Posts by Locky 554 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Apr 2010
Back in the late 80's I did a Economics A level, and I distinctly remember the text books (remember them kids) stating that county wide infrastructure, phone lines, train lines, roads etc, are poor candidates for privatisation as there is no way to have multiple routes and therefore no competition. All you get is companies bidding to run it better (cheaper) and skim off the profits.
Seems the Torys didn't read they same book
Works fine for 18 months, back in the early days of ADSL all worked fine for an acceptable speed (for the time) of about .5mbps and then one day, no sync
After numerous calls, rebootings, new routers and engineers, I finally got the the answer;
"I'm sorry Sir, your house is too far from the exchange"
The irony that it hadn't been a week before seemed lost on them
They have offered one, with caveats
"Starting June 1st, EA and EAS customers with active subscription licenses to Windows 10 Enterprise E5, Microsoft 365 E5, or Microsoft 365 E5 Security (as of December 31, 2019) will get Windows 7 Extended Security Updates for Year 1 as a benefit. With this limited-time promotion, customers have more options to continue receiving Windows 7 security updates after end of support"
https://www.microsoftpartnercommunity.com/t5/UK-Modern-Workplace-Community/New-Windows-7-ESU-Promo-with-Windows-E5-and-Microsoft-365-E5/gpm-p/10129
So you want a phone that folds out into a tablet with a full qwerty physical keyboard?
@A.P. Veening - Fair point, well made ;)
@AC - So the theory is (and remember this was 30 years ago and I wasn't really paying attention to the teacher and only took the class as I fancied a girl doing it too...) that all oil is traded in $ no matter where it is produced. So you have to change your local currency into dollars to get a tub of deceased dino juice, and on the scale this happens this skews the supply and demand curve right to such an extent that it is effectively propping up the US currency and economy.
Well that's what I remember from what was said, but I also bought Appetite for Destruction and learning Welcome to the Jungle was more pressing at the time....
Automation fubars are all too fun.
Back in the early days of Powershell I had the bright idea that any user moved to a "Staff Leavers" OU to have their our of office set to a "I have now left the company" script, which I created and was tested, or so I thought.
All was going well, until a day when there were no users in the folder, and I found a feature of Powershell 1.1 where if no results were found all mailboxes were selected, setting every out of office from the MD down.
Oh how we laughed in the forthcoming meetings....
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