When I'm looking for something, I'm generally reading the 1 and 2 star reviews. I want to know if the item will have a problem for my own use-case. A goodly number of 5-star reviews are pretty much "it's great!" which doesn't really help me determine if it's something I want to buy.
Many workplaces are moving towards bring your own devices. Right now mine gives me a couple of bucks a month to host their email on my phone and there’s discussion on doing the same for laptops/desktops.
Personally I snagged a second phone and only host company email on it and any other company business on it (like company phone calls). But not everyone will go that far.
Microsoft 365 is available to us without being logged into the company network. Same with WebEx and MS Teams. And even our Jira system and Service Now system.
So I expect we might see something similar when we get to BYOD for your computer. Either buying a second work laptop or desktop or possibly having personal stuff pop up during a meeting, assuming you don’t properly sandbox the prsentation.
Unfortunately the in ear ones are painful as are any headphones that press on my ears. The hanging ones like these work better, not that I’ve purchased any.
As an Operations Engineer, I'm also working on improving things. Automation to speed up deployments, monitoring to identify bottlenecks, etc. The bad part is when the provided tools don't give me that visibility so I can make improvements, I deploy my own tools (or write my own). It's probably less efficient but I can then work on improving the environment. My current audit script identifies some 34,000 things that can be improved across our environment.
Even the Apple external CD is a USB-B so a dongle is needed for that. And two of my cables are for Rocksmith and don't come in USB-C so at least two USB-B dongles for those.
Dongle for the Media cable. Gives me the HDMI, USB, and USB-C connections.
HDMI for external monitor. USB for the CD, and USB-C for the Apple keyboard.
Note that my MacBook 2013 with the HDMI port supports HDMI 2.0 on my monitor but the MacBook 2017 with the external Media adapter only supports HDMI 1.2 (basically not 2.0).
Power plug.
Dongle for the Ethernet cable (oddly my MacBook can't connect to my Plex servers wirelessly, only through a wired connection).
USB dongle for the USB thumb drive (for the occasional file copy from one system to another; aka sneakernet).
USB dongle for the USB external backup drive (4TB).
A couple of them are pretty much always needed regardless of if I'm at my desk or on the couch.
And I didn't think about a dock in part because Apple doesn't supply one. You have to get a third party one and until you mentioned it here, it wasn't even a consideration so I'll investigate that, thanks:)
I was using it as an example as I recently followed a demo for kubeadm which had me pulling three nginx containers. How many other containers are out there that folks may be using that aren't official containers like the nginx one though?
How many containers that are downloaded regularly to systems also contain malicious code? Do people verify what's being retrieved? I create my own OS containers when building a pod but I'm probably a bit in the minority. When you run that demo and load up an nginx container, are you confident it's not tainted?
Tough call. Back in the day the ability for "insecure basement-dwelling neckbeard trolls" to actually communicate with each other was pretty limited, mainly to local newspapers and maybe science fiction/fantasy magazines or perhaps one of the horror magazines or movie magazines. And of course they had editors and limited space for letters.
As someone who saw it when it came out in theaters on post when I was in Germany, having a woman as the strong female lead wasn't even in consideration. It was just a fscking cool movie.
I will say though, that I don't believe (in my limited and young experience at the time) that there weren't any older TV shows or Movies that were being remade back in the 70's where the original lead was male and the remake had the lead as female like Ghostbusters or Carol Danvers. I do recall when Tony Stark in the Iron Man comics was replaced by a black guy and at least in my circle of friends and in the comics letter pages, no one said a thing about it.
Everything I've read and heard, the concern is that babies who can't be vaccinated and folks who have compromised immune systems are the ones being impacted by the anti-vaxxers. The most recent articles are the teenagers and young adults who have not been vaccinated are going behind their parents backs to get vaccinated. I've not read about any vaccinated people getting diseases from the non-vaccinated. Even a quick google search shows the same results. It's the folks who aren't vaccinated or who can't get vaccinated who are being impacted by the anti-vaxxers.
And contractors who had to come in are also paid as they were working (I was a contractor during the Gingrich shutdown back in the 90's and had to come to work).
The only ones likely not getting paid are the contractors that didn't go to work, which depends on the company as some would pay anyway or have their contractors work on other contracts, go to training, etc, and any of the support industry that depend on money from these workers.
Heck, back in the 80's when I was starting out, IBM refused to even acknowledge my resume as I didn't have a college degree. My how times have changed.
I worked at IBM a few years back. You were a cog in the machine and replaceable with little notice. A guy across from me was told on a Monday to not return Wednesday. When they offshored my Unix Admin job to India, I was given the opportunity to be a Web Developer, Data Center creator, Backup Admin, or out. I did spend my own money to qualify for Backup Admin, a telecommute position. That was toxic enough that turnover was pretty high but also the random selection of our Customer Interface to be removed from the contract caused some hoop jumping as she transitioned all her information over to the team lead.
My manager certainly tried to keep me on and worked to find me another contract, but it was pretty harrowing to see some random manager looking guy come into the cube farm and hope he's not coming for you.
Granted, things might be changing or have changed, but in a very large company, change is hard so I'd be very skeptical about comments from upper management.
These things are basically transfer media. I use USB thumb drives to transfer things between my laptop and desktop and only clear the laptop once it’s successfully been copied.
Oddly enough, I’ve had several more expensive USB sticks (Kangaroo was the most recent) over the years but a couple of cheap Lexar 32G sticks have lasted for years of fairly regular use.
Heck, when I was a kid, if I was released from chores around the house, I was G.O.N.E. gone until the street lights came on. If I hung around for any reason, I was nabbed for some other house project or occasionally kicked out of the house to "go play". I was the kitchen, dining room, garage guy and my brother was the living room, hall, bathroom, catbox guy and we shared a bedroom (bunk beds). Dad had a little notation book with fines when stuff wasn't cleaned to his exact requirements (Naval officer). Change deducted from our weekly allowances for poor work. And on weekends it was garden work. He was a frustrated farmer I guess and would use the rototiller to tear up the back yard and plant corn and sunflowers. Man if we were released, it was time to go.
The problems are becoming aggravating enough that I'm reviewing my options for the next upgrade.
My music library doesn't completely load. I have playlists that show all the songs but when you click to play, it grays out as unavailable. If I plug the phone or tablet in and sync, it'll sync up a couple of thousand different songs but other songs will then gray out. This is with about 50G of "free space" per iTunes.
The spacebar issue. For some reason, in more recent versions of IOS, I keep missing the spacebar and have posts with concatenated words. I don't know why it's doing it all of a sudden but it's damned annoying.
The music thing pisses me off the most though. Go through the trouble to create a playlist, go to listen to music during my commute and half the songs are missing.
I bought my girlfriend a Dell laptop for Christmas. She’s a MS SQL DBA primarily and specifically said no MacBook (I’m a Unix Eng and have a MacBook:) ).
Anyway, not long after getting her laptop up and configured, we removed MacAfee, it would popup every few minutes insisting she purchase the product, and then after hunting for a few things on the ‘net and having trouble with Edge’s results, asked me which browser I recommended. I had her install chrome even though I use Firefox (I’m used to the development console on firefox).
Well, the bad part is he said same cookies. Maybe true though for the same kind of cookies; store brand sugar cookies at 2 bucks vs non-gmo vegan organic Hawaii sourced real sugar cookies at 8 bucks. I can see that as true.
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When I'm looking for something, I'm generally reading the 1 and 2 star reviews. I want to know if the item will have a problem for my own use-case. A goodly number of 5-star reviews are pretty much "it's great!" which doesn't really help me determine if it's something I want to buy.
[John]
As an engineer, Visio. I have a Windows VM on my work Mac so I can use Visio.
[John]
Many workplaces are moving towards bring your own devices. Right now mine gives me a couple of bucks a month to host their email on my phone and there’s discussion on doing the same for laptops/desktops.
Personally I snagged a second phone and only host company email on it and any other company business on it (like company phone calls). But not everyone will go that far.
Microsoft 365 is available to us without being logged into the company network. Same with WebEx and MS Teams. And even our Jira system and Service Now system.
So I expect we might see something similar when we get to BYOD for your computer. Either buying a second work laptop or desktop or possibly having personal stuff pop up during a meeting, assuming you don’t properly sandbox the prsentation.
[John]
Shoot, it was like that when I went through Marine Corps boot camp back in ‘74.
[John]
Unfortunately the in ear ones are painful as are any headphones that press on my ears. The hanging ones like these work better, not that I’ve purchased any.
[John]
We can then get H1B's and abuse the system.
[John]
As an Operations Engineer, I'm also working on improving things. Automation to speed up deployments, monitoring to identify bottlenecks, etc. The bad part is when the provided tools don't give me that visibility so I can make improvements, I deploy my own tools (or write my own). It's probably less efficient but I can then work on improving the environment. My current audit script identifies some 34,000 things that can be improved across our environment.
[John]
For my internal stuff sure, but when copying from my work laptop to my personal stuff, I don't have that luxury (work blocks cloud type stuff).
[John]
Even the Apple external CD is a USB-B so a dongle is needed for that. And two of my cables are for Rocksmith and don't come in USB-C so at least two USB-B dongles for those.
[John]
Dongle for the Media cable. Gives me the HDMI, USB, and USB-C connections.
HDMI for external monitor. USB for the CD, and USB-C for the Apple keyboard.
Note that my MacBook 2013 with the HDMI port supports HDMI 2.0 on my monitor but the MacBook 2017 with the external Media adapter only supports HDMI 1.2 (basically not 2.0).
Power plug.
Dongle for the Ethernet cable (oddly my MacBook can't connect to my Plex servers wirelessly, only through a wired connection).
USB dongle for the USB thumb drive (for the occasional file copy from one system to another; aka sneakernet).
USB dongle for the USB external backup drive (4TB).
A couple of them are pretty much always needed regardless of if I'm at my desk or on the couch.
And I didn't think about a dock in part because Apple doesn't supply one. You have to get a third party one and until you mentioned it here, it wasn't even a consideration so I'll investigate that, thanks :)
[John]
I was using it as an example as I recently followed a demo for kubeadm which had me pulling three nginx containers. How many other containers are out there that folks may be using that aren't official containers like the nginx one though?
[John]
How many containers that are downloaded regularly to systems also contain malicious code? Do people verify what's being retrieved? I create my own OS containers when building a pod but I'm probably a bit in the minority. When you run that demo and load up an nginx container, are you confident it's not tainted?
[John]
Tough call. Back in the day the ability for "insecure basement-dwelling neckbeard trolls" to actually communicate with each other was pretty limited, mainly to local newspapers and maybe science fiction/fantasy magazines or perhaps one of the horror magazines or movie magazines. And of course they had editors and limited space for letters.
As someone who saw it when it came out in theaters on post when I was in Germany, having a woman as the strong female lead wasn't even in consideration. It was just a fscking cool movie.
I will say though, that I don't believe (in my limited and young experience at the time) that there weren't any older TV shows or Movies that were being remade back in the 70's where the original lead was male and the remake had the lead as female like Ghostbusters or Carol Danvers. I do recall when Tony Stark in the Iron Man comics was replaced by a black guy and at least in my circle of friends and in the comics letter pages, no one said a thing about it.
[John]
Everything I've read and heard, the concern is that babies who can't be vaccinated and folks who have compromised immune systems are the ones being impacted by the anti-vaxxers. The most recent articles are the teenagers and young adults who have not been vaccinated are going behind their parents backs to get vaccinated. I've not read about any vaccinated people getting diseases from the non-vaccinated. Even a quick google search shows the same results. It's the folks who aren't vaccinated or who can't get vaccinated who are being impacted by the anti-vaxxers.
[John]
I havea pfsense server with an ad blocker. Protects my systems including my mobile devices. Plus noscript for my desktop and laptops.
[John]
Actually Congress passed a bill to pay all 800,000 workers regardless of whether they were forced to work or furloughed.
https://www.govexec.com/pay-be...
And contractors who had to come in are also paid as they were working (I was a contractor during the Gingrich shutdown back in the 90's and had to come to work).
The only ones likely not getting paid are the contractors that didn't go to work, which depends on the company as some would pay anyway or have their contractors work on other contracts, go to training, etc, and any of the support industry that depend on money from these workers.
[John]
Heck, back in the 80's when I was starting out, IBM refused to even acknowledge my resume as I didn't have a college degree. My how times have changed.
[John]
I worked at IBM a few years back. You were a cog in the machine and replaceable with little notice. A guy across from me was told on a Monday to not return Wednesday. When they offshored my Unix Admin job to India, I was given the opportunity to be a Web Developer, Data Center creator, Backup Admin, or out. I did spend my own money to qualify for Backup Admin, a telecommute position. That was toxic enough that turnover was pretty high but also the random selection of our Customer Interface to be removed from the contract caused some hoop jumping as she transitioned all her information over to the team lead.
My manager certainly tried to keep me on and worked to find me another contract, but it was pretty harrowing to see some random manager looking guy come into the cube farm and hope he's not coming for you.
Granted, things might be changing or have changed, but in a very large company, change is hard so I'd be very skeptical about comments from upper management.
[John]
These things are basically transfer media. I use USB thumb drives to transfer things between my laptop and desktop and only clear the laptop once it’s successfully been copied.
Oddly enough, I’ve had several more expensive USB sticks (Kangaroo was the most recent) over the years but a couple of cheap Lexar 32G sticks have lasted for years of fairly regular use.
[John]
Typically you had pirated games and occasionally other software like Norton Utilities.
[John]
Or reality TV.
[John]
Heck, when I was a kid, if I was released from chores around the house, I was G.O.N.E. gone until the street lights came on. If I hung around for any reason, I was nabbed for some other house project or occasionally kicked out of the house to "go play". I was the kitchen, dining room, garage guy and my brother was the living room, hall, bathroom, catbox guy and we shared a bedroom (bunk beds). Dad had a little notation book with fines when stuff wasn't cleaned to his exact requirements (Naval officer). Change deducted from our weekly allowances for poor work. And on weekends it was garden work. He was a frustrated farmer I guess and would use the rototiller to tear up the back yard and plant corn and sunflowers. Man if we were released, it was time to go.
[John]
The problems are becoming aggravating enough that I'm reviewing my options for the next upgrade.
My music library doesn't completely load. I have playlists that show all the songs but when you click to play, it grays out as unavailable. If I plug the phone or tablet in and sync, it'll sync up a couple of thousand different songs but other songs will then gray out. This is with about 50G of "free space" per iTunes.
The spacebar issue. For some reason, in more recent versions of IOS, I keep missing the spacebar and have posts with concatenated words. I don't know why it's doing it all of a sudden but it's damned annoying.
The music thing pisses me off the most though. Go through the trouble to create a playlist, go to listen to music during my commute and half the songs are missing.
[John]
I bought my girlfriend a Dell laptop for Christmas. She’s a MS SQL DBA primarily and specifically said no MacBook (I’m a Unix Eng and have a MacBook :) ).
Anyway, not long after getting her laptop up and configured, we removed MacAfee, it would popup every few minutes insisting she purchase the product, and then after hunting for a few things on the ‘net and having trouble with Edge’s results, asked me which browser I recommended. I had her install chrome even though I use Firefox (I’m used to the development console on firefox).
[John]
Well, the bad part is he said same cookies. Maybe true though for the same kind of cookies; store brand sugar cookies at 2 bucks vs non-gmo vegan organic Hawaii sourced real sugar cookies at 8 bucks. I can see that as true.
[Jack]