Posts by hopkinse

Re: Too good is bad

And then there was Hotblack Desiato...

In the 80s, as a Sea Cadet going to Rosyth Dockyard every week, I couldn't help noticing that the Izal tracing paper bog roll had 'property of HMSO' stamped on every sheet :-)

Re: Bistromathics!

For the really difficult problems, a pan-galactic gargle blaster always helps oil the wheels :-)

My Dad wrote Hunter Killer and Airliner for the Spectrum around 1982 I think, published by Protek

Re: Bargle nawdle zouss

They changed the recipe for Black Bottle a few years ago and ruined it. Much harsher now :-(

Re: "laid the blame on IBM CFO James Kavanaugh"

"That makes it hard to stay on the merry-go-round that is corporate executive hiring. It is much better to say nothing, be a pleasant personality and parachute out of the ball of fail only to land in another cushy post."

This is what is wrong with the Public Sector ( local govt./civil service) - constant merry-go-round of decision makers who bail out to their next gig before the sh*t hits the fan

Re: Too confusing

I'm still on a contract that started life as a BT Cellnet one 20 odd years ago. Better the devil you know and all that.

Re: Still Prevalent Within the NHS

Edge with IE-requiring URLs whitelisted is the way forward, then they will still effectively be running in IE 11

FCoE is gaining traction in bigger enterprises and iSCSI at the other end of the scale.

Re: Maybe

And money in the pockets of Bezos, Cook, etc, etc is better how? They are all as bad as each other

Re: What's wrong with "times"?

usually accompanied by "eugh that tastes like p*ss" :-)

Re: As is usual Scott Adams has already been there ....

I'm just wondering what colour t-shirt to put on mine... https://images.app.goo.gl/KEMPbPvUPnLTFL128

Re: Oh, the irony

I'm sure they will make it onto the syllabus of every other College/Uni in Scotland later in the year :-)

Re: Wow, *two* years?

Soon to be available on escobarinc.com :-)

Re: Nixon speech

It's the mice, I tell you, it's the mice...

Frankie: Hey Benjy, this is getting pretty boring. The Humans don't seem to be any closer to the Answer. Shall we have some fun?

Benjy: How paranoid can we make them?

Re: Azure still only has 4 multi-AZ regions, compared to AWS' 18 3-region AZs...

You can bet your bottom dollar that the DOD Azure deployment won't be running on any of the public cloud kit, will have extra layers of redundancy and will be much more strictly controlled, in terms of patching/updates.

Re: The long and winding road...

For me, the rot had set in during the Computeraid days - I was in an office outside Glasgow and head office/sales was Farnborough. Sales didn't have a clue about using our product ( till software) as a way in to then sell other nicely profitable services off the back of it. They were only interested in stuff you could throw over the wall and forget about

Re: As I only live a few miles from The Hill...

There are a whole bunch of newcomers. In Central Scotland Cityfibre are filling the gaps where NTL/Virgin gave up in the 90s.

Re: been using bing for about 18 months

Altavista - another fine example of the pitfalls of unending quest for growth by expanding outside your core competency and trying to be everything for everybody. It was my friend for years until they screwed it and google came along.

NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency...

Re: Perhaps

Welcome to the Brexit at the End of the Universe. Watch Theresa May implode while dining on Ameglian Major Cow and sipping a particularly fine Pan Galactic Gargleblaster. With guest speaker

Max Quordlepleen.

errr I'm still using my 6 year old nokia 1020 WP8.1 :-P

"Didn't GCHQ essentially told parliament that they don't trust any networking gear from anybody or that any network could be deemed secure? An everything should be encrypted before it sent across any network?"

Is that not essentially paragraph 1 of any discussion on security that's worth its salt?!

Re: "Pholdable"

All this talk of 'pholdables' is making me frasmotic. I feel a bout of anaspepsia coming on!

Re: Creepy 'Maths qualified' Salespeople

The USP was supposedly that the software was more than just a search engine and would analyze/mine and give context to data and could do supposedly 'intelligent' search.

The company I worked for in the late 90s/early 2000s sunk a shitload of cash into a datacentre built in their head office in Farnborough ( go figure??? First mistake - it was prime office estate not nice and cheap industrial unit) to sell Autonomy as an early SaaS offering.

Like everything else that we were doing at the time that didn't involve box shifting or other throw it over the wall and forget business, our sales people didn't have a clue and it went nowhere. Pretty much broke the company and the net result was that we were bought out by a Dutch outfit called PinkRoccade.

Re: $80,000?

That's for the Hotblack Airlines version :-)

Re: All too late

We had a reputation to diminish? I think you'll find that fuckwitts like Gavin Williamson et al have already destroyed what was left of it.