Posts by Evil Harry

Satellites with lasers and machine guns coming! China's new plans? Trump's Space Force? Nope, the French

I can't help thinking of Moonraker ... (yes the crap Bond movie) ;)

Migrating an Exchange Server to the Cloud? What could possibly go wrong?

I left the world of System Administration many moons ago around the time VXA was becoming a thing and then promptly didn't. It might have just been customers of the business I was working for (the SME market) but it was rare they'd let us test restoring files because they were generally too busy and none of them wanted to pay for it.

We'd occasionally find the odd customer savvy enough to let us prove file backups were working advertised but no-one would let us do anything with the Exchange backups because they were all too scared of it going wrong.

It seemed like a very strange attitude to me but there you go

Meet the super-speedy white dwarf binary system that's going to grav-wave our world

It's great to know when the world is being turned upside down with politics, climate change and all that stuff, there are still people out there making these awesome discoveries.

Plusnet holds off spirited charge from Vodafone in broadband complaint charts

I'm pleased for you.

They've been charging me £12 per month over what they should be for the last seven months. I have to ring once a month and get them to correct the bill and refund accordingly.

Operation Desert Sh!tstorm: Routine test shoots down military's top-secret internets

Re: I'm so glad we kept one!

"I had argued for keeping at least one physical domain controller but to no avail."

We were always against putting our infrastructure monitoring platform in the virtual world as well for the same reason. Not being able to see what's actually down when the virtual infrastructure was having a rest never did seem like a good idea. It was a hell of a job getting management to reach the same conclusion.