mrmondo

As I said above: Oh gosh, that sounds absolutely horrible and clearly unfair, I'm truly sorry to hear that (if you live in the states).

Oh gosh, that sounds absolutely horrible and clearly unfair, I'm truly sorry to hear that (if you live in the states).

You can't just fire someone on the spot, perhaps in Russia or China I'm guessing, but you have employee and human rights laws protecting you from things like that. You'd have to do some sort of criminal / sexual offence for that to occur and be legal.

Yeah that was absolutely where I was going with it, I just had a number of people say that it was quite an over-reaction which is why I asked if anyone else had heard of such a response before.

Oh and HR stated that 'the communication was in appropriate and goes against the company code of conduct...', which is very hypocritical as they let a sexist, agist, psychopathic bully loose and cause havoc throughout the company for almost 4 years as many people complained and left because of his bullying and harassment / power games. They have however since replaced this person with someone excellent who is 'healing' the org and turning things around I believe.

I know exactly what you mean and I've seen it happen at other places but I can assure you this is not the case here, I won't go into detail but you'll just have to take my word for it, but thank you for the warning just incase.

No it was someone working on one of the project parts but they didn't complain to HR they mentioned it to their manager who then brought it up but didn't lodge a complaint for a warning.

That same manager then apologised and said that he didn't intend / want it to be something formal like that at all but it seemed too late.

Not just their performance and uptime but how good is their support right? (if you've even had to use it)

Alongside others, I've been using a combination of Vultr and Ramnode and I've found both fantastic, especially Vultr.

On the non technical side - A LOT of multiple people's time inside our small NFP org inspecting logs, rolling passwords, keys etc, expiring sessions and communicating with clients.

Do I?

Sorry I should have qualified it but didn't want to be rude in the car stuck to my phone. By doing great I mean people seem to be taking more Ubers than ever before, riders as far as I have spoken to all rave about the service (Melbourne Taxi companies are nutritiously untrustworthy and poor drivers by comparison), drivers seem to have an average of between 5 and 16 months of driving with the company (I ask every ride) and out of the 300-400 odd Uber's I've probably taken I've never had a single bad experience so I have nothing to complain about. I do wish they'd put the price up about 10% though to pay the drivers a bit more, that'd seem fair.

Still doing great here in Melbourne, Australia, I'm in one right now actually!

BlueCoat are an incredibly evil company that are breaking the internet.

Love the idea and it looks slick but if it's not open source and I can't host it myself then that's a show stopper for me and my clients.

Totally agree with all your points especially around the software being open source.

I got round to trying it out at home last night and at work today, it wouldn't add my music and just sat there with a scrolling pinwheel on both machines, I'll log a bug this week.

I didn't compare it to local storage, I compared it to highly available network storage.

That's still terrible performance, your average MacBook Pro these days will provide between 100,000 and 300,000 IOP/s on 4k random reads and the average VM we deploy from our storage servers (commodity SSD based linux clusters that are cheap and ultra reliable) provide between 70,000-200,000 random 4k read (and write) IOPs per VM without a sweat and their TCO is significantly lower than amazons SSD storage that's 3 ½ - 10x slower per volume.

Even if you go and provision storage on Vultr, Ramnode or Sitehost all of which are a lot cheaper options and just as if not more reliable provide considerably faster storage with a minimum of 20/30,000 IOPs up to 150,000 IOPs per volume and you don't have the vendor lock-in or the hidden costs such as inter-zone data transfer etc...

Amazon really needs to pull finger on their storage performance, but it's not in their best interest. What they want you to do is scale horizontally which means not only do you need to invest in your system / product design to do this but you also have to put more money into Amazons pockets for additional compute / storage nodes and again the associated hidden costs.

I'm not digging on Amazon / outsourced hosting providers but they truly are pulling the wool over people's eyes while still trying to make everyone think that they're not only the best option they're the only option.

I /really/ like Swinsain which looks quite similar, the only thing it's missing is Apple Music integration but I can't imagine any third party player will integrate with Apple Music properly. My music library is 1.3TB which is fine in iTunes until you enable Apple Music which loads a lot of metadata similar to genius etc...

Yes we've used full text search for quite some time for one of our products, it's great, we really haven't had any issues performance or otherwise with it. For one of our other products we index data from PostgreSQL / PostGIS into elasticsearch and that's also good, in other ways.

Hackers hack computers and networks, Crackers crack software. There is a clear difference between those two words.

I really wish people would stop using the term serverless, it's not useful and it's highly misleading.

I wish you could use these with macOS's CoreStorage to unlock FileVault 2's full disk encryption in combination with a password. I wonder if it'll be possible at any point...

PostgreSQL, Nginx, fio, SublimeText (3), nmap, libcurl (and curl itself), ffmpeg (parts are also in asm), rsync, XLD, and the list goes on...

Watch out for biases based on how much people like the end product vs how well it's actually implemented though.

Thanks, yes the clean, minimalist interface is nice but there's no commenting on / submitting of posts and hardly any settings at all.

Gosh I remember how many IO errors occurred on those early and / or cheap CD-Rs like 'Transonic', 'TDK', 'Maxell' and all those other dreadful light green or light blue coloured Cyanine ink based coasters. I remember trying to backup my MP3 collection many, many years ago and trying to afford tens upon tens of decent quality Verbatim or similar brand discs and burning them slower than their top rated write speeds in an effort to make them as durable as possible.

I remember getting my first 40x or 50x writer, that thing sounded like it was going to blow apart at any moment, I think I used to limit write speeds to a maximum of 16-24x at most.

And then hard disks (or hard discs which I believe is an equality technically valid spelling) started to drop in price, ended up with a pile of those quantum fireball 850's, if you had these you'll remember having to 'tap' them on the top to help them spin up as I assume the baring fluid / grease would harden enough to prevent the drives from spinning up if they'd been powered down for more than a week or so.

On the subject of discs, I just realised I can't actually remember the last time I used CD / rotational optical media of some kind, I honestly can't! If I had to guess what the reason for it might have been I'd probably go with some obscure band (music) that only had physical distribution - but generally in those cases (no pun intended) I'd most likely but the CD to support the artist then check on what.cd (R.I.P) (pun slightly intended) and saved myself the pain of finding an optical drive and ripping it into my collection. It's likely it would have been something like that I think.

Sorry for being a bit off-topic there but it was a bit of a 'oh, wow!' moment.

I've been using PFSense both at various workplaces and at home for many years now, it's seriously fantastic. Feature rich, rock solid and good 3rd party packages.

Firefox has the ability to save bookmarks and all settings for that matter to a local folder upon closing the browser, you could then use an open source and hopefully encrypted sync tool to replicate those backups. Might be a bit clunky at first but if it catches on I'm sure one of the open source sync tools will come up with some sort of integration.

I'm sorry I don't understand? I haven't heard of Rhodes before.