Posts by Jonathan 27

Sounds like it's an idea to give 17.10 a pass, but, saying that. I'm probably going to install to tonight anyway. I can always just roll back a backup.

They claimed the HP/HPE split was to isolate the low margin businesses. It looks like it's more likely that HPE will be the one to totally tank at this rate.

This case is a little weird because it's one developer suing alone, but there are a lot of companies stealing GPL code and repackaging it in commercial applications. So that leaves me in a weird place because I support enforcing the GPL, but the way this guy is doing it doesn't feel right.

If we're in a simulation, then how do we know if it's possible to simulate our universe. Maybe physics is totally different outside the simulation. The simulation could be powered by a Dyson sphere, or a thousand Dyson spheres, there is literally no limit to the possibilities. This whole line of thinking is rather silly, the idea that we're in a simulation is a non-falsifiable statement. No amount of rational thinking can disprove it, although I suppose there might be some sort of currently unknown way to prove it, possibly.

Do i believe we're in a simulation? No, probably not. But that doesn't mean that this line of thinking proves anything. All this paper proves is lack of imagination. Also, the paper doesn't put forward the conclusion that the author of this piece infers. In fact that inference dies immediately if take away the idea that the simulation in question could easily be running on a quantum computer or another more sophisticated computer that we can't even imagine.

If someone tries to give me a set of ridiculous terms and services I just turn around and leave... Leave a bad review on all the social medias that is! I also go somewhere else, because that's a clear sign that the business in question is terrible and not worth my time or money.

Yeah...

If you have admin access, you can disable code signing checks. So it's not that big a deal, if you could do it without a privileges escalation attack first, that would be pretty novel.

I'm just waiting for MongoDB to go tits up and get snapped up by Oracle, Microsoft or Amazon. They don't seem to have much of a business model. It's a shame though, the product is really good. I guess they could go the other way and transition to a community-driven open source project, but I don't hold out much hope of that.

I prefer my watches without wireless connectivity, thanks. Why does everything need to be connected to the internet?

This is partly the fault of yum's maintainers. There should be a blatantly obvious warning and acceptance prompt if you try to install an unsigned package. That would force companies to do it to prevent complaints from users.

Why do I feel like this is just going to result in having to go 3 places to set things up in Windows server instead of the current 2. First Windows Server required using GUI tools, then they added PowerShell commands for SOME but not all functions. AND some settings are now ONLY accessible through PowerShell. Now they're adding a HTML GUI, that only supports a subset of functions.

I wish they'd at least finish ONE of those interfaces before building another one.

These would never work, nor will anything else like this because people who are interrupting you at work always think whatever they want to talk to you about is too important to wait... Regardless of how unimportant it might be.

Stride makes me think of sugar free gum.

We currently use Slack and JIRA around here, and I can't see us WANTING to change that. But if Atlassian offers bundled pricing the beancounters may force the situation.

It seems like Alistair Dabbs is slowly becoming Simon Travaglia by becoming one shade more disillusioned every year. Keep up the good work.

P.S. Is it weird that I both think Ding is the stupidest thing ever and that I wish I'd thought of it first?

Yeah...

I have a last-gen XPS 15 (9550) and I can tell you that the keyboard isn't an issue after you get used to it. It takes a few weeks, but after that you'll never think about it again. It also has an issue with being hard to open, not because the slot is hard to get to, but because you have to hold both sides of the laptop to pry it apart because the hinge is so stiff, that's annoying. I can't say anything about your other issues, my notebook has a power/charge LED and a 5 LED charge indicator on the side. The power button is also fairly large.

But after saying that, I had a QC issue with my notebook that arose about 1 month in to my ownership of the laptop (GPU died) and it took, and I'm not exaggerating here, 3 months to get them to fix it. In the intervening time I actually got angry and built another computer. Since they fixed it I haven't had any issues with it, but it also doesn't get that much use... the desktop is now my primary computer. After my horrible experience with their support line I don't think I'll buy a Dell any time soon, especially since this isn't the first time I've had a problem with a Dell. I had an XPS 15 L521x and that thing was such a huge pile of crap that they bought it back, after 3 attempted replacements because the entire model is faulty.

Locked in now, no chance to survive otherwise. Outsourcing is self-perpetuating.

Did I mention I work for a SaS company?

Yeah, it has nothing at all to do with the fact that PC sales are falling everywhere and Intel hasn't released a compelling new CPU since Sandy Bridge. Nothing to do with that.

This is why I never accept EULAs, my cat Mr Fluffy does for me.

Seeing as almost all real humans are running ad blockers now, I don't think many advertisers would pay for ads if the people selling them actually told them the truth. Online ad fraud has been a problem since 10 minutes after online ads were invented and the situation has been going rapidly downhill since 2005 which is about when the average user discovered ad blockers, because Firefox extensions just made it so easy. I'm even running one now, although I white-list sites I like, like this one. I'm even running an adblock detector blocker.

Fun fact, did you know that there is no actual proof that advertising really changes anyone's opinion on products. The only thing it's been proven to do is let people know a product exists, if they didn't already. So advertising well known products like Coke and Tide may actually be totally pointless.