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I did became a computer addict in my parents house (no basement, but used the most remote room and the attached - closed - balcony)...
Lived only in Hungary and Israel so far, but visited in England (London only), France (south, along the Spanish border), West and East Germany, Italy (Milan), Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria...
I do not plan to visit places abroad for now... There are a lot of places nearby that I want to see (and show to the kids) before that...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Environment friendly too, all that kerosine guzzling flying around the globe is not good at all 
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lived in: England, Germany, Canada (4 months), Northern Ireland, technically Australia but I was delivering software to someone in an airport.
Visted: Italy, Czech republic, Spain & islands, Portugal
Bucket List: St Petersburg, Caribbean, Various places in the USA, Japan, China, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and other nordic regions
I have lived in various places in Germany but that was due to my father being in the armed forces and got to see Berlin before the wall came down, as the wall came down and immediatley after. But would love to visit again.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Forogar wrote: Where have you worked/lived/visited/been deployed?
I've lived in the USA, Venezuela, Mexico and Bolivia and visited Aruba, Ecuador, Colombia, Suriname, Brazil, Argentina,Peru, Canada,England, The Netherlands,Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and likely a few other places.
I have a trip to Malaysia in the works later this year and will return to Venezuela as soon as the situation there stabilizes.
In addition, besides taking time off when
I had a stroke, I completed my PHD, sdo I've managed to get out and stay busy.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Oh, this game looks interesting.
Lived in: New Zealand, New York, Paris, Sydney, Melbourne
Visited: Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Viet Nam, Hong Kong, China, Fiji, India, Croatia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Germany, Italy, England, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Russia (trans-Siberian train trip), Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina (5 months in South America, 10,000kms on a motorbike) and Antarctica.
Haven't been to Africa yet, and would love to spend more time in Europe. Problem with living back in NZ is everywhere is so far away.
Oh, and I've seen NZ on bucket lists - drop me a note when you've got plans to come visit.
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Lived in: United Kingdom, Israel & Japan.
Worked in: Israel, Japan (I'm not counting business trips  )
Worked with: Israelis, Japanese, Chinese, Americans, Brits, Indians, Russians, and too many other nationalities to count.
Visited: United Kingdom (England, Scotland), France, Switzerland, Italy, Lichtenstein, Denmark, Holland, Japan, Hong Kong, China, United States, South Africa, Canada, Germany.
Bucket list: Anywhere off the planet (unlikely, given the current spaceflight technology  )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Oops, I forgot to add Lichtenstein. to my visited list. I would have missed it if I'd blinked and hadn't had to stop at the traffic lights. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Lived in Catalonia (Spain).
Worked in Spain, England, Denmark, Brazil, Italy, USA, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, China.
Visited France, Andorra, Netherlands, Sweden, Greece, Turkey, Tunisia, Rep. dominicana, Mexico.
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Quite an international league of gentlemen!
But hey, I worked abroad too for a while ... in Belgium 
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I don't travel a lot, but I do outdoors activities like mountain biking and trail running
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Sadly I'm one of the guys they made up that cliche about. I pack flares and beef jerky when I have to go to the grocery store, just in case.
Explorans limites defectum
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Hey @OriginalGriff, from the makers of your favourite Imaging software.
AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro[^] is free today but you'll pay for updates later. You can pay to get lifetime upgrades for a fee, but I won't mention that as when I do I get visits from men in Mankini's telling me not to post that type of stuff. So just keep that last part quite.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I have it already - it does what it says on the tin!
Thanks for the heads up though. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Gparted is free every day. Run it from a liveCD or USB stick 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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It strikes me that whereas physical, on-site servers offer more bangs for less buck year by year; the cost of cloud servers is only likely to rise as people become tethered to a particular service provider.
If I'm right on that (and I may well not be, I really haven't had any great deal of exposure to the cloud), that would suggest that at some point there will be a massive re-migration from the cloud back to the server room.
What are the thoughts of the more enlightened?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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There's another issue at play as well: security and liability.
A large part of the expense of running cloud services is the expense of securing it (for the provider), and the potential for liability for breaches to resident systems.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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And that's part of what worries me about the whole cloud thing: what's going to disappear during the first cost-cutting exercise? Yes: the stuff you can't see being used ... until you wish you still had it.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Well, for any enterprise level SLA with a cloud provider, security audit rights are generally standard form. That's not a big deal, normally at any point you can call an audit from your own cyber team or from a hired service.
One of my go-to suggestions for anyone looking to setup an enclave that doesn't contain national security data is to use a cloud provider. It completely sh*ts the (very expensive) burden of operating and securing the infrastructure to the cloud provider. Now, from that point all you're left in a position of worrying about application configuration control, application baselines, and log aggregation, and that's about it. All the really messy stuff, the network monitoring, the SA work, updates, host security monitoring...these are all contractually managed by the provider (depending on if you're using PaaS, SaaS, or WhateveraaS). That also means that financial liability for intrusions is often also at the foot of that provider.
I suspect that as more enterprises move to the cloud and more breaches occur, the more expensive it will be to operate as a cloud provider, therefore they'll charge more for their services, and the more incentive you'll see for a return to on-premises.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Already happening.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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[just like picking a phone plan] cloud providers expect customers to figure out their own provisioning: both charging huge markups for customers going over, or otherwise expecting customers to pay [in advance] for more than they will need. - either way they can advertise say $x/MB but in reality actual usage vs provisioning no one will ever achieve that rate, (
OIOW a provider they can buy 10000 TB of equipment and safely sell 12000 "1 TB plans")
It gets way worse when it comes to computing power , kubernauticals and all that shite, customers have to provision: (number of connections + compute power per connection + space requirements per connection + ...) X number of applications
roll on IPV6,
- everybody/company can have multiple dedicated for life addresses,
- less worry about data being hacked (hackers rather target huge clod provider vs some tiny company)
- security systems/software will improve
summary: when IPv6 is finally sorted or more importantly v4 is killed I reckon many might (and I say should) shift back to their own servers.
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Like climate change, IT paradigms cycle from one extreme to the other on a regular basis.
I sit in a room adjacent to a data center. A mandate was passed down that we have to have the data center completely migrated to "the cloud" by the end of September.
This is a government operation, so cost is no concern, and neither will it be when we migrate back to an on-site data center.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: This is a government operation, so cost is no concern, and neither will it be when we migrate back to an on-site data center.
Just set everything up so you only need to turn the power back on when everything's scheduled to come back on-site. Pocket the money saved. There's your way into retirement.
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They are going to physically remove the racks and the raised floor, and build a cubicle far m in its place. If they do change their minds, the racks will be re-purchased and placed in a different location.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yeah, I had no doubt about that. Would be amazing in fact if they realized they wanted to go back and still have the older system in place. Well, that's how you keep some people employed...
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Wait for the nightmare when connectivity to the servers migrated to the cloud is way slower than when it was in the local datacenter. As a fellow gov't schmuck, we deal with this all the time with email that has been migrated from local Exchange servers to regionalized email servers. Email is slow, sporadic, and often times just plain unavailable, especially on the classified network where it's horrific. Good luck!
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