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by blackbeard 11y ago
This is one reason we don't use cloud-based source code hosting. All it takes is one idiot fork or an accident and wham, code everywhere.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Thinkpad love there as well. His "custom" computer appears to be an X220 tablet in an enclosure.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Problem is we kitted out two 42U racks in two DCs with HP and EMC kit on VMware and got four humans for five years for less than the comparable quote from IBM. And we've tested replication and failover to the same extent and didnt have
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by blackbeard 11y ago
I wish I had that much confidence. Back in the late 1990s I was involved in provisioning a large Sun e15k. Not indestructable but nearly. It broke. You know what happened? The factory roof leaked and poured water onto the DC sub-building wh
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Spending money? Yep.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
That sounds like a whole lot of eggs in one very expensive basket. Plus we can get that density with standard kit I reckon.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Not really. I have centos boxes that have been up for over 3 years.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
There's nothing wrong with dynamic allocation in a kernel. It is for example better than having fixed size process tables and all the crap that comes with that. "holy crap I've got to recompile my kernel to get more processes
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by blackbeard 11y ago
(if you can remember how to use it each time)
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by blackbeard 11y ago
True. We use composition to attach things to an object rather than develop a deep taxonomy through inheritance.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
I've been open to it. I went on a journey of SICP, Common Lisp, Haskell and F# over three years. I went back to my OO roots and c#/c++ and carried on mostly as I did before. Why? Simply that its easier to rationalise a large syste
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Sold.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
I'd happily help foot the bill. So how much is that 1000 mile journey going to cost? 1000/44.9 4.456 1.119= where's my calculator?
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by blackbeard 11y ago
We did it in the UK. Its fine. Apart from some things like miles and gallons which would require a massive synchronised change that is. I'd also like it if we drove on the RHS here as well so we can get decent import vehicles.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Yes couldn't agree more with that. Also dates in numeric order I.e. yyyy/mm/dd you know like all the other numbers we deal with not dd/mm/yyyy or the crazy mm/dd/yy.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Good cars. Too wet here in the UK for something to last that long. My 2006 Fiat is on its way out already...
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Wait until Teslas become cheaper. Until then, buy a Lada Niva. No one will want to steal it and it doesn't have anything complicated in it that can be hacked.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Money is good though so that's some consolation :) Salesforce is the root of all evil. Once you're in the ecosystem, you're stuffed. You know it's bad when the entire business team start running round clucking when the E
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Exactly. I just want to keep a couple of processes running without having to learn the DJB ecosystem. I also want them portable if we shift off CentOS to Ubuntu in the future or something.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
I have found that systemd whilst large is actually spot on for managing services particularly from say ansible. Just drop a service file and the binary on disk and start the service. No external supervisor process, no funny acres of bash to
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Yes but not on recommendation. In fact the majority of what I do these days is legislative compliance and bringing teams and applications back onshore that the companies have fucked up. Currently digging a financial company out of a royal m
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Yes we should forget it. They worked out it's easier to get at our data out and on home territory (cloud, telemetry) than actually have to break into your kit.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
I feel your pain. This is my life.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
A BT engineer came to my house, attempted to fix something and told me that they didn't have the parts (a socket faceplate c'mon that's just silly for a telecoms engineer. I walked out of the house two hours later to him havi
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by blackbeard 11y ago
I don't and never have done for personal use. I literally have an IMAP box and nothing else.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Didn't know about iftop; thanks for the suggestion.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
I'm in the UK so no prisonplanet.com. We do however get RT here :)
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by blackbeard 11y ago
That's true but then you still have to understand the data that is sent rather than where it is collected from. The of latter is much easier than the former from experience (I've had to reverse engineer a couple of protocols in my
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by blackbeard 11y ago
To be fair that's no worse than the celebrity trash splattered all over the MSN home page for example..
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by blackbeard 11y ago
One KB or sfc run later and that'll all be turned back on again...

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