How much longer would it take to migrate the existing vms to patched version. (even if you only have 10% unutilized resources it'd only take at most nine swaps) I agree it's a bad solution to move every machine over night but it's better than forcing an outage.
AWS can't live migrate VM's.
Xen can.
Well, actually, for about 100ms, the system isn't technically running, but the point is that you can bounce a VM from one host to another without rebooting it.
I've had about 3 of them. The other 2 were damaged by lightning.
The HVAC system works with a changeover relay. Set to heat, it heats. Set to cool it cools.
When lightning hit, the thermostat's changeover switch blew. It would attempt to cool the house on a 90-degree day by running the heater. I'd get home and the place would be 115 inside.
The irony here is that Canada contributes a LOT to the popular arts. Star Trek as we know it wouldn't have existed without Canadian talent. Woodstock would have sounded a lot different. We know courtesy of Stargate that many alien planets bear a remarkable resemblance to Vancouver. And the USA wouldn't have been inflicted with Justin Bieber.
There's probably a bigger cultural boundary between certain regions of the USA than there is between US and Canada, and it's not all in the favor of the USA.
Yes, there are regional distinctions and yes, there are differences in the political systems, but culturally, the USA/Canada form more of a gestalt. You don't see that with USA/Mexico, for example.
All of which means that "favoring" Canadian arts isn't as simple as it sounds.
And - unrelated - all that "Free" stuff, isn't Free, as I'm sure you're aware. It's just where and when it gets paid for. The popular US attitude being that it's all supposed to be totally under personal control, the popular Socialist attitude being that when you do that, you get a lot of moochers who don't really want to pay for anything and have no concept of What Goes Around Comes Around.
Does it support AoE adequately out of the box? Or does it still hang and crash at shutdown because the ethernet interfaces are shut off before the AoE volumes are flushed?
Well, by golly, that's EXACTLY the kind of thing that systemd was supposed to address.
When your captor is a machine, there is no humaneness to be found, and, hence, no one to plead with
However, unlike human captors, it might be vulnerable to buffer overflows, deadlocks, injection attacks, etc.
Also unlike human captors, however, it could be expected to operate according to the rules it was given and not allow itself to be driven by anger or spite.
So. in short, probably more "humane" than many of the human interrogators they've been employing since then.
Actually, I have a mental image:
Analiza: "Mr. Smith, I have evaluated the various enhanced interrogation options you programmed me with. It seems the only way to win is not to play."
I'm unclear on the udev hatred that has arisen with systemctl.
I've been using udev for a long time. It's under-documented, I think (don't believe anyone wrote a TLDP for it, for example), but fairly straightforward to work with in most cases. It beats having an immense pre-defined/dev with lots of devices that will probably never physically exist on a given machine., and it won its place by being better than a competitor.
I can see where a udev tie-in to systemctl would be advantageous, especially when starting/stopping hotplug-related services. But what's in there that causes udev to be hated just because of systemctl?
A server needs systemd as much or more than a desktop. Systemd done right can adapt the system to handle temporary or permanent outages cleanly and can ensure that complex nets of dependencies are met without dealing with lots of fiddly little inter-dependent scripts.
The problems are A) systemd isn't yet done right - there are critical cases where it's less functional than what it replaces and B) it's not just an init system, it includes less-desirable abominations such as journalctl.
China's cheap labor advantage has aleady been becoming irrelevant. The workers have been demanding raises, robots cost about the same whichever country you're located in, 3D printing is just another nail in the coffin.
The "basic income" part is what's becoming problematic.
I had a dishwasher, a brand that touted itself for quality. The door latch kept breaking. The part was only $5, but shipping was $15, so I ordered them in quantity.
6 months later, they were all broken.
With a 3-d printer. I could have made them on demand, and saved shipping costs and the part was small enough, it might have even printed for $5.
Better yet, knowing the weak spots in the latch, I probably could have re-designed the latch with proper reinforcement at the failure point.
:) I think we probably have a slight over-representation... why entire groups of religious folks shun the devilry of the glowing boxes. I mean, the amish alone.
Because the faith of some people is so weak that the only way they can endure is to shun or even repel anything that might challenge their beliefs.
Or, alternatively, because the place is a vast wasteland not worth visiting.
> I think SSRI's (& others pharmaceuticals like it) are extremely dangerous. I would rather them be prescribed Indica or Sativa depending on the need...
That is unfortunately not an option for everyone, since employers are still discriminating against cannabis use thanks to decades of lies from Uncle Sam.
There are other options as well, St. John's Wort, for example has had effects on one person I know that were very similar to prescription medications.
Before taking the "natural" option, however, remember that all psycho-active drugs are a crap shoot and that the same ingredients and dosage can have radicically different effects on different people. From nothing at all, to pure side-effects with no benefits, to "helps, but the side-effects are intolerable" all the way up to possible permanent damage. Or, you MAY get lucky and find the Perfect Solution, although for most of us, if we can just get a Tolerable Solution, we'll take it.
I know better than to believe that solutions coming from chemical factories are any more magical than what grows in the forest, but do remember that even packaged herbal remedies are subject to an unpredictably wide range of active ingredient levels. So that makes the crap game that much more challenging. Big Pharma has its faults, but at least they deal in regulate dosages.
Self-medication is therefore not something to do lightly, especially for people with serious depression where you're used to walking around with a boulder on your shoulder and a world seen through shit-colored glasses. Even if there are no adverse physical effects, the mental adjustment needed if you get a working solution may be considerable, and a trained conselor can be a big help there. Plus, there are indications that depression isn't just a daytime impairment. Some medications can cause a significant change in dreaming for a while, and since dreaming is supposed to be cleaning up the day's garbage, there may be a serious backlog getting flushed out.
Okay, staring now, you can get certified in Fad Oriented Programming for just $500! It's always the hottest trend!
FOP isn't something that any dweeb with $500 can get into. First you have to order the FOP toolkit, which is going to cost you at least 10 times that. Then, of course, there's the FOP Official Specifications. Add another zero after that.
For 20-something years, they've been telling me to be "PRO"-active. Because just plain "active" wasn't good enough anymore. Or at least didn't sound pompous enough.
Not WMF. I had to write a WMF module to generate graphics commands for a laser printer back ages ago. It wasn't that hard.
Actually, I'm reasonably sure that WMF or a descendent of it is used for the device-independent spool format on modern versions of Windows. Since it's basically a recording of the GDI commands.
Still, a better bet would be to convert those WMFs to Postscript format if you want real longevity.
My votes for things most likely to still be decodable 1000 years from now are PDF/Postscript, JPEG, GIF, and ZIP with LZW. Assuming that the media can remain uncorrupted and readable and that civilization hasn't crashed between now and then.
Frequently the bank forces the user to use exploitable means just to communicate with the bank.
IE6+ActiveX required, anyone?
If your bank requires you to use that steaming pile of fail, why haven't you left yet?
Wells Fargo used to throw up warnings when you used a browser they hadn't yet evaluated, but I think the rapid-release schedule taken by most browser vendors put a stop to that. Even then, it was just a warning...it didn't affect functionality.
Because they were my employer. I didn't have an account there. But policy was that that was all we were going to support. Period.
Hopefully, they've at least upgraded the mandatory version for IE at a minimum, by now.
Back around 2000 when Microsoft had something like $100 billion in the bank I said that with that kind of money, they could afford to make no income and still pay their 40,000 or so employees at the time for the next 13 years.
A basic fact of business is that when a company has no income but does have assets, the time has arrived to liquidate those assets and distribute the proceeds to shareholders. A minor variation of that reaches the same conclusion in the face of low, as opposed to zero, profitability.
What a quaint, antiquated idea. More likely, management will do something like use those assets as leverage to buy another company, lay off thousands, collect bonuses, then sell off the second company, rinse, repeat.
Or sell itself to some other company, collect golden parachutes and/or high-level positions at the other company (with golden parachutes), award themselves bonuses. lay off thousands, etc. etc.
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How much longer would it take to migrate the existing vms to patched version. (even if you only have 10% unutilized resources it'd only take at most nine swaps) I agree it's a bad solution to move every machine over night but it's better than forcing an outage.
AWS can't live migrate VM's.
Xen can.
Well, actually, for about 100ms, the system isn't technically running, but the point is that you can bounce a VM from one host to another without rebooting it.
The phrase "Freedom isn't Free" doesn't just apply on the battlefield.
On the other hand they are kids so now would be a good time to teach them good habits such as password security.
One of the best ways to do that is let them abuse each others accounts. While it's still something relatively harmless that gets trashed.
And then it's no longer 25 lines you're maintaining. In parallel.
Yes, one of the prime benefits of jQuery is that it handles the client-specific warts of Javascript.
Not to mention quite a few of the other warts.
Mine's smart but not that smart.
I've had about 3 of them. The other 2 were damaged by lightning.
The HVAC system works with a changeover relay. Set to heat, it heats. Set to cool it cools.
When lightning hit, the thermostat's changeover switch blew. It would attempt to cool the house on a 90-degree day by running the heater. I'd get home and the place would be 115 inside.
When I was a noob, I used Slackware.
Now get off my lawn!
The irony here is that Canada contributes a LOT to the popular arts. Star Trek as we know it wouldn't have existed without Canadian talent. Woodstock would have sounded a lot different. We know courtesy of Stargate that many alien planets bear a remarkable resemblance to Vancouver. And the USA wouldn't have been inflicted with Justin Bieber.
There's probably a bigger cultural boundary between certain regions of the USA than there is between US and Canada, and it's not all in the favor of the USA.
Yes, there are regional distinctions and yes, there are differences in the political systems, but culturally, the USA/Canada form more of a gestalt. You don't see that with USA/Mexico, for example.
All of which means that "favoring" Canadian arts isn't as simple as it sounds.
And - unrelated - all that "Free" stuff, isn't Free, as I'm sure you're aware. It's just where and when it gets paid for. The popular US attitude being that it's all supposed to be totally under personal control, the popular Socialist attitude being that when you do that, you get a lot of moochers who don't really want to pay for anything and have no concept of What Goes Around Comes Around.
Why do you use 85k of javascript when 25 lines of pure javascript will do?
Because they're really, really nasty lines of Javascript. And the same 25 lines won't work on all the different web clients.
Does it support AoE adequately out of the box? Or does it still hang and crash at shutdown because the ethernet interfaces are shut off before the AoE volumes are flushed?
Well, by golly, that's EXACTLY the kind of thing that systemd was supposed to address.
So does it, I wonder?
Obviously, it has been classified as a Munition by the US Government, and therefore parts are interdicted.
Oh wait, HQ in Sweden? Hmmm. The Assange Effect strikes again!
I understand your signature now. Ye yorn hath been too long exiled from English as well!
When your captor is a machine, there is no humaneness to be found, and, hence, no one to plead with
However, unlike human captors, it might be vulnerable to buffer overflows, deadlocks, injection attacks, etc.
Also unlike human captors, however, it could be expected to operate according to the rules it was given and not allow itself to be driven by anger or spite.
So. in short, probably more "humane" than many of the human interrogators they've been employing since then.
Actually, I have a mental image:
Analiza: "Mr. Smith, I have evaluated the various enhanced interrogation options you programmed me with. It seems the only way to win is not to play."
I'm unclear on the udev hatred that has arisen with systemctl.
I've been using udev for a long time. It's under-documented, I think (don't believe anyone wrote a TLDP for it, for example), but fairly straightforward to work with in most cases. It beats having an immense pre-defined /dev with lots of devices that will probably never physically exist on a given machine., and it won its place by being better than a competitor.
I can see where a udev tie-in to systemctl would be advantageous, especially when starting/stopping hotplug-related services. But what's in there that causes udev to be hated just because of systemctl?
A server needs systemd as much or more than a desktop. Systemd done right can adapt the system to handle temporary or permanent outages cleanly and can ensure that complex nets of dependencies are met without dealing with lots of fiddly little inter-dependent scripts.
The problems are A) systemd isn't yet done right - there are critical cases where it's less functional than what it replaces and B) it's not just an init system, it includes less-desirable abominations such as journalctl.
China's cheap labor advantage has aleady been becoming irrelevant. The workers have been demanding raises, robots cost about the same whichever country you're located in, 3D printing is just another nail in the coffin.
The "basic income" part is what's becoming problematic.
I had a dishwasher, a brand that touted itself for quality. The door latch kept breaking. The part was only $5, but shipping was $15, so I ordered them in quantity.
6 months later, they were all broken.
With a 3-d printer. I could have made them on demand, and saved shipping costs and the part was small enough, it might have even printed for $5.
Better yet, knowing the weak spots in the latch, I probably could have re-designed the latch with proper reinforcement at the failure point.
:) I think we probably have a slight over-representation... why entire groups of religious folks shun the devilry of the glowing boxes. I mean, the amish alone.
Because the faith of some people is so weak that the only way they can endure is to shun or even repel anything that might challenge their beliefs.
Or, alternatively, because the place is a vast wasteland not worth visiting.
> I think SSRI's (& others pharmaceuticals like it) are extremely dangerous. I would rather them be prescribed Indica or Sativa depending on the need...
That is unfortunately not an option for everyone, since employers are still discriminating against cannabis use thanks to decades of lies from Uncle Sam.
There are other options as well, St. John's Wort, for example has had effects on one person I know that were very similar to prescription medications.
Before taking the "natural" option, however, remember that all psycho-active drugs are a crap shoot and that the same ingredients and dosage can have radicically different effects on different people. From nothing at all, to pure side-effects with no benefits, to "helps, but the side-effects are intolerable" all the way up to possible permanent damage. Or, you MAY get lucky and find the Perfect Solution, although for most of us, if we can just get a Tolerable Solution, we'll take it.
I know better than to believe that solutions coming from chemical factories are any more magical than what grows in the forest, but do remember that even packaged herbal remedies are subject to an unpredictably wide range of active ingredient levels. So that makes the crap game that much more challenging. Big Pharma has its faults, but at least they deal in regulate dosages.
Self-medication is therefore not something to do lightly, especially for people with serious depression where you're used to walking around with a boulder on your shoulder and a world seen through shit-colored glasses. Even if there are no adverse physical effects, the mental adjustment needed if you get a working solution may be considerable, and a trained conselor can be a big help there. Plus, there are indications that depression isn't just a daytime impairment. Some medications can cause a significant change in dreaming for a while, and since dreaming is supposed to be cleaning up the day's garbage, there may be a serious backlog getting flushed out.
I'm in the wrong business!
Okay, staring now, you can get certified in Fad Oriented Programming for just $500! It's always the hottest trend!
FOP isn't something that any dweeb with $500 can get into. First you have to order the FOP toolkit, which is going to cost you at least 10 times that. Then, of course, there's the FOP Official Specifications. Add another zero after that.
For 20-something years, they've been telling me to be "PRO"-active. Because just plain "active" wasn't good enough anymore. Or at least didn't sound pompous enough.
NOW you want RE-active???
This isn't funny.
It is, nonetheless true.
What is the high temperature limit for optical media?
.
Will a CD-ROM survive at 400 degrees Fahrenheit? Punch cards and rocks will.
But what about 451 degrees Fahrenheit? You're down to rocks at that point.
Not WMF. I had to write a WMF module to generate graphics commands for a laser printer back ages ago. It wasn't that hard.
Actually, I'm reasonably sure that WMF or a descendent of it is used for the device-independent spool format on modern versions of Windows. Since it's basically a recording of the GDI commands.
Still, a better bet would be to convert those WMFs to Postscript format if you want real longevity.
My votes for things most likely to still be decodable 1000 years from now are PDF/Postscript, JPEG, GIF, and ZIP with LZW. Assuming that the media can remain uncorrupted and readable and that civilization hasn't crashed between now and then.
Very droll, but by that definition, being a paranoid schizophrenic in my town carries the "death penalty".
Because it seems like every time one freaks out in public, the cops shoot him/her on the spot.
If your bank requires you to use that steaming pile of fail, why haven't you left yet?
Wells Fargo used to throw up warnings when you used a browser they hadn't yet evaluated, but I think the rapid-release schedule taken by most browser vendors put a stop to that. Even then, it was just a warning...it didn't affect functionality.
Because they were my employer. I didn't have an account there. But policy was that that was all we were going to support. Period.
Hopefully, they've at least upgraded the mandatory version for IE at a minimum, by now.
Back around 2000 when Microsoft had something like $100 billion in the bank I said that with that kind of money, they could afford to make no income and still pay their 40,000 or so employees at the time for the next 13 years.
A basic fact of business is that when a company has no income but does have assets, the time has arrived to liquidate those assets and distribute the proceeds to shareholders. A minor variation of that reaches the same conclusion in the face of low, as opposed to zero, profitability.
What a quaint, antiquated idea. More likely, management will do something like use those assets as leverage to buy another company, lay off thousands, collect bonuses, then sell off the second company, rinse, repeat.
Or sell itself to some other company, collect golden parachutes and/or high-level positions at the other company (with golden parachutes), award themselves bonuses. lay off thousands, etc. etc.
Modern business can be so depressing.