Thankyou, didn’t have a clue.

No idea, but it gives me this energy:

Replacing a TCP socket with a UNIX socket doesn’t affect the amount of headers you have to parse.

We rented our technology and could not read nor write.

Moose bumped me up to $14.80/month recently, prior to that it was about half the cost.

I’m lucky to use 1GB/month so this looks perfect, thankyou.

It looks like Catch support is useless though, lets hope nothing breaks during the port. https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2706810 <- also has some info about how to disable voicemail.

Sorry to hear you’re feeling crap.

I’m having trouble looking for work for the past few months. Very few replies, the first “no” I got actually made me feel a bit more human.

I’m convinced that some of the jobs I’ve applied for or enquired about are not real or just for external-advertising-before-hire requirements. I’ve gotten some rude responses after daring to ask questions (eg: jobs funded by research money tend to have fixed funding start dates that might not be for another several months). Most straight up ignore me.

An old boss of mine thinks that my CV isn’t conforming and mundane enough, so I’m giving his suggestions a go.

What sort of work are you looking at? I design electronics and get into arguments with computers.

No no no, that just reflects the nature of the difficult market of problems that Oracle is trying to solve. Just because they choose to solve difficult problems for people shouldn’t mean they get punished. 🪂

This council also got suckered in by Oracle. Nothing deserves such a fate.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366572935/Birmingham-City-Councils-Oracle-implementation-explained-What-went-wrong

Do not EVER engage Oracle with a business deal. They are the epitome of “it will cost a lot more than you budget for”, that’s their speciality. You can try and blame customisation scope or wrong support people, but even if you got those right they’d find some other way of milking you.

Windows update fetches all sorts of things now. If the hardware advertises X device then Windows update will check if it has anything for it. Approved vendors can provide all sorts of guff. Historically that has included drivers that intentionally brick your devices. HP probably packaged up some software that updates the BIOS and got it into the Windows Update DBs.

This is something HP should have handled.

If a bad update is rolled out then it’s the responsibility of the software maker partner (HP) and the distributor (Microsoft), not just one or the other.

Those laptops are THEIR products, not Microsoft’s.

Both Microsoft and HP have branding on their laptops and a responsibility post-sale for the reliability of their systems. Hardware, firmware and OS responsibilities are all party to this chain of failure.

I have some uploaded image problems.

(1) The Lost Powers of Childhood is missing an inline image upload on the first comment (“Bonus: in this…”). According to the message source the image should be at https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/ecc05d82-7a5e-48a4-a304-446aba2078db.jpeg. I think this might have occurred before the upgrade, I recall having to look for it a week ago, but I’m not sure.

(2) The new Profile -> Uploads page has lots of odd gaps:

It’s not showing some images I’ve uploaded, eg this MSY catalog screenshot isn’t listed there.

EDIT: (3) Front page isn’t showing thumbnails for posts made after the transition date either:

Home made biccies > timtams anyday

This is an inexcusable breach of the SLA. Lodion must be offered free Timtams by all of us as recompense.

Two friends couldn’t come to bushcare today due to flu and COVID. I think about a third of the people I know are affected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KmXPcSxz2g

I just spent the last week sick with what I thought was COVID (my brother & niece got it a few days prior), but I’ve been negative on all the RATs I’ve done. Could be the flu instead, not sure.

Lots of cold sweating, fever shakes and discomfort. Not as severe as my previous interactions with COVID.

(Sydney NSW)

And they claim cheap SMRs don’t exist yet xD

Here they are in an MSY (Australia) catalog from 2012:

Ritmo == SHAW == A-Power, all were in-house brands at MSY. I suspect the 1500W and 1200W might have been the same thing with varying amounts of lying, but perhaps they did also size the components slightly differently.

You have nothing on the Tri-Fan 1200W https://www.crazysales.com.au/online-ritmo-force-1200-tri-fan-gaming-power-supply-2-3v-8373.html

Hey, it’s Lindfield

I honestly didn’t read it

Please read it.