The US allows wall switches to control receptacles for lamps. Often it'll be a two receptacle box with one always on and the other switched.
Posts by pakraticus
12 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Aug 2009
Computer shuts down when foreman leaves the room: Ghost in the machine? Or an all-too-human bit of silliness?
Thinking about upgrading to Debian Bullseye? Watch out for changes in Exim and anything using Python 2.x
You *bang* will never *smash* humiliate me *whack* in front of *clang* the teen computer whizz *crunch* EVER AGAIN
IBM job ad calls for 12 years’ experience with Kubernetes – which is six years old
Re: HR told me that he ticked all the boxes
Our HR person catches when the written job description does not match the hiring manager's verbal justification for the role.
And she might argue for 30 seconds.
Then she passes it on to the poor recruiting agency because she's got three more hiring managers in line pulling the same stunt.
What does £55 get you in the noise-cancelling headphones world? Something like the Taotronics SoundSurge 85
Linux fans thrown a bone in one Windows 10 build while Peppa Pig may fly if another is ready in time for this year
Re: WSL1 versus WSL2
Have not looked since late 2018.
My fuzzy memory:
SSH multiplexed connections didn't work.
emacs displaying to X11 didn't work.
Disrupted Virtualbox.
Instead:
Chocolatey provides enough of a package manager.
'Git for Windows' provides a good enough bash prompt and Unix toolset.
Virtualbox + Vagrant provides low pain options for disposable VMs.
A two line batch file is enough to bootstrap Chocolatey and Git for Windows.
And that's enough to use a shell script to provision the rest.
And my rest includes IIS and Visual Studio 2013. We have a web based editor that requires IIS. And we have a key product component that only builds under VS2013.
And I connect to a Linux desktop VM in the server room for 90% of my development work.
Those IT gadget freebies you picked up this year? They make AWFUL Christmas presents
Sure it wasn't this green beverage?
Sure it isn't the green stuff used at Frankie's Ice Cream
How can family sysadmins make a safe internet playground for kids?
I took a different tact with my step kids.
1) Flat out told them they could surf whatever they wanted on the web, but they would have to be prepared to explain what they were looking at to their mother or me.
2) To not do anything on myspace or facebook that would get their step mother tattling to their father.
3) Keep them busy with activities they enjoy that don't involve the computer.
We've had two incidents of stupidity from the eldest that were nowhere as bad as things I got into with a modem and a PC in the mid to late 80s.
Australian bank to run trial with human teller in ATM
A credit union in North Carolina has been doing this for years...
First it was video link and pneumatic tube because "There have been so many bank robberies in the area." And my response was "And it's all been some rather shafty banks and no credit unions."
Then it was check reader and cash dispenser.
I'd say it's a tossup if it improved things. Tellers are now available 7AM to 7PM 7 days a week "Unless it's a bank holiday". There is a branch manager available during normal banking hours for the more complicated account related work. And in full branches there is additional staff to handle the long drawn out things like loans and investment accounts and public notary and odd currency (IE bundle of 2 dollar bills, or roll of dollar coins). Wait time for the odd stuff is shorter. Wait time for a teller is generally shorter. But the tellers aren't as pretty as they used to be and I can't ogle their assets.
IPv6 intro creates spam-filtering nightmare
Yes port 25 should be blocked for most residential ISP IP addresses.
If you need to send SMTP from your home, either send via submission (SMTP+TLS+SMTPAuth (SASL)) to your mail server at your colo (Also works with Google and Yahoo). Or get business class service where if there isn't a public record of how to send the torches and pitchforks to your home, they can atleast take them to your ISP.
As for the can't blacklist. FUD. Greylisting kills most of the garbage. Yes there are idiot mail sources that don't work with greylisted recipients (FedEx, Google, Messagelabs). But they are fairly well known and there are read to use whitelists for them, some of them even have information on how to pull the SPF records to generate the white lists.
Hand over illegal porn at the border, please
How to turn a world leader into a fourth-rate broadband economy
Wilson, North Carolina has one solution...
A town of 50K in eastern NC with good broadband speeds because the town decided that broadband should be a public utility like water and sewer.
http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A259848
For their troubles, the phone companies and cable companies have sued the town and have lobbied in the state legislature to prohibit such activities.
As for the others in North Carolina complaining about broadband. AT&T uVerse *IS* being deployed ever so slowly. I do not understand their deployment strategy, but the pattern I perceive is that they are putting a higher priority on areas with a high level of affluence with aging telco gear that are close to the cable path to large subdivisions that started construction since the first uVerse deployments.
And I've been pleased with the service. The link to my house is 25M down 2M up traffic shaped to 12M data 7M iptv down and 1.5M data up.
I'm not very fond of the matter that nearly every click on my remote results in IP traffic sent to the VRAD, but they should be able to get a premium on advertising dollars since they have the data to correlate channel changes with the show or content being viewed and then correlate that to a specific demographic household. I don't know what they do with the data, but I know they have it.