
Sounds just like DEC
Anyone remember them and how they took their foot off the pedal?
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I noticed it was partially working at 9am. It's been on and off all day. Seems OK now (9:30pm).
Luckily, we have an O2 sim in a mobile broadband device - good enough for my wife to run a decent Zoom session.
This is the longest outage I've had up here. It isn't enough to make me leave Virgin.
Alan
Every iPhone and iPad user has to have aniCloud email, even if they never use it. Maybe that's where the figures come from.
Me, I've been using Outlook since it first came out back in the early 1700's (yes, that's a joke). It does what I want. I looked at Thunderbird but it didn;'t seem to do anything I needed but didn;t have. Iwill try the new one.
Alan
As one who's main job (when I had one) was data centre migrations, I can sympahise - but they should have know this before they started.
Data migration is HARD! It's amazing how many of my customers thought you could just pick the data up, move it (sometimes to another country) and just expect it to work. Until I showed them a mind map I'd developed of all the different bits that needed to be sorted out. [I was going to write a book on it when I retited, but I haven't had time].
I agree. When I first went to college, I was told that 40% was a pass mark and 70% was an 'A'. I did some real work placement while I was there, and to my horror (and eventual delight), anything less than 100% was a fail.
That attitude has stuck with me ever since then. You either do it right or it is wrong - there is no 'grading' in industry.
Alan
As I understand it, a scientist proposes some theory and then they use some empirical experiment (e.g. the hadron collider) to prove their theory.
Simulation doesn't do that - you can create algorithms for anything you like - time travel, humans morphing to werewolves etc. - none of which is remotely true.
So, what am I missing?
I also used to be a bit of a wiz at DOS - do you remember the book "Undocumented DOS"? That was my bible.
I recently resurrected a program I wrote (EasyEdit II) and got it working quite easily in DOSBOX (https://www.dosbox.com). That just uses a folder on my PC which is also accessible from native Windows, so it's easy to share files.
Alan
No, I don't use Twitter. Never have, never will.
But if I were one of the other investors in the $44b takeover, I would be seriously worried about how my investment would pay out, given the hype, reduced advertising and layoffs affecting the company share price and morale. I haven't seen anything in the press about their opinions.
Remember the days when you could walk inside a tape backup system? Well, a customer of mine had one and was very proud of it. So, proud that he was showing off to his superiors and said "let's go inside". Managed to open to door - at which point, everything inside shut down and all the tapes dismounted. Well, it would, wouldn't it. Humans and tape mount systems don't work well together.
It took us 2 days to remount all the correct tapes and restart the backup processes. During that time, the customer was given an opportunity to work elsewhere...
I manage the IT for our local scout area (1000 ish users and Office 365).
I got a call from a scout leader - his BUSINESS (nothing to do with scouts) had a user who couldn't log in and could I look ai it.
I mentioned my "commercial" charges (I am retired, but I used to be a consultant with HPE at around £1500 per day) and suddenly he had it all fixed and working.
I don't mind helping a friend for free (occasionally) but not this.
The s/w is now so convoluted and complicated, that I don't think anyone understand how it all works together. MS had an opportunity to start again with Windows 11 (they've had 5 years since Windows 10 to plan the next version) but just put sticking plaster (and cuts and grazes) onto the existing O/S.
HP hived off their PC and printer business - but remained as HP. The server and consultancy side was renamed as HP Enterprise (HPE).
As for slowing down - it would be nice if they had a bit more innovation in the consumer products - they used to but seem to have stagnated.
I have 7 MS accounts. That regedit address has 7 entries under some weird entry (one starts with 453d96a9-eb0c-48c8-9f8f-a9b1...). So, I can see why they want it and I can see why it might crash if they don't have one. But it shouldn't CRASH - it should come up and ask for an email address (and maybe password) if the entry has disappeared.
Alan
I was using a Data General Nova3. That had the RDOS operating system which I managed to 'hack' to make a 2 user system - each in their own workspace but sharing a floppy disk (or two). I wrote an Asset Management system sharing the disk for two users - it worked great, with my own home grown indexing system to guarentee retrieval of any record in under 1 second - for either user.
Those were the days - I couldn't do it now.
Alan
I joined DEC back in 1986 and was one of the first to show PATHworks to customers (anyone remember the Vaxmate?). I was friends with the USA development teamteam (I pointed out a Netbios bug and showed what the fix would be) and used DECnet for DOS all over the place. DECnet itself was pretty good - and as the article says, could be accessed all over the world. They were good days back then - shame it's all just TCP these days.
Alan
OK - so we lost part of the internet for a couple of hours. At a time when half the world was asleep. Get a life guys - it's not that big a deal. There are MUCH more important and worrying things going on in the world today. Cloudflare fixed it - and it won't happen again like that.
So, sit and enjoy a beer.
Alan