Posts by AMBxx

Re: NAFCLI

Alternatively, we could have a decent management UI for Docker.

Re: "they need to have a clear business case"

Can't help but wonder if separate discrete systems would be better. Just have well defined integration points. That way you can just upgrade part of the system rather than having something that affects every part of your entire business.

At the moment, the perception is that more diverse companies are 'better', so there's a drive to hire more diversely.

Sorry to all the white, male, heterosexual Christians out there. Worse still, if you're over 50, you're somehow to blame.

Re: Well, looks like that migration to Linux is getting cheaper and cheaper

>> What is the best OS?!

But that's not what Linux fans argue about that. They consider that argument to be settled. They're happier arguing about the merits of their favourite text editor, GUI or boot loader thingy (I have a firm grasp on the details!).

Re: Wouldn't it be nice if the UK had an effective regulator?

€114m doesn't sound like that much - how much has this cost from both the government's and business' perspectives?

Re: claiming the tax back

It's a tricky to make the argument without sounding like you're against charity.

From a UK perspective, if a 50% tax payer gives £10m to their pet charity, they get a £5m tax rebate. That £5m would have gone to government spending - effectively taking £1m from the NHS!!!

Re: Even Easier

If only they'd just printed the year as two digits - problem solved.

Re: What jobs did they try to get?

If you're still applying for entry level jobs at 40+, you've done something wrong somewhere.

I'm 50 and freelance - my skills are more important than my age, so I do pretty well.

One thing that seems to be missed is that post 50, you really can't work 80 hour weeks any more and the hunger for career advancement is waning.

Re: I guess I'm not the target market.

Take another look. My wife has an XPS 13. USB C charger, no bigger than a phone charger (also works with most modern non-Apple phones). Rarely needs to carry it though as the battery lasts all day with light use.

When my MS Surface 4 finally goes, I'll be looking for a deal on one of these. That said, I do my proper work on a big PC, so I do like small and light when I'm out and about.

Nothing to do with VAT - my customers all reclaim the VAT I charge. It's just a cashflow thing for businesses.

Re: Use

Maybe it's one of those rare situations where a cloud server by the hour would be more economical? Anyone done the maths?

My tiny PC with 32 GB RAM is starting to hit limits with PowerBI design, I'm seriously looking at just an Azure VM for the 10-12 hours per week I need it.

That's assuming you don't want the status symbol.

Re: It really is impressive

You need to read up on what column store databases do. I'm a BI consultant so I'm mostly concerned about getting data out. Column store is astonishingly fast - think 30 minute queries down to 5 seconds.

That said, MS SQL Server has column store that's 99% as good, so why pay more?

Post 1979 - corp tax, capital gains and income tax were all reduced with the result that tax take went up.

Re: @Doctor Syntax

Until future upgrade costs are compared to how many extra doctors we could have instead of slightly faster internet.

Re: Oh no

always on VPN fixes remote printing easily enough.

El Reg really doesn't get tax either. Nobody is taking a 20% pay cut. Yes, you lose money, but it's not that good any more.

Re: I wish him luck, for the employees' sake

It's known as 'kitchen sinking'

Re: Resistance is futile

It's the liability bit that's the problem. If he'd stolen money that was destined for the employee's salaries, Morrison's would have been to blame, but they would still have had to pay the salaries.

Re: Oh dear

Depends upon your use case. My 'proper' work is all on virtual machines running on a biggish PC. If I'm using my Surface, it's either to browse web, do email or remote desktop to a work VM. This will be fine for that.

I currently have a Surface Pro 4. Completely over the top for my requirements. I'd certainly consider a lower powered tablet/laptop when it finally dies. That said, current favourite is a Dell XPS rather than another Surface - just too easy to break.

Re: The logical next step is the two-dimensional risk rating approach

What tends to happen is that someone comes up with a clever multi-factor way to score the problems. For simplicity, that's then boiled down to a 100 point score. Then the fact that there's no difference between a score of 90 and 91 means it's boiled down to a 10 point score!

Then the 10 point score is considered too simplistic so we have a number after the decimal point...

Re: A sensitive blow indeed

Not bad for Intel either if it avoids a monopoly review...

And more worryingly, lots of companies are assuming always inside IR35

Worse than that - take a good look at the green lights in the UK. They actually contain a lot of blue light to avoid problems with red/green colour blindness. No idea if it's the same elsewhere.

Most new TVs only have a life expectancy of a few years. No big deal. The rest can use a set top box or similar.