Posts by Korev

Re: A Microsoft mail infrastructure having difficulty scaling? Say it isn't so!

We're on O365 and have about 140k employees

Re: So we're not really talking about EA's then...

I once worked with a PM who loved printing out his Gantt Charts having made sure that all the dependencies fed off each other even if that wasn't the case. Some of the Devs would deliberately complete some of the discrete tasks out of order so he'd have to redo his huge diagram. Other than it being a bit of fun this also meant that he would leave the developers unmolested to write code instead of unnecessary paperwork.

Modern SSDs & OSs support things like TRIM which should make problems like that go away.

Re: "the low-flying aircraft that keep my neighbourhood affordable"

I find this kind of noise is "blankable", it's the constant talking and people moving that I find distracting.

Re: Drip, drip, drip...

I hope you're correct; however Talktalk are still in business.

Re: It's not social media that's the issue

"“Woooow I wasn't expecting to be in a jury Deciding a paedophile's fate, I've always wanted to Fuck up a paedophile & now I'm within the law!”"

Yep. He's too stupid to realise that his function is decide if the suspect is a paedophile or not...

I agree entirely.

When I see vendors' new software, I always ask about colour blind users, I've yet to see one where they've actually thought about it.

When [drones] have trials / training accidents, no-one dies.

That depends what the debris lands on.

Re: pooh-pooh

Absolutely, Darling

Re: Commerce without human contact

I feel slightly bad when I use the automated checkouts at my local supermarket as they appear to lower staffing requirement by 75% (four tills:one human); the staff do encourage you to use the self service which seems a bit like turkeys voting for Christmas (although they may not have a choice).

Re: The iPhone X is $1149, not $999

Many people will get the phone on a contract which means that the upfront cost is hidden from them. Those that can do maths will have worked out that's an expensive way* of buying a phone and therefore separated the device from the call/data plan.

Compared to buying a phone upfront and using someone like Giffgaff (if you're in the UK).

Re: I need new glasses..

So the market for 16- or 32-socket servers are diminishing as x86 gets more powerful. And that is the problem.

No long ago if you needed 32 cores then you'd have to buy a 32 CPU server; these days a dual socket Intel server can give you the same core count.

Re: Samsung TV software update comes to mind

Up until recently the Swiss Air Force were only on standby in office hours. I believe that having to ask the French nicely to borrow some fighters to escort a plane that had lost communication was justification to get full time coverage.

You forgot the "apparently" ;)

Re: Beginning of the end

Or could it just be an attempt to gradually phase out the old HQ?