it was a bastard of debian potato and woody. the dist-upgrade from potato to woody died in the middle and it continued in that half broken state until it was decommissioned. it only ran rsync+ssh on private IPs so security wasn't a concern. the greatest thing about it was that not a single one of its 8 SCSI drives died while it was running. the 2 hot-spares in raid were never used.
crap, i've just realised this may have sealed the fate of galaxy quest 2. was the original cast supposed to be in the galaxy quest series amazon is developing?
i had a Thinkpad 600x which ran reliably for about a decade (then it got occasionally used for 5 more years by children/dogs/ants). unfortunately, after a decade and half of small accidents, the disintegrated port flaps + scratches and dents in its rubbery coating made it look like a leper. it was also impossible to fit decent amount of ram into it. the nostalgia wasn't worth it and i got rid of it. oh how i miss its keyboard...
off the top of my head: * hp (tandem computers) himalaya - do they even have an off switch? * most commercial vax/vms deployments had/have uptime in decades * my recently decommissioned rsync server (supermicro with 2 super-inefficient xeons) had an uptime of 10.5 years (2 out of 3 PSUs had failed long time ago, 3rd one worked until i switched it off). annoyingly, the uptime value in kernel reset itself every 497 days.
because logic. if email bounces and potential customer has to take additional steps to reach us, they are likely to open up a browser and research alternatives.
instead, email will reach us anyway (old aliases are still in place) and a new person will respond and introduce her/himself as their new account manager.
in my experience, it was always the women who used company email for private communication. as a former admin of such things, it annoyed the hell out of me. whenever a new employee took over an old mailbox (with a new name alias), they had to (for years) deal with stupid emails about - Mindy's wedding, Georgina's ugly baby, meet me for coffee beautiful, my period is late, etc. i never understood why they did it. they were always told to keep their mailboxes in a condition that would allow other people to use them in their absence, yet without exception, they treated their mailboxes like personal property and cursed me to hell for letting other people access their emails. i hated that job. people... what a bunch of bastards.
i remember seeing him the first time - crossdressed, full makeup, vomit inducing dancing and singing. avoided his music and videos like a plague since then.
btw, what exactly is this doing on slashdot? anybody knows what lady gaga has been up to lately?
in my experience (with servers), all power supplies WILL fail eventually. i've only ever seen 1 power supply last over 10 years. i recently decommissioned a supermicro server with 3PSUs after 10.5 years of running continuously without a single reboot (rsync server for backups). 2 power supplies had been dead before i turned it off, the 3rd gave up its ghost when i tried turning it on again.
normally, i change power supplies preemptively every 3 years but for this server, replacements were more expensive than the server itself.
i admit, datacentre conditions are significantly different from home environment - ridiculous temperatures, servers running on full load for hours on end - so desktop PSUs may be able to run for longer than my server average of 5-6 years.
UK is a BIG english-speaking market, where people buy more goods online than in any other country in the world ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... ). right now, these companies are just trying to save faces before they start applying lubricant to all orifices. by the time UK government says "bend over", they'll be waiting in line with pants around their ankles.
why? they are the only phone manufacturer who openly admits to helping law enforcement agencies read the contents of YOUR phone. i.e. only one admitting they sell backdoored phones.
what i mean is that running android applications as root is currently necessary to achieve some goals (e.g. app backups) but stupid from a security point of view - all or nothing permissions. that's one of the reasons google isn't too keen on this.
instead, i'd like a finer grained privilege escalation that's well integrated into the system instead of a dangerous hack. RBAC as implemented in solaris or aix is a beautiful way of doing such things (not so much in HP-UX). it is more advanced than sudo but not a significantly more complicated concept. it's just different and requires getting used to. it would be nice if google defined roles within android that applications can be allowed to have (with user's permission) without automatically gaining the ability to destroy the system.
while international policies of usa make it a personification of greed fuelled arrogance, russia/china are much further along that line. but calling it the most dangerous is taking it way too far. the main difference is, usa is still trying to make everything look legal. more dangerous nations are not hindered by that anymore (see russian conflict with ukraine; chinese advances in east/south china sea)
UK is as european as the pope is protestant. the level of brownnosing america is embarrassing. germany has probably the strongest privacy protection laws in europe. also, laws in germany are not there to be laughed at by acronym agencies.
this joke only works in the US. the rest of the world has history and geography of the world (!= USA) in school. also it helps when history books don't have chapters beginning with "on the 8th day, Abe Lincoln rode his dinosaur to Philadelphia".
not in my experience. i have had that problem with one laptop in the past but it was a shit brand like acer/asus/msi (not sure which one). never had this problem on a proper laptop.
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it was a bastard of debian potato and woody. the dist-upgrade from potato to woody died in the middle and it continued in that half broken state until it was decommissioned. it only ran rsync+ssh on private IPs so security wasn't a concern. the greatest thing about it was that not a single one of its 8 SCSI drives died while it was running. the 2 hot-spares in raid were never used.
crap, i've just realised this may have sealed the fate of galaxy quest 2. was the original cast supposed to be in the galaxy quest series amazon is developing?
i had a Thinkpad 600x which ran reliably for about a decade (then it got occasionally used for 5 more years by children/dogs/ants). unfortunately, after a decade and half of small accidents, the disintegrated port flaps + scratches and dents in its rubbery coating made it look like a leper. it was also impossible to fit decent amount of ram into it. the nostalgia wasn't worth it and i got rid of it. oh how i miss its keyboard...
off the top of my head:
* hp (tandem computers) himalaya - do they even have an off switch?
* most commercial vax/vms deployments had/have uptime in decades
* my recently decommissioned rsync server (supermicro with 2 super-inefficient xeons) had an uptime of 10.5 years (2 out of 3 PSUs had failed long time ago, 3rd one worked until i switched it off). annoyingly, the uptime value in kernel reset itself every 497 days.
isn't it obvious? (in case it isn't, see above)
that escalated quickly
because logic. if email bounces and potential customer has to take additional steps to reach us, they are likely to open up a browser and research alternatives.
instead, email will reach us anyway (old aliases are still in place) and a new person will respond and introduce her/himself as their new account manager.
what was his favourite IDE?
warning: may seem sexist but it's my experience
in my experience, it was always the women who used company email for private communication. as a former admin of such things, it annoyed the hell out of me. whenever a new employee took over an old mailbox (with a new name alias), they had to (for years) deal with stupid emails about - Mindy's wedding, Georgina's ugly baby, meet me for coffee beautiful, my period is late, etc. i never understood why they did it. they were always told to keep their mailboxes in a condition that would allow other people to use them in their absence, yet without exception, they treated their mailboxes like personal property and cursed me to hell for letting other people access their emails. i hated that job. people... what a bunch of bastards.
i remember seeing him the first time - crossdressed, full makeup, vomit inducing dancing and singing. avoided his music and videos like a plague since then.
btw, what exactly is this doing on slashdot? anybody knows what lady gaga has been up to lately?
in my experience (with servers), all power supplies WILL fail eventually. i've only ever seen 1 power supply last over 10 years. i recently decommissioned a supermicro server with 3PSUs after 10.5 years of running continuously without a single reboot (rsync server for backups). 2 power supplies had been dead before i turned it off, the 3rd gave up its ghost when i tried turning it on again.
normally, i change power supplies preemptively every 3 years but for this server, replacements were more expensive than the server itself.
i admit, datacentre conditions are significantly different from home environment - ridiculous temperatures, servers running on full load for hours on end - so desktop PSUs may be able to run for longer than my server average of 5-6 years.
the article isn't talking about videos or music
UK is a BIG english-speaking market, where people buy more goods online than in any other country in the world ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... ). right now, these companies are just trying to save faces before they start applying lubricant to all orifices. by the time UK government says "bend over", they'll be waiting in line with pants around their ankles.
why? they are the only phone manufacturer who openly admits to helping law enforcement agencies read the contents of YOUR phone. i.e. only one admitting they sell backdoored phones.
what i mean is that running android applications as root is currently necessary to achieve some goals (e.g. app backups) but stupid from a security point of view - all or nothing permissions. that's one of the reasons google isn't too keen on this.
instead, i'd like a finer grained privilege escalation that's well integrated into the system instead of a dangerous hack. RBAC as implemented in solaris or aix is a beautiful way of doing such things (not so much in HP-UX). it is more advanced than sudo but not a significantly more complicated concept. it's just different and requires getting used to. it would be nice if google defined roles within android that applications can be allowed to have (with user's permission) without automatically gaining the ability to destroy the system.
i'd much rather see nice, solaris style RBAC built into android.
while international policies of usa make it a personification of greed fuelled arrogance, russia/china are much further along that line. but calling it the most dangerous is taking it way too far. the main difference is, usa is still trying to make everything look legal. more dangerous nations are not hindered by that anymore (see russian conflict with ukraine; chinese advances in east/south china sea)
i don't understand why they still haven't made 2 factor authentication mandatory.
UK is as european as the pope is protestant. the level of brownnosing america is embarrassing. germany has probably the strongest privacy protection laws in europe. also, laws in germany are not there to be laughed at by acronym agencies.
now if we could get rid of fans as well, i'd be happy. i'd like my laptop to have cpu in the screen part so it can use the lid as its heatsink.
this joke only works in the US. the rest of the world has history and geography of the world (!= USA) in school. also it helps when history books don't have chapters beginning with "on the 8th day, Abe Lincoln rode his dinosaur to Philadelphia".
i don't know how to mod you "off topic" AND +1, so i won't mod you at all.
maybe i should finally do dnssec. i've been planning to do it for about 5 years.
this is the year ipv6 will take off (again)
not in my experience. i have had that problem with one laptop in the past but it was a shit brand like acer/asus/msi (not sure which one). never had this problem on a proper laptop.