Posts by Dazed and Confused 2390 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Sep 2007
OK, how many readers have domains registered with one of the big 10?
Perhaps we can try apply pressure to them if they don't vote yes or at the minimum, abstain, we'll take our business somewhere else.
I'm already looking at moving my remaining .uk domains to a seller on the PublicBenefit list.
> I take much more care by not running Windows in the first place.
I'd never looked at it that way, perhaps that was what the message was telling me all along "You'd be better off running Linux". Thanks, I'd not understood the message properly.
I can't remember when last any of my Linux servers at home have ever panic'd
[dazed@confusion ~]$ uptime
20:13:55 up 1087 days, 53 min, 3 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
[dazed@confusion ~]$
This one seems to have been going for a few days. Hmmm not happy about the load average though.
Even the F***ing blue colour got worse!
The thing that really used to piss me off with the BSoD was after it the machine had gone mammaries to the ceiling, you'd restart the bloody system and it would come up with the chkdsk screen chiding you for not shutting down cleanly and suggesting you took more care it future.
It probably didn't help that there were no drivers for the newer systems, it was only the older, pre-blade, HP Itanium system which could run Linux (and I guess Windows). The SuperDome2 and the blades couldn't run Linux as they never bothered to do the drivers for the chipsets.
Wasn't there a story here a couple of years back about a new Linux kernel release that had added a new feature for Linux on PA?
>Apparently (well according to the Guardian) South Africa is paying
Up above somewhere someone posted about the EU covering the cost of bottling and distribution, the €1.78 figure is just for the stuff that ends up in your arm. They also paid (are due to pay. reports seem confused as to whether they've paid up their promise on time) for the production facilities.
So the "at cost price" is going to vary.
> The UK started building a vaccine production plant in about February last year.
The normal thing to do was to go to the US drugs industry and say make a trillion of these. But they thought Trump might pull a loony on this and ban the export of the vaccines so ended up doing a deal with AZ to make it in the UK. They never thought that the EU would decide to put an export ban on such things.
It also helped that Oxford Uni could afford to stomp up the initial cash to get the research going before going to the government. I suspect that deep in the bowls of the civil service there was a plan about what to do in the case of needing a vaccine in a hurry and they were able to dust off some old plans to help kick things into life.
I'm pretty sure that whitehouse.com used to point to the whitehouse magazine site at least it was porn. I used to have to tell people on training classes to make sure they entered whitehouse.gov and not .com as that was not a website they should be accessing on the companies network.
These are people who, the CentOS team said, "never called, never write, they don't interact with us."
That's because most of the time it just works. Why talk to them if it just works.
I used to work in support for a large Unix vendor, in support you only ever see the problems. I never had a customer ring me up and say "Hey Dazed, you know everything is just fine today, nothing wrong, no problems".
After I moved on I did some work with a company who used the systems I used to support, I ended up taking the manager out for a drink with my old support colleagues just so they could meet a happy customer say "the only time I login as root is when some joins or leaves and I need to add/remove accounts..."
If people aren't bitching is might be because they've not got anything to bitch about.
Just as long as in your SSH sessions you're running the One True Editor, Emacs, and not that benighted tool of the godless heathens, Vi...
and don't forget the war over whether sizes (du, ls -s) should be expressed in 1K or 512byte units. Or whether the output of df should give you a percentage or not.
And Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year even to those poor lost souls of the Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping camp :-)
(PS, if the vulture can have a Christmas hat can the troll either have one too, or a humbug?)
witching between CentOS and pretty much every other Linux usually only directly affects the deploy / management mechanisms.
The way they manage the networks is all totally different too.
Even with moving to NetworkDamager (coz even systemd needs something to look down on) they use different file formats.
Google has decided that my personal domain is all spam
Google started rejecting email from my server as SPAM, I found there was a way to contact them and get it taken off their SPAM list. Sorry can't remember where I found it, but I probably just Googled for it. But once found it was an easy process.
I've had the experience of not hearing fast jets until they're on top of you many times, or sometimes even before they are underneath you, which is much more fun. This was at the western end of Wast Water so not on the Mach loop. and at close to sea level so they were going over head for us, but they came up the valley well below the top of Yewbarrow and Middle Fell. Again it's not unusual to see military jets there, but this is the first time I've seen F15s and they seemed much louder than anything else 'veI heard there. Hearing them before they arrive might be down the sound being reflected around the valley as they were subsonic. The noise level goes up massively once you're behind them, but they were loud before.
Pah, who are they trying to kid.
I got buzzed by a couple of pairs of F15s up in the Lakes a month or so ago. The noise sort of hits you like a sledge hammer and these ones weren't trying to go supersonic. The chance of hearing anything in the vicinity seems unlikely. Or maybe that's the point. This way they can claim the new toy is silent because they couldn't hear a thing.
American voters have a pool of 2 terrible choices.
As the late great DNA said
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
Pretty much like the last UK election, it seems most people voted again the person they least wanted because we don't have an option to say "You're a load of useless bloody loonies!" and ship them off somewhere on a B Ark.
Most of XFS has been 2038 safe for eons. Haven't checked what's broken but
[dazed@microg82 ~]$
[dazed@microg82 ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core)
[dazed@microg82 ~]$
[dazed@microg82 ~]$ grep store1 /proc/mounts
/dev/mapper/vg_microg82-store1 /mnt/store1 xfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,attr2,inode64,sunit=128,swidth=512,noquota 0 0
[dazed@microg82 ~]$
[dazed@microg82 ~]$ cd /mnt/store1/share/dazed/tmp
[dazed@microg82 tmp]$
[dazed@microg82 tmp]$ touch -t 203901020304 ts
[dazed@microg82 tmp]$ ls -l ts
-rw-rw-r--. 1 dazed dazed 0 Jan 2 2039 ts
[dazed@microg82 tmp]$
No worries
[dazed@microg82 tmp]$
[dazed@microg82 tmp]$ touch -t 250001020304 ts2
[dazed@microg82 tmp]$ ls -l ts2
-rw-rw-r--. 1 dazed dazed 0 Jan 2 2500 ts2
[dazed@microg82 tmp]$
Given the origin of XFS, I'd have expected it to be pretty clean.
Mrs Confused fairly modern Laserjet stopped working from her laptop after this week's W10 upgrade. M$'s driver just doesn't make any effort to talk to the printer as far as I can tell. Removing it and re-adding, didn't help at all. Totally F'ing useless, but at least in her case I just needed to go to HP's website and download the latest version. Still could be worse, on one of my PCs an update earlier in the years deleted all the printers and now refuses to let me add any printers at all.
You can pry my VT220s out of my dead cold hands. In fact I might have to source some spares just in case.
Oh No! Not the VT220, the original UK keyboard didn't have a pipe symbol. ARGH! All that space, all those keys and no pipe!
Never did find out whether this was connected to Ken Olsen's snake oil phase.
Liked the amber display though once they swapped the keyboard for me.
"Possibly one reason that email signing and encryption never really took off, despite being more or less standard product since the '90s."
Another reason was that one of the people I was experimenting with encrypted email back in the 90s was in France and it was illegal to use encrypted email (or just about anything such as GSM A5/0 "French Mode"). So he was advised to stop.
> Unfortunately one of the ones let go was the Coventry raid.
I'd be interested in any citations for that other than Winterbotham . Everything I've read makes it very clear that Coventry was one that got away not one was "let through". There is no way that anyone would have let through a raid like Coventry if there had been anyway to stop it. Never mind the scale of the raid, Coventry's position in the heartland of industrial Britain would have meant it was far to valuable to be allowed to act a decoy. Ultra, especially that early in the war wasn't perfect. They never knew everything. Neither were the electronic countermeasures. The night fighter force was in its infancy, Spitfires weren't good night fighters, Hurricanes were only marginally better.
The Wiki has a good summary, the enumerable books on BP and Enigma as well as those on the RAF cover this in a lot more detail. RV Jones' Most Secret War covers the countermeasures aspect. Coventry was the one that got away.
Dresden wasn't particularly "the" reprisal, in many ways the whole of Bomber Harris' campaign was the reprisal.
People aren't gonna buy a new mobile every year in perpetuity.
Well MrsConfused used to buy handbags every year, often she'd buy several (thankfully she's cut back on that habit).
For some, phones are fashion accessories and as long as the manufactures can persuade enough punters that they're fashion items then they'll keep selling more.
Other people dread the idea of getting a new phone and all the hassle associated with either beating it in to working the way we want or being beaten by it into suffering the way it wants to work.
I occasionally find the front facing camera very useful on my phone. Not for selfies but for those situations where you need to see somewhere you can't get your eye to but you can squeeze the phone into. I use the main camera a lot more for these jobs, but sometimes you need to be able to see the screen while aiming and sometimes that requires the front facing one.
My Aunt used to fly on Concord quite frequently and commented that it was just as uncomfortable as all the other planes but that it had the benefit of being not very comfortable for not very long. Neither my Aunt or Uncle were very tall so perhaps didn't notice the lack of headroom.
I sadly missed out on my one possible trip when a family problem meant cancelling my air mile funded trip, at least they gave me the air miles back.
I suspect that it really the case that you either need to define a root password or you need to define a local user and "make them an administrator" (ie they're in the wheel group). That's how it works currently. The change seems to be bringing this step forward to the main hub screen whereas from 7.0 -> 8.2 you finished on the hub screen and hit "begin install" at which point you got a new screen where you got the root password and add a user option.
The Poles completely revolutionised the British (and then American) approach to cryptanalysis. Previously it appeared to be largely linguistic, they brough real(tm) maths into the equation.
Indeed Dilly Knox and Hugh Foss had already broken Enigma years earlier although in its earlier and simpler form. The approach that the Poles brought to the game lent itself to the industrial scale assault on Enigma which was going to be needed.
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