Posts by nichomach 825 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
Hosted Exchange *should* mean an Exchange tenant in the provider's Exchange infrastructure, not a singe VM, contrary to a couple of the answers here. This means that you're getting advantages of scale (clustering, database availability groups, hopefully better backups and restores) than you might be able to afford running on-premise.
I'm seriously considering ditching Firefox completely. I spent about an hour this morning trying to get my history, settings, saved passwords and everything else back after Firefox sh@t the bed during a failed update and wouldn't load my profile, forcing me to create a new one. It's ditched my add-ons as well, which is a REAL pain in the posterior.
I feel your pain. Some years ago we built an extension onto our building. Nice false floors with cable trays beneath them - really quite tidy, until the architect decided that floorboxes were aesthetically unpleasing and banned them. Cables were terminated in plastic surface mount boxes *under* the floor with grommets fitted to allow cables through the floor tiles. IT were told, basically, "You can have whatever you want as long as it's what we say". So every time we need to trace a cable, we get cut to shreds fishing around under the floor. Oh, and needless to say, it looks crap as well. Architects? Shoot on sight.
Had that sort of thing a few years back, only with people claiming to be from Microsoft. Got to recognize the type and forced them to admit they were a reseller. My standard response was "You started your very first conversation with me with a lie. Why would we trust you on anything else? Goodbye, and don't call again." Seemed to work, eventually.
The 350m was supposed to be financed by Brexit savings, so it emphatically was not given *from the source described*. Having our taxes increased to fund increases instead was not on the side of the bus. Also, "if we include Covid funding"? Pull the other one. Covid was a national emergency; in the same way that actually fighting a war isn't in the defence budget (it's funded by contingency funding from the Treasury) neither is a pandemic in the budget for the day to day running of the NHS. That's leaving aside that billions of that funding was trousered by Tory donors through unlawful contracts - and that was so blatant that the government doesn't dare appeal the verdict.
We have a firewall manufacturer, let's call them...TonicFall. They also provide a host-based content filter, which is actually pretty good in itself, but the management portal for it has become increasingly unreliable. Reports don't work at all ("this content requires Adobe Flash..."), and increasingly has just refused to load in multiple browsers on multiple machines. If you want to open a support ticket, you are prompted to use their portal - which automatically registers the fault as a P3 ("We really don't give a toss, now go away"). To raise a P2 or P1 you are advised to call them on one of the local support numbers on <link>. Link goes to a page of phone numbers where the support number...is a link back to the portal you just came from. And this is one of the reasons we're changing manufacurers.
I know what you're getting at, and have experienced being in those interminable "I'd better cc EVERYONE" email chains, but there is little more annoying than being in the middle of a complex task that requires concentration and having someone rock up or phone with something completely unrelated that they expect you to deal with there and then. Make an appointment and I'll clear the decks for you and you'll have my complete attention. Rock up out of the blue, and I'll be less forthcoming.
And that's why reductio ad absurdum is treated as a logical fallacy. Scenario: You are developing a technology to invigilate exams. This depends upon facial recognition. The people being invigilated may be black or white, but you only test on white people. Your product discriminates against black people because it can't recognise them. You didn't *intend* to adversely affect them, but you should damn well have tested your product to make sure that it didn't, and if you were unable to ensure that it didn't, you should not have certified that product as ready for use. That is casual racism; you do not intend to be racist, but you are, because you either do not consider the issue, or ignore it.
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