* Posts by andy bird

14 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Mar 2009

Claims emerge that Citrix has doubled price of month-to-month partner licenses

andy bird

Re: VMware

Xcp-ng ?

Fed up with cloud giants ripping off its database, MongoDB forks new 'open-source license'

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so any host offering apache / nginx (should they go the same way) will have to cough up?

Ticketmaster breach 'part of massive bank card slurping campaign'

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pci is near useless

Nearly all of the PCI mandated 'hoops' and certainly the typical Security Metrix type scans all focus on the server side of the problem.. which is the least likely attack vector.

Why bother attacking the 300ft wall when the application just leaves the door wide open. PCI scans almost never flag unpatched / out of date applications.

Sysadmin unplugged wrong server, ran away, hoped nobody noticed

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and your point is?

Brit retailer Currys PC World says sorry for Know How scam

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I snorted once when overhearing a sales girl telling a couple how her grandad.. who normally never comments on anything.. was shocked at how much better the £75 hdmi cable made his tv

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A few years back before the pc world stores were merged with curries we tried to buy a laptop. After half an hour of saying no to all the up sells we walked out. We went next door into Currys grabbed a sales rep and got her to walk next door and fetch the laptop.. she had the good grace not to try any up sells.

OVH data centres go TITSUP: Power supply blunders blamed

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Re: "Small Earthquake In Peru - Not Many Injured" *

I wonder if there was a global drop in spam attacks and bot net attacks. I am sick of seeing compromised OVH servers trying to spam out network

LG’s V20 may be the phone of the year. So why the fsck can’t you buy it?

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Re: 7 meeellllion?

yeh.. fallen back to my Note 4 till Samsung announce something useful

Got the Brexit fear? Keep calm and keep using AWS – Amazon UK boss

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If they bill in $ then no one can afford it over here

RM has been schooled: Sales fell by over £69m in fiscal 2014

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them where the days

Any one who worked in school IT back in the day owe something to RM.. either fixing their crap or maintaining it..

as for "and, sorry, but the font is horrid - but teachers love it for reasons I cannot fathom" the Sasoon font had an A that looked like a handwritten A (the way teachers like it to be written)

UK schools to maintain ICT spending

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hmmm

The article was bad enough.. the above comments just as bad...

1st off this survey was taken way back in June This MUST have been before the current gov announced that the only ring fenced ICT grant (Harnessing Technology) was cut by £50 million IN YEAR. This was unprecedented. Why? in order to fund the gov plans for Free Schools!!! In the words of Mr Gove this was a "low priority ICT grant." You recall there were 62 free schools. Next year there will be NO harnessing technology grant.. £100M less in the schools that was ring fenced for IT spending.

In reality this grant funded the schools internet connection and refreshing hardware.

Couple this with the end of the BSF programmes and the ICT spending and infrastructure in general is going to go down the drain if something does not happen soon. ignore what you have heard BSF = massive regeneration of school building and ICT. This will be disastrous for the UK IT industry (not just RM who only have a presence in some authorities) and FOR OUR PUPILS!! Remember them.

The UK has a huge international lead on our use of ICT in teaching and learning. This is about to go.. as a small local authority we have hosted many an international visti and they all go away wide eyed at how far our schools are ahead. They then run back home and start to catch up.

@Anonymous Coward the worst possible thing that can happen to a schools ICT plans is to

@tron ... the Communications part is just as important.

Child exploitation chief to defend net snooping plans

andy bird

Paedo Finder General

lol.. so you have seen him speak as well?

you are left with the feeling that anyone who dares disagree with him is a child hating wacko and must be guilty.. burn them all.

Symbian show struggles for identity

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such a shame

ok ...

1) the Tesla analogy is apt. Symbian is an established platform and should be leading not imitating instead they are looking to the new platforms on the block for inspiration.

2) this is a real shame. i am new to the smartphone market and bought the symbian based e71 and am amazed what it can do especially compared the crippled iphone platform. Symbian should be shouting from the roof tops that not only can it do anything an iphone can but it can do a lot more.

YouTube blocks music videos in UK

andy bird
Pirate

OR How to make children into pirates

My two daughters watch vids on youtube all the time.. it will take them 30 seconds to switch to pirate bay when they discover they cant watch them any more

idiots