Sir Ed is so dense that I'm sure if Fujitsu told him the earth was flat he'd have believed them.
Posts by Flywheel
1082 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jan 2013
Former Post Office boss returns CBE to sender over computer system scandal
CEO Satya Nadella thinks Microsoft hung up on Windows Phone too soon
UK flights disrupted by 'technical issue' with air traffic computer system
Microsoft’s Azure mishap betrays an industry blind to a big problem
Up to 18,000 Amazon workers in firing line as it chops cost
UK facing electricity supply woes after nuclear power stations shut, MPs told
Severn Barrage
"Severn barrage"
I seem to remember that there was a tidal scheme planned for Cardiff Bay but the morons in Downing Street cancelled it at the last minute. Idiots!
What's up with WhatsApp? Messaging platform suffers outage in the UK
Lash#Cat9: A radical new Linux UI for keyboard warriors
Infosec still (mostly) a boys club
Cost of living crisis less of problem for tech pro retirees than others
Interesting
I'm due to retire Real Soon Now and have little or no intention of going back to my "developer" job trying to write ever more ingenious software that can make sense of the crap data that clients send in.
Updating skills and qualifications as a matter of course might be a good way to go. As we pointed out previously, a poster on Hacker News said: "The only way that age becomes a detriment is if you do not grow."
Ha! Call me sceptical, but when I'm free of the corporate red-tape la-la I'll be growing like a giant - my side-projects will be testament to that.
California to phase out gas furnaces, water heaters by 2030
Re: Wishful thinking
> any attempt to force the issue is likely to have devastating political consequences
Ah... like the UK, this sentence tells us exactly why we (as a planet) will never achieve Net Zero. Never mind that Mother Nature is throwing her fiery and watery toys out of the pram and some of us are running out of water (while others drown in it); no politician has the guts to say what really needs to be done to save us, and actually do it!
Re: Are they mandating the replacement tech?
> heat pump ...They're quite viable for new construction
It'll be interesting to see how this progresses: looking at some of the potential ones on offer in the UK it'd mean quite a sizeable chunk of outside space, and I suspect the noise level, if similar to aircon would be noticeable enough to be annoying on a new estate.
Serious surfer? How to browse like a pro on Firefox
Datacenter outages are costing more, $1m+ failures now common
Re: Good timing
I suspect it'll take at least a month for mangelement to make up its mind one way or the other
Maybe they'll listen to the UK Government and realise that we all have until 2050 to get our acts together, by which time the UK will just magically switch to carbon-free power. It'll be fine.
"Mr Flywheel, time to wake up and take your meds"...
Admins run into Group Policy problems after Win10 update
Re: There are other options that could make you happy, you just have to take the first step
I did that years ago and have never regretted it. I love my Linux updates which are fast, unobtrusive and often release space after the updates are complete. Reboot? Nope - rarely.
I installed a (legal) copy of Windows 10 Pro 64 bit on Virtualbox though, just because I need to run "real" Excel occasionally and yes, all it does is updates, updates and more updates.
By Jove! Jupiter to make closest approach to Earth in 70 years next Monday
IBM wins contract to support NHS App
Government buyers take 22 months on average to procure tech
Microsoft to stop accepting checks from partners
$50m+ contract for crime-fighting IT system won by Fujitsu after no one else bid
Amazon has repackaged surveillance capitalism as reality TV
Re: Apathy is the problem
Talking of Plod, we had a spate of anti-social behaviour outside our and neighbours houses, and luckily we were able to capture a couple of weeks-worth of depressing yobbery on our front door CCTV (not a Ring). The first thing the police asked when we eventually involved them was "do you have CCTV?" and "can you send us a copy of the relevant bits?". We duly did, and the problem was sorted within weeks.
Prior to that though, we made damn' sure with the aid of the installer that other peoples' privacy was maintained as far as possible which we were able to do because of the cam's ball and socket mounting. Ultimately, from the (limited) overspill coverage our immediate neighbours will benefit if their property is threatened.
UK's largest water company investigates datacenters' use as drought hits
Lloyd's to exclude certain nation-state attacks from cyber insurance policies
Supply chain worries heat up again as China shuts down factories to cool its citizens
When will the UK take another giant leap into space?
Our software is perfect. If something has gone wrong, it must be YOUR fault
UK wants criminal migrants to scan their faces up to five times a day using a watch
Tesla promises to build robot you could beat up – or beat in a race
Raspberry Pi 4 takes a trip to Vulkan, sharpens 3D vision
Tut!
Sounds good, but I'm still waiting for the avalanche of emails that I signed up for promising to "mail me when we have some in stock". That was so long I decided to just not bother. And yes, I've heard of the geolocator thing, and no, for the last time I don't want a frigging Raspberry Pi Pico W, with or without wireless. FFS.
Homes in London under threat as datacenters pull in all the power
Re: I still don't understand
one apartment building = dozens of families and a tiny (usually already crowded) roof
Let me see now .. solar panels benefits the block tenants, so no money to made there. Lots of phone masts looking like a metal porcupine = a steady stream of money for the block owner. As usual, it's down to dirty money.
Chinese booster rocket tumbles back to Earth: 'Non-zero' chance of hitting populated area
Devo have covered this ...
Your job was probably outsourced for exactly the reason you suspected
Amazon sues 10,000 Facebook Group admins for offering fake reviews
Amazon - letting their own market place be polluted...
Actually, look at the number of reviews that end with the statement "at that price I can't be bothered to return [faulty item]".
It's getting so bad now that I usually look for reviews on other, more credible sites before I spend money with Amazon.
Security flaws in GPS trackers can be abused to cut off fuel to vehicles, CISA warns
UK Info Commissioner slams use of WhatsApp by health officials during pandemic
Canadian ISP Rogers falls over for hours, takes out broadband, cable, cellphones
Pentester says he broke into datacenter via hidden route running behind toilets
Supply chain blamed amid claims of Azure capacity issues
UK signs deal to share police biometric database with US border guards
Is computer vision the cure for school shootings? Likely not
Re: Self defence.
Hopefully you missed off the /s at the end of your post, but in case you didn't, there's this https://abcnews.go.com/US/year-boy-fatally-shoots-year-girl-finding-dads/story?id=85847028
NanoAvionics satellite pulls out GoPro to take stunning selfie over Earth
First steps into the world of thought leadership: What could go wrong?
My Employee!
The rest? I honestly haven't a clue who they are. They ask to connect and I accept
I was on Linkedin a while back, in the days when I foolishly assumed I could take pictures for the music industry and get paid. One day I looked at my LinkedIn account and was surprised and amazed to find that I had not only acquired an employee (in Mumbai), but that he had been working for me for over a year! I tied unsuccessfully to contact "John" (for that was not his name), and then tried to contacting "Support" to get him removed. I heard nothing. The worrying thing was that he didn't even bother to ask to connect. What a great system!