Posts by Neon

nbn says Telstra's copper in better shape than expected

This discussion about copper or fibre for the household connection is so much of bullshit I cannot stand that. Other countries had the same discussion decades ago - and this discussion lasted a minute with the result that copper to the endpoint is just fine for many decades to come. It is a simple calculation to sum up a number of >gbit copper connections and "how many Tbit to the exchange?" for each distribution hub on the streets? Now you do the numbers and get the point.

So what would the economic effect of leaving the EU be?

OMG

Rip off Britain may leave the EU, dump all consumer protection rules, dump all workers protection, if there is any in UK and promote greed and opportunism to the countries ultimate credo. Freedom of residence will, depending on unwrapping procedures, force many Europeans to leave UK and work in Dublin or somewhere else. All this global SME's will will move to Dublin. Especially Spain will find a way to drive most of the UK expat community out of the Costa and Gibraltar will face new Visa rules. Similar things will happen to other "UK second homes" around the EU territory. The not so united kingdom benefited from all this western Europeans living in UK, as they added things to the UK society which the people of UK love so much.

The UK as a member of the EU is at least one force which is kicking ass in Brussels and Strasbourg, what will be greatly missed. The EU civil service will welcome a UK departure, the people of Europe will not.

Assemblers were once people: My aunt did it for NASA

memories

One of my aunts headed an OS development team in some high-tec company on the west coast and earlier her husband started development of stock trading systems in NY on IBM1401 and IBM360. I learned all this after I started to write assembler code on IBM4341 and MVS. Needles to say that I "played" with 1401's and 360's as a very lucky teenager.

This brings back nice memories.

Neon

So, that vast IT disaster you may have caused? Come in, sit down

wow, who the hell . . . . .

This article appears to me as totally generic. What we (the once who know what they are doing) do, has nothing to do with luck!

The good boss hires only good people. Here we are hiring family and friends, wannabees or cheap slaves. No respect for the true value of the human resource.

RBS's cockup is the result of the lack of basic knowledge. In the real IT world things like this do not happen.

Neon

CSC's iSoft takeover cleared

This is all part of the biggest rip-off ever

iSoft's private health care software made it into the world of public health care, unfit for pupose, massive redesign and no end in sight. This is only the latest story in a saga of how to dump public money in duboius (here CSC) companies. Nepotism of its best!

Minister: Banks should give ID cards to people with no money

We all have ID cards already from our banks

We all have ID cards already from our banks: credit cards and debit cards? what are the politicians talking about ?

Each country has the piliticians it deserves

You only have to be a foreigner to experience that you be turned down by banks when you try to open an account. And this kind of proposals cannot be serious at all.

The “United Kingdom” needs a credible constitution and a reliable legal framework, the basic foundation for a democratic country. But all this can only be achieved with smart, educated politicians.

I know – farfetched – the bit with the politicians.

Irate Aussies go after US website

Education, ethics and tolerance

Tolerance is the freedom of a different opinion. Excusing any insult with the freedom of speech is getting kind of pointless. Is the denial of the holocaust part of the freedom of speech? How come, only US American people think they can publish anything, and always claim their civil rights if other strongly disagree? I remember some paedophiles claiming freedom of speech to publish disturbing graphic materials on the internet. In an educated world we come to educated views and decisions. Not insulting any minorities is the result of such processes.

Neon, London (Europe)

Conservatives want big IT deals delayed

the boys networks

The one guys anticipate winning the elections and don't want to miss the opportunity paying off some bills by bringing in their good old friends. Is this nepotism or politics?