Posts by Mr_Flibble

I used to look after equipment in the tallest building in our town.

To gain access to it you had to get the lift to the top floor then walk up some stairs into a very dark room with a light switch to the right in the dark.

Unfortunately the telco who also had equipment up there decided to put their main shutoff switch close to this switch.

I may of on occasion flicked the wrong switch.

I know this because when I returned I noticed the shut off switch had been moved far away from the light switch and no longer was easy to confuse in the dark for the light switch.

We are actively looking into alternate systems.

We have even already deployed the MS version to a customer in the wake of this and any future products and contracts have broadcom merger listed as a major risk of failure.

The number of clients that think they don't need backups because it is in the cloud is ridiculus.

Including an IT teacher that was the leading voice at a school for their IT roadpath.

Actually

What costs a lot of money in government it is all the security regulations (half of them being pointless)

Being forced to use an internet connection (where a 2Mb link costs almost £100k)

Also in a lot of cases they will not use open source as they don't know anything about it, and if they don't know about it it's insecure.

So as usual red tape costs more money.

Canada

The same Canada that have stupid levies placed on recordable media.

The same Canada where it is not illegal to download copyright material because of aformentioned levies.

The same Canada that the industry wants to change the law up the levies and give nothing back.

f'ed in the a'

Hmm lets see buy a ps3 for the price of half decent pc

or buy an xbox360 which will break.

The choice seems obvious.

It's Wii time (now where's that lightsaber game ?)

Pay for this ???

Last time I was tied down treated unfairly and charged for it I was in Amsterdam.

Really who would want to pay for it ?

Half of our network services won't run on it.

We have already stopped buying Sony viao laptops because it has it on.

Thanks but no thanks I have enough problems.

That and now even games designed for it can be cracked I have even less reason to use it.