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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

Odd, that's not what I see. Must investigate.

Some interesting sayings. I use my intuition (which is really just years of experience and a brain that can drag all those memories of past problem together) to fix stuff. There is no point asking questions HERE as management don't listen and blindly plough on with whatever new idiocy they have come up with. 

Yes but there is that few moments where you start to doubt yourself. You then get over it and check that you haven't missed something. It's just that sinking feeling when you see that bit left over.

Stuck with a really badly configured ServiceNow at present. It belongs to the customer so we can't sort it out. I got involved with one of the first installations of Remedy in the UK. It was good for then as there really wasn't much else around. Never been able to use the Solarwinds one though.

Yes. It's IBM Softlayer and they are shite. We have to get everything out of there before Feb 2019 and will always have to have some on prem systems. We are replacing both on site data centres with a Dell HCI solution and will then move everything from those data centres onto the new infrastructure. After that we will move…

It's OK for you. I was off all last week and missed it all.

Who would have thought. What will they get up to next.

Arrrrghhhh. Bacoin not available to UK residents.

I still chuckle when I walk past a crashed ATM displaying the Blue Screen of Death or the odd one where the application has crashed and you just have the windows XP GUI. I've actually surfed the internet on one of these and the touch screen still worked.

I thought you were going to say "Microsoft says 40% of all VMs in Azure now are running".

I like the 'Exposing company secrets through their API'. It shows two main things. They aren't taking security very seriously or they don't care.

We have a presence in several cloud providers for many reasons including political, business and technology reasons. That's the problem with being 126 different companies under one group. Ho hum.

Oldest customer complaint. Nothing ever changes. Don't pay up front. Pay on delivery or use a third party that holds the goods and payment in escrow until both sides are happy. 

Very true but I've seen a lot of places that don't want to pay for it and take the approach that it 'probably won't happen to them'. We still have a lot of C-level who see IT as a massive cost and don't see the fact that their business can't exist without it. Where I work we have 4 people permanently 'building' new laptops…

Culture. I've worked in a lot of places where the culture has been incredibly toxic. The rudest most obnoxious, wasters get promotions, pay rises etc. and the people who actually do all the work get nothing. Those companies always seem to go downhill. The really good places to work are the ones where skills are valued and…

Now I feel old. I used Mosaic 1.0 when it was new.

Totally agree with this. Users will just ignore being told what to do. Make it fun and they will learn (even if they don't want to). Make it seem like they aren't even learning will make it even better. 

You would think companies would be grateful that someone has spent time and money to find and disclose problems with their product thereby saving them the trouble of paying for good people who are able to design products that actually work as expected. No. It is cheaper to pay peanuts then pay expensive lawyers when their…

Great photo. Now I'm hungry and want a beer.

That's lucky for you then as todays needs fixed too. When I look at the pricing I get it in GBP (£) not USD ($) but the answers are all in USD and when I convert the price shown to USD it isn't anywhere near any of the answers.