Voting with my wallet does increase the risk of losing everything I already paid for. If nobody buys from Steam, then how will I download or activate the old games I play. Steam has been around longer, and has a wider selection of games than GoG. Not all of the old games have made it to GoG, and I try not to purchase the same game twice, unless it has offline multiplayer.
Also, my bank doesn't like GoG, so my card won't work on that site:
Open Source is not about free software, or professional quality. It is about liberty, freedom, independence. It is about not being beholden to corporate interests. Money is nice. Working at a job you love is nice. But these things need not be so tightly intertwined. And as Linux has been for so many, a hobby, big money investments are not required. Big Business can buy their systemd or Windows Server boxes, and be under the thumb of Microsoft. Open Source will fight for its freedom.
"Give me liberty, or give me death." - Patrick Henry, 11/23/1775.
Spamming the escape key didn't seem to work the last time I tried it. If I was lucky, a well timed Ctrl+W whilst spamming escape might kill it. Had to end the process.
Didn't know this had been fixed anywhere. Getting these in IE is why I used Firefox with noscript.
Three or more? I don't even have a broadband provider as an option. And I don't consider satellite to be broadband. And after 2020, I'd question whether dial up will be viable due to cost savings efforts in the telephone industry. Voice will carry over SIP lines, and touch tones are somewhat ok, but faxes don't seem to work at all. When AT&T converts their backbone to SIP, dialup will probably stop working. Satellite is almost completely unusable without a dialup connection for requests. It will probably be another decade before anybody gets around to upgrading the last mile to my house.
No DSL, no Cable, no Fiber Optic, no LTE cellular signal, no handoffs to cat5 Ethernet from anything. The old stuff is still hanging from the poles, if you happen to already be paying for it, but they don't service my area anymore.
My first thought on this, is its a bad idea to utilize imperfect machine learning algorithms for critical interactions. This is bound to go bad at a really bad time.
It was a brainfart, what I got wrong was IPv4's ARP.
That description sounds a little like RIP, etc., being merged with ARP in a single purpose entity. Thus arp isn't a simple cache table of local addresses, but also a routing table.
That seems to be how some ISPs are solving the problem of providing client modems with IPv4 addresses. PAT is an extension of IPv4 to provide pseudo IPs for those machines on the VLAN with a 10/8.
So an IPv4 isn't just 255.255.255.255, but it is 255.255.255.255:65536.
In the context of the summary, it would seem a valid claim, despite the debatable aspect of "creating" vs "allocating/re-allocating".
The lack of an ARP table is because it is redundant in IPv6. The IPv6 is supposed to be the MAC address.
Otherwise, I wouldn't consider it bizarre, but flexible. Older networking schemes were designed for limited devices with limited performance capabilities. IPv6 is designed for a future of nearly unlimited devices, and a wide variety of capabilities.
It is quite possible that either the guys deciding on IPv6 couldn't decide on its implementation, and so built flexibility to allow it to be implemented naturally and see which method wins out. Or they perhaps saw the IPv4 scheme running out of addresses and took that as a lesson learned and designed the scheme they wanted, but designed into a way to extend its lifespan when the ideal usage was no longer feasible.
So, with China cracking down on ways to get around filters, what is this going to mean for the quality of games coming out of China?
Perfect World is mentioned here as teaming up with Steam. Perfect World is a developer, owner, and publisher of MMORPGs, Notable examples of games they have include: Neverwinter Online, Star Trek Online, Torchlight, Final Fantasy Type-0, Champions Online, and City of Heroes.
How much of this content is designed in China these days? How much of the content that appeals to a western audience is based on media and artwork provided over a VPN connection?
What impact will this have on trade, and communication, and relationships? What will we have in common once "The Great [Fire]Wall of China" goes up? How will we maintain the peace when there is nothing to bring us together peacefully?
An override would allow officers to navigate the car to the shoulder, minimizing impact to other drivers, and risk to officers attending to the vehicle. This override may require 2fa with the assistance of the manufacturer to prevent abuse.
At minimum, all autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles should behave the same when a stop is attempted, without any overrides or communication with the vehicle. So that law enforcement can be trained to approach the vehicle safely and successfully.
Gravity is pretty simple. Big thing pulls little things closer. To escape and defeat it, there needs to be an equal and oppose about of force or energy applied.
Perhaps you meant bypass, rather than defeat? Or perhaps you merely meant a cost effective way of generating enough energy and opposing force to defeat gravity?
Telomere regeneration is another thing. As I understand it, Telomere regeneration isn't even proven to be worth doing at all, its proposed positive effects are a myth. It is just one of many lines of research to understand health and aging, and last I heard it was a wild goose chase or red herring.
The question, which similarly impacts tech support staffing, is whether you can brute force an epiphany.
Got to wonder if this is a modern conundrum, given Moore's law one would expect this to be part of the upgrade cycle... Infrastructure (web servers and client devices, etc.) should be upgraded periodically to improve encryption. 4-5 years has been the standard middle class consumer upgrade cycle, with 8-10 years for the rest.
However, Moore's law has given a constant and significant increase in speed, it could be that we are starting to notice downsides. Having to move to a 5-year upgrade cycle to maintain cryptographic integrity could become costly.
Friction is typically a bad word, given it potentially/likely closes the doors to possible advancements which can utilize the additional resources which are available. Thus a "lack of friction" is a type of growing pain for the computing industry. It is a problem to be solved by others who now have access to better resources, by means other than universal or Federally implemented friction. Furthermore, friction only works when it works. When malware or such bypasses the friction and is able to take full advantage of the technology then we're left with the original problem.
Nation State actors would not necessarily be limited to that same friction. Technology is an ongoing arms race, and friction could hinder progress in said arms race. Introduce friction and you reduce the value of computing power, reduce that value and you reduce demand, reduce demand and you reduce funding, reduce funding and you lose the technology arms race.
Pretty well spot on, but I also want to point out that more powerful user devices also increase the attack strength of compromised devices. Its incredible what a modern hexacore machine with 16GB of RAM, and an SSD can accomplish. You've got to have software and infrastructure that can react fast enough.
You're reaching there pal. No he is not recommending that people run primary workflows/workloads on external drives with writeback cache enabled.
And you're just proving his point. Which is that focusing on work-arounds and not quite world class setups, does not equate to mechanical failure.
Writeback cache is a low risk consideration, and if the problem isn't power loss or sudden disconnection, then writeback isn't the problem. Writeback did not cause the user's data loss in the original article. It has nothing to do with the problem.
I'm responding because I can relate to the GP's sentiment. The Dunning-Kruger effect comes into play, and when there are large numbers of users on the low end of the Dunning-Kruger effect, it is an overwhelming onslaught of bad responses from "know-it-alls", and it is like wading through mud to find a competent response.
Yes. That is what I read when I read the linked article.
The update changes the behavior of the media cache deletion. With 11.1.1, only files that are within the Media Cache folder’s subdirectories will be deleted. Files that sit next to it will no longer be affected. However, we still strongly recommend keeping the Media Cache folder separate from your original media.
1. External drive I/O varies. This is the era of Apple building "desktops" with non-removable/non-upgradeable HDDs. Newer USB3 SSD external drives are not unusable performance wise. External drives sometimes end up with quite a bit of I/O.
Actually, the GP had it backwards. The lawsuit is that when the user cleared D:\Videos\Cache, it cleared D:\Videos as well. Adobe was directed to use "D:\Videos" as the location to create the cache folder "D:\Videos\Cache". Adobe was not directed to use or make changes to any other files or folders in D:\Videos.
Experienced users would probably have balked at this user's configuration due to the risk of this very thing happening. Programmers even more so, I would think. The value of the variable being passed around in the program is "D:\Videos". Something is bound to affect other folders in that directory,...
I call it drift. At some point a company invests money in a unified and homogeneous infrastructure, and everything just works. Brand new equipment fails rarely, usually a decade later or more.
Then time passes.
Slowly but surely old tech in key locations begins to wear out. Since it was implemented when the company was smaller, and the staff less experienced, it requires downtime to replace. It also costs money, which nobody wants to spend on boring critical infrastructure unless they absolutely have to. Money is for toys for the "important people", like the Microsoft Surface line.
Speaking of toys, newer software, cloud services, and other nifty things show up on the scene and want to be added without an overhaul or refit of the existing infrastructure. Loads on older equipment are increased leading to more rapid failure, etc. You go from being Scotty or LaForge on the Enterprise to Han Solo on the Millennium Falcon (It ain't pretty, nor easy to maintain, nor reliable, but its got it where it counts).
I didn't realize it was this widespread either, but I guess it makes a lot of sense if you go with the notion that most of the major business shifts in tech were centered around major Windows releases. Windows XP was around for a long time... Eventually I expect some kind of synergy and harmony to be restored in the marketplace, and those holding the purse strings will finally get the itch to do a major refresh of the infrastructure, and it will all go back to just working again. Software vendors do seem to be fighting against something being as long term as Windows XP though,...
Haven't read all of the comments, but a little bit of critiquing. You sound like you have a lot of experience, but little things kind of sound like a rookie with less than four years of experience.
For instance, the way you described switch failure:
"We've had an office network go berserk and randomly drop people's Internet access, ability to print, etc. -- because one of the switches started intermittently failing under load."
Or "We had the symptoms of switch failure, because one of the switches was failing". Or "I had to support users when one of our switches failed intermittently.".
Focusing on the end user support in that statement, as in what happened in the office and to the people, implies a Help Desk Technician, not a "Network Manager". And the redundancy of the description implies inexperience or lack of knowledge, which also implies Help Desk Technician.
What you have described is another day at the office for me. Though, you make it sound like the tasks required of you are overwhelming. None of that sounds particularly demanding, outside of time constraints. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, it sounds more like you are understaffed, and unable to delegate tasks to accomplish them within deadlines.
Early humans couldn't share because they would starve during the winter? That sounds highly illogical. Sure, there are limits, but why would we need a society if we didn't benefit from other members?
I don't think this has ever been different for humans. We are stronger together. United we stand, divided we fall. We pool our resources to produce even more than we can alone. A being who spends his/her time hunting and gathering to survive has little time to spend researching advanced machinery to increase production per individual. That being had to produce excess so that innovators across the ages would have had free time to tip the scales away from a hunting and gathering society. Even the story of "man's best friend" the dog supports that sharing was important for the survival and advancement of the human race. Humans and dogs shared their abilities and spoils, and both would seem to have profited much. Some dogs are quite spoiled by their owners.
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Voting with my wallet does increase the risk of losing everything I already paid for. If nobody buys from Steam, then how will I download or activate the old games I play. Steam has been around longer, and has a wider selection of games than GoG. Not all of the old games have made it to GoG, and I try not to purchase the same game twice, unless it has offline multiplayer.
Also, my bank doesn't like GoG, so my card won't work on that site:
Open Source is not about free software, or professional quality. It is about liberty, freedom, independence. It is about not being beholden to corporate interests. Money is nice. Working at a job you love is nice. But these things need not be so tightly intertwined. And as Linux has been for so many, a hobby, big money investments are not required. Big Business can buy their systemd or Windows Server boxes, and be under the thumb of Microsoft. Open Source will fight for its freedom.
"Give me liberty, or give me death." - Patrick Henry, 11/23/1775.
What idiots use Chrome?
Spamming the escape key didn't seem to work the last time I tried it. If I was lucky, a well timed Ctrl+W whilst spamming escape might kill it. Had to end the process.
Didn't know this had been fixed anywhere. Getting these in IE is why I used Firefox with noscript.
You would makr a point, and then punish the employee for conceding? I'd call that cruel and unusual, and counter-productive.
The opportunity phrasing is meant to imply that:
The employee that comes up with a solution will be rewarded. With reputation if not money.
Or that there is an opportunity to improve the situation, improve profits, and/or improve the customer experience.
Every problem noticed is an opportunity for somebody, maybe an opportunity for somebody else.
Three or more? I don't even have a broadband provider as an option. And I don't consider satellite to be broadband. And after 2020, I'd question whether dial up will be viable due to cost savings efforts in the telephone industry. Voice will carry over SIP lines, and touch tones are somewhat ok, but faxes don't seem to work at all. When AT&T converts their backbone to SIP, dialup will probably stop working. Satellite is almost completely unusable without a dialup connection for requests. It will probably be another decade before anybody gets around to upgrading the last mile to my house.
No DSL, no Cable, no Fiber Optic, no LTE cellular signal, no handoffs to cat5 Ethernet from anything. The old stuff is still hanging from the poles, if you happen to already be paying for it, but they don't service my area anymore.
My first thought on this, is its a bad idea to utilize imperfect machine learning algorithms for critical interactions. This is bound to go bad at a really bad time.
It was a brainfart, what I got wrong was IPv4's ARP.
That description sounds a little like RIP, etc., being merged with ARP in a single purpose entity. Thus arp isn't a simple cache table of local addresses, but also a routing table.
That seems to be how some ISPs are solving the problem of providing client modems with IPv4 addresses. PAT is an extension of IPv4 to provide pseudo IPs for those machines on the VLAN with a 10/8.
So an IPv4 isn't just 255.255.255.255, but it is 255.255.255.255:65536.
In the context of the summary, it would seem a valid claim, despite the debatable aspect of "creating" vs "allocating/re-allocating".
The lack of an ARP table is because it is redundant in IPv6. The IPv6 is supposed to be the MAC address.
Otherwise, I wouldn't consider it bizarre, but flexible. Older networking schemes were designed for limited devices with limited performance capabilities. IPv6 is designed for a future of nearly unlimited devices, and a wide variety of capabilities.
It is quite possible that either the guys deciding on IPv6 couldn't decide on its implementation, and so built flexibility to allow it to be implemented naturally and see which method wins out. Or they perhaps saw the IPv4 scheme running out of addresses and took that as a lesson learned and designed the scheme they wanted, but designed into a way to extend its lifespan when the ideal usage was no longer feasible.
So, with China cracking down on ways to get around filters, what is this going to mean for the quality of games coming out of China?
Perfect World is mentioned here as teaming up with Steam. Perfect World is a developer, owner, and publisher of MMORPGs, Notable examples of games they have include: Neverwinter Online, Star Trek Online, Torchlight, Final Fantasy Type-0, Champions Online, and City of Heroes.
How much of this content is designed in China these days? How much of the content that appeals to a western audience is based on media and artwork provided over a VPN connection?
What impact will this have on trade, and communication, and relationships? What will we have in common once "The Great [Fire]Wall of China" goes up? How will we maintain the peace when there is nothing to bring us together peacefully?
An override would allow officers to navigate the car to the shoulder, minimizing impact to other drivers, and risk to officers attending to the vehicle. This override may require 2fa with the assistance of the manufacturer to prevent abuse.
At minimum, all autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles should behave the same when a stop is attempted, without any overrides or communication with the vehicle. So that law enforcement can be trained to approach the vehicle safely and successfully.
Gravity is pretty simple. Big thing pulls little things closer. To escape and defeat it, there needs to be an equal and oppose about of force or energy applied.
Perhaps you meant bypass, rather than defeat? Or perhaps you merely meant a cost effective way of generating enough energy and opposing force to defeat gravity?
Telomere regeneration is another thing. As I understand it, Telomere regeneration isn't even proven to be worth doing at all, its proposed positive effects are a myth. It is just one of many lines of research to understand health and aging, and last I heard it was a wild goose chase or red herring.
The question, which similarly impacts tech support staffing, is whether you can brute force an epiphany.
Got to wonder if this is a modern conundrum, given Moore's law one would expect this to be part of the upgrade cycle... Infrastructure (web servers and client devices, etc.) should be upgraded periodically to improve encryption. 4-5 years has been the standard middle class consumer upgrade cycle, with 8-10 years for the rest.
However, Moore's law has given a constant and significant increase in speed, it could be that we are starting to notice downsides. Having to move to a 5-year upgrade cycle to maintain cryptographic integrity could become costly.
Friction is typically a bad word, given it potentially/likely closes the doors to possible advancements which can utilize the additional resources which are available. Thus a "lack of friction" is a type of growing pain for the computing industry. It is a problem to be solved by others who now have access to better resources, by means other than universal or Federally implemented friction. Furthermore, friction only works when it works. When malware or such bypasses the friction and is able to take full advantage of the technology then we're left with the original problem.
Nation State actors would not necessarily be limited to that same friction. Technology is an ongoing arms race, and friction could hinder progress in said arms race. Introduce friction and you reduce the value of computing power, reduce that value and you reduce demand, reduce demand and you reduce funding, reduce funding and you lose the technology arms race.
Pretty well spot on, but I also want to point out that more powerful user devices also increase the attack strength of compromised devices. Its incredible what a modern hexacore machine with 16GB of RAM, and an SSD can accomplish. You've got to have software and infrastructure that can react fast enough.
You're reaching there pal. No he is not recommending that people run primary workflows/workloads on external drives with writeback cache enabled.
And you're just proving his point. Which is that focusing on work-arounds and not quite world class setups, does not equate to mechanical failure.
Writeback cache is a low risk consideration, and if the problem isn't power loss or sudden disconnection, then writeback isn't the problem. Writeback did not cause the user's data loss in the original article. It has nothing to do with the problem.
I'm responding because I can relate to the GP's sentiment. The Dunning-Kruger effect comes into play, and when there are large numbers of users on the low end of the Dunning-Kruger effect, it is an overwhelming onslaught of bad responses from "know-it-alls", and it is like wading through mud to find a competent response.
The update changes the behavior of the media cache deletion. With 11.1.1, only files that are within the Media Cache folder’s subdirectories will be deleted. Files that sit next to it will no longer be affected. However, we still strongly recommend keeping the Media Cache folder separate from your original media.
https://theblog.adobe.com/prem...
1. External drive I/O varies. This is the era of Apple building "desktops" with non-removable/non-upgradeable HDDs. Newer USB3 SSD external drives are not unusable performance wise. External drives sometimes end up with quite a bit of I/O.
Actually, the GP had it backwards. The lawsuit is that when the user cleared D:\Videos\Cache, it cleared D:\Videos as well. Adobe was directed to use "D:\Videos" as the location to create the cache folder "D:\Videos\Cache". Adobe was not directed to use or make changes to any other files or folders in D:\Videos.
Experienced users would probably have balked at this user's configuration due to the risk of this very thing happening. Programmers even more so, I would think. The value of the variable being passed around in the program is "D:\Videos". Something is bound to affect other folders in that directory,...
1809 is not the version number, its the release date.
2018-09-??
Dude! Me too!
Windows 2000
Windows Vista
Windows 8.1
I do have a Windows 10 device, but it is a tablet, not anything I depend on.
I call it drift. At some point a company invests money in a unified and homogeneous infrastructure, and everything just works. Brand new equipment fails rarely, usually a decade later or more.
Then time passes.
Slowly but surely old tech in key locations begins to wear out. Since it was implemented when the company was smaller, and the staff less experienced, it requires downtime to replace. It also costs money, which nobody wants to spend on boring critical infrastructure unless they absolutely have to. Money is for toys for the "important people", like the Microsoft Surface line.
Speaking of toys, newer software, cloud services, and other nifty things show up on the scene and want to be added without an overhaul or refit of the existing infrastructure. Loads on older equipment are increased leading to more rapid failure, etc. You go from being Scotty or LaForge on the Enterprise to Han Solo on the Millennium Falcon (It ain't pretty, nor easy to maintain, nor reliable, but its got it where it counts).
I didn't realize it was this widespread either, but I guess it makes a lot of sense if you go with the notion that most of the major business shifts in tech were centered around major Windows releases. Windows XP was around for a long time... Eventually I expect some kind of synergy and harmony to be restored in the marketplace, and those holding the purse strings will finally get the itch to do a major refresh of the infrastructure, and it will all go back to just working again. Software vendors do seem to be fighting against something being as long term as Windows XP though,...
For instance, the way you described switch failure:
"We've had an office network go berserk and randomly drop people's Internet access, ability to print, etc. -- because one of the switches started intermittently failing under load."
Or "We had the symptoms of switch failure, because one of the switches was failing". Or "I had to support users when one of our switches failed intermittently.".
Focusing on the end user support in that statement, as in what happened in the office and to the people, implies a Help Desk Technician, not a "Network Manager". And the redundancy of the description implies inexperience or lack of knowledge, which also implies Help Desk Technician.
What you have described is another day at the office for me. Though, you make it sound like the tasks required of you are overwhelming. None of that sounds particularly demanding, outside of time constraints. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, it sounds more like you are understaffed, and unable to delegate tasks to accomplish them within deadlines.
Early humans couldn't share because they would starve during the winter? That sounds highly illogical. Sure, there are limits, but why would we need a society if we didn't benefit from other members?
I don't think this has ever been different for humans. We are stronger together. United we stand, divided we fall. We pool our resources to produce even more than we can alone. A being who spends his/her time hunting and gathering to survive has little time to spend researching advanced machinery to increase production per individual. That being had to produce excess so that innovators across the ages would have had free time to tip the scales away from a hunting and gathering society. Even the story of "man's best friend" the dog supports that sharing was important for the survival and advancement of the human race. Humans and dogs shared their abilities and spoils, and both would seem to have profited much. Some dogs are quite spoiled by their owners.