I saw it coming... Before one of my banks put them on ALL their cards I got a survey about how much I would like them. All my asnwers were the most negative on their scale and multiple write-ins (in the write in space) to the effect of OMFG NO, worst idea ever!

Sadly I was apparently the only one who thought so because now they do not have any credit cards that do not have NFC.

Also, read the article. The authors were experimenting and came across some bugs in some pretty hairy edge cases (hundreds of simultaneous snapshots, large disk array suddenly becoming full, etc) that did not cause data loss. They eventually decided not to use BTRFS on one type of system but are using it on others.

To me, the article was a good thing... But I would have preferred if it was worded as here are some edge case bugs that need fixing before BTRFS is used in our scenario, rather than that these were show stoppers... Because these are not likely show stoppers to anyone who's not implementing the exact same scenario.

Also It sounds like they should jitter the start time of the backups...

Sound more like Fleming than Orwell, especially as it's in The Hague.

Not so easy when it's an entire company with no real IT planning and everyone has random programs and random data that all needs to work for everyone to do their job.

Cool, thanks. it's been a while since I did a complicated DB project; perhaps it's time to fire up a VM and try 'em out. How about triggers?

Word. I prefer Postgres. But then again I have not done a comparison in a very long time. I know that MySQL (and by extension MariaDB) has been ACID compliant for several years if you pick the right backend, but does anyone know if either supports Views and stored procedures?

Koodo has $60 unlimited and a 10% discount for sim-only, but only for "new customers" so when we got our Nexus 4's, my wife got the discount but I did not (even though my micro-sim was new).

Just like Koodo, which is a rebrand/subsidiary of Telus.

All of the carriers share the towers, but the tower owner (usually Telus) gets the top spot. Bell usually bids highest and gets the second spot, Rogers next and Mobilicity and Wind are usually lowest. Mobilicity and wind also have microcells in some dense areas in Vancouver too which is why they have better coverage in places like Metrotown but sketchy coverage away from dense areas.

Last time I checked, Telus, Bell, and Rogers had nearly identical plans and you had to go to the rebrands (Fido, Koodo, Virgin) or small carriers (Mobilicity, Wind) to get any differentiation, Sadly Mobilicity and Wind have roaming-only coverage on Vancouver Island, so they are ruled out in my case.

Also of interest in some cities in the province.... If you are a shaw internet customer you can connect your phone to the "Shaw Open" wifi access points and once you register the device (you need your shaw email address and password), it will be remembered so you can save on your data plan and get wireless-n speed. You can register up to 5 devices per account. I have "AutoSync" on my phone which toggles my sync when connecting and disconnecting wifi so emails come in pretty steadily as I drive past the access points.

Also, I usually find dealing with Telus about anything to be an absolute nightmare but koodo's customer service seems to be pretty decent... but then again I have only ever delt with them for registration changes - most of the changes you'd want to do to your account can be done online with minimal frustration.

Koodo. They are a brand of telus so they use the telus antennas at the tops of the telus-owned towers (almost all the towers in BC), so they have great coverage. $45 gets you 200 min (unlimited incoming), 500MB, unlimited text. $60 gets you unlimited/unlimited/unlimited. No long-distance charges if both ends of the call are in Canada.

  Also the people at their mall kiosks don't look at you like you're crazy if you ask for just a sim card. I have a Nexus 4 which serves me well on their $30 plan but I almost always have a data overage and end up paying $40... which is still less than the $45 plan... Now that there is a really good phone available unlocked I would not touch a locked phone on a multiyear contract with a 10 foot pole.

The corporation sole and "free person" nutjobs are the ones that are nutjobs.

The corporation sole nutjobs believe that if you write to any regent (King, Queen, or Pope) and put "Coropration Sole" as your job title and their staff respond then it makes you not subject to the laws of any country (nor international law) since you have been recognised as a regent (never mind that the constitution of pretty much every country makes the head of state subject to the law too).

The "free person" nutjobs believe that all persons are not subject to the laws of any country since their name is spelled in all-caps on their birth certificate but the correct spelling is mixed case and therefore it is the corporation that was registered that is subject to the law and therefore they don't need to file income tax, get a drivers license, stop at red lights etc.

I am not talking about people who simply disagree with regulation or legislation.

The asking price is redonculously high for Crowsnest Pass. Fyi it is nowhere near the oilpatch - in size of Texas units for americans, It's about the same as driving from Corpus Christi to Kansas City. Much of it on secondary routes.

My first thought was tax evasion, but currency manipulation seems more likely now that I've looked up the MLS listings in Crowsnest Pass.

Also that area is known for having a lot of tax refuser/corporation sole/"free person"/gold standard etc nutjobs because for a while it was officially claimed by neither AB nor BC due to one province's boundary legislation being based on a river (which moved) and the other being based on survey points of the river before it moved.