Posts by Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik 240 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Dec 2009
And yeah the disconect is important.
Each year I get asked by my boss if I want a work phone - each time my answer is the same - if you consider I need a cell phone that I'll leave in the office after I head home - then sure - otherwise it's a waste.
I work while at work - outside of that - you do not exist for the most part. Sure I'll pull in the hours if needed and even respond to an occasional chat for help. But for me that world generally doesn't exist when I leave the office.
I do this as a sysadmin - when trying to help our devs sort out issue and figure out if it's a systems or a devs prob - I'd sit down with them and they would show me stuff and then we would go through stuff more or less line by line.
It's one of the more fun aspects of my work to be honest. As frustrating as it can be at times it's fun.
Guess it helps that most of my learning of coding was through pseudo code(some actual coding as well but the good stuff was the pseudo code stuff) and actually tracing through that required pen and paper to solve at times.
Hmmm people put sensitive data on tiny, easy to lose things that you can plug in any system? *shudder*
I'll stick to having stuff stored on my own server, on my own property that I can access anywhere via ssh and other secure methods and if need be can copy to a different location.
My uses for USB flash drives:
- random bootable linux distro 1
- random bootable linux distro 2
- random bootable linux distro 3
etc.....
Installers/etc... for stuff I might need to be using in an enviroment without good online connection,
err... random music/vids/etc....
Been thinking the same(for a long time). There should be the Euro but it should be a currency on top of national currencies with an exchange rate relative to them. People could still pay with it, get paid with it but it should always be relative to the national currency(until such a time as it would make the optimal currency area a sense).
As for the EU... I'm still on the fence. It did do some good things but at the same time some bad things. Will see how it goes.
Sad but true... now-a-days a lot of companies are burn through whatever you can to get the most profit then ditch and start fresh.
And to add on top of that... very few companies will bother to try and pickup the pieces as well. There is a company here that recently got their primary production assets seized by the tax agency because they couldn't pay worker benefits for a while. Why couldn't they pay them you ask? Because the state owes them a lot of money.
What did they do? They grabbed the old machines and in a day they were back up and working aiming to get all their orders sorted so they can keep the 200 or so people employed. This is missing in a lot of companies. The drive to keep it going, to keep people employed.
You know you are stupid if you enter your credit card number or real details into a low security environment such as a gaming network(that includes steam, xbl, etc...).
I'm still using topup cards from game stores to buy stuff there. I'll never put in a credit card(or at most a prepaid thing that has 0 value 99% of the time and that I use up the moment it's loaded).
The Jolla devices have AlienDalvik that can run Android Apps don't ask me how it performs because I have yet to bother using it.
But yeah bought the phone half a year ago, kicktstarted the other half KEYBOARD addon(el-reg report about this as well both are running at the same time even):
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2028347278/tohkbd-the-other-half-keyboard-for-your-jolla
And now indiegogoed the tablet.
For my own uses the phone is perfect and the user experience is something I miss from all other devices so far. I was hoping for the longest time for a tablet from them as well... they seem to have a clue/ideas on how to make user experiences that are great and that are intuitive once you break the chains of the android/ios limitations.
Randoms: Hey look we're doing this thing...
cacert.org: Hey look we've been doing this for years - with the added benefit that we are actually thinking how to get better at verify the user identity and how to handle if we can't
Frankly CAs are way way overrated - it's basicalyl I claim I am such and such and I have money to prove it...
Valve can just adjust that sure we will provide refunds under the conditions that game ending achievment has not yet been achieved and in 14 days have not passed since day of purchase. I think that would be reasonable as a valid refund policy.
Considering that some games can start off well enough but will eventually degenerate into a PoS that makes them unplayable.
Can we please block cig ads, alchohol ads, political ads(I don't enjoy being bombarded by the same dodgy politicos I try and ignore in real life while watching youtube), dodgy weight loss ads, the stupidity that youtube ads are where you are listening to a song and in pops an ad that is... a FULL length song from a diff youtube channel...
Until it is proven these things don't have any side effects on second hand vapers I'd prefer they are relegated to the same spot as normal cigs.
And from my personal experience with someone in the office trying to use the e-cig a couple of times I felt poorly after that. So it certainly isn't just water vapour. There is enough in there that can cause issues in the short term.
I'm not opposed to letting people enjoy what they want. I'm just opposed to having it affect others or myself.
...who has been running his own email, http, etc... services for years. I can say it's not that hard but it does take effort for initial setup and for major upgrades.
The problem is getting less tech savvy people using anything even when provided with easy to use web interfaces etc... It's just not "insert provider here".
Instead of .NET/Java/etc... could try with a Python backend/framework. Then use whatever DB you want that is supported(either noSQL or SQL evaluate what works for you). And I agree HTML 5 for the web frontends if any and possibly QT and WFP(since I don't believe QT is supported on the new interface yet) for any other clients.
Other than a few random mishapes always get through this fast localy. They are made by IBM running windows xp and some form of db2 at the backend. Though usually they seem to snif either the employees or IT people(of any sort) and will stubbornly get annoyed at us.
But more often than not they have just worked.
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