Re: Holy crap, Microsoft....
24 hours!!!! For A BANK!!!!!!
Grief. Its not brain surgery to put 15 mins in place and trivial to reduce that to 30secs if you have the bandwidth / processor / storage to backup the T-logs.
24 HOURS!!!! SERIOUSLY!!!
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True. And in accordance wiith that law it would appear that 33 years ago I raped my girlfriend. She was approaching 16. I had already 'become a man' (though my perfomance left sometihng, oh ok everything, to be desired. When she said "Is that it"? I nearly died.
Theres nothing llike losing your virginity :--(
As well as being a complete sex obsessed pervert, I am also scfi obsessed, it has to be said, which I don't consider a bad thing.
And its always nice to be able to throw a bit of Ursula Le Guin into a discusssion on gender politics or socioeconomics.
And never hard to drop a bit of Joe Haldeman into discussions around the futiility of military-indusstrial complex.
I can even drop a bit of Arthur C into peoples Sri Lanka holiday stories.
I read all kinds of XXX rated filth when I was 11. My dad used to take me to the library every saturday morning before swimming to get my 4 books for the week. The fact I was working my way through the sifi section of the library from A-Z and diidn't actually realise some of that shit was much more graphic than his CofE princiiples might hhave recommendeed escaped him.
And so I have lived my life as a sex obsesssed pervert. I blame my dad. Or the library. Or the scfi authors. Or someone. There has to be someone to blame!!!!!. The Daily Mail said so . . .
It doesn't souund like the project was suitable for Agile anyway. Not in the first instance anyway . . . "embarking on re-planning activities that not only adversely affected the project but also frustrated rather than assisted the Claimant's purported aim of vacating its legacy data centre,"
So if the aim is to lift and shift why are you running an agile project which is good at introducing new functionality. If you want to rewrite and replatform existing functionality as part of the migration then thats big bang waterfall - do an agile thing after to deliver new functionality once you got the hard bit out of the way . . .
My 2 cents, and I worked on the Coop Bank website replatforming (to IBM) so have some scars.
Indeed - private sector projects can go completely titsup.
I was at Old Mutual Wealth in the early stages of this one for example. Everyone involved (except for the consultancy supposed to deliver it and the Aussie software company supposed to build it) was just looking on in disbelief at the millions being spent with the wrong supplier.
https://www.moneymarketing.co.uk/omw-cancels-contract-ifds-replatforming-project/
IFDS claimed to have an off the shelf platform ready to go . . .
One of OMWs directors was rumoured to have a significant stake in IFDS . . .
Well said. The run rate on projects like this is eye watering. Its for a 6 month project over-run to blow the potential savings 20 years down the road.
Just thinking . . . do we have an example of a big governent technology project thats actually delivered to time and budget (and yes I realise that's more a problem of politicians (and the Capita, IBM, Atos, etc salespeople) making promises they hadn't checked with the techies than the techies failing to do a good job)?
"But such is politics. Buy US gas, not Russian!"
Yeah cos Donald Trump is the ultimate representation of good in the world . . . The US hasn't started more wars since world war II than any other nation . . . And the only war the Russians have started outside of their territory (bar border altercations like the Ukraine thing) they miserably lost to the Afghanis, because of American interference vis Osama . . . Then the Americans broke all their promises to Osama and 9/11 happened.
The Americans are great!!!!!
I give up :-(
(P.s.: I love getting down voted for a controversial post, but not sure which way this ones gonna go. Find out tomorrow.)
Theres always edge cases!!
Sitting here typing this on my 12 year old gaming rig (yeah try playing a game now) which got the update this morning and everything is coolio. Its not like any other OS publisher ever encounters update snafus.
I do find the Intel driver ones particularly embarrassing for both Intel and MS however.
I'm learning Spanish at the moment. Taught by Spanish people - Javi & Sara - varies week to week.
Anyway the reason you can't get a decent cup of tea in Spain is they haven't invented the kettle yet. They don 't have a word for it even. The concept of a device to boil water with in order to make proper tea is completely alien.
They keep raving at the genius that is the kettle in the corner of the classroom.
They are less impressed with instant Nescafe (and rightly so).
Its not as bad as all that unless you consider a contract that is considered 'inside' IR35 and haven't doubled the rate to allow for that.
As long as its not mandated 'inside' everything's fine. If it is mandated then ask for at least 50% more money. Start higher - x2!! (though 50% probably covers it)
Its interesting. I like their honesty though. Not often you get to learn from a fuck up. I'm pleased they are sharing so we can all improve unlike all the other fuckers who keep the root cause of their outages, or breaches, a secret.
Theres been quite a lot in this thread about the "rainbow haired pronoun crowd". Not sure why. Must have been in the original article somewhere.
Anyway, as an out of the box WASP, could I just say that anyone that says anything derogatory at work about my gay, trans, black, asian whatever colleagues gets put in their box quite quickly by me. If they don't like it they can deal with HR/union. If their work is crap its nothing to do with the colour of their skin, their gender identity, or their sexuality so why the fuck bring it up.
Out of work I'd be much less tolerant of intolerance. My god kids are mixed race. Family members aren't straight. Watch who you are insulting.
"British bad management—and I mean, really, hopelessly ignorant, tone-deaf, counterproductive and often arrogant dimwits"
I work with one of those but he's the classic techie promoted into a mangtement job and so grinds everything to a standstill as everything has to be approved/designed/implemented by him [cos hes the best techie obv] rather than jiust let his very competent staff just get on with getting shit done [which they really want to and are being demotivated into their graves by his need to be a hero].
That is much more often the reason for bad management in UK IT than putting competent managers in to give techies their room to excel.
Mintel . . takes me back . . . I am now officially old enough to remember things no-one should be old enough to remember. I was 10 when I plugged a phone into a cradle so that the noises coming out (and in) gave you a network connection. And only a geeky ten year old gave a shit.
We have come a hell of a long way.
@ Jedipadawan
I did say i was being a grumpy old man when I posted it. Your answer - your suggestion that I need to spend a load of time re configuring Libre to match MS just makes me more grumpy. Would you rather I:
a. Spend some time with my friends family and some beer
b. Faff about with Office interfaces to save myself £40 a year (or something - can't be arsed to work it out - theres family friends and beer)
You choose?
I'd side wiith anyone except Teradata having worked with them. Have you tried to work with them? It seems to involve you paying £1/2 million quid for hardware, support, services that you have no idea what to do with and then £5 million on top to learrn what to do wiith the "solution" they sold you.
Utter fuck wit con artists that I never want to deal with again!!!!
"Despite all the self-puffery, HSCN merely replaces a previous BT system, N3, which closed to new business at the end of March 2017. According to NHS Digital, "well over 50 per cent" of N3 users have now dropped dosh on an HSCN provider, though the contract is not a BT monopoly."
So we are reporting a contract renewal? Are we? Hard to tell.
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{pukes up rendom amphibian in response to . . }
"What was therefore teased was an Arm64 device running four Arm-compatible guest operating systems and applications on a port of VMware's bare-metal hypervisor with fault tolerance"
You do realise that Fault Tolerance means something very specific in VMWare world. Its about running a live synchronised version of the VM on an alternate host in case of host failure (I've yet to run into this in the wiild). The article seems to imply a demo on a single host which wouldn't allow for that. It also doesn't allow for the lower level of fault tolerance, High Availability, which will move a VM to another available host in the event of host failure.
What was demo'd was a single host running 4 VMs, not anything at all either 'Fault Tolerant' or 'High Availablity'.
I'm not sure they've ever been overly secret about their business model. But hen I've been reading the Register pretty much since its inception. The average user is much less aware.
We really should stop whining about it and get together in our spare time to design and build an alternative to Android. Theres probably enough skills and experience on here to at least get a working proto up to go get some funding with . . .
Hardwares a different problem.