It’s too bad. Postini is a terrific spam filter.

Only a few years since “but her emails[sic]” and now senators are conducting official business on a pubcloud mail provider.

Containers carry concerns around validation of container contents and, by extension, host contents. This has been well-discussed and is beyond the scope here.

But I do hope for an installation free of container mess.

Man, I sure hope they’re free of the container crutch.

Don’t let that stop these guys from cherry-picking worst-case scenarios.

ppl

I hate the kid-pidgin, but you make a really good point here:

it’s good to stop for second and consider what one’s needs actually are.

I mean, this is always excellent.

Too often - you’ll see it in this comment thread - we go all out and show our own solution would fit OP’s case. And to them it must sound like “if you want a coke from the sev(7-eleven, like circle-k, Ted) you’re gonna need a van, a really big spring, a holocaust cloak and a wheelbarrow for sure.”

Considering OP’s situation, skill level, fuckery tolerance and perseverance is key. Resilio could be all they need, here – Not elegant, not D.R.Y, not pretty, but its fuckery is low (good g.o.l.f number), but it could be fire-and-forget.

Now, I’m not sure you’re not replying to a comment that says the same thing …just, not as well. Still good advice.

IDE master/slave jumpers. Wow am I glad we ditched that.

4Mb Ram sharing 1mb with the ghetto cirrus video card, and somehow you need to run winsock and Netscape Communicator on it.

The whole time I’m configuring a customer’s machine and grinding my teeth, they’re saying how great the salesman was who sold this boat-anchor. I’m proud of holding my tongue for the 90 min it took to complete the courtesy job and go back to the shop.

I may need to start drinking.

I’ve used all 3 in production (and even Puppet) and watched Ansible absolutely surge onto the scene and displace everyone else in the enterprise space in a scant few years.

Popular isn’t always better. See: Betamax/VHS, Blu-ray vs HDDVD, skype/MSSkype, everything vs Teams, everything vs Outlook, everything vs Azure. Ansible is accessible like DUPLO is accessible, man, and with the payola like Blu-ray got and the pressuring like what shot systemd into the frame, of course it would appeal to the C-suite.

Throwing a few-thousand at Ansible/AAP and the jagged edges pop out – and we have a team of three that is dedicated to Nagios and AAP. And it’s never not glacially slow – orders of magnitude slower than absolutely everything.

have to learn MCL’s weird syntax

You skewer two apps for syntax, but not Ansible’s fucking YAML? Dood. I’m building out a layered declarative config at the day-job, and it’s just page after page with python’s indentation fixation and powershell’s bipolar expressions. This is better for you?

funnier because, in America, it can be a traffic accident that IS the medical emergency!

It’s the very reason I left the US, abandoning the PR effort in 2k4 within my H1Bs, and came home.

Ansible is next on my list of things to learn.

Ansible is y2k tech brought to you in 2010. Its workarounds for its many problems bring problems of their own. I’d recommend mgmtconfig, but it’s a deep pool if you’re just getting into it. Try Chef(cinc.sh) or saltstack, but keep mgmtconfig on the radar when you want to switch from 2010 tech to 2020 tech.

Infrastructure alone to Bungalow jungle is never cost-effective: as Detroit learned, it never pays for itself with property tax.

I say we jack the property tax on low-dense residential to properly reflect a 20-year amortization and all the operating expenses of the infrastructure used, all the way back to City Hall, so that it does pay for itself (and the farther out, the more expensive to fix, the more expensive the tax).

At the same time, the city will

• wreck a park (wait for it)
• put up 40 storeys of mixed use
• offer to buy the shitty bungalows around the building, with an option to buy into ready condo space
• same for businesses, because #mixed-use
• use adjacent bungalow space for central square. Start with transit station underneath
• build 7 more towers
• offer same buy-up to adjacent bungalows
• surround with greenspace and one really ineffective laneway to connect garages under building with roadway out there
• begin offering more incentives for bungalow people to give up their home for agri space and move into mixed-use
• repeat until city is transformed to efficient walkable oases linked by transit

People think they can’t do apartments, but I’m sure a spacious 1200sqft place planned with an eye to sight-lines isn’t what they’re thinking. We love our (smaller) apartment near the mixed-use block that sprung up , and everything we need is within that block. From daycares and pet stores to restaurants and coffee-shops and take-out, and gyms (plural) and insurers and a market and a chemist and an insurer and a physio… it’s endless, and they’re still building out more commercial space.

But you have to build the new space, properly configured with GOOD (rail) transit, before you can get people out of their cars.

AI Spend,

It’s okay to say [spending] when the OOP forgets how to English, right?

I’m not very technical, but I had to move a jumper on my old 386 when I upgraded my modem

I spent 25 years without remembering that, you sonuvabitch! :-D. Sorry, the PTSD takes over sometimes. Goddamned supra winmodems and hot-glued ISA cards in overpriced junk RadioShack/FutureShop computers…