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25 years and -5 days?

No matter where you run the job from, you run it in the required timezone, not UTC, and you still have the issue with what to do with the change in the local timezone.

This isn't a problem that can be solved with a single technical solution.

And not the locals - as the local community can't sustain that amount of building. People come in temporarily while the work goes, then leave. This adds more pressure on the local community for again very little gain.

It certainly is, but that's a business question, not a technical question

If the business requires it to run at 01:30 and there are two per day, or zero per day, then the business rules needs to define what happens. You can't solve this by running it at UTC.

And very few people work there relative to the impact. Sure nobody liked living near factories in ye olden days, but they did like the employment opportunities.

You can see how few work there when you compare the size of the data centre and the size of the car park.

So I have to manually update the job

How about I use some form of library to do it. I tell it I want to run at 0800 London time, and it runs at 0800 London time

If I tell it I want to run at 0130 London time (or 0330 Athens time) I still have a problem -- do I run it twice when the clocks go back, do I skip it when clocks go forward?

But that's a business logic problem, and defining it as UTC and having another job to update the time twice a year doesn't actually solve the question of "what do I do at this point".

If I want a report of what happened at a specific time I need that report at local time

I get a daily status report of various things from our 24 hour operational management team which runs at 8am UK time every day. That means last week it ran at 0700UTC and this week at 0800UTC

This is built around operational events, shift changes, etc.

I've got another system which is in operation in Sydney from 0630 to 1630 local time, this means that maintence windows which overlap with UK shift patterns depend on the week but mean the system is operating 2130-0730 UK time at some times, 2030-0630 UK at others, and 1930-0530 at others.

UTC is not "the answer". Sometimes you want things running at a UTC time, sometimes you want them running at local time.

I have a regular meeting at 10am London time on Tuesday and Thursday. That can't be stored in UTC as it varies depending on the time of the year. It has to have the timezone stored and actioned.

I'm not convinced something that's been tried multiple times on and off in the UK (last time ID cards were being brought in - by Labour and the 2006 act - it was cancelled by the coalition), and happens in many countries, is a "conspiracy theory"

Who exactly is conspiring and what exactly are they conspiring for?

I wonder what proportion of decisions makers in youtube speak more than one language on a regular basis. I suspect it's near-zero.

There isn't one centralised internet, its thousands of autonomous systems which connect to each other using a common language.

Now sure, some companies try hard to centralise it and own it, this leads to a more fragile ecosystem.

In 1999 I paid (inflation adjusted) $20 per episode in DS9

If you are only wiling to pay 10 cents then that's a major problem - viewing figures just aren't that high any more. A modern scifi show would need 100 million viewers to cover the production budget at 10 cents a person

The post popular scripted show on US TV - George and Mindy - gets about 5-6 million viewers when it's on for free. At 10c/episode or $2 for the year that would be $10m for the entire season. TV costs a lot more than that to produce.

In the 90s we clamoured for being able to subscribe to what we want rather than a single

We broadly have that now.

I subscribe to Youtube, Spotify, Netflix, Disney, Apple, Paramount, BBC. Only Apple and BBC force adverts on me, and Apple I'll be cancelling because of it. I keep BBC more out of moral reasons as I think it's a net good for the UK.

The monthly cost is very reasonable to me, inflation wise its about the same as I paid for BBC and Sky in the 90s.

Last night we wanted to watch the 2012 Les Mis film, £3.50 to rent it from Apple. In the 90s, inflation adjusted, it cost £8 to rent the tape.

If I can subscribe to watch something without adverts, I will. If I can buy or rent it, I will.

If I can't do that though, then I'll get it elsewhere.

> b. The Mossad is the equivalent of the CIA, they are not meant to act inside Israel

For that purpose is Gaza inside or not inside Israel?

I would hope that data centre has multiple power supplies from multiple locations - as well as UPS and on site generators, certainly mine do.

However given AWS is so complex (which is required because they want to be a gatekeeping platform) leading the uptime to struggle to match a decent home setup, I'm not sure. I'm sure there's no 6 figure bonus for checking the generators are working, but a rounded corner on a button on an admin page?

Depends how strong the protections of your civil society is, but it doesn't cost $1m to send a goon with a crowbar or shotgun. Sure that doesn't scale, but if you are a target you're screwed

> you could enlist a well-known technology company to [run a PKI],

If you have a single company, then that's easy enough for a group like Mossad to infiltrate. Probably easier than a distributed system.

Sounds very similar to HS2 in the UK

You'd have to be shockingly flexible

Probably is if you don't have a life vest.

I only moved to using screen about 2 years ago after over 2 decades of minicom

archive.org resolves to 207.241.224.2 using cf, google and quad9

This is just tcp to 207.241.224.2 port 80 (delivered via curl) or from a router.

SYN goes out, nothing comes back.

I can't reach it from AS16509 (AWS eu-west-2), AS17547 (MOne in Singapore), AS18106 (Viewquest Singapore), AS20712 (UK), or AS4755 (Tata in India)

I can reach it from AS23674 (Nayatel Pakistan), AS174 (Cogent in US), AS3356 (Level3 in US), AS46887 (Crown Castle in US) and AS7545 (TPG Sydney)

I can also reach it via mozillavpn on AS39351 (London) and presumably other sites

Multiple machines, multiple ISPs, multiple ways to the internet. Very odd.

Thanks for confirming it's not fully broken though

archive.org's been down for ages. I put it down to blocking the UK thanks to stupid UK laws, but I can't reach it from servers elsewhere either.

Is it still going or did it piss off the wrong person in America?

For the 120th (10 year) issue, I think in 1996, they had a "what will computers look like in 10 years time" article.

I'd love to see that.

American Billionaires interfering in Myanmar is hardly unprecedented given the facebook genocide

They're the new East India company.

Might makes right?

That kind of arrogance is what leads to 9/11, the most successful destruction of a western country since ww2.

So not 100% of ram, less than 95%

> A long running Linux system uses 100% of its RAM.

How about this server:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          8106       7646        459          0        149       6815
  -/+ buffers/cache:        681       7424
  Swap:         6228         25       6202

Uptime of 2,105 days - nearly 6 years.

How long does the server have to run to reach 100% of ram?

So that 2M of used swap is completely irrelevant. Same on my laptop

               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
    Mem:           31989       11350        4474        2459       16164       19708
    Swap:           6047          20        6027

My syslog server on the other hand (which does a ton of stuff on disk) does use swap

    Mem:            1919         333          75           0        1511        1403
    Swap:           2047         803        1244

With uptime of 235 days.

If I were to increase this to 8G of ram instead of 2G, but for arguments sake had to have no swap as the tradeoff, would that be better or worse. Swap fans say worse.

If I've got 128G of ram and need 100M more to get it, something is wrong.

What if I've got 64G of ram and 64G of swap and need the same amount of memory?