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Well the bash vulnerability and then immediate disclose of another vulnerability makes that statement pretty moot. We also have deeply layered non-hetereogenous kit so you have to …

To be fair, it's pretty expensive breaking them into chunks and packaging them individually and they're turned pin ones by the looks. This isn't massive production run bags of them…

Sounds like you need to see the optician. I had the same trouble and they sorted it :)

Anecdote. I had a 2011 MBP with backlit keyboard. Never used it once. In fact, the machine ended up with windows on it because MacOS made me want to smash the thing (despite being …

This is one of the reasons why we fished out for 3x full racks at different DCs and bought our own kit. It's always our schedule.

Or just buy an older ThinkPad X201 / X220 / T410 with 1440x900 display and get a new 9-cell battery. The things are really cheap, have a proper keyboard, are bomb proof, every part…

Great point. One that pains me terribly. Whilst not quite PDP11/VAX territory (I do love VAXstations though!), the killer for me was I bought a low end Sun Ultra 30 in 1999 just be…

That's usually part of the ETL pipeline. If you look at SSIS and spring integration for example it has the ability to do this in the pipeline.

Spot on. This is not hard work. I'm not sure exactly what was being done that made this take more than an hour. On our kit, which is pretty hefty, I'd schedule a 30 minute window f…

Very true. My simplified one on the parent comment of that one makes no attempt to involve Unicode or character ranges for precisely that reason!

Very good points there. I worked for an aerospace and defence company for a bit as an electrical engineer. Our software was always read into RAM, checksummed, the RAM was write pro…

This. I've had several smartphone devices over the years and not one has been bent in my pocket, even when I sit on it. I don't expect it to happen, even on a premium device.

Yes; I get told that every time I mention it :-)

I use a slightly more complex variation of that: ^.+@.+\..+$ Works wonders. I think when testing the addresses on a sign up form, we got only 0.5% that we couldn't relay too which …

Not the only one. Someone set up NHibernate on a project I was working on to run logging in DEBUG mode and throw it in a log file capped at 100k. Pages were taking 4-5 seconds to r…

Decent quality hard disks and DLTs will probably be fine. I've had DLTs survive 100oC for over an hour inside a fire safe in a fire and some old Seagate Cheetah 10K U160 SCSI disks…

Try powering off for 5 years and keeping at 75oC and see if the data is still there.

I still use a Quantum VS160 DLT to back up my SSD... The thing plugs straight into my laptop via no brand cheapo SCSI/USB bridge much to the laughing from my colleagues (apart from…

That is just shit and there is no excuse for it. I'm sure Apple marketing will spin it like they did with the "you're holding it wrong" scandal.

Yes and RedHat is IBM circa 1997 and Canonical is HP circa 1997. The Sun of 1997 is Oracle (again). Creeping up on their arses is Microsoft (again) with Azure and incredibly cheap …

I'll give you that to a degree. It does suck on FreeBSD with my X201. Nothing works but I'm being cheeky now and running it in VirtualBox on top of windows (which I need for other …

Yes. Indent per issue. One .otl file with all issues in it. No format enforced although I'm pretty consistent at writing issues. Once complete the issue is simply deleted. I've don…

For me Linux is pretty dead already because I can't entirely trust the direct it's going in having survived the Unix wars of the 1990s. There are so many parallels to that at the m…

Excellent points. Monocultures are terribly harmful, especially in the open-source side of things. While github is convenient, it's not the right answer for a lot of things and ter…