Posts by Jc (the real one)

Re: This whole excercise is not what it looks like

Maybe they should try to insist that every letter sent through the postal service is not in an envelope such that the postal workers can read our post. Why limit this to electronic communication?

Jc

Many years ago when I was looking for work, I used to think that agencies employed YTS (that dates ir!) people to process CVs. Then my daughter had 2 weeks work experience in an agency (so she was probably about 15) and given the task of finding suitable applicants from the CV database. Finally, I understood

Jc

Re: historical memory loss

The argument that it will be [too] dark in the morning [for] kids if we make #DaylightSavingTime permanent ignores the fact that we are already on it for 36 of the 52 weeks a year

Yes, you are on it for the 36 summer weeks, but the issues occur in the 16 winter weeks. How do people without a brain ever get elected?

Jc

Re: "sequence of events that was almost impossible to foresee"

In many organisations, time doesn't have to be *exactly* correct, just the same at all systems. But still, only a single time source?

Jc

Re: failure to yield the right of way to the car

I learned to drive around 1970 and I can still remember a quote from my driving instructor. "it does not matter who is RIGHT, it is who is LEFT that matters"

Jc

Re: 22 billion

Tendered? Such an archaic concept

Jc

Re: Test and trace...

I had a test on the 6th of August and still have not received the results. Yes, I chased up after the requested 5 days but all they could suggest was to take another test

Jc

I still have an old briefcase (remember them?) that has a 3 digit code for each catch, so a 6 digit code in all

Jc

Re: Economics 101

Don't forget the electricity cost isn't $0

Of course, with the right management software, idle machines would power down and consume minimal electricity $ until there was work to be done

Jc

Re: Chip by chip.

... (how much GPU/CPU power do you have)....

Rather a lot, I believe

Jc

Re: Not even a codename

They are available now to the right people - we have them running in our development lab

Jc

probably can mine a few bitcoins even if it can't play games!

Jc

Re: The problem with HPC

A sales colleague of mine always refers to HPC as Half Price Computing

Not too long ago I was with a customer complaining about one vendor - how their prices didn't reduce in line with Moore's Law (they had bought an HPC cluster several years before and expected to get at least twice the performance from the same $$$ outlay). With these expectations, it is hard for any hardware vendor to get rich on HPC alone

Jc

Re: SGI,...

To be fair , it was Compaq that killed the DEC brand...long before HP bought Compaq

Jc

Re: What if...

If the telco asks someone to do this , and they refuse...presumably they can fire them!

Jc

Re: Restore in the wrong direction?

Too many years ago (37 , if you want to know) I talked to a customer who had just tested his backup process ("just to get the feel of the syntax")

At that time , some utilities had a syntax of "$Copy {input device} to {output device}" while others had a "$backup {target device} from {source}".

This chap managed to copy an 8" floppy to his 100MB database drive (and it worked... perfectly.... database was now about 300KB! )

Could BA have just run a backup / recovery in the WRONG direction?

Jc

Re: The real issue

Around 20 years ago , I was working with a Telco in the UK talking about DR. They were proud of their diverse routing. The Data Centre manager took me along the route of the fibre , while my colleague followed the other one. You should have seen the DC Managers face when we met the other guy where both sets of fibre went through the same conduit out of the building!

I doubt if much changes!

Jc

Re: Creep Em Out

I get too many , and do my share of keeping them busy when I feel inclined. Recently , I was having a bad day and landline rings...starts talking about PPI in what sounds like the usual recording. Oh F*** off , I shouts , but before my handset went down I heard the female voice say "oh!!!". Well, it sounded like a recording to me lol

Now I *DO* like the Eliza idea - any pointers to some phone answering software?

Jc

Re: Isn't that like any project

re Bright,

True... but it allows you to have HPC, Hadoop and OpenStack on the same physical cluster and re-assign the nodes pretty much at-will!

Jc