Posts by Just a geek

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Yahoo!

Remind me what do they actually do ?"

And that is the big question. They are kinda search, kinda forums but don't have a focus anywhere. They need to pick a direction and a service then sell that. Right now they are doing several different things and all of them are terrible.

'Meh' Because that's exactly how I feel about yahoo.

having a home test lab is a great idea and a necessary expensive IMO. However, it would help if the vendors made 'it lab' license versions available otherwise you've either got trailware or borrowed licence keys.

Another thing vendors could do to help is to allow IT folk access to some of the simulators they have. Both Netapp and VNX have simulators but you already have to have a support contract which strikes me as slightly crazy.

I liked the 'technically illegal unpaid intern bit'. Why highlight that now and not two years ago when it was actually happening?

It seems that she was ok with the HMV dodgy dealings when she had a job but as soon as she is under threat up goes all the accusations.

A single router is responsible for that much of a problem? what happened to eliminating single points of failure?

Blackberry, O2, Blackberry again........ not good.

Talking of the HP Microservers this is my set up:

5 N40L's - two with 8GB running FreeNAS for replicated storage, three with 16GB (Yes, it's possible http://n40l.wikia.com/wiki/Memory) running VMWare ESX. All have three NICs and they plug into a managed gig switch.

So costs?

5 N40L's with the cashback = £500. Lets say £600 including delivery.

RAM - 4 x 4GB = £105.58

RAM - 6 x 8GB = £312

FreeNAS hard drives = 10 x 2TB = £1600 (7.1tb usable per NAS box if you use RAID5).

10 Intel CT Nics = £423.6

Netgear Gigabit managed switch GS748T = £297.58

Total = £3338.76 not including money back from selling the old RAM on ebay.

The article says the total was $7965 which works out to £4901.77 and I'd say that the N40L route is a better route because of the options for different configurations, scenarios, etc.

It's scary how uneducated and easily lead some youth appear to be in this day. We've had so many 'end of the world' predictions that it would be comical if people weren't actually taken in.

those peddling such schemes should be arrested or something. they are evil, manipulative so and so's preying on the weak minded in much the same way as any other confidence trickster.

So if files are not property of the owner does that mean that all US govt files are also not property of the US Govt? If so, doesn't that mean that they should all be freely accessible?

Ah good glad that one is fixed. I mean, it's only the fourth (or more?) times that McAfee have released an update thats broken a PC. Anyone recall the definition file that required an engine upgrade? If you didn't upgrade the engine the definition file would trash McAfee and cause PC problems.

Or the Engine update that tanked the PC

or the definition update that broke the application

and so on. McAfee are a joke now.

I had train delays in Stratford a week prior to the Olympics and you'd think that just a week before the big event I'd be able to get a mobile signal to call my wife and tell her? Nope. Not a thing. I had to walk away from Stratford before I picked a signal up so O2 not having the capacity over at box hill doesn't surprise me. If they are asking people to stop using services then they have failed as mobile carrier network.

She had no role in the design of the robot arm. That was built in canada and it was Julie Payette that had most invovlement.

Sally rides death is another terrible blow to the shuttle programme which itself is now dead.

This article -> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176371/London-2012-Olympics-Ministers-ordered-use-public-transport-chauffeured-cars.html?ito=feeds-newsxml <- Says that MPs have been told to use public transport - if so, just what are the Zil lanes for?

The DM article adds 'But furious MPs have said they would rather watch the Games on TV than cram onto the underground or buses, which would leave them too grumpy to schmooze their guests.'

Now, who can say 'Out of touch fat cats'?

I agree with keep following it. Always good when a scam is exposed.

"However, the E-Cat has been a hit among green energy enthusiasts as a "save the world" technology."

Proof that the green energy lot really are as stupid as they look.

"the security firm offered to fulfill the contract at a price 25% less than that of competitors"

With 25% less staff? I wonder if that was planned from the start.... Certainly agree with the above comments about G4S blaming technology. If the tech was such an issue why wasn't it picked up when the first 1,000/2,000 were recruited?

The O2 situation seems to be getting worse. There is still an outage, calls are being dropped rather than going to voicemail. The O2 website is titsup.com and the call centre staff went home at 8pm (And it costs 5p per min to call them).

Meanwhile on Twitter the O2 account says 'Engineers are working hard to fix it' but there is no ETA. We are not some 10 hours into the outage. At this point they should have an idea of the root cause and an ETA.

Heads need to roll and there needs to be an investigation.

Had an outage in Maidstone a few weeks back - one that was never listed on BT really crap status page and often in the evenings the system creaks to a halt. Maybe time for a new vendor as it seems that BT isn't keeping pace with the requirements of the users?

A repeat of Windows Update Mistakes from years back

which the security/WSUS teams spent a considerable amount of time fixing. This comment on the technet forum seems to sum it up:

'This is now a confirmed issue, and since remediated by expiring the Skype update. In short, the Skype team screwed up the package. The really sad part is that apparently nobody actually tested the package against a machine that did not already have Skype installed.'

How did the Skype team get an update package into the main distribution channel without the updates team being able to test/see the results of a test plan. Bad, bad practice all round.

BT seriously need to sort out their outage reporting process. Kent was listed as one place as affected by one tool but not another and for most of yeterday evening broadband was slower than dial up.

bigger screen but I see that the text still doesn't fit - the 's' on 'Games' still goes off the right hand side.

I know its 'design' and 'chic' but I just find it ugly and broken.

I'd be curious to know what monitoring they had in place. Is this a case of them not replacing failed disks or of losing a rack of disks. Either way, it's something that should have been known about and listed as a risk long ago.

'certain contracts had "delivery and margin challenges".'

In other words they have taken on conrtracts that won't deliver a profit and so they blame all the staff. I bet they won't undertake a review of how those 'challenges' actually occured...

How much actually went on Cyber Security?

I'll bet that most of that $58mil went on glossy reports and powerpoint slides highlighting to non-IT Managers just how much certain software and hardware was required only for those same managers to comission another study.

trains wouldn't move, traffic would be gridlocked - Sounds like a normal day to me. My wife is often in gridlocked traffic and communting from the Southeast into London is rarely without problem.

phones and the internet wouldn't work - So move away from blackberry and BT Internet?

the financial markets would be devastated - And this is differerent from today how exactly?

planes and ships would be lost and wrecked - OK, we don't see planes and ships being lost every day but it happens.

People do know that DBA = Does Bugger All?

Right?

When did weather ballons reach Mach 10?

Could the source be Sony?

"The attack – which used password and user ID combinations from an unidentified third-party source" What like the hack attack which stole user IDs and passwords back over Easter?

Oh goody. Another law that will only affect those who obey the law

This law is half baked and pointless. The people you want to block cookies from are the very people who won't pay attention to the law then you have the whole issue of sites outside europe carrying on doing what they want.

The official guidance from uk.gov is laughable. It's clear that even they don't understand it and are almost cerainly violating it.

BOFH is back on form

Agreed with the PFY's comments about the Directors PA's underwear & gin party. That had me in fits of laughter.

And the landfil comment. I must use that sometime. Brilliant.