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Posts by Kistelek
14 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jul 2021
Microsoft rolls out AI-enabled Notepad to Windows Insiders
NASA mulls using SpaceX in 2025 to rescue Starliner pilots stuck on space station
RISE with SAP plan fails to hit go-live date in West of England council
PIRG petitions Microsoft to extend the life of Windows 10
Re: "All software reaches a point at which it's no longer supported"
This. 100% this. Write the bloody stuff right in the first place. And if it's not right, then make it mandatory to fix it for free for however long someone's using it. We've been doing this computer malarky long enough now to stop writing shonky code.
Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off
Comms watchdog to probe errors that left Brits unable to make emergency calls
IT phone home: How to run up a $20K bill in two days and get away with it by blaming Cisco
Nice smart device – how long does it get software updates?
'I wonder what this cable does': How to tell thicknet from a thickhead
Proper training
I used to work in network operations for a large IT outsourcer when that new fangled NT 4.0 came out. One morning we started getting calls saying no one could access the Notes servers or the internet and rudimentary checking over the phone showed they had IP addresses but none that matched our range.
A stroll around the building found a bunch of young server admins on a training course for the new wonder OS with a server on the floor brought in by the instructor. A pair of wire cutters through his patch lead soon removed his errant DHCP server and after a reboot our users returned to their paying work. Strong words about competence to instruct were had.
The UK is running on empty when it comes to electric vehicle charging points
The coming of Wi-Fi 6 does not mean it's time to ditch your cabled LAN. Here's why
But have you seen the price of it?
So I'm having a bungalow extended and refurbished so of course I'm having 2 wired sockets put in behind the TV and 4 in my office but there's also going to be 2 at each end of the loft and 4 in the garage. Wired is great for things that don't move. Wifi is OK for the Alexa stuff and the laptops and, given the 4g signal wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding in Deepest Darkest Hereford*, the phones but wired wins for the high bandwidth (SkyQ, Smart TV, My "hobby" machines to my home server (also going in the loft) and PoE stuff like CCTV.
My gripe is the price of WiFi6 stuff. It's bonkers.
(*) 4 miles from the city centre.