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I watched the footage and the 'driver' wasn't watching the road. Maybe if it wasn't a self driving vehicle the driver still wouldn't have been watching the road but I would expect they would have been watching a bit more and might have been able to react. It looks like the car didn't even try to brake or swerve. I guess…

Thanks for this one. We run a competitor's IPAM and it is good to see why it isn't as good and gives me more ammo to take to management.

As I commute daily on the London Underground I can save them the trouble. Everyone is stuck somewhere underground going nowhere slowly in conditions you aren't allowed to transport cattle in. I love the smell of sweaty armpits in the morning (not) (To badly paraphrase the famous quote).

I started with a well known outsourcing company at large London local authority as a contractor and was tasked with performing a due diligence exercise on the 30 Netware servers we were to take over. I found 129 Netware servers. I also found a Windows server which was up and running and managing the Local Authority…

MIT - Nooooo. It's the bit about "Then take action" that I don't like. If I had one it would likely have to 'take action' by killing people (users, mobile phone watching zombies walking down the street etc.)

Tinfoil HAT. Oops. I was using Tinfoil UNDERPANTS.

Today 7th does seem like either something is wrong or I'm missing the obvious. As I don't know the product but was very interested in getting it I was hoping for something more user friendly (if I'm missing something). As far as I can see the correct answer is "None of the above".

If it requires an understanding of the product and we don't have the product how are we supposed to answer. Seems a bit restrictive.

It's not the one word (with 4 letters) they were looking for.

Politicians (and management). Unable to understand something so turn to advisers who won't admit to not understanding anything and just end up doing what they think will get them most votes instead of doing their jobs and doing the right thing for the people. 

Excellent article. I'm going to show this one to manglement as they don't seem to understand that it isn't the great panacea they think it is.

The last time I saved someone's life was in Spain. A friend passed out in a paella and I stopped him from drowning. Good times. 

Training users. Reminds me of the old saying. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink.

Been using Appinsight for AD for a while now (must have been on a beta through a managed service provider) and it was very useful. I had started using Appinsight for SQL and it helped me t find out why several sql databases were performing badly. However, I have changed jobs and am now fighting with Nagios XI. Doing my…

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Yes. Small companies can't compete with Microsoft etc. so find a niche. They grow the niche into something a bit more mainstream then Microsoft etc. muscle in leaving the smaller players with problems. They will merge and merge again and again until Microsoft etc. just buys them.

Oops. Q5 needs fixed. Can't answer it correctly.

Alexa. No thanks. Why would I want another woman in the house ignoring me.

I've worked on a number of migrations some of which I started, some I joined in the middle (because it was running into trouble) and some I joined at the end (because it was already in trouble). All were eyeopening but the most frustrating were the ones where the client decided that, near the end, they would get someone…

Just because he's Russian doesn't mean he likes Tetris.

Add to that, I was accused of not doing much lately as all I seemed to do was browse the internet. The same accuser was the person who asked me to look into some problems that were way outside my skillset. My "browsing the internet" was actually researching the problems and then fixing them. Maybe I should just look busy…

Most low skilled jobs are manual labour so not really suitable for automation. It is the mid level semi skilled and skilled jobs that are under threat. Why would you spend a lot of money automating a low paid job (where's the saving) when you can automate a well paid job (well paid because of supply and demand) and save a…

The place I now work migrated about 500 servers to the cloud 4 years ago and it was a very difficult and expensive task. It was also a bit of a disaster with slower response times and higher down time. I joined 3 months ago and we are now preparing to migrate everything back in house into a hyper-converged solution whilst…

Strava. I was wondering how long this would take to emerge. I have been shouting about it for a while. I used to work with a company who provided TV and radio for British Forces worldwide. When I went to Germany to upgrade all the radio stations I had to get military maps in order to find the bases as the satnavs only show…

Why would you want to set up in New York. It's not as if the residents are known for their friendliness. I really hate that accent.

Thanks, saved me looking it up. It worked. Green tick for me

Glad to see it wasn't just me then.

Spiders can fly. Don't tell me that. It was bad enough when I found out Daleks could go up stairs.

I do love it when Microsoft fail. It's not because I get lots of pleasure from it (I do but that's not the point). I use it to keep management in check. Their belief is that everything should be Microsoft because it is the best (good marketing). It isn't. I would rather put in the correct stuff for the job and not just go…

This is also present. Full ITIL suite (incident, problem, change, release) paired with customizable automation