Posts by Scuby

I misread that as Gluten-Free guts...

CIA - Crime Inventing Agency

Is anyone else thinking this is a Stitch-up job? Maybe by the bloke that threatened to kill him?

Tin-Foil hats everyone!

"Back in July, Joburg electricity company City Power was infected with ransomware that prevented pre-paid meter customers from topping up online, potentially leaving locals in the dark."

To be fair, I don't think the residents of Joburg would notice they were being left in the dark, given the amount of load shedding they're subjected to on a nightly basis, thankfully they're all expert level Braaiers! (Braai = BBQ on Steroids, no flesh was charred in the preparing of their food)

As brilliant as always!

Expell the demons!

Oh Fortuna - Karl Orff

Ave Satani - Theme from The Omen

Night on Bald\Bare Mountian - Mussorgsky

1812 Overture...

I'm calling BS

•Did not include available, automated technical resilience and data/system recovery features (such as 3PAR Recovery Manager and Peer Persistence)

These are licensable options, if they didn't want to pay for it, they weren't going to get it.

•Did not define or test “recovery procedures for applications in the event of a complete SAN outage”

It's not for the Vendor to define these, that's down to the Business to sort out.

•Did not define or verify “Processes for data reconciliation in the event of an outage of this nature”

Again, not for the Vendor to define.

To be frank, the whole "Report" smacks of an ATO arse-covering exercise. There's only slightly less fiction coming out of the Trump Administration.

(10 Year 3PAR Customer)

How about

Walkabout?

Flux Capacitor Working again?

I've only just gotten over the fact we're halfway into Q1 2017 ;o)

I'm so glad I didn't bother going to Uni...

... instead I worked my way up starting as a PC Builder, learned pretty much everything on the job with additional study at home and am doing very nicely some 24 years later thank you very much.

As a potential employer, I would much rather employ a school leaver with a few relevant GCSEs and a couple of A Levels, who is keen and inquisitive, train them up with a solid career path and then see them go forth and pay it forward when they're recruiting for their next PFY, rather than hire a recent graduate who thinks because he has a piece of paper saying he attended University and passed, is entitled to earn £xK per year more than me.

Flixster

I bought one of these for the bedroom telly when it was £19 (Amazon Prime Offer), just because it has a flixster app for my Ultraviolet collection where the AppleTV doesn't (come on Apple, it's about freaking time already!)

Works fantastically well, so now I stream Amazon Prime and Flixster. Works amazingly well, even when it's not plugged into a mains outlet (I power it from one my TV's USB ports)

You're screwed.com

Oh what fun, next the Insurance providers will want to get their sticky paws on the data to increase your insurance premiums, after all, airbags don't deploy on their own right? stationary vehicles never get hit by external factors right?

The Rights Holders aren't helping!

Just take a look at the HBO Now offering that was announced, that won't be available in the UK, nor will the others I suspect.

They love to jump on the piracy=bad bandwagon, but they don't help themselves.

If they offered the content globally, for the same cost, at the same release time, for say 50p\cents per episode, that would be a whole ton of revenue per episode they don't get at the moment.

The same for some subscription services. AppleTV has Netflix but not Amazon Prime. Why not?

I buy BD releases with Digital Copies in Ultraviolet (I used to get them into Apple but the content providers stopped doing that meaning I now have 2 separate "cloud" libraries), yet there is no Ultraviolet compatible app (Flixster or BlinkBox) available on AppleTV.

South Africa

SA has the best mobile coverage anywhere. The battery on my old iPhone 5 used to last be the whole day without getting below 40%, as opposed to lasting 5 hours for the same amount of usage.

Get back to London, get to Waterloo station, no chance of a data connection despite having 4 dots and a 3G signal unless I turn flight mode on and off a couple of times, the same for roaming around the city, especially on weekends.

Switched to Three a week ago when I upgraded my phone. Not had a single problem since.

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Pre-empting an Alien Invasion perhaps...?

Silver Peak

Silver Peak actually have a virtual appliance that does this kind of thing for replication traffic.

Altius nititur Columbias optimus!

They're patenting something that I was working with back in 2000!

Realtime Web Voting is nothing new. I used to work for a firm that handled Web and Tele voting for shows like Top of the Pops + and Football Focus way back when. Here's hoping Apple get sued for Patent Infringement on that one!

Proliant Microserver and Raspberry Pi combo

for the NAS solution, run a raided OS on the Proliant Microserver.

I run Windows 7 because I use Media Center Master to catalogue, name and manage my media library.

Then use a raspberry pi solution to stream to your TVs using something like XBMC. It can all be booted off sd disks.

Buying, downloading.

I used to buy The Triple Play Media, BluRay, DVD and an iTunes Digital Copy. Brilliant!

Then some studios refused to provide iTunes copies in favour of UltraViolet, requiring that I sign up to Flixster and UV, inconvenient because I now have to manage 2 seperate Digital Libraries.

Then they stopped releasing Triple Play Media and provide Blu Ray with a UV Digital Copy, no big deal, just disappointing

Now they've starting releasing BluRays with no Digital Copies.

And they wonder why people download!!!

I download copies of the Titles I buy, with the Audio encoding so I can play them through XBMC in whichever room I'm in.

I want my media through 1 provider, in 1 Library, downloadable\streamable with full audio encoding (7.1 or 5.1) and released the same time as the US. (TV Shows as soon as the episode has aired)

The only concert I've ever been to where...

... the "Artist" was actually booed back on stage. He was on for about 60 minutes before going off, people had paid upwards of £60 for a ticket, and started booing and his support act had to come back on until he could be brought back out. (O2 Docklands).

Seriously, it's a bootleg of a gig that won't be released for commercial availability. No harm has been done, he's just peeved he didn't think to release a CD or DVD of the gig himself.

CPS decided in 2009 NOT to prosecute

http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/press_releases/109_09/

with an updated statement here

http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/press_statements/cps_statement_regarding_mckinnon_judgment/

iops shmiops

Now talk to me about the level of latency and how they handle that, tell me how they handle caching when they have a failed node in a 4 node or greater active-active cluster? How do they get around the issues of space reclaimation on their SSD drives?

They can have all the iops in the world, if the latency is so great that your systems are slowing to a crawl then it don't mean a damn.

Why do they have to serve Facebook in the US? Surely they could serve Facebook in Ireland?