* Posts by TooManyChoices

9 publicly visible posts • joined 24 May 2016

For some reason, you lot love 'em. So here are the many ThinkPads of 2018

TooManyChoices

Re: L380 Yoga - Goldylocks MacBook Pro with ugly buttons

That keyboard looks like a MacBook keyboard with a cl1t nobody uses ...

I for one won't touch anything without a cl1t.

TooManyChoices

Re: @Snorlax

Recently I went so far as seeing if you could put a Latitude or Precision keyboard (with pointer stick) in a Alienware 17. You can't.

Currently I use a Precision M6800. The standard pointer tip sucks but 99p later on ebay I had the cat's tongue sandpaper type. In blue of course.

So when I come to replace it, as you say, I am stuck with something from the Lenovo Thinkpad or Dell Precision/Latitude range. Which is what I have been using (one or the other) since about 1998.

I did once have a corporate Toshiba (with pointer stick) in about 2000. It was crap.

TooManyChoices

Thanks for the advice but I am such a TrackPoint addict that I already own it. Expensive but nice.

TooManyChoices

Why don't more PC manufacturers give us a choice of a TrackPoint or pointing stick?

For me, no TrackPoint = no sale. So I am left with the choice of Thinkpads, some Dells and the odd HP workstation. And none of them comes with a GTX 1080.

The biggest British Airways IT meltdown WTF: 200 systems in the critical path?

TooManyChoices

Re: Single point of failure?

My money is still on the ESB availability failing and then trouble afterwards resyncing all the systems. Even in the article it says:

"However, within the comments of the BA chief executive there is one telling statement:

Tens of millions of messages every day that are shared across 200 systems across the BA network

and it actually affected all of those systems across the network."

BA IT systems failure: Uninterruptible Power Supply was interrupted

TooManyChoices

Single Point of Failure

Maybe if BA were running active:active they have just found out a single point of failure that they did not notice before in the design.

For example maybe taking out the power completely knackered the Enterprise Service Bus (or access to it). If messages could not get to the backup then it fits in with what Cruz said about a power supply issue causing a network problem that meant messaging failed between all the systems.

The backup data centre might have just been twiddling it's thumbs.

Intel gives the world a Core i9 desktop CPU to play with

TooManyChoices

Well when AMD brought out the Ryzen 7, Intel had to have a bigger number.

Now I'm waiting for the Ryzen 11, then the Intel 13, then the Ryzen 15 and the Intel 17

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Ryzen 999999 ......

BA CEO blames messaging and networks for grounding

TooManyChoices

Re: Rule 1 of Press Releases

It's changed now due to acquisition:

Is this the messaging system that went down?

https://www.aurea.com/our-solutions/cx-platform/cx-messenger/

Booming sales of flippy detachables offers hope to glum PC market

TooManyChoices

Re: At which point...

When it run OS-X?