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Precisely why Red Hat are moving to CoreOS for openshift.

I have heard ham radio types complaining about the HF interference these devices generate.

Citrix Netscaler does use Freebsd, not sure which version off the top off my head.

Why would it have to define those directories in particular?

I bought a good number of games from xbox store but got out of the habit and didn't log in for a few years. Went through the pretty painful process of logging in to my account again recently on a new console, no sign of any purchases and if I tried to download them from store I was prompted to pay for them.

Really good idea, fair play to everyone working on it. I generally try to keep my phone as long as possible but the main driver to make me get new phone is the diminishing battery capacity. This isn't helped by the fact it is very hard to get a replacement battery shipped to where I live.

Worked at a university in the 90s. Staff (above a certain level) had access to dial back system, for which we would configure their modem to dial our system and then drop the call and we would call them back and provide network/internet access. This was in the uk where free local calls weren't the norm and dial up isps such as freeserve hadn't appeared yet. There was also a noticeable drop in the speed of the universities internet connection around lunchtime which was generally put down to "America logging on".

When I got my first cable modem around 2000 you could scan local network segment for open smb ports and map other users drives, usually rw. Saw some interesting stuff doing that. Was pretty cool to access the many open ftp servers too. I think the original version of the audiogalaxy music finder app was just a front end to search those.

The British.

Banks does explore these areas. Excession contains traitorous minds, minds created for single purposes (war) and humans who don't fit in the Culture ideal. I'm sure other culture books do too but Excession is the one I've reread most.

It does include netcat (nc) though, which can be used for testing ports, among other things.

This isn't exactly side-splitting, but my home isp, virgin media uk, does dns hijacking for domains they cannot resolve. If you try to access http://bugzilla.anynonworkingdomain.com for some reason it interprets that as a search for the term "porn". I have lots of tabs open to our bugzilla in work (where bugzilla.mycompany.com resolves correctly) so when I take laptop home, open it up and chrome refreshes tabs it looks like I have opened 20 tabs searching for porn.

https://imgur.com/a/fyu0D

I would probably go back on a lot of things I've said if someone offered me over a billion dollars. Also minecraft being as popular as it is you would end up with a lot (more) pissed off clueless users. cf kodi.

That was the abbreviation used in TFA.

I take it you have never been to Northern Ireland.

I had a subscription to sugarsync for a few months longer than I needed due to their "cancellation dept" only being open a few hours a day in some far off timezone. Hateful.

I stuck with snow leopard for years. Am pretty happy on mavericks now on my 2008 MacBook.

Obviously it would be better if there was no downtime, but the sending MTA should really have queued that mail and delivered it when Fastmail was back up.

Any reason you've stuck with snow leopard? I know it was pretty solid but I'm using same laptop and mavericks runs great on it with ssd and ram maxed.

Sorry but that's bunkum. There are many examples in history of cultures embracing diversity and prospering.

How does pointing out a systems use imply something wrong with it?

The cynic in me says it's not something the other person wrote/scripted either, as amusing an idea as it is.

China clamped down pretty hard on petrol engine bikes. This has not happened in the US.

A lot of people wouldn't consider it reasonable to allow people to carry guns around, least of all on a plane.

I use them with webcams and motion software for a budget cctv solution. I had some issues with reliability that I kludged around by setting them to reboot once a day. I also use them for basic network monitoring with munin and smokeping.

One example I've experienced is searching for iphone jailbreak related stuff. Perhaps that's to be expected.

It's easy enough to find Alan's email address if this is really how you feel.

I've found adobe acrobat x to be great for OCR and indexing of PDFs. Nothing else I've used comes close to what it can recognise.

If you advertise a high value item like an iphone on gumtree, almost immediately you will get several buyers offering to buy it right away using paypal. If you're unfortunate enough to accept, they receive item and then reverse payment.

What inspired your 6 year old son to memorise 300 digits of pi?

The built-in ethernet is the biggest selling point for me. My work often requires me to plug into various devices via wired ethernet and it's almost guaranteed I would forget/lose an adapter one day.

If the 2008 macbook I've used every day since I bought it new fails, and the spare I got from a rich client who felt the need to upgrade also fails, I would probably consider buying 2012 version.