Posts by Danny 14 4301 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2009
Really? Whilst the hoohar over huawei is just Trump spitting his dummy out over taxes, China is hardly a sparkling example of good behaviour.
Tiananmen square alone will attest to that. That being said, lumping all 'Asians' together (with Chinese) is as useful as lumping Trump together with all 'Westerners' including Germans and Brazilians.
easy solution is cheap public transport. I needed to get to Manchester last month for a training day. I was given the training date 3 weeks before I was to travel. I live in rural Lake District so that bit is on me, that being said, to get from Carlisle to Manchester for a meeting starting at 9.30AM involved a change at Preston (no biggie) but was going to cost £60. Or I could drive £20 in diesel and park for £14 all day, which is what I did.
Fast forward to 2 months time and 2 of us are going to a conference in London. Plenty of time so far but train tickets will be 160 return each. Righto. Or we can spend £60 on diesel, £whatever on congestion charge and £20 to park all day at a managed car park, since we both have oysters I could probably park somewhere more sensible and tube outside the congestion zone if need be. Utterly insane pricing.
simple answer is dont use shit providers. BT, Sky and TalkTalk are consistenly named as bad customer service companies over and over again. I bet the likes of A&A, Zen etc wont drag their feet or mess you about.
You get what you pay for at the end of the day.
you clearly do not have kids. Our three are always calling and video calling their mates. If the cat is having a mad hour then all three are almost live streaming to their mates. If you want to do any sort of work from home then you need upload too, the better half is a teacher and uses a VPN to access work stuff. We went from a 10Mb to 20Mb upload and instantly noticed, well the kids noticed they can now upstream 1080p anway.
There is an industry around bad broadband here in the Lakes, solway communications was born out of BT refusal to upgrade ADSL cabinets. Solway isnt as cheap as BT but you speak to a local up the road in their call center when things go wrong and the latency is good. The tech is point to point wireless (using ubiquiti gear).
Im lucky enough to have recently moved to Zen after BT *did* upgrade our local cabinet, almost out of the blue. The router (and the map pretty much agrees its likely) that the cabinet is about 430m away and we get 75/20 which is damn stonking.
Many reasons and the main one depends on what you mean by camping and hiking. One of the reasons im seriously thinking about this is training. We do quite a bit of outdoor ed, we already take a laptop with us (a rather aged dell rugged thing that really hasnt died). We teach in a few outdoor places such as Black Sail Hut, Skiddaw House and "somewhere roundabout Caldbeck" depending on the weather and the number of pupils. This sort of projector might work depending on exactly HOW dark it needs to be - students would be making notes but not many. The places we go have no power other than what you bring and thats the beauty.
As for camping, I personally do two sorts, one to get away from it all and one to get away from the city. The latter sometimes involves electric tent pitch, laptop and such. With a projector we can sit around at night whilst the kids watch netflix (somewhere like ParkFoot in Ullswater has excellent 4G), this is a holiday not a prison camp so we always have a variety of things to do, we also go camping with family so there are lots of age groups adn we tend to keep ourselves away from others so we can sit out late at night without disturbing others.
yes. ive planned for a 24/7 critical monitor. you need 4 man days per day minimum. the 1 extra is the holiday/sickness plan with 8 hour shifts plus breaks. Its the breaks that are the issue and always the weak flag. Plus lateness due to traffic. You need contingency on minimum for long term sickness, this client wanted to pull from core IT as contingency.
That being said I budgeted just short of 100k per year and that included pension and tax. Job was circa 18k for the technician grade and 4 people were employed. This ran for 2 years until it was offshored.
16gb? probably few people. 32Gb or even 64gb? loads I imagine. They are cheap and functional. Atom cpus arent that bad, they run netflix, RDP, browsing, and various reader software quite nicely. I use a dell venue 8, the size is right, battery is good, the screen is nice and it was free (it even has a natty little folio keyboard that I dont tend to use as it adds bulk). Why should I turf it out when it does everything I want it to? It certainly isnt slow, its fast enough on the web, plays netflix nicely (and can HDMI to hotel TVs)
32Gb for an OS is just stupid. Reserving 7gb for shit'n'giggles is (again) just ridiculous.
ForEach($app in $appname){
# Remove apps from current user
Get-AppxPackage -Name $app | Remove-AppxPackage -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
# Remove apps from all users - may need to reboot after running above and run this again
Get-AppxPackage -Allusers -Name $app | Remove-AppxPackage -Allusers -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
# Remove apps from provisioned apps list so they don't reinstall on new users
Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | where {$_.PackageName -like $app} | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
}
stick a nice list of $appname for what you want to remove (in nice friendly "*Microsoft.BingWeather*" format). Has worked for me flawlessly. In fact, after 1709 W10 has remembered what ive deprovisioned so ive not had to run this since.
hmm, I use a dell venue 8 tablet (32Gb) that has vanilla 8.1 on it. That has less than 7Gb free space and is used purely as an RDP mule, netflix device (it has HDMI out for TVs) and book reader when i'm away. Sure I can use a kindle, get a proper mobile phone etc but it was given to me for nothing and the battery is surprisingly good. I would shudder to put windows 10 and its huge updates on there.
aye, I think it was exchange 5.5 that I first worked on and it would do some really weird things at times. It was also very sensitive to mailbox sizes and database sizes. I remember making registry changes to override some restrictions (a shiny new server 2000 system at the time). It was fairly voodoo back then (but the client was moving from Lotus Notes, hard to say which was funkier to work on).
by default it doesn't. However, you can set some very funky replication options if you dig deep enough. Exchange is fine for a mail server - it all depends on what your client wants and what they use. Exchange does more than just send emails - yes there are alternatives out there.
in my youth i spent money like it was going out of fashion. I used to earn about 12k disposable at 18 (armed forces engineering officer) and had a fetish for fast motorbikes. I bought a second hand gpz900r on a whim and hooned it back from germany to the ferry in holland each week. i saved for a brand new cbr900 and managed to ride fully wound out (and be overtaken). I saved nothing and didnt think of the future. It was only when i hit 24 i decided to stop being silly and spent my now captain wages on a house and car (ford escort rs cosworth....)
sometimes money doesnt mean much to you.
pre vw skoda? no way. I had an estelle. It was quite simply THE most fun drive you will ever have. The engine was just on the rear wheels and it had a concrete slab in the front boot, as such it was perfectly balanced. It would step out on command around roundabouts and straighten up nicely when exiting. Drifting was a normal part of wet road driving but it never felt like a ditch finder, take foot off the accelerator and it would catch again, no handbrake needed at all. Since the steering wheel was huge you soon built up muscles and it looked good when turning.
It was cast out of pure pig iron I think, having driven into many bollards, lamp posts and other things it never seemed to accumulate damage. The colour was originally blue but faded to turquoise in the sun. It never needed repairing, brake shoes and im not even sure it needed oil in the 2 years i ran it.
I miss that car, i still remember smoking 2 fags back to back after a run over hardknott pass. great times.
MCAS cant be ripped out. Boeing reused the certified 737 airframe with upgraded engines. The upgraded engines have changed the aerodynamics thus needing MCAS to fly.
Realistically boeing needs a new plane with the new engines but certification is expensive. Cheaper to retrofit and it seems the innocent passengers have paid with their lives for the cheap retrofit.
It costs us no more that it used to. We initially installed 1511, then WSUS'd to 1709 a couple of years later, now we are going to 1809 a couple of years later. A 2 year OS update is no more than we did with XP->W7 then W7 SP1, then 8.1 now 10. I suppose that if you keep to the 6 month update and have to fix the bugs then I feel sorry for you.
The REALLY frightening thing is that there is apparently a server channel that runs the same 6 month updates. Jesus, I feel for those people who effectively do an inplace update on their server every 6 months!
We rolled 1809-2019-03B to a room of 30 machines on Friday via WSUS without issue, this was a far cry from the November update which barfed on the same 30 machines (before rolling back automatically). We also rolled out 15 machine via PDQ and the 1809 ENT ISO (VL) running the /auto update switch, all these worked also. The plan is to roll 1809 to a further 500 machines next week - im happy to use WSUS for this.
they did yes, but that was for those who probably started 1809 before it was yanked. However this release effecting says feature update is CBB ready. My WSUS lists it as "1809 2019-03B" as opposed to the 1809 in nov. The 2019-03B supersedes the latter but doesn't seem to be a different size.
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