Posts by KSM-AZ 213 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Dec 2017
There will always be workspaces that require platform specific tools. But today 90+% of "applications" are browser based. Office 365 on the Web is finally tolerable. I'd say the vast majority of businesses don't really need windows, but currently there are still too many users always have some "must have" tool that only runs on windows. I've been running a Linux desktop as my primary for several years now.
I love reading comments like this because the current Supreme Court has not been activist, rather more literal on constitutional interpretation. Thus I think you might find SCOTUS would tend to agree with the idea we need a warrant to search a phone, which frankly should not be an undue burden. FISA is the bigger issue likely at the core of this crap, but generally only stupid people put things on their computer and phone that might be embarrassing much less incriminating. Real threat actors are gonna have a burner phone anyway. Thus this comment is just inflammatory, without any hint of substance. Please vote with your feet if you are not happy in the US.
I'm pursuaded to stay on. We agree on a compensation package based on various performance metrics of the company over the next 5 years. All the metrics are exceeded. Now I'm not going to pay you because I don't think you deserve it because I think you are a wacko and do things I don't like.
Sounds OK to me. Since in hindsight you managed to reach the goals I thought were grotesquely unobtainable, I need to be able weasel out of the deal somehow.
There are things I'm afraid of, but rapidly improving technology from a foreign source is not one of them. Fear like this is what starts wars. My fear is the generation of fear by the media and government about things like this will lead to physical responses. This will be bad. People are stupid, and want to tell other people how to live.
The fact that someone would make this statement, and seven people would agree should scare you. William Shakespeare wrote plays in the 1500's the concepts of which still are still relevant today. Sam Clemens aka Mark Twain wrote books articles and such that are as relevant today as they were in the 19th century.
The US constitution is the gold standard, at least the words should be. It defines limits to government, and simple to understand rights. Dismissing it because it "was written in the 18th century" is like dismissing the evil 10 commandments because they were written before Christ was born. I keep forgetting how concepts like "Thou shall not kill" and "Thou shall not steal" are antiquated and should be ignored because everything is relative these days.
People better wake the f*ck up or these dystopian futures of Sci-Fi hollywood are going to be a reality. There are groups of people pushing society to a breaking point so they can "fix" it and take over every aspect of your life. I'll be dead by the time it matters but you young people out there should spend a little more time reading some of the documents created in the 18th century and earlier, before before you talk your way into an enslavement you were not expecting.
Risc-V is the tip of the iceberg. Groups of people that are in, and around governments around the world are pushing very hard to control everything you, the unwashed masses, want to do.
With the abject insanity of INTEL hardware and drivers, I'm still struggling with why more manufacturers don't roll to AMD and just use alternatives. What I need is an AMD Wifi/BT/Sound/Ethernet chip where I don't have to find firmware and run the latest bloated driver that is full of tables containing work-arounds for for the errata associated with each production run of the same model chip.
Look our chip performs like this . . . Well if it was manufactured between 2023-10 and 2023-12 series 1234 you have to turn off X, 2024-01 turn on X turn off Y, . . .
Security team at my old gig tossed out a test phish to everyone without telling anyone. I was the Senior Engineer, and not notified of the test. I got the E-mail, logged into the PA and blocked the site. The next day the director wanders over and starts asking why this url is blocked . . . brilliant move dude! Apparently I was really fast, nobody had clicked the link.
You should not change functionality of a package by splitting it and taking things out and putting them in a new package, that was abjectly ignorant. The 'keepassxc' package should have been changed to a dependency package, dependent on keepassxc-core, keepassxc-plugins or something.
** This is total BS **. People have been spewing this garbage since the Prius/Hybrid days. A normal modern ICE vehicle isn't loud enough to hear either. If you are in a parking lot there is enough background noise around you are not going to hear a small 4 cyl ICE with a reasonable muffer. If you have an F250 Diesel, that is one thing, but it's totally ridiculous. They started with the backup beep shit on BIG GIANT DUMP TRUCKS! because people didn't hear them coming. If you can't hear a loud ass dump truck, why are we obsessing over an EV?
There are plenty of very quiet vehicles on the road. If you are not looking walking thru a parking lot it's on you.
It's getting to the point that upgrading Windows really isn't buying anything new. It really hasn't since Windows 7. I've been running KDE Plasma on Debian stable for the last several years, and I'm not finding any real downsides, except.
It seems INTEL cannot create any new hardware platform without requiring brand new drivers for every bit of chippery in the box, from the GPU, to the NIC, to the Wifi, to the sound system, to the CPU, to the USB chips to the ... Sadly for a modicum of stability on a platform this seems to require the latest version of Windows, and a slew of bleeding edge drivers, or experimental kernel's on various linux platforms. If AMD can ever get any market share their compatibility seems to be much better.
Further this obscene need to have "firmware" built into a device driver is pathetic. ANY chip that leaves the factory should have a rom with a basic firmware that is modestly functional and can act as a default. This doesn't mean you cant have dynamically loadable more up-to-date "firmware", but the chip should at least operate without some customized upload code feeding it bits at boot. It is pathetic and stupid.
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Systemd is growing on me. Early implementations were abysmal. The general network configuration stuff is pretty bad, and I would say the state of network configuration in Linux in general went from simple to abysmal starting with 'predictable' interface names, which are just the opposite, solving a problem that did not exist. net.ifnames=0. RH variants with /etc/sysconfig, and slackware with its script file, debian and ifup-down, netplan.io. . . Networkmanager solved a problem for mobile / desktop, but I find it a tad arcane. I figured out how to create a portable bond/bridge/vlan configuration with systemd after getting rid of the bizarre 'predictable' names. Want to talk complicated, from a single file with a handful of stanza's with ifup-down to a bowl of vegetable soup. Then and upgrade broke it, I fixed it, and an upgrade broke it, and I fixed it.
To configure 4 interfaces bonded with 5 vlans on bridges to run with KVM/QEMU you'll need to build this stupidity, we won't even go into the contents of the files:
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bond1.1099.netdev bond1.1101.network bond1.4001.netdev br0.1099.netdev br0.1101.network br0.4001.netdev
bond1.1099.network bond1.1102.netdev bond1.4001.network br0.1099.network br0.1102.netdev br0.4001.network
bond1.1100.netdev bond1.1102.network bond1.br0.network br0.1100.netdev br0.1102.network br0.netdev
bond1.1100.network bond1.3001.netdev bond1.netdev br0.1100.network br0.3001.netdev br0.network
bond1.1101.netdev bond1.3001.network bond1.network br0.1101.netdev br0.3001.network
OTOH, It did actually solve existing problems, and they took a somewhat modular if rather complex approach with it. Not thrilled with the journald logging either. Systemd-resolved/resolvectl is very good, hopefully they won't break it. I try and use the parts that work the best, but the biggest problem I have is they keep breaking things. 'systemctl edit' is a nice idea, but we keep changing how the overrides work, and at the moment I'm not sure if it adds on to a section or completely replaces it. It has done both in the past.
The problem is VMware is alienating smaller customers. Over time smaller customers become larger customers who are not using their products, over time the free and less expensive products become more robust, and then larger customers start looking at the less expensive alternatives. Microsoft did this to the IBM, Sun, SVR4, mini-midrange-mainframe market, and we are going to see another cycle probably much faster with VMware, since the core of technology stack (Virtualization) is a pure software play.
"Under the rules, any electronic device priced between $50 and $99.99 would need to have parts available for five years, and devices that cost in excess of that would have to have parts available for seven years. "
Any electronic device priced between $50 and $100 should be E-wasted if it breaks. It's not worth $50 to crack it open.
The geek that was the DBA was fired or moved on. His assistant didn't really have a handle on everything but took over at 1/2 the Salary cost, management was happy. A year or so later the new guy realizes he's grossly underpaid, asks for more money, is denied, and finds another gig elsewhere. Clerk who always wanted to be in IT takes over, fortunately everything is in good shape so things continue to run smoothly even though there is not a good understanding of all the processes. Over time, minor changes cause a disruption, nobody with the skills to notice, and it blows up.
Or maybe, new DBA was hired to replace the guy who left, but has no idea the process exists, and nobody is complaining, and the error messages were being sent to an email address that no longer exists. . .
Or it was outsourced to India, and we are in the process of training up a 4th set of contractor folk who are going to leave in a year or so. . .
This crap happens all the time. Welcome to IT.
"NFS is probably the only protocol in the unix world, that is worst that its Microsoft counter part.
It's always been shite, performance and reliability wise."
--Flame Bait--
If your trying to say NFS is worse than SMB/CIFS I beg to differ. NFSv3 performance is very good albeit single threaded. NFSv3 also works reasonably well over higher latency connections. SMB/CIFS falls over. That being said, Microsoft's NFS implementation is abysmal. If you are running a *nix box run NFS, If you are running Windows run CIFS, though both can be abysmal under windows. I've used NFS extensively since
I note NetApp still uses NFS as the core protocol for VMware storage connectivity, and it routinely out-performed iSCSI in years past. I know more recently they support multi-threaded NFSv4, though I haven't followed the benchmarks recently.
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TSMC's Central Taiwan Science Park, for example, uses 3.3% of its daily allocation, or around 4.9 acre-feet of water per year. The Southern Taiwan Science Park and the Hsinchu Science Park use 5 acre-feet of water and 5.7 acre-feet of water daily, respectively.
The reason behind the minimal consumption is thanks to recycled water.
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I own an EV. Generally charge at home. Traveling ocasionally, I have to charge with these sorry ccs cables. It was 30F outside and I had to wrestle that BOA constrictor into the socket. I'm stunned I did't crack the plastic. My friend has a Tesla. The tesla cable is vastly superior. I would convert my socket on my Niro EV to a tesla socket if I could.
Running a RISC V core? ARM? GPU specs? Vector specs? Gallium Arsenide stuff has been around since the 80's. Fast and hot, but fabbing chips with a new process with the densities of today's cpu's would mean billion dollar fabs and esoteric processes, nobody has ever seen or heard about in Can-aid-i-a. We'll believe it when we see it. In the mean time TSMC is building a "Multi-Billion Dollar Fab" up the road a piece, that should usher in some 3 & 4nm parts from Arizona in a year or two.
"ICs weren't developed because the authorities considered discrete components too cumbersome."
Yes they were. (V)SLIC and component hardening was funded in large part by DARPA. As was the internet. It's always been both. NASA also funded tons of research into materials and such. Don't be silly.
Now if you want to make an efficiency argument . . .
Likely Sodium and Aluminum in the short term. An outfit in Australia has a prototype factory running for the latter, they seem to be on target for initial production of pouch batteries. Another company has some improvements around stuff blowing up with current tech that increases volume/kw by 25% or so but that would not be relevant if you are in a shipping container at a power plant.
Frankly aluminum if they can get it going is like a no brainer and highly recyclable.
No, I do not want f1 to open a help window for the terminal emulator. I want it to perform what the f1 label says in the window. And if you want to emulate a vt100 (vs a wyse 50/60 or an adm3 <grin>) then give me a keyboard without a backspace key, and I want the dip switches underneath. Early VT terminals were total crap (adm3a was cool looking, ctrl-h to backspace). The wyse 60 was sweet, and had a 132 column mode.
I think termcap is better than terminfo, and curses is aptly named.
If you want maximum speed drop to layer 2. As long as you are at l4, you have to endure more overhead. If all your traffic is in the same layer2, ... Early on in the ip vs ipx wars... There is already a bunch of l2 protocol management going on as well.... lldp, spanning tree. To get data from point a to point b you need a handle on both ends. Mac addresses with ethernet. Not sure how you are gonna improve on switching that with asic's. Never did understand why usb was so popular for perhipherals, when the cost of a much faster ethernet chip was the same price. 8 port switches were $15, build it in. Ataoe never took off, but iscsi did. Designing a new use specific lightweight l3 would be ok, but why stick with ip at all? Customizing a new l2 seems dumb. (Can you say fiber channel?). Then again 802.1x...
This whole thing is a bunch of hummice homa.
I've got a pinephone. Thrown pretty much all of them on it. Ubuntu touch has the dis-advantage of not working all that well in general. Postmarket and Arch and Debian and the other projects are so much farther along,I think I'd put the effort in Plasma Mobile, or phosh which seem to be mostly working. What we really need are phone apps. Not effort trying to weld ancient desktop things on a phone display. Further the drivers for the cellular modems are still rather 'alpha' quality. We really need to figure out modemmanager and ofono and all the low level driver cruft is targeted at the latest kernels which need Linux 5.x. It's miles better than it was 2 years ago, but still pretty awful.
-- "It’s an electric plug. FFS."
No it's not. It's a Universal Serial Bus, that happens to have power on it to power remote devices. Always has since 1.0 5v at up to .25a. Just because the spec allows for everything, does not mean that the 100W PD brick you bought would implement anything beyond the charging conversation. And the arguments here about malware are borderline silly. If you use a USB-C hub with HDMI and ethernet they have to have drivers and such on both ends. I have updated firmware on a number of USB-C docking stations. I doubt that would be implemented on a power brick
USB is a BUS with some evolving standards around power distribution on the bus. You know like the power definitions on a PCI bus, or any other similar computer bus. We are talking about standardizing the connector around the USB-C connector spec. Just as the Micro-USB slowly became a 5V/2A "standard" for small device power and charging because it was ubiquitous so will USB-C supplant it being backwards compatible with tiny adaptors, while allowing for drastically more power. Arguing the esoteric's of a specification is just wasteful. We are already seeing stable ASIC's that just work, and the price premium for it dropping.
The market will make USB-C the standard without gummit' intervention. You don't have to carry around 20 different chargers today. Not so true 5 years or so ago. Further, the arguments are somewhat silly. First of all power requirements are basically much higher for the average device today. You can hop on amazon and buy some Usb-C to micro usb charge adapters for around US$5 in a 5 pak with a little chain you can clip around the cable. I don't think there are any non-apple mobile devices today that dont use UsB-C. For the handful of things that still use micro-usb the adapters work just fine (Samsung smart watch wireless charger for example).
Most of the current crop of inexpensive charging blocks are shipping with at least a mix of USB-A and C connectors and support PD. The last piece of the puzzle is PD on the laptop side. Dumping 100watts over the #28 and lighter wire, means the voltage has to go up to compensate for the lack of current. Assuming around 3A on #28 you should be pushing close to 35v to get 100W, without the wire melting. 'PD' aka Power Delivery protocols is what makes this possible.
Finally I have noted improvements in the physical connectors on both the male and female side. The last few cables i got seem to be much more 'snug' and secure when pressed in. YMMV
Totally disagree. I was touch scrolling thru this forum on my onemix netbook running Plasma, then I dropped to the keyboard to type this response. I've found, that when doing work that requires a keyboard, I want a mouse, but when just scrolling around in say Emby or Plex on a browser, or reading thru a forum like this I much prefer to ue the touchscreen.
And any argument for weight gain or power usage from touch hardware is silly.
You make the assumption that Applied Materials cannot expand production if you throw copious amounts of money at it. the 20% after year one might be accurate but I would bet with a concerted effort and a trillion dollars or so they can product plenty of state of the art wafer polishers and whatnot. Be real.
INTEL could be interesting. My problems with intel date back to the 8080. NONE of their chips ever seemed to meet their specs. There were hardware work-arounds, software work arounds, they were actually so awful it spurred the 'chipset wars'. Almost forgot the math problems, hell even their current crop of Wifi chips have issues that seem to plague linux and windows. I think in the past things have been hyper-tuned for intel to work around stuff. Graphics issues could take things to a totally new problem level, but at least you might see a reasonable working open driver with manufacturer support for linux.
Ditto.
Plus time spent downloading and compiling and whatnot and DKMS problems, hyper kernel version specific code, and more downloading. I've never had a linux/NV stay even remotely stable through more than a handful of kernel updates.
AMD/ATI just pretty much worked, though I do get spurious ECC errors supposedly linked to an issue with the new AMD stuff. Not sure, but the system doesn't crash.
Defamation is indeed incumbent on presenting untruthful information. It gets a bit grey when politicized. A politician here was accused in a hit piece of having come out against contraception, and having written a paper (when he was 19) that was pro-nazi. This was picked up by a few national media outlets and published as 'facts'.
To the credit of some in the local media here, we find apparently the paper (which the gentleman stood by) used the Nazi party as an example of riling up the people with a cause to creating a drastic political shift. There was no record or incidence of him ever speaking against contraception, in fact he was on the record as just the opposite.
But the damage was done. Any corrections are on page 9 or an honorable 2-second mention at the end of a broadcast. He's suing for defamation. I agree with the sentiment of the suit, but on one hand the hit piece folks could claim it as opinion, and the National media outlets will just say "oops" and print a retraction on page 9. Just try and stay informed. The minute someone uses the term "Orange" or "O-buma" it's high index talk designed to inflame, you should skip the comment.
"The Wall" was being built. "The Wall" is not really the great wall of china. In fact up until about a week into the current administration sections of wall were still being put up in key areas along the border, and then the materials were simply abandoned. Arizona was trying to obtain the material to continue the project but was thwarted by President Biden's administration. Ditto in Texas. Ms Sinema knows she doesn't stand an ice cubes chance in hell of getting re-elected if she supports some of the idiotic things our current administration is doing, so while I disagree with much of her politics, I find she apparently does care about the state she grew up in for which I am grateful.
I love it when someone who lives in another country, or behind fenced and guarded neighborhoods with security want to bash "The Wall". For the former, carry your ass down here, and live on someones property near the border for a week with them. For the latter, you are some of the biggest hypocrites, and it's a shame all you and your friends in the media who live with you have such loud lying voices, that you convince or manipulate people to your way of thinking to screw them over.
"if things are really that bad where you live either get off your fat asses and vote in a government that'll fix the problems, or fucking move!" -- Really?
Move where exactly, into what exactly, for how much approximately? You see the politicians want to spend the money on 'light rail" and "mass transportation" products for all of us who don't live in gated communities with armed security. At least I don't live in Seattle. So they drive their Tesla's and Audi's and E-Class's back and forth from their secure compounds to their secure work buildings with more armed guards and fences. And tell me to ride the bus/rail.
Somehow these clowns use the media to convince the sheeple of the unwashed masses they are doing them favors, taking their money, while the bus stops and rail stations are swimming in homeless people, many of whom are aggressive to say the least. There is a homeless enclave under a bridge / overpass close enough to throw a baseball from the side of the building where I work, a stones throw from the cars in the parking lot. People are literally pouring over the border, If you don't believe it just drive down near Tucson/Nogales or Yuma out in the desert. I suggest you be armed, and have a buddy or two.
I don't have $1M to pour into a safe place, behind bars with $500+/mo dues. I carry either a SCCY CPX-9 or a Springfield XPS-45ACP. AR-15's are for enthusiasts, you can get a nice 223/556 for reasonable money, but ammo is too expensive and harder to reload. I have a TNW survival (45ACP) for if I ever need to skedaddle to the hills. Nothing over $1K, but I'm not judgemental. I'd love to move, and I'm looking, but by keeping interest rates artificially low for the last 20 years, investors are buying up all the housing and then leasing at exorbitant rates. Tell me about the job you need to rent an 800sqft apt for $2500 a month in the hood?
I would expect to see a two-fold (maybe three) increase in density in 5 years. Several tech companies are claiming to have lab'ed new battery tech. One out of Australia is shipping prototypes, and ramping up for pouch batteries. I expect some mass production hurdles, but like the flat screen LCD panel, there is a huge market for several big players, and the technology is evolving rapidly on several fronts. Expect to see a reduction in the need for 'Rare Earth's as things progress as well.
Lithum ION is the near term solution, and will likely be on-ramping some of the aforementioned items like safety and longevity before sodium and aluminum et. al. technologies become viable. It's going to be interesting I think.
China, Russia, and N Korea can (and do) produce X86 ISA or ARM ISA parts as well. Hell I could probably cobble together some (painfully slow, single threaded) silicon using discrete parts that that would honor an X86 ISA. RISC-V is an ISA... Instruction Set Architecture, ie a list of low level primitive commands about slinging data between registers and memory and maybe an I/O bus if it's not memory mapped.
Making silicon CPU's that properly implement the ISA, and offer performance, and pipelining and branch prediction, and ... That is a whole other ballgame. The best 'western technology' would actually be pretty much in Taiwan at this point in the far East but I digress.
It's the implementation of the ISA that matters, not the instructions themselves.
I'd go more with, someone decided to create a language that would (eventually) do everything you could possibly ever want to do with a system or database by adding 'modules' and roll it into a big giant mess that makes PERL look good. This is similar to what IBM did when it went from OCL on the 34/36 to QCL and then onto compiling CL for 'performance' and now I can have input forms on my CL! Every time I've tried to do something with powershell I've had to get a module, or something, and then everything is an object, so often the result you get is not what you expect, or requires further parsing or... It's just very darn inconsistent from function to function, and then the function you found that does what you want is only for Azure, not a domain controller, and ...
Sorry, but I'm not overly impressed with powershell to this day. dumping write-hosts's to see things in loops often fail to reveal actual object content that breaks somewhere else, blah, blah. Working with objects is great as long as you have a thorough understanding of each and every object you use. You are a maze of twisty little objects, all different.
I think shells and shell scripting should really be GLUE logic for weaving things together. If you want to get serious write some real code, in a language designed to accomplish the task, and use your shell to weave it all together.
And I'm happy to help tar and feather the idiot that decided names should be quoted and escaped by default in a directory listing on modern unix breaking scripts. (ls -1 | ...). The minute you make a 'shell' that is all things for all people, what you end up with is a 'thing' that is a necessary evil for a lot of people.
Of course opinions are like assho...
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