Posts by K

Re: Well I've had to go BACK to them

On the deals, Virgin have been quite good on this and will offer them to existing customers! I actually just got the full package with 200Mb/s internet for a bargain price.

Re: Interesting

Its company's like this that keep me employed - Until last year, I was paying £1500 for half rack (Power and 1GB connectivity), all supplied with hardware on my choosing which included 3 ESXi hosts (16 Cores, 128GB RAM in each) and Hybrid Dell EQL SSD/HDD SAN, Palo Alto Firewalls (Small models)..

"'Mericans will literally stop working & "protest", for any excuse."

Umm did you confuse the "Mericans" with the french?

Re: I hope

I got stitched up previously by BT with FTTC... With VM, I now get a solid 100Mb down, pings are ok and TV rolled into it.. I won't be switching any time soon.

Re: Still "ten years away"?

They said that 20 years ago when I played my first VR arcade game (some kind of flight sim)!

Re: @AC

The idea of Big Data is not a farce, but less face it, the term "Big Data" definitely is - its a non-discriptive term thought up by marketing bods to target business execs who want to record a large volume of data, but have no clue what the data is, where it is stored or how it was gathered.

Its like the term "Cloud", being used to describe Virtualisation, Hosted Service, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, IaaC, Shit-aaS.. its so broad and generic, it means nothing.

Re: fast charging...

Screen is to small - I love large screens, I took a gamble going from the Experia Z Ultra (6.7 inch) to the 6P, it worked well, but I think Google has made a mistake going smaller than this.

Re: The usual "credit card" string

"installs a virtual machine running, say OpenBSD"

If a company is following a good "whitelisting" based practise, this wouldn't be possible. As not only would you be restricted from creating the VM, but also all outbound traffic filtered, so VPN tunnels are only allowed from approved sources..

Re: "operating system updates end up disabling the framework"

You can't constantly maintain backwards compatibility.. Its one of the reason OS's have become the bloated pieces of.crap they currently are!

Whilst I accept a certain level must be maintained, where something does break, the developer of software than runs on that platform has responsibility for fixing it..

If your planning a weekend trip, sure a fag packet is good..

But recently I said thank f*ck for Wunderlist, after relocating to the London, it allowed me and my partner to organise/split the work of

• Selling of my property in Hampshire
• Selling of her property in Surry
• Purchasing a new family home
• Get everything ready for the kids to go back to school

Whilst keeping track of it all from our phones, whilst she was in Spain and I was in London..

Re: Smartphones are horrible phones

" Recent smartphones are potent computers,"

I have a 95% internet/reading to 5% calls ratio.. I suspect its the same for most people, so I don't see that as an issue (aside from when you actually make a call!)

Re: Freedom of movement

Mike 140 - Is Rilly your name? Or did you mean really?

No, any country that operates within the single market is subject to free movement of money, people, goods and service! You don't have one without the other three. Since so much of the UK economy relies upon the single market (inc. our banking and finance sector which employs over 2m people) we'd be insane to leave it!

So for this alone, his friend is sorted, as freedom of movement is a condition of being part of the single market.

I'm torn between..

I do love the XB-70, looks like somebody stole the blue print from Thunderbirds..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_XB-70_Valkyrie

I'm doing a US road trip with the missus later this year, and I'm trying to find some excuse to stop over in Ohio to see it lol..

Re: Clouds - Just waiting to piss all over you

I've recently interviewed at 3 different companies in London, bizarrely all of them outsourced their infrastructure to a single provider (different providers for each of them), all because they didn't want the hassle of doing it internally - all of these companies have realised it was a short-term gain and long-term pain, now they are scrambling to either distribute the risk or bring it back in-house (hence reason for the interviews)..

+1 Great response.

Lusty, Your right cloud does have some advantages.. but also a lot disadvantages, if that makes me negative, then I'll take that badge with pride - Us negative nerds as act as a counter-balance too morons like you.