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Re:Ask HN: What backpack are you using? on Friday March 29, 2019 @12:28PM (#19523083)
Osprey Tropos 32

https://www.ospreyeurope.com/shop/gb_en/tropos-32-2017

Big enough for travel but compresses down pretty flat if all you're carrying is a laptop and a few bits.

Kickstand feature is actually quite useful to stop it falling over.

RINA is a possibly solution to a number of problems.

http://csr.bu.edu/rina/about.html http://irati.eu/nextworks/

The theory has been around for ages but it's starting to gain traction with a prototype stack released recently.

http://irati.github.io/stack/

Re:This seem legit... on Thursday October 31, 2013 @09:41AM (#6646710)
Update: and it's gone
Re:This seem legit... on Thursday October 31, 2013 @09:34AM (#6646656)
So I tweeted them earlier and just got this response:

"Hello, the tool will be removed from all our websites within the next 30 minutes. Thanks."

https://twitter.com/MrTrustico/status/395905251313586176

Re:Containers, Not Virtual Machines, Are the Future Cloud on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @02:44PM (#5901163)
Containers are zones are great if you're building your own platform that you control.

However I'm not sure building a multi-tenancy hosting environment based on containers or zones is the best idea.

Suppose the tun driver has a bug in it which can cause a kernel panic under some circumstances and that someone running OpenVPN in a container or zone hits this condition. You can now wave bye bye to all the zones running on that host.

https://github.com/joyent/illumos-extra/commit/9412039a18f2f...

Re:Show HN: Invoice-o-matic – a free online invoice tool on Thursday June 13, 2013 @09:00AM (#5873769)
Thanks for the heads up. We've got the spanners out and are tweaking her now.

Edit: We've had a look and there is already support for CNY. Are invoices normally specified in RMB ?

Re:Show HN: Invoice-o-matic – a free online invoice tool on Thursday June 13, 2013 @08:09AM (#5873585)
This feature is planned, hopefully will be available soon.
Re:Moving data centres in 9 minutes on Thursday February 07, 2013 @01:40PM (#5183752)
That is one way of doing it and I've done similar migrations using a similar method in the past. A lot depends on your existing infrastructure and how your application works.

Hopefully we will reveal more about the "special magic sauce" in future blog posts.

Re:UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit on Wednesday January 25, 2012 @04:23AM (#3509036)
Firstly I don't work for O2 but I work in the mobile industry. O2 should only be passing your number to trusted sites (and to get on that list is pretty hard).

We have reported it to them via various internal contacts we have. Hopefully they will fix this soon!

Re:Zed Shaw has a temper on Sunday January 15, 2012 @02:50PM (#3468043)
Re:Messing with recruiters on Friday December 02, 2011 @04:43AM (#3303370)
Never underestimate the stupidity of some recruitment companies.

Get a phone call one day, the usual "we have a great opportunity for you"....

Sounds great: it's in the same city I work already, same industry, same sort of work, same...... hang on a minute.

After stringing them along for a while, I finally ask them to compare my name, phone number and location to that of the person who submitted the job spec only an hour earlier.

I only wish I'd seen their face when they realised they were trying to offer me the job I had advertised with them. Especially considering they had grossly inflated the salary expectation.