Posts by D. Evans 33 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jun 2017
I had the unfortunate event to meet the man, who at the time I admired greatly, in 1999.
Yes, he's a complex person, with a great ego. But he has big ideals and grand plans.
Due to my interaction with him, over several hours, I dislike him intensely, but love his ideals, his dedication, and commitment. And I wish him a long life, and hope a cure happens for his disease before his stack overflows.
I'm retiring in 2026, and been lying about my IT skills for 3 decades, but still scamming a paycheck. Anyone with any honesty understood why ATM would fail, did fail, and find anyone who supported ATM to be to biased to ever understand why it was bad.
As a simple example as why to why: think of a relay race and a single baton,and you only have one, but multiple teams need it. Instant lock-up.
Oversimplification/abstraction will lead to rubbish implementations.
And I'm really glad the OSI model didn't die before I went to university. I was in my 30s and new it was shit then. See my last paragraph.
I know a number of really excellent people who applied to the big A, only to be rejected. They are all at other places, and with the many headlines that Atlassian has generated, feel they dodged a bullet.
So, with the statement "There's a lot of incredible people in the market who may only come on the market once a decade and we have an opportunity to pick those staff up now," I think it Mr. Farquhar should have said "There's a lot of incredible people in the market who may only come on the market once a decade and we have an opportunity to ignore them, again."
I guess it would be better than working at Facebook or Google, but probably not by much.
I loved Solaris. Still do. It is the best commercial Unix available, in my opinion. And it is better than Linux and *BSD.
But I won't touch it for my own use anymore. I remember the early 90s when it was free for personal use, then it wasn't. Then it just was not available. Then it was again. And you want me to trust Oracle not to yank access at some VPs whim? If access was bad under Sun Microsystems, it was worse under Oracle and I, for one, will never go back.
My experience from the early 90s turned me from Window to a unix professional. Their support denied an issue that I had proven was with a MS driver for a plotter.
Since then the only time I deal with Windows is for my wife's gaming rig. I stay well away from anything that comes the diseased minds of Redmond as only madness and ruin lie in their domain.
The major reasons for lack of uptake on 2FA systems by the mug punters are:
1. Lack of recovery when access is lost. Most people using something like Google Authenticator only have access on one phone. Loose the device, loose access. My wife and are back-ups for each other but how many people have that luxury.
2. Synchronization when changing devices. Have you tried recovering moving Google Authenticator to a new handset. Ouch.
3. Cost of hardware specific devices. I'm looking at YubiKey, and you still need to have a back-up device.
Until people can share keys (as in a family, as that how most families work), and the above issues are addressed the resistance to any 2FA system will continue.
As an ex-pat sending my hard earned shekels down under for over 20 years I have to laugh at this.
The cost of Western Union or a SWIFT based bank transfer is expensive. The have high administrative costs and poor exchange rates. I can't see Google getting discounts large enough to make them a serious contender and cost is an issue. I can't see this taking off, unless you count Apollo 13 a success.
There are many better alternatives (my current preferred company is XE.com).
https://www.mediavillage.com/article/which-half-of-my-advertising-is-wasted-and-it-is-only-half/ but Lord Leverhulme was probably the first to say it.
But it's so obvious I'm sure it was being said in the boardrooms of the 1800s. Should the money be spent on direct mailing, advertisements in newspapers, posters,, etc. and how do you know you're getting any traction?
Like many, seeing the same ads for second class versions of the item I purchased 2 weeks ago does not endear me the site serving the ads or the brand being displayed.
I hope for an online ad implosion.
I'm more than a little confused but the zombie rising, yet again. I thought it was an April Fool's Joke too.
So Xinuso paid "x" for the IP assets. This must have been approved by a judge and available as an open record.
Since Groklaw is no more, how would someone find out how much was paid for the assets? I'm curious how deep their financial hole was before they thought a solution was to dig deeper.
This is more fun than Coronation Street after lobotomy!
I used to work at Yahoo! and I loved my few years there. Pity the food wasn't free but it was good.
Things have moved on an "Answers" was pretty sad, even in it's prime. If you used it, be honest, it was terrible.
Sorry to see it go for the few people who may have got some good out if, glad to see a useless relic being discarded for the rest of us!
I'm with ConCa$t but on a business plan. It's still terrible and I feel for people who are not technical and are at the mercy of their domestic offering. But I with AT&T (Atrocious, Terrible & Taxing?) and that's all I have options for. I don't thing any of the major players can be trusted any more than the, current, glorious president for life: Trump,
If you're after a TKL keyboard the question is why? Travel or space issues. So I find this (and the overpriced Logitech G915 TKL) just too big. In a another post (on mice and traveling) I say I have have used a Vilros keyboard+mouse for over 2 years. The keyboard is a little small, I'd like one 2cm or 3cm longer but it works for me where space is an issue. Traveling with it has been fantastic.
I would pay more for a premium product and I've tried a lot of of the smaller keyboards, at great cost. It's seems there is an almost an inverse relationship between cost and life span of the product (and cost and usability).
I've also found bluetooth drops too many characters and USB ports are a precious commodity, so a single wireless USB for both the keyboard and mouse is mandatory for me. And the best has been a cheap, little undersized, but perfectly usable Vilros.
Pity as I love the feel of a good keyboard. And having learnt touch typing on manual typewriter I appreciate the feel of modern keyboards.
I've been using a cheap Vilros keyboard (TKL) and mouse for several years. Small, but not too small on the keyboard. Mouse is damn good. Less than $30US and only one wireless USB dongle.
When Logitech can put out something as good in the keyboard and mouse combo range for $60 with their new "lightspeed" hyped-up, meaningless keywords I may try it if it's not too large but until then I'm sticking to what works well for travel.
I have an old Galaxy 8, my wife a Note 10+.
Both of us have said "never again" to another Samsung device while Bixby can not be disabled and the many Samsung bloatware can not be disabled or removed.
Not that we expect the bloatware issues to go away with another device but we expect it to be less.
Oracle, IBM, etc. are not going out of business, at least not soon.
Some companies due to legal requirements need ACID databases and once your locked in it's hard to move.
Once your in one cloud it's hard to integrate with another; at least at this time.
However Larry still seems to be more full of bravado than brawns. I don't see a pipeline to do more than keep pace with inflation adjusted for population. And his cloud is nothing more than a damp squib.
LOL! A convicted hacker (in the 90s in Victoria) and embarrassed both major parties. I'll bet the Oz consulate is doing the minimum they have to.
He's a third rate person, a second rate hacker and but a first rate arse!
I hope he spends time in jail for all the people who have been murdered by Wikileaks releasing raw data. He's no journalist, just a nihilistic bastard and I'm enjoying this conclusion.
Trolls and cynical comments aside....
This rise is not based on any research as to the effect on charities or other social groups with limited funds.
On the other hand it is possible to start another global registry and leave ICANN but it would take a stable government effort. Or the EU if countries signed on. And would take 2 or 3 years to get things in place.
I put of posting this earlier but I finally succumbed to my base nature.
I cycle north on El Camino most afternoons and I'd see this car. The personalized number plates were a give-away.
The drive never looked at the road, even in peak traffic.His head was always down on a phone or tablet. And he held up traffic as the Tesla was generally slow. I heard a number of cars use their horns to signal their displeasure.
An unfortunate end but not a surprising one.
I'd hate to be brickie trying to make 68 before retiring. Laying bricks is hard work, as are many other manual jobs.
The proposed solution is a magic wand of raise the retirement age and retraining? How do you expect someone in their late 50s, with arthritis to do anything productive?
This solution is making a crime out of being poor or uneducated.
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