Posts by David Hicklin 589 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Sep 2007
> You missed the important information. There are now 80 ANGRY users.
And there you have the big difference between big companies and small ones
I for many years worked at small companies where IT was an afterthought and done by me as a part time activity. Wanting to move onto bigger things I did a few interviews and one day one was at a banking/credit co, the 3 questions asked were when something broke, how and what did you fix to it? well with a small co you just pile in and fix the problem....simples!
...it was not until I was with my current Much Bigger Co where IT is a core dependency that I got to understand the concepts of planning, change control, escalation up the food chain and finally after the event lessons learned and how to avoid it in the future.
> Those statistics have always bothered me. When a plane goes down its a lot of people at once who can die or be injured.
Its the same with news reporting, if plane and train accidents happened with the frequency of road accidents, we might hear a lot about the "toll on planes/trains" but they would no longer make the headlines.
I think you can thank Covid for that, it kinda proved that remote support is possible and practicable
For hardware related stuff that tends to be outsourced and mostly local resources.
The world has changed.
I suspect that most incidents are one of two reasons:
1. The bad guys constantly scan IP addresses looking for insecure kit, if they get a hit on an easy vulnerability (and there have been loads recently)
or
2. someone opens then wrong email attachment and/or link
and then they are in.
Technology can protect against the first (patch patch patch) , the second is the weakest link
> It seems that you're not quite at that stage yet in the UK, so listen to the warning signs and act upon them.
Around here for the last 4 years they have been digging up the roads left , right and centre to lay new distribution cables as all the new housing and business parks have overloaded the infrastructure
>> used to 80TWh less than 2005 in fact. That enough for more than 40 million EVs.
Problem is that they have been shutting down the older Nuclear and just about all the coal power stations, so that capacity has shrunk to match
> W11 for half a year now, and it's fine(tm)... You can configure it to remove most of the idiot things
But that is the problem for any version after Windows 7 - you have to thrash it to within an inch of its life to make it palatable /usable - AND YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DO THIS!!
> Earth does not rotate around its own axis a whole number of times in the time it takes to complete a full turn around the Sun.
So we either need to push the earth closer or further away to shorten (fixed 365) and lengthen (366) the number of days it takes to get around the sun
As the planet is getting warmer I suggest we push it out.
And there is another variable - the moon is gradually slowing the spin of the earth down just for good measure
> Mine goes from powered off to Windows login screen in roughly 1 minute
Thats because windows 10 + by default don't shutdown when you ask them, they go into hibernation. That 1 minute is the time it takes windows to reload itself from where it left off when you did "shutdown"
At work they have disabled that so that the laptops etc really DO shutdown
If you want to find out how long it really takes do a restart
> If all the cars were robots then they could tell each other what they are about to do before they do it
And there is one problem, each group is developing **their system** which does not talk to cars with another system in the hope of becoming the dominant group - if they are going to allow these vehicles on the road then it should be law that they talk to each other at the very least.
> Load-shedding is already a thing. It has been a thing since forever.
Totally agree, I can remember days back in the 1980's where the company I worked for at the time was offered incentives to reduce power on "bad" days, they basically ran the standby generators in parallel with the grid and stopped whatever they could (including production areas) to get the power demand down to as close as zero as possible.
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2024
