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Joined October 2009
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Being able to so easily switch back and forth from my Xbox to my PC is super nice, just a shame I don't play any PC games with a controller
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Xbox Series Controller pairing tips:
Double press the sync button to switch to Xbox
3 Second press the sync button to go back to the last paired bluetooth device
To go straight into bluetooth from off, hold the sync button for 3 seconds, avoids turning the Xbox on
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Imran Hussain retweeted
January 1: 2021 has to be better
January 6: I can’t go to bed in case I miss the overthrow of the American government and the invocation of the 25th amendment to instal a 2-week presidency
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I wonder how much of UK-EU trade deal has been copy & pasted from old 90s documents 🤔
p921 refers to Netscape Communicator 4.0 as a "modern e-mail software package" (it was last updated in 2002) and recommends SHA-1 as a hash algorithm (deprecated by NIST in 2011 as insecure)
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Found out the new Chromecast with Google TV can be loaded with Steam Link, Geforce now, xcloud etc...
What next gen console are you getting? Chromecast 😎 lol
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"kid, lemme tell you the *truth* about working in 'cyber'"
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USB type-C
expectation: you have one connector instead of many connectors
reality: you have exactly as many connectors but now they're visually indistinguishable
(snippet from amazon.com/Headphone-Adapter…)
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So much of the internet including @StackOverflow isn't IPv6 😠
Unhelpful when trying to battle network manager, but thankfully the age old tactic of just disabling it and using raw iproute2 commands worked
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Of course Windows Server 2004 came out in 2020 - docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win…
Who's in charge of naming and numbering at Microsoft?
Typical, the day I try out kubernetes for my home there's a regression in docker cli that wastes loads of my time github.com/docker/cli/issues…
I was today years old when I found out that @TayZonday's Chocolate Rain is about systemic racism
What a good song
I really want to try this out but left my job earlier this week 😢
Perhaps I need elasticsearch ingesting my homes infrastructure logs...
Super excited to see Open Distro for Elasticsearch 1.7 released. This is big: anomaly detection is now generally available with a 🔥Kibana interface and tons added to SQL including a new SQL workbench in Kibana and a SQL CLI and much more.
github.com/opendistro-for-el…
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Found out that a major infrastructure project I spearheaded has cut build times for our developers in half
#developersdevelopersdevelopers
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I spent 4 hours getting the login time for our new VDI based VPN solution from 1 minute 40 seconds to just 30 seconds, not quite sure that trade off was worth it...
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Not just looking for one but 3!
We're expanding and growing so now's a exciting time to come join.
Great mix of systems from the bleeding edge to old as the dinosaurs (all controlled with modern IaC principles 😎)
📢 Our technical team are looking for a Senior Systems Administrator. Find out more and apply on the @SwanseaUni website 👉 bit.ly/2TJZJEH
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Today it was announced that Yahoo! Groups is shutting down, and taking with it a piece of critical national infrastructure: the Oftel Yahoo Group which is used for managing UK phone number assignments.
Yes, really: See Ofcom's website ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/p…
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