* Posts by UK_Bedders

6 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Aug 2017

Public cloud prices to surge in US and Europe next year

UK_Bedders

Re: On prem hosting

This is the difference. I can control our costs if the infrastructure is on site - we can consolidate VM's/containers onto fewer physical machines, turn up the air conditioning by a degree, get rid of the last older devices that are less power efficient than newer ones...

If everything was hosted by Azure or AWS we'd be beholden to them and any price increase they put our way, with no quick way to move away to save costs.

How not to train your Dragon: What happens when you teach an AI game sex-abuse stories then blame players

UK_Bedders

Re: Four Watermelons

It shows you handles for forks.

It's 2020 and a rogue ICMPv6 network packet can pwn your Microsoft Windows machine

UK_Bedders

Re: Wait

I feel my Factorio factories are neater than Microsoft's coding...

A real loch mess: Navy larks sunk by a truculent torpedo

UK_Bedders

Re: Pure 'Carry on ' gold.

I'm not that old but spent many a happy car journey accompanied by such nautical capers.

This Who, Me? reminds me of the episode where they're testing the new gun targeting mechanism that gets swapped with Pertwee's musical birthday present. ^,^ BOOM right through No. 1's office for the new window!

It's happening, tech contractors: UK.gov is pushing IR35 off-payroll rules to private sector in Finance Bill

UK_Bedders

Re: Ignoring the Electorate?

People who voted leave / total 37.442%

People who voted remain / total 34.712%

Did not vote / total 27.791%

So by your argument, 62.5% did not vote to remain.

(Data sourced from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum)

Four techies flummoxed for hours by flickering 'E' on monitor

UK_Bedders

Wireless interference

A story from an engineer at my last job:

He once attended a callout at a secondary school where they were complaining about a lack of wireless connectivity at random times; sometimes multiple times a day, other times a couple of days without any problems. It was one particular area that was affected, about 5 classrooms across all 3 floors.

When he went to each of the affected classrooms he found one of them was a Food Tech room with 20+ microwaves all around the walls. These were usually all used at the same time.

His comment when recounting the story to me was "Yep, that'll do it".