Posts by Andy 102

Big Blue's biggest mainframe yet is the size of a fridge

Re: Many years ago...

@Peter "After I left, I heard it had been filled. I had visions of it descending through the 11th floor, then the 10th, the 9th and on to the ground!"

Indeed it was filled up and we later updated the switch on it. It sat there for quite a while being used by both HW and Call-AIX members.

We also had a S70 with separate disk enclosure next to it. So we must have been way over the floor limit at that time.

Suck on this, Larry: NoSQL pair hit the G-spot

"Basho reckons to have displaced Oracle at the NHS in the UK – although it doesn’t say where or how much.."

They probably heard about it from here maybe....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/09/nhs_spin2_rips_out_oracle/

Speaker Bercow's loquacious wife finally silenced - On Twitter

Exactly - They (one presumes the Police and Parents) wanted her name published everywhere in order to find her, and now that she's been found it's all hush hush and we're not allowed to mention her name.

What about the likes of the papers whos web pages still carry her name. eg: Telegraph and Daily Fail.

4K vs OLED: and the winner is...

1080p?

"How will television makers persuade punters to buy a new set now we all - well, most of us - have 1080p sets with internet access?"

Not me...yet. Still running my trusty Panasonic TX32PD30 :)

Beware of cold call scammers pushing rogue antivirus

waste their time.

Had this for the 2nd time in as many months. So this time I played dumb and went along with them for a while. He started to get a bit annoyed when I said I couldn't find the 'start' button on my screen.

After 5 mins I then mentioned that I had a 'penguin' in the bottom left. He then hung up.