allegory

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by allegory 12y ago
Well the bash vulnerability and then immediate disclose of another vulnerability makes that statement pretty moot. We also have deeply layered non-hetereogenous kit so you have to punch hard to get through it all to something useful.
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by allegory 12y ago
To be fair, it's pretty expensive breaking them into chunks and packaging them individually and they're turned pin ones by the looks. This isn't massive production run bags of them.
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by allegory 12y ago
Sounds like you need to see the optician. I had the same trouble and they sorted it :)
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by allegory 12y ago
Anecdote. I had a 2011 MBP with backlit keyboard. Never used it once. In fact, the machine ended up with windows on it because MacOS made me want to smash the thing (despite being a Unix guy) and the Boot Camp drivers didn't switch the
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by allegory 12y ago
This is one of the reasons why we fished out for 3x full racks at different DCs and bought our own kit. It's always our schedule.
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by allegory 12y ago
Or just buy an older ThinkPad X201 / X220 / T410 with 1440x900 display and get a new 9-cell battery. The things are really cheap, have a proper keyboard, are bomb proof, every part is replaceable for minimal cost, they are 100% su
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by allegory 12y ago
Great point. One that pains me terribly. Whilst not quite PDP11/VAX territory (I do love VAXstations though!), the killer for me was I bought a low end Sun Ultra 30 in 1999 just before they EOL'ed them and spent 3 years slowly upg
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by allegory 12y ago
That's usually part of the ETL pipeline. If you look at SSIS and spring integration for example it has the ability to do this in the pipeline.
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by allegory 12y ago
Spot on. This is not hard work. I'm not sure exactly what was being done that made this take more than an hour. On our kit, which is pretty hefty, I'd schedule a 30 minute window for a 150Gb ETL even with heavy transformations. Wh
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by allegory 12y ago
Very true. My simplified one on the parent comment of that one makes no attempt to involve Unicode or character ranges for precisely that reason!
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by allegory 12y ago
Very good points there. I worked for an aerospace and defence company for a bit as an electrical engineer. Our software was always read into RAM, checksummed, the RAM was write protected via a register and only then the code was executed. T
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by allegory 12y ago
This. I've had several smartphone devices over the years and not one has been bent in my pocket, even when I sit on it. I don't expect it to happen, even on a premium device.
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by allegory 12y ago
Yes; I get told that every time I mention it :-)
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by allegory 12y ago
I use a slightly more complex variation of that: ^.+@.+\..+$ Works wonders. I think when testing the addresses on a sign up form, we got only 0.5% that we couldn't relay too which was a pretty good hit rate.
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by allegory 12y ago
Not the only one. Someone set up NHibernate on a project I was working on to run logging in DEBUG mode and throw it in a log file capped at 100k. Pages were taking 4-5 seconds to render. Wasn't obvious that the logs were being written
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by allegory 12y ago
Decent quality hard disks and DLTs will probably be fine. I've had DLTs survive 100oC for over an hour inside a fire safe in a fire and some old Seagate Cheetah 10K U160 SCSI disks in an external SCSI case with a dead fan running at 80
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by allegory 12y ago
Try powering off for 5 years and keeping at 75oC and see if the data is still there.
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by allegory 12y ago
I still use a Quantum VS160 DLT to back up my SSD... The thing plugs straight into my laptop via no brand cheapo SCSI/USB bridge much to the laughing from my colleagues (apart from the ops team who understand why I do it). Being an ex
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by allegory 12y ago
That is just shit and there is no excuse for it. I'm sure Apple marketing will spin it like they did with the "you're holding it wrong" scandal.
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by allegory 12y ago
Yes and RedHat is IBM circa 1997 and Canonical is HP circa 1997. The Sun of 1997 is Oracle (again). Creeping up on their arses is Microsoft (again) with Azure and incredibly cheap commercial offerings.
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by allegory 12y ago
I'll give you that to a degree. It does suck on FreeBSD with my X201. Nothing works but I'm being cheeky now and running it in VirtualBox on top of windows (which I need for other work). OpenBSD however works wonderfully.
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by allegory 12y ago
Yes. Indent per issue. One .otl file with all issues in it. No format enforced although I'm pretty consistent at writing issues. Once complete the issue is simply deleted. I've done this up to 4 people and it has worked wonderfull
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by allegory 12y ago
For me Linux is pretty dead already because I can't entirely trust the direct it's going in having survived the Unix wars of the 1990s. There are so many parallels to that at the moment, it's not funny. There are large vendo
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by allegory 12y ago
Excellent points. Monocultures are terribly harmful, especially in the open-source side of things. While github is convenient, it's not the right answer for a lot of things and terribly inconvenient for others. I use git without github
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by allegory 12y ago
Just set in rc.conf: defaultrouter="NO" It shouldn't hang.
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by allegory 12y ago
How often do you reboot your kit? Boot time is such a stupid metric even on laptops and stuff where you just suspend/hibernate. My BSD systems (not front-facing and therefore on a lesser patch cycle) rarely get rebooted and neither do
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by allegory 12y ago
RCTL is a stateful database. It's not there yet, but the right solution for managing this declaratively as with anything else on a Unix platform is Ansible/salt/cfengine or something like that, not building those tools into a
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by allegory 12y ago
This. The FreeBSD rc system just works, is well documented and is small enough to understand by one person without too much effort.
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by allegory 12y ago
Good brand yes, but shitty headphones.
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by allegory 12y ago
I've got 5 quid on Kate having a ginger baby (bet against my friends, not a betting shop). That's as far as it's ok to go if you ask me. The betting shops, gambling outfits and lottery prey on people's desire to be &quot

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