Posts by Olivier2553

Re: Low quality coding

People, management, often have the wrong idea that it is important to get something working, that security is not important and can easily be added after.

It is ignoring the fact that one has no more free time after than he had at the beginning of the project, so security concerns are always delayed. And also that adding security after is way more complicated than envisioning security from the get go. If some cutting corners choices had been made, the very architecture of the project has to be changed, with all the risks associated and because of the risk, security is not been implemented.

Re: Quantum Truth

I don't know what that means but get an upvote :)

Re: A PI4-version of one of these will likely come out sooner rather than later:

You mean something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Dorhea-Raspberry-Aluminium-Radiation-Protection/dp/B07TXYWY4Q/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=aluminium+case+raspberry+pi+4&qid=1564023473&s=gateway&sr=8-4

Re: Not IT - food industry

the very high cocoa ones are far too bitter for my taste

It is just a matter of training your buds. Start with 50% and work up the ladder. 99% cocoa is rough the first time, but like coffee without sugar, it is an acquired taste.

Thailand, with a population slightly over France, ~70 million, with size equal to France but on a narrower and longer shape is all FTTH and advertising 100Mbps for $20/month.

Re: Address

It would have been even better to report that privately, not in the forum :)

Re: Nobody tells students nothing

If the teen pregnancy stats are anything to go by, the kids seem to pick that up.

Or not. If they picked it up, they'd know how to avoid pregnancy (and STD).

There is a simple way to solve both problems with one change: host the ads on your website. You can control the ads you display, there is no cross site and obviously, you have all the logs you want.

Re: piHole config files ?

/etc/pihole/adlists.list on your Pi Hole machine.

Re: Error Messages

Transgenderism has nothing to do with biology or surgery, it's rather a matter of psychology. When a kid born with a penis, well bellow the age of sexual awareness show all the social traits of a girl, when a 10 years old boy tells you he wishes he was born a girl, it is not a tactic, nor a denial. The denial is refusing to hear what they are saying.

In Western world, I see there are two problems: transgenderism is associated with sexuality, while it is not, it appears way before the person shows any interest into sexuality, and there is the hate/activism social situation that makes the problem much conflictual. And their flamboyant desire to be seen as a woman may turn them into a caricature that many would not accept.

I did something quite similar not later than yesterday evening. We had a power failure during the week-end and the systems had not restarted. So I dropped by on my way back from a remote weekend.

The access to the server room is protected by a password operated door, linked to our LDAP. LDAP was done, door was not openable. And also the network was acting funcky for lack of proper DNS. But I have a key to override the door mechanism. So I could gain access to the server room and start doing my magic.

When I left the server room, everything was running fine but the door system. I left and oops, I had left my bunch of keys inside the locked room.

My first idea was to way until the morning, when the system would disengage (no password during day time) and I could walk in. Well, I started by scratching my head, then I considered waiting for the morning. But luckily I could finally SSH into the door control mechanism, disable it temporarily, go and grab my keys and re-enable the door security.

Re: It will be a while before it flies around the world again

They may get them so cheap it will be worth training new pilots on these new planes. With 200 planes, you can consider a good enough number of pilots to make it work.

Re: Why not use 4G/5G?

They have a system that is working fine, that is using some frequencies that were allocated to them, who will pay for the change (including launch of new satellites)?

Re: "A very strange thing for Parliament to do [..]"

A couple of remarks. In the case of TV, I think there are/were people in charge of watching the programs 24/7 to make sure that the content was appropriate at any time.

FB and the like could have a system of pre-moderation where by users content would be approved before it goes online. And only after a user has been deemed trustworthy, could he be allowed for post moderation. many forum work like that, why not FB? Oh yes, here and now, can wait 10 minutes.

In the case of Cognizant, it seems to be a very toxic working environment more than the content of what they are watching: apply the same type of pressure on a postman, he too will commit suicide (yes, that happened in France). What company have bed bugs or pubic hairs in their premises? What company tolerate harassement?

And it is definitely a badly conceived solution: why having the employee come to the office? This is the kind of job that could be made from home, with salary depending on the amount of video you watch.

Re: Bandwidth

one character per transaction maybe (1.37 to be exact).

Re: A very low priority project

While they could have provided 375m condoms for free instead...

Re: Some weird comments on here...

People may feel proud of their own achievement, that they have been able to pull it. Like one would be proud he managed to finish a marathon. Marathon are even more useless if you consider, you're not even getting paid to run, but still, there are hundred of thousand of people running several marathon a year, across the globe.

Re: Dolt

What is that you have with small words?

Not you, you. But a certain part of the world population.

Like if a world is more than 2 syllabes long it is too difficult to understand and remember.

OK, I admit I have my moments of wallowing in the vulgarity (Google translate, I admit) and I enjoy watching the Amazing Race. In last week episode, a guy was complaining that "municipality" was a complicated world to remember. That's fecking complicated!

Some people seems to be regressisng to grunts.

Re: 60's TV

I don't remember that specific part, but upvote for citing The Prisoner.

Re: Ever teleported a team into peril or heard something go boom on a conference call?

Obviously, you were the one organizing the various coup. Are you sure you don't want to post under anonymous identity?

2006 coup was very uneventful if you were just outside of Bangkok: a couple of armed trucks parked along the road, but else, it was business as usual.

Re: It would be warm for a shorter time

But then you can rotate through 2 batteries that you slow charge.

Re: Management Network

If you are to implement a separate management network, you will not do your youtube replication on that network. Management network is purely to be able to remote connect to the distant machines and issue commands like "reverse that configuration that I just confused up".

Re: Use lube

Yes, with a lot of lubricity*, it should work.

That's a reference to something else (TOT), somewhere else, that amused me this morning.

Re: never trust a PM

Not stopping the service, but add a big red banner that takes up all the top of the page to get their attention and warn their customers that the company is not really doing their job.

Re: airport security

Following the link you gave: Tsa approved for carry on during flights

Don;t say that Brisbane airport security are a greater PITA that TSA.

That is true. The norm is NEMA 1-15 without polarization, that is rated for 125V but used for 240. Because of the lack of polarization, if you get shocked while touching an electric appliance, rotate the plus 180 degrees. When grounded (still not everywhere, but becoming more common, I do install proper ground and earth leak breaker wherever I live for a long enough duration), the usage was NEMA 5-15, but the norm is now TIS 166-2549 with three round plugs. But you can also find a lot of CEE 7/4 plug (German) as it seems there is no real obligation to provide equipment with the correct type of plug.

And electric tape is considered as the normal way of making any electric connection, even outside, even permanent.

Light garland are often made using two safety pins inserted in each wire of the main cable and attached to the lamp base.

To make matter worse, where I work has been funded as a collaboration of many countries around the world, so nearly each building comes with a different type of sockets, depending on the standard of the funding country (US, Japan, many EU countries, Australia, etc.)

There's usually a gap at the bottom of the door, or between double doors. So you can put a special tool through and press the release button from the other side of the door. That lets you in.

That only implies that the door was badly designed to start with. And you could locate the exit button in such a way that it is immune to such attack.

Re: Huawei forward

Then Chinese investors could buy a significant number of shares of US companies, making them suspect of Chinese affiliation, and the US government will be faced with the dilemna of closing US companies.

Re: BackBlaze

The last time I checked, AWS long time storage (the one they introduced recently) was a bit cheaper than BackBlaze.

But I agree BackBlaze if among the cheapest, and for some reason, I trust them more than Amazon.

Re: The People's Airliner?

Boeing being a private company, they are of course driven by profit. But in the past they appear to have more concern about safety than about the wealth of their shareholders.

Boeing is not the only private company going into that direction, many, most, are. And Boeing is not the only company that suffered severe draw backs from that policy of putting profit before quality. Only, Boeing is not selling badly designed washing machines.

I read French news, I did not see a line about that event.

Re: Not waterproof

Put the phone in a condom, thigh a knot and you're good.

Slim, waterproof, still work without removing the phone from the condom.

You can even choose the flavour, but avoid the lubricated ones.

Given the fact that bandwidth cost is going down faster than the inflation, there is no reason why the cost should go up (that is not exactly the same, but in Thailand, the cost for our professional internet access is going down at each contract renewal, with constant increase of bandwith tossed in to sweeten the deal).

There is hardly any phone bundled with a SIM (it is way too easy to remove the lock anyway), and if there is, usually it is just a SIM given for free by the Telco to try to promote their service, you still buy the phone, in one go, at full price.

And most people use pre-paid (I think that is because if you cannot reload your phone, you are not bound to spend on a monthly contract; it also makes it easier for the Telco, no need to chase for the customers that would forget to pay).