Posts by TwoWolves

Who would want to be here?

Great. House prices to the moon and wages to the floor. Who would want to live here?

Soon the only way to breed will be on benefits.

All shall win Prizes

Bet they all want an Oscar for living in the North West as well!

Legacy, legacy

Another remnant of the Blair/Brown autocracy still not put out of its misery. Clearly needed more IR35 enforcement eh?

Incompetent

I have had some experience of working with Steria. Utterly incompetent, everything takes months and they deliver the wrong thing even when its a simple shopping list - verbatim.

They employ a lot of recent migrants which makes me worry about security.

I just don't understand why they are using them.

RE: It's never been easy...

Agreed.

Not convinced about the rollback thing though as sometimes you have to leave a copy on a restricted server (no internet) after the license has expired and a rollback could mean tools that are required to run tests/builds etc no longer work.

Bit shitty really and I'm making money for them by insisting my clients buy their software - they've just killed one of my core arguments for their product.

I've not been paying that much attention but I hear...

1) He says that he's going to instruct the Bank of England to print enough money to pay off the UK deficit.

2) He doesn't believe that countries should have borders.

How is that going to play out well? I'd be interested to know.

(He sounds really nice but somewhat bonkers)

Then stop killing the industry

Then maybe the government should start penalizing businesses that outsource to low-wage economies and stop allowing a flood of low-grade immigrants coming to work here cratering the ability to live on an IT wage and pay your inflated mortgages.

IT pay has been static for over ten years, now they wonder why nobody wants to get into the business?

Cheap System Image Backup

Is this the off-site backup solution I was looking for?

Only thing stopping me is upload time. Though somehow I have a feeling my server connections would keep "dropping".

Errr....

Indian companies are so meticulous in paying their full taxes right?

How are the stats collected?

Businesses are using virtual hosts now.

Enthusiasts are building them for gaming etc.

Are these use-cases collated?

Still PCs with OS'.

To all who attacked Steven Roper

I've got news for you. A lot of people in this world don't like each other, its probably never going to stop and no matter how hard you clap your hands the fairies are going to keep dying.

Attacking people who merely observe this is simply childish.

More complexity in those caches

Looks like my atomic locked threading primitives are going to need a whole new level of benchmarking again.

Damn.

More desktop cores please Intel, less tricks.

Its war Jim, but not as we know it...

Did any of you actually read the article before you reached for the keyboard to blow-off your righteousness?

It's not clear where the leaked data came from but two hacktivist crews - ZHC (ZCompany Hacking Crew) from Pakistan and TeaMp0isoN - claim to have lifted membership lists after cracking into the EDL's website and forum, respectively.

In 2020....

95% of the Indian population will still be living in poverty as the new middle class step over the destitute on their way to work.

Wealth distribution is a Western burden it seems. Outsourcing transfers national wealth from the poor of the West to the wealthy of the East, think about it before you sign that contract.

The cloud is just a bunch of PCs in a rack. Did anyone tell him it's not fairies?

Conversely

A few years ago I built a website for a customer in the jewellery business and used a graphics designer friend to do the imagery. This friend used royalty free images gained from sites on the web that supply such images as "tasters" for their portfolios. These imaged were heavily cropped and shopped, as they say as part of the overall design.

Several years later I got an irate email from the client who had received a threatening letter from a large American company claiming copyright infringement for the images and requiring eye-popping fees for their use. We took them down.

Research revealed that the original company based in the UK that had provided the images royalty-free had been bought by the US company who was now on the warpath. I do think there needs to be some protection against this sort of behaviour.

Bloodbath of the Contractors

I don't suppose its anything to do with the current sacking-spree they are instigating across the board?

Bored of Space Already?

How are those space missions going now then?

I don't hold out much hope

It’s a great idea but I have a nasty feeling that like most interoperability technologies it will take years for devices to seamlessly talk to each others as manufacturers dither and squabble.

I think the focus on mobile devices is wrong too. It would be better to be able to send my PC content to a screen over powerline/homeplug/WiFi as that's where I have my music, video and the most pixel-pushing grunt.

Does no correlate with experience

Myself and my whole team have just been given notice. All work is going to India.

This article doesn't agree with my experiences or those of colleagues in other banks right now who are in a similar position.

Stay with 2010

I've been using the Office 365 preview for the last month. While I'm quite happy with the move to the ribbon the colour schemes and flat-styling is dreadful to use, its very hard on the eyes and difficult to navigate. Office 2010 was perfect, I just don't know why they didn't stay with that design.