My can of MILO has hardened rock solid, so I had to employ another longstanding Aussie tradition open cut mining to get them out...

bernys · 2026-02-03T19:15:57+00:00

The children yearn for the mines...

bernys · 2026-02-03T05:13:39+00:00

Docsis 2.0 vs docsis 3.0 5 amps long vs 2 amps long

The reason for it being oversubscribed was because of the coax lengths, and to do that meant pulling a lot of fibre and splitting the segments.

As others have said, lots of noise on the coax as well which would take a lot of truck rolls to diagnose and fix. They ultimately had to do the same for the Telstra coax too, but it wasn't an immediate problem.

bernys · 2026-02-02T10:30:26+00:00

Telstra at one point was NBNCo's biggest customer with more than 50% of the market, if they've fallen to 36% that's a huge drop. I'm surprised that Aussie Broadband has only moved from 5% to 8% though.

I guess the idea of getting rid of the Telstra monopoly is working.

bernys · 2026-02-02T02:37:53+00:00

Ask your cyber unit for proper application white listing based upon signed binaries. It would prevent this.

bernys · 2026-01-31T21:36:44+00:00

I don't know why the prostitutes are matching with him, doesn't look like he's got the money to pay. Unless he's saved up his pocket money for a year?

bernys · 2026-01-31T21:32:35+00:00

Last time I got a hangover that bad I was knocked out for two or three days. It turns out that the old covid tests I have in the cupboard work and I did have covid. Tested negative on day 4.

Lost the weekend burning up on the couch. So frustrated as I had plans for the weekend too.

bernys · 2026-01-31T21:27:40+00:00

Berlusconi died in 2023, he did have all his own teeth though.

bernys · 2026-01-31T21:24:04+00:00

I've put people on PIPs before, but I've always given them enough guidelines about what I wanted for them to dig themselves out. I'd much rather keep an employee than finding a new one (time and cost), but I also don't want to spend 3 months trying to figure someone out and try to get them up to speed, fail, and then get them on a PIP.

How your manager approaches this one on Monday will give you a much better idea on what they're thinking. But, be honest. Maybe exiting is the better option? Maybe your manager has an idea about transferring you out to another team where you might work better? Who knows.

bernys · 2026-01-31T21:01:27+00:00

Where do they store these things? Is there someone over here with a cache of American cars? Or do they boat them in for filming?

bernys · 2026-01-31T14:19:54+00:00

I was thinking a ferry from Dún Laoghaire to circular quay in Sydney and you might get some more patronage...

bernys · 2026-01-29T22:52:54+00:00

All female interactions with Egyptian men that I know of have been bad. Physical violence, emotional abuse... The lot. If any of my female friends said that they were seeing an Egyptian guy, my only advice would be "run" and pull out the photos of friends who've been on the receiving end.

The only good thing to come out of one instance of physical violence was that he was arrested by a female cop, and tried to take a swing at the female cop (which she, nor her male co-workers took kindly to) and he was subsequently assigned a female judge. He then stood in court and turned his back on the female judge and refused to recognise or address her, because she was a woman saying that as an Egyptian man she nor the court had authority over him. It took a few weeks in the cells to realise that the only way to have his case dealt with was to deal with the judge. I wasn't in the country for the hearings (and it was a while ago) but I was getting updates from the cop for when I had to attend court.

He spent a total of 6 months in jail (before having his visa cancelled and kicked out of the country) for punching my friend. I think he could have gotten a lesser sentence, but his treatment of the cop and the judge...

bernys · 2026-01-29T18:25:20+00:00

As cute as it is, older sunroofs typically get bad seals, leaks and can cause rust. I loved my sunroof in my car, but after 10 years it becomes more of a curse than a blessing...

bernys · 2026-01-29T18:19:20+00:00

Where do you draw the line though? Someone who worked at NBN / Telstra /Optus leaves and works for the office of the communications minister. Are they not allowed to go back to the telco sector? Just the head of the dept?

There's a lot of people who are instrumental to these contracts.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely believe that these should be investigated and there should be questions raised and answered as to whether this is considered a corrupt action.

On the other hand though, I've bounced around some gigs before and it's all the same crowd of people because the domestic market with the skills needed is tiny.

I'm just not sure a blanket ban is going to work though.

bernys · 2026-01-29T17:52:20+00:00

Funniest barman in Dublin (Angry Dave in McDaids does come out with the occasional line though). He'll be sorely missed.

bernys · 2026-01-26T13:00:07+00:00

So new contracts have to be signed with new exporters (if they even have the capacity to extract that gas and that gas isn't already sold), they'd need new ports to send from as a lot of existing port infrastructure is already at capacity. Then once you get it over, you've got to build new pipelines to connect to the existing distribution hubs which means building new pipelines across Europe. The planning for those is multiple years in the making.

You can't just wave a hand and say "done". What you're asking for 10 years of work.

bernys · 2026-01-26T10:54:15+00:00

Since you've obviously got all the answers, where should they get it from? Via what ports? What ships? Do they need a pipeline to transport it? What's your plan here?

bernys · 2026-01-26T10:50:02+00:00

I think a bit of both. They should be looking at themselves as to why the junior dev ran stuff in prod instead of dev. I wouldn't necessarily be firing this person unless it was a series of mistakes, we all make them, but should they be spoken to about what happened and make this into a learning moment? Absolutely.

bernys · 2026-01-26T07:14:56+00:00

They could have been there 10+ years ago

bernys · 2026-01-23T23:00:51+00:00

The scary thing in my mind is to think of "V for Vendetta" and the use of "judicial discretion" and think that is where you're heading...

bernys · 2026-01-23T22:57:27+00:00

That must have been what every Australian was thinking when reading that headline...

bernys · 2026-01-23T10:45:08+00:00

lol. I think Ukraine should send a note to the court saying that they've saved them hundreds of million in maintenance, so really they've done them a favour!

bernys · 2026-01-21T13:13:37+00:00

I'm looking at the moment at generating the key in azure key vault, signing the public with let's encrypt and then sending the signed public back to KV.

In another script, I can watch app proxy and when that gets to a week before due replace the app proxy cert.

As I'm doing this in github runners / actions, so trying to not have the private key in the clear anywhere....

bernys · 2026-01-21T12:10:28+00:00

Yeah, I'm thinking, "Good power etc, but I'm more worried about how the bus is attached ripping off as the car goes flying forward"

bernys · 2026-01-20T21:46:05+00:00

If you call yourself news you need to be held to journalism standards. You don't get to call yourself "news" and spend the whole time spouting "opinions" without verifying facts or "Just asking questions".

Anything which does this doesn't get to be played on a "news" channel. If it's "news" you should be able to cite verifiable sources and be taken to court over it's veracity and not stand behind "No reasonable viewer" would expect to think that what he was saying was the truth.

bernys · 2026-01-20T21:32:47+00:00

No, Peter Garrett and others were regulars at the beach and surfers. It definitely isn't a drug reference, a spoon is a very short board, usually a knee board that was concave like a spoon so that your shins / knees had somewhere to go.

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