Posts by Tom 38 4344 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jul 2009
And bricks and mortar retailers wonder why people buy online?
What happened here is even more egregious - these people HAD bought online. They chose to click and collect their orders, and when they turned up the B&M sales staff tried to force them to pay extra for the thing that they had already paid for or they could not have the thing they ordered.
There must be something criminal in that.
It saved €14 million in license fees, but cost ~€17 million to migrate over 10 years and ~€82 million to remediate systems to work with Linux. As per Munich council's own figures.
When the new political administration decided they needed a report to justify their change, they got an obliging gushing Microsoft partner to write whatever they felt they needed in order to justify it.
I'm sure they did the same the other way around when they decided to go to Linux, but believing politicians when they say things about money is just foolish.
he is probably distressed and some slimy PR company told him to do an interview. He was probably desperate but the point is he should be able to move on with his life.
However the crux of his argument is that he is not a public figure. I'm not sure how that tallies with businessmen being public figures, and this businessman hired a public relations company to help manage his public image.
they all block unsupported WiFi cards in their BIOS, as this is a requirement to get FCC approval for a device which emits RF radiation.
UTTER bollocks. The manufacturer of the wifi card is required to get FCC approval. Only certain manufacturers interpret their obligation to test the RF emissions of devices that they sell to be only to allow the use of original parts. For instance, Dell have never put a wifi device lock on their laptops whilst HP have.
Are you saying Dell are breaking the law? Or just trying to justify General Motors like OEM control?
Bought an HP laptop about 10 years ago, wifi card didn't work with Linux (this was a while ago). Found an equivalent mini pci-e wifi card that was compatible from Germany, took off the easy access panel and swapped it out for the original HP one.
HP's BIOS refused to POST with a card that was not an original HP part.
As Adam said, k8s is about managing collections of containers of the same type, and groups of collections of different types. Once you have collections of containers, and tools for routing between them, you can start doing very cool things:
* canary deploys. Create a new release, create some updated nodes, and put some users traffic through them, whilst 99% of users continue to use the old app
* blue/green deploys: for when you need to switch everyone all at once, roll out your new nodes and then switch traffic to go to them, switch back if it goes wrong.
* auto load balancers - no more editing haproxy configs when you add nodes
* integrated monitoring
We can trivially spin up cattle with Ansible/Puppet without the need for Docker, so for Docker to make it into the implementation you need to be able to justify it.
It's far better than our older architecture of kvm VMs and CFEngine. Everything that went in CFEngine, even if it was about the structure of the application and code, had to be approved by a sysadmin before the software teams could apply it.
It's easier to manage and distribute workloads with a well structured k8s/docker/terraform/vagrant/ci setup. For developers, they get more control over how the software is structured - and if it breaks, it's on them not the sysadmin, and can be rolled back trivially. k8s manages the haproxy routing of requests to containers automagically, so there is no manual configuration file changes when we add an extra host, it JFDI. It makes it much simpler to do red-green deployments, or gradual rollout of new features, things that were harder or impossible with the old system.
If you are just using docker for the hell of it, no, its not a good solution. There's lots to learn and implement, and if you cba to put the effort in to do that, you're not going to get good results. It's not enough to say "Use Docker", there are at least 10+ other parts of the infrastructure to setup and use.
The traffic lights in my home town in $DREARY_RURAL_LOCATION are light activated, at night time if you flash to full beam as you approach the junction, the lights will change to you (assuming no other cars doing the same from other junctions). As the roads are basically empty at 11pm (yes, that dreary and rural), you can basically whizz through town, coast in to the lights and never actually stop.
Only vulnerable if you use HTTP-POST binding to deliver the SamlResponse to the service provider, if you are using other bindings like HTTP-Artifact then there is no chance for the response to be modified.
Admittedly, that is the most common - I don't know why, it makes the client requirements so much stronger.
The OnePlus used to be a "Flagship killer", but now the 5T is just a small discount to true flagships, and a pony more than a Huawei P10. If I was going to buy a phone tomorrow, it would be a Xiaomi 5c (8 core, 2.2GHz, 3GB/64GB, £150), but I won't because my OnePlus 2, reflashed with LineageOS runs great.
Random search found a phone with a rather similar looking screen. Obviously not the same one form out back of the factory for that price...
https://www.geekbuying.com/item/OUKITEL-U18-5-85-Inch-4GB-64GB-Smartphone-Black-392736.html
They even copied the notch. Funnier is one of their quoted reviews:
We do not know if any other company will launch a mobile of this type soon, but it seems that Oukitel will take the cat to the water in terms of speed
Is this a new definition of "furiously" quick?
Where there's a will, there's a way. Remember, Oklahoma City and Bath Township both used materials readily available to any farmer.
1967 - Jayne Mansfield is killed when her car runs under the rear end of a tractor trailer. Since then, all trailers have a DOT bar at the rear to keep cars from going under them.
1982 - Seven people die when Tylenol packaging was tampered with. Since then, it takes a PhD, channel locks, and a sharp object to get into a bottle of pills.
2001 - One person attempts to blow up a plane with a shoe bomb. Since then, all air travelers have to take off their shoes for scanning before being allowed to board.
Since 1968 - 1,516, 863 people die from guns on American soil. Since then, the problem apparently can't be solved except with thoughts and prayers.
But no, please do continue with your whataboutery
He used rm -rf which then traversed the link
rm doesn't follow symlinks. The only time it does anything that could be thought of as following a symlink is:
ln -s foo /data/foo && rm -rf foo/
This also is not "following the symlink", the user is explicitly referencing the directory pointed to by the symlink foo by including the trailing slash, so rm is being passed the physical directory it points to, not the symlink.
For the benefit of the men and women on the Clapham Omnibus..
WTF is SJW?
It's a way of categorising the paranoia level of a post. You simply count the number of times "SJW", "TPTB", "MSM", "RINO" or "cuck" appears in a post to give yourself a comparative score.
(Social Justice Warrior, The Powers That Be, Mainstream Media. Republican In Name Only, Cuckold)
My Sony walkman from 3-4 years ago was fully waterproof earbuds - fully sealed units that charge via induction.
Most of the time when you see a story about the battery in something exploding/catching on fire, it because it was a cheap knock-off. Basically you get what you pay for.
Most of the time it's someone carrying a loose battery in their pockets, it shorts on their keys or coins etc and they lose a bunch of skin.
Speed limits being set too low and speed limits being enforced are different issues but equally wrong.
It's not valid to break a law just because you feel that it shouldn't apply to you, just as it is not valid to pass laws that your citizens will not obey.
It does make the FBI and DOJ look either incompetent or operating with an ulterior motive.
It really doesn't. It makes a bunch of snide insinuations and uses innuendo to suggest that, but it is done crudely, and baldly ignoring any facts that would question that narrative, like that the Steele dossier was only mentioned at Page's FISA renewal hearing as additional uncorroborated evidence that should be investigated.
There was other evidence, but Nunes doesn't include that in the memo because it doesn't fit his narrative.
Quite possibly Trump has not illegally obstructed the Mueller inquiry, but he is running around saying "Will no-one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"
Nothing was delivered, and I tell this truth to you - not out of spite or anger, but simply because it's true. Now, I hope you won't object to this, giving back all of what you owe. The fewer words you have to waste on this, the sooner you can go.
Nothing was delivered, but I can't say I sympathize with what your fate is going to be, yes, for telling all those lies. Now you must provide some answers for what you sold that's not been received and the sooner you come up with them the sooner you can leave.
Now you know nothing was delivered and it's up to you to say just what you had in mind, when you made everybody pay. No, nothing was delivered and someone must explain that - as long as it takes to do this, then that's how long that you'll remain.
There are other options, depending upon your leverage - for instance, we still have tube train drivers on various London Underground lines that were designed to be run with no drivers, because the union shut down London if it is ever considered to go automated.
I expect we will have them forever.
The bitrate is the same. Just the degree of compression of the content which differs.
lolwut? The degree of compression changes but the bitrate is the same?
The bitrates correspond to a level of quality that is considered broadcast. HEVC requires lower bitrates to achieve the equivalent quality.
We used to use MPEG-2 for HD, do you think the bitrates for that are the same as the H264 streams?
TCP/IP is not designed for broadcast TV, compared to normal broadcasting methods.
a) I said IP, not TCP/IP. The bloke lower down said UDP, also runs over IP. It seems to work just fine for most things we put over it so far without being designed for it.
b) I very much doubt there will be much broadcast going on. Quite a lot of streaming, no broadcast.
allow broadcasters to avoid their expensive broadcast transmission costs, making the punters pay for it by moving the infrastructure cost of transmission from the push service of the broadcaster to a 'pull service' by the punter hidden under the carpet that is the cost of 'high speed broadband'.
Hate to break it to you, but punters pay for everything all the time anyway. Do you not think it makes sense to deliver everything over IP, or should we continue maintaining multiple distribution systems?
Could we better spend the (presumably) tens of millions currently being spent sending men up ladders to fix dishes to walls?
And making it publicly available when not intended. Has that offset the productivity gains?
Only very specific people with very specific permissions can make a private repository in to a public one. I would have thought that DJI made every developer have that very specific permission (normally just one user in the entire company has that permission)
Nothing you can't setup on your own with free tools, if you don't want to pay, and get better ones with far more control.
You don't actually understand how commercial IT works I'm guessing. There is no option if I "don't want to pay". I either pay someone else to set it up for me and maintain and host it, or I pay in my time and resources to configure it, maintain and host it myself. The first option just takes a small amount of money, but the second one costs immediate development time (whilst we're setting it up) and reduces velocity (any time we need to maintain it) and introduces risks (disaster recovery).
As to "better ones with far more control", this is hardly accurate. As an example, we use the Sentry.io error reporting tool on some of our projects. This is an open source project, you can install it in house and host it yourself, which we did for about a year before switching to have them host. Guess what? Their hosted version has more features than they put in the open source public one.
The costs of hosting (2 application servers, two database, one redis) and the support costs (1 developer for 3 weeks initially, 1 more week doing upgrades) dwarfed what it would have cost us to have sentry host it. We get an additional developer-month of progress on our own tasks.
It's because its a false narrative. China don't subsidise PV manufacture, they subsidise PV installations connected to their grid via a Feed In Tariff, just like the rest of the world. This has stimulated their PV panel construction industry to invest in more efficient production.
Here is an excellent article on the subject; basically US was the world leader in PV panel production, China invested huge amounts to satisfy their own demand (>50% of chinese made panels are not exported) and the US did not.
Their solution is tariffs, so that everything is more expensive for the consumer, and the inevitable total collapse of US PV exports as the rest of the world ignores them
If people had wanted to come in to work wearing lycra, cold and wet and needing a shower and change of clothes, they probably already would.
Guess what? Most people like washing and getting dressed at home, and they don't like getting up earlier for the glorious benefits of cycling. Many cyclists only prefer to do it in their commute for part of the year, but we all need to go to work all year round.
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