So lucky to have community fibre in our area as well as the Openreach & Virgin options. Love the symmetrical upload/download speeds. All other options in our road limit the upload speed. Because of course all we need is streaming content into our houses isn't it? Working from home means often uploading large data sets which is where the fast upload speed is a god-send.
Posts by iwi
18 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Dec 2009
BT fiber rollout passes 17 million homes, altnet challenge grows
Put your usernames and passwords in your will, advises Japan's government
Thursday 21st November 2024 14:27 GMT
"Put your usernames and passwords in your will, advises Japan's government"
Not a good idea in UK. The will becomes a public document after the grant of probate in the UK. Stating your usernames and passwords in a public document is not a great idea. State your intentions over your digital assets by all means. But record the details needed to access to them outside the will in paper form in a firesafe and make sure your executor(s) know about them and how to find them.
Cops visit school of 'wrong person's child,' mix up victims and suspects in epic data fail
Monday 4th March 2024 14:13 GMT
not just the police
I lived in a house where road name and house number were the same as another house in the same local authority area in a different road with the same name about 2 miles away. The man who lived in the other house also had same name as me (unfortunately for him). He was quite ill by all accounts. We had 3 ambulances on 3 separate occasions turn up to take 'me' to hospital. So the London Ambulance Service clearly had dodgy data and never bothered fixing it. Whether the resulting delays getting him to hospital had anything to do with his death, I will never know. But when he died, the council then cancelled my council tax account, writing to me to tell me that they had done it because, well, I had died apparently. So even name and street address aren't unique, pretty sure he didn't share my date of birth though.
Techie wasn't being paid, until he taught HR a lesson
Gen Z and Millennials don't know what their colleagues are talking about half the time
BOFH: Oh for Pete’s sake. Don’t make a spectacle of yourself
Who knew that hosing a table with copious amounts of cubic metres would trip adult filters?
Friday 27th November 2020 13:51 GMT
Re: Inside joke?
one place I worked had a long running project called Common Finance Initiative. It needed its own helpdesk. But management didn't want it to be called a 'helpdesk'. They wanted something more cuddly. They went with the 'care team'. until they realised the helpdesk team would answer the phone by saying "hello, CFI Care"
I don't have to save my work, it's in The Cloud. But Microsoft really must fix this files issue
Saturday 13th July 2019 15:28 GMT
query/amend/submit/repeat
I remember a couple of decades ago a business user entering many hundreds of monthly company car mileage records into an oracle database. Except instead of keying in a new one each time, he would enter it, then query it, change the reg# and the mileage value, then commit it and repeat. He was very disappointed after a day or two of long tedious effort to find he had keyed in precisely one record. We (IT team) trained the business team who then decided they could train the new starter without using the training materials we had provided them with. Oh, how he laughed!
Sorry friends, I'm afraid I just can't quite afford the Bitcoin to stop that vid from leaking everywhere
75 years ago, one Allied radar techie changed the course of WW2
Kent Council cheerily flings about £100m at managed services bods
Saturday 23rd January 2016 23:58 GMT
Re: Figures
"If you see a plan that says what they will do differently and how that will cost less, it might be OK." I totally agree with your sentiment but if they put that in the plan, then the council could just do it themselves couldn't they? Why would they need the outsourcing "partner"?
I always see outsourcing as an admission by management that they don't actually know what they are managing and have to get someone else to do their job for them. The only valid reason for outsourcing in my view is economy of scale. But even with that, multiple councils could get together and still do an effective job without outsourcing. It just takes good management. But it's easier to outsource and let someone else deal with the horrible 'doing stuff'.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
