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  1. So we'll be able to play counterstrike on Russia To Disconnect From the Internet as Part of a Planned Test (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Without hearing "Cyka Blyat".
    /me goes to rush b

  2. I'm 6'2 , 220 pounds.

    My two cars are a 2000 MX5 (Miata) and a 1974 Leyland Mini Clubman.

  3. If you stick "airbnb trashed melbourne" into google you might notice a theme starts to develop...

  4. Re:Wow is Larry ever tired of being wrong? on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Every oracle customer I've dealt with has "getting rid of this fucking goddamn shit" as a #1 priority.

    We aren't getting rid of Oracle DB because of the product (it is solid, reliable and consistent), we are dumping it because dealing with Oracle the company is a f*cking nightmare and they treat you like shit.

  5. Re:BULLIES made me close APK Hosts File Engine on Why Some Open-Source Companies Are Considering a More Closed Approach (geekwire.com) · · Score: 0

    For fucks sake, just FUCK OFF and quit clogging up this site with your goddawful useless utterances that provide zero insight or value to the articles you attach them to. No-one gives a shit

  6. That's the whole problem. Even flight simulation which would seem to be ideally suited for VR just sucks. The interfaces are crap.

    DCS is pretty awesome in VR (though you have to go hunting for your mouse to flick all the switches not mapped to your HOTAS)
    Issue is primarily the need for a gargantuan graphics card (Where the F**k is VRSLI) and the resolution (trying to keep eyes on the single pixel you are chasing)

    And Zuck sucks. Fuck the Zuck.

    Stick a fork in Oculus, it is done. Hoping the Pimax headsets live up to the hype

  7. Yeah, must be the russians on 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Negative Buzz Amplified By Russian Trolls, Study Finds (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not the fact the movie was shit and just happened to piss all over one if the franchises most beloved characters, totally wasting any opportunity to use Luke Skywalker in any interesting capacity before unceremoniously killing him off.

  8. I don't know how many days of my life have been lost chasing the SIGBUS on SPARC while porting libraries over to solaris.

    And don't get me started on code which assumes a null pointer is an empty string

  9. Do they provide complete source code, including any required compilation scripts and data that can be used to build this exact binary image that they're distributing?

    Because that's what the GPL **requires** them to do.

    Requires

    Kernel Side
    hv_* kernel modules (hv_sock.ko) from kernel tree, or if you are using an older RH derivative kernel use Linux Integration Services

    Userspace
    XRDP / XORGXRDP
    And something to help you along - linux-vm-tools

  10. Re:Use the right options on Encrypt NFSv4 with TLS Encryption Using Stunnel (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    Administrative overhead? You aren't running Active Directory in your environment?

    True the tools used to onboard *NIX (except solaris) are pretty shit (I'm looking at you SSSD).

    For AD when generating your keytabs you need to salt the keys with the internal UPN (ie: samaccountname@ad.domain, minus the dollarsign for computer accounts) for every principal assigned to the account, but once you know that is is trivial to script the onboarding.

    Then you just need to ensure your service accounts that use NFS init and renew their keys.

    If I could find the maintainer of perl's KRB5 module (it needs some additional library wrap functions to handle salt/keytab generation) I'd push up all the code/tools you would ever need...

  11. Re:Both, of course on Ask Slashdot: Is It Linux or GNU/Linux? (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    Because, GNU libc (which all of userspace links against) and GNU *utils/awk/sed ie: 90% of all *NIX standard utilities.

  12. Re:A high ride is a good thing? on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice, that is a labour of love (and chopping, welding, swearing, bashing with a hammer ;) )

    At least you should have negative ground (I had to create custom looms and rewire a friends 67 for neg, alternator, and dispense with the prince of darkness with fuses for every circuit, and relays on the high current lines, first thing you do on any british car)

    It is always rust and electrics, the A series motor however just keeps going forever (gearbox though, not so much after you push it over 100bhp ;) )
    For minis it is easier, drop in turbo metro A+ and heads, cut space for box in firewall, add weber, win

  13. Re:A high ride is a good thing? on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem there is finding Whitworth spanners and replacement Lucas Electric smoke

    Why do the english drink warm beer? Because Lucas made their refrigerators too.

  14. Re:A high ride is a good thing? on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I love my antiquated '94 Corolla wagon, not that it's a great car or anything (although it is), but largely because it's got a low and wide profile. Makes it fun to negotiate a curve. Who wants to drive around in a high box?

    Indeed

    Though '94 isn't antiquated, my (favorite) car is a 1974 Mini Clubman GT. Weighs all of 750 kg (1650 lbs) with me in it, the modified 1275cc motor pushes out over 100bhp, and you only need 5 spanners, 3 screwdrivers, a hammer and a soldering iron + crimping tool to work on it.

    It's a road going go-kart

    My other car is an MX-5 (miata) but it is nowhere near as fun

  15. Re:Never steal from the Mafia on Three Execs Get Prison Time For Pirating Oracle Firmware & Solaris OS Update (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Same (PostgreSQL/PostGIS on T4) though after having to maintain my own libxml IPS package fixing the solaris one
    (missing global symbol for _xmlStructuredErrorHandler on threaded builds using solaris default) for _years_.

    Bug fixed in solaris-userland for over a year (I have been lobbying them to fix it for AGES), but still not in S11 SRU updates :(
    (I often wondered if they left it as a hidden symbol JUST to screw with PostgreSQL builds/installs)

    Regardless, if you are running oracle hardware, you should damn well have a hardware support contract (or you are an idiot), the OS patches and updates come with the deal.

  16. Or HP Blade Chassis administrators doing network/storage config (VirtualConnect Web Admin interface still uses flash) Or HDS storage admins (Command Suite/HiCommand is still flash)

  17. Not orange juice futures?

  18. Re:Hardware slogging. on Chrome OS Could Be Getting Containers for Running Linux VMs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Well... as someone who still runs solaris (yeah yeah, get over it) I run virtualbox (VM) instances inside Solaris Zones (Proper Containers) on x86_64 (backed by ZFS vols)

    This setup has been my daily driver work desktop for years (ie: Run mandated windows SOE desktop, perform vagrant style spin ups of whatever the hell we are fighting then push the images to environment du jour).

  19. Re:Starting up their old Sparcs OFC! on How Are Sysadmins Handling Spectre/Meltdown Patches? (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    Sparc is affected by spectre unfortunately.

  20. Re:Remember when we cared about tech? on Former Google Employee Files Lawsuit Alleging the Company Fired Him Over Pro-Diversity Posts (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    No it isn't

  21. They have had this since 2003 on Researchers Develop Online Game That Teaches Players How To Spread Misinformation · · Score: 1

    The game is called EvE Online

    If it is good enough for economic modelling, it sure is good enough for modelling "Fake News"

  22. For me it wasn't OpenBSD, it was NetBSD (evicting VMS from VAXen).

    I get heartily sick of the OS wars, you use the correct tool for the job (regardless off zealotry. I used to be a toolchain maintainer for a "From Source" pseudo linux distro)

    I use OpenBSD (my own custom built perimeter devices), *BSD (Vendor supplied storage devices, load balancing gear, network gear ie: EMC/F5/Juniper), Solaris (backend "have to stay up forever" devices, predominately databases), Linux (Frontend scale-out services, OpenStack base) and Windows/MS (AAA via AD (RFC2307-bis + Krb5), ADFS, Azure AD, Hyper-V).

    All of these (including windows) got to where they were with code derived from the *BSD's

    Is BSD dying?, go ask all the vendors using it for your black box devices
    (Was going somewhere with this, but my train of thought left the station)

  23. Re:GOOD! My data is PRIVATE on FBI Chief Calls Unbreakable Encryption 'Urgent Public Safety Issue' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    We called that "feeding the CARNIVORE"

  24. Re:It will take more than batteries on Tesla Completes World's Largest Battery Project In Half the Time Promised (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmmm

    South Australia, home to 23% of the worlds uranium deposits, on one of the most geologically stable continents on the planet.
    A better candidate for nuclear generation I could not think of.

  25. Curse of the early gmail adopter on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    Same here, I got in early during invite only and got [initials][surname]@gmail.com.

    From nail and hair appointments in Arizona, Western Union account details, flight reservations, all the way to some poor sap who probably missed out on a basketball scholarship because they couldn't get their address right (multiple times)

    I try to do the right thing and inform the sender of their error for important things, even tracked down one of the intended recipients ("Why are you emailing me from MY ACCOUNT!!1!1"), but at the end of the day you just drop the crap into the spam filter/trash