* Posts by rgb1

4 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Nov 2009

'Hyperscale customer' to take massive datacenter site near London

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Re: Another one?

" OUR VERDICT

The prices in this list are out-of-date, and don’t reflect the average cost of electricity for consumers."

source https://fullfact.org/online/energy-price-comparison-list/

At last, Atlassian sees an end to its outage ... in two weeks

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Outsourced

Is it known whether Atlassian outsourced this job or ran it in house?

Tech contractors begin mass UK.gov exodus in wake of HMRC's IR35 income tax clampdown

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Re: Yet again

Follow the money; it's the lobbying powers of the the big consultancies and off-shorers that have set this agenda over many years, along with the ignorance/incompetence/corruption of government. I've been contracting for 30 years and had to work with my fair share of cheap but not good value off-shorers. I've also contributed ~ national average earnings in tax take each year, assuming I've been in work and my job hasn't been filled by an off-shorer in the downturns. This continuous onslaught, the last few years of tax grab and the uncertainty have made me decide, even though I am at the top of my game, having a good number years of earnings and tax payment potential before official retirement, to pack it all in. So they'll be no more ~ national earnings tax take from me each year; hopefully the big off-shorers and consultancies will be able to fill the tax gap that is left by me and I'm sure many others who have had enough of this nonsense.

HP Envy 15 'Lynnfield' Core i7 laptop

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ready to buy if it wasn't for the screen resolution

As a software developer I had been eagerly awaiting the release of this machine, timed to coincide with Windows 7.

Up to 16GB of ram making virtualisation a real possibility and the additional 9cell battery giving a reasonable time away from a power socket. But why the inadequate screen resolution? I've been checking the UK HP website every day since October 22nd in the vein hope that the 1920x1080 screened model (as per the US) might appear. Maybe I'll have to take look at Dell's Studio XPS 16 (even though I promised myself I wouldn't buy Dell again) as it is slowly dawning on me that we may not see the higher resolution screen in the UK, any time soon - unless anyone knows otherwise.