* Posts by JaffaBoy

2 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jul 2020

Synology to enforce use of validated disks in enterprise NAS boxes. And guess what? Only its own disks exceed 4TB

JaffaBoy

Ripoff

If their disks are as overpriced as their memory is then they take their Nas and stuff it where the sun don't shine.

In all honesty they'll probably back down when they see sales fall because of this.

Brit retailer John Lewis to catapult 111 tech bods over to Capgemini weeks after dumping 244 on Wipro

JaffaBoy

Re: Weird place

Yeah cheers for reminding me of that,

1. That's 17 years ago, bit dated there

2. It was only in old branches that were a nightmare to re-cable. Token ring lengths could be longer than ethernet supported so rewiring was required. It was a nightmare.

Glad to say by 2004 it was all ethernet.

There endeth my history lesson.