Posts by druck 4199 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jun 2007
I hope you're getting paid for those evening hours ...
I'm only working into the evening because I've taken an hour or two during the day to go to the shops, or do something with the kids during the holidays - the benefits of flexible working from home.
I'm actually doing the reverse of BYOD - TCDH Take the Company Device Home. I don't bother plugging it from all my monitors and use it remote in to my various bits of equipment to do stuff. Trouble is if I forget to change my availability status on the work laptop, people think I'm working all hours.
WFH it is not quite so dynamic. We have no idea if the person is there or online (espeically if you have multiple client devices / VDI's so you appear as away), so they don't always try to get hold of you and I don't stop to show them things (though may do if I feel it is worth it in a weekly meeting) There is the lack of office conversations where they will pick things up.
If you set up appropriate groups on slack or teams, the a team member with a question can ask on there. If its something simple the response will come straight back from whoever is around, if it's more complicated someone will offer to jump on a call in a few minutes when it's convenient and talk them through the problem. Very rarely it takes more than 10 minutes to get a response throughout the day and often in to the evening, and it's less of a distraction to those answering the questions than if they were physically interrupted at their desks in an office.
Microsoft has been replaced because it's a vendor with a horrible track record in security, the most unreliable cloud offering of all cloud vendors, and with a portfolio of bug-ridden products which, increasingly, are plastered with ads and other monetarization components which have no place in a business environment.
This needs to be written in 100pt bold text, as the Microsoft apologists seem to need better glasses.
But a vehicle that can't handle an oncoming vehicle in the same lane ? I understand that avoidance maneuvers is a whole other set of abilities, but braking is still supposed to be on the cards, is it not ? The vehicle "initiated a braking maneuver". Nice to know. Why did it not stop entirely ?
The AVs get so many false indications of on coming traffic from vehicles in the other lane on bends and at intersections, they have assume the other traffic isn't on a collision course most of the time to avoid having to continually brake. This seems to work right up to when it doesn't, when there is actually an oncoming vehicle in the same lane, it's too late to avoid.
So far I've only got 5G on visits to London. I've been less than impressed as the phone will seek out any 5G network even if there is a better 4G signal available. I checked this with the OpenSignal app, doing a speed test with 5G, then forcing the phone to only connect to 4G and retesting. 5G was worse and I just ended up using half my monthly data allowance in one day.
There's no point in having gigabit fibre to the premises, if your devices are connected via WiFi and you use the ISP's crappy router which struggles to give you 100mb/s six foot from the router.
Round here Toob are putting in FTTP and someone who hadn't had BT's FTTC disconnected yet did a test around the house. Obviously the speed when connected via Ethernet was far higher on Toob, but their WiFi was slower even in the same room as the router, and dropped off to next to nothing further away in the house. Where as slow old BT less-than-full-fibre was far quicker everywhere, due to spending a few pennies more on the in home hardware.
Of course it's easily fixed by replacing the ISP's junk with a decent WiFi router (and a mesh network if necessary), but how many people know they need to do that?
If there are no exact RHEL clones, then should I even bother testing on RHEL equivalents or should I just delete that VM and save some time and disk space?
Don't bother with RHEL testing from now on, if a RedHat customer wants to run your application and there are problems they should get on to RedHat support and it will be up to them to fix and submit patches - the customer is paying enough for it.
