Blue Origin will deal with the descent stage
No doubt landing in a crater, with a note through the door to tell you where your lander has been left...
Posts by ValleyBoy
12 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Nov 2014
Bezos to the Moon: Blue Origin joins SpaceX and Dynetics in a three-horse lunar lander race
Welcome to the telco, we've got fun and games: BT inks 5-year deal to outsource mainframe management to IBM
Thursday 2nd April 2020 19:38 GMT
Good god, CSS is still going????
I thought they switched over to some awful Oracle product for Customer Service. If I think hard enough, I may even remember some of the transaction codes...
Many years ago, BT did this with other IT staff. Server Support, and I think even the DBAs, got TUPE'd over to HP. A few years later, they were all TUPE'd back to BT.
Oracle nemesis MariaDB tries to lure enterprise folk with TX 3.0
LG chairman Koo Bon-moo dies, aged 73
BT lab domain grab – 17 years after cheeky chap swiped 'em
Monday 4th December 2017 11:41 GMT
Ah, Disastral Park
I worked there when this infamous incident took place. He initially claimed that he registered it to do them a favour, jacking the price up in the process, naturally.
When those sons of fun at BT told him to poke it, and relieved him of his duties, I believe he turned it into an S&M dating website. So I'm told.
A certain millennial turned 30 recently: Welcome to middle age, Microsoft Excel v2
Monday 27th November 2017 10:07 GMT
Clicky-pointy number-crunching fools
A friend of mine who worked in "Business Intelligence" (whatever that is!) always used Excel and VBA to do some seriously bug number crunching. Sometimes it would take days to complete, and would often fail once the spreadsheet reached 2GB.
Despite numerous attempts to convince him that he could do his number crunching in any other language (even PL/SQL), and it would complete in a fraction of the time, he would not be convinced. He faithfully carried on burning out the cooling fan on his PC every weekend.
Official: Perl the most hated programming language, say devs
Tuesday 31st October 2017 15:34 GMT
Perl User Groups
My first job after graduating involved quite a lot of perl scripting. I got on with the language rather well, until I made the mistake of asking a question on a perl user group. My god, what an angry bunch they are! Instead of getting an answer, I got a tirade of abuse for not knowing the answer already.
Completely agree about Javascript. Give me perl over that rubbish any day!
Onwards to Valhalla: Java ain't dead yet and it's only getting bigger
NatWest customer services: We're aware of security glitch
Thursday 28th September 2017 13:39 GMT
I love the NatWest
I once had a standing order set up, transferring money from my Sister's account to my savings account.
I got a letter one day, stating something to the effect of "There is not enough money in your account, to transfer from your sisters account to yours. We have charged you £25"
I went into the bank and asked them to explain. They read it, then re-read it a few times with a confused expression, then said it was clearly a mistake and they'd sort it out.
A few days later, my Sister got a letter: "There is not enough money in your Brother's account, to transfer from your account to your Brother's account. £25 - ker-ching"
Mind you, I still bank with them...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
