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Been there, literally. Can confirm the experience, although I didn't get any sedatives at all as some of them cause my blood pressure to drop rapidly. Actually I was just uncomfortable for the 10 minutes it took but it wasn't bad at all.

The worst part of it is getting home afterwards with the laxative side effects in recent memory. Also staring right at me was the sign in the taxi: "£20 soiling charge".

If you ever put this off a health check for fear of endoscopy, don't. It's really not that bad.

I have kids. I'm already there.

WinRM dropouts when building images in packer, random failures that are unexplained, network not coming up in vagrant, consistency.

I've partially written my own version of it in powershell and Hyper-V now.

Wonder if this attempt will work properly with windows unlike packer and vagrant. Path issues, unreliable builds, ugh. This isn't the portability promise I expected.

Still use one of them myself. Korg Triton :)

No there is not.

Just remember when you contract something out to a third party, you're not subject to their SLA level but their general level of competence. This can be quite a bit lower than the SLA, even if they are high profile or expensive. If you're lucky they'll bung you a discount as compensation but don't rely on that.

I speak with experience with Google, AWS and Rackspace.

Dedicated servers. Even for cheap dedicated servers the support was crap.

6 days to change a blown disk for example...

I've never heard a good story about OVH. I've moved three clients away from them in the last 2 years after they were crapped upon by OVH. Their support is terrible and there are constant problems. They're trying but just not there yet. Moved them to Linode which is absolutely rock solid and enough for their needs.

However the WORST company I've ever dealt with for support is Amazon AWS which I was using for backup (S3). My account got locked due to a card expiry problem. I had updated my card details when I got a new one and their UI confirmed that the details were updated but nope, they weren't. Eventually consistent - not! Took over 48 hours to get a support contact.

Host Europe (circa 2005, Beeston) are just in front of them when we rolled up to extract some dead kit and found that our colo'ed kit was just piled up in the bottom of a telecoms rack, not a proper server rack. Cables everywhere 2 inches deep. Try getting the bottom HP DL380 G3 (27kg a piece) out of a pile of 8 DL380s without taking your site down or dinking some other poor sod's network cables or power trailing everywhere. Four people and piles of O'Reilly books to act as makeshift jacks. Total fucktards.

And today I learn about Terry Davis, TempleOS and showdead. Moderation and censorship is a travesty online. Fortunately showdead allows us to bypass it somewhat.

The first 15 years of my life in the 1970s and 1980s was spent going in and out of London to various hospitals on trains.

No. Absolutely not. It's much better now. Orders of magnitude better. Every train was late. There were engineering works overruns every Monday and weekend service was so bad you might as well walk.

And no not more expensive. People couldn't afford the train then and regularly took the inferior busses. If you went long distance, it was coach.

Either way you were doomed to a face full of diesel fumes from a Paxman or a Leyland and spend the entire day with your nose running black snot. Incidentally this is what killed my father; he was a bus driver.

11 ... ok

+5 ... easy

x itself ... ugh. more coffee.

divide by 7 ... TI83 slides out of desk drawer

Actually it's really fun - thanks :)

Perhaps I'm older than you but it's been the same in my mind since the 1980s at least. My father informs me earlier.

At least we have the joys of privatized services now (I'm serious). They are an order of magnitude better than the public railway, gas and electricity infrastructure we had. Controversially perhaps, I've had much better service from the NHS since they moved to a service model.

I'm not ashamed of my identity at all.

There are definite bad ways. I've watched a few companies go down the shitter using known bad ways.

Time to have another bash I think. She might take to a G4 Mac Mini over a full sized G5 as well ;-)

High profile companies seem to have a privilege complex I.e. you're lucky to be working for them.

Debian was a complete dick on my old ppc g4. It sort of put me off. The was going to try FreeBSD but I have to persuade the wife to let me buy a g5 yet as they're large, noisy and entirely unnecessary. I just want one to play with and go ooh and aah and stuff :)

I did the same with old SPARC kit a number of years ago too.

Yep. 2005 G5 powermac. Totally usable machine. Can get a dual 2.5GHz boz with 4Gb of RAM for equivalent $40 in the UK.

But no, it's stuck on OSX 10.5...

"Done is better than perfect"

"Move fast and break things"

I'm glad they're not holding any critical data like our personal information, what we do, what we think and where we are then!

If this set of slides embodies 'hacker culture' which it claims to, I am not a hacker, neither are my colleagues and I'm proud of that.

The whole thing stinks of arrogance hiding incompetence. I'm not putting anything near facebook, ever.

The problem is that models rarely replicate reality for very long. I live in a particularly troublesome bit of London and they used some mathematical analysis to optimise traffic light timings in the area and celebrated that it was as success. That was premature; it's measurably worse within two weeks after people realised that it was a better route and promptly clogged it up.

This is a major thing for us. We've got half a ton of stuff on AWS which is being moved back to physical kit at the moment. Turns out the cloud is a geopolitical risk and being in finance in Europe, our data protection regulations and compliance obligations are pretty heavy.

Incidentally it's working out much cheaper, simpler with less API lock in than AWS was as our workloads are fairly predictable and we make a lot of money off it.

stares at the large pile of dell XPS machines that are dead in the corner of the office .... Not quite there yet...

The privacy changes, the license changes, the authentication changes, the cloud lock in, the general unreliability of it, the fucked up updates, the poor GPO support, the enterprise updates and LTS picture, the ad-supported default apps, the fudged upgrade process. I could go on all day about what a gigantic turd it is, but hey shiny shiny!

On the subject of the UI, it does precisely nothing that anyone wants or asked for. People wanted a stable, reliable desktop operating system but the just marched forward with pushing "modern apps" which are all incoherent, buggy, slow, suffer major usability problems with both touch and mouse and are brow beating this into people at every available opportunity as the next best thing.

So basically everything.

There is plenty of discussion out there and no conclusive results. However there is a vague set of privacy notes in an EULA, a dodgy looking agreement between the EU and US over data export/sharing, data shooting out even if everything is turned off and most importantly....

... not a word from Microsoft on the matter.

I'd expect them to conclusively defend themselves from such allegations, but no, the marketing mill is still going on non stop.

To be honest it's like a toddler talking incessantly to avoid talking about the puddle of piss he/she is trying to hide.

And completely ignore you, you know like Apple circa 1994-1997...

The marketing of "we are sorry and we are listening to our users" which turned out to be a load of crap when Windows 10 came out turned me off to any promises made in the future.

Do they deserve a chance to explain if it's there or not?

Probably not. They're off our purchasing list.

Problem is: now what? Hardware vendors have all turned to crap in the last 5 years. Lenovo ships crapware and poor quality kit now. HP is stupid expensive and even enterprise support is crap. Dell are unreliable as hell. Literally all other vendors won't support a model more than about 6 months old i.e. no part stock, no service, just replacement with another chunk of junk that will fail in a few months (Acer, Asus I'm looking at you mostly).

Just leaves Apple but then they're just glued together folding iPads with keyboards attached now with no chance of maintenance and reliability issues as well. New battery? Get the paint scraper and heat gun out.

I'm using a Lenovo X201 myself with Mint and I suspect this is the last brand laptop I'm going to use. Back to the custom desktops at home.

I don't think Musk has proven anything yet but has given people some hope that things are certainly possible.

I genuinely don't believe we need electric cars though at all. We need less travel and transport and redistribution of facilities and skills. That's a much bigger problem. At the moment, the hub/spoke and centralised model of society has no redundancy and providing ubiquitous cheap transport isn't going to solve that, just make the problem hang on longer by forcing people to remain sitting on their butts on a freeway in a slightly better car rolling into a job they could probably do at home or doesn't need it exist anyway.

Also batteries need to be filled up, recycled, disposed of still. We'll see how that goes shall we...

SpaceX isn't fundamentally changing the model of anything, just packaging the same turd differently. That might be to build capital (customers = capital) but there isn't anything fundamentally different to what they are doing at the 10,000ft level. ESA have had a similar model for a couple of decades.

I agree with him. Billionaires are prescriptive. "I will solve this problem".

It doesn't hurt to ask what problems need solving.

Ultimately this just isn't altruism but it is promoted as whilst people are in deep shit all around him.

I'm not really sure what my point is but I suspect it is a new form of hypocrisy.

I've had inssider running, channel hopped, tried three different routers (netgear, router board, Asus) to no avail. I've tried several client devices too from high end centrino, apple and Motorola kit.

I don't stream any media, just do file copies. It sucks whatever I try.