Posts by Spit The Dog

There was something else going on with Southern water at the same time

There was little or no water supply to large areas and people were being asked to collect bottled drinking water from supermarket car parks. Schools were closed for the day as they had no water supply. My daughter is a teacher in one of the affected schools. Strange coincidence?

Lighting

Try and buy a light fitting where the bulb can be changed. Many are fixed LEDs. I wondered who paid the electrician to replace it if it failed in the warranty period?

So who paid the bill?

Did the patent "assertion entity" end up paying the court costs?

Driving 1 ton of metal pumping out poison gas taking up 100 sq ft of road on our own at busy times in town has always been ridiculous and we know it.

But it's been encouraged by 60-70 years of government non-policy.

Come on DoT and councils, make it harder to get our car out and drive if we live in town, nudge us towards more sustainable behaviour.

Dense residential areas, cul-de-sacs and shopping areas - pedestrians and cyclists share road space and have priority.

Cycle paths have priority over side roads in urban areas

Urban (and rural) rat runs are time and distance camera controlled to 25 mph?, 20 is just ridiculous.

Restart the fossil fuel price escalator and use the money for sustainable transport.

Make workplace parking a benefit in kind.

No non-disabled parking within half a mile of school at drop-off and pick-up times.

Too difficult?, too expensive? too lazy to get off your bum?

Our GIFFGAFF Goody bag

Costs £7.50 a month each for both of us for 2 GB, texts and 200 minutes of talk. Easily covers our usage. 15 quid a month and neither of us notice any data speed issues out here in Wilts compared with our previous provider VF who were hitting us with £40 a month sim only. In fact, in over subscribed data environments, 20000 crowd at football which I regularly attend, VF never had coverage and GG over O2 still works.

Funny that the VT for the required timeslot is always missing or "overwritten" when your securely locked bike's been nicked.

It's no surprise...

Solaris through all it's incarnations and various enterprises has given me a good living since 1991 and I currently look after some small M series Sparc hardware that do the heavy lifting in Windows domains. We've recently bought some M10-1 machines for their LDOM capability. The ironic thing is and the unpalatable truth for many on the internet is that in my recent experience I've found Solaris under Oracle actually works when it's released and all the buggy stuff we used to get with new releases from Sun usually work first time now. No doubt some troll will highlight some patch or other that didn't work but my job is definitely a lot easier nowadays.

What links the companies I've worked for and why Solaris has no chance is that the accountants have the final decisions in an enterprise and they will save pennies this quarter (because that's how they're appraised) which will cost the enterprise thousands of pounds in the medium/long term, that's the way in nearly all organisations in the UK and the USA. So which two modern western economies have the lowest productivity because everyone at the coalface is demoralised?, um, now let me see. We see no chance of things changing for the better but only a relentless annual chipping away of T&Cs on flexitime, expenses etc (I've chosen not to travel for work for a few years now). Companies just seem to want to hack their own employees off for no good reason.

This continued austerity does none of us any good, it's just depressing. It doesn't even feed into better profitability.

Sorry to go off topic but believe the poor decision making is all linked to the downward spiral.

Is it just me?

Or are the brexiters treating the EU referendum as a protest vote against the past 40 odd years of right and centre right UK government? Most of their issues seem to have nothing to do with or very little could change if we're in or out of the EU.