* Posts by Aquilus

64 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jul 2007

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German 4G auction winds up

Aquilus

Into the black hole it goes!

Make the cheques payable to "Hellenic Republic".

Service management: A million jobs or a job with a million parts?

Aquilus

No such thing as a 'one minute fix'

@Pete2 as it should be, unless you're running a shop full of cowboys. There's no such thing as a 'one minute fix' when supporting production systems and environments. Whatever you change will always impact other teams, and because they're (presumably) more knowledgeable in their sphere that you are, they need to be allowed to provide an impact. In most cases that impact will be 'no problem' but when it is a problem, isn't it better to have caught it now, rather than suddenly finding your backups are failing because extending that tablespace meant it no longer fits onto one tape, or there was a staging area that also needed expanding that you weren't aware of...

Solar-curtain "soft house" plan proposed by MIT prof

Aquilus

Keep them drawn all the time?

Am I the only person to have detected a small problem in their plan? Don't most people close their curtains at night and open them again during the day? So the only time these solar-panel curtains will be exposed to the sun is at... night.

Staff internet policies must be Facebook-ready, warns expert

Aquilus

LOL

'LOL I've had a Polcol' would have made a much more fetching title. N00bs.

Home Office won't appeal immigration ruling

Aquilus
Happy

Too late...

'A Home Office spokesman sent us the following today: "We're happy to take the judge's decision as final. We won't waste taxpayers'’ money with an appeal and will now take the time to consider how to implement the ruling."'

Too late guys, April 1st was two weeks ago...

UK.gov will force paedophiles to register email addresses

Aquilus

@sexoffender.gov.uk

Surely it would be more workable to just ban them from registering any other email addresses, and issue them a mandatory @sexoffender.gov.uk address? Such sites could then just ban sign ups from such a domain. :)

Buggy Flash code continues to plague the web

Aquilus

Backwards?

So... rather than fix whatever component browsers are using to render and execute this buggy Flash, the solution put forward appears instead to be to fix all the authoring tools so they can no longer produce it? Am I missing something, or is this logic sorta... backwards? Can't they just fix the Flash renderer so it doesn't load arbitary URLs?

US HD DVD sales hit new low

Aquilus

No cheaper

I dropped into a Best Buy in the States a few weeks ago. For a format that's supposedly much cheaper to produce and that's desperately struggling for market share, it seemed like madness that there was no appreciable difference in price between HD DVD's and Blu-rays. The reason they sold so few is because they're no cheaper! Typical corporations - putting short term profit ahead of a longer term strategy of building market share by offering cheaper discs. It's cost them the war.

iPhone's visual voicemail ain't so new

Aquilus
Happy

Good job guys

What an entirely non-obvious and novel invention! A shame these guys weren't around when email was first developed... I'm sure having to pay them to license a patent to read your emails in non-chronological order would have advanced the technology no end.

Animal rights activist hit with RIPA key decrypt demand

Aquilus

@Pum

A more accurate analogy would be plod getting a warrant and raiding your home, and not finding anything incriminating except an empty bedroom. Then demanding you tell him the magic word that would make that invisible stash of lovely incriminating evidence stored there appear. And locking you up for two years for failing to do so, because you must be lieing when you claim "There's nothing in there! It's just an empty room, honest!" How on earth are you supposed to prove you don't know something?

Judge OKs Sprint's $30m overcharging settlement

Aquilus

Title

The $5 million attorneys fees should be handed over as pre-paid call cards too. Seems only fair. Perhaps that way, the lawyers might push harder for an actual cash settlement next time...

Boeing touts feeble Hummer-mounted raygun

Aquilus

1MW

Call me when they get it up to 1MW... I'll be waiting in my Cobra Mk III...

Websites could be required to retain visitor info

Aquilus

Core dumps

So the court has determined that TorrentSpy need to keep a record of transient data passing through the servers memory? Fine. Configure the servers to dump their entire core every second. Presumably then TorrentSpy will meet the terms of discovery by delivering a few hundred terabytes per day of binary core dumps to the plaintiff. It's their problem then, extracting the weblogs from it... }:>

Panasonic zooms in on HD camcorder market

Aquilus

Prices

What's the betting the prices will turn out to be $1000/£1000/€1000... :/

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