Posts by RiverRock

Users of 123 Reg caught out by catch-all redirect cut-off

They also stopped allowing forwarding to large groups of recipients. That just deleted the lists. That did this before their deadline on one of my accounts, leaving the other in place. I lost a group email list before I could extract the addresses.

They lost a customer.

VMware pulls physical to virtual conversion tool, adds VM to container conversion tool

Used this today

I ran into this today - needed to get a VM from one ESXI server to another which couldn't see each other, even though both managed from the same VCenter.

Standalone converter can do this with a few clicks ( then a wait). Luckily I had an old copy lying around.

Does that mean VMWare now have no supported way to export images from VCenter? Seems a big oversight!

Botched SAP billing system helps Npower reach No 1 on gripes list

Guess number 2

So Scottish Power had a spike of complaints also. Now doesn't that correspond to when they started migrating customers to their new system. Want to guess the manufacturer?

SAP with IBM the main consultancy firm. You couldn't make it up. IBM's sales team must be rolling in it!