Perhaps the algorithm is tuned more for aberrations in meanness from the norm for that user. Possibly it builds a baseline of meanness, and then applies a standard deviation and warns you if you are being unusually mean, or conversely too nice. If this is true (which it obviously isn't) then Matthew needs to get a lot meaner, or a nicer tester is required.
Posts by Edward Groenendaal
9 publicly visible posts • joined 16 May 2012
If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all: El Reg takes Twitter's anti-mean algorithm for a spin
YES, iPhones ARE getting slower with each new release of iOS
Comcast dragged into muck in Oracle's Solaris fix-it lawsuit
Friday 9th May 2014 05:23 GMT
Who keeps licenses?
I've bought a number of Solaris servers within a large telco, we never kept the Solaris licenses. They go straight in the bin. Who does keep them? Where would they be stored. With Sun you never had to worry about that sort of thing.
Of course Oracle comes from the world of individual licenses, if I had bought an license for oracle I'd probably have filed it, on a random shelf somewhere.
Torvalds rails at Linux developer: 'I'm f*cking tired of your code'
Saturday 5th April 2014 09:52 GMT
Issue 1. Systemd should not be using the kernel debug setting.
Issue 2. Systemd should not issue debugs that are not useful.
Issue 3. Kernel needs to be more resilient to logger activity.
In a way systemd has done the kernel guys a favour by highlighting a deficiency in the kernel logging. That said, systemd has stuffed up, and should have admitted it right up front.
Sticky Tahr-fy pudding: Ubuntu 14.04 slickest Linux desktop ever
Saturday 29th March 2014 22:24 GMT
Re: Head to head
I tried migrating my old companies 40 XP desktops to Ubuntu using LTSP fat clients. It actually went rather well. I had to put a finance computer back onto Windows due to a spreadsheet, Libra Office couldn't cope, and also interfacing with government systems that insist on Windows.
However, everyone else was happy. All apps were there, all company ones are web apps.
The approach I took was to initially use a windows skin on a plain desktop. So that it looked identical to XP.
Then with 12.04, I went Unity. They handled it fine.
At no point has anyone needed the command line, and being LTSP it is trivial to manage.
Cheers Ed.
Apple's new Safari snubs older Macs, drops Windows version
Speaking in Tech: The worst government IT deal of ALL TIME
Wednesday 16th May 2012 20:58 GMT 
Retired?
The Cisco sales person gets commission of just under $1m for a sale like that. Pretty big incentive to upsize. Not quite enough to retire on by itself. But throw in other deals and stock etc and I guess it was enough. I think Cisco should have some responsibility for this when dealing with folks who don't know what they need.
Fail for Cisco management not catching this and quoting for a more appropriate system and not taking advantage of the gullible.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
