Posts by Shannyla

Windows 11: Meet the new OS, same as the old OS (or close enough)

Re: Here here

Looks at the very recent Sony media server/recorder in our 4K TV Studio and its various control workstations...

Yup, definitely running Windows 8...

Works fine.

HMS Queen Elizabeth has sprung a leak and everyone's all a-tizzy

Re: a leak?!

Splendid tale M. Coward, very sub-Tom Clancey. Sadly such an act would almost certainly be the point where the big pointy atom bang sticks would start to fly, and it would something of a hollow victory for Ivan, no matter how krokodil-crazed they'd gotten by 2025. Yes, yes, lots of chatter right now about how Russia thinks they're able to push their luck because nobody in the West has any balls any more and have traded in all their military at cash Convertors, but I'm not sure they're quite that stupid or confident.

Russia is the Begbie of geopolitics, frightening but ultimately a wee man with an attitude problem.

Let's praise Surface, not bury it

Don't knock Betamax - it won by years

In fact the broadcast and film industries have only just stopped using its most highly evolved form, the HDCAM-SR.

We've still got two of the decks in a rack for when we have to playback stuff that hasn't be digitised yet. Sony knocked it out of the park with their video tape format.

Funnily enough and on-topic, film and TV will probably be one of the last bastions of desktop workstations.

GCHQ's exploding doughnut threatens to ooze into innocent field

Re: "in keeping with its surroundings and help minimise the visual impact"

In the middle of the countryside? It's in the middle of housing estate, next to a retail park. Couldn't be in a more English location, although there is a deeply suspicious Whole Foods Market next door, full of chaps speaking into their coat cuffs with 'Murican accents. Probably.

Euro broadcast industry still in a fug over that 4K-ing UHD telly

Re: "Satellite is the ideal way to distribute 4K. We will drive it just as we did with HD"

Nope - it's all 1080i.

720p had no traction in Europe either as acquisition format or deliverable.

Are virtualisation and the cloud SNUFFING OUT traditional backup software?

Veeam is brilliant, simple, fast and reliable. Backup Exec is an unreliable, over-complex, steaming pile of fresh horse manure.

Our money went to Veeam and it hasn't let us down yet. First each backup set goes to disk, secondly it goes to tape and thirdly it goes offsite to a remote data centre. The first backup to disc uses network bandwidth so it happens at night, tape doesn't as it's backing up the local disk data, and the remote backup uses wan bandwidth so that also happens outside business hours.

What's not to like? Maybe the fact that Veeam's sales department are super-aggressive and could do with dialling that back a bit.

Broadband sellers in the UK are UP TO no good, says Which?

Re: And the other way round

Every time I speedtest my Gigaclear connection I get exactly what I'm paying for, 200Mbps down and up to 1Gbps up. Backhaul is 10Gbps to the node they are using, after that then well, who knows?

We can discuss how accurate speedtest is, but in the absence of any other metrics it'll have to do. It was certainly accurate at telling me that my adsl connection ran at the giddy speed of 0.75Mbps. Calling BT to tell them where to stick their mouldy old copper was certainly one of the more pleasing interactions I have had with a business this year.

UK superfast broadband? Not in my backyard – MP

Re: Commercial viability

Push harder - we were in the same position with a local FTTP provider, probably with the same one, but we got over the hump and a year later we now have 1GBPS symmetrical FTTP. Three weeks ago we had 750kbps to 1.5mbps on a good day.

Ofcom to BT Openreach: From now on, you'd better kill 70% of gremlins within 2 days

Bye bye to OpenReach

Only 4 more weeks until we have an FTTP network go live in our village, no thanks to BT or OpenReach of course. It will be one of the more joyous moments (got to get small pleasures where you can...) to tell BT to take its landline back and stick it up its fundament.

£48 a month for 200Mb/sec or £60 for 1Gig? Don't mind if I do. Small improvement on the 700K/sec that BT manages to supply...