Posts by A Non e-mouse

Re: Why are you going with Psion comparisons?

I've used both a Nokia Communicator (Several flavors) and Psion devices (several flavors) It's definitely more like a Psion than a Communicator.

Re: "Previously in charge of a £20m project to roll out fibre-optic"...

A project manager paid over £100k to manage a £20m project: Sounds like they were overpaid anyway.

Re: Surely someone has already invented...

You can get intelligent patch panels and suitable patch cables. They talk to each other via RFID. If you pre-plan your patching the patch panel can tell you where you should be plugging in and indicate if you plug into the wrong socket.

Re: "allow emergency configuration changes without requiring restarts."

Who says these are bare-metal setups? It's more likely that these are all some kind of VM, so expanding memory isn't that hard.

Re: Teams sizing issues

a typical dual CPU with a decent amount of memory will support 100,000 users

Doing what? Chat? Yeah, that's probably do-able.

What about some of the other toys MS-Teams has: File sharing/syncing, voice calls, video calls, conferencing, etc.

You're not going to get 100,000 video (Or voice) users on that dual CPU box.

I was at a recent vendor sales promo (Unfortunately, can't remember who, maybe Netapp?) and they said that when you order discs, the order is fulfilled from multiple batches (& maybe suppliers?) to help reduce this risk.

Re: Is this normal in the IT world?

When I worked in a small public sector department, our standard T&Cs always had bits asking about sub-contracting.

No options when I right-click the calendar icon in Outlook.

Re: Just charge the users

Isn't there some rule in America that all research data paid for by the tax payer has to be freely available?

Re: But can it run...

Can it run Pong?

Re: Teams is working for us...

It's not as bad for us today as it was yesterday.

Re: Nice attitude IBM...

How dare the customer expect us to deliver what we contracted to deliver.

I was surprised by this too. I seem to recall there was a standard recipe for having 90% of Windows on a shared drive with a bare minimum on C:

Re: VMware is diversifying

Er, only in its basic form. If you want to use vCenter, you have to pony up. From https://www.vmware.com/uk/products/vsphere-hypervisor.html

Moving up to a paid vSphere lets you further optimize your IT infrastructure. You'll be able to:

Take advantage of automatic load balancing, business continuity, and advanced backup and restore capabilities for your virtual machines.

Re: @ If they prove the system is flawed

Just read part of that judgement. Quite an easy read. I especially love para 929:

This approach by the Post Office has amounted, in reality, to bare assertions and denials that ignore what has actually occurred, at least so far as the witnesses called before me in the Horizon Issues trial are concerned. It amounts to the 21st century equivalent of maintaining that the earth is flat.

So the Post Office basically stuck their fingers in their ears and went "La La La, can't hear you" to any suggestions that their system was broken.

All services, public cloud or on-prem will have issues. Anyone saying a service will have 100% availability is lying.

My work email has been in Office 365 for several years with no issues that I can remember.

Re: Harrier

You're assuming the Yanks aren't spying on.

America hacking Angela Merkel's mobile

F-35 Logistics systems phones home to USA

This isn't the first time January 31st has happened.

Re: Hmmm.

'Competition lowers prices'.

Remind me, how has that worked out...

Just ask all the UK banks who have all set their overdraft interest rates to be 40%.

Great to see the free market working as expected.