Posts by amacater 125 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jul 2014
I'm a wheelchair user. Took a door off its hinges at school after going down a slope at high speed. Missed the wall either side. I was actually wearing a seat belt so only sprained my ankle and didn't break my neck ... I don't wear a lap belt any more - safer to bail out of the chair.
Data centre and chair races - "For safety's sake we're removing the wheeled chairs from the data centre" "But I'm _in_ a wheelchair, ... " Oh, ah, yes, not you" :)
For the folk wanting a Debian handbook - https://debian-handbook.info (in a website) / apt-get install debian-handbook / pick up a copy from Lulu. Comprehensive well written book translated originally from French. Covers many of the basics - and how to package in various forms. Written by two experienced Debian developers, reviewed/translated by several more.
Who's validating the hardware? The package maintainers are. This is especially hard where you have a machine architecture where some important packages don't build, for example, or for the ARM ecosystem where you have ?? 40 ?? broadly similar but definitely not identical credit card sized computers. It's another good reason that folk ask for information on hardware quite so often / troubleshooters and problem solvers ask people to ask smarter questions / show their workings and prove that they've at least tried to solve problems themselves.
Ubuntu is dependent on Debian as an upstream, has a smaller number of supported packages and many fewer architectures to support - and doesn't have that many independent developers of its own relative to the size of the distribution - but does have users. Every Ubuntu derivative has fewer and fewer developers and a long tail of fewer and fewer users. if you got together the entirety of capable developers for Debian-derived systems - scrapping effort for Ubuntu / Kubuntu/ Mint ... ... - as you went, you might only get another thousand developers.This is not _just_ a Debian problem - it also holds for Fedora and CentOS, for example You don't have to be a whizzkid at packaging software - the website can always do with enthusiastic folk who can translate documentation / text strings to make it better for non-English speaking/reading folk. But it is a do-ocracy rather than a "fix it for me first"-ocracy. [Disclaimer for openness - Debian user and developer for 22 1/2 years and working on CD release team / web site.]
So now we know: Rosetta 2 translation. Universal binaries. Two year transition period. Developer hardware available this week - using the A12 from ipad pro in Mac Mini format. Microsoft Office ported and all of MacOS. Demos of Linux running in Parallels - hello Debian.All tools you need are in XCode.
Nice teaser that all the earlier apps demos for Big Sur were being run on the ARM Macpro.
Sucks if you've invested in Intel macpros. Nothing for the big enterprise. It's the apps, stupid - and a closed ecosystem. _maybe_ a couple more Intel boxes up ahead but its dead otherwise.
I remember reading something from somebody who was excited to learn she was descended from one of Iceland's famous early settlers from a saga.She boasted about being something like a sixth cousin and was met with "Yes, so am I - so are we all" Notably, Iceland had a major project a while ago to map genomes and so on - I can't remember if the data was eventually sold to the US when the financial scandals were rife. 200,000 Icelanders and you can do that: that's less than 1/3 of the population in my county. Also, if I recall, it's based on the government ID / Social Security registrations. It must include full personal data because otherwise you couldn't deal with Iceland's family naming system.
So, so true. The "support" model for java is fundamentally broken at the moment and Oracle as a steward is essentially only hanging on in case there's big bucks due from the Google spat. NPM - it's a Lada car crash - you can see it waiting to happen at slow speed and the dependencies shear off like rust flakes. As for getting your software from a known repository ?? Doing any kind of information assurance/software management on newer languages - you're doomed to fail.
1993 or so - dial up modem. Telnet to Australia to get hold of the necessary Trumpet winsock to get Windows to talk to TCP/IP - if not, tnen using KA9Q. Mosaic, then Cello, Viola, Amaya under Linux. It stuck with me. It got me to using Linux - more than 25 years on here we are. One proper IPv4 address - mail server and smart-ish people at the other end. I wasn't in the first 100 or so but I was probably fairly close to the second wave. Likewise one of my very best friends and colleagues who set up and ran an ISP for a local businessman by bootstrapping our knowledge from Demon. I've now got faster internet than I know what to do with but no trust that they know what they're doing - and no chance of IPv6 or anything usefully technical in the offing. Any good ISP recommendations that will almost match up to 30 years ago?
Nothing new here - the report suggests Red Hat / CentOS / Ubuntu versions - the kernel versions they suggest are mostly CentOS 6 era. Patch / update / keep current. Red Hat licences persist across versions: there's no penalty for moving from one version to the next. Just do it, people. Sysadmin 101. If you don't need a GUI - NEVER install one. Limit the number of services you run: audit logs : baseline to find out what's anomalous -tedious, but nothing unexpected.
to be a Debian test machine :) There are 32 bit atom machines - but the 32 bit only machines are mostly 10 years old. 32 bit EFI and 64 bit userland is well supported on the 64 bit machines. The multiarch system will allow you to run 32 bits on 64 bit machines in general. Debian hasn't yet made this decision IIRC but look at the architectures supported post Buster (Debian 10)
This should be fun for folk who like watching attack dog American lawyer types :) What's more interesting is when IBM will weigh in to dismember Oracle: IBM has form for over a hundred years on using lawyers to eviscerate annoyances and competitors.
The DoD probably doesn't have the money to afford to alienate some of its bigger suppliers - but this or other smackdowns may enable them to get cheaper services.
Fuck off Vodafone - I've been paying Demon since 1994. I'm now a Vodafone business customer, according to you and have paid for a year's service from Dec 2015.
I'll have my domain name then please and the static IP that goes with it - which should be worth something now. Something like 30, 000 emails or more in that time
Windows 10 with WSL enabled - use Linux binaries - which aren't sandboxed and have access to the lowest level of kernel / hardware because of he translating layer - to do this sort of thing?
[There's absolutely no problem with the Ubuntu binaries, BTW, it's the fact that they run on a translating layer that has no obvious protection/hypervisor/sandboxing Windows - insecure by design since NT 4.0 or so]
The cost of licence managing / accounting is a huge part of the cost of licensing for larger organisations. The overhead in dedicated procurement teams / asset management is significant. Then you pay for consultancy / outsourced expertise to sort out problems with your asset management / licensing management software. That's on top of costs for patch management / badly written third party software
That's a chunk: then there's using a Miicosoft / Oracle trusted partner for large scale licence provisioning and deployment and "independent" auditing.
Then there's the cost of upgrades and other products from the same vendor which predicate existing infrastructure: Windows Server + AD + Exchange + Office + Sharepoint + Visio ...
Back end: Linux every time.
LibreOffice - as functional as any MS product - and more backward compatible with the older formats. If you're running your business on Excel - GNUmeric will do everything related if it's arithmetic. Bigger data - you should be using R. Databases - MariaDB / Postgresql ...
If you build local custom macros for busines procesess without version control / central scrutiny / auditing - you deserve to fail If you use Access databases for mission critical data, you've already failed and your business is dead: you don't realise it because the pacemaker and life support are still running.
ARM v7 / armhf - so compatible with any Linux distribution on ARM. The Raspberry Pi is an evolutionary dead end with ARM v6 and floating point. For it's intended market - cheap for education and a couple of hobbyists, - ideal. Nobody expected that they'd sell 4 million++ in their wildest dreams, I expect.
The Banana Pi is reasonable / the Cubietruck is excellent- but the provided software from the manufacturer is not the strong point What mattrers is that the hardware is very capable.
A Raspberry Pi 2 - with say, full armhf, WiFi, ,well supported video with FLOSS drivers, GigE,, NAND flash AND the Raspberry Pi Foundation behind it -that would be something to behold :) :)
This is for citizens to communicate with Govt. and vice versa.
Every doctors' surgery, jobcentre, school, publicly funded IT class, library - can have machines running this, Linux live CDs to use an ODF word processor and do your banking / deal with HMRC.
Licence costs £0, ongoing support costs low, learning curve - as low/lower than older versions of Word.
ODF 1.2 is suggested: so older Word versions need not apply.
Munich gave out live CDs, not sure what Toulouse has done. Vienna hasn't yet switched - but people like the education dept in Bozen/Bolzano already did.
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