Re: Fuck that!
"Whilst I would rather the Elongated Muskrat be paid 56 billion pineapples so that he can shove them up his backside"
Hahaha - that made me laugh out loud!
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Lets face it, Crapita runs a significant number of schools IT in the UK, especially the schools' information management system (SIMS).
Putting it politely, SIMS hasn't got the best reputation in the world - especially when it comes to the routine update process (it breaks literally every time).
If even Crapita withdraw from a tender, you know there's something very fishy with that tender!
As a school, you *HAVE* to have a MIS - it is a regulatory requirement.
Moving form one MIS to another is not the action of a moment - it typically takes a year of planning and months to implement.
SIMS is, and always has been, a complete mess of software, but because most schools still use it, Capita (and now ParentPay) merely sit on their hands and watch the cash flowing in
I know exactly who you were talking to, and yes, he has said that (and proven it) on record.
The lie though is that APT tech was sold to Fiat - it wasn't, which is probably why the Pendolino your system isn't as good as APT tilt was (and is - you can still experience it on a real APT in Crewe)
Andrew was one of the reasons I started (kept) reading elReg - I remember well(ish) those days and evenings at the variously titled Symbian... / Nokia.. / "OMG, Apple just launched a bloody phone" expos and shindigs - the AAS story (which I believe I quoted you in) about which vendor gave away the best mints - the endless WTF related to Sendo & Microsoft - then your brilliant writing in the ensuing years.
I've always tended to pay more attention to a Reg article if it had Mr. Orlowski's or the late and sorely missed Mr. Haines' names under the headline - what am I going to do now... read everything???? *Geez*!
LG seem to leave vital settings out of the UK firmwares for VoLTE & VoWiFi; and the phone isn't on the officially supported list from O2 for either of those functions. (and as EE, Voda etc. don't sell the phone as a branded handset, neither officially support it either)
This was the same with the LG V30 before hand; and is proved to be a handset issue as my SIM allows both VoLTE and VoWiFi when used in a different handset.
Splunk is (simply put) a self or cloud hosted web-based application which slurps data from your A / B / C / X / Y / Z on-prem or cloudy application / log producer / disk space abuser and allows you to form "simple" queries against that data.
The more data you ingest into Splunk, the more they charge you for the priviledge; but you can get it to show you some pretty charts and drop emails etc. based on pretty much any alert; such as when your receptionist starts looking up "BDSM for CEOs"
I was working for a MS disti back in the day when 98 was released and remember it well!
I'd spent the previous month debugging their OEM Pre-Install Routine, otherwise known as the OPK installer; as the MS instructions simply didn't work! For every 5 copies of 98 we sold, we sent out my hand typed *extra* instructions, and never, ever, had an OEM system builder phone up asking how to get it working (unlike our competitors).
((I might have made a bit of fuss about this on MS's OEM forums on their fairly new website, and might have had an email from a certain S.Ballmer basically telling me to STFU))
Win95 had 15 seperate CD releases; the best of which was the penultimate OSR2.1 (OSR2.5 introduced USB support and was as stable as a chocolate teapot). Win98 had 3 releases from memory; the best (for overall stability in our labs) being the initial OSR1; 98SE was OSR2 and was a piece of crap; OSR2.1 was much, much better and was what should have been released to the public (but as was MS's way then, never was!)