Posts by Nursing A Semi 96 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Jul 2008
Apparently they connect to three substations, with the remaining two acting as backup in case the supply from one fails. Weirdly though, it would seem to take the best part of a day to bring the backup supply into a state to cover for the dead "well toasty anyway" substation.
Easy lesson guys, if your backup can't take over straight away it isn't really a backup.
People paid for an OS "yes probably bundled with their desktop/laptop" which most sensible folk would admit is so full of design flaws it requires regular security fixes.
Now MS has drawn a line in the sand and said from this date you will need to pay us for those security fixes or leave yourself even more open than usual to viruses and malware of various flavours.
Had they not been developing the fixes anyway they might get away with that. But them knowing that a vulnerability exists thus a fix is required, developing said fix then refusing to give it to their customer base unless they pay extra? I smell a class action inbound to further enrich the legal profession.
I ended up by mistake on amazon.com rather than .co.uk the other day. Searched for a coup[le of graphics cards and thought I had stumbled on an early Black Friday sale or something similar. The prices were loads cheaper than I was expecting, then realised my mistake.
So Jensen "cool name by the way" if you want people this side of the pond to buy as many GPUs as our colonial cousins, how about giving up price parity as a good first step?
To set the stage, large company known by a TLA having won a very large public sector contract to replace back office systems for local government and police forces across a couple of counties with a SAP system. Nobody will be overly shocked to hear there were one or two teething problems.
Agreed payment schedule was partially on a milestone reached basis. Said TLA were asking for the half mil for getting the POP system online, customer was refusing to pay as simply put it didn't work.
Things got nasty and words were bandied so finally customer agreed to pay. A week or so later the PE asked were the payment was as it hadn't been received, and yup suspect you have already worked out, answer was it was entered into SAP, if you want it we suggest you get it working.
One of my favourite IBM memories is when the last remaining P-Series engineer at a particular site was benched "well subject of an RA" just before we had a major refresh of my customers estate. New P-Series turned up, I asked my boss who was going to build it he replied with the name of the Indian guy now supporting our P-Series, I explained he had better have long arms as by "build" I meant it is a collection of cardboard boxes piled up in the centre of the room.
During a particularly tricky and long lasting major incident, I was in a round table with the PE, DPE and a couple of IM people, news came in that the agreed fix had achieved nothing useful, I commented "looks like I picked the wrong day to give up heroin", turns out nobody else had seen Airplane and as a result the room went very very quiet.
So, I read a book and being of average intelligence if asked, could provide a reasonable synopsis of the story and even opinion on how a particular character may respond to a given situation. How is this any different or am I also in breach of copyright?
Eliminate the odd user who flat out refuses to learn. We had one who got infected 5 times over a 2 year period and this was with a policy in place of blocking attachments and users having to request they be unblocked "obviously there were exceptions on a trusted list". But sadly said user refused to change their behaviour and no doubt is still allowing bad actors into their system, happily though this is a SEP as I moved on years ago.
It is hard to see how this will be enforced, with software DRM kind of makes sense but for hardware? If I buy a chip it is now mine, if someone figures out how to provide me with a free token to make it better then thats great, I don't see how anyone can complain about what I chose to do with MY chip although I am sure they will try.
"Hey Microsoft how would you like a couple of million new customers who will each pay you £8 a month plus offer themselvs up for other revenue earning opportunities". "Emn no thanks, we will break their ability to use our services instead". Hmmm doesn't look right to me somehow.
When a contract goes out for tender, rarely is it the most expensive that gets the contract, usually it is amongst the cheapest with a reputation for being slightly less crap than those in a similar price bracket. IT companies know this and also know that after a couple of years the majority of customers will be dissatisfied enough to look for someone new to f...up their IT for them.
End result is a constant merry-go-round of customers moving from one badly run service to another. So sadly there will always be enough people looking to change supplier to ensure that even the worst IT services companies will have no shortage of new customers.
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