Posts by bsdnazz 30 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jan 2014
The Crowdstrike software license limits their liability to the software fees paid.
Computers are general purpose devices and can be put to many different uses. No software vendor is going to refund consequential losses while charging a standard software fee unless they can control very specifically what you do with their software and thus the risk they're exposed to.
Domestically, I've been moving my family over to USB-C because for normal, dull, household use it's simply very convenient. With mesh Wi-Fi in the house the main thing we use device ports for is charging so all the funny UBS-C data speeds/standards are of little concern.
Most of our cables are UBS-A to USB-C now because we have powered USB-A hubs on our desks, most of the wall wart chargers are UBS-A and the car charging ports are all USB-A.
The car will be the last hold out for USB-A because that won't change until we change the car.
The Yanks are moving to linear magnetic motors for catapults and they just need electricity.
I spent the weekend at Blackpool on the Icon coaster which uses linear magnetic motors to launch the coaster. If a amusement park can make them work then show should the RN's contractors.
If you're not operating as scale (and let's face it most of us are not) then fault tolerant external storage can be a useful part of a resilient system. To date, the down side has been that external storage is slower than internal storage but that's all part of the speed/reliability/cost trade off - pick any two.
NVMeoF greatly improves the speed (latency/bandwidth) and and will be more expensive simply because people will pay for the speed.
It will probably be normal in 5 years time and I'd be happy for NVMEoF over fabric to replace Fibre Channel.
Our Scottish shed is on an EO line connected to the Struan Exchange along with about 110 others.
We're still on ADSL2 - no Plus for us and Openreach When and Where are still exploring options. No fibre journey for us.
The North Skye Broadband has struggled to get a community fibre partnership funded.
It's galling to know that the fibre that supplies the Dunvegan exchange with FTTC goes right past the Struan exchange.
The importance of the reliability of the home automation system is crucial for us.
We have a couple of Hive controlled light bulbs and a power switch. It usually works but not always. The most irritating time is when one cannot turn the bedroom light off because it's after 11pm on a Sunday night and Hive have decided to do some server maintenance!
Yes. Our Echo Dot cannot play any music and while I can logon to our Amazon Music Library web site it cannot play any of our tracks - "We're Sorry We are unable to complete your action. Please try again later."
Good job I also uploaded everything to Google Play and still have local copies for our Sonos system.
IPv6 cannot be fully backward compatible with IPv4 and no IP stack with more IP addresses than IPv4 can be fully backward compatible with IPv4.
The IPv6 address space is far bigger than the IPv4 one (a key point of IPv6) so even with mapping an IPv4 client can only specify 2^32 destination IP addresses. This means it cannot access all the new IPv6 systems.
"offloading clean data pages from traditional storage to flash" meaning that it's a big read only cache.
For resilience some traditional (shared?) fault tolerant storage is still needed.
Also, if the main DB server does crash what's the performance going to be like while the HA DB server catches up? Time for AlwaysOn Failover Clusters I guess.
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