I had a job which forced me to use a company provided phone. This resulted in me carrying my personal phone and the work phone. So I looked into the whole dual SIM thing so I only needed one phone.
Basically none of the mobile providers in Australia would supply a dual SIM phone. Looks like they were scared of the competition and didn't want you to have a competitors SIM in your phone with theirs that you purchased through them. The only real option was to buy a phone outright through a non-telco provider and even then, a number of the models were grey imports from China.
Charging massively over inflated prices for new ink cartridges is just part of their environment friendly campaign. People will get so feed up with paying ridiculous amounts of money for the 'official' replacements compared to the cheap versions that they can no longer use that they will just stop using printers all together. It's a win-win for the environment!
I have found myself lamenting the loss of the humble old video rental store in the last year or two due to this exact topic. If I want to watch a particular movie, just working out which streaming service is a pain, neither alone the need to subscribe to multiple services.
At least with the video store, you could just turn up, pick what ever recent movie had just come out off the shelf and go home a watch it. It was also a great way to discover long lost favourites or some weird esoteric Z grade movie.
I am not sure about elsewhere in the world but where I live, the banks are constantly making huge profits with a large chunk of them reporting increased profits for a number of years running. This just sounds like a way to make even more money rather than just making a decent amount of money.
I hate how the phrase, 'Teach my grandmother to suck eggs', which doesn't try and belittle either sex has been mutated into mansplaining so it can be used as a political weapon against ~50 % of the human population.
Guess what, I am a guy and I get people trying to teach my grandmother to suck eggs constantly from both side of the fence, it happens. If I have the time, I just nod my head and make the appropriate noises at the appropriate time and move on with my life. Otherwise, when I realise it is happening, I tell them I have something else I need to do and go.
It happened to me last week. Bored the hell out of me but I was polite and listened and surprisingly picked up one or two useful tidbits which will help me with the subject at hand in the future. I still found the whole thing frustrating but that's life.
I know of something similar which happened to a few local BBS's where I lived but the vulnerability was a little different (they ran on Amiga's). Basically, after uploading a file, it would try and extract the file_id.diz file to use to create the file description from. By default, the software just specified the name of the archiver (LHa, LZX, arj, zip etc) and so the software would default to the current working directory which was where the file was saved to. All you had to do was name the file you uploaded to the name of the archiver and it would execute that rather than what it was meant to. The systems which got hit had the RDB nuked and most of the BBS admins thought they lost everything so they formatted their HD's instead of recreating the RDB and really did lose everything.
This was one of those examples were using absolute filenames was the safe thing to do.
I like/prefer KDE as my main desktop environment compared to most of the others out there and I liked Linux Mint as an alternative to Ubuntu which is why after many years of using Slackware I started to use Linux Mint KDE edition. Looks like I will be saying goodbye to Linux Mint now with this decision.
So, in the future, anyone going to the moon will need to watch their step so they don't trip over all those oversized Fosters cans that'll be laying around everywhere.
No one in Australia drinks that crap so we need to get rid of it somewhere.
I have worked for a University in Australia and when it comes to the way they do IT, it is very similar to the way the government does IT. Basically, management hires a bunch of people into the IT department and about 70% of them couldn't get a real world IT job if their lives depended on it. The other 30% get blocked when trying to do their job ie. management asks for a solution, usually full of buzzwords and lack of comprehension, and the 30% with a clue deliver it. Management looks at that and goes, "hrmmm, yeah that's nice but we should get an external contractor/company in and confirm if that is the right solution." Of course, the external entity doesn't want to know about the existing solution so propose a new one. Management goes with it so they don't have to take responsibility if it goes wrong. The 70% get given the task of helping the external entity, the 30% look at it and go that is shit but management asks the 70% who don't want to get in trouble for saying no and say it is great and then a cluster fuck gets delivered which costs the tax payer 10 times more than it should have.
Regardless of what I hope are typos in the summary, I recently attended a 'cloud debate'. Of course, one of the groups there was for Azure of Microsoft fame and they had I believe the Open Source director as one of the two representing Azure.
One of the things that stuck out during the debate was that he openly admit that initially, Windows instances easily made up over 70% of all instances launched in Azure BUT in the last 2 odd years, this number has flipped and Linux now represents 70% of the new instances being brought up in Azure.
Ahhh, it reminds me of the good old days of piracy on the open seas, when Microsoft ate Borland and Lotus and Wordstar and...
It's simple economics. Apple, like Microsoft, has a huge stable of code monkeys that they have to feed and water occasionally with Jolt cola and potato chips.
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Wait... what? They still make Jolt cola? I haven't seen that on the shop shelves for years.
I guess I was just lucky to survive the dark ages before mobiles existed
And more people died back then (unpreventably) due to this, so it is an irrelevent point.
If someone could call for help and get assistance faster (greater chance of surviving), and you interfere with this, then you become liable for their death, and if you did it with knowledge and/or intent, or a legal equivalent (such as reckless negligence), then criminally liable.
It wouldn't matter if they still had a signal or not when there was an accident, they would all be to busy videoing the action with their phones to make the necessary call for help.
This unfortunately is a subject I became intimately familiar with about 2.5 years ago and yes a third option would have been nice:p
Long story short, I found myself in emergency surgery with a surgeon telling me there was no way they could save my leg and that it had to be amputated. Not something you ever imagine being faced with. I woke up in intensive care with both my legs, after making sure they hadn't removed the wrong one. Turns out they decided to give it a go and see if they could save my leg anyway. (I found out later on they thought I would still lose my leg and was informed it was a miracle I didn't).
For a long time, I really wished it had been amputated. The pain was extreme, my leg was just a useless lump of scared flesh which I couldn't use for a long time, I was stuck in a wheel chair for 9 months and it took 2 years before I was to the stage when I could walk with the aid of a walking stick. Mentally and physically it has not been a fun trip.
I knew I was lucky but it was really re-enforced when I was a patient in a rehab hospital where there was another patient who did have their leg amputated as mine would have been. They were going through the exact same pain and problems as I was but minus a leg.
As other people have already commented, if it doesn't work out, you can get it amputated later but if it is your first choice, you can't go back. Yes I am still in pain and yes I struggle but all said and done, I am glad the surgeons 'gave it a go' and I did keep what was left of my leg but I can also see why this is becoming an increasingly tough decision. Especially since I was informed that 5 years ago they would not have been able to carry out the surgery they performed which did save my leg.
I find people like to state this as a fact, including the generation in discussion themselves. In reality though, they just know how to use the interface of the common applications but don't really understand how it works. It would be the equivalent of saying that the generation which grew up in the 80's and 90's were more technical because they knew how to use a video player.
...has been doing this for a few years now, it's called Jurassic Lounge, http://www.jurassiclounge.com/ and seems to attrack quite a number of people. If this helps get people more interested in science and at the same time helps raise money for the museum then why not.
I subscribe to the "Hire the best person for the position" methodology.
I manage a SysAdmin team and I will admit that 100% of my team is male but that might have something to do with the fact that 100% of the job applications I have received over the years have only been male. Other than that, 70% of my team is made up of what many of these PC groups like to call 'minorities'. My percentage comes from the simple fact that they were the best person for the job. Race, gender etc should not be part of the selection criteria and if it is, it only increases the chance it will hurt the company/organisation since you are passing by the right employee for a philosophy that dare I suggest is a form of discrimination in and of itself.
I was about to say that this sounds very much like Cisco UCS where everything is defined in 'software'. You define the template and its components and this includes things like WWN's and MAC addresses and it allows you to migrate the 'server' to different blades since it is all in 'software'.
With that said, the UCS kit we run at work doesn't have anywhere near the density claimed by HP with their moonshot but claiming they were the first to create a software defined blade chassis and the likes is not correct.
I have to admit I have been a bit of an on again, off again user in the past.
For home use, I have been using Opera as my main browser for a number of years. At work, I tend to use a mixture of FF, Chrome and Opera depending on what I need to do. Reading this article was a bit depressing. Hell, I am typing this reply via Opera on a Linux box.
When I did ISP tech support back in the late 90's, Opera was the browser I suggested to customers to use if they had an old machine. Back then it also fitted on a floppy disk and was faster and less bloated than the alternatives at the time.
I had a job interview where I was asked to tell a story. I asked for confirmation on what kind of story they were after and was told to start right at the beginning of my life, so I told them in the beginning my parents had sex at which point I was conceived then born, then grew up and was now attending this job interview.
Just an abridged version of my experiences with IBM in Australia....
A company I worked for in the mid 2000's supplied a custom solution for one of Australia's large banks. Unfortunately, the bank also also used IBM to supply some of the infrastructure and support to get to our data centres. In the first year, we had 3-4 major outages which IBM every time blamed the company I worked for of the outage and every time we were able to show it was a problem on the IBM side. It got so bad that when ever IBM blamed the company I worked for of a problem or outage, the bank started to demand that IBM back up their claims before they would believe them.
My company ended up looking great, IBM not so good. I heard that not long after I had gone to work for anything company, the bank ended up dropping the IBM side of things and went with someone else.
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In Australia, NBN provider speeds are reported to the public.
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-...
Sure, the NBN rollout has not been without its problems and controversy but reports on how the various providers are scoring gets reported.
I had a job which forced me to use a company provided phone. This resulted in me carrying my personal phone and the work phone. So I looked into the whole dual SIM thing so I only needed one phone.
Basically none of the mobile providers in Australia would supply a dual SIM phone. Looks like they were scared of the competition and didn't want you to have a competitors SIM in your phone with theirs that you purchased through them. The only real option was to buy a phone outright through a non-telco provider and even then, a number of the models were grey imports from China.
Charging massively over inflated prices for new ink cartridges is just part of their environment friendly campaign. People will get so feed up with paying ridiculous amounts of money for the 'official' replacements compared to the cheap versions that they can no longer use that they will just stop using printers all together. It's a win-win for the environment!
I have found myself lamenting the loss of the humble old video rental store in the last year or two due to this exact topic. If I want to watch a particular movie, just working out which streaming service is a pain, neither alone the need to subscribe to multiple services.
At least with the video store, you could just turn up, pick what ever recent movie had just come out off the shelf and go home a watch it. It was also a great way to discover long lost favourites or some weird esoteric Z grade movie.
I am not sure about elsewhere in the world but where I live, the banks are constantly making huge profits with a large chunk of them reporting increased profits for a number of years running. This just sounds like a way to make even more money rather than just making a decent amount of money.
I hate how the phrase, 'Teach my grandmother to suck eggs', which doesn't try and belittle either sex has been mutated into mansplaining so it can be used as a political weapon against ~50 % of the human population.
Guess what, I am a guy and I get people trying to teach my grandmother to suck eggs constantly from both side of the fence, it happens. If I have the time, I just nod my head and make the appropriate noises at the appropriate time and move on with my life. Otherwise, when I realise it is happening, I tell them I have something else I need to do and go.
It happened to me last week. Bored the hell out of me but I was polite and listened and surprisingly picked up one or two useful tidbits which will help me with the subject at hand in the future. I still found the whole thing frustrating but that's life.
I know of something similar which happened to a few local BBS's where I lived but the vulnerability was a little different (they ran on Amiga's). Basically, after uploading a file, it would try and extract the file_id.diz file to use to create the file description from. By default, the software just specified the name of the archiver (LHa, LZX, arj, zip etc) and so the software would default to the current working directory which was where the file was saved to. All you had to do was name the file you uploaded to the name of the archiver and it would execute that rather than what it was meant to. The systems which got hit had the RDB nuked and most of the BBS admins thought they lost everything so they formatted their HD's instead of recreating the RDB and really did lose everything.
This was one of those examples were using absolute filenames was the safe thing to do.
I like/prefer KDE as my main desktop environment compared to most of the others out there and I liked Linux Mint as an alternative to Ubuntu which is why after many years of using Slackware I started to use Linux Mint KDE edition. Looks like I will be saying goodbye to Linux Mint now with this decision.
So, in the future, anyone going to the moon will need to watch their step so they don't trip over all those oversized Fosters cans that'll be laying around everywhere.
No one in Australia drinks that crap so we need to get rid of it somewhere.
I have worked for a University in Australia and when it comes to the way they do IT, it is very similar to the way the government does IT. Basically, management hires a bunch of people into the IT department and about 70% of them couldn't get a real world IT job if their lives depended on it. The other 30% get blocked when trying to do their job ie. management asks for a solution, usually full of buzzwords and lack of comprehension, and the 30% with a clue deliver it. Management looks at that and goes, "hrmmm, yeah that's nice but we should get an external contractor/company in and confirm if that is the right solution." Of course, the external entity doesn't want to know about the existing solution so propose a new one. Management goes with it so they don't have to take responsibility if it goes wrong. The 70% get given the task of helping the external entity, the 30% look at it and go that is shit but management asks the 70% who don't want to get in trouble for saying no and say it is great and then a cluster fuck gets delivered which costs the tax payer 10 times more than it should have.
The summary is so fucking stupid, I'm not reading the article.
This moron wants to change the numbers, but wants to continue to call 12:00 "midnight" and "noon"?
As an Australia, I say "Get fucked, you cunt". The fact that our Winter comes in June is completely irrelevant.
"Get fucked ya cunt!"
There, fixed it for you.
Regardless of what I hope are typos in the summary, I recently attended a 'cloud debate'. Of course, one of the groups there was for Azure of Microsoft fame and they had I believe the Open Source director as one of the two representing Azure.
One of the things that stuck out during the debate was that he openly admit that initially, Windows instances easily made up over 70% of all instances launched in Azure BUT in the last 2 odd years, this number has flipped and Linux now represents 70% of the new instances being brought up in Azure.
I use my cable connection to watch Netflix!
I came for this, leaving satisfied.
Apple's tech approach: "embrace and fuck up"
Ahhh, it reminds me of the good old days of piracy on the open seas, when Microsoft ate Borland and Lotus and Wordstar and...
It's simple economics. Apple, like Microsoft, has a huge stable of code monkeys that they have to feed and water occasionally with Jolt cola and potato chips.
rgb
Wait... what? They still make Jolt cola? I haven't seen that on the shop shelves for years.
I guess I was just lucky to survive the dark ages before mobiles existed
And more people died back then (unpreventably) due to this, so it is an irrelevent point.
If someone could call for help and get assistance faster (greater chance of surviving), and you interfere with this, then you become liable for their death, and if you did it with knowledge and/or intent, or a legal equivalent (such as reckless negligence), then criminally liable.
It wouldn't matter if they still had a signal or not when there was an accident, they would all be to busy videoing the action with their phones to make the necessary call for help.
This unfortunately is a subject I became intimately familiar with about 2.5 years ago and yes a third option would have been nice :p
Long story short, I found myself in emergency surgery with a surgeon telling me there was no way they could save my leg and that it had to be amputated. Not something you ever imagine being faced with. I woke up in intensive care with both my legs, after making sure they hadn't removed the wrong one. Turns out they decided to give it a go and see if they could save my leg anyway. (I found out later on they thought I would still lose my leg and was informed it was a miracle I didn't).
For a long time, I really wished it had been amputated. The pain was extreme, my leg was just a useless lump of scared flesh which I couldn't use for a long time, I was stuck in a wheel chair for 9 months and it took 2 years before I was to the stage when I could walk with the aid of a walking stick. Mentally and physically it has not been a fun trip.
I knew I was lucky but it was really re-enforced when I was a patient in a rehab hospital where there was another patient who did have their leg amputated as mine would have been. They were going through the exact same pain and problems as I was but minus a leg.
As other people have already commented, if it doesn't work out, you can get it amputated later but if it is your first choice, you can't go back. Yes I am still in pain and yes I struggle but all said and done, I am glad the surgeons 'gave it a go' and I did keep what was left of my leg but I can also see why this is becoming an increasingly tough decision. Especially since I was informed that 5 years ago they would not have been able to carry out the surgery they performed which did save my leg.
I find people like to state this as a fact, including the generation in discussion themselves. In reality though, they just know how to use the interface of the common applications but don't really understand how it works. It would be the equivalent of saying that the generation which grew up in the 80's and 90's were more technical because they knew how to use a video player.
...has been doing this for a few years now, it's called Jurassic Lounge, http://www.jurassiclounge.com/ and seems to attrack quite a number of people. If this helps get people more interested in science and at the same time helps raise money for the museum then why not.
I subscribe to the "Hire the best person for the position" methodology.
I manage a SysAdmin team and I will admit that 100% of my team is male but that might have something to do with the fact that 100% of the job applications I have received over the years have only been male. Other than that, 70% of my team is made up of what many of these PC groups like to call 'minorities'. My percentage comes from the simple fact that they were the best person for the job. Race, gender etc should not be part of the selection criteria and if it is, it only increases the chance it will hurt the company/organisation since you are passing by the right employee for a philosophy that dare I suggest is a form of discrimination in and of itself.
I was about to say that this sounds very much like Cisco UCS where everything is defined in 'software'. You define the template and its components and this includes things like WWN's and MAC addresses and it allows you to migrate the 'server' to different blades since it is all in 'software'.
With that said, the UCS kit we run at work doesn't have anywhere near the density claimed by HP with their moonshot but claiming they were the first to create a software defined blade chassis and the likes is not correct.
Pretty much what I thought. No matter how much I turn my head and squint, I can not get that rock to look anything like the shape of Australia.
I have to admit I have been a bit of an on again, off again user in the past.
For home use, I have been using Opera as my main browser for a number of years. At work, I tend to use a mixture of FF, Chrome and Opera depending on what I need to do. Reading this article was a bit depressing. Hell, I am typing this reply via Opera on a Linux box.
When I did ISP tech support back in the late 90's, Opera was the browser I suggested to customers to use if they had an old machine. Back then it also fitted on a floppy disk and was faster and less bloated than the alternatives at the time.
I had a job interview where I was asked to tell a story. I asked for confirmation on what kind of story they were after and was told to start right at the beginning of my life, so I told them in the beginning my parents had sex at which point I was conceived then born, then grew up and was now attending this job interview.
I actually got the job.
Just an abridged version of my experiences with IBM in Australia....
A company I worked for in the mid 2000's supplied a custom solution for one of Australia's large banks. Unfortunately, the bank also also used IBM to supply some of the infrastructure and support to get to our data centres. In the first year, we had 3-4 major outages which IBM every time blamed the company I worked for of the outage and every time we were able to show it was a problem on the IBM side. It got so bad that when ever IBM blamed the company I worked for of a problem or outage, the bank started to demand that IBM back up their claims before they would believe them.
My company ended up looking great, IBM not so good. I heard that not long after I had gone to work for anything company, the bank ended up dropping the IBM side of things and went with someone else.