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People are getting so used to IOT that they forget it is there and can sometimes come a cropper. I read a story recently about an office where a new member of staff had started. He had a fitness tracker connected to his laptop. He was on a toilet break when his laptop started loudly congratulating him on achieving a…

Hiring gap. Yes yes yes. I've been banging on about this for years. I don't interview people and ask them in depth technical questions. I ask them how would they approach dealing with a problem. The technical stuff they can learn or Google. The methodical thought process required to diagnose a problem is a skill that is…

It's OK putting the organisation first but that doesn't pay the mortgage or put food on the table. Yes we should do our best for the organisation that pays us but we still need to look out for ourselves and our families. Keeping an eye on the rear view mirror is a good thing but we should also be looking forward to where…

Never used it. Have always inherited a deployment and then had to 'fix' it.

Put VMWare NSX into my last place. Real pain to set up and probably a nightmare to maintain as we have all left. Looking to simplify loads of stuff at my new place.

The problem lies with commercial fishing with its associated costs. If the commercial fishing boats can't sell their illegally caught fish because the fish aren't covered by this then there is no profit and therefore no illegally caught fish. There must be tougher legislation to punish those caught both buying and selling…

Yes. It makes no difference what sector you work in. Once you go to the cloud you will need to really up your monitoring as you will need proof of where the problem lies. Otherwise the cloud provider and the ISP will never acknowledge that the problem lies with them. Think broadband. Here in the UK, when you have a problem…

Turns out I've been doing this for years. Buy some servers with no disks, some memory and CPU cores. Run VMWare from SD cards and stick a SAN / NAS in. If I need more compute I can add extra CPUs or extra servers. If I need more memory I can add it to existing hosts or add new servers. If I need more disks I can add more…

Yes but who cares about whether people live or die. Being able to tweet about absolute nonsense to people you don't know is so much more important

Thank you. Green tick achieved.

Radio button so just picked the one that gives me the most trouble.

Yep, experience most of these every day here. They really don't like it when I point it out to them

Drug companies have always made excessive profits from their products. If only there was some way of regulating them. Yes they do need to re-coop their costs and make a profit but they will be selling the drugs for many many years to an ever expanding market.

Microsoft hardware. Oh no. It sounds like the boys from Pied Piper have sold out (TV show - Silicone Valley).

Sorry. Government agreeing a strategy ? It would make sense to have a central strategy but as they have decentralised IT and placed it at Trust level it would be almost impossible to get them all to agree. Also sorry but when you used Irradiate did you mean eradicate. Both usages make the sentence make sense but have very…

Yes but the same can be said about lawyers. I'm sure there are some honest ones and I'm sure someone will find one one day. In the meantime we have lawyers taking bribes, turning up with pre-conceived ideas, ones out to further their own career and ones who are just incompetent. There would need to be significant oversight…

Must admit, that did make me chuckle. I can just imagine it here. Where's my server ? I deleted it because it had too many snapshots. Here's your P45 (means you've just been sacked).

Only 200 breweries. We have over 1700 in the UK.

Mmmmmmm. Meat Outlet.

Wish I was sitting outside one of those bars in the photo right now.

I'd settle for some signs of intelligence here before looking for any artificial ones.

We are about to implement VMWare NSX to help us stretch VLANs and vMotion servers between data centres on different IP address ranges. This will allow us to replace all the hardware in two data centres, remove two data centres and end up with an active / active setup across two data centres. These can then be relocated…

No because Han was referring to the fact that he took a shortcut through the supposedly unnavigable Pit which was an asteroid belt near The Maw. The normal journey would be to travel around The Pit making it a much longer journey. He took a shorter route so made the run by travelling less than 12 parsecs. Watch the movie…

Yes but how many Moles died to make the Writing Set. Save the Moles

Took a brave pill and selected the only answer that was available. 

I bet Aliens have staged this in collusion with the American government. Seriously though. I really hope it was all real. I was 5 at the time and remember watching stuff on TV of them driving around. I really wanted to be an Astronaut then (still wouldn't mind now).

We are in the process of rolling out an MDM solution. My company phone has it on there and I haven't really noticed any issues. Last place I worked also had an MDM and it was OK too. Then again I'm not a user of "social media" as I have a life and real friends. 

My sister and her husband flew into Vegas a few days ago. They hadn't taken into consideration that the 4th was in the middle of their stay (why would they, they are British). Apparently it is quite busy. Of course they leave before Travis Pastrana tries to do the Evel Knievel jump over the Ceasars Palace fountain. What…

Oh. Friday's question made me sweat before clicking OK. Got it right but was really nervous. You'll see why.

Superfly - That's not actually true. Two of the answers were word for word in the hint and both were in the new features section. Neither referenced the word 'Template' so you would have had to have actual experience of the product in order to know what the two features did. Sadly I don't have experience of it so was left…