Posts by PeterM42

One reason

One reason for a "shortage" of over 50's in IT is most likely because too many have been outsourced to Indian firms who then dump them to be replaced by young Indians (onshore or offshore). Unlikely to be predominantly to do with a need to re-skill.

What could possibly go wrong?

EVERYTHING

IBM

Itty Bitty Mail

What were you expecting from IBM? - something that worked?!?!?

Unusually....

..... I suspect those Crapita employees will be pleased at being TUPE'd.

Bye Bye, sinkung ship.

What one has to remember is.......

............this IS rocket science.

WOT? "...there are just 7,100 roundabouts in the US"

Huh! - I think there are that many in Adeyfield in Hemel Hempstead + The Magic Roundabout (6 junctions)

I wonder......

......what Bill Gates would have done if he had seen that?

Long before the PC.....

......I created a "different" version of the PDP-8 'Binary Loader' paper tape.

After intalling the 'Binary Loader'. attempting to install a binary tape caused the ASR33 Teletype (THOSE were the days) to burst into life and print out those fatal words: "HELP - LET ME OUT" followed by much chattering and EOL bell ringing.

DEC engineers loved it, but my boss unfortunately could only manage a sick smile and comment "It's not supposed to do that!"

If an organisation is DEPENDENT on one person.........

..... they should be working on replacing him/her with other people who can do the same job.

Same principle as having a backup of your data. (Which we all do, obviously?!)

Capco Employees........

........prepare to meet thy redundancy notice.

(But not until you have trained your low-paid replacements.)

Has DestinE Crashed?

No - the wind dropped, so the turbines stopped. We didn't predict that.

D'oH!

IBM

It's Been Mucked up

So.....

... The organiser has "..an undergraduate degree in molecular genetics, a graduate degree in aerospace engineering from MIT, and an MD from Harvard Medical School"

And, presumably, a Professorship in STUPIDITY in the University of Life.

As if.....

.....the NHS didn't have enough problems!

Why have a contract?

When you can have PAYG with a monthly renewable/monthly variable Goodybag with GiffGaff or similar?

As usual......

Output from MicroCRAP that has been THOROUGHLY tested and checked for errors and absolutely nothing can go wrong...........

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Er.....

"Support and knowledge base articles consolidated into a single and search engine-friendly location".

Hopefully hosted on someone else's cloud..........

I always remember being asked about 365 when it was launched and warned about the potential issues of being totally dependent on "the cloud".

But...... there 'y' go!

And absolutely nothing will.....

......Go wrong

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How about.......

....they fix a few potholes first?

Ah clouds.......

....blowing in the wind.

Ah clouds.......

......those things that blow away......

OK for backup, but that's all.

At least......

.......Windows 7 was reasonably stable.

Since then, nothing but crap from Redmond.

To be sure, to be sure.....

.....isn't a "paymant cared" an Irish payment card? (To be sure)

Got a Unihertz Jelly Pro

GREAT little phone - I mean LITTLE!!!!

If only I could get a SMALL fine-point dibber to help with typing..........

Nothing quite like.......

.......outsourcing your CORE BUSINESS.

(Any banks who don't think IT is core business - refer TSB)

In this is true.....

...I'm not going to bother with being cryogenically preserved.

A friend of mine......

.......has a Huawei phone and asked what all the fuss was about.

so I explained about Chinese "eavesdropping" - he laughed.

I laughed with him.

So did an oriental voice on his phone.

Apply the patches

And nothing ca go wrong.......

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who says......?

"IT is not core business"

Money......

Makes the world (Internet) go round.

From a quick look......

.....if that is a genuine photo, that design is inherently prone to instability in anything other than VERY still air. ie: don't break wind while it takes off.