Posts by Caff
112 posts • joined Friday 22nd February 2008 19:41 GMT
Re: Will be forced on us
The need for ID's for bank accounts is to do with money laundering.
tesco mobile + tesco credit card
Wait, don't tesco have tesco mobile and offer a tesco credit card...
What exactly is stopping them offering a tesco NFC mobile phone/credit card ?
Tandem
There would be a Tandem line between the mainframe and the ATM network. If it goes down or out of sync it can take some coordination restarts to bring it back up.
terms and conditions
What about those landing pages that have "Terms and Conditions" that you have to agree to?
If you are bypassing and them have not read them what kind of legal issues if any might accumlate?
Could this be used to clean up water contaiminated by radioactive leaks?
Re: Windows 8 halo effect? What halo effect?
Thought the article would mention halo too, probably worth more to them than any advertising budget they could throw out there.
Re: Reposted from previous article
the 4gig vsam limit should have been resolved with upgrades since but they could well have encountered limits elsewhere.
I would be very suprised if it was a security issue, there are many more ways to mess up a batch and corrupt a database. However most of these are quickly recoverable within a few hours and happen more often than banks would admit. As long as mainframe ops and support do their job noone knows they do it at all.
Re: Reposted from previous article
This I can't understand.
Upgrade ca7 on a test LPAR.. all works fine!
Upgrade ca7 on production.. panic! Then follow backout proceedure for the upgrade and continue
maybe a 3 hour delay to batch...
how can you completely mess that up??
Re: Switch it all of and backonagain !
obiviously never IPL'd a mainframe...
Re: "Vast complexity"
or maybe typing quiesce.....
Re: Hmm
That could be it my bad.
Re: Hmm
I thought that EDS ( owned by HP ) run the RBS systems ?
Guess this is what you get when HP run your systems
This impacted on Ulster Bank in Ireland as well. Epic fail, http://www.ulsterbank.ie/roi/personal/generic/service-update.ashx
not about money
But money is a nice side benifit
Posted in Lazy starbucks marketing
Lazy starbucks marketing
This is causing quite a fuss here in Ireland, starbucks posted this message to its "Irish" twitter account
"Happy hour is on! Show us what makes you proud to be British for a chance to win. Don't forget to tag #MyFrappuccino bit.ly/JlXOcu"
Good analysis of it here.
http://sociable.co/business/to-be-fair-to-starbucks-they-were-just-being-lazy/
"The issue isn’t that the company mistakenly tweeted a message for its UK users to Ireland but that it has, since it set up its Irish account, always been posting UK messages to its Irish users. And this is just bad customer service."
No experience of q-matic but having had exposure to an MQ system linking legacy and new systems I would imagine that a messaging queue system linking products not only from different vendors but managed by different teams form different vendors would be an utter mess. I would be amazed if each vendor wasn't opperating different contracts with different priortites leading to an unholy game of pass the parcel.
Posted in 'Biocoal' fuels steam train comeback
Given the amount of hassle it would be to run the steam loco compared to a desiel it might be better for them to use to coal in a normal power plant to provide power for an electric train system.
Posted in Ten... Star Wars videogame classics
Shocked that lucas hasn't brought out a pod racer sequal yet, waiting on the 3D re-release of the film I would guess?
Only recently changed the road signs in Ireland, didn't take that much effort. For a few years though the speed limit signs were mph while the distances were in km
recycle
With a fair few defunct satilites and the growing heap of space garbage I wonder would a recycle and repurposing centre be of any use up there? Start off simply refueling old sats and then move onto collecting other bits and bobs of end of use kit to repurpose?
With the word "holistic" in the title I was suprised to find myself not playing bullshit bingo while reading the article.
We have a pretty pro-active service management team in work and to be fair to them as annoying as they can be they do a decent job communicating to us what customers and clients want from us.
Posted in Web hosting
http://www.register365.com/hosting.html is cheap but no dedicated server
http://www.blacknight.com/ no price for dedicated server you have to contact them for a quote but a vm is €18.99 a month
Posted in Microsoft details Halo 4 release
wp8
Now they just need to get a Halo windows phone tie in and it'll surely shift a ton of the phones
Fair play to them for a prompt speedy response to the problem. Other companies could learn from this level of openess.
Re: Interference
Interested in this, have you got links to the studies they carried out?
Posted in Boffins make graphene micro-distillery
helium
Given the shortage of helium this could prove quite useful if they can make it into containers
"upleveling" "inverted the triangle" - they killed it with management speak!
Posted in Lego readies kit for Minecraft lovers
more fun
Probably more fun than minecraft, also how long before someone writes a script to output building instructions from minecraft?
cuba
I seem to recall reading a few years ago that cuban bacteriophage research was quite advanced due to trade restrictions.
Sounds like a lot of things to lose
Looks like these guys didn't get the memo about too many codes, plenty of ads around Dublin for something called itagged? http://www.itagged.com/
Great job on the summary, no way I was reading the leak in its full form
The Irish BOFH are left out of the running so
Redundancy
Is probably in place, I know where I work we have rolling business continuity testing. However getting it to fallover seamlessly in an actual emergency situation is another story altogether. Often it works fine others it can take a few hours. You can't predict every part that will fail, just have to practice with the scenarios with think might and deal with others on the day.
Posted in El Reg in SHOCK email address BLUNDER
Managers love incident reports.
When can we expect the full incident report with a follow up detailing process improvements to ensure no repeat incident occurs.
I await the pic of an eager politician posing beside it hoping some "star power" will rub off on them
Posted in Here lies
/^v.+b$/iJCL just looks silly.........
//LIFE JOB (1111,GOD,01),
// CLASS=A,
// MSGCLASS=1,
// REGION=0M,
/*LOGONID GOD
//***********************************************
//CREATE EXEC PGM=BIRTH,PARM='/STA PGM VERITY'
//SYSOUT DD FREE=CLOSE,SYSOUT=*
//**********************************************
//*************************************
//WAITABIT EXEC PGM=ILACWAIT,COND=(0,NE),PARM=&LIFE
//SYSOUT DD FREE=CLOSE,SYSOUT=*
//*
//****************************************************
//DEATH EXEC IPJCLCMD,PRM='/CANCEL VERITY
//**********************************************************'
dune style?
But when will we get Dune style oil lens ones?
education
Any feel like setting up a copyright FAQ site or know of one that exists?
Might be useful to educate the masses who are quite happy to steal mp3's that their own pictures and other works they may have posted online are liable to be used without their permission when they could be making money off it, might change their views.
Posted in Bloody Moon stuffs the Perseids
style guide
When will thereg follow in the footsteps of other great publications such as the economist and publish its style guide to allow mere mortals to emulate its literary prowess?
rep - -
sounds like amazon will take quite a reputation hit for this
Posted in LOHAN team buried under ballockets
crowdsourcing
... does anyone else feel a bit dirty after realising we've all jumped on a very web 2.0 style crowdsourced project?
only a month?
Is there something I'm missing here but scheduling only a month in advance seems quite short term compared to other schedulers out there? ( though I'm more used to mainframe/distributed schedulers rather than HPC ones )
video blocked
Any chance of transcripts for those of us who are behind quite strict firewalls that block video?
