11 hour redeye flight from Helsinki to Osaka, Japan after a badly slept previous night.
Turn on cellphone, drowsy as hell, after customs. Enter PIN. Reject. WTF. Try again, still reject. Try again, once more reject. SIM now locked, please enter PUK code. Crap.
I was able to call my telco from the hotel and get the SIM unlocked. Then it hit me - after the flight, I had kept typing in the PIN for my credit card. No wonder it didn't work since it was the completely wrong PIN.
Point being: If someone brings you your phone after a night in cell you *honestly* could forget. Especially if some nasty officer is grilling you in an interrogation room.
My experience back when I was beginner - and even these days if I run into something I can't figure out - is to list all the references I looked into before posting.
So not
"I have a problem X, please help"
but instead
"I have a problem X. I have looked into this document (link) and this FAQ (link) + found some bug reports (link, link) that appear to have relation, but cannot figure it out. Could you please help".
Seems to go a long way to get rid of the "RTFM" stuff. Of course, asshats remain, but if you show that you've tried to solve the issue yourself the RTFM responses seem to go down quite a bit.
No need to ban all of them - just those with plastic absorption gels and similar components.
At least in Finland and Sweden there are disposable diapers that are made 100% of paper (I know because I've used both brands for my kid). Essentially biodegradable - and also works very well as fuel for waste-to-energy plant.
Comparing to reusable nappies - running your washing machine at 60 or 90C to properly wash them just doesn't seem all that efficient, compared to the industrial scale process where trees get first converted to paper to nappies and then burned for energy after use. No, I have not ran the numbers.
So you can keep the convenience of disposable nappies without the downsides of plastics.
Vsphere web client *still* (As of 6.5) doesn't have all functionalities in HTML 5 version, so at least for us flash is going to stick around for a while longer.
I have no idea who in their right mind decided that replacing the (a bit bloaty, but fast) fat client with the flash approach was a good idea.
Flash is also around in certain other places (e.g. older Cisco server management modules).
So no, flash isn't going away just yet.
One thing that I miss are part of the early memes. Yes, they are not really all that funny, but badger badger, all your base and ultimate showdown all originated with flash. Furthermore, youtube versions of the animations are not exactly perfect substitutes since the vector-based animation can scale up indefinitely...But I guess there will be archival projects.
Alastair Reynolds has a concept in Chasm City about a spaceship that has your more typical propulsion systems for minor adjustments, but they have two blocks of antimatter stored in a magnetic containment. They burn the first half as they are leaving Solar system, and then use the second half to decelerate at the end.
Now, since we can only generate antimatter a few atoms at a time - tops - the schedule is probably optimistic for such an approach. However, this is just to point our that there are alternatives to constant-thrust approach.
My money would be to use some sort of laser at Sun-earth Lagrange point to accelerate the ship, so they only need to bring propellant for the deceleration part. Another possibility would be a solar sail that would allow you to accelerate at this end and decelerate on approach.
It's not the dishes - as you say, dishwasher is for that and loading is quick.
How about cleaning up cooking utensils, pots, pans and so on (lots of these, e.g. cast-iron stuff, is not machine-washable). Cleaning up the oven, grill, leftovers, flour that has spread across all level surfaces, bits of dough. Cleaning up after your kids messes up the table by spraying her meal all over the table, or when you yourself accidentally knock that drink to the floor. Cleaning up the fridge after the cheese you've forgotten has decided to start evolving into a new life form. Collecting all the garbage (containers of food ingredients and/or take-out).
Dishes are a solved problem. Cleaning up the other areas of kitchen: Not so much, apart from paying for a housekeeper.
Not really. I think the biggest drama happened was when apparently some guy near us had a romantic idea to propose to his girlfriend during the totality - and then lost the ring:). Or that at least seemed to be the gist of the "oh crap" discussion that followed.
It was easy finding a location just before the eclipse and getting in. Getting out, on the other hand...11 hours to drive 250 miles to Indianapolis afterwards. I-69 completely jammed.
Great experience except someone decided to start shooting fireworks during totality. It's not like there needed to be anything extra...
I hope VMWare gets it act together and comes up with some better technology for vCenter soon enough.
I couldn't ever figure out why change the lean, relatively fast and responsive vSphere client to the flash-based mess. At least you can still do most things via vSphere but some need the web interface (e.g. vMotion where you move both the VM and the data in case the VM is stored on local drives).
At least Cisco has gotten rid of it for their IMC modules (for some servers, not all).
Beyond that, you go with the same approach as when getting a PC to use with Linux - try to verify each individual component and whether it works or not.
Fine, I'll bite even though I really shouldn't bother responding to an AC.
Working from home means I don't spend 2-3 hours in a commute every day. That's 2-3 hours more of quality family time for every single working day. Unless you were suggesting quitting all working and coasting on welfare until the kid turns 18 (or even reaches school age), I fail to see your point about self-actualization. And if you were serious, I'm sure you will do differently with your own arrangements but this is our chosen approach, thank you.
And two, what's this thing about strangers? We know all the people that are taking care of her very well, but thank you for your concern. Not to mention that she actually gets to form some friendships with other kids and have social interactions outside the immediate family.
And I love it. My daily commute is 20 meters from bedroom to study. Well, on some mornings I go drop off my daughter to daycare before starting work, depending on whether it's wife's turn or not.
I work as a consultant, mostly doing network architecture design, UC and similar stuff. Anyway, the company that actually pays me doesn't care about visiting office - I go there every few months to drop off receipts of travel expenses, attend christmas party and that's that. All other travel is to customer premises.
There is a weird trend. I've noticed that in how much driving my car gets. When I started; I drove just a bit under 40000km a year. Now I can barely reach 10000km. Gotta love it - less time spent behind the wheel.
The single biggest reason for this? Skype for Business (Microsoft Lync). These days it's pretty much everywhere. It used to be that I worked a lot from customer sites. Then it changes so that I came to first few meetings with the customers. And these days we do entire projects and sometimes never see "face-to-face" except over videoconferencing. Sales guys still go for actual visits to make the case, but after that it seems that fewer and fewer people care about your physical presence. The only actual work that has been done one site for last few projects has been physical hardware installations.
One other thing caused by Skype: Meetings *always* start on time. It used to be that if you booked a meeting from 2 PM to 4 PM, what happened was that people arrived at the premises at 2 PM. Then you gathered coffee, then tried to usher everyone to the conference room, set up laptops etc. You get to the real stuff starting at 2:30. Now - even when you are on-site there's *always* someone attending the meeting remotely, and he's already gotten the coffee and is ready to start. This causes the folks to be in the conference room and starting the meeting at 2:05 the latest.
Heck, I once attended a lecture where a guy was trying to give a presentation on a big overhead projector but it was broken. So, end result was that he just shared his presentation on Skype and everyone in the room just watched it on the laptop. Kind of pointless to attend.
The only exception to this rule is customers that have strict security requirements and provide no Internet access, but that's more or less understandable.
I'm planning to visit US in August 2017 to watch the total solar eclipse that pretty much is visible in lots of the states (path of totality goes from Pacific northwest to South Carolina). If this ruling gets implemented, I wonder what's would be more problematic: Leaving the field empty since I don't have any (well, I guess I could give my nick on IRCNet) or creating a throwaway account on Facebook without any content if they decide to look it up?
Not that I really expect any true problems at the border, have visited US many times in the past due to business although not in last 5 years. Some agents have been more friendly than others...but no real problems whatsoever.
In the end people end up writing them on post-it notes...
I'm not so sure this is a bad thing. Post-it notes still require physical access to the post-it-note. Which is pretty hard for a random bruteforcer to access over the Internet.
I would prefer a setting that instead of blanket deny would give apps appearance that the right has been granted, and then spoof the feed with something else.
The basic options for this is of course things like mute for audio, or missing signal from GPS. But the fun would be if you would make Facebook only hear "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" 24/7...
I'm *still* using my N900 due to the slide-out keyboard. Does this thing have such a feature as an available module? Couldn't find the info at least on product's page...
-They did away with private addressing (site-local) "because it breaks the openness of the internet and firewalls". Tell that one to someone who's seen hackers use a Java-based PS2 Video broadcasting software to send files across the internet. Lets automatically use public addresses on air-gapped networks.
No they didn't.
See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf... - Site-local was the original spec and that's deprecated since it doesn't allow for easily merging of two existing private networks. ULA fixes that. So damn right you can have private networks.
The standard has changed so many times in the last 10 years nobody can comprehend it; every book has a different set of material on it, every programmer has set their infrastructure up differently.
Oh please. Only things that have really fundamentally changed are the IPv4IPv6 transition mechanism. Now that NAT64 and DNS64 are in use, you can pretty much work with an IPv6-only network (ironically, a couple years ago everything else, including gaming, worked via a NAT64, except for Skype, which is supposed to go through anything)
They did away with IPV4's simplistic subnetting and supernetting, and introduced EUI-64 addressing which can track devices as they move from network to network. Marketing companies like Google and Microsoft were helping to write the standard.
Oh please, even Windows uses privacy extensions for IPv6. No one forces you to use EUI-64.
Very Few large deployments.
Tell that to the Chinese. They have *huge* networks, IPv6 only.
Ok, I guess right now the ad-blocker detection is based on the idea that they check with Javascript if an element containing the ad is present in the DOM tree. Or not, just guessing.
I'm going to get a new gaming PC sometime next year, and probably I'd "have to" run Windows 10 on it.
Luckily, I can still get Windows Server 2016 from Dreamspark.
Looks like it will have all the features of Windows 10 with bits that allow you to turn OFF all the nastinesses.You can just install Audio and DirectX support and play. I know of friends who have done this with Windows Server 2012, so it should be ok.
As a bonus, I can have a domain controller in my home, so that if wife ever needs to have Windows 10 in her computer, we can just have it join the domain and remain in our control, not Microsoft's.
CRI 96. I used to have VivaLite's full spectrum CFL's, but they tend to turn bluish near the end of their life, and so far these have worked out very well. I'm replacing the CFL's as they die with these LEDs.
No they don't. TV's typically have 4:2:0 chroma subsampling, so the color resolution is really only a fraction of the advertised resolution. While this is fine for typical video, for workstation use, you want a real monitor with 4:4:4.
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I thought these were thought of more than 20 years ago...
http://dilbert.com/strip/1996-...
Actually, I have forgotten my PIN.
11 hour redeye flight from Helsinki to Osaka, Japan after a badly slept previous night.
Turn on cellphone, drowsy as hell, after customs. Enter PIN. Reject. WTF. Try again, still reject. Try again, once more reject. SIM now locked, please enter PUK code. Crap.
I was able to call my telco from the hotel and get the SIM unlocked. Then it hit me - after the flight, I had kept typing in the PIN for my credit card. No wonder it didn't work since it was the completely wrong PIN.
Point being: If someone brings you your phone after a night in cell you *honestly* could forget. Especially if some nasty officer is grilling you in an interrogation room.
Company wanted to downsize.
They gave monetary incentive, essentially "get out of here, take some money, so we don't have to do lengthy negotiations".
Only problem was that the end result was this:
http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-...
(+ a new job waiting right outside for all the competent folks)
My experience back when I was beginner - and even these days if I run into something I can't figure out - is to list all the references I looked into before posting.
So not
"I have a problem X, please help"
but instead
"I have a problem X. I have looked into this document (link) and this FAQ (link) + found some bug reports (link, link) that appear to have relation, but cannot figure it out. Could you please help".
Seems to go a long way to get rid of the "RTFM" stuff. Of course, asshats remain, but if you show that you've tried to solve the issue yourself the RTFM responses seem to go down quite a bit.
No need to ban all of them - just those with plastic absorption gels and similar components.
At least in Finland and Sweden there are disposable diapers that are made 100% of paper (I know because I've used both brands for my kid). Essentially biodegradable - and also works very well as fuel for waste-to-energy plant.
Comparing to reusable nappies - running your washing machine at 60 or 90C to properly wash them just doesn't seem all that efficient, compared to the industrial scale process where trees get first converted to paper to nappies and then burned for energy after use. No, I have not ran the numbers.
So you can keep the convenience of disposable nappies without the downsides of plastics.
Vsphere web client *still* (As of 6.5) doesn't have all functionalities in HTML 5 version, so at least for us flash is going to stick around for a while longer.
I have no idea who in their right mind decided that replacing the (a bit bloaty, but fast) fat client with the flash approach was a good idea.
Flash is also around in certain other places (e.g. older Cisco server management modules).
So no, flash isn't going away just yet.
One thing that I miss are part of the early memes. Yes, they are not really all that funny, but badger badger, all your base and ultimate showdown all originated with flash. Furthermore, youtube versions of the animations are not exactly perfect substitutes since the vector-based animation can scale up indefinitely...But I guess there will be archival projects.
Alastair Reynolds has a concept in Chasm City about a spaceship that has your more typical propulsion systems for minor adjustments, but they have two blocks of antimatter stored in a magnetic containment. They burn the first half as they are leaving Solar system, and then use the second half to decelerate at the end.
Now, since we can only generate antimatter a few atoms at a time - tops - the schedule is probably optimistic for such an approach. However, this is just to point our that there are alternatives to constant-thrust approach.
My money would be to use some sort of laser at Sun-earth Lagrange point to accelerate the ship, so they only need to bring propellant for the deceleration part. Another possibility would be a solar sail that would allow you to accelerate at this end and decelerate on approach.
It's not the dishes - as you say, dishwasher is for that and loading is quick.
How about cleaning up cooking utensils, pots, pans and so on (lots of these, e.g. cast-iron stuff, is not machine-washable). Cleaning up the oven, grill, leftovers, flour that has spread across all level surfaces, bits of dough. Cleaning up after your kids messes up the table by spraying her meal all over the table, or when you yourself accidentally knock that drink to the floor. Cleaning up the fridge after the cheese you've forgotten has decided to start evolving into a new life form. Collecting all the garbage (containers of food ingredients and/or take-out).
Dishes are a solved problem. Cleaning up the other areas of kitchen: Not so much, apart from paying for a housekeeper.
Not really. I think the biggest drama happened was when apparently some guy near us had a romantic idea to propose to his girlfriend during the totality - and then lost the ring :). Or that at least seemed to be the gist of the "oh crap" discussion that followed.
Near centerline, 2 mins 41 seconds of totality.
It was easy finding a location just before the eclipse and getting in. Getting out, on the other hand...11 hours to drive 250 miles to Indianapolis afterwards. I-69 completely jammed.
Great experience except someone decided to start shooting fireworks during totality. It's not like there needed to be anything extra...
I hope VMWare gets it act together and comes up with some better technology for vCenter soon enough.
I couldn't ever figure out why change the lean, relatively fast and responsive vSphere client to the flash-based mess. At least you can still do most things via vSphere but some need the web interface (e.g. vMotion where you move both the VM and the data in case the VM is stored on local drives).
At least Cisco has gotten rid of it for their IMC modules (for some servers, not all).
http://elinux.org/RPI-Wireless...
Pretty much only way to be sure.
Beyond that, you go with the same approach as when getting a PC to use with Linux - try to verify each individual component and whether it works or not.
Fine, I'll bite even though I really shouldn't bother responding to an AC.
Working from home means I don't spend 2-3 hours in a commute every day. That's 2-3 hours more of quality family time for every single working day. Unless you were suggesting quitting all working and coasting on welfare until the kid turns 18 (or even reaches school age), I fail to see your point about self-actualization. And if you were serious, I'm sure you will do differently with your own arrangements but this is our chosen approach, thank you.
And two, what's this thing about strangers? We know all the people that are taking care of her very well, but thank you for your concern. Not to mention that she actually gets to form some friendships with other kids and have social interactions outside the immediate family.
And I love it. My daily commute is 20 meters from bedroom to study. Well, on some mornings I go drop off my daughter to daycare before starting work, depending on whether it's wife's turn or not.
I work as a consultant, mostly doing network architecture design, UC and similar stuff. Anyway, the company that actually pays me doesn't care about visiting office - I go there every few months to drop off receipts of travel expenses, attend christmas party and that's that. All other travel is to customer premises.
There is a weird trend. I've noticed that in how much driving my car gets. When I started; I drove just a bit under 40000km a year. Now I can barely reach 10000km. Gotta love it - less time spent behind the wheel.
The single biggest reason for this? Skype for Business (Microsoft Lync). These days it's pretty much everywhere. It used to be that I worked a lot from customer sites. Then it changes so that I came to first few meetings with the customers. And these days we do entire projects and sometimes never see "face-to-face" except over videoconferencing. Sales guys still go for actual visits to make the case, but after that it seems that fewer and fewer people care about your physical presence. The only actual work that has been done one site for last few projects has been physical hardware installations.
One other thing caused by Skype: Meetings *always* start on time. It used to be that if you booked a meeting from 2 PM to 4 PM, what happened was that people arrived at the premises at 2 PM. Then you gathered coffee, then tried to usher everyone to the conference room, set up laptops etc. You get to the real stuff starting at 2:30. Now - even when you are on-site there's *always* someone attending the meeting remotely, and he's already gotten the coffee and is ready to start. This causes the folks to be in the conference room and starting the meeting at 2:05 the latest.
Heck, I once attended a lecture where a guy was trying to give a presentation on a big overhead projector but it was broken. So, end result was that he just shared his presentation on Skype and everyone in the room just watched it on the laptop. Kind of pointless to attend.
The only exception to this rule is customers that have strict security requirements and provide no Internet access, but that's more or less understandable.
I'm planning to visit US in August 2017 to watch the total solar eclipse that pretty much is visible in lots of the states (path of totality goes from Pacific northwest to South Carolina). If this ruling gets implemented, I wonder what's would be more problematic: Leaving the field empty since I don't have any (well, I guess I could give my nick on IRCNet) or creating a throwaway account on Facebook without any content if they decide to look it up?
Not that I really expect any true problems at the border, have visited US many times in the past due to business although not in last 5 years. Some agents have been more friendly than others...but no real problems whatsoever.
In the end people end up writing them on post-it notes...
I'm not so sure this is a bad thing. Post-it notes still require physical access to the post-it-note. Which is pretty hard for a random bruteforcer to access over the Internet.
I would prefer a setting that instead of blanket deny would give apps appearance that the right has been granted, and then spoof the feed with something else.
The basic options for this is of course things like mute for audio, or missing signal from GPS. But the fun would be if you would make Facebook only hear "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" 24/7...
I'm *still* using my N900 due to the slide-out keyboard. Does this thing have such a feature as an available module? Couldn't find the info at least on product's page...
-They did away with private addressing (site-local) "because it breaks the openness of the internet and firewalls". Tell that one to someone who's seen hackers use a Java-based PS2 Video broadcasting software to send files across the internet. Lets automatically use public addresses on air-gapped networks.
No they didn't.
See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf... - Site-local was the original spec and that's deprecated since it doesn't allow for easily merging of two existing private networks. ULA fixes that. So damn right you can have private networks.
The standard has changed so many times in the last 10 years nobody can comprehend it; every book has a different set of material on it, every programmer has set their infrastructure up differently.
Oh please. Only things that have really fundamentally changed are the IPv4IPv6 transition mechanism. Now that NAT64 and DNS64 are in use, you can pretty much work with an IPv6-only network (ironically, a couple years ago everything else, including gaming, worked via a NAT64, except for Skype, which is supposed to go through anything)
They did away with IPV4's simplistic subnetting and supernetting, and introduced EUI-64 addressing which can track devices as they move from network to network. Marketing companies like Google and Microsoft were helping to write the standard.
Oh please, even Windows uses privacy extensions for IPv6. No one forces you to use EUI-64.
Very Few large deployments.
Tell that to the Chinese. They have *huge* networks, IPv6 only.
Just get two consoles and hook them up as separate input feeds. At least LG's TV's support this.
Ok, I guess right now the ad-blocker detection is based on the idea that they check with Javascript if an element containing the ad is present in the DOM tree. Or not, just guessing.
Any existing solutions for this?
I'm going to get a new gaming PC sometime next year, and probably I'd "have to" run Windows 10 on it.
Luckily, I can still get Windows Server 2016 from Dreamspark.
Looks like it will have all the features of Windows 10 with bits that allow you to turn OFF all the nastinesses.You can just install Audio and DirectX support and play. I know of friends who have done this with Windows Server 2012, so it should be ok.
As a bonus, I can have a domain controller in my home, so that if wife ever needs to have Windows 10 in her computer, we can just have it join the domain and remain in our control, not Microsoft's.
This is also known as SIP + ENUM :)
http://www.cisco.com/web/about...
I'm using these around the house:
https://uk.proflamps.com/en/pr...
CRI 96. I used to have VivaLite's full spectrum CFL's, but they tend to turn bluish near the end of their life, and so far these have worked out very well. I'm replacing the CFL's as they die with these LEDs.
No they don't. TV's typically have 4:2:0 chroma subsampling, so the color resolution is really only a fraction of the advertised resolution. While this is fine for typical video, for workstation use, you want a real monitor with 4:4:4.