start. On my laptop logstash takes 35sec to start (I7 4600), in azure on standard tiers it takes 5minutes.

Probably wants us to pay more for better tiers. Some wants to take it back inhouse. So I hope for Oracle/Dell/HP to get their clouds into shape. We need more competition. If you buy an Oracle license you get free servers in their cloud. They cant sell it, they can only give it away.

Re: 17.46km/HOUR???

>I can RUN that fast.

While we can manage this top speed for a short time, it is quite hard for an hour:

My record is 12.85km in an hour, the world record is 21,25km/hour

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_hour_run

Re: Well...

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You will be surprised how digital BMW really is... and snotty little upstarts like Uber and Google will have a lot to learn still... BMW et al (and especially Volvo & Saab)

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Why do you mention SAAB, you mean the auto-manufactuer once owned by GM, who went bankrupt in late 2011 or the truck company called Scania Automotive AB now part of Volkswagen Group?

SAAB where nice cars for Nordic winters, but selling 50K a year was far too little to survive without the GM koffers. They were trial and tested, not much advanded electronics there compared to Volvo. Which is another chapter. Owned by Chineese Geely, still doing most of the design and production in Sweden/Netherlands. but with two megafactories in China with lots of free capacity it is just a matter of time before their high end models go the same way.

Re: "They'll be back."

Why not run a citrix metaframe (XenApp) for all those windows only app. it will give you extended sercurity, better administration, license management etc. I've tested PS on an hopeless old eecpc (2010 something) although in 1000x800 2GB running ubuntu 12.04 with xendesktop to xenappserver with nvidia grid. It runs like hell. small resolution but very fast, runs circles around any framebuffer cpu emulated model. All rendering and program is running on the server, the client only displays the framebuffer like it was video. The server had an expensive nvidia Tesla card (K80 =~ $3100 for 24GB), it can easily handle 10-20 PS power users. I also so a demostration on a dualscreen 4K zoomin in and out of a 12GB image, but that was probably a pretty decent client.

In a large organization having power apps organized like this, will save both money and administration.

Re: Android One

My previous employer's public root-ca expired in may 2016, It was upgraded according to plan a few months before it expired. But android 4.2 and below was not updated. We had to manually create a little app to import the new root-ca into android's truststore as a X509 v3 ca.

Re: Double failure

As CEO your main job is to be responible. You are paid to be there when the shit hits the fan. Kicking downwards definitely not. No respect.

Re: Crashplan did it all...

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The well-known ones like Backblaze, SpiderOak, Carbonite all tend to be OK for a single computer, but get very expensive backing up multiple machines (e.g. for a family).

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Years ago I had Carbonite, but they started trottle if you had more than 100GB, When I switched to crashplan it only took me 2 days to sync my 200GB. My only complain with Crashplan is that often my storage pool has not been online when I needed to restore a file. I had to wait up to an hour.

Re: My first coding experience...

This book defined my career: https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Network-Programming-Richard-Stevens/dp/0139498761, I enjoyed every page and used all my free time typing in the examples in slackware linux, It was my first journey into unix/linux and my first hacks. Loved how it worked in HPUX(1990), linux(1993) and later on Sun4 and Irix. When I landed my first job at SGI (1997) it was instrumental in my daily job tuning and analyzing Irix systems against all the other unixes.