Re: Alternative explanation for contract award
https://www.forces.net/services/tri-service/leading-charge-twice-many-horses-tanks-british-army
Posts by arbivore
6 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Feb 2022
Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech
Swiss bankers warn: Three quarters of retail Bitcoin investors are in the red
Tuesday 22nd November 2022 13:27 GMT
Re: Not surprising
Own three houses - never had a mortgage, bank loan or credit card debt older than a month. Worked hard in two jobs at once, saved, lived frugally and built a business in IT with an initial purchase of a PC and a printer. Still living in a (very nice) rented house while the others bring in rents.
Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape
Tuesday 23rd August 2022 10:23 GMT
Re: I have been on about this since I was a teenager
Send nuclear waste to the sun?
No, you can't. We only just developed rocket propulsion powerful enough to slow a spacecraft down for solar approach. Remember we and everything else on and around the earth are orbiting the sun? To come out of that orbit means we have to slow down so that the orbital speed is lost and the object we want to get to the sun can fall towards it. Countering the orbital speed of 67,000 mph through space requires a HUGE amount of energy. Sending stuff into the sun is totally uneconomic. It *is* rocket science.
Clonezilla 3: Copy and clone disk images to your heart's content
Tuesday 31st May 2022 17:18 GMT
Our Linux boxes all get a cron mediated disk erase and image restore from a FOG repository using pxe boot to launch clonezilla over the LAN. This means that whatever shenanigans our Linux users get up to are wiped away regularly in a process that takes less than 5 minutes and needs no admin time to execute. It happens at 3am. We update the image occasionally if we find an improvement we think would be advantageous.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
