Posts by Tokoloshe

Upvoted

I'm fine with any form of wit, even sarcasm. The downvoters will have a long wait for any other type around here.

Re: Can anyone answer this?

Because the whole world can read a tweet, but only you and a goverment letter opening minion know what's in your letter.

Suggest you either tweet the questions or send the letters via your MP.

Re: Celebrate success, learn and adapt for the future.

I'll raise your:

"GDS over the last 3 years is estimated to have saved billions in development costs..."

With:

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/public-sector/3531037/nao-casts-doubt-on-gds-it-savings-claims/

Re: Smart Radiator Valves

Yep, ideally you want each room independently controlled.

I have a 12 zone Honeywell evohome system including 4 underfloor zones. It's a bit expensive, £300 quid for the controller (inc. boiler link and Internet gateway) and around £50 for each TRV. The TRVs detect open doors, windows and will turn off the radiator.

Each room can have its own programme and the system can be controlled via IOS and android apps.

It's taken my gas bill down to £800/yr from £1200 - with a payback of around 30 mths.

My only grumble is that it's a closed system with no hooks for other house control systems.

Re: Shurely shome mishtake?

That'll be 1TB of OneDrive space - MS offer the same with a standard Office 365 subscription.

Re: Cisco are probably right...for now at least.

FWIW, my future view of SDN is of a hardware independent, white-with-rainbows box networking utopia :)

I was questioning VMware's approach of NFV on x86 for east-west workloads, which looks great on a marketing slide, but would seem compromised by performance and/or cost, to my jaded, though admittedly myopic, eyes. To that end, and based on what *supported* SDN technology is available currently to the mere mortal sys admins, I would say that the article title is correct, but won't be continue to be so.

In summary, I don't think either VMware or Cisco's SDN land grab will succeed...both will get disrupted into IT history.

Re: FAB!

"The torus shaped building was called 'the roundhouse'. Quite what you use such an unusually shaped building for, I don't know."

The Fusion Reactor (probably).

Perhaps Musk's eggheads can get to work on that unsolved problem after completing the full set of TB craft.

Re: I'd like to see numbers on that.

According to TFA;

"...resulted in less than one in a thousand new certifications each year"

So <0.1%

Something useful for those 8 cores

Samsung could get Folding@home ported, especially since Sony have ended support on the PS3. All that silicon could do some good overnight, after the phone has fully charged and is still connected to the mains.

Re: Increase in spatial, but what about temporal?

Good point,

I'd prefer to get 1080p rather than 'i' from Sky HD right now so I can 'sweat' my current set, rather than upgrading to a 4k set which is similiarly hobbled by Sky's technology (possibly) and desire to dial down the bandwidth to support more channels (definitely)

Are Sky going to push a 4k signal for 3D at 1080P or another bunch of shopping channels?

Sky F1 channel 'free' for HD subscribers...

and as HD costs £10/mth, it's cheaper than buying the sports package either on its own (£20/mth) or in addition to Sky Movies (£12/mth).

Console Vs. PC

While I haven't been reading this nonsense as long as I've been playing computer games (since Blitz on the VIC20), it seems to have gathered some sort of assumed truth over the last decade or so.

The inevitable 'argument' is used: console shooters are easy because the controller makes them hard to play, hence everyone *must* be using auto-aim.

Very few games have auto-aim on by default (I always check) and it can also be turned off.

So as I play without auto-aim can I assume that you're the pussy for using a more accurate control system?

And what system do I play games on? All of them. So I can get on and enjoy playing whatever I want on any platform I want.

Costing everything in the real world

Actually you describe the non-accountant approach, as accountants (and more business minded IT professionals) are aware of the concept of marginal cost.

Graphing server costs against DC capacity would demonstrate the rather obvious spike in the cost of the server that exceeds the datacentre space (the marginal cost will equal the server + another datacentre, or perhaps more 'real world', the cost to host it elsewhere). It's high marginal costs like this that are front and centre when decisions on IT strategy are made.

Also, it's odd that you focus on what are long term capital costs that tend to be depreciated over a long period (whatever the useful life of a DC is), rather than the costs that are more directly affected by the server population, like power and server hardware maintenance. Even a DC's equipment (a/c, fire suppression, power generation/backup etc) will usually last 5-7 years, so through a server refresh.