Tech forums also tend to draw people in who don't even bother reading the question in it's entirety before cutting and pasting an answer. A good example of that was the other day when I found a post asking how to set up shared storage an Oracle RAC cluster on XEN only to be told it's not possible (it is, I've done it) It would lead to disk corruption even if it was possible (Oracle RAC would keep that from happening) and he should use a network share instead if he wants to share files amount multiple users. Thing is this user has been posting the same useless response to any question involving shared virtual disks for the past 5 years.
And that brings up the next problem: If you sound sure of yourself, people assume you know what you are talking about and mod the post up even if it's completely wrong
Iran has a very functional university system and the company I work for employs several techs of Iranian decent. Libya also had (before the civil war) a highly functional educational system and I know one (from my circle of friends) engineering grad student from Libya. It's not hard to imagine a company the size of Microsoft running into even more issues since they tend to pull talent from wherever they can find it.
This doesn't work either. Anyone who disagrees with the alt facts are "fooled by" or "in the pocket of" big pharma/the left wing media/the globalists etc.
The problem with Ontario is not that they went green for energy or that green energy can't work in Canada. The problem is that the government of Ontario negotiated the price poorly. They didn't need to offer the price guarantees they did and avoided opportunities to back out of the guaranteed pricing.
Don't blame the technology for an incompetent government.
1 They fixed the "not saying anything" bit years ago.
2 I would rather they retry in case the disk is slow coming back online (some of SANs I just phased out were really slow)
3 The timeout is configurable.
I doubt it was intentional. Oracle is just running their acquisitions the same way they run their database division. The problem is that it's much easier to change hardware/OS than it is to change databases and where I work, that's what happened. We can't dump the Oracle DB (there will be no new projects on it though) but we already stopped buying their hardware after they raised the prices. We had a blade system with a dead blade, Oracle demanded $50k to replace our blade, we threw out the blade chassis instead since at that price, we could just buy a full sized server from someone else.
Really? I haven't had a boot failure in SystemD since Debian switched while I was running Debian experimental(years ago), and even then it was down to a bad entry in/etc/fstab (I had removed a disk) and it wasn't a total failure, the boot just hung for the total 5 minute timeout without telling me anything (now it tells you what it is waiting for) instead of immediately failing the way it did before.
If you are having multiple failures you are clearly doing something wrong. It has been solid on all of my servers and that's even given my habit of customizing the boot scripts to allow for things like iSCSI, OCFS2, Distributed file systems etc.
Your solution is based on assumptions drawn from living in a first world country and having money. Also, when I used it, there was a security question they would ask the recipient (in my case it was where we met) Even in the US, many people are unable to open bank accounts (too poor, bad credit etc) and it's even worse in poor countries where it is even harder to get a bank account. WU's main market is money transfers to people without bank accounts.
I think you did not get the idea... Nigeria is usually where scammers are in person, if there are no WU agencies in Nigeria they would have to go to other countries to collect the money and so the scam would be more expensive or even impossible. To legitimate money transfers one should use common banks (I know, it's a pain in the ass to use them but it's a lot more secure than using the WU).
Some of the scammers are in Nigeria. They have been caught running the scams out of other countries and there are payment systems that specialize in transferring ill gotten money. Common banks don't always work either because some areas just don't have reliable/trustworthy banks. The single most legitimate use for WU is for immigrants to send money back to their extended families in their home countries.
All said, you also should not take my suggestion to the letter because I wrote it with a touch of humor in the middle. If you would prefer a literal suggestion then my suggestion would be that no one should be allowed to send money to Nigeria (or any other country perhaps) without having a sender and a recipient duly identified that can be held liable for fraud if they happen.
Closer to a good idea provided it doesn't interfere with their intended use. A better idea would be for the agent to ask how the person knows you and what the money is for, but then the last time I sent a WU transfer (friend I met while travelling in Europe, met through someone I met who works at the Red Cross needed emergency money) The agent at the local store was just a cashier who had access to the WU terminal and had no training whatsoever.
Wow. So how do Americans receive their salaries and pay their bills?
Salaries are usually sent by a payment service (large CSV file sent to the banks with a list of bank transfers to preform) Bill payments are generally the reverse of that (CSV sent to the bank pulling money from a list of accounts) or by credit card. None of those are designed for person to person transfers.
Or pay back e.g. a friend or a colleague?
Cash, Cheque, or PayPal
The whole North American system is pretty screwed up with Canada only being a marginal improvement over the American system.
Here in Canada, my bank allows me to send personal transfers but generally get annoyed if I use it for anything other than close friends or family. We have email Interac for sending personal money (it costs $1) but that seems intentionally crippled so that people don't get the idea to use it as a payment system. It is also a phishing attack waiting to happen since it sends a URL to click and then enter your bank details
You are making the assumption that the recipient has internet access, a bank account and a reliable place to withdraw the money. The whole advantage of Western Union is that it becomes instant cash on the other side so the recipient doesn't need anything other than the ability to show up in person at some office with the required information.
I have rarely seen Western Union used between two countries with reliable banking systems.
Doubtful. The scammers will just route the payment through another country. The only actual result would be that immigrants would be unable to send money to their extended families.
He is completely wrong. It does matter. How can Rudy Giuliani be the cyber security czar if he doesn't even know enough to contract competent people to keep his website secure?
My issue with Fedex is that up here, they show up during my working day, discover I'm not home and then demand that I drive across town to pick up my package. UPS at least has up locations but they randomly refuse to send packages to it and demand I drive across town. Really, I wish they would just ship Canada post instead. At least in that case, the pick up point is 2 blocks from my apartment.
Because they passed themselves off as an organisation for professionals and then turned their back on all of their non corporate contributors with no warning and never understood that those of us who paid for membership were doing it for more than just discounts.
1. People don't like to move.
2. People especially don't like to move someplace far away.
3. People especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country.
4. People especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture.
5. People especially especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture.and where you have to live in a tiny apartment in an overcrowded city with really bad air pollution.
To me, that seems like that should be enough reasons. But okay, sure:
6. People especially especially especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture.and where you have to live in a tiny apartment in an overcrowded city with really bad air pollution AND the government won't let you go to all the internet sites you might want to.
You don't have an actual point until #5. For 1-4 Speak for yourself. Many people like to experience other places and cultures and foods. And I know people who change jobs and countries every few years just for the enjoyment of trying something new.
So, there's a downside to marijuana? OMG alert the press! Tell everyone! Don't talk about cigarettes or alcohol, though. Big companies need that money.
I love how they say, "...the media". The media tries to tell us all the time that marijuana is just horrible and that, "it's illegal for a reason!". How about you let us, as the free people of the US, decide whether we want to smoke it or not? We do the same fucking thing for nicotine and alcohol.
Hypocrites.
I call BS. There are endless studies on the effects of alcohol and cigarettes. You are only upset because it posits there might be a downside to something you enjoy doing
Where I live there is now a 10 Meter rule where you can't smoke or vape within 10 meters of an entryway or bus stop. They also tax alcohol a lot to keep us from drinking too much of it. Meanwhile they are planning to decriminalize marijuana (which I'm ok with as long as it gets the same 10 M rule)
Really, we should be allowed to do what we want provided no one else has to have our choice but we should also be kept fully informed of the potential consequences of our life choices.
That's at least some of the issue. I had a stoner friend have a psychotic break and I do agree that some of it was self medication but he got a lot better when he cut back on the weed so at least in his case, the drug use was making the underlying condition worse.
There problem is there is little evidence of wide spread cheating. Most of the accusations come down to and audit that found dead people being registered to vote and people registered to vote in 2 (or more) districts. Both are true statements but the people making the accusations are leaving out that both of those scenarios were happening by accident thanks to antiquated registration systems. People who moved weren't being removed from their old district when they registered at the new one and people who died weren't being properly flagged and removed. Trump was right when he said the 1.8 million dead people weren't voting for him, but they weren't voting for anyone else either.
That's not to say that it doesn't happen. There have been arrests, but people have blown the problem out of proportion and as a result, it became a law enforcement issue rather than a bureaucratic one
The "flashed with tomato" part is key. I find the default Linksys router's stock firmware to be worse than useless. Alternately, I find the newer Asus routers (the ones that can update online) to be flexible out of the box without needing to be flashed
The article itself says that Defender was included with Windows 8, which internally isn't all that different from Windows 10. Getting their software approved for the Windows Store in a short time frame sounds more likely.
You would think so but you would be wrong. The place I work uses Kaspersky and I can tell you that it Worked on 8 and failed to install on 10 and that was not the only software we had trouble with.
All of our software works on Windows 7, some works on Windows 8, some works on only certain Windows 8 installs(we can't find the pattern), and some fails on Windows 10 even though it worked on Windows 8
I can see it being cheaper at that scale. For the cost of a developer or two, you save on licensing costs for 15 000 desktops and end up with something tailored to your environment so you need fewer admins doing the day to day support work.
RTFA! They had used a custom version of Ubuntu so they were likely doing the support themselves with a custom setup tuned to their environment and on that level (15 000 desktops) it was likely cheaper. The larger problem is: What happens when someone sends you a document that your version of OpenOffice doesn't like or you need software that doesn't run on Linux? Libre Office file compatibility still isn't 100% (mostly there compared to word, chokes on PowerPoint sides and doesn't do VBA ever)
And that is where it comes down to use cases. Linux has a lower total cost on the desktop when it does everything you need it to. But if you need something that Linux doesn't have software for, the lower cost just doesn't matter.
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Tech forums also tend to draw people in who don't even bother reading the question in it's entirety before cutting and pasting an answer. A good example of that was the other day when I found a post asking how to set up shared storage an Oracle RAC cluster on XEN only to be told it's not possible (it is, I've done it) It would lead to disk corruption even if it was possible (Oracle RAC would keep that from happening) and he should use a network share instead if he wants to share files amount multiple users. Thing is this user has been posting the same useless response to any question involving shared virtual disks for the past 5 years.
And that brings up the next problem: If you sound sure of yourself, people assume you know what you are talking about and mod the post up even if it's completely wrong
Iran has a very functional university system and the company I work for employs several techs of Iranian decent. Libya also had (before the civil war) a highly functional educational system and I know one (from my circle of friends) engineering grad student from Libya. It's not hard to imagine a company the size of Microsoft running into even more issues since they tend to pull talent from wherever they can find it.
This doesn't work either. Anyone who disagrees with the alt facts are "fooled by" or "in the pocket of" big pharma/the left wing media/the globalists etc.
The problem with Ontario is not that they went green for energy or that green energy can't work in Canada. The problem is that the government of Ontario negotiated the price poorly. They didn't need to offer the price guarantees they did and avoided opportunities to back out of the guaranteed pricing.
Don't blame the technology for an incompetent government.
1 They fixed the "not saying anything" bit years ago. 2 I would rather they retry in case the disk is slow coming back online (some of SANs I just phased out were really slow) 3 The timeout is configurable.
I doubt it was intentional. Oracle is just running their acquisitions the same way they run their database division. The problem is that it's much easier to change hardware/OS than it is to change databases and where I work, that's what happened. We can't dump the Oracle DB (there will be no new projects on it though) but we already stopped buying their hardware after they raised the prices. We had a blade system with a dead blade, Oracle demanded $50k to replace our blade, we threw out the blade chassis instead since at that price, we could just buy a full sized server from someone else.
Really? I haven't had a boot failure in SystemD since Debian switched while I was running Debian experimental(years ago), and even then it was down to a bad entry in /etc/fstab (I had removed a disk) and it wasn't a total failure, the boot just hung for the total 5 minute timeout without telling me anything (now it tells you what it is waiting for) instead of immediately failing the way it did before.
If you are having multiple failures you are clearly doing something wrong. It has been solid on all of my servers and that's even given my habit of customizing the boot scripts to allow for things like iSCSI, OCFS2, Distributed file systems etc.
Your solution is based on assumptions drawn from living in a first world country and having money. Also, when I used it, there was a security question they would ask the recipient (in my case it was where we met) Even in the US, many people are unable to open bank accounts (too poor, bad credit etc) and it's even worse in poor countries where it is even harder to get a bank account. WU's main market is money transfers to people without bank accounts.
I think you did not get the idea... Nigeria is usually where scammers are in person, if there are no WU agencies in Nigeria they would have to go to other countries to collect the money and so the scam would be more expensive or even impossible. To legitimate money transfers one should use common banks (I know, it's a pain in the ass to use them but it's a lot more secure than using the WU).
Some of the scammers are in Nigeria. They have been caught running the scams out of other countries and there are payment systems that specialize in transferring ill gotten money. Common banks don't always work either because some areas just don't have reliable/trustworthy banks. The single most legitimate use for WU is for immigrants to send money back to their extended families in their home countries.
All said, you also should not take my suggestion to the letter because I wrote it with a touch of humor in the middle. If you would prefer a literal suggestion then my suggestion would be that no one should be allowed to send money to Nigeria (or any other country perhaps) without having a sender and a recipient duly identified that can be held liable for fraud if they happen.
Closer to a good idea provided it doesn't interfere with their intended use. A better idea would be for the agent to ask how the person knows you and what the money is for, but then the last time I sent a WU transfer (friend I met while travelling in Europe, met through someone I met who works at the Red Cross needed emergency money) The agent at the local store was just a cashier who had access to the WU terminal and had no training whatsoever.
Wow. So how do Americans receive their salaries and pay their bills?
Salaries are usually sent by a payment service (large CSV file sent to the banks with a list of bank transfers to preform) Bill payments are generally the reverse of that (CSV sent to the bank pulling money from a list of accounts) or by credit card. None of those are designed for person to person transfers.
Or pay back e.g. a friend or a colleague?
Cash, Cheque, or PayPal
The whole North American system is pretty screwed up with Canada only being a marginal improvement over the American system.
Here in Canada, my bank allows me to send personal transfers but generally get annoyed if I use it for anything other than close friends or family. We have email Interac for sending personal money (it costs $1) but that seems intentionally crippled so that people don't get the idea to use it as a payment system. It is also a phishing attack waiting to happen since it sends a URL to click and then enter your bank details
You are making the assumption that the recipient has internet access, a bank account and a reliable place to withdraw the money. The whole advantage of Western Union is that it becomes instant cash on the other side so the recipient doesn't need anything other than the ability to show up in person at some office with the required information. I have rarely seen Western Union used between two countries with reliable banking systems.
Doubtful. The scammers will just route the payment through another country. The only actual result would be that immigrants would be unable to send money to their extended families.
He is completely wrong. It does matter. How can Rudy Giuliani be the cyber security czar if he doesn't even know enough to contract competent people to keep his website secure?
My issue with Fedex is that up here, they show up during my working day, discover I'm not home and then demand that I drive across town to pick up my package. UPS at least has up locations but they randomly refuse to send packages to it and demand I drive across town. Really, I wish they would just ship Canada post instead. At least in that case, the pick up point is 2 blocks from my apartment.
Because they passed themselves off as an organisation for professionals and then turned their back on all of their non corporate contributors with no warning and never understood that those of us who paid for membership were doing it for more than just discounts.
Considering I used Snopes to debunk several anti Trump posts(I pretty much annoyed both sides this election).. I don't see that as a problem.
1. People don't like to move. 2. People especially don't like to move someplace far away. 3. People especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country. 4. People especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture. 5. People especially especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture.and where you have to live in a tiny apartment in an overcrowded city with really bad air pollution.
To me, that seems like that should be enough reasons. But okay, sure:
6. People especially especially especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture.and where you have to live in a tiny apartment in an overcrowded city with really bad air pollution AND the government won't let you go to all the internet sites you might want to.
You don't have an actual point until #5. For 1-4 Speak for yourself. Many people like to experience other places and cultures and foods. And I know people who change jobs and countries every few years just for the enjoyment of trying something new.
Not everyone is boring.
So, there's a downside to marijuana? OMG alert the press! Tell everyone! Don't talk about cigarettes or alcohol, though. Big companies need that money.
I love how they say, "...the media". The media tries to tell us all the time that marijuana is just horrible and that, "it's illegal for a reason!". How about you let us, as the free people of the US, decide whether we want to smoke it or not? We do the same fucking thing for nicotine and alcohol.
Hypocrites.
I call BS. There are endless studies on the effects of alcohol and cigarettes. You are only upset because it posits there might be a downside to something you enjoy doing
Where I live there is now a 10 Meter rule where you can't smoke or vape within 10 meters of an entryway or bus stop. They also tax alcohol a lot to keep us from drinking too much of it. Meanwhile they are planning to decriminalize marijuana (which I'm ok with as long as it gets the same 10 M rule)
Really, we should be allowed to do what we want provided no one else has to have our choice but we should also be kept fully informed of the potential consequences of our life choices.
That's at least some of the issue. I had a stoner friend have a psychotic break and I do agree that some of it was self medication but he got a lot better when he cut back on the weed so at least in his case, the drug use was making the underlying condition worse.
There problem is there is little evidence of wide spread cheating. Most of the accusations come down to and audit that found dead people being registered to vote and people registered to vote in 2 (or more) districts. Both are true statements but the people making the accusations are leaving out that both of those scenarios were happening by accident thanks to antiquated registration systems. People who moved weren't being removed from their old district when they registered at the new one and people who died weren't being properly flagged and removed. Trump was right when he said the 1.8 million dead people weren't voting for him, but they weren't voting for anyone else either.
That's not to say that it doesn't happen. There have been arrests, but people have blown the problem out of proportion and as a result, it became a law enforcement issue rather than a bureaucratic one
The "flashed with tomato" part is key. I find the default Linksys router's stock firmware to be worse than useless. Alternately, I find the newer Asus routers (the ones that can update online) to be flexible out of the box without needing to be flashed
The article itself says that Defender was included with Windows 8, which internally isn't all that different from Windows 10. Getting their software approved for the Windows Store in a short time frame sounds more likely.
You would think so but you would be wrong. The place I work uses Kaspersky and I can tell you that it Worked on 8 and failed to install on 10 and that was not the only software we had trouble with.
All of our software works on Windows 7, some works on Windows 8, some works on only certain Windows 8 installs(we can't find the pattern), and some fails on Windows 10 even though it worked on Windows 8
I can see it being cheaper at that scale. For the cost of a developer or two, you save on licensing costs for 15 000 desktops and end up with something tailored to your environment so you need fewer admins doing the day to day support work.
RTFA! They had used a custom version of Ubuntu so they were likely doing the support themselves with a custom setup tuned to their environment and on that level (15 000 desktops) it was likely cheaper. The larger problem is: What happens when someone sends you a document that your version of OpenOffice doesn't like or you need software that doesn't run on Linux? Libre Office file compatibility still isn't 100% (mostly there compared to word, chokes on PowerPoint sides and doesn't do VBA ever)
And that is where it comes down to use cases. Linux has a lower total cost on the desktop when it does everything you need it to. But if you need something that Linux doesn't have software for, the lower cost just doesn't matter.
This is NOT what I read on purpose. It's crap like Patriot News etc that some of my more Republican friends post on Facebook.