* Posts by AlanT

5 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jan 2016

Teensy plastic shields are the big new thing in 2018's laptop crop

AlanT

Re: agreed...

Decent USB C docks do everything including charge your computer over a single USB C port. My laptop (a Dell) just has one cable plugged in when it's docked and I have a ton of stuff hanging off the dock.

Which is not to say the difficulties with USB C docks other people are noting aren't real - driver and firmware for a lot of docks have been awful. It feels like things were much worse 18 months ago, though.

Telly boffin Professor Heinz Wolff has died

AlanT

Re: A definite genius of a man.

Yes, with my grandfather. Growing up I remember him as an extremely well spoken man, and his Aberdeen roots were very much in the background. The last time I saw him was a few months before his final illness, and he'd mentally slowed. And was again speaking the Doric of his youth.

Oh my Word... Microsoft Office 365 unlatched after morning lockout

AlanT

Re: Please explain to me ...

Realtalk, because for at least most small and medium businesses, MS is much much better at running exchange servers than an in-house resource. Outages happen (rarely, IME), but the downtime is generally less overall than you get if you do it yourself. I haven't missed babysitting Exchange even a tiny bit over the last few years.

Rhode Island sues HPE for making its DMV even more miserable

AlanT

Bravo on the subhead. Outstanding!

Amazon: Hey pal, since you're shifting all your IT over to AWS, why not that email server, too?

AlanT

Re: Because...

For O365 at least, shared mailboxes and aliases don't consume a license. I ran in-house mail servers for close to twenty years, and I don't miss it at all!