Stably
Hmm.... Sounds painful, although I'm sure some of the network techs feel stabbed today...
Posts by Jabba
18 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Feb 2008
Volkswagen stuck in neutral after 'IT disruption'
BOFH: Something's consuming 40% of UPS capacity – and it's coming from the beancounters' office
The Unihertz Atom XL: An iPhone SE-sized rugged phone that's also a walkie-talkie
Kwik-Fit hit by MOT fail, that's Malware On Target
East Midlands network-sniffer wails: Openreach, fix my outage-ridden line
Official Secrets Act alert went off after embassy hired local tech support
Friday 3rd November 2017 07:55 GMT
Monkeys!
I worked for large drugs research company about 20 years ago on the helldesk. They did testing on primates (who, incidentally, were better treated than the staff). We had contractor who was completely useless, he would break more than he fixed so we suggested he spent the rest of his contract "feeding the monkeys" , which he did and that was the last we saw of him. Needless to say our workload dropped considerably...
Ham-fisted: Chap's radio app killed remotely after posting bad review
Tuesday 20th December 2016 08:24 GMT
Crapware
Ham Radio Deluxe (or HRD) was a cracking piece of software till Simon Brown HB9DRV sold it to these muppets, who "monetized" it. I tried the paid for version and the majority of it stopped working properly. I was a pain in the arse to install from what I remember. I gave up and went back to the free version which is still kicking about on the interwebs which is still working flawlessly, even with my all singing and dancing Icom 7300 SDR box. (and yes I built my own fan dipole HF antenna)
Perhaps the worse thing is you have to continue to pay for upgrades and fixes. If you churn out crap at least make updates free. Without a doubt, HRD deserves a bad review.
Police radios will be KILLED soon – yet no one dares say 'Huawei'
GoTenna: How does this 'magic' work?
Nothing to sniff at: Dell Ultrabooks REEK OF CAT PEE, scream users
Reg hack battles Margaret Thatcher's ghost to bring broadband to the Highlands
Thursday 22nd August 2013 14:18 GMT
Tune to maximum smoke ?
We link our D-Star repeater using a similar set up, although we use Deliberant kit. The only thing I missed was to dial in the actual distance between the two panels. Loads of packet loss ensued until I fixed that. Its been running flawlessly for over a year now.
http://www.gb7de.co.uk/tech.htm
You still reading us? Not for long! Summer is THE IT meltdown hot spot
Radio hams tell Ofcom: Put that Wi-Fi mob back in their place
Pttow! Ofcom kicks hams out of MoD bands
Wednesday 12th June 2013 12:33 GMT 
There is talk of releasing some more space circa 146-148mhz which, in some parts of the country, would probably be more use. Although I've noticed that in Scotland anyway, you can here a pin drop on 2 meters for the most part. There was also mutterings about an extension to 4 meters but since I've be licenced in 1990 i've only ever had one contact there...
BT broadband goes TITSUP - cripples Scots, Geordies, Northern Irish
Intel UMPC chip enters service as server CPU
Three-quarters of EU radio equipment is non-compliant
Ofcom scuppered 61 pirate broadcasters in 2007
Thursday 28th February 2008 10:37 GMT 
10-4 Bad buddy
I thought the stats were interesting. One CBer got a 50 squid fine and one Radio Amateur got a warning letter. OFCOM estimate that there are around 11,000 CBers left swaring in their silver rods and 60,000 radio hams in the UK, now with those figures I would have expected more slaps on the wrists for the hams, looks like the self-policing may be working despite access to the ham bands being relatively easy now.
(I am biased of course, I've held an amateur radio licence since 1991 when we had to sit a proper exam)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
