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Good catch - I should have expanded on the acronym, especially as was referring to my hearing loss being Single Sided Hearing Loss, so already easy to confuse (Although as you poin…

I've got moderate to severe SSHL and use an Oticon intent 1 miniRite. For my use it's been very good - long last battery, relatively robust. It also has excellent bluetooth connect…

FWIW that appears to be soon deprecated according to MacOS 15.2: WARNING: The airport command line tool is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. For diagnosing Wi-Fi …

That's one of my enduring memories of VMS, and something that came as a shock when I came to different OS - the lack of clustering. We had (As far as I remember) two vast servers c…

Oh nice tip, I didn't know that - Now I'll have to see if I can run a VMS VM inside my Windows VM... Turtles all the way down.

I'm genuinely looking forward to this. I used VMS back in the 90's and loved it as an OS. Clustering, versioned file systems, reasonably well formed error messages; it seemed very …

Completely this. I'm currently working on a novel with a view to publishing, but under no illusions that it's going to make any worthwhile money. For that, I have my day job and te…

Well, I'm forty and sadly not yet able to retire and spent some considerable time working on VMS clusters. I even run one at home for fun, very civilised operating system.

I heartily recommend trying one. I ride a ZeroSR and it's just a different experience, riding sedately along country lanes allows you to appreciate things in a whole new way. It ta…

Me and you both. OpenVMS got so much right back in the day. Good error conventions, versioned file system... I still fondly run an OpenVMS workstation under my desk so I can revisi…

Why not? I was programming on a Commodore Plus/4 at the age of five. I got my teeth into this industry by hand typing from magazine articles programs that done nothing more then ma…

I quite like feedbin.com. Simple, straightforward and reasonably priced.

Interestingly, I used to work for a company that worked with the London Black cab manufacture to developer ride-hailing from a mobile phone. This was back in the early 00's. I alwa…

I don't believe so. Alarms etc are (I suspect) stored locally, but to enact a change on the device I believe it has to send it upstream via the phone app and the device then retrie…

This is a bit of a blow - I love my sense, both for the insights into my sleep pattern, but also for the alarm. It's also nicely designed and unobtrusive on my bedside table. I'm w…

HostBuddy is the perfect example of an app I didn't realise I needed until I tried it. My hat goes off to you sir.

I'd say the big difference here is running costs. I've worked with automotive clients (Ford, GM, Renault etc) for a while, and that's a big factor for them, especially in the lease…

I spend a lot of time picking up existing and 'legacy' platforms, and it consistently seems to impress my clients when I'm able to implement automation, even on so called 'un-autom…

The two technical manuals are Puppet Reporting and Monitoring, and the DevOps automation cookbook. I had fun writing the puppet book, but the second was for various reasons not as …

Writing. I love writing, I've published a couple of technical manuals and I'm currently submitting to various short story anthologies whilst working on another (Self published) man…

I've used it on occasion to check hosts on an ad hoc basis, but never got around to putting in a more automated/permanent fix.

I can't agree with this more. Apathy and clock watching has done more to damage our industry than many other things. It shocks me when developers are willing to do the bare minimum…

This to me is one of it's benefits - uncommented, unused variables shouldn't be in code, and I like that the compiler is actively preventing me from being lazy and creating cruft t…

Makes sense... I'll have a play with the generics, but my hat goes off to you - great looking tool.