Posts by jake

Forum post stuffing

Re: Forum post stuffing

Look within, PFY.

Wait... who broke that? Things you need to do to make your world diagnosable

Re: different times on their internal clocks, whatever logs..will be almost impossible to collate

Professionals sync their entire network to one of several atomic clocks.

(Example, ntp.org ... I use something different.)

My network time-keeper checks in on "ntp.org" once a week (and is accurate to under a quarter of a second every six months). The rest of the kit take clock from that box daily. It's close enough for government work, so it's close enough for me.

Claiming "we can't match up the various machine logs to exact times" is a cop-out from an extremely clueless netadmin staff.

What else is new.

IBM preached this in the 1950s

MaBell preached this in the 1960s

DEC preached this in the 1970s

... etc. etc.etc. etc.

The more we forget history ...

Calm down, dear: Woman claims sexism in tech journalism

@Kieren McCarthy

Do you really hate the over-the-weekend ElReg moderation staff that much? What did they ever do to you? Inquiring minds & all that ;-)

Ad giant Google thinks its cloud biz could be bigger than its adverts

So, paraphrasing ...

... Advertising isn't working for the goo-tards, so they will try to make money from five-year's ago "cloud" meme?

The mind absolutely boggles.

True believers mind-meld FreeBSD with Ubuntu to burn systemd

Re: @ Doctor Syntax

"Why not just use the term "unix-like system", instead of the silly "wildcard in place of the u", notation?"

The PFY clearly has no concept of ""The UNIX[tm] Way." It is obviously young, and new to the wonders of the power of *nix. It will probably grow up. Eventually.

"And if you want to "write it out properly", try Unics."

Unics is a similar, but different kettle of worms.Think "proto *nix".

Re: Haters gonna hate

I've noticed that the above subject-line is usually used by kids who don't have the ability and/or education to actually explain their position.

FireBurn hasn't changed my opinion.

@ Doctor Syntax

"Unix. Try writing it out properly."

"Unix" is a very specific thingie.

"*nix" is a generic term for many work-alike variations on the theme.

HTH, HAND.

Interesting hack. I've fiddled with it. Might have legs.

During the meanwhile, I'll stick with on flavo(u)r or another of BSD on the servers, and Slackware on the desktops. Seems easier, somehow.

Disaggregated hyperconvergence thinks storage outside the box

Management & marketing are ...

... really flailing, aren't they? They have no clue about technology, and are inventing terminology out of the whole cloth to justify their existence to the even more clueless shareholders.

Favourite sound chip and why

Chip? Heathens!

Tascam half inch tape, dual McIntosh stereo pre-amps, quad McIntosh MC-2300s, Boston Acoustic studio monitors ... Music delivered by chip just ain't music.

US State Department sextortionist gets 57 months in cooler

Four years and nine months?

One wonders, Assistant Attorney General Caldwell, how you came to that figure?

Do you qualify as poor in Palo Alto? Spoiler: Yes, yes, you do

First of all ...

... you can easily afford to purchase a home[0] in a decent neighborhood in Palo Alto for about the same amount of money as renting a squalid one bed, half bath flat in a rundown Victorian converted into four units in San Francisco. Honestly. Do the math(s).

Secondly, Noe Valley is in San Francisco, not Palo Alto.

Thirdly, renting is throwing money away when you can afford to purchase.

[0] 60-70 year old tract house, 3 bed, 1 bath, attached single car garage on a .25 acre lot ... or, if you are feeling adventurous, a similarly aged 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car attached garage "Eichler"[1] on a similar sized lot.

[1] AKA "Four minute houses", because if you have a house fire, that's about how long it takes to burn to the ground.

Former Intel CEO Andy Grove dies, aged 79

RIP, bud.

See you on the other side.

Boffins find a way to put your facial expression on Donald Trump's mug

Re: I hope it's *main* result will be to teach people to believe *nothing* digital

But I read it on the Internet! It must be true!

Re: Eh, people will know it if I start distributing fake Donald Trump videos...

"Because the stuff Donald is saying will start making some sense!"

Now THAT would take some serious AI computing power!

Perhaps amfM could chip in on the possibility of this becoming reality?

Woz: World-changers to Apple Watches, why pay for an overpriced band?

@AC 16hrs (WTM, ElReg(was: Re: Who actually wears a watch anymore, and why?))

"And for the same several decades I expect those people lucky to have been on the receiving end of your pointed and somewhat arrogant questioning have no doubt been asking themselves something very different."

Nope. I just ask 'em what time it is. They always have zero idea. I don't take it past the question & reaction stage. No point, really, when you think about it. It's just a personal[0] chuckle. Try it, you might be amused by it ;-)

[0] I have used this several times in half an hour when interviewing someone to fill a job ... three strikes, and they are out.

Re: @AC "17 hrs" (whatever that means El Reg)

Cats aren't allowed. They simply exist.

Re: Who actually wears a watch anymore, and why?

So, essentially, it's either affectation, or because marketards say so, or because you think you need it (spot the difference between the three & win a beer!).

I have an issue with the "just look at wrist to see the time" answer, for one very simple reason: For several decades now I've been silently counting to five after somebody looks at their watch, and then asking "what time is it?" They always need to look at their watch again. Over the last decade or so, I have changed the question to "without looking at your wrist, what time is it?" They always look at me blankly.

The barns & arenas all have large wall clocks (and thermometers) easily viewable from wherever we are dealing with the horses. Making weird hand movements when training flight-or-fight critters is contraindicated.

To be quite honest, I do have a dive watch, but because I only get into the dive gear to scrape boat hulls and replace zincs these days, I haven't used it in years.

Yes, I am jake. Glad you noticed. Dick Tracy is a cartoon.

@AC "17 hrs" (whatever that means El Reg)

"Every man and his dog's been on it for years."

No. Dogs are Not Allowed. Everybody knows that.

Who actually wears a watch anymore, and why?

Serious question. I can see the time damn near anywhere I look, and I have no interest in pretending to be Dick Tracy.

Domino's trials trundling four-wheeled pizza delivery bot

Earth to Dominos ...

... might want to spend money on learning to make actual pizza before spending money on delivering it. Just a thought.

nbn says Telstra's copper in better shape than expected

So it hasn't been stolen for scrap value, then?

Just askin' ...

Big data boffins crunch GPS traces, find altruistic route planning is good for everyone

Whatever.

Local knowledge trumps all.

Tourists will always be confuzled ... making them more confuzled with electronic "fixes all" gizmos is only compounding the issue.

FAA's 'drone smash risk to aircraft' is plane crazy

The difference between drones & birds around airports ...

... is that the birds are usually smart enough to stay well away from the planes. The drone pilots? Not so much.

Hackers demo prototype security scanner that thinks like a human

It'll be fool-proof!

Unfortunately, fools are very ingenious ...

UK Snoopers' Charter crashes through critics into the next level

Power corrupts.

Absolute power ... ::bleh::

I beg you, please don't back up that secret directory full of photos!

_@ podgerama

"My longest serving mate"

Who will never trust you, ever again, with anything. And he's going to tell his other mates. Nice going, Friendless.

~/.thumbnail

All I can say is don't go there, unless you absolutely have to ...

Nest: It's no longer all about you. Now it can recognize your kids, too

@Lusty (was: Re: What is the obsession

"needlessly burning fossil fuels"

My GSHP is solar powered. It really doesn't take much electricity. Occasionally over the last 15 years, my itty-bitty backup hydro plant[0] has kept the battery charged in cloudy weather.

"I just find translation to standard English difficult sometimes as a Brit."

As a Yank with an A-level in English[1], I find your use of written (type(o)d) English absolutely atrocious. Kindly learn proper sentence structure, punctuation and capitalization before attempting to comment on same. Ta.

[0] Small automotive alternator charging several 8D lead acid "fire engine batteries", spun by a small trickle of water (~30 gallons/minute) from one of my springs. The water carries on to the herb garden.

[1] Sat in Yorkshire nearly 40 years ago ... Gawd/ess, I'm getting old.

Re: What is the obsession

To me, this entire "obsession" thread is pretty funny. All y'all are applying bandaids (elastoplast to you brits) to a problem that is easily fixable. Simple answer: Proper insulation, and a properly sized & installed GSHP. We're at 70F 24/365.25 (except the machineroom/museum/mausoleum/morgue, at 64F). Our HVAC bills sq-ft are lower than any of our neighbors ... Just keep it the same temp, all the time, and you aren't wasting energy heating it up or cooling it down. Sounds counter intuitive, perhaps, but it works.

Yes, I know, not everybody has this option. IMO,after living with it these last 15 years, it should be part of the UBC for all new housing.

(Truth be told, we have toe-kick heaters in the bathrooms, under the kitchen sinks, and in the mud and laundry rooms. SWMBO insisted. They run off hot water from the GSHP.)

The question remains ...

... what good is all this so-called "new"[0] technology?

I mean, seriously, how hard is it to flip on a light switch?

[0] My decades old X10 kit does pretty much the same thing ... but nobody bought into that, either.

Microsoft's done a terrible job with its Windows 10 nagware

Drop the final word in the Subject line ...

... and I suspect that you will be closer to the truth.

DARPA to geeks: Weaponize your toasters … for America!

Sorry, DARPA

Those of us with a clue don't work on consumer goods anymore.

The consumer situation is so sad that it's just not worth it.

Management & marketing took all the fun out of hacking.

Obama puts down his encrypted phone long enough to tell us: Knock it off with the encryption

Mr. President ...

So you think that privacy isn't important for the GreatUnwashed?

Serious question, Mr. President. That's an EXTREMELY slippery slope.

Do you, your Wife and Daughters have plate-glass[0] windows on the outside walls of 1600 Pennsylvania, with a clear view from the outside of your bathrooms/showers? If not, what, exactly, are you hiding? Are you a ::whispers:: a terrorist organization?[1]

Hint to FiveEyes/Echalon, who should have already had all this crap from the cellphone in question on file, I am not impressed ... and you're not going to relay this comment to the CIC because you've been cocking things up for decades.

[0] Bullet proof, of course. Wouldn't want anyone getting hurt.

[1] Aside from the constant background radiation of the .gov trying to getting me to fear manufactured terrorists that will never exist in my life, that is ... Sorry, .gov, you can't terrorize me. I ain't quaking in my boots.

Cloud Native Computing Foundation adopts Kubernetes

Am I the only one who scanned that as ...

... "Cloud Naive Computing Foundation"? Just askin' ...

Sexism isn't getting better in Silicon Valley, it's getting worse

@Bucky 2 (was: Re: As a side-note ...)

"But in terms of real-life discrimination"

In that post, I was discussing online text harassment, not real-life.

People who can't differentiate between the two have other issues.

@ Jimbo 6 (was: Re: Hint to everybody ...)

"Are you both warders in a women's prison ? (Genuine question.)"

You are a part of the problem. Genuine answer.

Hint: grow up.

As a side-note ...

"Prominent women in technology now routinely get blasted by"

::miscellaneous misogynistic mindbogglingly malodorous morons::

Simply ignore them. It's just text from silly little boys. They can't hurt you.

If you feed the trolls, you get to keep them.

Hint to everybody ...

... just get out there and do your job.

As a male, I got hit on on a regular basis by females at work. I laughed it off.

My wife, female, reports similar.

I suspect Admiral Grace would suggest losing the angst and getting on with it.

Knackered Euro server turns Panasonic smart TVs into dumb TVs

Re: During the meanwhile ...

"How do you know if you don't watch?"

Unless one never leaves one's TV free house, one can't help but be exposed to the constant excrement that so-called "people" seem to find entertaining.

During the meanwhile ...

The "Dear Old Telly" next to my front door is a catch-all for dog leads, (unused) poop bags, and this week's snail-mail bills. The remote is cobwebbed to the corner away from the door.

Hasn't been anything worth watching on TV in ... uh ... Probably ever.

SQL Server for Linux: A sign of Microsoft's weakness. Sort of

Yeah ...

... but who in their right mind will actually use it in a production environment?

That's not a knock on Redmond, that's a serious question.

Home Ebola testing with a Tricorder? There's an app for that

Lovely.

Medics with no concept of computer/network security, with a throw-away device, will have a largish pile of ordinary civilian data at the fingertips of whoever finds it.

Has anybody actually thought this thru'?[0]

[0] Beyond "We'll make $BILLIONS", of course ...

Cisco plans routers that are servers, or vice-versa, with KVM aboard

That might be a server or router ...

But it certainly isn't anything approaching a firewall ... not by any stretch of the imagination.

Email pioneer Raymond Tomlinson dies aged 74

I'm pretty certain that ...

... we were calling Facsimiles "email" in the 1950s.

Likewise, IBM's "Administrative Terminal System" in the early 1960s was effectively node to node email.

Regardless, rest in peace Raymond. You done good. Not many can claim that.

No more Nookie for Blighty as Barnes & Noble pulls out

Re: I have a local library ...

"What - and I can just walk into a school and use their library, can I?"

Depends. If it's an elementary/primary/junior/middle/high school (i.e. pre-adult), you'd best go to the administration and politely ask first. I have never had a problem demonstrating this to people who poo-poo this concept. Adult schools that you can walk to usually embrace their local community. As I said, try it. You may like it.

"That sort of behaviour gets you arrested over here..."

Where, exactly, is "over here"? I've used it on both sides of the pond.

Evolution in action

Tools aren't toys.

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Docker may be the dumbest thing you do today

@EdFX ... WOW!

I don't think I've ever had a buzzword bingo card filled from a single post!

Ta! Have a beer on me :-)

@Adrian 4 (was: Re: have a CoW man)

"But I'm not sure what the thinking user is supposed to do"

Slackware. This has been true for over twenty years.

Note that the keyword there is "thinking", not "user".