Posts by ElNumbre 663 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2009
I always wondered, how does it handle car transporters where both the vehicle being transporter and the transporter itself's numberplate being visible to the evil eye-o-sauron?
Come to think of it, what would happen if you plastered the back of your vehicle with numberplates, whilst still maintaining your 'true' plate in a visible and obvious way. What would the computer do? Can they flag to human operators for further vetting?
New Enterprise equipment tends to be priced in the multiple 000's when a lot of it is some fairly standard electronics with a bit of custom software loaded onto it. But generally you're not paying for the tin, you're paying for a large team of developers, sales jocks, middle managers and executive golf days, plus a shiny building in the South East.
If you need something that is 'enterprise' quality, but can't afford the fresh out of the box smell, how about the 'last-generation' version? Depending on what you're buying, you may be able to get several of them in case one breaks and you can't get support on it. The only spanner in that works is where something needs to be continually licensed, and the OEM refuses to issue them. But then, many third parties will still happily sell you support and maintenance packs if its a product they can support.
The other option is off the shelf tin coupled with 'liberally' licenced software. A lot of enterprise products have similar options created by the community but at a lower (or even nil) upfront and ongoing cost. Interestingly, the only thing I've not encountered as a viable alternative is WAN acceleration - the FOSS equivalent to Riverbed et al. These solutions may mean you have to have support people capable of administering a Linux or BSD solution, but this is all about compromises.
My first reaction was... why don't they just switch to computer system B? or system C if B is currently under maintenance.
Then I remembered that this was NATS running a safety of life service for one of the busiest airspaces in the world. Oh how I laughed at my own sillyness.
The Terminator franchise gets more reboots than a PC running Windows ME. I actually quite liked the direction T4 went in (after quite rightly pretending T3 didn't exist) but if both of those storylines are being binned off, then that just seems a waste.
I actually want to see a storyline where we see the future war between the machines and the humans. But maybe the humans end up losing and no Hollywood exec's going to sign that off.
Everyone hold up just a minute... Nissan aren't some two bit outfit having a crack at running Le Mans for the fun of it! Through Nimso, they're a pretty serious motorsport manufacturer and designer and have access to lots of technical expertise. I'm sure they realise that Le Mans is an endurance race that can be won or lost on pit stops, and if you're running a car, it needs to go several hundred miles between pit stops.
Le Mans is a prestigious event and to place in the final standings is a massive marketing coup for any manufacturer. Hence why Audi et al pour millions of € into developing racers for the 24hr race. So Im pretty sure if you're spending tens of thousands, if not millions on batteries, you can make a car with enough juice in a package small and light enough to be competitive.
I'm quite excited to see what they bring. I'm guessing the latest and greatest Li-Po cells mounted on sleds that can be swapped out in a minute or two, or maybe even lithium non-rechargeables as there is no requirement to have a power source that can be refreshed over an extended period.
One thing I think we can agree on though, it won't sound as good as a multi-V infernal combustion engine.
When much of the UK traffic routes around the UK on one companies pipes, and that company is still to really shake off its pre-nationalisation history, its probably relatively easy to get your interconnects setup. Especially when you also provide interconnectivity for the MOD too. Even independent providers have peering points in friendly locations, and failing that, would they come and investigate if there was a 'brief' blip in the network link (whilst the tap was inserted).
Its funny, I'd always assumed they were doing this anyway, despite all their protestations to the opposite.
'THE' impact is negative.
'ANY' impact is positive or negative depending if you experienced the fault. If you wern't trying to use the knackered service at any point, then it doesn't affect you and you're less likely to be upset.
Its the subconscious psychological engineering companies like to exercise in communications to try and put a positive uptick . Of course, many people don't fall for it, but those that do hopefully feel a little better.
Surely being the only major electrical retailer (beyond that of much smaller chains and single site shops) left with a presence on the high street and Out of Town, can they be SO incompetent as to screw up their long term future? Even Tesco's is getting out of electrical goods apparently, so unless you want to buy from the Internet, PCurrys will be the only place to buy from soon. And if they go under, how will you buy a computer to go internet shopping with?
I'm an XB360 owner and casual gamer, and watched with interest the XBone launch.
But I think Microsoft (& partners) are putting off customers like me.
80% of my game library is 2nd user; frankly, for the once or twice a quarter I fire up the console to play games, I cannot justify spending £40 on a game I don't know that's any good. £10-£20 is a much more reasonable price point for me, but I can't see game makers allowing this resale at a price point much below RRP, if at all.
I mainly use the XB360 for its DVD player, or TV catchup services from Murdock Corp and Auntie, and even then only occasionally. But if these agreement's aren't in place, then it becomes a very expensive Blu-ray player (I don't own Blu-rays).
Whilst its still early days for known facts about the XBone (and the PS4 for that matter), neither has that 'must have' factor that I had for the previous generation. If they're not appealing to the casual user, and the hardcore gamers are up in arms, this generation could turn into big white (or rather subtle grey and black) elephant.
Was down from late last night here in the South Black Country/North Birmingham area, but it looks like service is back up again. Speeds are TERRIBLE (1/10th of usual) but something is better than nothing.
I assume there is a single point of failure that did this, which, for a "network built for data" isn't really very good at all.
If my current experience with Vodafone is anything to go by, I want to see some real world demo's before buying their service. Their current 3G network will happily negotiate upto HSDPA speeds with my devices, but then run at 300-400 kpbs download. And I count myself lucky living and working in area's with 4 bar's of coverage. I certainly note that whenever I travel that coverage off the 2G network is pishpoor to say the least.
I suspect with this telly programme, they're using Skype, which only serves to take a mediocre image and mangle it into some kind of mushy 8 bit representation of a gonad.
They should move to Google Hangouts (pun co-incidental) which seems to do a much better job of actually getting a stable, decent audio and video feed from one place to another. Or Vidyo which from testing works great on the piss-thin DSL links provided by the UK's "favorite" telco.
After the big move to virtualization in the past few years, maybe enterprises are finding that they can run a lot more on a lot less. Particularly with the ability to move compute loads now on the fly meaning you can run your infrastructure closer to your chosen utilization levels without service impact.
That, and "the cloud" starting to take off with Amazon and Microsoft services, business's only need to replace EoL tin rather than adding new.
They don't seem to have the processes in place to respond to this sort of thing which is a big failure for such a major news organisation. I'm not sure I trust a marketing droid when they say "nothing to see here, move along" whilst at the same time, the apps have been removed from the store.
I'm suggesting to family and friends that they uninstall the apps anyway, at least until BSB get their house in order. Better safe than sorry, and its not like they're critical feature apps anyway.
The reason it might take two weeks to deploy an Exchange server in an organisation is the administrative overhead of getting approvals to do the work, not actually doing the work!
When business process demands that requests get routed through a variety of little Hitlers who can derail the process at any moment, you can end up spending a lot of time crafting a request with an appropriate amount of grease to allow it to slip through unimpeded.
Error checking, quality control and dealing with political fallout are all tools left to human beans, unless we're eliminating them at the same time?
The trouble is, most consumer level ISPs don't see the point; a large proportion of their customer base couldn't give a flyer what type of IP they get, as long as it 'just works™'. And if you phone and ask a service droid about IPv6, this is unlikely to be in their vocabulary and return a not found error. And until this lack of address-space starts costing the ISP money (either in support costs, pre-sales leads not joining, or customers walking away) then they're not likely to invest in getting their infrastructure setup for v6.
For the foreseeable future, I think if you want a proper 'traditional' IP address, plus the modern IPv6 address, you're going to have to pay a premium for it. This is why I subscribe to AAISP. Damn its expensive, but its got the technical bells and whistles that I need to get the most out of my internet connection. I suppose its the difference between a standard Ford Focus and a Mercedes S-Class. Both do a similar thing, but one comes with extra toys for those that want it, but you pay a fair bit extra for it.
Don't forget if you want to get clients connecting to servers that you'll need CALs of a particularly appropriate flavour, for both the OS and the application they're connecting to. Add in something like Citrix and you're in a whole world of pain.
I think people who are "licencing experts" are either bullpoopers or wizards trained in the dark arts.
I use the Deb SID (unstable) on my machine without too much issue. The only major problem tends to be with packages from the Debian Multimedia repository and dependent libs confusing the hell out of aptitude. Generally, a manual read of the error message and taking the appropriate action resolves the issue. And this is specific use case; if I didn't use those libraries, I expect there would be no problem.
"Adobe is offering "hundreds" of improvement to its Creative Cloud applications, with more introduced on a weekly basis by the company beginning June 17." And also no doubt in the small print reserve the right to taketh away any of those features, and any others at any point in the permanent "upgrade" cycle.
No one would have believed that in the early years of the 21st century that martian affairs where being watched from the timeless worlds of space.
No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of ice.
Few martians even considered the possibility of life on other planets and yet across the gulf of space minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded Mars with envious eyes;
and slowly and surely they drew their giant penises on our planet.
A few years ago, we had a linux box that would occasionally lock tighter than a nuns c....hurch donation safe.
It was in a distant far flung place called London, and rather than someone driving up there to give it a quick kick in the PSU, we bought a PDU with a web-server built in. If the box fell over, one of the support techs could dial in remotely and flick the power off and on. 5 mins later, you could be back in bed, rest assured that your "hour" of billable time would get signed off as a job well done.
Then they bought proper appliances and servers and the problem went away.
Oh the good old days.
So, when will the FBI be seizing the servers used for S3? Its almost certainly being used to store data incompatible with US legal views, and therefore, if that is the approach they take with others, then shirley that is the correct approach to be taken with harbingers of criminality, Amazon.
So Chipzilla made a big song and dance about how Atom would be their knight in shining silicone. With netbooks fading and nettops never really gaining much momentum, where next for the Atom other than an occasional NAS box or the odd phone? They don't seem to be taking the fight to ARM in the mobile space, and from what I read, Windows 8 is a bit of a lame duck. Will the high-end x64 stuff keep them afloat until they do think of something new?
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