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44 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Sep 2009

London's famous BT Tower will become a hotel after £275M sale

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£275m sounds a bit cheap for such a building in London, does that not include the ground it sits on?

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City of London ditches Oracle for SAP in search of ERP enlightenment

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Re: Isn't it odd

Must be a different language pack

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After fears that Europe's space scope was toast, its first images look mighty fine

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Be interesting to know if it is a crack something broken, or a gap as in things not fitting correctly where the light gets in

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Owner of 'magic spreadsheet' tried to stay in the Lotus position until forced to Excel

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Re: Fond memories of 1-2-3

123 still works under windows 11 please don't ask how I know

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Results are in for biggest 4-day work week trial ever: 92% sticking with it

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Cost of Offices

Is this now also influenced by the cost of the work space?

If everyone has the same day off then the company saves 1/5th on the heating and electricity in the office space for the day

This of course does not matter if everyone is working from home, perhaps more relevant in factory spaces where people still have to turn up to do the work

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Now you can't even scale Mount Everest without a drone buzzing overhead

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Not enough people in those shots

Should be a lot more people in those shots trying to get to the top?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48401491

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Demand for software experts pushes tech salaries higher in UK

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Re: Diversity should be a consequence, not a goal.

I would just like to see more coal miners again in this country

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The many derivatives of the CP/M operating system

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Re: Used it

It died the death as it could not do what they advertised and the betas were dog slow when they did work. I'm not sure if it even made it past beta release.

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Real32

Real32 still in use here on a daily basis, amazing what it can do and how many users it can support on such minimal hardware.

"You must be in a menu in all your DOS sessions"

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Microsoft extends life of cloud servers from four to six years

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Could also be a response to the supply chain issues for new equipment

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Supercomputer pinpoints exact origin of 'Black Beauty' meteorite from Mars

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Re: One can only assume

Who are you calling Shirley?

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The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, he said

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Microsoft says staff layoffs not linked to recession fears

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Is it still a thing where MS get rid of the lowest performing x% of staff every year or was that never the case?

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Your data centre UPS could feed power to the smart grid, suggests research

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Re: How much power do DC UPS's have anyway

But you can't account for the extra charge discharge cycles this would cause

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We are on a medium sized ind est in the South West and are looking to add plant so contacted Western power about upping the fuses to our unit. The answer came back no available spare capacity in the area to be had, not even how much do you want to spend.

It's a bit worrying as there are at least 3 big housing builds going on around us, where will they get supply from?

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Re: Could be another contender for a Virtual Power Plant

If I have PV and a battery bank at my house then I would expect to see a much larger saving than that page is suggesting.

With the right setup you shouldn't need the grid at all, trouble is this would not work every type of property.

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I could see where the backup gensets could be used for helping during a brown out in the grid but I can't see how this would work for UPS as they only have short run times to give the genset time to start. This also has the issue that the UPS and gensets are sized for the load and if a brown out happens or worse a total power loss then the data center will want all the available power.

This does have the feel of a report done by people who don't live in the real world

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New York Times outlays seven-figure sum for 1,900 lines of JavaScript – yes, we mean Wordle

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The game is not just online

The game I enjoy is to drop the word of the day into every conversation I can squeeze it in to

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Shut off 3G by 2033? How about 2023, asks Vodafone UK

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Re: Not only phones

What do the smart meters use that they are still trying to shove down our throats?

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Microsoft patches Y2K-like bug that borked on-prem Exchange Server

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Does this show that MS don't eat there own dog food on the back end, as web based outlook didn't stop working?

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10.8 million UK homes now have access to gigabit-capable broadband, with much of the legwork done by Virgin Media

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Refuse to connect us

Virgin did our street just before Christmas and keep putting flyers through the door and sending mailers. Problem is once they turn up to connect the contractors don't want to know as we have a concrete drive. Had two surveys done now and they just won't supply.

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East London council blurts thousands of residents' email addresses in To field blunder

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It could only have been better if the email was about keeping your details secure from scammers etc

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Docking £500k commission from top SAS salesman was perfectly legal, rules judge

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What's the betting his managers still got the full bonus?

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FCC announces winners in $81bn 5G spectrum auction. Congrats to Verizon, which must cough up $45.4bn

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is there no time limit on the license or is it forever?

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Drone smashes through helicopter's windscreen and injures passenger

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As I understood it most small drones would not be able to pass through the down wash from the rotors of a heli, it would just blow them out of the way.

Could it be he flew under the drone and the drone got pulled down and into the wind shield?

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Police drone plunged 70ft into pond after operator mashed pop-up that was actually the emergency cut-out button

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So the police operate as Open Cat all the time, where I would have thought they would need to be in Specific cat

So do they even have to do the CofC test after the 2hrs training?

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Do I read this right that the plod pilots don't have to have a CAA cert to fly a working drone?

Yet as a private flyer I have to be registered and take a test

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Brit accused of spying on 772 people via webcam CCTV software tells court he'd end his life if extradited to US

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Re: Team America: World Police

So where is the crime committed the location of the camera or the location of the screen?

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NHS looks to the market for advice on one system to replace two separate, giant Oracle ERP and HR systems

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to soon ?

Excel or Google sheets?

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Yorkshire authority seeks £3m 'modern, cloud-based, future-proof ERP solution' in as few products as possible

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Get real, Excel 2007 just to make sure everyone can open it

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NHS COVID-19 app's first weekend: With fundamental testing flaw ironed out, bugs remaining are relatively trivial

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Re: Call me Mr Cynical but...

It's not a bug though is it, just a part of the process that was not thought through before it went live. If it was a bug it would be a feature or selection available that didn't work

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Scre-EE-m if you wanna go faster: BT's mobile network reigns supreme in UK-wide speed and latency tests

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Backhaul

Is this not more down to the backhaul setup rather than the mobile network?

4G equipment setups must be similar if not the same across all the providers so if you can get a signal then the data rate is down to the link they have to the internet or device contention to a mast

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Whose side you on, Nominet? Registry floods .co.uk owners with begging emails to renew unwanted .uk domains

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Re: We aim to lose by the smallest margin ...

isn't .cymru and .wales the same thing anyway?

just charging for the different language shows it's a rip off

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Motorola bounds out the G8 with a harder, better, faster smartphone for the thrifty

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Why bigger and bigger?

Why are they insisting on going bigger and bigger with screen size

I want a mobile I can put in my pocket and still tie my shoe laces!

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150 infosec bods now know who they're up against thanks to BT Security cc/bcc snafu

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Alanis Morissette would be proud

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BOFH: The current value of our IT ASSets? Minus eleventy-seven...

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Sharon

Love to see how many documents will be signed Sharon T Pokeworthy now around sites

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Now Curiosity rover beams back 3D snaps of Mars

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Curiosity needs it's own section

I think it's time Curiosity got it's own Reg section not just Space

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Freeview HD will deliver new IPTV channels this month

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not a good idea for most people

I can see alot of people getting nasty emails from there ISP after pluging in these and not realising the amount of download needed

or the complaining that it won't work properly as they don't have a fast enough connection

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Trev's Big Adventure in Virtualisation

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Thanks

Good stuff very interesting shame about the sound quality and don't bother with the separator beep nextime OR AT LEAST TURN IT DOWN

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Microsoft spends $7.5m on IP addresses

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Own or rent

So do MS now own these addresses or are they just renting them like we all rent copies of Windows

And how come they were sold on and not just passed back into the free pool?

ICANN should just ask for them back

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PARIS laid bare in intimate snaps

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In print

Nice one guys you get a mention in our local rag

http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Paper-plane-s-spectacular-photographs-Earth/article-2840637-detail/article.html

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Remote access in real life

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Others

Does Crossloop or Logmein etc not get a mention ?

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Swedish military combustobra: Jubtastic snap

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Happy

TGIF

Thank God It's Friday

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