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Surveillance :-) What politicians say and what they do. I believe this for our greater good in many cases, but overall I'll do what I want to do depending on my experiences, now lets see, these vary.

NHS, l like them I trust them.

I wonder how the RIPA Act effects this, i.e I think this means Government bodies can do whatever they want with the data.

Being told to stay at home:

---Scotland's chief medical officer Catherine Calderwood is arrogant, she says do as I say not what I do, TWICE.

---New Zealand health minister David Clark is arrogant, he says do as I say not what I do, TWICE.

I think I'd like to watch the new movie Official Secrets, because it has Keira Knightley and also: ... The true story of GCHQ employee Katharine Gun, who leaked a secret memo exposing an illegal spying operation by the United States of America, looking for information with which to gauge sentiment of and potentially blackmail United Nations diplomats tasked to vote on a resolution regarding the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Re: Copycat

Microsoft bought Apple shares to keep them afloat many years ago, this was so Microsoft wouldn't appear to be a monopoly, I believe Microsoft got them cross licensing deals With Apple.

Is in some ways Microsoft effectively owns Apple. Apple will struggle to get far ahead.

So as Apple innovate, Microsoft are allowed to copy, this is one reason Microsoft make gear.

Re: *Shrug*

Who's password manager? There were password managers that disappeared from the public scene after Snowdon leaked the NSAs tricks.

Re: Ubuntu

Oh.... noticed this, I just remembered that we've had about 200 Ubuntu desktops running for about 6 years. Have been too busy maintaining the other 100 Windows boxes and their users. :-)

Re: "...need to be hard rebooted after exactly 149 hours"

I'm in :-)

Re: That is damn close

Or if big M that's 5,200,000,000,000 mm ?

Re: Remove beer tax, back to the pubs.

A risk of getting stabbed or getting liver failure, but you could stay at home and read a book, or go to church. I'm hoping they cancel the Internet, turn it off, and encourage small friendly pubs with tax free beer, and very fast self driving e-motorbikes lined up outside.

It's not going to happen I know. So perhaps raise the bar or ban public ownership of semi-automatic guns/rifles. Plus encourage people to be a little more moderating of people they mix with, gotta be strong to do that.

"You do not do that in intelligence work. At all costs you do NOT jeopardise your people. This is unbelievably bad."

That is a naive comment. Watch "panorama ira 2017". In war or "internal security" even your own agents are knowingly expendable - for the greater good? It's not about being fair, it is much uglier than many realise. I'll avoid becoming an agent.

Re: Her Indoors

I stopped supporting friends Windows computers years ago, much more time with my friends now :-)

"32 cores vs 16 (32 with hyper-threading)" but since Aug 1st 2018 hyperthreading needs to be turned off in environments such as hypervisors.

Our servers dropped from 32 to 16 logical cpus without any noticeable performance drop, according to tests by vmware (or was it intel) some environments run faster with hyperthreading disabled.

Hyperthreading is hype, it isn't helping much in many or most environments.

Re: Most shops hold on to old server OS for one reason

We have a Building Management System running on 2008r2. The software does not support newer Windows. It'll be $30,000 to upgrade the Bms. Locked in by Windows and the lockin costs hey!

If it wasn't for the fact that it's a Siemens system as effected the Iran centrifuges we'd probably extend windows Support.

The new Bms software requires Flash ffs. Ffs. Ffs. Ffs. Cocks. Are other industries as clueless as IT?

Re: Love of Microsoft endures

Microsoft's 10 year obligation with the EU to Support ODF ends in a couple of years. Whilst this is in effect, the UK gov were wise to use this opportunity to state that suppliers such as MS "must" Support ODF, so hopefully it will be supported longer. Other govs should to do this. This is so important in the history of computing.

Google should push ODF too, but they don't, it's too late for Google now. Microsoft's varying transitional "Docx" formats win. Microsoft will ensure no one will ever work with Microsoft's file formats reliably unless they pay a license.

Re: And how is this MSFTs fault?

Edge still works. What a pity Chrome doesn't work, sorry about that, we'll see if we can find a fix, but fist it's time for my long lunch break.

5.5 to 6.5 was quick n easy

Upgrade vcentre then esxi's. For any software upgrade check dependancies and do it in the right order, I did double check even though it was obvious what it should be in our case.

Love html access, we now connect straight into vcentre and even directly into hosts. But best of all we can do this from Ubuntu too. I haven't missed the legacy, Windows only c# client once, relatively it was restrictive.

Update manager is also built into the vcentre appliance, it rocks!

Well done VMware :-)