
Re: I weep for your gas mileage
I hope you reported the other driver for speeding
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It does look like metal in the photos, however reports state that it was seen floating in the shallows and was dragged out of the water by a 4x4. People on the scene described it being made of something like carbon fibre or a lightweight resin (which doesn't sound very substantial for part of a space vehicle).
As anyone in Germany who lives at an address with especially a 7 in and receives letters from English-speaking countries will testify. German posties tend to interpret the un-crossed 7 as a 1.
On a related matter, it does make me wonder that Germans manage to cope with computer and print typefaces that do not have crossed 7s and heavily-seriphed 1s when they apparently cannot for handwriting.
Rename Active Directory as Active Directory Classic, or Classic Active Directory, and keep Azure Active Directory as it is. I've already forgotten what they want to rename AAD as. Something like Entrada*
Which, on double-checking, probably isn't what they want.
"Critics also claim that the water and dust resistance consumers have come to assume will be present in their mobiles will be hit hard – a sealed unit isn't just a deterrent for techies after all."
Dust resistance was a myth, at least on the Galaxy S21 5G. It couldn't be charged via cable and when taken to Samsung, the techie was less than suprised and cleaned out all the gunk that was statically attracted, saying it was hard to do at home without the proper kit, advising using a rubber plug in the charging port in future. Never needed that on predecessor models though.
...but from experience it leads to hiding insecure things from people responsible for making sure they are secure. How to report on something that is hidden from you?
In the middle of an incident the last thing you need is to find that some little-used access rights that you have for good reason have in the meantime been silently removed and you don't even know who you need to speak to to get them back.
Yes, opt-in seems to have an increasing tendency to 'default' to opted-in (whether by tick box or by simply ignoring your choice), thus making it actually an illegal opt-out. Allegedly, of course, and I'm sure it's entirely accidental.
As an aside, having your own domain and registering with every company with a separate email address (actually a forwarding address) <company name>@<your domain> is remarkably effective in controlling miscreants who abuse email in some way or another, although it is more effort to set up each time. You get to know the culprit and to delete the forwarding address.
Steps 1 & 2 are automated here, step 3 is autopilot.
Addendum based on November patches:
4. Wake up and find lots and lots of things broken and people screaming. Marvel that no-one invoked on-call.
5. Spend the next week with Microsoft trying to fix everything.
Lots of admins on here defending Spamhaus and saying it's easy to get off the lists, and as a sysadmin (but not responsible for email) I understand that, however as a user I have very much been collateral damage as a result of a single one of my email provider's servers being put on their list due to relatively spurious reasons.
I will not forget the arrogant and unhelpful attitude of Spamhaus at the time. They just did not care about collateral damage and there wasn't a thing I could do about it.
Of course, the problem was made immeasurably worse by my Dad's email provider mostly not sending a bounce, or occasionally sending one after 48 hours.
Either way, absolutely nightmare of a problem to troubleshoot as an end user, the problem effectively manifested itself as "random" depending on where my provider's load balancer directed me - to the flagged server, my mail wouldn't get through, or to an unflagged server and my mail would get through.
I don't know how the problem was eventually resolved, but it was months later, well after I had started using another provider just to keep in touch with my Dad.
I had a very similar experience with my Philips Streamium. I continued to use it for streaming on my home network for a while, before consigning it to history, and learning a lesson about devices that require a service to function, as well as the companies that provide that service.
Hmm, not so sure about that, really. It's newer, but it has some compromises due to portability. If you're setting up a new environment from scratch, then maybe go for it. If you've got a mature environment with lots of scripts then you're likely going to need and want to keep using 5.1.
Also, just using 7.2 isn't enough anyway, you do actually need to disable 5.1 in some way, at least for remote access, otherwise all you're doing is stopping using 5.1 and leaving it open for anyone who wants to use it.
This one took a little too long though. Patches issued on Tuesday, tested, no problems seen in our environment, updates pushed to next test machines over the weekend. Discover on Monday there's an out-of-band patch that compromises your testing strategy, even if no adverse affects were actually seen.
I guess we'll really know what's what when/if MS release Windows 10 21H2. Maintaining different (even if closely related) codebases goes against everything MS has done in recent years, so it would make sense for Windows 10 and Windows 11 to be really close. Alternatively, expect Windows 10 to get little more than lip-service support in future.
I'm fairly ambivalent about upgrading to Windows 11, though I have it running on a VM out of idle curiousity. But I was quite surprised to find from the compatibility list that my 3 year old laptop with a Ryzen 5 2500U, where said VM is running, wasn't even supported. New laptop? Don't think so, but I might eventually install Windows 11 on it, I suppose.
The point is that the data likely did not come from scraping. Look at the amount of it.
As an aside, Facebook have my number even though I did not give it to them. I assume they have it from one or more of my friends and acquaintances sharing their contacts. The only reason I know that Facebook have the number is because a couple of years ago their website asked me to confirm that it was my number, which I did not.
After very short notice from the school about using Teams for the new school term, I had my daughter up and running on an older 7" Android tablet in no time, with her declaring it "easy". She actually seems to enjoy doing tasks on it, though the missus can't wait until the schools open up again.
As such, I don't understand the assertion that Windows 10 is Microsoft's entry for Teams. I'm sure they don't mind selling it, but they've not exactly made it hard to avoid.
"The problem with having been a commercial pilot is that (for the most part) we don't tend to have those moments."
This line reassured me that I am in good hands when flying.
"Typical reaction is more like "OK, this will be interesting".
This line dashed my hopes and instructed me that pilots simply have a different vocabulary to IT.