Personally I always put my date of birth as old as possible - if the system has an unrestricted birth date then I'll happily pretend I'm from 07/03/1792 to share my birthdate with John Herschel
Posts by collinsl
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Woz calls out US lawmakers for TikTok ban: 'I don’t like the hypocrisy'
UK health department republishes £330M Palantir contract with fewer ██████
Time to examine the anatomy of the British Library ransomware nightmare
I think the point of that line in the article was that the British Library doesn't work with nuclear materials or massive vats of boiling metals or highly toxic chemicals etc.
It also didn't start blaming it's staff and prosecuting them for tens of years as a result of the breach so I fail to see how it's comparable to the Horizon Scandal.
Re: Reason #854637
Yes but you're looking at contracting rates there so out of that £120k you have to find:
* Tax at the appropriate rates for however you're paying yourself (so say goodbye to about 40-50% of that)
* Holiday pay
* Sick pay
* Pension payments
* Paying an accountant or accountancy firm or contracting firm if you work as a "consultant" to them and they take a cut of your wage.
* Business expenses if you have to equip yourself to do the job
* Training (since your employer won't spend money on training contractors most likely) plus time spent not working in order to train
* Business rates (if you self-incorporate)
etc etc.
So you'll probably only personally end up with about £45-50K per year of that as "take-home" pay.
What's brown and sticky and broke this PC?
Re: glueing thin clients
You mount the monitor to the back of the VESA case for the PC, then mount the VESA case for the PC to the arm.
My work has them for Dell's MicroPC line, they're quite effective enclosures. Support the usual VESA weights, have a thumbscrew to retain the PC, can be used with the PC's existing locking solution to prevent theft etc.
BOFH: So you want more boardroom tech that no one knows how to use
Britain enters period of mourning as Greggs unable to process payments
Uber Australia to pay $178M to settle cabbies' class action
The last mile's at risk in our hostile environment. Let’s go the extra mile to fix it
TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version
Re: the caching services zfs requires
Disclosure: I run a ZFS on Linux based system at home as my primary server and as my server hosting my backups
ZFS does indeed use a lot of RAM, but it's for performance rather than as a requirement (unless you turn on deduplication which needs tons of RAM on any system, regardless of filesystem).
The ZFS cache is used both for selective read-ahead (predicting which files are to be accessed) and for caching the rest of a file currently being accessed (until the cache is needed again by non-ZFS processes or the file is replaced by a new file in the cache).
ZFS can be run on systems with very little RAM however the performance will be much closer to that of the hard drives themselves rather than anything faster.
If you want you can add ZFS Intent Log (ZIL) SSD drives to improve write performance however read performance will always rely on RAM to cache into. You can set how much cache you want ZFS to use (right now on my main server I have this set to about 50% of 128G so I have some VM space and on the backups server it's at 85% or so of 32G)
Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server
Justice Dept reportedly starts criminal probe into Boeing door bolt incident
Apple's had it with Epic's app store shenanigans, terminates dev account
BOFH: I get locked out, but I get in again
Job interview descended into sweary shouting match, candidate got the gig anyway
Health system network turned out to be a house of cards – Cisco cards, that is
You must have had it set in "efficiency" mode then - there are configuration options with the C7000 enclosure which allow you to choose how power is spread out. The "efficiency" option (I can't remember the actual names now, been years since I touched an enclosure) used as few PSUs as possible to bear the load so that they operated with as little efficiency loss as possible, whereas there were some other options to balance load across X PSUs or all PSUs (can't remember exactly) in order to maintain as much redundancy as possible.
Elon and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad legal week
They call me 'Growler'. I don't like you. Let's discuss your pay cut
FOSS replacement for Partition Magic, Gparted 1.6 is here to save your data
Re: ZFS subsumes and replaces partitioning and so on.
You can easily set a ZFS parameter to set it's maximum RAM consumption - on my home NAS/hypervisor I have it set to 50% of the 128G installed and on my backups server it's set to 80% of the 32G installed (IIRC)
As for the cache situation, for ZFS on Linux it can't use the system cache because it's licensed differently from the kernel (ZFS uses a CDDL license instead of GPL so the kernel devs won't let it in to the cache). Also the way the cache operates is very different from the system cache so it's best to keep them separate. ZFS will quickly relinquish cache though if the OS requests it to reduce RAM usage (at the expense of performance) so it shouldn't pose a massive problem.
City council megaproject to spend millions for manual work Oracle system was meant to do
Odysseus probe moonwalking on the edge of battery life after landing on its side
Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks
BOFH: In the event of a conference, the ninja clause always applies
'Scandal-plagued' data broker tracked visits to '600 Planned Parenthood locations'
Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor
Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all
Ukraine claims Russian military is using Starlink
Re: Pickups from the battlefield ?
And if they're used close to the frontline how do you tell which side the terminals are on? You don't want to stop them working if Ukrainian troops suddenly break through somewhere, and if you get the border wrong if the Ukrainians fall back then you've caused other problems.
Also you don't want to block them entirely from the front line area because then neither side can use them.
CERN is training robot dogs to spot radiation hazards at Large Hadron Collider
Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users toward Edge
Techie climbed a mountain only be told not to touch the kit on top
That's not the web you're browsing, Microsoft. That's our data
We put salt in our tea so you don't have to
> There was also the matter of "no taxation without representation"
1. Most people in the UK didn't have any representation in parliament at the time. Manchester had no MPs for example but there was a sheep field somewhere in the south that had two, because there used to be a village there. Parliamentary reform was necessary to give representation as the boundaries hadn't been redrawn for hundreds of years.
2. This was a line made up by a bunch of smugglers to justify their rebellion in order to be able to trade in the open by getting their own government. It just so happened that it turned into a major (for the time) rebellion which got turned into an international war when the French got involved and won the war for the Americans.
ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain to do the same job as 192.168.x.x
Macy's and Sunglass Hut sued for $10M over face-recog arrest and 'sexual assault'
Re: scary
The Victorians were doing that, it's called Phrenology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology
In fact Terry Pratchett invented for his book series Discworld the idea of retrophrenology - where by the preceise and measured delivery of blows to the head you can give people the traits they desire by reshaping their skull/brain:
https://wiki.lspace.org/Retrophrenology
There's also a linked area of pseudoscience called Craniometry where the size and shape of the skull predicts temprament and traits:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniometry
All hogwash of the highest order.