Posts by Alister

Re: Who, me?

"The wheeled suitcase is a myth,"

But... But, I've SEEN one, honest.

I didn't get a photo though...

Re: Redundancy has a cost

"The on-board systems of aircraft are an obvious, fairly topical example"

Except if you are Boeing, apparently.

Re: Bachelor of Advanced Pencil Sharpening

And it can be initialised as BAPS, what's not to like?

Re: Popcorn

I'd just like to point out that both covid and Ukraine happened during Trump's last term, so is he the "former senile corrupt one" you are referring to?

Re: There are still some people in El Reg's homeland

Agreed.

For those who can't be arsed to google, it is the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

"We are heading into being a communist country"

I don't think you really understand what a communist country is.

no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns and DEFINITELY no smeggin' flapjacks!

Oh, so you're a waffle man?

Re: WTF do IBM know about emergency services radio?

As far as I know, IDEN is not compatible with 3G or 4G networks.

UK Emergency Services Network is supposed to be based on the existing 4G infrastructure provided by EE.

This is why you have a separate disk for the O/S, and don't allow any application to put any data there.

We have successfully restored a number of Windows IIS and SQL servers today, by just rolling back the O/S disk to las night's snapshot. The data disks were not replaced, and so they are still current.

Nope, Server 2016, Server 2019, Server 2022 all affected here

Re: Prodding the bear

>> None of these posters have any realistic knowledge of Julian Assange's actual character.

I would say we have a fair idea, given he got his mates to stand bail for him and then skipped and hid in the Equadorian embassy, leaving them to foot the bill.

Re: A small percentage of the blame should go to the other RDBMS creators...

Note that the default installation path for Microsoft SQL Server is

\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL{nn}.<InstanceID>\MSSQL\

and has been for many versions.

Re: Who is this 'third party'?

Probably Canary Wharf

Because US...

They don't have the same separation that we do in the UK between lighting and power.

Re: "Cheap" for a reason

I just don't understand why so many managers insist on going cloud

It's because the beancounter mindset worships OPex, and considers CAPex as the work of the devil.

Going cloud means your IT spend becomes OPex, and they simply don't care if it's 3 x the annual spend if you went with hardware.

Re: exceptions policy.

Please learn the difference between cue and queue.

Re: Christian Militia Terrorist

I have never heard of a Christian terrorist group

Never heard of the IRA, INLA, etc?

What a sheltered life you lead!

Re: On a side note

I for one had a failure of the sarcasmomometer, I must admit. upvote applied to cancel downvote.

That was very Mooooving.

Re: Is Ivan shooting himself in the foot or is it simply a mistake?

Harvesting data from schoolkids who are most likely to be using it to do their schoolwork can't be a matter of national security.

Self replicating network worm... It doesn't need to harvest kids data, just spread out.

Re: Am I a Druid?

Apparently sitting under a waterfall meditating for a week wearing buffalo hide is required

Re: PDNFTT

Jake, your quoted statement relates purely to medical examination and emergency treatment in an emergency department, and then only if the hospital is part of the Medicare program.

Free healthcare means you don't pay for routine operations, doctor's consultations etc, no matter how much it might cost or how long it takes.

Re: Won't somebody think of the ducklings?

And as a tax-payer (?) I'd rather pay for a drone over a cop-ter.

As was pointed out to you in the previous discussion, there are things that a helicopter can do which a drone can't - as one example, following and recording a high-speed pursuit on a motorway - and as most police services already have a helicopter, why not use it to its best advantage?

Re: Helicopter danger

The type of infra-red camera system used in a police helicopter is too large to be carried by a drone. Nothing a drone could carry would have the sensitivity needed.

Also, as ably demonstrated by this case, flying a drone at night is difficult.

Re: Keep retracting.

Tesla Autopilot actually has fewer (and generally less serious) accidents per million kM than human drivers. This despite AP not being fully autonomous.

Umm, that's because Tesla Autopilot is not autonomous, and therefore when used properly, the human is doing the tricky stuff. The accidents attributed to Tesla Autopilot occur when the human decides to pretend AP is autonomous.

Re: Could I suggest

No you've got it all wrong, it's one, two, many, lots.

Re: Baby Jeebus

Well at least you're frank about it.

Comedy gold, but let's have no myrrh awful puns.

Re: But don't forget.

Don't belittle the serious impact of the Sunburst attack by trying to drag it down with partisan politics. It has fuck all to do with elections.

Re: Redundancy

So you proceed to move to the cloud so that you can save yourself the hassle of backups

That has never been true except in the minds of the cloud salesman.

Moving stuff to the cloud is not an automatic panacea, and needs to be planned just as thoroughly - if not more thoroughly - than setting up a physical environment, and backups and redundancy have to be added, they are not there by default.