The BSD community must offer more assistance. As soon as BSD gets something similar to KVM I'll switch in a second. If Ubuntu represents the future of Linux i want none of it, I'll go back to BSD.
FreeBSD has native ZFS which is the one reason I'm using it at home. I thought FreeBSD could act as a xen dom0 but it seems You are right, it can't.
FreeBSD is a very nice OS and much more consistent as a whole system than any Linux distribution.
And I'd like a resolution that advocates regime change of these oppressive, abusive governments around the world such as in Saudi Arabia that have no legitimacy whatsoever. But hey, it's not a perfect world.
The problem being that 'regime change' just creates a bigger mess. Look at Egypt right now, it was a bit messed up, now it's it's seriously messed up. Same with the French revolution. Same with Iraq and Iran.
The current situation: One country can implement rules to abuse the whole world. Each country can implement rules to screw over its own citizens and manipulate traffic routed though that country. Many countries already abuse their own citizens ( China, UK, Netherlands, etc. )
Without US control: Each country can implement rules to screw over its own citizens and manipulate traffic routed though that country. Many countries already abuse their own citizens ( China, UK, Netherlands, etc. )
How can this not be a Good Thing(tm)?
Besides the part in the summary about blocking access via proxy servers is bull. Even with the deep packet inspection currently implemented in the UK they can't block VPN links which can be easily hidden in other traffic.
whoever thought that was a good idea deserves a special hell.
It's not a good idea, but it's still an improvement over letting users choose their own passwords.
Giving the users something better like a OTP dongle or a challenge response system that uses their bank cards is expensive and users won't understand it.
Something tells me that most of this stolen info consists of data gathered on "terrorists" like movie pirates, government critics, and information leakers.
Everyone is a potential terrorist, this will likely be information on everyone collected from every government database they have access to.
It would be interesting to see what kinds of data spooks collect.
I get plenty in return much of it worth paying for. However the government is paying people who choose not to work, overpaying its own under performing staff, and underpaying the hard workers I really do respect.
And don't try and tell me that voting changes anything because you can't vote out the civil service.
No, hard core Baha'i have trained themselves to believe anything. Hard core Christians have trained themselves to believe the tenets of Christianity (a tautology).
Most pedantic answer ever!
If someone donates money to an organization that has been involved in the systematic and repeated sexual abuse of children and the covering up of this, and can still believe they are a good person then that person can believe anything. Such a person won't have a problem believing in Nigerian diplomats trying to wire millions to random strangers.
Or are you talking about the other christian groups that amass huge wealth for their founders by lying their asses off to their followers?
Truth be told, most-if-not-all of us have been robbed of far more by white guys in suits, rather than black guys in hoodies.
As in several orders of magnitude more. A mugger might want my pocket change once but the government takes a third of my income before I even see it, then comes back to demand extra fees on everything I buy.
It could be that us younger folk have been taught from day one not to believe a damn thing anyone says online.
I always thought that was why old people appear to fall for scams more. People brought up before the communication age would have encountered fewer scams when their personalities were forming and would be less able to handle them, they would have dealt mainly with people they would see again.
Also works wonders to have a camera recording all the activity in the server room.
There have been a few cases where that would have been literally invaluable. Like the time we found gorge marks on a server like some retard had tried to lever disks out with a screwdriver. The easy to use disk caddy was too hard for them I guess. We knew it was the security people but without film we could not be sure which one.
Or that time laptops kept disappearing all over the office. Turned out the security people were stealing those too.
And I note that my budget of a few hundred GBP seems too low..
Some of us have been getting by on shitty budgets for years. You don't need to buy expensive stuff, Cheap tools are fine as long as they are cheap good tools.
-Get a labeling machine and a load of 9mm black on white tape and label the machines, their disks, and the cables. -Get a cable tester but nothing too fancy, the cheap ones work fine. A crimping tool and a reel of CAT6 is needed if you make your own cables. -Get torx and normal screwdrivers. -A small light is useful for getting light into dark corners, a big one is useful if you have to shove cabling under a raised floor or though a false ceiling. -Spare disks of the correct type are always useful as are spare backup tapes if you use such things.
The most important point is to hide all tools. If just one other person even knows they exist they will 'borrow' them and you will lose them forever. Also make sure there is a decent lock on the door, that the bare minimum number of people can physically get into the room, and that all access is logged electronically. That way you can find out who knocked some random cable out of position causing an outage and you can cancel their access and/or shout at them.
What do you suggest? Somehow changing governments who have historically been low performing sink-employers and by design can't go bust and by design are not really accountable to their customers?
What way can that be fixed except by taking as much as possible away from them and giving it to companies which can either perform or be replaced?
Why don't they run their own datacenter and have centralised IT services, rather than relying on some third party private company? Is it because they want to have someone to blame if things do go wrong?
That sounds perfectly sensible and it's exactly what most companies would do, however it doesn't work in practice for government organizations. Governments have a kind of corrosive ineptitude that creeps into everything they do. I think it's something to do with the fact that no matter how bad they screw up they can't go bust and they can't fire permanent staff.
In some cases it's better to let people who know what they are doing do the work. Even if they are making a fat profit they may still charge less than what it would cost you to provide it yourself.
It's a totally fair and free process, however all companies except for three will be eliminated from the process due to various concerns, sadly this will include all major industry players. Two the the last three will be clearly unable to provide this service and will be eliminated in the last round.
They already know who they are giving this deal too and the decision has nothing to do with common sense or sound financial management. They will award this contract to a low quality provider with a history of dealing with UK government bureaucracy who by total coincidence has a high hospitality budget. Most likely EDS.
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The BSD community must offer more assistance. As soon as BSD gets something similar to KVM I'll switch in a second. If Ubuntu represents the future of Linux i want none of it, I'll go back to BSD.
FreeBSD has native ZFS which is the one reason I'm using it at home. I thought FreeBSD could act as a xen dom0 but it seems You are right, it can't.
FreeBSD is a very nice OS and much more consistent as a whole system than any Linux distribution.
There is already a country code for the US, it's .us.
Why not use this as an opportunity to replace the creaking DNS system with something more suitable?
It's a dictators charter, pure and simple.
Now's a really good time to tell the world where to jump off.
The current situation is a dictatorship. Sharing responsibility isn't.
And I'd like a resolution that advocates regime change of these oppressive, abusive governments around the world such as in Saudi Arabia that have no legitimacy whatsoever. But hey, it's not a perfect world.
The problem being that 'regime change' just creates a bigger mess. Look at Egypt right now, it was a bit messed up, now it's it's seriously messed up. Same with the French revolution. Same with Iraq and Iran.
The current situation:
One country can implement rules to abuse the whole world. Each country can implement rules to screw over its own citizens and manipulate traffic routed though that country. Many countries already abuse their own citizens ( China, UK, Netherlands, etc. )
Without US control:
Each country can implement rules to screw over its own citizens and manipulate traffic routed though that country. Many countries already abuse their own citizens ( China, UK, Netherlands, etc. )
How can this not be a Good Thing(tm)?
Besides the part in the summary about blocking access via proxy servers is bull. Even with the deep packet inspection currently implemented in the UK they can't block VPN links which can be easily hidden in other traffic.
whoever thought that was a good idea deserves a special hell.
It's not a good idea, but it's still an improvement over letting users choose their own passwords.
Giving the users something better like a OTP dongle or a challenge response system that uses their bank cards is expensive and users won't understand it.
Something tells me that most of this stolen info consists of data gathered on "terrorists" like movie pirates, government critics, and information leakers.
Everyone is a potential terrorist, this will likely be information on everyone collected from every government database they have access to.
It would be interesting to see what kinds of data spooks collect.
Somehow, I'm not terribly worried. Terrorism is a lesser threat to any of us than slipping in the shower is.
Indeed. We should close all the counter-terrorism agencies until the threat is back up to the level where people demand we do something about it...
Or simply stop taking showers.
And you get nothing in return! Poor baby.
Did I say that?
I get plenty in return much of it worth paying for. However the government is paying people who choose not to work, overpaying its own under performing staff, and underpaying the hard workers I really do respect.
And don't try and tell me that voting changes anything because you can't vote out the civil service.
No, hard core Baha'i have trained themselves to believe anything. Hard core Christians have trained themselves to believe the tenets of Christianity (a tautology).
Most pedantic answer ever!
If someone donates money to an organization that has been involved in the systematic and repeated sexual abuse of children and the covering up of this, and can still believe they are a good person then that person can believe anything. Such a person won't have a problem believing in Nigerian diplomats trying to wire millions to random strangers.
Or are you talking about the other christian groups that amass huge wealth for their founders by lying their asses off to their followers?
Truth be told, most-if-not-all of us have been robbed of far more by white guys in suits, rather than black guys in hoodies.
As in several orders of magnitude more. A mugger might want my pocket change once but the government takes a third of my income before I even see it, then comes back to demand extra fees on everything I buy.
Hard core Christians have trained themselves to believe anything.
Maybe they just grew up at a time when people were more honest?
Maybe they grew up in a time where they could find the scumbags that treated them dishonestly.
Nowadays the scumbags don't need to be near you to attempt to scam you.
It could be that us younger folk have been taught from day one not to believe a damn thing anyone says online.
I always thought that was why old people appear to fall for scams more. People brought up before the communication age would have encountered fewer scams when their personalities were forming and would be less able to handle them, they would have dealt mainly with people they would see again.
Also works wonders to have a camera recording all the activity in the server room.
There have been a few cases where that would have been literally invaluable. Like the time we found gorge marks on a server like some retard had tried to lever disks out with a screwdriver. The easy to use disk caddy was too hard for them I guess. We knew it was the security people but without film we could not be sure which one.
Or that time laptops kept disappearing all over the office. Turned out the security people were stealing those too.
And I note that my budget of a few hundred GBP seems too low..
Some of us have been getting by on shitty budgets for years. You don't need to buy expensive stuff, Cheap tools are fine as long as they are cheap good tools.
-Get a labeling machine and a load of 9mm black on white tape and label the machines, their disks, and the cables.
-Get a cable tester but nothing too fancy, the cheap ones work fine. A crimping tool and a reel of CAT6 is needed if you make your own cables.
-Get torx and normal screwdrivers.
-A small light is useful for getting light into dark corners, a big one is useful if you have to shove cabling under a raised floor or though a false ceiling.
-Spare disks of the correct type are always useful as are spare backup tapes if you use such things.
The most important point is to hide all tools. If just one other person even knows they exist they will 'borrow' them and you will lose them forever. Also make sure there is a decent lock on the door, that the bare minimum number of people can physically get into the room, and that all access is logged electronically. That way you can find out who knocked some random cable out of position causing an outage and you can cancel their access and/or shout at them.
Why would you need to run x86 apps? Just recompile and go. That will do it for 90% of what everyone uses.
Ubuntu has an ARM branch and it uses many of the same applications, just recompiled for ARM.
because it won't do for the 5% of sw that 90% of people use.
Can you give some examples of software commonly used on Ubuntu that doesn't work on ARM? I can't think of a single example.
Not to mention that ARM chips use a different instruction set, so .... you can't go from x86 to ARM. If you're going anywhere you're going to go AMD.
Linux and all the common Linux software works fine on ARM. ARM is only a recompile away.
why would any "enthusiast" go for an ARM CPU with about one tenth of the power a current Intel CPU has?
Yes, if that's the only option.
If Intel sell pinless CPUs there is still AMD.
What do you suggest? Somehow changing governments who have historically been low performing sink-employers and by design can't go bust and by design are not really accountable to their customers?
What way can that be fixed except by taking as much as possible away from them and giving it to companies which can either perform or be replaced?
Why don't they run their own datacenter and have centralised IT services, rather than relying on some third party private company? Is it because they want to have someone to blame if things do go wrong?
That sounds perfectly sensible and it's exactly what most companies would do, however it doesn't work in practice for government organizations. Governments have a kind of corrosive ineptitude that creeps into everything they do. I think it's something to do with the fact that no matter how bad they screw up they can't go bust and they can't fire permanent staff.
In some cases it's better to let people who know what they are doing do the work. Even if they are making a fat profit they may still charge less than what it would cost you to provide it yourself.
Quite. I raised exactly that point in February. I hope that my government does not give my data to the US government.
If you live in Europe and have a bank account they already have.
It's a totally fair and free process, however all companies except for three will be eliminated from the process due to various concerns, sadly this will include all major industry players. Two the the last three will be clearly unable to provide this service and will be eliminated in the last round.
They already know who they are giving this deal too and the decision has nothing to do with common sense or sound financial management. They will award this contract to a low quality provider with a history of dealing with UK government bureaucracy who by total coincidence has a high hospitality budget. Most likely EDS.
So, who in their right mind is actually PAYING FOR an operating system?
Those forced to by an insane world.
I can't buy a decent laptop without handing some of my money to Microsoft.