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den2k88 wrote: Thank you for teaching me something new
You are welcome. Please tell your manager that software engineers over the age of 50 can be a valuable company resource. They are packing a lifetime of engineering experience.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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My managers know it very well - the only reason we have a single engineer over 50 is that this branch opened only 20 years ago and the older people changed jobs in time on their own volition (job is interesting and fairly safe but is a bit underpaid).
We don't ditch anyone unless for severe disciplinary violations.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Hi David, it's been a long time since I saw you here (partly also because I've been relatively inactive myself). How are things going with you? 
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Hey Rajesh,
I have been doing fine. I was sometimes spying following your career moves over the last few years. Congratulations on the senior lead position and I see you have moved down under...
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Hi David, as far as position titles go, as you very well know, they might as well call a person like me as "Ginger-tea-addict-coding-human-gorilla-thing" and it wouldn't make a difference.
I also moved out of Intel, but haven't updated it on linkedin. It's only been a couple of years though, so lazy me figured what's the hurry. 
modified 26-Oct-17 23:22pm.
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Hmmm,
That's different... the URL rewrite in your case was to redirect you to a UK server. I just tested and this is working fine on the google UK server:
https://www.google.co.uk./[^]
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Interesting, I only ever use the .com address. And I must admit, even though I have been around since pre-internet days, I had never heard of this.
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Don't forget RFC stands for "Request for Comment." 
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Marc Clifton wrote: Don't forget RFC stands for "Request for Comment."
Don't let the name fool you. Many of the RFC documents are IETF internet standards[^].
RFC1034 was adopted as Internet Standard 13
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Some have become defacto standards, others aren't worth the bandwidth used to upload them. Unfortunately there's no obvious and immediate way to figure out which are which since it comes down to other devs deciding the proposals are good enough ideas to be implemented.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Some have become defacto standards, others aren't worth the bandwidth used to upload them.
You mean I can stop waiting for my packets to arrive via carrier pigeon?
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Randor wrote: Many of the RFC documents are
Yes, I should have used the joke icon.
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I've only seen that being used in DNS records and not so much when using domains directly over HTTP. Learn something new every day. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Looking for fellow users of Acronis Backup. The new 2018 version claims to support full image backup (while machine is live). Looking for anyone who has actually used the product....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I can only say that we have abandonned Acronis several years ago because we had numerous issues with their products, both for physical and virtual environments (backup failures, corrupted backups, inconsistencies). Their support team was of a quite good will and kindness, but unfortunately was not able to solve all the problems our customers encountered. We even lost a couple of them, some of the most important to us, due to these issues, so we decided to switch to another editor (we now use Veeam products for backups everywhere, and we are quite satisfied with them).
But, as I said, it was several years ago (three or four), so they may have corrected their issues (I hope they did).
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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Backups are important, and there is data and then there is the OS disk. The time to install all of the s/w is of real value, so when someone claims they can image a hot drive, it gets my attention. Pretty aggressive claim - IMHO.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I've imaged hot drives with acronis for years.
Restored them on more than one occasion and hit the ground running.
I've had my problems but have worked through them.
We use it today.
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charlieg wrote: Pretty aggressive claim - IMHO
It is not, or at least not intended to be. I just wanted to share my experience, which I won't forget anytime soon, considering the consequences we had to face - my company lost customers, and I ended with an useless Acronis certification.
I sincerely hope they have been able to solve all their issues.
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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Using Macrium's Reflect I often make perfect images of my system drive, while I continue working. It has never failed me. I always verify each image when it's complete. I believe Reflect take a "snapshot" of the drive when it starts, so it can deal with changes on the fly. However, I never save data on my systems drive. I have a dedicated drive for data, so there is little writing to the systems drive when I work.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I use Acronis at home. I use an old version and can only reliably image the C drive disk(i.e. OS disk) by booting from an Acronis DVD.
Yes it's technically possible to do a 'hot' image however I discovered, to my chagrin, that the images built this way were always corrupted which is why I always select the verify option nowadays. I lost a lot of data because of this.
Things may have changed in the meantime, however I don't know how you can image a disk on which the software and OS are currently running without some fairly major magic going on.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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"without some fairly major magic going on"
there is a phrase that can be universally applied to just about any serious claim . I'm going to pull the trigger on another m2 drive and give it a go. If it works, it would be a huge time savings for me.
dang - price went up on this little beasty....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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If I were that worried about recreating state for an entire machine quickly, I'd just use a VM. Tada... problem solved.
For everything else there's Mastercard xcopy.
Jeremy Falcon
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True, in general, but I've found that there are little things with the VM (I use VMWare Workstation) that annoy me. However, it would be a useful exercise to pull the existing disk into a VM to see how it plays....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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