Posts by JAB van Ree

Oracle Linux appears somewhere unexpected: The Windows Store

Re: No Thanks

But read the license on the VirtualBox Extensions pack ... written to be used as a cash cow at some future point in time. And since it's required for USB2 or better it's almost unavoidable.

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W: Nippy stocking filler for the nerd in your life – if you can get one

Sounds like a good match for the Prusa MK3S printers , the old Zero lacked the power to really run OctoPrint.

Will definately try to get one to test with !

See that last line in the access list? Yeah, that means you don't have an access list

Or set up 2FA, these days it comes included in most Linux distributions.

The coming of Wi-Fi 6 does not mean it's time to ditch your cabled LAN. Here's why

Re: Datacenter usage

And in this modern time, where half of our data storage and services are cloud based, how much 'workloads' don't require fast networks? Even most number crunching workloads are actually built upon fast high performance wired networks.

Red Hat defends its CentOS decision, claims Stream version can cover '95% of current user workloads'

Re: The RedHat corporate spinners won't fix this

Linux is Linux ; switching between CentOS and pretty much every other Linux usually only directly affects the deploy / management mechanisms. Most of the major packages are available for all distro's , if not it's usually easy for a competent IT department to fill the void.

CentOS, like RHEL and Fedora use dnf with RPM for package management

Debian with Ubuntu and other clones use apt with dpkg for package management

If you're a big RHEL/CentOS shop you might have a spacewalk / satellite management server, I don't know of a full equivalent for Debian Ubuntu

Python charmer? Data science whizz? Linux engineer? Get a load of these exciting career opportunities waiting for you

Good luck finding such a Linux engineer for the given salary...

Backup a sec – is hard drive reliability improving? Annual failure rate from Backblaze comes in at its lowest yet

YMMV...

We've seen a very high failure rate with many types of Seagate drives, both regular harddisks and SSHD

For us, WD and HGST are the top drives, with some types of HGST's going beyond 9 years without any failures (Oracle used them in their 7210 ZFS machines, 48 packed tight, in a vertical position , we had 2 with 0 disk failures)

Quick note: Brexit consequences for IT

Re: What a shambles already ..

The UK played at the same table by the same rules for over 30 years without a peep, now it by majority vote decides to leave the table and then complains about the rules?

Yes! New company smartphones! ... But I don't WANT one

Re: HTC suprise

Same here, HTC One surprised me positively with battery life. No external storage looked like an issue but so far isn't either. And with the updates already delivered and those still in the pipeline (any day now Android 4.4) I'm not complaining either.

About the only negative to me is the camera, which even for a 4-MegaPixel cam is kinda crap. My old Nokia N900 5 MP camera was a lot better already..