Posts by Securitymoose

O2, Tesco Mobile go titsup for 220,000+ Brits in 13-HOUR 3G cockup

And where would O2 run their IT from I wonder?

Maybe the same place as caused the RBS/Natwest/Ulsterbank outage?

Forgive me if I mumbai a bit...

Nissan promises to sell self-driving cars by 2020

Re: Quite a few posts .....

And you are relying on PROGRAMMERS do do this - most of whom never get off their consoles long enough to realise what a car is, let alone drive it safely. You only have to look at the state of traffic planning and road layouts in most towns to realise what a bunch of xxxxxx they are.

Re: Great

You've just talked me out of ever wanting one

Microsoft: Still using Office installed on a PC? Gosh, you squares

A place with no internet?

What, like the UK, where we are still struggling with the idea of fast broadband in most areas? Can you imagine a small company relying on the Cloud and Office 999, when the chances of losing the connection completely are not that low...

Boffins find evidence Atlantic Ocean has started closing

Is that Atlantis coming up again?

Only 30 mteres below the surface - pass me a bailing bucket and we will see!

Is it me or did cloud marketing suddenly get really weird?

Three characters sum up the cloud - E2E

Would anyone in their right minds want to entrust their valuable data to a third party after seeing how the NHS and others are being held to ransom now?

Australia cuts Microsoft bill by AU$100m

Re: John Sheridan, eh?

Yes, he sorted out the Shadows and the Vorlons too, so Microsoft should be a walk in the park (unless they have those nasty laser things)

Rolling robot avatar trumps telecommuting

Better than life?

Replace the structure with a tailor's dummy, motors to make the limbs move, and the eyes with small cameras and we can all have the body we have always wanted without even getting out of bed?

CSC UK waves ta-ta to axed staff, sharpens axe for next round

Retraining in IT?

When RBS were laying people off, they offered £2000 for retraining - this was not necessarily for IT, as most IT people are already sharp in multi-disciplines, but to allow retraining in ANY skill. People I know have taken the opportunity to train as plumbers, electricians, writers, architects, teachers etc. and really review their careers. With the prevalence of outsourcing, IT has had its day. Let's leave it to the sausage factory guys and gals, while we do something useful and rewarding.

Teens break up with Facebook

Twitter because the YOT can't concentrate for more than 160 characters?

I was talking about this amongst m'colleagues and one of them cynically suggested that the young people these days only have an attention span of 160 characters so the chore of having to work out something to write in Facebook is too much for them, especially with the new Timeline thing - and what's all that about??? Watch out Facebook, the writing's on everybody's wall (if they can be bothered).

TalkTalk is yet again the most griped about telco in Blighty

TT did not do it for me

I started with Tiscali and was moved to TT when they took over. They have been gradually getting worse over the last two years - slow speeds, frequent disconnections and a 'help' desk who treat you like a moron - yes, and they are in India already!

I gave up on them after several weeks of abysmal service and moved to PlusNet. As TT's parting shot, they disconnected me 24 hours before they should have.

PlusNet moved in and they immediately put right a problem with the exchange, and since then, my connection has been superb. The benefits of a 'local' call centre cannot be over-stressed. Whilst our chums overseas may be competent and helpful, at the end of the day, it is a UK service and is best supported from the UK.

I would never go back to TT now, even if they came round every day in person to clean out the cat litter tray.

World IPv6 Day fails to kill the internet

Simple solution

It seems all these new addresses are needed for toasters, cookers and shavers. Why don't we just use IP6 for 'Toasternet' so that all the banal and probably unneccessary traffic can keep to its own superhighway. When the sunspots hit us the whole thing will burn out anyway and we will have to resort to using our hands to operate these complicated devices instead. IP6? Yet again, a poorly disguised way of getting us to buy a load of new hardware, and keep the cash flowing towards the network people.