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On the iPad they have the ability to create virtual SIM's and you can select from a list of providers, including one-time payments to activate an account for X amount of data.

Apple could move to something like Google's Fi easily with the virtual sim capabilities...

iSCSI off-load that is available on a variety of network cards, along with network policies that are similar to FCoE (never drop a packet) allow you to get the same speed/reliability as FCoE for a lot less.

FCoE requires that the networking gear drops only one packet in 10 million or something like it, if you can make the same guarantees for iSCSI, it is for all intents and purposes the same thing. With iSCSI off-load it is even better.

iSCSI also runs across your existing network stack, and doesn't require purchasing special equipment and is better supporter across a variety of different vendors, thereby making it easier to find the gear with the features you need, rather than settling for something that supports FCoE.

Hyperconverged Infrastructure is definitely eating a lot of the traditional storage vendors lunches. Using Ubuntu with JuJu/Ceph/OpenStack all on the same servers provides plenty of power while reducing costs.

Even VMWare has come on board with vSAN which pushes out vendors like EMC/NetApp because you no longer need them when you can just create it against your existing hypervisors. Sure you can run one or two less VM's on it, but you have less cost overall.

Completely agreed, but it is something that Cisco was still pushing fairly heavily alongside their partners. Various different vendors bought into it, and it was deployed heavily in various different MSP's.

The complexity of FCoE is staggering, and the configuration required across all the different moving pieces to make it a success made things even more difficult!

I agree, not only that, but at least with Cisco gear FCoE was a real pain in the behind to manage and configure. So much duplication in configuration and settings across a lot of gear, and it never was as smooth as they made it out to be.

More importantly Red Hat has deprecated FCoE in RHEL, which is big news, because at a previous $JOB they went all in on FCoE because it was supposed to be the future.

This does not reload the certificates if the new cert is in the same place as the old.

Company I worked at removed all coffee from the break rooms, because it would save them money.

Sure did, except that people now had to go down the cafeteria, if it wasn't closed, or go to the local starbucks down the road (which quadrupled it's daily order volume almost overnight).

Going to Starbucks was a 20 minute walk, plus the 5 minutes standing in line... some of us started bringing insulated containers with coffee to work to save some money, but if the black liquid ran out and it was close to normal quitting time, we now went home instead of grabbing one more cup and finishing the problem we were working on.

Not sure which bean counter decided that was a good idea :P

AppDynamics perhaps?

CSRF doesn't save you here... I can send up a CSRF token using curl just as easily...

NOP'ing out the invocation has always been an issue. There are a variety of frameworks for the Mac that make license keys using public/private key pairs, and a simple change to the ASM to return early and report success is easy enough to do.

There is:

https://github.com/glebd/cocoafob

For example, there is one other one that I can't remember the name for off the top of my head.

> IIRC it only really needs SSH access and a Python installation present on the target machine

Which for my FreeBSD machines I have to run some bootstrap code that installs Python on it before I can run ansible against it.

Would be nice if salt-ssh or ansible allowed me to have some bootstrap code that ran if Python didn't exist on the target machine.

Somewhere I have two network cards with the same MAC address burned into them.

That was a lot of fun to figure out when I was younger and things started going haywire!

It supports Airplay 2, so you can stream music from other devices that you own to it... so even if there is no native support for Spotify, you can still use as an Airplay 2 speaker.

My Apple Watch battery drains in hours when I forget to place it in Airplane mode when I am at a convention. Soooo many Bluetooth devices in one place makes it very unhappy.

Slack does the same thing... files are uploaded to S3 as well. Slack isn't a panacea when it comes to security.

Object Storage and layered on top of that RBD are much easier to get right.

CephFS simply didn't gain as much traction because it made sense to just store objects in many cases, and let something else worry about what is stored and where. A massive distributed file system is not nearly as necessary as people make it out to be for a lot of different workloads.

RBD works so well because it can replace iSCSI/FC storage and provide failover and redundancy, and as you scale servers it gets faster. We had 20 Gbit/sec bandwidth for our storage network (to each hypervisor), with 20 Gbit/sec for the front-end Ceph access network, and Ceph RBD easily saturated it on the hypervisor side. Spinning up VM's in OpenStack was a pleasure and soooooo quick (RBD backed images too).

We looked at increasing the hypervisor to 40 Gbit/sec, but decided against it for cost reasons, and in reality we had very little workloads that actually needed that much storage IO.

Yes, that is not what Plastc was. Plastc was like copying the data from the front of your card and displaying it on a different one (mag-strip included).

Part of the problem instead of the solution. Yup :-P

Most countries don't tax you though when you are NOT a resident.

Dutch citizen working and living in the US does not file taxes in The Netherlands. US citizen living and working in The Netherlands does file taxes in the US.

Renouncing US citizenship is not something you do by filing in a form and sending it along with your passport to the US embassy. It can take years, plus many lawyers, and in the mean time you have to continue paying taxes, and pay for the process thereof.

It's not that simple.

The US is also one, if not the only country, where citizens working/living abroad are still expected to file US taxes (even if there is a credit).

As a green card holder, I too am expected for the lifetime of the green card to pay US taxes, even if I were to move back to my home country and never set foot in the US. This is unheard of anywhere else.

The -t creates a terminal on the remote host, so in essence it is the same as SSH'ing to machineB and then running the ssh command.

Even cooler is the use of SSH tunneling to set up a ProxyCommand.

The American populace won't ever take the jobs at the pay required for building the products in America to be viable for businesses.

The products would be more expensive, which less consumers would be able to afford, meaning even less demand.

American companies are also likely to start heavily looking at using robots or other devices to help with building and the tooling required because that is the only way to drive costs down, but that requires an up front investment that is difficult to justify to the shareholder when it's easier to ship it overseas.

The US consumer is the one that will be paying for the tariffs if they ever come.

Which country would US consumers even purchase from instead? Mexico? Who even manufacturers stuff cheap enough for most US consumers?

I have a device that I unregistered from the beta's and it never picked up a newer version, I had to manually restore it.

When you remove the device from the beta program, you have to re-install from scratch by restoring from a non-beta version.

If you had stayed on the beta program, you would now be upgraded to 10.3 automatically.

https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/restore#ios

At the bottom, in tiny font, there is a "change account" link that gives you the ability to switch that call to a different Google account.

It's tiny, you might have missed it...

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Keep you busy at CBP, keep the bag from the belt when you first land... plenty of opportunities to physically attack the device when the person can't keep it on them and keep an eye on it.