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> it really depends on the scenario yeah and that scenario was clear: > Turns out some of the software running on it had some weird licensing checks tied to the hardware so it refused to start on the new server.
"hardware" does not mean "bare metal". It could be a MAC, a serial number or similar things that may be linked to a generic or clonable value in virtualization.
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> The peace deal will very likely force Ukraine and consequently its allies to recognize acquisitions at least de facto What peace deal?
There will be one at some point. There is no plausible scenario in which it will be favorable for Ukraine: the West missed the moment to build up military production to match and surpass Russian capacity, so there is zero chance that there will be any military wins. And sanctions don’t work, that should have been pretty clear by now to anyone who sees the numbers. It is all about damage control and how many Ukrainian…
If this is true, we're doomed. Everyone will want to have nuclear weapons in order not to end up like Ukraine. After that point it's just a matter of time until something goes wrong.
Russia must not win to avoid a nuclear war.
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It's good for children in the US to learn early that they can't trust the police.
In which country can the children trust the police?
But God forbid if you're ever caught for any crime whatsoever. Or if you're detained for domestic violence. Especially if not in Dubai (which is miles more lenient than other emirates).
I run a small home lab, about 30 services One day I decided to change my main disk and used the opportunity to rebuild everything from scratch and from backups. I was up in about an hour. And then I spent a week fixing this and that, ah yes I changed that too and, crap, I cannot remember why this thingie is set up this way. And some more. This is a one-man lab, with simple services, all on docker. I also work in IT.…
Modern IT practices don’t really contemplate disaster recovery. Even organisations with strict backup procedures seldom test recovery (most never at all). Everything is quickly strapped together due to teams being understaffed. Preparing infrastructure in a way such that it can easily be recreated is easily twice the effort as “just” setting it up the usual way.
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"hardware" does not mean "bare metal". It could be a MAC, a serial number or similar things that may be linked to a generic or clonable value in virtualization.
but docker isn't virtualization, you understand this, right ?
I am not sure I see your point, though.
What's interesting is that this whole challenge is making Russia stronger. Russia has increased its military industry and its now running full steam. Every attack is giving them an opportunity to harden. All of that is meaningless if it makes Russia stronger and more resilient to embargos and cyber/physical attacks in the long run. For all of this to have meaning it has to have a fall of USSR kind of impact at some p…
Of course but also Ukraine doesn't have the privilege to care about the long term right now. You can't lose the battle today to win the war that you may never live to fight.
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I was very supportive of the infrastructure IT team when they moved their datacenter. I also had popcorn when watching the switch being figuratively flipped on. It went surprisingly well despite having stayed 15 years in the old DC without rebooting. They were super scared of exactly the case you described but except for some minor issues (and a lot of cussing) it was OK.
The data center where I work self-tests this stuff unintentionally a couple of times a year. The typical case: UPS maintenance, room is put on bypass, load drops when switching back.
This is why I reboot my server from time to time after having applied patches or made more significant changes, despite the fact that "it should not change anything". This is a good moment to realize that it did change something and you have the opportunity to fix the issue while it I sfresh in your mind, and possibly with more time.
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When HP converted to SAP, I think their production basically stopped, for six months, and they lost $400 million. Switching to a new system; even when it is for the better, is a painful, expensive process. The company that I worked for, did a successful transition to SAP, but it took about two years, and a lot of butthurt.
They say its easier to change your company to fit SAP than to mold SAP to fit your company.
From what I've been told, this is actually supposed to be a selling point of SAP: They have built tools to fit the processes of the industry leaders, so by buying into SAP, you're buying into the winning way of doing business.
I am not endorsing this opinion or making a claim regarding its veracity, just stating that that is what I have heard.
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This seems a bit of a stretch of a claim to make. In what ways would you say that Russia is a decade behind? I visited Russia a few years ago. Commercially, they have all the same technology we have (for me, in the UK). Like us, they outsource most of their manufacturing to China, but internally they produce software equivalent to (or to be honest greater than) what we produce. The difference seems to be that a lot o…
> I was actually quite surprised to see in some areas they are ahead in digitising things (government services, payments). I expected the opposite. Why were you surprised by this? Russia is a totalitarian dictatorship, it is quite expected that systems of total control will be actively implemented there. And what is better for total control than digitalized things? > Russia seems to have better primary, secondary and…
Ah yes, the reason the US is years behind most other country's payments systems is because they have too much freedom.
I run a small home lab, about 30 services One day I decided to change my main disk and used the opportunity to rebuild everything from scratch and from backups. I was up in about an hour. And then I spent a week fixing this and that, ah yes I changed that too and, crap, I cannot remember why this thingie is set up this way. And some more. This is a one-man lab, with simple services, all on docker. I also work in IT.…