* Posts by lardymcfartpants

5 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Nov 2016

Amazon can't or won't collect sales tax in Australia

lardymcfartpants

Re: 47 different state sales taxes

it's even more complicated than that!

my address is Bothell, which is in King County, except I don't live in Bothell City limits, I'm in unincorporated Snohomish county. For 3 years, Amazon charged me King County tax (9.5%) when in fact my actual tax rate is 6.5% - all because my address said Bothell.

Cue an hour on the phone with customer services and a large refund.....

Open Internet lovin' Comcast: Buy our TV service – or no faster broadband for you!

lardymcfartpants

Pointless upgrades

What's the point in being upgraded to 250mbit?

The traffic cap is still 1024gb, so faster speeds just allow them to charge overages sooner.

Newsworthy Brit bank TSB is looking for a head of infrastructure

lardymcfartpants

Under Qualified

Let's be fair, looking at his linked in profile he's woefully under qualified with zero leadership experience.

This is what you get when you put a project manager in charge.

BOFH: We know where the bodies are buried

lardymcfartpants

No Backups You Say?

I recently worked for a young company in the US.. I instructed my new department to setup backups of our data as none had been taken in 9 years.

We left a few people out, a year later the CEO went mad because the CFO lost some important docs before a meeting and insisted he be backed up... Whilst my desktop droid was at it I asked the CEO when we were going to add him...

"I need to be able to delete all my email securely if we're audited"

I resigned shortly afterwards.

UK IT pros love OpenStack. Who says so? SUSE says so

lardymcfartpants

Marketing Dept

I guess SuSe also got HP's marketing department along with their OpenStack assets.