I was always facinated by the Gannet as a kid, probably because of the prop arrangement up front. I never had a concept though of how big they are though until I stood next to one at an air museum recently. Massive things!
Posts by Thunderpants
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Hell hath no fury like a radar engineer scorned
Openreach needs to snap that BT umbilical cord, warns Ofcom
Driving Xtreme Cuts: DXC Technology waves bye bye to 45% of Americas Security divison
My last place offshored once and we lost about a third of the UK based department. Training was a nightmare and it took about two years to get the guys over there to a position where we were confident enough to unleash them on the customer as there was large staff turnover with the Indian company we partnered with. Things just settled down when a major customer announced they were leaving us after our botched renewal bid so the Indian operation got scrapped. Fast forward five years and they are doing it all again under new owners. Guess they'll never learn. :(
Akamai CEO: Playing games from the cloud? Seems too expensive to be viable right now
Could you just pop into the network room and check- hello? The Away Team. They're... gone

I remember back in the early days of my career, I worked for a small (now defuct) fledgling ISP. Being small, money was tight and everything was done by the seat of the pants but there was demand for our hosting service - more than we could have predicted. I remember my boss buying a "new" UPS to power our rapidly filling server racks. The boss decided to get the father of our of our engineers, who was a qualified commerical electrician, to fit it.
A few weeks later, one of the junior engineers was in the server room and came back to the main office complaining the room smelled of fish. A few moments later, the building went dark. We went over to the server room to investigate and were greeted with clouds of smoke.
When everything calmed down, one of the battery packs attached to the UPS was heavily blistered and it looked like that was the root cause. Being child like of course, we never let the unfortunate engineer who's father had connected the UPS for us at mates rates, live it down!
Wow, talk about a Maine-wave: US state says ISPs need permission to flog netizens' personal data
Nvidia keeping mum on outlook for year as data centre slows, channel chokes on crypto crap
The PC gaming market seems to be in general decline anyway. Activision Blizzard for one said they were looking to the mobile market going forward and I can see this being reflected by the other major game development houses as time goes on. There will always be PC die-hards (I am one) but even I baulk at cost fo the RTX cards and if my view is similar to others, there won't be enough people willing to spend on high-end cards to make them viable.
Come friendly bit barns and fall on Slough: Equinix opens £90m data centre in London rust belt
Apple iPhone sales down by double digits, Mac sales knifed by Intel CPU 'constraints'

Re: Frankly, I'm going to downvote myself
I think this thought process can be applied to a lot of cases. I know Cisco CCIE's that use a BT Homehub or other ISP supplied trash router at home just because they don't want to bring their work home with them.
My personal preference is Android and has been for many years but I'm not going to bash people for using Apple if that's what works for them.
Huawei P30: New No-Pro's cameras are flash ... but there are some curious bits
Mystery of the Chinese woman who allegedly tried to sneak into Trump's Mar-a-Lago with a USB stick of malware
Easy-to-hack combat systems, years-old flaws and a massive bill – yup, that's America's F-35
Google takes a page from Microsoft of old and revives browser ballot on Android
Re: Dog in the manger
Install Nova Launcher and kiss the search bar goodbye :-)
I recommend Nova simply because it has allowed me to provide a consistent looking UI on the wife's phone over a few Android revisions now where the standard UI has changed over time. Without that consistency, I think she'd be demanding an iPhone.
Karpeles walks, Google and Microsoft board up Windows hole, and Android AV still sucks
Carphone Warehouse fined £29m for mis-selling mobile insurance to punters who didn't need it
At least Sony offered a t-shirt, says macOS flaw finder: Bug bounties now for Macs if you want this 0-day, Apple
Freedom! Diodes Inc saves Scottish fab from closure in £50m buyout
Are you sure your disc drive has stopped rotating, or are you just ignoring the messages?
If I could turn back time, I'd tell you to keep that old Radarange at home

Re: Pesky microwaves
We had something similar where a radio link became unusable in the months following its installation. It turned out there was a tree inbetween the line of site that impacted the link during the summer months.
We classified the issue as a .... spanning .... tree problem ....
Sorry.
Windows 10 can carry on slurping even when you're sure you yelled STOP!
Windows 10 Pro goes Home as Microsoft fires up downgrade server
Re: Just go Linux "Take my Linux ... please!"
"I dunno, so many people pay over $100 for MS Windows, and pay hundreds of dollars in premium hardware costs to run MacOS, Linux fanbois can't give their pet OS away for free, and those same fanbois are convinced their pet OS is the best for the wider public."
Gaming unfortunately. The only reason I don't run Linux. The stuff I play only works on Windows and experimentation into emulation with Wine or alternatives hasn't been a great success :(
Day two – and Windows 10 October 2018 Update trips over Intel audio
Re: Edge?
"thats not quite as much spyware by design"
It might not have as much spyware by design (dunno, I've not really looked into it) but I can say having installed it on a VM yesterday, it's on a par with Google for shoving advertising down your throat.
Congratulations - you've installed the upgrade successfully - by the way, here's MSN spam spam.
Supermicro wraps crypto-blanket around server firmware to hide it from malware injectors
Prenda lawyer pleads guilty to moneyshot honeypot scheme
We've Amber heard a NASty rumour: Marvell man touts private cloud box
Prank 'Give me a raise!' email nearly lands sysadmin with dismissal

Re: Mailing list fail
Mailing Lists can be great fun.
We used to get announcements from our upstream service provider via an "updates" mailing list which unfortunately (for them) they had failed to secure. Someone replied to an announcement requesting to be unsubscribed from this list. This was subsequently broadcast to everyone on said list. Before they secured it, all sorts of stuff was going on - I think the last message I saw was someone offering to sell a pair of skis ....