* Posts by david flacks

11 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Mar 2008

F5 emits fixes for critical flaws in BIG-IP gear: Hopefully yours aren't internet-facing while you ready a patch

david flacks

Re: Public services are probably at higher risk

Actually I refute that. I work for a vendor that isn't F5 or Citrix and I would say that security is one of the highest priorites in the development team. Hence we've never had a vulnerability that you could drive a fleet of buses through.

I'm not mentioning who I work for obviously as I'm trying remain impartial. But we have darn good reviews on Gartner Peer Insights.

david flacks

Re: Public services are probably at higher risk

Ok, yes, agreed. Banks are the exception. Public sector, they should be fired for wasting public funds.

Is everything OK over there, Britain? Have you tried turning the UK off and on again? ISPs, financial orgs fall over in Freaky Friday of outages

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It wasn't just north/south lines. I remember the incident.

Woking-London routed via Brum as well so we lost the kilostreams to every one of our customers in the city. The joy of non-diverse routing for anywhere except the City Of London in those days.

1st time we actually used our dialback modems in anger and found there was a bug in the code that meant they negotiated 4800 baud connections rather than 9600.

The monitor didn't work but the problem was between the user's ears

david flacks

Re: The thing is...

Had that so many times - Single server at Eagle Star Liverpool, cleaner had unplugged the UPS to plug in the hoover. Leeds to Liverpool in about 80 mins.... we were on 1 hour responses back then, no idea how I missed out on getting pulled over.

Microsoft waves goodbye to Small Business Server

david flacks

Re: Typical, misguided Microsoft

Incorrect. SPLA licensing allows you to do exactly that.

There has been a multi-tenant version of Exchange for years.

david flacks

Minor correction - Sharepoint is no longer the 'replacement' for Public Folders but it's an addition to them.

Exchange 2013 introduces "Modern Public Folders" which are essentially a mailbox inside a standard database subject to the rules/replication of a database/DAG etc but appear just like a traditional Public Folder to the client.

Dell XPS support takes a catnap

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FAIL

PS

oops, my memory must be as bad as the stuff Dell are supplying in their new servers. As well as the 3 MBs, PSU and Keyboard, I had the DVD drive replaced as well in July.

The only part of this XPS that's original now is the screen and the HD.

Dud Nvidia GPUs tip up in Dell laptops

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Paris Hilton

....still waiting

Finally got a reply to warranty request email, (timed 4.30am) gave them all the info that they requested and still no reply.

The email states I must be available at the address stated for the next two days betwee 9 and 5.

So much for same business day response to email, so much for Next Business Day repair.

Paris... because even she can figure out what Next Business Day means.

Oh.. for anyone interested... the ^&^*&^*&* at Dell charge £70+vat for a 2 year extension to the XPS 1330 warranty but if you have an account with them it's only £60. Took them 36 hours to quote me for that.

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Support, what support?

My M1330 died on Friday with this exact problem.

Supposed to be 24/7 next business day support but emails to Dell aren't being answered and the live chat has been closed since Friday.

I have 12 days left on the warrranty. So much for their support.

Poland's ex-PM condemns online polling

david flacks

Missing the point

Surely that's the reason why it's a good idea. If you're too pissed to go and vote you can do it from the comfort of your keyboard.