Posts by Leeroy

Government grant

Same issue as the above posts. . The company I work for was struggling with adsl for years until a local supplier / subsidiary of a large IT company that I have dealt with informed us about Supperconnect Cardiff and the grant available.

£3k install paid via the council to our supplier. Now we have about 75 Mb down / 50 up. Vpn's to our satellite offices are now usable and once we get the new phone system installed we can do call routing over ip internally, looks more professional and it's cheaper. Ongoing cost £50 pcm, no data limit or throttling even after pulling down 20+Gb every night for offsite backups, can't fault my supplier.

Virgin and BT wanted over £200 pcm for a similar setup. I'm just happy with 2 rather large wifi antennas on our roof..... and the adsl backup just in case.

uh oh

I think I may just delete that 5Mb Truecrypt container from my dropbox account. I can remember the password now but in 10 years I doubt it very much.

Does this count for pdf's as well ? I have a few from suppliers that I don't know the password to view the 'hidden' data.

One less thing to worry about. ..

I currently manage the archival of paper based patient records for a major A&E department, over 100k scans per month. We do all the hard work of getting it into a searchable format and installed on the server back end at the customer site (1 x modest vm running Windows server).

The past 10 plus years of records can be searched on any text contained in the database within a few seconds eg NHS number, name, address etc using a Windows based application. The best part it that the server can provide the same service via a Web page. In this case moving the user's to a non MS OS Is not an issue.

I'm covered if they ever come asking :)

power

'The new Iowa facility is powered largely by wind, at a cost close to that of conventional energy sources.'

More or less ? The first year including construction costs will obviously be (a lot) higher but what about the next 5 years or whatever the maintenance cycle of the wind farm is ?

Did they build the wind farm themselves or are they paying a premium to the energy supplier to seem more green?

Slightly of topic I know but since everyone is making such a big deal about global warming it would be nice to know. Apologies if it's in the video but I'm not in a wi fi area.

Code academy

She really should have completed the HTLM Code Academy course before visiting Paxman, the Mrs finished in within a few hours and is loving the python one. I may make a programmer out of her yet :)

Thank you

Can't wait to show this to the boss tomorrow morning :)

praise

For me there was a striking similarly to the AMD article about their aims for power reductions. Using autonomous systems within the cpu to manage heat and improve performance without any outside (os or bios for AMD and manual clicks by Google staff) influence required.

Praise required, we have indeed come a long way baby !

tech companies that helped ?

Sophos is now classed as 'amongst others' ?

Perhaps Sophos users were never vulnerable ?

Posted as a reseller and user / not a shill.

docking is very difficult

Near impossible on my old Amiga 500 with 2 floppy drives and the huge 1meg ram upgrade. ..

I remember the auto pilot would always crash into the station unless I hit the x3 speed up :)

Amiga demo scene. Those guys had a lot of talent and did things with floppies that at lot of modern programmers could not do without a supercomputer or libraries written for them by the likes of ms, amd or nvidia.

Modern programing may be easier, fatter and faster but I can't help thinking that we have lost something along the way. ......... I'm writing this on a phone that could probably wipe the floor with an average computer from maybe 5 years ago. ... I'm In a field.. In West Wales and I can still access the sum of human knowledge. ..... Those sheep look tasty though ;)

Centerprise won the 'printing' contract ?

Nice website. ... New one coming soon etc

There is pandering to sme and getting value for money, if you want a decent deal on printing then you need a specialist. Centerprise are clearly not print specialists, they are advertising Panasonic products and 'upgrade to xp' on their front page.

Either go direct to a main dealer or one of the many national core partners or groups, never ever ever buy a printer from your IT provider ! From experience they charge thorough the roof for crap off the shelf machines and bin them when they need a new (expensive non warranty) part. Best part is they will sub contract the maintenance to the manufacturer anyway and add their percentage on the top.

I manage over 300 machines / copiers throughout the country and direct service most of them. The ones we sub contact are a pain in the arse.

Please explain, not my area of expertise.

I just thought the SIM card had a subscriber / number to identify you to the mobile base stations so they could route calls to you, oh and some space to store 150 contact numbers that nobody ever uses any more as they sync everything to either exchange, google or Apple.

Now I get the impression that the sim has a processor of sorts that can handle some authentication to the network / probably obvious and sensible. Why the heck can it access anything on the device ? Is there any need ?

I just had a very productive day in work setting up ownCloud on a Centos vm.

It is probably not anywhere near as secure as mega or Dropbox but it will only be accessible via vpn. Costs a lot less as well.

Once I'm happy with it I can't see me paying for anything else, even if it has crypto it is still off site and out of my control.

eh

What was all that about ?

If it is more secure than Dropbox and offers some additional features I can see a market for it. There is also the fact that it will probably avoid hosting whatever it can in the USA and that has to be good for privacy.

I think I will stick with my 50GB free Dropbox account for now though, Thanks Samsung :)

They should crash one of these shuttles into the moon....

Yes i know they are not built to go that far but if you dont mind it taking 20 years to get there i am sure some smart ass can come up with an orbital plan..... you know for the giggles :)

Negligence

You can't place all the blame on the kid, why did the school leave 20k worth of laptops lying around ?

Not locking stuff up creates theives.

They should have at least been in a secure storage / charging area. I am just shocked that they did not get stolen.

Optional title

"Why are we paying world-class cyber security experts what we pay passport-stampers at the border-control-agency?"

The real question is, why are we paying passport stampers 25 K ?

Says it all really

"image is so central to its success"

Firefox in the office.

From what I remember IE has a lot of settings that can be controled by group policy to "provide a consistent reliable system".

I do not believe Firefox can be controlled in this way and as far as i am concerned it should not be bending over backwards to support a proprietory Microsoft technology.

As for support, the software is free. Do you really expect something for nothing ?

Give me IPv6

I am all set with IPv6 internally as far as i can test.

My ISP on the other hand is still issuing IPv4 Addresses and will not provide IPv6 addresses for my router let alone my internal devices.

Does anyone know how to kick them in to gear ?

PS. Oh crap i need a load of static IP's next month for SSL sites. WTF do i do if they are not available ?

Restricting access

Quote "The OFT also said today it would not be investigating the market for repairs of domestic electrical equipment, because it did not find enough evidence to support claims that manufacturers are restricting access to technical information and spare parts by independent repairers."

As a self employed copier engineer and previous experience as an electronic engineer i frequently repair washing machines and other domestic appliances including TV's, PC's consoles etc.From my experience It is almost impossible to get hold of "Service Manuals" for all but the most common devices and parts seem to be lucky dip most of the time.

It should be a requirement for manufacturers to supply a complete service manual on demand and get rid of (or properly document) the "secret" service interfaces as well, KM and Olivetti i am looking at you.