Posts by HWwiz

Slowness.

Yes that one of the main issues on our deployments.

Teams using 700 to 900mb of RAM. Why so much ?.

Re: Front panels and security keys...

Ahh Cabletron.

I remember when you guys won the contract for AWE not far from your office.

I was one of the guys installing the many hundreds of Fibre switches across the 2 factories. Good times.

Re: Restart not Shutdown

Hear sounds ?.

In our datahalls its so loud, that if your going to spend more than a few mins in there you need ear protection.

@Alex Read

I work in a banking DC and we use "Blancco", as do most DataCenters. And then after Blancco has finished and generated a Certificate of wipe, we then put them in the crushing machine.

Ive worked for 2 different banks, and they both use this same process.

We employ an external company to actually email our employees with HoneyTrap emails.

IF they click on links in that email, then they have to go on a security awareness course.

Re: DEC Engineer

big_D

Did you know there is a certain large bank in the UK that still has loads of DEC VAX machines running. I walk past them every night.

Even have 5 dead ones that are kept for parts.

Re: Wow

@ Anonymous Coward

Get a ProRoute 4G Router. Large MIMO external antenna. Total about £240.

GiffGaff unlimited data SIM, and Boom there you go. 75MB up and down. Signal depending.

Ive done over 20 of these now for people out in the sticks. If the Cell tower is local, use it !.

Re: Hmmm ...

RE Tim99 Token Ring.

I remember getting a job to pull TokenRing into a new office space, with about 15 or so desks.

I was in my early 20's at the time and nearly gave myself a Hernia pulling that damn cable.

Like you say, you could moor up a shipping tanker with it.

Re: Oh dear

On our Service Desk we have been seeing a massive rise in ID 10T errors in the last few yrs.

I will bring it to the Service Desk Managers attention re: Breeding issues. Not sure we have a fix for that though.

Theres no Service Pack for Stupidity...

Smells funny.

Just does not sound right.

I work in a Bank DC in the UK, and we have 5 mirrored DC's throughout the country.

Ours has 3 different incoming power supplies from different Counties.

Plus out the back, we have 8 massive V12 Diesel Generators that would power a small town.

Now i would imagine that BA would at least have something on the same scale, if not bigger.

So why the outage ?......

We do Power tests every month. An incoming power feed is killed, to check redundancy.

We also shut off 1 of the 2 power rails going into each cab, again to test redundancy.

Perhaps BA are running their backbone on some beefed up PC in someones bedroom ?.

Re: For the phone scammers ...

I always used to put on a really old mans voice and say we didnt have a computer. Dont know how to use those modern fangled things !.

Now we dont get any fake MS calls anymore, so guess we were taken off the list. Yay !.

Bit like the Conservatory companies that used to endlessly phone up. I started saying i was in a 5th floor flat, what do i want with a Conservatory ?. Now we dont get them calling anymore either. Good times...

Re: data sovereignty is a PR issue?

Actually if you are a UK PLC, current data retention laws state that your data and in particular Financial data must reside in the UK.

So UK PLC's cannot use the MS Cloud in the US or Canada.

I recently helped clear out the BoA DC in Canada Sq London. There was talk that MS were going to take that one over.

I did some work in a GP based in Slough UK about 3yrs ago. In the corner of the confidential records room was a BBC B. Still in active use.

Apparently it did have to have a modernised PSU fitted a few years earlier, but otherwise it was ticking over 100%.

I work in a UK Bank DC which also has a emergency failover office. Should there be a major event.

The DC provides all the heating for the office holding over 400 staff. Does all the hot water too.

But generally all that free heat is just for me and about 10 other shift workers. Yay !.

Re: More of this, please.

My Huawai 4G "MyFi" device has an SD card slot. So you can use it as a portable NAS using a max 64GB micro SD card.

So theres your internet and storage for "camping", all into 1 product.

I replace about 5 to 6 Dell 900GB drives every night.

But we do have 7,500 R720's !.

They are a pain in the rear, as dell don't ship the Carrier anymore, just the bare drive. So you have to swap the drive into the old carrier. Dropping the screws through the vented floor in the process... Ughhhh

Re: Power

At home we have a SmartUPS 1500 unit with no internal battery. Instead, re-wired to a cable that goes outside to a small plastic box that has a Car battery.

We use the UPS to cover the TV, virginmedia kit, and all the internet comms + hifi. Oh, and a standing lamp with an energy bulb.

We have lots of power cuts, so having a UPS was a must. Running on a car battery the TV will run for almost 3hrs. And a car battery is ALOT cheaper than a APC RBC7 battery.