Posts by dak 167 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Oct 2010
I started out on Pr1me Information (a PICK implementation) which we migrated to UniVerse (UniData's current sibling) on SunOS by exporting and importing. It worked instantly without any changes at all.
Bloody brilliant database and much easier to use than Oracle/SQL Server/DB2.
I'll ignore the intemperate and badly-considered rant and concentrate just on the final sentence, which simply displays ignorance of the DNS system.
The .com TLD was not intended for US addresses, but for the worldwide "commercial" namespace, in the same way that .net was intended for worldwide internet organisations, and .org for worldwide non-profits organisations. Also .edu and .gov, although the latter seems to have been appropriated by the US government. The anomalous extension .mil was intended solely for the US military.
Country-specific addresses were to be prefixed by the ISO country code - I own a .uk.com address, and this approach would have kept every commercial site neatly arranged in the commercial branch. However, country-specific TLDs were then established, and .us was amongst the very first. This broke the integrity of the DNS namespace but has become the dominant format, with addresses such as .co.uk (the equivalent of .uk.com) now more common.
So, to return to my point - .com is not solely for US entities and I don't know if there is any restriction on registration. Some countries do restrict registrations by postal address - Finland and Luxembourg in my own experience, and they are entitled to do so.
But the EU is not a country, however much it would like to think it is. It is a political union of varying geographical boundaries and their approach almost seems designed cause maximum disruption. Or maybe it's just lack of thought.
The code name was true. I worked at Ferranti in Edinburgh in 1981, helping out with developing the ground-mapping radar. All of the Ferranti internal project names began with the word Blue - "Blue Parrot", "Blue Tit", etc although the latter was always known as "Frigid Nipple" for obvious reasons.
The Tornadoes were known locally as the Blue Circle Airline (Portland Cement's trademark, in case anyone didn't know).
It wasn't a mix-up over sizes, though, just that the radar development lagged the airframe development, and having seen a Texas Instruments engineer wielding a sledge hammer during the project I think I know why.
In the past couple of years I have worked in the UK, Denmark, Sweden and Norway (non-EU), all billed in the UK on a limited company basis.
In the past week alone I have turned down opportunities in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and Ireland.
Don't blink - just go where the work is.
Reading some of the comments above, there seems to be a percentage of commentors who think that the problems arise from Boeing being a commercial concern, driven by profit. (Apparently Airbus seem to be given a bye because of the EU's pseudo-direction of the company.)
This has been a long standing discussion in aviation. Could I please suggest that anyone holding that opinion reads up on the story of the R100 and R101 airships, built in tandem to exercise just that question?
"Strathaven is your next one."
I lived in Strathaven for over 20 years, we had plenty of amusement at foreigners' attempts to find us.
Grew up in nearby Chapelton (Chaipel'un) and our school used to play football against our enemies in Glassford (the Glessart).
But I've always wondered - just what exactly is Greater Glasgow greater than?
Those of us who do move around the country also have privately owned houses, so presumably it is not the rate of home ownership, but the availability of accessible remote accommodation that is important.
One real annoyance for peripatetic home owners such as myself is Council Tax. I have to pay 100% of my home CT. Living in a rented flat as a single person I should get 50% discount for single occupancy. BUT the flat is counted as a second home so only qualifies for 10% discount.
Therefore, as a flexible worker I have to pay 190% of CT.
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