Posts by WOOOOO

Re: So... who's going to upgrade first?

I've gone from 3 > 3.5 > 4 > 5 > 5.1 > 5.5 without waiting long and not had any show stopping incidents. As long as you plan ahead, there's plenty of information out there to use. Past upgrades you can run mixed clusters to let them test for a period before going all in, hopefully 6 will be the same.

Re: Regulation

Whilst i would always take an insured taxi and in uber's case agree the risk of a traffic accident warrants the regulation, isn't the "nanny state" point that HSE gets to involved because the too many people are brain washed into a blame culture? So those of us who see free choice as a human right are somewhat restricted. E.g. the cheese rollers of the world.

Good way to stimulate the ecomony with HSE directives over any slightest fear of accidents!

Re: As fans on the expanded universe know...

It happens in this trilogy of books, all the Thrawn books written by Timothy Zahn are excellent in my opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrawn_trilogy

Re: Brodit device mounts - seriously wonderful

Even cheaper I have the osmand+ app on my phone. About 6 quid and you can download any map you want. Granted as it's open source so not all countries are complete but it got me 2000 miles round europe on my motorbike. Imports from google maps easy once converted to gpx. If you are a biker worth looking up the So Easy Rider v5, it lets you velcro your phone or sat nav onto your handle bars, works a treat. Also works on mountain bikes!

Re: Exchange, first usable spreadsheet, NT

I have done a largish migration from Domino/Notes to Exchange/Outlook so genuinely interested in what makes you say Exchange is evil?

Re: Splash Wave. Yes.

I have a mate at work who has a few arcade cabinets at home, he invited me to a retro game party a few months ago where they had an original stand up Outrun as well as many other classics. My night was made up when I had several goes on an original Star Wars arcade machine, it had only been fixed that week. Apparently the explosion when you destroy the death star causes havoc with the monitor as it is so bright combined with the way the 3D style graphics are drawn!

Re: Easy

Datecenter edition licenses are a good option if your budget can cover them. It would make sense in a green field or an large enterprise. I have always worked in mid sized companies where projects are deploying a handful to a dozen servers at a time. The way the budgets are done just won't allow the huge expense of Datacenter edition for an entire cluster. When I first deployed ESX for a large(ish) VMware cluster to replace an all physical data centre we still re-used the existing licenses as we virtualised. In the long run you end up paying over the odds as Standard (or in the past Enterprise) versions are bought piecemeal, which MS must be well aware of and happy about!

@AC I doubt the artists were paid fairly, remember the Stone Roses being screwed out of CD royalties? The big corporations will always screw everyone and most musicians are too passionate and/or desperate about wanting to play. For me that's the real issue rather than Spotify.