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Re: Too Big To Fail

Why no alternative to Boeing? Delta, American Airlines, Hawaiian and SkyBlue all have Airbus aircraft in their fleets. I believe Spirit is all-Airbus and Jetblue primarily Airbus (with some Embraer).

Re: Are you saying ....

Mainly the architects for us. And what they say generally goes.

Re: Subhead

What fake dog turd?

Re: An improvement ...

As a Newcastle fan I'd have happily accepted a consortium of Putin, Kim Jong Un and Musk if it meant Fat Cashley went!!

Re: Out of date building plans

Tommy Lee Jones in Under Siege?

Re: Blue flash

Not IT-related (other than us all working together in IT at the time) but myself and a bunch of colleagues went on an offroad driving day at Mallory Park years ago. On taking our places in some offroad gokarts, we were told to "be careful but have fun and go for it - these are perfectly safe and nobody has ever rolled one of these that we're aware of". One of our lot promptly did so within 5 years of the start...

Re: I do hope that at some point the order is given to...

They still do.

Re: "Days since we last shot ourselves in the foot"

Nobody knows, they've never managed it.

Re: Teams is popular

Agreed.

"Despite everything, Teams is popular because it integrates with Microsoft 365 and brings together virtual meetings and video calls, instant messaging and document collaboration."

I suspect it's "popular" only because companies take the approach of "we've already got it in O365" and then force everyone to use it.

Don't know who reads this so will need to be sketchy, but myself and a colleague wrote a report which - despite the scoring criteria, evidence and comments within it supporting the conclusion we came to - was certainly not what had been expected that we would write.

Another group were asked to do it, resulting (eventually) in a pretty half arsed report that fully supported doing what management wanted because it was going to be simple.

Over a year later and the simple things hadn't been so simple after all, and much of our original comments had borne true, but we were still tarred by that original report.

Re: Some extra info

Pilots can fly many different types, providing they've had the training and been awarded the type rating.

Provided you've had the training and hold a type rating for a Boeing 747 and and Airbus A320, you can fly both.

Re: "Well Analysis - New Knowledge"

In my first IT job, the mainframe IDs were first 2 letters to denote department, first 5 letters of surname and first initial. Ian Nisbet from Personnel must’ve been thrilled to know he was identified as PENISBEI.

Re: RE: engine failure

That test (and the protective jacket) only applies to the large fan at the very front. The compressor and turbine disks witihin the actual engine core are very difficult to contain in the event of a failure due to their much higher rotational velocities and the forces involved - there have been several examples of a turbine disk exiting the engine casing upon failure and causing substantial damage to the aircraft, eg. Quantas A380 QF32 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_32

and United Airlines DC-10 UA232 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232

Was part of a project where I needed about a day's input from another team so I could finish my tasks, but their guy on the project had been grabbed for something else. I started emailing him and his team lead (and .cc-ing my manager and the project manager) about 6 weeks before the pilot was due to start, saying I either needed their resource back, or somone else asap. I did this at least twice a week, as well as speaking to the team lead whenever I saw him, until a fortnight before the pilot, when I started doing it daily.

Three days before the pilot, I was working away and got a call from my manager, the project manager, the other team lead, and a couple of the others involved in the pilot, angrily asking why I hadn't delivered yet. I politely pointed-out that I'd been asking/emailing for 6 weeks without getting anywhere so they needed for somewhere else to point the finger. I also forwarded them all of those emails whilst we were "discussing it". They allocated someone to work on it that day, and I did what I needed remotely the following day. Sorted.

When my manager called me 15 minutes later to apologise "for putting me on the spot, but they'd come to his office on the warpath", I told him in no uncertain terms that he should be eternally thankful I was 250 miles away, otherwise I'd be taking him outside and punching him in the fucking mouth - career-ending or not - and that went for any future occasions also. Never had that problem again...

Re: A coloured map perhaps would have been just as good

And Cornwall too, if you don’t mind.

Re: “Police recommend that you do not engage with scammers,”

After I told one guy that "my wife deals with technical calls, I'll go and get her" and put the handset down, I had one guy on the line for ages. Every now and again we'd creep up to the handset and he'd be saying "Hello? Are you there?". Last time we heard him it had been 17 minutes then the nerxt time he'd hung up.

I agree, but Government departments are already using Azure and other cloud platforms. There's no difference to me other than being locked-in to multiple providers.

Re: Bloody awful

Unless they're roll spoilers used to assist/replace the ailerons for banking.

Re: Executive Hubris

It was IT execs in our case.

Same outcome.

Re: Be careful what you wish for

It'd be like having a teenager in the house again...

Re: AKA Libertarians

Or this one:

Three engineers were gathered together discussing the possible designers of the human body. One said, "It was a mechanical engineer. Just look at all the joints."

Another said, "No, it was an electrical engineer. The nervous system has many thousands of electrical connections."

The last said, "Actually it was a civil engineer. Who else would put a toxic waste pipeline right next to a playground?"

Re: From Experience (and In Hindsight)...

Can't remember if they were Compaq, IBM or Toshiba laptops we rolled out years ago where the sliding power switch was in just the right spot on the side so that anyone moving the laptop closer to them or going to pick it up from the desk slid the switch and shut it down.

Re: Conference Theme Tune

Or even the Beatles' original...

Re: $106k over three years

Totally agree, however when the powers that be have their strategy to move to the cloud, it's hard convincing them otherwise. They've read the whitepapers, swallowed the marketing and donned the free rose-coloured specs and come back with the usual "Ah, but it costs money to have a datacentre, power it, cool it, fire-protect it, secure it..." and my favourite "and it's OPEX not CAPEX so Financel love it...".

If someone was to point-out to Finance just how much we spend on cloud, to run a fraction of our services there, and then added how much more we'd be paying if we moved everything out and closed the datacentre, I suspect they may not be loving it quite so much.

Janet - sometimes referred to as Janet Airlines.

Apparently the name came from "Joint Air Network for Employee Transportation", but the USAF guy that told me that years ago admitted he wasn't used to "Briddish ales" but had drank rather a lot of them...

Re: Just what I don't want

It does say that it can be turned off, so hopefully it'll stay like that in the final release.

Re: For what it's worth

The Shuttles were built by Rockwell (bought by Boeing in 1996)

I read that as ... "leaving home before 'finishing school'..." and thought "bloody hell, how posh are you?!?!

Then I re-read it again properly and went for a coffee to wake myself up!!

It's no good. Cardinal BEEgles, you'll have to say it...

Re: Then there is the "send me a copy"

You made me think of the old Gary Larson cartoon:

It's a fax from your dog Mr Dansworth. It looks like your cat.

Re: Fiscal responsibility.

Guy I worked with had his VCR trashed by his 2yo son pushing toast/marmalade & biscuits in the slot. The lad had asked how it worked and he'd answered there was a little man inside the machine who read what was on the tape and made the actors on the screen do and say the right things. The lad thought the little man might be hungry so had been pushing food in for the last few days!!

Re: More than 300 dead is largely worth an abundance of caution

I'm not aware that the A380 has had any fatal crashes after more than a decade in service...

Re: The reason that the Max series need MCAS

Was AF296 caused by Airbus? The pilots flew their aircraft on a low flypast at high-alpha (ie. nose up) with the engines at flight idle, gear/flaps down, and then selected TO/GA too late for them to spool-up to full power and start to climb away from the trees they were heading towards and therefore hit.

Re: Except that clearly isn't true

I don't think Lion Air ended as it did because the pilots "did not do the right thing" - MCAS was happily trimming the nose nose down to the point it couldn't go further whilst the pilots were unable to apply enough force to pull the yokes back and stop the dive.

Re: The dirtiest four-letter word...

Agreed. Same goes when visiting a friend/family member and they say "you know about computers - can you just take a look at..." which usually results in 3 hours of un-fun in the spare room disinfecting, reinstalling and updating a PC so rabid it should have been taken behind the shed and shot, whilst everyone else is downstairs merrily drinking tea & scoffing biscuits.

Re: Weather-related? Microburst????

If it were closer to the ground (eg. after takeoff or coming in to land) my thoughts would be the same at this point, but from 6000' I wouldn't have expected a nosedive into the ground.

Whatever the cause, thoughts with the crew and family/friends.

They do that already!!