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Bending Active Systems in Antiquity: The Bow of Odysseus

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devchix
·23 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
What other reasonable choice exist for moving off VMWare for a small to medium size organization? Nutanix and Citrix is just as expensive, and another platform capture. ProxMox is not ready for Enterprise, even as it gains traction from hobbyists. I work with Splunk, and its price is approaching the point of being unaffordable for most organizations. The logging and observability market is consolidating toward BigCo and I'm afraid eventually there's not going to be any choice left, for small consumers and small players. The answer can't be "build your own" for every little adjacent tech you need to run a shop.
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This seems bad, Splunk advises you to turn off THP due its small read/write characteristics: https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/release-notes-a...

Bad because as of Splunk 10.x, Splunk bundles postgres to integrate with their SOAR platform. Parenthetically, this practice of bundling stuff with Splunk is making vuln remediation a real pain. Splunk bundles its own python, mongod, and now postgres, instead of doing dependency checking. They're going to have to keep doing it as long as they release a .tgz and not just an RPM. The most recent postgres vuln is not fixed in Splunk.
devchix
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I've been here since 2016. I have never, not even once, downvoted any comment on HN. Today I downvoted every single of that person's comment in this thread. That discourse does not deserve to be heard, much less to occupy attention and debate.
devchix
·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The W in Santiago, Chile, has a full-length floor-to-ceiling glass window in the shower, with the morning sun shining right in. Your other option is a bathtub set in the middle of the bedroom itself. Mercifully the WC has a door.
devchix
·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The human body lacks the enzyme to digest inulin, it passes through the gut and feeds the gut bacteria, which I guess is why it's labeled a pro-biotic? Jerusalem artichoke (the root of a sunflower, Jerusalem is a corruption of girasole) contains a high concentration of inulin. This tuber is usually found served at upper-end swanky restaurants. One year I found it at a farmer's market, bought a bunch and gleefully carted it home. It was rather delicious. Also, gas that would turn a cow inside out. Beware.
devchix
·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Cumin is an olfactory note in perfumery. When well-paired it adds a lovely and unusual note of spice. Example: The Different Company Rose Poivrée was created by Jean-Claude Ellena, the in-house perfumer for Hermes before the current one. It has notes of coriander and cumin, subtle but distinctively there. If you like it, you like it. Unfortunately for me, after a while it starts smelling like a stinking armpit. Indole is another compound use in perfumery, at intense concentration it smells like poop.
devchix
·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Odysseus is shown stringing his bow in The Return (2024). The challenge was to string the bow and shoot an arrow through 12 axes. I had no idea what this meant so I went looking. In fact, it's to shoot the arrow through the eye of the axes. What's the eye of an axe? It's the hole where the handle attaches to the blade.

https://www.sylvaspoon.com/blog/2020/1/16/anatomy-of-an-axe
devchix
·9 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
From a logging perspective, there is a time when an event happens. The timestamp for that should be absolute. Then there's the interaction with the viewer of the event, the person looking at the log, and where he is. If the timestamp is absolute, the event can be translated to the viewer at his local time. If the event happens in a a different TZ, for example a sysadmin sitting in PST looking at a box at EST, it's easier to translate the sysadmin TZ env, and any other sysadmin's TZ anywhere in the world, than to fiddle with the timestamp of the original event. It's a minor irritation if you run your server in UTC, and you had to add or subtract the offset, eg. if you want your cron to run at 6PM EDT, you have to write the cron for 0 22 * * *. You also had to do this mental arithmetic when you look at your local system logs, activities at 22:00:00 seem suspicious, but are they really? Avoid the headaches and set all your systems to UTC, and throw the logs into a tool that does the time translation for you.

The server does not "know" anything about the time, that is, it's really about the sysadmin knowing what happened and when.