Posts by yakacm

Global network outage hits Microsoft: Azure, Teams, Outlook all down

Re: Downtime?

Schools don't exist in isolation, or at least they don't in the UK, they are part of a local authority which are massive organisations, for instance the LA I work for, has something like 25,000 users, so not too sure why any school would have it's own email server. Prior to the cloud their email server would have been in a council computer centre somewhere. And yes there can be local outages, but there is usually a backup server, or traffic can be rerouted, whatever, my point being there are options. With the cloud all that is out of your hands. It's like the difference between driving and flying, at least when you're driving you are in control.

Yup, it's a stupid idea, for many, many reasons, this just being in the top 3.

Hmm

Hmm, does seem to be a fundamental flaw with the cloud model, if someone snips the cord, your cloud will float away. But what do I know, I'm just an old timer who's been in the industry since the early 80's, I take it these young'uns know what they're doing? Can't lie it seemed better when you could go in to the machine room, and add another sack of coal to old Betsie, the mainframe node, when things got a bit sketchy.

A pub denied: One man's tale of festive frolics postponed by the curse of the On Call phone

Re: Boxing Day

What I don't get is why Americans take the alcohol out of everything? Like eggnog is non-alcoholic in the States, as is cider?

Microsoft Paint + car park touchscreen = You already know where this is going

Re: Who got out of bed on the wrong side today?

You want to try driving to Hastings...well obviously you don't as it's not that nice, but what I meant was, if you were to drive to Hastings you'd find it a lot less enjoyable than driving to Brighton. Brighton at least has a M-way, Hasting is A road all the way, when I lived there, which granted was 20+ years ago, it could take 3 or 4 hours to drive the 50ish miles to London, there was only a few passing points back then, the rest being single carriage way.

I don't think it's cars Josh H has drawn, rather I believe it is a stylised erect penis and testicles which appear to be ejaculating. I mean it's pretty poorly executed, but as a piece of art, it is still a million times better than anything Tracey Emin has ever produced. Isn't Banksy from Brighton?

Flash? Nu-uh. Windows 11 users complain of slow NVMe SSD performance

Hi it's a ASUS Z690 Hero, as for the raid controller, I just used Windows Computer Management and striped the drives, which I guess is raid 0, sometimes the old ways are the best. I tried using Intel's rapid storage technology driver, which was a total faff, you have to go the BIOS and change the discs to VMD, and it took me ages to find the driver that worked with my board and when I had finished the speed was, slower by about 15-20%, and obviously the change to VMD isn't reversable so I had to re-install Windows11, stop laughing at the back.

Not too sure what they are doing wrong, I have 2 Samsung 1Tb Gen4 SSD's in raid 0, and I get over 14000 MB/s read and nearly 11000 MB/s on my Win 11 machine.

Ahh, so sad when love is unreciprocated.

Shhh! It's us, Microsoft. Yes, it's 2020. We're here with a new build of Windows 10

I'm guessing XP installs are probably increasing again as the retro gaming thing takes hold, the tech equivalent of having a record player. I just built myself on XP machine, not what I am using to post this BTW. I managed to source all the choicest components like a Pentium 4 with hyper threading, at 3.2 Ghz it real flies, well glides maybe, the 3.4Ghz ones go for stupid money so I settled on the 3.2, same for the graphics card I managed to get the second fastest Nvidia AGP card GTX 7850, again the the 7900 go for alarmingly large amounts of dough these days.

eBay threatens to block Australians from using offshore sellers

Seems Resonable.

Don't know if I am missing something here, but the Aussies have obviously been getting a good deal up to now as they have been doing this here in the UK for as long as I know. And as others have said it's a heck of a lot less than $1000, I'm talking about a few miserable quid, if memory serves it's around the £20 to £30 mark. When you see items on eBay from say the USA it has details there with the price and shipping about what you will pay in import doodie, obviously it's different with stuff in China as they don't make anything that costs as much as £30, ho ho, just joshing. I think the Chinese have gotten wise to this anyway and have 'fulfillment' centers in the UK full of their lovely tat, so you don't have to wait 6 weeks or pay tax. In fact wasn't the mandarins in the EU getting all upset about this (Chinese eBayer having UK fulfillment centers) as it is defrauding the EU of tax revenue or some such?