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Re:Reasons to Abandon Windows for Linux
on Sunday April 07, 2019 @11:23AM (#19597334)
I'm on an engagement with a client that requires Windows to access their resources. Issues I've had so far:
- The trackpad driver doesn't support scrolling w/ Win 10 (Dell E7470). I know how to fix the issue but I don't have the correct user permissions.
- The buggy corporate printer helper has caused the laptop to shutdown due to overheating twice so far in two weeks. I'd disable it since I will never print from this thing, but...
- I've been trying to figure out how to install software I need without local admin privileges and now I have a Git installation that takes ~30 seconds to update the shell after each command. I tried everything in StackOverflow...
In all fairness, picking a laptop to use with Linux takes a little homework, but I've had no issues with Thinkpads or my current XPS 13 running Fedora.
Re:The Time Has Come to Finally Delete Facebook
on Saturday December 15, 2018 @03:00PM (#18690071)
Facebook will delete itself.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
Facebook interest has been steadily trending down for years.
Re:Ask HN: Dontrecruit.me – A website to collect stories about bad rec...
on Friday November 16, 2018 @12:24PM (#18470136)
Recruiters are not your buddy. Just like the salesperson at the car dealership is not your buddy.
Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta
on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:33PM (#18463592)
I don't think that Red Hat announces release dates for RHEL. At least I don't remember one in the last 10 years.
Re:Google Kubernetes Engine's third consecutive day of service disruption
on Monday November 12, 2018 @12:35AM (#18430794)
Remember that time S3 went down and the only updates were on Twitter because the status page was hosted on S3?
Re:RHEL is deprecating KDE
on Friday November 02, 2018 @03:55PM (#18366193)
Sendmail is deprecated. That was the first Unix service I ever learned to configure. This is kind of the same feeling I got when I heard music I grew up listening to on the classic rock station.
Re:Build a 100% Serverless Website with AWS in 7 Easy Steps
on Thursday October 25, 2018 @01:45PM (#18302827)
You could run pgbouncer in a fargate container in ECS. Still serverless technically?
Re:Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants
on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:15PM (#18289165)
This is politics in general. The power structure incentivises liars and crooks. It shouldn't be a surprise.
Perl was considered as the defacto scripting language in Windows until they settled on PowerShell.
Re:How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Usi...
on Monday September 10, 2018 @01:20PM (#17953381)
Iirc there are some free servers you can use provided by Google and/or twilio.
Edit: STUN is free, Turn is not. Been a while since I worked with those.
Re:Running FFmpeg on AWS Lambda for 1.9% the Cost of AWS Elastic Trans...
on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:21PM (#16980811)
Well there's iron.io (which just got bought by Oracle) and there are several FaaS projects for Kubernetes such as: OpenFaaS and Kubeless.
Edit: OpenFaaS can run on Nomad as well apparently: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/functions-as-a-service-with-n...
Re:Systems built on trust, norms, and institutions function better tha...
on Friday April 06, 2018 @12:33PM (#16774557)
Blockchain is perfect for its original use case, a distributed trustless database. The tradeoffs don't make any sense for a trusted system, i.e. replacing SWIFT or storing titles to property.
Re:Bezos Says He’ll Spend ‘Amazon Lottery Winnings’ on Space Travel
on Monday March 12, 2018 @06:25PM (#16572247)
Bezos is an investor in General Fusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion
Re:Ethereum fixes serious “eclipse” flaw
on Saturday March 03, 2018 @12:11PM (#16510236)
Maybe you could count number of Ph.D contributors? I bet Bitcoin has as many or more than every other project combined.
Re:Guide to Writing Dockerfiles for Go Web-Apps
on Monday February 05, 2018 @04:12PM (#16312243)
The major problem with very large containers is that it can cause failed jobs in container schedulers due to the holdoff timer expiring before the container is even downloaded. I've only seen this with Marathon so far but I've not yet tried to launch a 2GB container in k8s.
Re:Bitcoin has a huge scaling problem–Lightning could be the solution
on Sunday February 04, 2018 @10:53AM (#16303201)
Bitcoin transactions are confirming for less than 5 Sat/b since the spamming stopped.
Re:New fake SegWit2X: premining millions
on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @03:35PM (#16017811)
What you describe is not unlike the coin debasement that occurred during the latter period of the Roman Empire. However, unlike coin debasement, forking a cryptocurrency imposes no requirement to actually use it.
Re:First possible interstellar object detected in our solar system
on Thursday October 26, 2017 @08:18PM (#15564481)
It's broadcasting something that sounds like ... humpback whales?
Re:Chrony: Comparison of NTP implementations
on Sunday September 24, 2017 @02:54PM (#15325940)
There should be competition but no one is willing to step up to the plate. That's the real issue.
Re:The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris
on Monday September 04, 2017 @07:39PM (#15171519)
I'm curious where this leaves things like the ZFS appliances? They aren't going to use openzfs on oel are they?
Re:X-Seed 4000
on Friday August 25, 2017 @09:02PM (#15103492)
https://www.seasteading.org/
That's the goal of the Seasteading institute.
Re:HelenOS: portable microkernel-based multiserver operating system
on Friday August 18, 2017 @11:07AM (#15046843)
Serious question, are Beowulf clusters still a thing?
Re:Concrete-free washing machines are lighter to transport, just as go...
on Thursday August 17, 2017 @12:05PM (#15037991)
Not buying, replacing, installing, or disposing of three washers: Priceless.
Re:Blockstream Satellite: broadcast Bitcoin transactions and blocks fr...
on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @12:48PM (#15019863)
It looks like digital TV dishes meant for marine purposes would work.
Re:Blockstream Satellite: broadcast Bitcoin transactions and blocks fr...
on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @10:33AM (#15018504)
Does anyone know if there is an auto following dish that would be somewhat portable? I'm thinking of a solar powered Bitcoin station that would be mobile.
Re:Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery
on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:07PM (#14961384)
Very much appreciate what you give away for free!
Re:Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery
on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:20PM (#14960058)
Holy crap, Brendan Gregg's site went down. Proof he is human I guess?
Re:Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon review
on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:15AM (#14947581)
Cache size and clock speed. In Ultrabooks i[3,5,7] are all 2 core 4 thread differentiated by cache and clock.
You can get 4 core CPUs in larger laptops where the i5 is 4 core, 4 thread and i7 4/8. Similar to desktops.
Re:Bitcoin: Evidence of spoofing, wash trading, and a scheme known as ...
on Saturday August 05, 2017 @12:24PM (#14936456)
At what point would people start using Bitcoin as currency? When it hits 5k, 10k, 100k, 1m?
Re:Startups should run on cloud providers
on Friday August 04, 2017 @11:37AM (#14929478)
1. Start with Heroku or similar
2. Get customers
3. Profit???
4. Hire people to help migrate to Kubernetes or similar
Stick with what you are good at and pay for everything else.