Posts by Oh Matron! 529 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Nov 2013
Did a video this week comparing a Pi with some Generic Windows box.
Wasn't the balanced piece I was expecting, given that your Pi will consume less power that a Gnat's Fart, stay powered on literally for months on end, and comes with no bloatware installed.
He seemed to forget that the windows box will sh1t the bed literally within weeks
Why do we continue to tolerate such crap?
Sorry, apologies, but why such a frequent cadence?
macOS has a much more sedate release program, where both enterprise and public testing is encouraged. macOS isn't without it's faults, but, my God, from an Enterprise IT perspective, it's much more manageable (and better quality)
Bombardier, smiths aerospace, RR (of course), Airbus (The wings are the most complex part of a plane), GKN, Leonardo, . Apparently, the industry is worth 10.9 billion per year in the UK. BAE, to some extent, although I believe it's a much bigger company in the US than the UK now. Marshall's in Cambridge spring to mind, and, of course, Martin-Baker
What percentage of the above is MS?
https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/hmrc-approved-for-112m-microsoft-spending
https://ukstories.microsoft.com/features/nhs-england-microsoft-deal-maximises-time-for-care/
The fact that I cannot find this information is troubling
But, even more troubling is sh1tnannigans like this:
"HMRC’s current chief digital and information officer Jacky Wright is on a two-year secondment from Microsoft, scheduled to end this October. "
Having done a 24 hour walk in the Lakes a couple of years ago, and completely bombing during the circadian low, there are no apologies necessary for a FUBAR....
However, first job out of school was floor manager at Maccy D's. We had our bi-annual replacement of fluorescent tubes once.... The all nighter consisted of about 3 hours of work, followed by hours of playing star wars with the tubes in the attic.... This is the kind of all nighter we can all get behind :-)
We quite often see various exhibitions on the south bank here in Nodnol that highlight the plight of various cultures / animals / buildings etc. Furthermore, when the Tate first opened, it had an exhibition of everything they'd pulled out of the Thames when building the Clipper pier (which I did, and still do find more interesting than anything else that's been in there)
We have to highlight this And we have to educate. And educate. And educate. And Punish
(I don't know if anyone else noticed the high amount of fishing nets that were encasing the turtles)
I work in MDM..... And one of the biggest issues I face with customers is that apple, when bring a device under management, call the device, well, you've guessed it, iPad or iPhone
Why they can't use some non persistent random string, I don't know. I do get customers calling to ask if a device can be brought back under management because the wrong "iPhone" was wiped...
Bootnote: Yes, I know, devices can be renamed, but, if you've every worked with managing devices in education, you'd be fully aware of the toomfoolery that the yoof of today get up to.
My rowlett (RIP) toaster is exactly the same.It's had ONE set of elements in 20 years and the mechanism inside is astoundingly simple. It will still be going in 20 years
I occassionally look at the newer stuff in john lewis and it just looks garbage :-(
I did one of those "who do I vote for given my beliefs" thing at the last election, thinking I'd come out "lib dem". Was surprised that I actual came out Labour, who do appear to have a uch better grip on the climate than the Tories, who seem to use the RAF as their own personal Uber
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