I used to work in the visuals department for a flight sim company and it was common practice for the image database devs to sign their names and leave each other messages at something like -10m below the airport's primary runway.
This was all well and good until we had some sort of glitch on a sim under test and the customer's chief pilot managed to land through the runway and the entire cockpit view was filled with something like "Fuck off Dave!"
Our HQ location is against us for copper-based solutions and as soon as fibre is mentioned we're in the 10K+ territory.
The annoying things is that we share a split office and 'next door' has fibre carrying 12 channels of ISDN-30 AND it terminates in our area - but BT and the third party service provider point blank refuse to run services to two different companies through it - technically it's a no-brainer, but the mere mention of investigating the possibility has the companies in a total brain-fart.
We could come to some arrangement directly with the people in the other office, but that raises its own set of issues, not least because their service contract forces them to use specific kit tied to a telephony contract and also forbids sub-selling all or part of the service provision.
Into the mix will be our move to a hosted app Q1-2 next year and so our focus will shift with regards to where we need the bandwidth.
I've also looked at a wireless mesh/wimax solution as there is expected to be coverage in our area next year - but the provider is quoting a speed cap of around 18Mbit/sec.
We already use rsync but due to the dynamic nature of some of our large-ish (10GB+ MS-SQL) databases there is still a lot to sync.
Things will improve when we move to a new app that runs of a central, hosted, service but at the mo we have to cope with 25-odd separate databases overnight. Yes, the current app's database architecture/schema/replication is crap but it's also beyond my control.
True - but then us corporate users who transfer sales & backup data between offices overnight *do* notice the problem.
Our new HQ is quite a long way from the exchange so we struggle to get above 4Mbit/sec anyway - but that's a side issue.
We have 30 satellite offices each running 1-8Mbit connections and we can get the data in overnight but if we wanted anything more 'real-time' we'd have to go fibre - and then we're talking something daft like a 10KGBP+ install to 'upgrade' to a whopping 10Mbit connection *PER SITE* - or get the connections cheaper in return for a long-term contract. Then, you'd need to factor in the monthly rental charges.
Overall, ADSL does what we need - slowly - but the price differential to the next possible speed solution is out of all proportion to the benefits.
"On 1 October, 1987, Britain extended its territorial waters from 3 to 12 nautical miles. The previous day, Prince Roy declared the extension of Sealandâ(TM)s territorial waters to be a like 12 nautical miles, so that right of way from the open sea to the Principality would not be blocked by British claimed waters. No treaty has been signed between the U. K. and Sealand to divide up the overlapping areas, but a general policy of dividing the area between the two countries down the middle can be assumed. International law does not allow the claim of new land during the extension of sea rights, so the Principalityâ(TM)s sovereignty was safely âoegrandfatheredâ in. Britain has no more right to Sealandâ(TM)s territory than Sealand has to the territory of the British coastline that falls within its claimed 12 mile arc."
Am I the only one bewildered by the sheer number of different GNU/FOSS/Whatever-the-right-term-is licences in a field that strives for compatibility and standards?
"A curfew for kids is actually taking the parents rights away to decide whether their kids are mature enough to be out past 10 pm."
From experience (I am a school governor) there seem to be fewer and fewer parents that have the intelligence to make that decision. I guess they think their precious snowflakes have been at some extended church meeting when they stagger in sometime past midnight.
I am not in favour of imposing restrictions, but sometimes you have to wonder whether it's for the good of the children because the parents aren't doing their job properly.
Any time you fkn like, at a meeting place of your choosing - that's what the rest of us will be doing. Screw the herd mentality or conforming to someone's imposed time/location.
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I always consider I'm onto a loser when I begin a sentence with:
"You'd think that..."
or
"You would assume..." ...especially when people are involved.
Wow - imagine if those people clustered around someone reading Beowulf!
I used to work in the visuals department for a flight sim company and it was common practice for the image database devs to sign their names and leave each other messages at something like -10m below the airport's primary runway.
This was all well and good until we had some sort of glitch on a sim under test and the customer's chief pilot managed to land through the runway and the entire cockpit view was filled with something like "Fuck off Dave!"
Management were not pleased!
Why do you think VAT was cut to 15% - that'll shave a lot off the costs at a stroke! Hey presto, nearer budget!
Our HQ location is against us for copper-based solutions and as soon as fibre is mentioned we're in the 10K+ territory.
The annoying things is that we share a split office and 'next door' has fibre carrying 12 channels of ISDN-30 AND it terminates in our area - but BT and the third party service provider point blank refuse to run services to two different companies through it - technically it's a no-brainer, but the mere mention of investigating the possibility has the companies in a total brain-fart.
We could come to some arrangement directly with the people in the other office, but that raises its own set of issues, not least because their service contract forces them to use specific kit tied to a telephony contract and also forbids sub-selling all or part of the service provision.
Into the mix will be our move to a hosted app Q1-2 next year and so our focus will shift with regards to where we need the bandwidth.
I've also looked at a wireless mesh/wimax solution as there is expected to be coverage in our area next year - but the provider is quoting a speed cap of around 18Mbit/sec.
We already use rsync but due to the dynamic nature of some of our large-ish (10GB+ MS-SQL) databases there is still a lot to sync.
Things will improve when we move to a new app that runs of a central, hosted, service but at the mo we have to cope with 25-odd separate databases overnight. Yes, the current app's database architecture/schema/replication is crap but it's also beyond my control.
True - but then us corporate users who transfer sales & backup data between offices overnight *do* notice the problem.
Our new HQ is quite a long way from the exchange so we struggle to get above 4Mbit/sec anyway - but that's a side issue.
We have 30 satellite offices each running 1-8Mbit connections and we can get the data in overnight but if we wanted anything more 'real-time' we'd have to go fibre - and then we're talking something daft like a 10KGBP+ install to 'upgrade' to a whopping 10Mbit connection *PER SITE* - or get the connections cheaper in return for a long-term contract. Then, you'd need to factor in the monthly rental charges.
Overall, ADSL does what we need - slowly - but the price differential to the next possible speed solution is out of all proportion to the benefits.
"You couldn't host anything really inflamatory"
Maybe someone did - and that's the real cause of the fire!!
This could go on all day - I'll get popcorn.
From the Sealand Web site...
"On 1 October, 1987, Britain extended its territorial waters from 3 to 12 nautical miles. The previous day, Prince Roy declared the extension of Sealandâ(TM)s territorial waters to be a like 12 nautical miles, so that right of way from the open sea to the Principality would not be blocked by British claimed waters. No treaty has been signed between the U. K. and Sealand to divide up the overlapping areas, but a general policy of dividing the area between the two countries down the middle can be assumed. International law does not allow the claim of new land during the extension of sea rights, so the Principalityâ(TM)s sovereignty was safely âoegrandfatheredâ in. Britain has no more right to Sealandâ(TM)s territory than Sealand has to the territory of the British coastline that falls within its claimed 12 mile arc."
Mornington Crescent!
So can we look forward to a sentient grease gun arriving back in Earth orbit some time in the future demanding to speak to the head mechanic?
But does it go all the way to 11?
"Site loading..."
How quaint!
When we looked at the gas analysis, I was flabbergasted," said Gary Strobel, a plant scientist at Montana State University
So it's not producing diesel, but some fuel called "Flabbergas"
Come back in five years time?? //DNRTFA
...usually it's a chance to comment on the same story in a few days when the dupe is posted.
Am I the only one bewildered by the sheer number of different GNU/FOSS/Whatever-the-right-term-is licences in a field that strives for compatibility and standards?
"A curfew for kids is actually taking the parents rights away to decide whether their kids are mature enough to be out past 10 pm."
From experience (I am a school governor) there seem to be fewer and fewer parents that have the intelligence to make that decision. I guess they think their precious snowflakes have been at some extended church meeting when they stagger in sometime past midnight.
I am not in favour of imposing restrictions, but sometimes you have to wonder whether it's for the good of the children because the parents aren't doing their job properly.
No, it runs SL/IX and the main processor is made by Texaco Instruments.
There is a shell scripting language but the interface is a bit crude.
There will be a Mobil Computing version next year.
I'll stop now.
Meh - have you not seen the Stone Henge in my back garden.
1: Once you take out your operating system, applications, porn...
You had me right up to that point.
Any time you fkn like, at a meeting place of your choosing - that's what the rest of us will be doing. Screw the herd mentality or conforming to someone's imposed time/location.
Ah - so you were imagining a Borg cluster of those.
...to ebay in 3...2...
119 load "gramrchk.bas"