Posts by two00lbwaster 45 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Aug 2010
Moving infrastructure might be easy. Google's forwarding rules come in two types, regional forwarding rules and global forwarding rules (anycast). The latter would be reasonably easy to set up a new backend to the LB in another region, that's what they're designed for to serve from the closest region to the client. But your persistent data is now going to be in another region incurring latency and financial penalties, or you need to move your persistent data too and incur downtime.
With the former regional forwarding rules you're screwed, you'll need to build another LB with another IP address and update your DNS as well as the former mentioned practical issues.
You've fallen into the trap of understanding the word only with its modern context. Rape has long meant to despoil, to take by force (that's where our more limited modern usage of it comes from). As such it's perfectly appropriate and it is exactly how I have used it to describe default opt out policies as opposed to opt in.
Here's a dictionary definition with the archaic version mentioned https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rape
I guess that the only downside of using apk over pkg is that packages from apk are likely to take a massive dump in your /etc, /bin, /usr/bin and other directories, whereas I like how FreeBSD, generally, sticks to putting package manager installed software in sane locations, rather than the base OS locations.
Linuxland doesn't really observe any distinction between base OS and subsequently installed software; probably because of the author's description of it being lots of individual parts flying in close formation so what does it matter if you start adding more and more parts to the formation right?
I just go for tab groups rather than trying to squeeze out more space by going vertical. I'm still pissed about session manager. Multiple times Firefox has eaten my data and the fucktards at Mozilla don't see fit to implement the feature set required for add-on makers to do their job for them (and they have zero interest in writing any more code to support that doesn't result in feature parity with Chrome), so we have a shitty restore process that almost never works and almost always results in lost data or we have to use an add-on that does the job well enough that you don't lose data but is pretty poor compared to what we had before 57 (bare in mind I'm not saying that native session management was any good before 57, just that we didn't need it because we had an add-on which was how it always should have been natively in the first place).
I'm a big fan of explorerpatcher since I got a new 12th gen Intel laptop I had to be on Windows 11 (for Windows anyway) for the CPU support but the new taskbar was obnoxious. I actually have been reviving the quick launch bar manually through every version of Windows since 7 got rid of it as the default so this was quite important to me to restore some familiarity and usability to the OS.
My main complaint with it is that if I can't remap the shortcut then I have to use the top bar (or similarly, if you want to use the Dock for some reason) which can be a long way away when you have a lot of or high resolution screens with maybe an odd layout. It's not about that you can't have multiple screens or set them up as you like, it's about the usability there after which a daily pain for me (I didn't get to choose the hardware/OS and I have not enjoyed the experience these last few months.) I'm sure you must have experienced this having 5 screens, maybe you put up with ctrl+f2 and navigating with the keyboard though.
Except the steaming pile of excretion just doesn't want to work with DP alt. with PD most of the time (and yet Windows and Ubuntu have worked perfectly and without complaint with the same displays). Also the OS is just plain crap for multiple display usage so it doesn't really just work there either.
At least on GKE it was actually fairly simple to spin up a private cluster and also simple to administer it and get workload info via the interface. The problems can arise when the cluster needs access to 3rd party APIs off cluster as you then need Cloud NAT, I think it was, and that has rate limiting in it as to how many outbound connections you can make per server (of maybe 1000 every 2 minutes or so) so its not any good for very chatty applications IME.
Slowness is relative and poor programming can create exceptionally slow code. Multi ms hops to a DB on another server, after already spent multi ms searching a cache only to miss, then waiting for the DB to curn out a result and send it back to you is probably always going to be slower than the python code that you're executing.
https://www.arewee10syet.com/
Yeah, have a look at all broken addons, the ones not tested but listed, and then notice that this page only lists 880 addons out of 1000s.
Also look at the number of users that are using the broken addons who will either lose functionality or be stuck unable to benefit from the E10 changes.
Will any of those users be told when their addons are disabled as incompatible? Not if the move to signed addons is any example of how Mozilla treat their user base.
I've had a quick check:
* I've got 5/20 addons which are known to work
* I've got 6/20 addons which are known not to work
* I've got 3/20 addons which haven't been tested
* I've got 6/20 addons which aren't even listed
Out of the 6 plugins which are broken, I use 5 of them every day and will be disabling E10 until they all work; Ghostery, Downthemall, Lastpass, Session Manager and X-notifier.
A bunch that haven't been tested or aren't listed I'd be in the same boat if they broke, like tab groups, The Addon Bar (restored), external IP and Last tab close button.
I use Juice Defender (BETA) Ultimate on Andorid (I tried it for 'free' by getting the APKs elsewhere and then bought it off of the Play store because I was so impressed with it.)
I can create separate schedules for the weekends and weekdays. I can set the phone to go into flight mode on a schedule and also for it to turn the phone to a different alert setting, vibrate for example, during those schedules. The side benefit is that my phone battery lasts for 2-3 days now too.
The only thing missing at the moment is for Google to tie the alarm clock to the calendar so that I can get the phone to automatically use a different alarm setting if it's a bank/public holiday or I have a holiday scheduled into my calendar.
This really needs to be done as it would mean that my mainly useless memory won't lapse and forget to turn off / on the alarm at the beginning or end of the holidays!
"Most of you want to stay with the same old failed systems: Windows! Look at what a success that has been. Cheap? Have you ever worked in a shop that uses mainly Dell? I have, several times. The cost of the native hardware, with Windows or Suse or Redhat (or self installed Slackware or Suse) was not much lower, especially with the Gold support needed. Then, the failure rate was "awesome". I recall getting a batch of six higher spec. laptops. All were under repair within six months, two of them twice and not for user damage, just straight, hardware failure. The desk tops were scarcely better, though the servers, once one called in the engineer to fit the ordered parts rather than what arrived, were not so bad."
Just because you have had a piss poor experience with PC hardware and open source don't tar the rest of the industry with the same brush. The problem is with the planning and execution.
"We are aware that some customers using the latest version of the browser Firefox, version 4, may currently be experiencing difficulties accessing their account details online. We are in the process of rectifying this and would advise customers in the meantime to use a previous version of Firefox or Internet Explorer.
"This will not impact customers' online security..."
No one should be using IE at the moment due to the MHTML bug that allows drive by attacks that can compromise the system. Stupid, stupid people. Just because they have particularly stupid management when it comes to deploying a web service, and/or particularly stupid web developers doesn't mean that they should be giving poor advice that can lead to their customers having their bank accounts hijacked.
Walk away from Santander, and any other monkeys, that want your cash and can't write a proper website that works across browsers.
Laptop, main PC and the work PC. I need to build an IE8 VM now though; to go with my IE 6 and 7 VMs.
FF 4 will get 10 downloads from me (work PC, main PC, Laptopx2 (Windows and Ubuntu), Netbookx2 (Windows and Ubuntu), Windows VM, Ubuntu VMx2, work Mac Mini).
Guess FF4 wins this round again.
If your visitor statistics back up use of CSS3 and HTML 5 in your websites then I would say go for it. CSS 3 is especially easy to implement into sites in a progressively enhanced way, so we have started using it even though most users won't see the enhancements.
The company I work for shows a massive bias on our clients' sites to IE 6-8 users, and that won't change anytime soon, so even PNGs are a pain to work with.
MHTML bug owns all versions of IE and such attacks will be commonplace for the foreseeable future because of the tight integration with the OS.
Most Linux distros come with Firefox by default, so this is interesting for them.
Firefox didn't get hacked this year at PWN2OWN, along with long standing Chrome (not hacked as of yet).
Firefox 4 is a stepping stone for Firefox 5/6/7 this year which should bring tab isolation/sandboxing, 64bit version, more HTML 5 and CSS 3 features.
So, you now have access to the system through an account; next hack run is privilege escalation exploit.
Once you're in the system remotely you're in the system, regardless of the account you happen to have wheedled your way into.
Doesn't matter what system you're attacking, the exploit methodology is the same; get into the system, escalate privileges, control system.
I really don't understand this. I have never seen large amounts of memory used by Firefox, I only see a huge amount of memory usage with flash apps running (800MB for the plugin container.)
Do you all have so little memory that 100MBs make a difference between browsers?
There is malware out there that causes FF4 to crash but not FF3.6. You need to reformat your PC with a clean OS DVD and check performance again without installing anything other than FF4 and windows patches. Use an antivirus package, like a free one such as Avast 6, or a paid for one from a reputable vendor. Then install your programs one by one.
See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633445
I just manually checked for updates and sure enough there it was ready for download. ~80MB-900MB I think it said, but most machines should be up to date.
I don't fancy the job of updating the four Win 7 office pcs tomorrow. I guess I should be glad that there are only four of them. We have three sat in storage, but hopefully I may get WSUS before I need to update them.
If I, and two thousand of my friends, turn up at some store or other and pack it out, and pack out the street outside trying to get in, just browsing so that no one who might wish to actually give that store their business can get in that would be a denial of service attack.
This is different to just barring the entrance and preventing access as there would be no room for the actual customers to get into the store.
If you were to go into a bank with lots of your friends throughout the UK and remove all the brochures from those branches. That is a DDoS attack, but offline, and it would be seen as a legitimate form of protest.
Thus, I would argue that doing so online, through the LOIC or holding your ctrl+F5 buttons for a few hours, is a legitimate form of protest, as far as I'm concerned, and would cause less of a financial impact than other forms of offline protest. (Think of the amount of cost there is in printing and stocking leaflets and brochures and denial of service on a store or bank, by filling it out with non-customers, would have on the bottom line.)
Is a dual processor workstation in 2015. So, it's got four years of life in it. Six before it will only work in high end single processor machines.
Those four thousand cores will be utilised by a single processor machine in 2027, assuming two years for each process transition and a linear doubling of cores per process transition.
I wonder if they tested the missiles against the Mirach 100/5 towed targets at 792
http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/operations-and-support/fleet-air-arm/naval-air-squadrons/792/
The Mirachs aren't supersonic so can't use them for testing that aspect of the system.
The MoD procurement sounds like my current job's management team's approach to building new software; which is funny as I came from the MoD into my current job.
At my current job, we have managed to get the directors to go to an outside firm to get the specification written. However, knowing the directors, they will constantly be changing things
until they are happy, and so it will be exactly like a military/government project, with massive overruns in terms of costs and time.
Hodehum :-(
Surely you would do this in parts using something like the native zip functionality or a third party program like WinRAR to turn a large number of these files into a single archive.
The thought of transferring 60m files across a network connection makes quail. Even the web servers that I look after top out at 7.5m files.
If we returned to the 'trees', you'd be at the mercies of the person or group of persons that held the biggest stick(s).
If they didn't like what you were saying they'd quite happily be rid of you. If you wandered into someone else's area, they might tortuture you and or kill you for doing so.
All these basic 'Human Rights' are utter b.s.
What most people fail to understand that HMG is probably using and controlling their systems with AD, and as other browsers don't tie themselves into AD, the admins would not have control, unless the browser update is to a more recent version of IE.
Also, what do you think they would do when they realised that all these 'In porn' modes made logging what people were doing impossible to follow?
My impression is that HMG is using IE6 specific ActiveX controls, like a lot of big corporations of the early XP generation and that they would have to rewrite those or all those applications that they use that use them to be able to move away from IE6. Personally, I think that they should never have been allowed to go the OS specific integrated route as it's a lock in to a specific platform. All their apps, both front end and backend, should be fully portable to other OS and browser platforms.
It is a good argument for public oversight of governmental IT projects, so that we the tax payers don't get screwed over, and over, and over.
I also think it's outrageous that the government would publish a statement that insinuates a lie, that they don't need to do anything because there's no evidence that that the latest fully patched browser from MS is any less secure than alternative browsers. All well and good, if they were using IE8, but they aren't using the LATEST fully patched browser from MS, they're using IE6. And probably systems that are not fully patched either, so two lies?
Also CanSecWest has had IE8 crumble during its competitions every year that it has been out. Only one desktop browser remains uncompromised at that event, and that's Google's Chrome browser. So there is the evidence that there are alternative browsers that are less insecure than IE8.
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