I'm disappointed that to get good specifications you have to buy a phone with an enormous screen. Even the base model is 5.7", which is larger than the flagship screens from two years ago. The G7 bezel is smaller than the G5 bezel, which means the phone size isn't that much more than the G5 (13mm taller), but every generation gets a little bigger.
The 5" G5 was a great size, especially for smaller women with small hands. My wife had a G1 and has a G5, but she refused the G6 and wouldn't want a G7 because of size. I guess there's more demand for larger screens than small, but not everyone wants a tablet in their pocket.
I have two seven year old das keyboards, "professional silent" model, both used daily, one at work, one at home. They've worked well during that time, they're well made and I enjoy typing on them. Even the "silent" models with Cherry MX Brown switches are fairly loud when you're trying quickly, to the point I've had a couple of people ask me to type more quietly.
The das keyboard I use at work eight hours a day recently needed internal cleaning as a few of the keys didn't work well, but using CRC CO Contact Cleaner (described as a "Precision Electronic Cleaning Solvent") seems to have fixed it.
CloudFlare ( https://www.cloudflare.com/ ) has a free tier that can provide https and a CDN at no cost. Pay for a plan if you need any of the features. Otherwise, as others have said, use Let's Encrypt. I use both for different sites, they both work well.
Live HTTP Headers ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... )is one of my favorite extensions, but it doesn't seem to work under v57. Hopefully it's ported over some time.
Back when I was a junior developer I used to write abstraction layers in case we wanted to change databases. In 20 years no system I worked on ever actually changed. However, in modern times, moving between cloud providers may make this more likely, but still probably relatively unlikely.
If you change from (say) Azure to AWS it's going to be a significant effort. Having to change an application would probably be a small component of this, given the code behind the abstraction layer would have to be changed anyway.
Some centralisation of database access code could be sensible, but writing a whole abstraction layer on the off chance the database is replaced may be a step too far.
Salaries in isolation means nothing unless you're saving up for living somewhere else. Cost of living in NZ is relatively low.
I'm not sure I agree with this. Housing is expensive, maybe not as bad as some places but there's a housing bubble right now. Finding rental properties can be difficult - according to the news paper 40 people looked at one rental recently. Anything from overseas often has multiple margins added as it goes through multiple distributors, or if you import it yourself shipping fees can be high and the government charges tax and sometimes duties. Food is cheaper in the UK and the USA - sometimes it's cheaper to buy NZ products like cheese and meat overseas than in NZ.
Do you get those speeds to the rest of the world, or just within NZ?
TCP latency limits the bandwidth of a single international connection, but in parallel you'll get that throughput. Since Netflix has nodes in NZ you could run multiple 4K streams across it no problem, all while downloading files and doing anything else you needed to do.
Plenty people have pointed out the flaws with this approach, around 3/2/1 and "raid is not a backup". I have hard drives in multiple locations with incremental backups - mirrors are vulnerable to ransomware / cryptoware. Critical information is also in CrashPlan, which is versioned.
The question also asks about experience with storage spaces. Around a year ago I purchased two HGST 4TB drives, formatted them ReFS with all integrity checking / fixing options turned on, and put them into a storage spaces mirror on W10. Since then they've worked fine - just like a single regular hard drive. Performance is fine with my older i7-2600K processor and 16GB RAM, but I don't do anything particularly disk intensive, though I do edit up to 1000 RAW photos at a time and haven't seen a problem. The windows event log seems buggy (maybe because I started on the W10 beta) and I can't actually get any information out of the event viewer, so I have no idea if it's detecting and / or fixing issues in the background, but I can access any of my files all the time so it's likely working fine.
The drive does get very, very fragmented according to Defraggler. The Windows tool defragments somewhat, though it still leaves many fragments. Defraggler can try to defragment it, but it's exceptionally slow. I don't know whether or not it's required.
I've used Thunderbird for many years and really like it. If they stop development I'll probably use it as-is for years, until it stops working or I really need something it can't do.
What alternative email clients are there if Thunderbird stopped working today? Free and commercial.
I haven't eaten meat in about five years, before which I did the Atkins diet on which I ate a LOT of meat. I just had enough. These days I don't like the smell or taste of meat, or of products that try to mimic meat. Tofu trying to taste like meat turns my stomach, I'd far rather they make something taste as good as it can, not like something else.
I agree that getting it to taste familiar might make it easier to convert carnivores, but having tasty high protein options that don't try to mimic flesh would be appreciated by many people.
I tried the beta this morning. There was no obvious way to show only the comments rated 4* and above. There are ways of seeing funny or insightful posts, but you don't get to control how many.
The new design seems less space efficient. More clicks are required to read stories (including this one).
I was in the south island last Christmas during the trial. I used the free WiFi in Havelock (a tiny town at the top of the south island), Queenstown, and Wanaka, and I wasn't really looking for them.
The last time I had condensation on my beer I was sitting beside the pool at a resort in Samoa. 33 degrees Celsius, not a cloud in the sky, view like a postcard, and plenty more beer in the bar's fridge. The condensation didn't bother me all that much.
Years ago I did the Atkins diet, I lost 30kg in 3-4 months. I don't consider it a great long term option these days, but it works, though perhaps not for the reason Atkins thought it did. I'm vegetarian now partly thanks to the excessive meat I ate back then. I've tried all sorts of diets, no sugar, gluten free, low GI, etc, etc, most worked to at least some degree if I stuck to it. I think the rigor is more important than the diet you choose.
A good workout might burn say 500 calories. For most people it's far easier to cut that from their diet than to exercise every day.
What helps me is:
- Cutting down sugar 95% - this includes fruit juice, sauces, manufactured products, alcohol
- Cutting out gluten - I don't have ceilacs, but I find if I stop eating gluten I lose weight much more easily
- Accurately and honestly track what I eat and what I do. There are heaps of systems, myfitnesspal is the one I use
- Moderate exercise 3-4 times per week. I live in a hilly area, 30-40 minutes walking up and down those works for me. Even something as simple as a 15 minute walk at lunch time helps.
The permissions for the Llama app include:
- Read calendar events plus confidential information
- Add or modify calendar events and send email to guests without owners' knowledge
- Read your contacts
- Pair with Bluetooth devices
That seems to be excessive given the functionality of the app.
The issue is probably not interconnection and peering, it's probably provisioning for peak usage.
Take a neighborhood of 1000 houses. Ten years ago there may have been a few people download mp3s, someone downloading a movie, some people doing web and email, aggregated you probably would've gotten away with a 10Mbps connection, maybe less as the internet wasn't as widely used. These days during peak periods you could expect perhaps 100 people streaming HD Netflix to their TV, some downloading torrents, others browsing images, watching youtube videos, you have people on phones, tablets, smart TVs, devices doing updates, etc - that would probably require more like 1Gbps, 100 times more bandwidth than ten years ago.
Interconnection costs less, but you have to upgrade your huge number of expensive routers and various network equipment, upgrade your back-haul, provide local caches for youtube and netflix, etc, etc. Sure they're making increasing profits every year, but it's not like they're standing still.
http://www.headphonereviews.org/ is non commercial headphone reviews website. There are some editors reviews, but most of the reviews are by users, with reviews by experienced headphone users given more weight than reviews by new members. The site is moderated to keep the review quality high.
Disclaimer: I own and run the website, and the website covers its costs by getting affiliate revenue from amazon.
This is a nice development, and i'm sure it'll help at least a little. I have a Tegra2 based tablet, the Asus Transformer, and according to my battery stats most of the power is used to run the screen and WiFi, rather than the CPU. More efficient screens and WiFi would make a far bigger difference than a low power core.
My battery stats are: Screen 32%, Tablet Idle 22%, Wifi 19%, Android OS 14%, everything else is below 10%.
I have a dozen IMAP email accounts for my various websites and contract roles. I need to check them regularly but keep the accounts and email separate. Thunderbird or any other email account lets me do this easily.
Forwarding email or using POP and taking email out of those accounts isn't an option.
...put a sign in your front window or building lobby asking if anyone else is having the same problem, or uses electrical equipment only between those times. Make it a friendly note, with smiles, rainbows, and unicorns, so you don't offend anyone or make it look like a witch. As a bonus you get to know your neighbours.
Where are "we" drawing the line? We're not. Google is. It'd be nice if they told us where the line is, but I can't see that happening any time soon, since Google is pretty much a black box (though it is a pretty, shiny black box).
I use HostGator to host Headphone Reviews, which gets 1M+ hits a month, 300K+ of those require 2-3 MySQL hits to create the page. I host another dozen or so domains too, total monthly hits 2M+, for about $10. Uptime's great, performance is great, and the technical support is amazing - their tech support knows far far more than me, which is fairly impressive.
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I'm disappointed that to get good specifications you have to buy a phone with an enormous screen. Even the base model is 5.7", which is larger than the flagship screens from two years ago. The G7 bezel is smaller than the G5 bezel, which means the phone size isn't that much more than the G5 (13mm taller), but every generation gets a little bigger.
The 5" G5 was a great size, especially for smaller women with small hands. My wife had a G1 and has a G5, but she refused the G6 and wouldn't want a G7 because of size. I guess there's more demand for larger screens than small, but not everyone wants a tablet in their pocket.
I have two seven year old das keyboards, "professional silent" model, both used daily, one at work, one at home. They've worked well during that time, they're well made and I enjoy typing on them. Even the "silent" models with Cherry MX Brown switches are fairly loud when you're trying quickly, to the point I've had a couple of people ask me to type more quietly.
The das keyboard I use at work eight hours a day recently needed internal cleaning as a few of the keys didn't work well, but using CRC CO Contact Cleaner (described as a "Precision Electronic Cleaning Solvent") seems to have fixed it.
https://www.crc.co.nz/CO-Conta...
CloudFlare ( https://www.cloudflare.com/ ) has a free tier that can provide https and a CDN at no cost. Pay for a plan if you need any of the features. Otherwise, as others have said, use Let's Encrypt. I use both for different sites, they both work well.
Live HTTP Headers ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... )is one of my favorite extensions, but it doesn't seem to work under v57. Hopefully it's ported over some time.
Back when I was a junior developer I used to write abstraction layers in case we wanted to change databases. In 20 years no system I worked on ever actually changed. However, in modern times, moving between cloud providers may make this more likely, but still probably relatively unlikely.
If you change from (say) Azure to AWS it's going to be a significant effort. Having to change an application would probably be a small component of this, given the code behind the abstraction layer would have to be changed anyway.
Some centralisation of database access code could be sensible, but writing a whole abstraction layer on the off chance the database is replaced may be a step too far.
Salaries are *low* in NZ.
Salaries in isolation means nothing unless you're saving up for living somewhere else. Cost of living in NZ is relatively low.
I'm not sure I agree with this. Housing is expensive, maybe not as bad as some places but there's a housing bubble right now. Finding rental properties can be difficult - according to the news paper 40 people looked at one rental recently. Anything from overseas often has multiple margins added as it goes through multiple distributors, or if you import it yourself shipping fees can be high and the government charges tax and sometimes duties. Food is cheaper in the UK and the USA - sometimes it's cheaper to buy NZ products like cheese and meat overseas than in NZ.
Do you get those speeds to the rest of the world, or just within NZ?
TCP latency limits the bandwidth of a single international connection, but in parallel you'll get that throughput. Since Netflix has nodes in NZ you could run multiple 4K streams across it no problem, all while downloading files and doing anything else you needed to do.
Plenty people have pointed out the flaws with this approach, around 3/2/1 and "raid is not a backup". I have hard drives in multiple locations with incremental backups - mirrors are vulnerable to ransomware / cryptoware. Critical information is also in CrashPlan, which is versioned.
The question also asks about experience with storage spaces. Around a year ago I purchased two HGST 4TB drives, formatted them ReFS with all integrity checking / fixing options turned on, and put them into a storage spaces mirror on W10. Since then they've worked fine - just like a single regular hard drive. Performance is fine with my older i7-2600K processor and 16GB RAM, but I don't do anything particularly disk intensive, though I do edit up to 1000 RAW photos at a time and haven't seen a problem. The windows event log seems buggy (maybe because I started on the W10 beta) and I can't actually get any information out of the event viewer, so I have no idea if it's detecting and / or fixing issues in the background, but I can access any of my files all the time so it's likely working fine.
The drive does get very, very fragmented according to Defraggler. The Windows tool defragments somewhat, though it still leaves many fragments. Defraggler can try to defragment it, but it's exceptionally slow. I don't know whether or not it's required.
I've used Thunderbird for many years and really like it. If they stop development I'll probably use it as-is for years, until it stops working or I really need something it can't do.
What alternative email clients are there if Thunderbird stopped working today? Free and commercial.
Archive your email using MailStore - I use the home version
http://www.mailstore.com/en/ma...
I haven't eaten meat in about five years, before which I did the Atkins diet on which I ate a LOT of meat. I just had enough. These days I don't like the smell or taste of meat, or of products that try to mimic meat. Tofu trying to taste like meat turns my stomach, I'd far rather they make something taste as good as it can, not like something else.
I agree that getting it to taste familiar might make it easier to convert carnivores, but having tasty high protein options that don't try to mimic flesh would be appreciated by many people.
I tried the beta this morning. There was no obvious way to show only the comments rated 4* and above. There are ways of seeing funny or insightful posts, but you don't get to control how many.
The new design seems less space efficient. More clicks are required to read stories (including this one).
No plans to change in the near future.
I was in the south island last Christmas during the trial. I used the free WiFi in Havelock (a tiny town at the top of the south island), Queenstown, and Wanaka, and I wasn't really looking for them.
The last time I had condensation on my beer I was sitting beside the pool at a resort in Samoa. 33 degrees Celsius, not a cloud in the sky, view like a postcard, and plenty more beer in the bar's fridge. The condensation didn't bother me all that much.
Years ago I did the Atkins diet, I lost 30kg in 3-4 months. I don't consider it a great long term option these days, but it works, though perhaps not for the reason Atkins thought it did. I'm vegetarian now partly thanks to the excessive meat I ate back then. I've tried all sorts of diets, no sugar, gluten free, low GI, etc, etc, most worked to at least some degree if I stuck to it. I think the rigor is more important than the diet you choose.
A good workout might burn say 500 calories. For most people it's far easier to cut that from their diet than to exercise every day.
What helps me is:
- Cutting down sugar 95% - this includes fruit juice, sauces, manufactured products, alcohol
- Cutting out gluten - I don't have ceilacs, but I find if I stop eating gluten I lose weight much more easily
- Accurately and honestly track what I eat and what I do. There are heaps of systems, myfitnesspal is the one I use
- Moderate exercise 3-4 times per week. I live in a hilly area, 30-40 minutes walking up and down those works for me. Even something as simple as a 15 minute walk at lunch time helps.
This is working for me, slowly but surely
The permissions for the Llama app include:
- Read calendar events plus confidential information
- Add or modify calendar events and send email to guests without owners' knowledge
- Read your contacts
- Pair with Bluetooth devices
That seems to be excessive given the functionality of the app.
The issue is probably not interconnection and peering, it's probably provisioning for peak usage.
Take a neighborhood of 1000 houses. Ten years ago there may have been a few people download mp3s, someone downloading a movie, some people doing web and email, aggregated you probably would've gotten away with a 10Mbps connection, maybe less as the internet wasn't as widely used. These days during peak periods you could expect perhaps 100 people streaming HD Netflix to their TV, some downloading torrents, others browsing images, watching youtube videos, you have people on phones, tablets, smart TVs, devices doing updates, etc - that would probably require more like 1Gbps, 100 times more bandwidth than ten years ago.
Interconnection costs less, but you have to upgrade your huge number of expensive routers and various network equipment, upgrade your back-haul, provide local caches for youtube and netflix, etc, etc. Sure they're making increasing profits every year, but it's not like they're standing still.
http://www.headphonereviews.org/ is non commercial headphone reviews website. There are some editors reviews, but most of the reviews are by users, with reviews by experienced headphone users given more weight than reviews by new members. The site is moderated to keep the review quality high.
Disclaimer: I own and run the website, and the website covers its costs by getting affiliate revenue from amazon.
Naked broadband is available on Telstra Clear cable in New Zealand, see this page.
http://www.telstraclear.co.nz/residential/inhome/internet/cable-broadband/naked-broadband.cfm
This is a nice development, and i'm sure it'll help at least a little. I have a Tegra2 based tablet, the Asus Transformer, and according to my battery stats most of the power is used to run the screen and WiFi, rather than the CPU. More efficient screens and WiFi would make a far bigger difference than a low power core.
My battery stats are: Screen 32%, Tablet Idle 22%, Wifi 19%, Android OS 14%, everything else is below 10%.
I have a dozen IMAP email accounts for my various websites and contract roles. I need to check them regularly but keep the accounts and email separate. Thunderbird or any other email account lets me do this easily.
Forwarding email or using POP and taking email out of those accounts isn't an option.
or make it look like a witch HUNT. Doh.
...put a sign in your front window or building lobby asking if anyone else is having the same problem, or uses electrical equipment only between those times. Make it a friendly note, with smiles, rainbows, and unicorns, so you don't offend anyone or make it look like a witch. As a bonus you get to know your neighbours.
Where are "we" drawing the line? We're not. Google is. It'd be nice if they told us where the line is, but I can't see that happening any time soon, since Google is pretty much a black box (though it is a pretty, shiny black box).
I use HostGator to host Headphone Reviews, which gets 1M+ hits a month, 300K+ of those require 2-3 MySQL hits to create the page. I host another dozen or so domains too, total monthly hits 2M+, for about $10. Uptime's great, performance is great, and the technical support is amazing - their tech support knows far far more than me, which is fairly impressive.