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Ask any of my "fans" here at CP. ![^] But really, someone has to do it.
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Me too.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
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#MeToo
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Emigrate clemency in trouble(7,9)
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 23-Feb-21 4:15am.
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climate emergency? - a plausible anagram
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Yep well done you are up tomorrow
In trouble having a double use here - indicating the anagram and the answers definition
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Perseverance Rover’s Descent and Touchdown on Mars (Official NASA Video) - YouTube[^] - in real time, the actual last three-and-a-half-minutes of delivery phase of the mission.
What gets me, the heat shield detaches at about 10Km above the surface, and from then on we can see the actual Mars surface. And for a planet with an atmosphere (albeit a load thinner than Earth's) that's a lot of craters: old ones, new ones, weathered ones, fresh(ish) ones ... everywhere is craters until you get too close to see the big ones ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Fake!
They covered up the canals.
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Well of course they did! They didn't want the water to evaporate.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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That's what I thoat, too.
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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Your not Venetian - what do you know about canals?
Like here in NY we don't wear cowboy hat or bolo ties. So,
Keep to your designated by birth expertise[^].
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Impressive video. What I found amazing wasn't the cratering but that Mars has the same wind sculpted features you'd see in a large snow field or really dry desert.
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Having re-watched it with a critical eye, I think I can see how some people could argue it's fake, the rocks and craters 'don't look right' or the resolution of the cameras is too low. Think about it you can get jerky low res video from YouTube thats coming from a sever on the earth! How far we have come we can get low res video with a lag of minutes that appears like you tube from the late 90's! Compare that to the Apollo footage! Wow! said it once more than likely I'll say it again.
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OriginalGriff wrote: And for a planet with an atmosphere (albeit a load thinner than Earth's) that's a lot of craters: old ones, new ones, weathered ones, fresh(ish) ones ... everywhere is craters until you get too close to see the big ones .
Yes, this is intriguing isn't it. It looks very much like the Moon in this respect.
I hypothesize that it's due to lack of biosphere[1]. No biological activity to help cover up features; only wind erosion and frost (and maybe occasional and brief water flows).
Footnote:-
1: Lack of substantial, current, biosphere, anyway. I still wouldn't be surprised if some bacteria and maybe algae were still there, somewhere.
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HG Wells said something...
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I really didn't see a proper forum for this question - logging begs toward philosophy and religion.The general forum has provided excellent feedback on bat files and glasses. So it's time to get serious. If there is a better place for this, don't post answers just point me and I'll relocate.
Logging. Application level. I've been in this business for a long time, and there does not seem to be a method to the madness. Most logging is reactive. Jeese, it stopped working guess I better monitor memory, etc. So logging is added after the fact. Well that helped - not. I'd like to hear from others what they just know they need to log. FWIW, I don't care about the application environment - web, server, desktop or embedded.
There is an article brewing... my opinion is that every application needs logging.
thanks all. 60 degrees in Atlanta today, nice breeze and sunny skies. Sorry Texas.
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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A philosophy question then.
We have four main types of logging:
- Traffic logging. The boring standard old stuff.
- Error logging. Reactive by definition
- Process logging. How many times did X happen per time interval
- Health logging. Preemptive.
Our Health logging is the most interesting because it's broken into a few main areas (disc, database, file and cache server) and is all defined using a set of rules in a JSON file that can easily be updated.
We build rules to run a test against systems that could be in error to spot conditions that may lead to an error, or may indicate that something else isn't working which may in turn cause an error. For instance, is memory getting low? Are we seeing too many network outages? Our background process queue is starting to fill up, we're not seeing as many votes as we'd expect, our cache server seems to be a bit slower than we'd expect. Each of the rules is run every 5 minutes and then we build a page that has a big green tick or a big red X. If the X appears our monitoring guys let us know and we can dig in and see what's happening before things get out of control.
Our logging / monitoring is always (almost by definition) going to be reactive, but over time we've built up a great set of rules that enable us to head issues off at the pass.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Our logging / monitoring is always (almost by definition) going to be reactive, but over time we've built up a great set of rules that enable us to head issues off at the pass.
That seems to me to be the hallmark of a mature application that logs. After a certain point it goes from being totally reactive to somewhat preemptive.
Real programmers use butterflies
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(5.) Security / bozo logging:
As in, "Who auto-generated those 500 purchase orders?" (That now have to be reversed).
True story; the new Accounting Manager seeing "what does this do?". The "action log" told the story.
(Interesting: CP changed my unbracketed 5 to a 1).
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: Interesting: CP changed my unbracketed 5 to a 1
Ye - you have Markdown selected, so it gets a little ahead of itself sometimes)
But I do like your point: Auditing. Super important. Always nice to be able to point the finger.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I used worked to in automation systems that dealt with millions of dollars worth of product at a time - cassettes of wafers full of chips. We learned really, really fast that a production log was essential. We were often asked to explain why entire cassettes were scrapped and the answers boiled down to very poor training by the customer. Their operators somehow got into their head that if the slightest thing went wrong then click abort which effectively trashes all product in process - sometimes three or four cassettes at once. It had multi-level "are you really, really sure?" prompts but they did it anyway.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Have a meta story on that subject.
When Windows Server 2000 was new I found the setting for "Audit logging" and thought: "Cool, have to test that".
Not much later, the server is basically unresponsive.
Have never touched that setting since. 
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