Posts by Gordon 10 3885 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jun 2009
I think you're right. Sounds like the judge had a fair amount of sympathy for her.
Also looks like she might have a claim against the council if they try take things further as she was not trained to handle FOI requests.
Also the foi request was made by a Councilor! This stinks to high heaven.
New product afaik and pretty decent imo. Certainly for those of us who are forced to use the abomination that is Webex Teams, which is some kind of pan-dimensional horror from beyond space time.
(Edit - there is a post below that suggests MS Teams is based on Skype consumer version - no idea if that is correct)
(Icon:Nuke Webex Teams from Orbit - its the only way to be sure)
I did the exact same once or twice myself, fortunately was able to recover also. Also exported a blank cube over a good backup once or twice too. Usually came about when hacking build scripts for other purposes.
Essbase how I loved and hated you.
Although it was far better that the first consolidated version of OBIEE that included it. That had so many poorly documented interdependencies between components that the UAT system accidentally got connected to Prod and wiped during one memorable tenure at a major bank. That was a 4 day outage in financial reporting. My team weren't responsible but as the Ops team we had to fix it. I had to write up the RCA. TL:DR only full network segregation between UAT and Prod would have stopped it, and since it took 6 months to get approved ports open between UAT and Prod networks we never went down that route. The concept that there may have been good reasons (DR and Prod Copies) to pass data and config between networks never seemed to occur to our Info Sec team.
Still I had the pleasure of my resident tech genius giving Oracle product development (we actually got to the product developers!) a good shoeing on the technical ins and outs of their own product.
They are great for music, providing you remember the final twist to fix them in your ears.
Connectivity slighty iffy sometimes but I'm 99% sure thats the iffy Huawei bluetooth stack on my Honor 10 as they are fine on my Ipad.
Nice to hear the Mic quality has improved - the V1's are friggin lousy for this - almost guaranteed to break up at some point during a 1hr Conf call. Although some reviewers claimed the V1's were ok for call too....
Getting more bang for the same buck - as the V1's were the same price - albeit slightly eye watering.
I also have a set of Jabra 65t's that I use for calls which are amazing, but absolutely lousy for music - sound like the bottom of the well.
I like the butterfly keyboard on my late 2018 MBP.
I prefer the typing experience to any of my other laptop keyboards and its also more satisfactory than the Apple wireless keyboard which I believe it scissor. I certainly dont have a problem with the travel.
Plus I quite like the clatter unless one of my colleagues is taking notes on a call....
I agree. Or as I would put it - essentially optimising against the prima-donna effect. We've all met that guy - and its usually a guy - who thinks the most obscure code with a fractional performance advantage is the dogs nuts.
See also optimising for the future engineer who doesn't have the N weeks/months of sprint/planning context needed to support/extend the current solution.
Did they actually brick anything? Or did they just give their customers the choice to do so?
My understanding is that they borked the integration of older kit with the rest of the network but that it could still be used seperately AND that this is seperate from the recycle mode.
Just because you have a gun doesnt mean you have to pull the trigger AKA mustnt press the big red button marked "Do Not Press"
I dont think so. The limit is a grands worth of benefit anyway. It used to be interpreted as a grands worth of entire bike but it was recently "clarified" to be a grands worth of tax discount on any amount of bike or bike related gear (frames, wheels etc).
As for a grand buying a lot of bike there is a certain segment of the bike buying population who would disagree with you. Usually over-caffeinated MAMIL's. (It me).
https://www.sigmasports.com/item/Pinarello/Sigma-Sports-Exclusive-Dogma-F10-Dura-Ace-Di2-Road-Bike/KHCU
Tis what Team Sky/Team Ineos ride. Not that I can afford one or would buy one even if I could.
If a commentard on the internet says it - it must be true!
Care to elaborate on your otherwise worthless post?
In my experience its the closest way to a slam dunk of getting a great discount on a new bike you are ever likely to find. Providing you dont leave the employer almost immediately after getting said new bike. (My DOH!)
My guess is that this was an attached legal entity created for marginal tax/accounting advantages or similar. Im sure there's other ways of getting the Bike to Work scheme in.
I'd also guess that changes of ownership of this nature are the closest thing to a rubber stamp the FCA does - just that Sophos didnt do the paperwork in time.
Last time I dd the Data Science IDE/Deployment tool shop around neither Talend, IBM or Teradata were on my list whilst Anaconda, Knime, RabidMiner and DataRobot were. Talend was a decent ETL tool last time I checked.
Am I being pedantic or have IBM and Teradata been shopping? Gawd knows they need to if they want to any relevance in this space.
I rather suspect its got nothing todo with the readiness of the Tech and everything to do with current state of the relationship between Apple and Intel.
Theres probably a break clause or volume/cost step coming up or Intels shortages are starting to hurt their Apple shipments.
These stories always tend to leak around those points.
Icon - bit of Intel wallet lifting approaching --->
Who says it has to come remotely close?
For 80% of use cases 2012 chippery is fine. For everyday tasks my 2013 MBA works better in most cases than my stupidly power hungry 2018 6 core MBP.
I also have a Sony Vaio TT from 2008 with an absolutely weedy Core 2 Duo U9400 that runs Win 10 fine for my daughter.
Infact after my work MBP the most powerful CPU I currently own is probably the one in my 10" Ipad Pro.
One deal that doesn't appear to be dodgy even if you squint through HP rose tinted specs does not make the accounts completely fraudulent and even if *every* deal HPE has flagged was fraudulent it still doesn't explain the stupidly huge price they *chose* to pay for Autonomy.
AFAIK those deals were a fraction of Autonomy's revenues and *even if fraudulent* should not have been material to HP's valuation.
HP's whole argument seems to be based on suggesting a tiny whiff of smoke means the whole building was on fire, when in reality it appears they cant even prove that it was just the teaboy burning some toast.
I can guarantee you in every big company there is gonna be a close to the line deal or 2 - its simply human nature - sales droids are gonna sales droid.
Just because they are paid vast sums not to cock up doesn't mean they wont. Business history is littered with CEO's who made cock ups of the highest order through short sightedness, ignorance or sheer hubris. Cases in point. Gerald Ratner, Every HP CEO of the last 20 years, Nokia CEO, Blackberry CEO.
In fact I would go as far as saying CEO cockups are the norm rather than the exception, if only because they are making so many high stakes decisions on a daily/weekly basis.
Not sure you are correct. I dont believe Double Jeopardy applies between Civil and Criminal cases - as by definition a Civil case is effectively an application for (usually) a cash based remedy not a Crime.
Where it is important is that the burden of proof is generally lower in a Civil case - therefore it can be argued if HP cannot prove the point in a Civil case Uncle Sam will not be able to a criminal case.
Plus there is also the fair trial angle - only the most biased of observers (hello Priti) would agree that he will get one after what happened to Shoshovan.
Is it really a fair trade though?
Lynch is only wanted for alleged accounting differences that caused a multi-billion dollar write down at a US firm, whereas Anne S killed someone and then fled the scene.
Do we really want to go any further down the American path that values corporate money over lives?
Anyway, what will 5G ever do for us........
IOT, Edge computing, something something something.....
Here's betting I still wont get decent data speeds anywhere along the GWR line that links Vodafone in Newbury to Vodafone in Paddington, passing the HQ's of both O2 and Three on the way....
"my opinions are given on the basis of the facts I have been instructed to assume".
The HPE expert witness was told to assume there was dodgy dealing.
The Lynch expert accounting witness actually read the operational accounting policies for Autonomy.
If you were a wearer of a big powdery wig - who would you give more weight to?
But how is that different from every other software and hardware vendor under the sun?
Nothing to see here move along. (YAWN)
Vendor Lock in is a fact of life and pretty much universal, AWS's particular flavour isn't any different except maybe in terms of scale and vertical integration. Its not like MS or HPE are any less lock-ins.
Paris - coz even she gets lock-ins are inevitable.
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