HP BladeSystem p-series chassis were all DC bus bar powered back in the mid 2000s. You had a power enclosure which provided DC output to one or more chassis in a rack over the bus bar. We were glad to be rid of those blades but it wasn't because of their power configuration.
I know at one point Microsoft and IBM both invested significantly in studying UX research. It doesn't feel like that's happening or if it is, I guess I must be drifting out of touch with what's considered intuitive in user interfaces. It's not just MS either, I feel like the ability to discover what you can do in an app/site any more is hidden by aesthetic choices over functional ones.
I remember being pulled into user surveys and usability studies while wandering the mall back in the day and being given series of tasks to accomplish on various iterations of a windows GUI (in the Windows 9x era) while they observed, and then paid $100 for my time for each one I participated in.
These kinds of studies are still very much there at MS, and not just for Windows.
The problem, in my experience, is that when some manager really wants to do something, they'll find a way to justify that with a study. Pretty much every UX decision that ended up being universally panned later had some study or another backing it as the best thing since sliced bread.
Speaking of Tandem Databases, HP had released the SQL engine behind SQL/MX[0] as open source (Trafodion) running in front of Hadoop to the Apache Software Foundation but it appears they have shutdown the project[1].
Kinda the other way around, the NonStop kernel can present a Guardian personality or an OSS (Open Systems Services) linux-like compatible personality. The OSS layer is basically running on top of the NSK/Guardian native layer but allows you to compile most linux software.
No, I meant the other way around. I don’t know to what degree it ever got released, but he spent years getting it to work on “commodity” mainframe hardware running Linux, as HP wanted to get out of the business of maintaining special equipment and OS just for this customer.
There's not very much that you can do against that particular threat model other than not live there, but one of the big reasons that the area is so popular with tourists is that it's easily accessible to most people (you can easily get to Gatlinburg or Asheville within a day's drive from pretty much anywhere you would consider "the southeast US"), it's pretty, and in summer you can escape the oppressive heat without having to go to the upper Midwest or the Rockies.
Massive landslides and floods will wipe out your natural gas lines, your propane tanks, your wind and solar generators, your battery backups...
Unless you are using an VPN, your ISP can see the IPs you are communicating with regardless of the hostnames associated with them and in turn resolve those back to hostnames or at least netblock owners.
True, but n the cloud era, destination IPs don't mean what they used to. If peopel wash their blog with AWS or Cloudflare or Netlify, etc., dest. IP means little.
They're not talking about IP's. They're talking about SNI, which communicates the target hostname in the clear before the https session is established. ECH addresses that problem, but that is only recently starting to see wider use.
Likewise I am convinced the "not interested" option does nothing, now I just straight block those pages/people when it shows up - the algorithm will send me another of nearly the same content but I keep blocking them and now a lot of that content is gone from my timeline, but FB is really convinced I want to see non-stop steam/model train and WWII content.
Xcode is free if you don't consider the platform cost of needing to have only apple hardware to use it, however (generally) the hardware is cheaper than what MS charges for MSDN/VSE.
Different companies fund things differently and put up different barriers.
Again, for the umpteenth time, I am not making a VALUE judgement. I am just saying they all do things differently and without knowledge of their books, nobody here can say what funds what internally
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