Posts by seven of five

Re: Umm. Mainframe?

Most certainly not. Citation needed.

Re: Where are the backups?

We (and many others) actually have bought a slave just to handle the slinging around of tapes. We tend to call them "library". But yes, tape size has not kept up with disk size, a large (enterprise) drive is around 15-20TB capacity, while tape is only about the same. Uncompressed, which tape drives can do better than disk controllers.

Re: A market for an anti-drone drones?

A kilometer is more than enough. Move away from the launcher (to keep your position hidden), then pop up, maybe some more maneuvering, deploy missle. Afterwards maybe some scouting, would not even bother with recovery. Downside: you^ll probably need an operator on the launcher, so MBTs are not an option.

Re: I didn't know they had actually managed to sell these trucks.

Just because it is still around does not neccessariliy mean it is still alive.

Re: Suggestion

running everything you have on one server would require your software to be written to a higher level of stability than anyone would be willing to spend in order to achieve.

Back in the 70s/80s this would have been possible, but these days there is so much shitty code around somehow still essential, no way monolithic server would be able to cope.

Re: @Natalie Gritpants Jr - Hey, we're talking about governments and their public workers here.

heh... yes, that was a good one - certainly worth keeping.

Re: I don't like Mond days

Or the heart of my wife...

Re: Is there a Gartner-Cycle for Gartner-Cycles?

Orgasmatron? Ain't that from Motörhead?

Re: Whend did Spending become Spend

like using like LIKE all the time. OH May GAAAWD.

Re: Lesson on use of the sed command

Yes, the author was certainly VERY RIGHT.

scnr

Re: Security vs Convenience

attempts to idiot-proofing will result in better idiots.

They are no worse than the competition. iow: pretty terrible.

Re: “deliberate criminal act”

Not with national security, uh-uh, sir no sir.

Re: Where were the plastic police?

broken down with with a stern look.

Special made to fit from Sicily.

Re: FUBB

12390000000 instead of 12420000000. Probably lost somewhere in Larry's couch.

Re: Ah.

That's a really strange obsession you have there.

Which one is which?

And which of them would have been the one around here by the handle of matt bryant?

Re: Hmm

They do. It is just the take off again which will be complicated.

Re: No, no, no.

Ahem... King's English

sorry.

Re: Heard a joke

Yeah, they have the other branches to piss on them so they don't have to.

Re: I’m too boring, I never see these scams

Sometimes something pops up on skype, but these rarely put in an effort.

Re: Just one question...

Only from the Stewardess.

Re: Redundancy relocation

yes, now. I gave up on ppcle three years ago, so things might be changing (slowly).

Re: Here we go, Gromit!

Mebbe, mebbe not.

"close" only counts with hand grenades (and nuclear weapons).

Re: That's nice

unlessssss ... you have one of these nice, five years a time, automatically extending service contracts which cover 80% of the parts - but none of the labor- for only $$$$. upfront, of course.

Not even a new Forester could replace a 20 year old one. Sadly.

Re: So how many years late

"World Beating"?

Death and taxes, my friends, death and taxes...

The dark side of the moon. And call it "Gotterdammerung".

Heil Vogler...