Posts by Alan_Peery

Re: Oooops, dropped

Auto-answered intercom calls makes a pretty hostile working environment -- even if you know that it has been enabled.

Re: That’s strange...

Some clearly are, as I met a new colleague last week on account.

Yes, I work for DXC.

Re: All your eggs in one basket

Which does not address the rogue admin threat, the leaked credential threat, or the billing screwup threat.

Re: You'd have to be a Dummy,....

You're pretty sadly behind on what SpaceX is achieving with its booster reuse. The boosters aren't coming back badly damaged (barring crashes) -- they're coming back clean enough that the old design would be accumulating on the shelf if there weren't mission where throwing away the booster makes sense.

Re: Clouded vision

> What CentOS does to this day is not a free version of RHEL. It's something

> different. It may be free for individual developers, but for the likes of

> Google or Amazon it is definitely not free.

Please point to the the portions of the CentOS website that support this statement, because you're not describing a situation I recognize.

Umm, share price means little. Compare stock market capitalization (price * shares issued) to get a useful comparison.

Re: Hands up: who'd heard of it before this article?

They would have been marketing to Japanese corporates in need of computing in other regions. If the project had been Japanese led that might have worked, but if the projects were initiated outside Japan then you have to have mindshare where they were started. People choose what they've heard of, and heard of being used successfully.

I hadn't heard of it either...

Re: No explanation?

You're not seeing the issue. Setting the "I'm not here" setting and then keeping an eye on which of your colleagues are online isn't very very open. If they can't see that you're in, there's no reason why you should be able to see that they are in.

Re: From the "no shit, Shirlock" files:

It would also mean horrendous commutes, from a cost & times and discomfort perspective.

Have you worked in a high density metropolitan area?

Re: Reg -- AMP technology

No, AMP is much more than removing the comments section. Here are two posts I wrote up a few months ago:

https://plus.google.com/+AlanPeery/posts/7wkkmnR8as7

https://plus.google.com/+AlanPeery/posts/ihXMThBatYa

But how much will it break down in vacuum, even with the intense sunshine?

Where are the missing e-ink tablets?

Why should a tablet not have an e-ink screen? There are cases for full functionality with a screen fully visible in sunshine -- even if that screen has to be monochrome.

Re: What about disturbing others?

People are not all the same. Some thrive on interaction, others can't handle interruption. Don't assume that someone doesn't car or isn't productive because interruptions just because interruptions bother you.

$164 million was six months income.

Re: Let's start a list...

Any two processes running at the same time. There's no need to confine ourselves to looking at the benefits that accrue to a single process when we have lots of processes on our systems.

Re: So... uhm...

Except with most companies, you have a work day, and if you go for a walk in the evening and find a pretty rock for your collection at home that doesn't become the company's rock.

Re: host file?

Sounds like you should look at the OnePlus 6....

Re: Yowzers!

And don't forget the Russians, with their PNUTS nuclear engine in their back pocket:

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

I'm running role playing game (think D&D, but with rockets and James Bond) with the ideas you have aboveand PNUTS.

Re: Shortage ?

Ben Carson should go back to being a surgeon -- he was an asset there.

Re: Huge betrayal of trust

Some years ago I had to figure out if the two and a half years of accruals I had towards the five year minimum required for entitlement to the IBM DB pension was worth anything. I decided it wasn't, and made job choices accordingly.

The world would be a more just place if the court had proven me wrong.

Re: "Like a human"

Lorry puts on turn signal, road train parts to let him in.

Simples.

Re: ugh

Maybe the processor bug makes a function call fail, and that failure is caught by an exception? Unless the exception logs a message that could be a silent cause of slowness.

Re: How about

That's why you send a robotic ship ahead that makes the fuel for you. You only launch when the refining rocket says "I've got fuel, any takers?"

Re: No opt out for end users -> extortion

So what word do you use to describe this situation?

"I broke your experience of _____, you have no choice in the matter, and I profit".

Because that is exactly how I see the situation. You may disagree, feeling that the experience is not broken, but failing to give a general and easily accessed opt-opt is not right.

Having consulted a thesaurus "coercion" may be more appropriate, but extortion isn't far off.

Re: Only one question

Next time use the vote instead for the Liberal Democrats -- who have a sensible policy in this area if memory serves...

Re: The Island with Bear Grylls

Not if you have been forward looking, and ordered bags with built-in flotation device using the company cards...

Needs broadband is ridiculous in this day and age.

For most people, yes. But for the frugal or the very income-limited, there is a huge role for over the air reception. Hopefully with a PVR, as the benefits of time-shifting and advert avoidance are huge.

>my entire setup - with all those boxes and necessary cabling - doesn't come to

>half what that guy paid for his TV. Probably not even a quarter. And I've

> had the same setup for nearly 10 years now,

Did you add the cost of your network into the above computation?

Re: Trust Jimmy Wales to make decisions for us?

Why is a comment like this made as Anonymous Coward? If true, it's neither embarrassing nor likely to be something that couldn't be said because the policies of the person's employer requires clearance first.

And where is the quarterly/annual confirmation of snooping continunce

Just because you said Yes once, shouldn't mean you've said it for all time...

Re: re Why do you need the intermediate server, which is just another thing to go wrong?

Don't you turn your heating down at night?

Or when you leave the house for 12 hours? If you don't do this, you're wasting money heating an unoccupied house.

vi and emacs -- the Janus faced god of editors

The wise man sayeth:

The manifold path of editing on the world of the file system is best followed by worshiping both aspects of the true editing god(s), vi AND EMACS.

Re: AWS vs the real world

With the cloud, you get a list of risks as well -- you just don't get to read them.

Just wait for a hurricane to hit AWS-East and you'll see what I mean.

Re: Obviously a real bummer for the Theives Support Association

I think you've got it backwards -- this makes it *much* easier for thieves.

Re: Lots of shouty, no content - because the topic is messy

The scope of this topic could be described as list of websites -> list of libraries -> library -> list of vulnerable versions -> list of vulnerabilities in each version -> technical details of each vulnerability. The paper only looks at the first four components. If you're looking the details in components 5 & 6, start with the list from component 4 and consult each release note and CVE.

I'd argue that the list from component #4 (mentioned on page 4, point 4 of the doc) is the most valuable point from a deployment strategy, because it would allow you to check your version(s) against that list and patch. The problem is that the javascript library world is poorly managed, because there are approximately 400 (!) versions across 11 libraries (pg 4, figure 1), so the list is simply too massive to include.

Re: Re:Why? and then we ask ourselves why women in are few and far between

> the same as enrollment in university CS

Seems you should be taking the population into account, and not just grads. If you're only hiring grads, you're practicing age discrimination.

Re: All of the above notwithstanding, it's a bit hard to understand use of rm -rf ...

After you're done with the copies of data you're holding in a temporary filesystem, you clean out the temporary filesystem.

Just make sure you're in the right filesystem... :-(

Re: Déjà vu

There was the minor fact that Worldcom had been indulging in *lots* of financial shenanigans completely unrelated to EDS work, IIRC.