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will_hughes

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    Comment #20333926

    Location: Sydney, Australia Remote: Yes, preferably (I have a quiet home office and 100Mbit+ FTTH internet) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C#/.NET, Powershell, Windows, Linu…

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    Comment #20084901

    Location: Sydney, Australia Remote: Yes, preferably (I have a quiet home office and 100Mbit+ FTTH internet) Willing to relocate: Maybe, within AU/NZ - lets talk. Technologies: C#/.…

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    Comment #19896487

    Location: Sydney, Australia Remote: Yes, preferably - at least part of the time (I have a quiet home office and 100Mbit+ FTTH internet) Willing to relocate: Maybe, within AU/NZ - l…

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    Comment #16491408

    > Well clearly I didn't try hard enough Well, I had the advantage in that I already knew I wasn't touching it on Docker with a ten foot pole, and we use Ansible, so that made my go…

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    Comment #16490563

    >Yeah so has anyone actually tried to get ElasticSearch up and running lately? Actually, yes. I just finished doing our migration from ELK 1.7 to 6.1.3. We're using installs direct…

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    Comment #16381643

    The one thing I miss about working for a major national telco was access to the internal newsgroups where you'd get deep discussions triggered by someone's random question on thing…

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    Comment #16337999

    Probably because they support older SSL/TLS versions and/or cryptographic ciphers.

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    Comment #16253900

    The first quoted instance is still apparently an ongoing case[1] as of this month, so it's not exactly settled. [1] http://www.bcdemocrat.com/2018/01/04/former-abbey-inn-owner-...

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    Comment #16200072

    > will just report you to the cops if they see sleight-of-hand Why? Just add it to the order.

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    Comment #16132252

    Wrong thread? Also, it may be true where you are, but it's not universally true. I know the cycle and timing of the lights near my home, and I keep getting frustrated by people who…

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    Comment #16132233

    > I think they should only retaliate on US officials (elected and who work for DHS). Ask them to reveal passwords to national secrets when they enter the country, then detain them …

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    Comment #16132192

    > what's the problem with the HTTP-01 challenge? Nothing, yet. But who's to say that another similar bug won't be found in common shared-hosting platforms that forces LE to turn th…

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    Comment #16132164

    This is already covered in the book. The water ice on Ceres had already been used up in the colonisation efforts of Earth and then later: Mars.

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    Comment #16130931

    > Nothing says I control the domain like the ability to add and remove data from the authoritative DNS servers for the domain label (and children thereof) in question. Unfortunatel…

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    Comment #16095224

    You're going to find it a hard road to convince anyone that ISPs shouldn't be able to perform standard network management activities on their network. It's also extremely unhelpful…

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    Comment #16094642

    > With Australia, submarine transport costs to Singapore (nearest 'major' Internet hub) There's very little direct bandwidth to Singapore - there's only one cable going west (SEA-M…

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    Comment #16094138

    > Under the net neutrality definition linked above, blocking specific ports is a clear violation. I don't see how you can read that from the linked wikipedia page. I assume you're …

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    Comment #16094060

    Are you talking about the Binge-On service[1]? That's an optional service on both the customer and provider side. Either way, there's no additional charges on the customer or provi…

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    Comment #16093896

    The argument for prohibiting zero-rating under NN generally goes like this: If provider X provides a very limited (or no) quota for regular internet traffic, and provides access to…

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    Comment #16093801

    Net Neutrality doesn't prevent network operators from stopping malicious activity on their network. Blocking Port 25 to specific providers unless they pay up would be a problem, bu…

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    Comment #16093357

    > does not prevent Comcast, At&t, Verizon et al. from blocking port 25 as they have been for the past decade Are you really that suprised they block it? It's an exceedingly effecti…

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    Comment #16044940

    >Another HN user who actually works for Telstra saw my post above and reached out to me via email to try and reach a resolution Good to hear. Checking your profile seems you're rur…

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    Comment #16044913

    Telstra is the current product of a hundred years of monopolistic government owned telco. They were forced into competition through providing wholesale access to the copper network…

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    Comment #16044602

    They're trained to keep the peace. 'Measured', I don't know about. I can imagine they're personally motivated to try and resolve things without resorting to arresting someone as th…

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    Comment #16044572

    > First thing in 2008 Hello time traveller. While you're at it, buy/mine Bitcoin. It seems crazy, don't worry - it doesn't get any less so. Sell it Mid December 2017. Also, if you'…