@Jacob Strange. You can throw Zabbix up on a server, put an agent on a computer and point it at the server, and be monitoring basic stuff before the boss has gotten back to his office.
On another note, driving from Maine to Connecticut this weekend and not looking forward to the horrors of the York toll booth (basically the one before the state line that all the tourists have to go through). Need to find a route around it ><
@MichaelHampton Meh. I'd rather spend the extra ~20 minutes on back roads then spend a half hour or more crawling through a toll booth
And it's not even that there's not enough lanes ...they go from 8 booth lanes to 3 highway lanes, so merging is chaotic and not even an ezpass helps :(
I remember seeing, maybe a couple of years ago, a web-based server activity monitoring tool that played a stream of sounds based on what was happening to servers or code. Commits, successful builds, I think server load as well...
The idea, IIRC, was to have this constant audio stream on the back...
@MichaelHampton Yep. The turnpike authority already bought land that could be the potential new location for it, but they're getting pushback from residents around there
@Jacob There was a federal regulation passed recently that they all have to start interoperating sometime in the next few years. So your E-Zpass might start working again.
@MichaelHampton I saw a sign for a speed camera on a road the other day. I was sad, but they can't prove it was me driving so they issue it as a parking citation.
@MichaelHampton Hah. There's a lot of people who ignore the little lane change signs (the ones saying the lines are moving over a bit) so they're driving in the middle of both lanes
I almost rear-ended someone twice because they don't pay attention -_-
@MichaelHampton An 18-wheeler almost ran me down the other day...I was in the left lane, he was in the right. The truck drifts towards the left lane and I'm right next to him. If someone was behind me I would've caused an accident with how quickly I nope'd out of there with my brakes
@NathanC Somewhere between 2030 and 2050 car insurance rates will be so high for human drivers that everyone will have an autonomous vehicle... No more accidents.
The self-driving cars they have now work better than a human. I think insurance costs will push the takeover. No need for regulation or any such thing.
Also, autonomous vehicles are already legal in 4 states - California, Michigan, Nevada, and Flordia
@ChrisS Sorry, but that's just not true. They may be better than a human in a small range of environments but they simply don't have the adaptability to handle the huge range of day to day encounters
@Dan I haven't seen one, so minor disclaimer that I could be getting fed a pile of crap - The latest BMW car is far from perfect, but gets in less accidents than the "average" humans in side-by-side tests of "normal" driving conditions.
@ChrisS I'm going to go ahead and say that's marketing BS. Until they have a car that can navigate country lanes, hit a highway/motorway and then navigate through a town and city with no external equipment then it's just a non starter
I support the concept in general - I just think that there are so many variables that mean true automation (I.e., you can sit in the back of your car stone drunk and it'll take you home) is a long long way off
@ChrisS I think the things we'll see soon will be assisted driving - we already have some of that and it'll gradually become standard and over time more 'invasive'
Stopping people from driving into the back of each other is already a good start. Add some blind spot detection etc and we are getting there I guess
Mercedes is claiming it'll have a car for sale in 2015 that can drive door to door. I'll be surprised if they get that out the door by 2020 - BUT I'd be amazed if they don't have it out the door in the next decade.
Nah - car companies have enough cash to hush up a few grieving families. And I still maintain the insurance rates will push adoption - autonomous vehicles don't have to be perfect, just better than humans.
@Iain Plot twist, OP was using .onion site, hence wget wouldn't work no matter how hard he tried
When people leave out critical details like that (or, I live <somewhere where I can't buy stuff to accomplish my goal>) it makes it difficult to answer them -_-
Well, Fedora Server/Cloud are going to be a thing, starting with next release this fall. So I finally have something to beat Ubuntu lovers over the head with.
Wait a minute. So now there's a button that lets me run random code posted by unknown people? This is going to end badly. Oh look, here's this incomprehensible mess someone posted a question about... I'm going to just run it without even looking at it. The opportunities for people to sneak in malicious code are endless. — Michael Hampton7 mins ago
I can't believe SE just asked me for more examples of potentially malicious JavaScript ...
You're knocking Ubuntu without valid reason. I could say the same about RedHat & CentOS. They are terrible to work with, and I don't know how people could put up with old broken kernels with drivers that don't work. Anyway, just my little rant. — Matt1 min ago
I am curious, what makes www.jsfiddle.net secure from XSS based attacks? They have a support for accounts so clearly any script they run on the browser may do evil things.
using an iPhone is an exercise in frustration of starting the wrong app and a lot of squinting. But I want BTLE and GPS, and the iPod touch doesn't have that.
Bad fucking day. vSphere data store ran out of space for as-yet unknown cause and I'm running badblocks on a drive so I can try and rebuild an array and just accept data corruption
@ShaneMadden I am so fucking sick of iPhone rumours
You can't open any popular press without reading some bullshit rumour
It's going to have NFC. It's going to be 12" in size. It's going to have face recognition. It's going to have a hologram projector. It's going to be made of diamonds. It's going to come with a free gorilla.
I want an apology from anyone who ever published an iPhone 6 rumour that was wrong
@MarkHenderson far more frustrating is I found a group of people that believe everything the tech press publishes.
like, the only reason the iPhone doesn't exist as a wrist phone was Apple stopped development to spite Samsung, instead of "they never had such a thing under development"
I am curious, what makes www.jsfiddle.net secure from XSS based attacks? They have a support for accounts so clearly any script they run on the browser may do evil things.
