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I have opinions. They're probably every bit as wrong as yours.
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Comment · 7 years ago
You'd think the ROC/PRC situation might make them cautious about wandering into the middle of a US/PRC pissing match though.
Comment · 7 years ago
That's dangerous thinking. Any un-patched service can turn into a pivot point. If the same folks who managed more critical pieces of infrastructure log in there, it can almost certainly be used to pivot onto their other systems.
Comment · 7 years ago
Not really. It's technically possible with Ksplice, but almost no distro actually supports it.
Beyond the kernel, you have various libs and binaries that will be replaced during upgrades. All can usually/mostly be restarted without a reboot, but just upgrading packages alone won't guarantee all running processes have been updated.
Comment · 7 years ago
Does that mean part of your infrastructure saw no kernel patches in 4 years?
OS uptime gave me pride in the 90s. Today it's usually a bad sign.
Comment · 7 years ago
And before Tera, SGI bought Cray in 1995.
Comment · 7 years ago
The consumer gear was trash. The server lines were an entirely different story. Also worth noting that by the mid 2000s, Compaq was just a branding on the consumer side. The hardware was all the same old HP consumer junk.
Comment · 7 years ago
Try again: https://www.top500.org/system/179566
There are plenty of System X HPC installs. They just no longer come from IBM. Even when IBM still owned the line, it was being outsourced. The University of California SRCS system from ~10 years ago was an iDataPlex sold to us by IBM. Most of the boards had Asus marked on them.
Also remember the System X line was sold way after the Think lines.
Comment · 7 years ago
IBM never left HPC. They sold off their x86 lines, but all their big toys run POWER variants.
Comment · 7 years ago
Arguably, HPE has more of a Compaq legacy than HP legacy. Much of their x86 server line has a Compaq lineage.
Comment · 7 years ago
HP isn't one company. They are two completely separate companies that share part of their name.
Comment · 7 years ago
The Berkeley location was also their corporate HQ.
I think 90% of my meals were from GO (with the remaining 10% split between E&J BBQ and Brennan's) when I lived in Berkeley.
Comment · 7 years ago
A mix of the two seems more likely -- ipv6-only to the device, with nat64/dns64 used to handle ipv4 traffic.
T-Mobile has been ipv6-only for devices supporting 464xlat since 2014.
Comment · 7 years ago
> Deeplinking from web into the app is hard
This is exactly whay I was getting at before. Please stop fixating on the deferred form of deep links. The play store need not even be involved for deep linking to an already installed app.
The mobile_guide instructions are where most people bail out.
"Yeah, no. This is too complicated." is the response when they see
"Install an app, then click on a check box that changes the UI, then enter https://foo.bar:8448, then register".
That's a massive turn off before your app is even installed. A flow of "Install this app, then return to this web page" is significantly easier. Or if/when branded builds of Riot are possible, it becomes "Install this app."
Comment · 7 years ago
Yelling... repeatedly, both inband and out of band. You never responded last time:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19865151
Manually entering homeserver URLs is a non-starter unless you're a technical user.
Comment · 7 years ago
> without configuration hell.
As long as you're a matrix.org user